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 312 History of the Radical Party in Parliament. [1837-1841. of confidence in the Ministry, and they were carried, that in the Lords on the first night, by a majority of seventy-two ; and that in the Commons after four nights' debate, by a majority of ninety-one. The numbers in the latter case were for the ministerial address, 269 ; for the amendment, 360. The end had come at last ; on the 3Oth of August, Melbourne in the Lords and Russell in the Commons announced the resignation of ministers the close of the Whig rule which had lasted eleven years.