14. On export duty on coal.

Sept. 18. Loses finger of left hand in gun accident.

1843.

Jan. Anonymous article, 'The Course of Commercial Policy at Home
and Abroad,' in _Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review_.

" 6. Inaugural address at opening of Collegiate Institute,
Liverpool.

Feb. 13. Replies to Viscount Howick on the corn law.

April 25. Opposes Mr. Ricardo's motion for immediate free trade.

May 9. Opposes Mr. Villiers's motion for the immediate abolition of
corn laws.
" 15. Attends first cabinet as president of the board of trade.
" 19. Supports bill reducing duty on Canadian corn.

June 13. Opposes Lord J. Russell's motion for fixed duty on imported
corn.

Aug. 10. Moves second reading of bill legalising exportation of
machinery.

Oct. 'Present Aspects of the Church' in _Foreign and Colonial
Review_.

1844.

Feb. 5. Moves for select committeen on railways.

March 4. On recommendations of committee on railways.
" 7. On slave trade and commercial relations with Brazil.
" 12. Replies to Mr. Cobden's speech on his motion for committee on
protective duties.
" 19. On reciprocity in commercial treaties.
" 26. Opposes motion to extend low duty on Canadian corn to colonial
wheat.

April 'On Lord John Russell's Translation of the Francesca da
Rimini,' in the _English Review_.
" 2. Outlines provisions of Joint Stock Companies Regulation bill.
" 4. Second son, Stephen Edward, born.

May 18. Presides at Eton anniversary dinner.

June 3. On sugar duties bill.
" 6. In support of Dissenters' Chapels bill.
" 25. Opposes Mr. Villiers's motion for abolition of corn laws.

July. Review of 'Ellen Middleton,' in _English Review._
" 8. On second reading of Railways bill.

Aug. 5. Introduces three bills for regulating private bill procedure.

Oct. 'The Theses of Erastus and the Scottish Church Establishment'
in the _New Quarterly Review_.

Dec. On Mr. Ward's 'Ideal Church,' in _Quarterly Review_.

1845.

Jan. 28. Retires from cabinet.

Feb. 4. Personal explanation.
" 24. In favour of discriminating duties on sugar.
" 26. Defends distinction between free-labour and slave-labour
sugar.

March. _Remarks upon recent Commercial Legislation_, published.

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