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 * Paget, Lord Alfred (Lichfield)
 * Parker, John
 * Pattison, James
 * Pechell, Captain
 * Philips, George R. (Poole)
 * Philips, Mark (Manchester)
 * Plumridge, Captain
 * Ponsonby, Honourable C.F.A.C.
 * Protheroe, Edward
 * Pulsford, Edward
 * Ramsbottom, John
 * Rawdon, Colonel
 * Ricardo, John Lewis
 * Roebuck, John Arthur
 * Ross, David Robert
 * Russell, Lord Edward (Tavistock)
 * Rutherfurd, Andrew
 * Scrope, George Poulett
 * Shelburne, Earl of
 * Smith, Benjamin (Norwich)
 * Smith, John Abel (Chichester)
 * Standish, Charles
 * Stansfield, W. R. Crompton
 * Stanton, William Henry
 * Stuart, Lord James (Ayr)
 * Stuart, W. Villiers (Waterford C.)
 * Strickland, Sir George
 * Strutt, Edwurd
 * Tancred, Henry William
 * Thornely, Thomas
 * Towneley, John
 * Trelawny, John Salusburg
 * Troubridge, Sir Edward Thomas
 * Tufnell, Henry
 * Wakley, Thomas
 * Walker, Richard
 * Wallace, Robert
 * Warburton, Henry
 * Ward, Henry George
 * Wawn, John Twizell
 * Williams, William (Coventry)
 * Wood, Charles (Halifax)
 * Wrightson, William Battie
 * Yorke, Henry Redhead (York)

Tellers. Vr. Villiers and Mr. Milner Gibson.

The progress made was marked rather by the decrease of the majority than by the increase of the minority. In 1842, when Mr. Villiers first put the question of total repeal on issue before the House, he had 92 votes, and 395 against him. In 1843, he had 125 votes, and 381 against him. In 1844, he had 124 votes, and 330 against him. He was out-voted in 1842, by 303; in 1843, by 256; and in 1844, by 206. There had 110t been many converts between the motion of 1843 and 1844; but there were many ashamed of a contest where there was scarcely a shred of argument on the numerically strongest side, and they staid away. A reduction of that numerical strength from 395 to 330, and the increase of the opponent force from 92 to 124, was something hopeful in a Peel-parliament, strongly pledged, and elected on that pledge, to support the Corn Laws without mitigation. Fifty votes from the protec-