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June 11. Entertained at Newark.
" 22, July 20. Criticises Munic.i.p.al 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 apprentices.h.i.+p in Jamaica.
" 28. A member of negro apprentices.h.i.+p committee.
June 1. On t.i.thes 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 a.s.sociation.
" 21. Speaks at dinner of Liverpool Operatives' Conservative a.s.sociation.
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 20. On private bill to facilitate colonisation of New Zealand.
July 10. Moves for a commission on grievances of Cape colonists.
" 11 and 23. Opposes the appointment of dissenting chaplains in prisons.
" 27. A member of committee on Scotch education.
" 30. Opposes grant to Maynooth College.
Aug. Visits the continent. Oct. in Sicily; Dec. in Rome.
Dec. _The Church in its Relations with the State_, published.
1839.
Jan. 31. Returns to England.
Apr. 15. Withdraws from Lincoln's Inn.
May 6. Opposes Suspension of the Jamaica const.i.tution.
June 10. Opposes bill for temporary government of Jamaica.
" 20. Criticises the proposal for a board of education.
July 25. Married to Miss Catherine Glynne at Hawarden.
1840.
Mar. 30-April 4. Examiner at Eton for Newcastle scholars.h.i.+p.
April 8. Denounces traffic in opium and Chinese war.
" 8. A member of committee on opium question.
May 29. In support of Government of Canada bill.
June 3. Eldest son, William Henry, born.
" 15. On Canadian Clergy Reserves bill.
" 25. On sugar duties.
" 29, July 20. Opposes Ecclesiastical Revenues bill.
July 9. A member of select committee on colonisation of New Zealand.
" 27. Denounces traffic in opium.
Sept. 18. Speaks at Liverpool on religious education.
Nov. _Church Principles considered in their Results_, published.
