It seems that many even of Montague's followers doubted whether the promised two millions would be forthcoming.

His enemies confidently predicted that the General Society would be as complete a failure as the Land Bank had been in the year before the last, and that he would in the autumn find himself in charge of an empty exchequer.

His activity and eloquence, however, prevailed.

On the twenty-sixth of June, after many laborious sittings, the question was put that this Bill do pass, and was carried by one hundred and fifteen votes to seventy-eight.

In the upper House, the conflict was short and sharp.