CHAPTER V.
DEFEAT OF PEEL .-- ACCESSION or THE WHIGS .-- MR.

O'CONNELL'S COURSE .-- DEBATES IN CONCILIATION HALL .-- MR.

O'CONNELL DENOUNCES THE YOUNG IRELAND PARTY .-- CONTINUED DEBATES .-- QUESTIONS AT ISSUE .-- PHYSICAL FORCE .-- THE SECESSION .-- WHIG ALLIANCE .-- DUBLIN REMONSTRANCE .-- FORMATION OF THE CONFEDERATION, ITS CAREER .-- MR.

O'CONNELL'S DEATH .-- CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1847.
On the 25th of June, Sir Robert Peel was defeated in the House of Commons on a motion that the Irish Coercion Bill be read a second time.
The majority against him was seventy-three, and was composed of the Whig party, the extreme Conservatives, the ultra-Radicals and Irish Repealers.

In ten days after, Lord John Russell assumed the seals of office.