Thus one branch of the legislature was systematically put under duress by the other, and seemed likely to be reduced to utter insignificance.

It was better that the government should be once pinched for money than that the House of Peers should cease to be part of the Constitution.

So strong was this feeling that the Bill was carried only by sixty-five to forty-eight.

It received the royal sanction on the fifth of July.

The King then spoke from the throne.