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 236 History of the Radical Party in Parliament. [1833- these thirty-one was the late Speaker, who of course is not to be reckoned with the Radicals. Another challenge was given on the address, when amendments were moved by O'Connell and Tennyson, both taking exception to the Irish coercion clauses in the royal speech. Tennyson's amendment declared, " That if, under the circumstances which may be disclosed to us, we should be induced to entrust his Majesty with additional powers, we shall feel it our duty to accom- pany that acquiescence in his Majesty's wishes by a close and diligent investigation into the causes of discontent in Ireland." For this there were, including tellers, sixty-two votes, including thirty-four Irish and twenty-eight English members.* These divisions may be taken as representing the pure or thorough Radical vote, but there were occasions on which the Radical element in the Whig party was also represented. The most important of these in the first session was that caused by Grote's resolution in favour of the ballot. The new member introduced the motion in a speech which not only conferred honour on the speaker, but strengthened the party to which he was attached. On a division, there were 106 Ayes and 21 1 Noes. In addition there were twenty-six members who paired in favour of the ballot, so that the total force on this decidedly Radical question, brought forward by an avowed Radical, was 132, or, adding tellers, 134, justifying the highest estimate which has been formed of its strength. Even more important than the numbers of the Radical party at this new starting-point in its history, were the character, ability, and position of its members. Important Attwood, T. Grote, G. Palmer, Gen. Beauclerk, Major E. Harvey, D. W. Philips, Mark Brotherton, James Hume, J. Potter, R. Butler, C. Humphrey, J. Roebuck, J. A. Cobbett, W. Hutt, William Wallace, R. Faithful, G. Kennedy, J. Warburton, Henry Fielden, John Kinlock, G. Fryer, R. Lloyd, J. H. Bulwer, E. L. 7 Gaskell, D. Molesworth, Sir W. Tennyson, C. 3
 * The English votes were the following :