[104] Mr. F. H. O’Donnell actually put down seventy-five amendments to it.
[105] The motion was moved by Sir George Campbell.
[106] It was never known what Sir Stafford Northcote meant to do. But it was supposed he would, with the support of Lord Hartington, move the expulsion of the “obstructives.”
[107] The Estimates for the past year had been closely realised. For the coming year (1877-78) the revenue was taken at £78,794,000, and the expenditure at £79,020,000.
[108] Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland. Biographical Sketch and Letters, p. 343.
[109] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. XLIX.
[110] Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland. Biographical Sketch and Letters, p. 357.
[111] Correspondence of Abraham Hayward, Q.C., pp. 206, 273.
[112] See a letter from Mr. Hayward to Mr. Sheridan, dated 3rd November, 1876. Correspondence of Abraham Hayward, Q.C., p. 271.
[113] See Mr. Hayward’s Correspondence, Vol. II., pp. 266 and 268.