CHAPTER X.
Abolition of Slavery .-- Abridgment of the Apprenticeship .-- The East India Company's Trade is Thrown Open .-- Commencement of Ecclesiastical Reforms .-- The New Poor-law .-- State of Ireland .-- Agitation against Tithes .-- Coercion Bill .-- Beginning of Church Reform .-- Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime-minister .-- Variety of Offices held Provisionally by the Duke of Wellington .-- Sir Robert Peel Retires, and Lord Melbourne Resumes the Government .-- Sir Robert Peel Proposes a Measure of Church Reform .-- Municipal Reform .-- Measures of Ecclesiastical Reform..