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FOOTNOTES:

[A] Hansard, (3d Series,) vol. cxiv., col. 1007.

[B] Hansard, (3d Series,) vol. cxiv., col. 998-9.

[C] On Agricultural Distress, ante, p. 389.

[D] 1 Samuel, ii. 3.

[E] Lord Brougham said not long ago, in the hearing of the writer, "Lord Lansdowne is the very best leader of a deliberative assembly that was perhaps ever seen. In courtesy, temper, discretion, and business ability, he is, in my opinion, unequalled."

[F] "Tamworth Election. Speech of Sir Robert Peel."—Ollivier, Pall Mall, 1841.

[G] Almost every other sentence of this paragraph was followed by loud cheering; but the Earl of Derby continued to speak with calmness and solemnity.