CHAPTER XII.
Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime-minister .-- Commercial Reforms .-- Free-trade .-- Religious Toleration .-- Maynooth .-- The Queen's University .-- Post-office Regulations .-- The Opening of Letters .-- Naturalization of Aliens .-- Recall of Lord Ellenborough .-- Reversal of the Vote on the Sugar Duties .-- Refusal of the Crown to Sanction a Bill .-- The Question of Increase in the Number of Spiritual Peers .-- Repeal of the Corn-laws .-- Revolution in France, and Agitation on the Continent .-- Death of Sir Robert Peel .-- Indifference of the Country to Reform .-- Repeal of the Navigation Laws .-- Resolutions in Favor of Free-trade .-- The Great Exhibition of 1851..