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 96 History of the Radical Party in Parliament. [i Soy- taxed male population, and each sub-division required to elect one representative. 3. That the votes be taken in each parish by the parish officers, and that all the elections should be finished in one and the same day. 4. That the parish officers make the return to the sheriff's court, to be held for that purpose at stated periods. 5. That Parliament be brought back to a constitutional duration. The proposal was supported by Mr. Hutchinson and Sir T. Turton, and on a division sixteen votes were recorded in its favour.* The plan, it will be seen, was substantially the same as that propounded thirty years before by the Duke of Richmond, and that formulated by Fox and his Westminster committee. The Parliamentary session closed on the 2ist of September, but the end of the year saw changes in the administration which had effects upon the relations of all parties in the State. The dissatisfaction of Canning with the policy and conduct of his colleague Castlereagh had been expressed to the Premier and to other members of the Cabinet, but it had been con- cealed from the person whose position and character were implicated. Further concealment being impossible, Castle- reagh was at last informed of the real circumstances, but this was done in a way which led to a not unnatural mistake as to the course which Canning had pursued. A duel between the two ministers followed. Canning was wounded, and both of them retired from the Cabinet. In all these proceedings as constituting the Radical party at that time : Adams, Charles Cambell, G. Cuthbert, J. R. Knapp, G. Madocks, W. A. Moore, P. Turton, Sir T. Western, C. C. Hutchinson, C. Burdett, Sir. Combe, H. Tracey, Hanbury Lefevre, C. S. Maxwell, W. Thornton, Henry Wardle, G. L. Wharton, J. To these must be added Lord Cochrane, who was accidentally shut out from the division, and Mr. Lyttleton, who paired.
 * Hansard records the names of the minority, which may be taken generally