The Life of William Ewart Gladstone Volume I Part 56

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.