and
position were a guarantee for their anxiety to preserve all the rights
of the Church which contributed to its credit or efficiency; while their
matured experience enabled them better than any other men to judge how
to reconcile the maintenance of its dignity with the extension of its
usefulness.

Notes:

[Footnote 226: The second resolution affirmed that "this House looks
forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the slave
population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil
rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his
Majesty's subjects." (Stapleton's "Life of Canning," iii., 98, where
also large extracts from the minister's speech are given.)]

[Footnote 227: Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Demerara were the only British
islands which had not separate Legislatures.]

[Footnote 228: Miss Martineau. "History of the Thirty Years' Peace,"
book iv., c. viii.]

[Footnote 229: Alison, "History of Europe," 2d series, c. xxxi., sec.
74.]

[Footnote 230: In the debate on the Registration Bill, in 1836, Lord
John Russell stated that two hundred and twenty eight unions had already
been formed in England and Wales, and that it might be calculated that
when the whole country was divided into unions the entire number would
amount to something more than eight hundred.]

[Footnote 231: See Lord Althorp's speech, of parts of which an abstract
is given in the text.--_Parliamentary Debates_, xxii., April 17.]

[Footnote 232: Lord Althorp made the following frightful statement of
the crimes committed in the province of Leinster alone in the last three
months of 1832 and the first three of 1833: 207 murders, 271 cases of
arson. The assaults attended with grievous personal injury were above
1000; burglaries and robberies, above 3000.]

[Footnote 233: It was often asserted that fourteen-fifteenths of the
land in Ireland belonged to Protestants, but this estimate was,
probably, an exaggeration.]

[Footnote 234: "Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel," ii., 3, 19.]

[Footnote 235: "Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel," pp. 31, 32.]

[Footnote 236: "One important question I found practically, and perhaps
unavoidably, decided before my arrival, namely, the dissolution of the
existing Parliament. Every one seemed to have taken it for granted that
the Parliament must be dissolved, and preparations had accordingly been
made almost universally for the coming contest."--_Peel's Memoirs_, ii.,
43.]

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