CHAPTER LVIII.
VICTORIA. 1846
Position of the Conservative Party on the Defection of Sir Robert Peel, and the Parliamentary Success of his Free- Trade Measures..... Formation of a Whig Cabinet..... The Sugar Duties..... Dreadful Condition of Ireland..... Decline of Mr. O’Connell..... The Young Ireland Leaders..... Colonial Affairs..... War with the Sikhs..... Foreign Affairs..... Coolness with France..... Spanish Marriages