[ [!-- Note Anchor 311 --][Footnote 311: "Life of the Prince Consort," v., 131.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 312 --][Footnote 312: "Life of the Prince Consort," i., 99.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 313 --][Footnote 313: Chapter II., [p. 54].]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 314 --][Footnote 314: It is known, from two letters from Lord Palmerston to the Queen, published in the "Life of the Prince Consort," v., 100—in one, written before the debate in the House of Lords, he expresses a hope that the smallness of the majority in the House of Commons will encourage the Lords to throw it out, and he "is bound in duty to say that, if they do so, they will perform a good public service;" and in another, the day after the division in the Lords, he writes again "that they have done a right and useful thing," adding that the feeling of the public was so strong against the measure, that those in the gallery of the House are said to have joined in the cheers which broke out when the numbers were announced.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 315 --][Footnote 315: 433 to 36.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 316 --][Footnote 316: See the proceedings of 1700 (Macaulay, "History of England," v., 278; and of 1704, Lord Stanhope's "Reign of Queen Anne," p. 168). The Whig and the Tory writer equally condemn the "Tackers.">[
[ [!-- Note Anchor 317 --][Footnote 317: In the debate on life peerages ("Parliamentary History," cxl., 356), Lord Grey spoke of "that great transfer of political power from one class to another which was accomplished by the Reform Bill" And Lord Campbell, speaking of Lord Grey himself in connection with that measure, says: "His Reform Bill ought to place him in a temple of British worthies by the side of Lord Somers, for it wisely remodelled the constitution, and it is hardly less important than the Bill of Rights."—Life of Lord Campbell, ii., 201.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 318 --][Footnote 318: A recent writer, professedly belonging to the Radical party, claims for it the credit of "being the legitimate issue of the Reform Bill of 1832." ("The State of Parties," by J.E. Kebbel, Nineteenth Century, March, 1881, p. 497.)]