.
" 21. Presents an Edinburgh petition against immediate abolition of
slavery.

June 3. On Slavery Abolition bill.

July 4. On Liverpool election petition.
" 8. Opposes Church Reform (Ireland) bill.
" 25 and 29. On negro apprenticeship system.

Aug. 5. Serves on select committee on stationary office.
" 8. Moves for return on Irish education.

1834.

Mar. 12 and 19. On bill disenfranchising Liverpool freemen.

June 4. Serves on select committee on education in England.

July 28. Opposes Universities Admission bill.

Dec. 26. Junior lord of the treasury in Sir R. Peel's ministry.

1835.

Jan. 5. Returned unopposed for Newark.
" 27. Under-secretary for war and the colonies.

March 4. Moves for, and serves on, a committee on military expenditure
in the colonies.
" 19. Brings in Colonial Passengers' bill for improving condition of
emigrants.
" 31. In defence of Irish church.

June 11. Entertained at Newark.
" 22, July 20. Criticises Municipal Corporation bill.

Aug. 21. Defends House of Lords.

Sept. 23. Death of his mother.

1836.

Feb. 8. A member of Aborigines committee.

March 22. On negro apprenticeship in Jamaica.
" 28. A member of negro apprenticeship committee.

June 1. On Tithes and Church (Ireland) bill.
" 8. A member of select committee on disposal of land in the
colonies.

Oct. 18. Speaks at dinner of Liverpool Tradesmen's Conservative
Association.
" 21. Speaks at dinner of Liverpool Operatives' Conservative
Association.

1837.

Jan. 13. Speaks at Peel banquet at Glasgow.
" 17. Speaks at Newark.

Feb. 10. Moves for return showing religious instruction in the
colonies.

March 7. A member of committee on Irish education.
" 8. On affairs of Lower Canada.
" 15. In support of church rates.

April 28. A member of colonial accounts committee.
" 21. At Newark on Poor Law.
" 24. Returned unopposed for Newark.
" 27. Defeated for Manchester,--Thomson, 4127; Philips, 3759;
Gladstone, 2324.

Aug. 9. Speaks at dinner at Manchester.

Dec. 12. Member of committee on education of poor children.
" 22. On Canadian discontent.

1838.

Jan. 23. On Canadian affairs.

March 7. Criticises action of government in Canada.
" 30. In defence of West Indian sugar planters.

June