The House of Commons was adjourned to the next day, and the House of Lords to Monday.

'Mr Baring says,' he said, 'if there was only a majority one way or another, it would be better than this state of complete equality.' "At twenty minutes past four Lord Melbourne returned.

'Well, Ma'am,' he said, 'we've considered this question, and both the sides of it well, and at last we voted upon it; and there were--the Lord Chancellor for dissolution, Lord Minto[38] for it, Lord Normanby against it, but greatly modified; Lord John for, Lord Palmerston for, Lord Clarendon for, Lord Morpeth for, Lord Lansdowne for, Labouchere for, Hobhouse for, Duncannon[39] for, Baring for, Macaulay for; and under those circumstances of course I felt I could not but go with them.[40] Lord Melbourne was much affected in saying all this.

'So we shall go on, bring on the Sugar Duties, and then, if things are in a pretty good state, dissolve.

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