ABSTRACT
Hume spoke of raising the question of House of Lords’ reform next year, and after the session O'Connell toured England and Scotland in a pilgrimage of crusade against them, for his desire to retain the Ministry did not necessarily stop him from attempting to rouse the people. The Irish Municipal Bill was then to be in the forefront of Parliamentary controversy, and it remained to be seen whether it too, like the English Municipal Bill, would alienate Peel from his party, and anger the House of Lords. Luckily Peel was prepared to take a severe view of what was likely to be the behaviour of freely elected Irish Corporations, and early in February he and his colleagues in the Commons decided on a policy in the matter which was agreeable to all but extreme ultraTories.
