1834.] The First Reformed Parliament. 235 point, too, there was still further divergence. There could be no constant and permanent alliance without something like mutual sympathy on the matters which the several parties regarded as essential. But the English members could not repay Irish support by votes in favour of the principal object on which the latter were most in earnest. O'Connell had raised the banner of repeal, and to that flag no English Radicals could rally. They could not, therefore, on any special English question make a claim on the united loyalty of the Irish members. From these various causes, even the divisions taken in the House are not conclusive as to the real strength of the party, and they vary considerably ; yet on the whole they form the only trustworthy guide on the subject. Those which took place in the first sessions were very characteristic of the state of parties. The first that was called for in the reformed Parliament was pressed for by some of the Radicals on account of what they thought a desertion of principle by the Government in the choice of a Speaker. Mr. Manners Sutton, the Speaker in the former Parliament, had been selected by Tory ministers as a Tory president of a Tory House. There was naturally a feeling of surprise and regret when the reform Ministry decided to propose him as Speaker in the Liberal House. Loyalty to the Government restrained all but the most determined Radicals, and the first division list is interesting as showing how many of these there were. Hume proposed Mr. Littleton, in opposition to the old Speaker, and on a division obtained 31 votes against 241.* Amongst
- The following formed the minority :
Baldwin, D. H. Gaskell, D. Potter, Richard Beauclerk, Major A. W. Grote, George Roche, William Bowes, J. Hume, J. Roe, James Bulwer, E. L. Hutt, W. Roebuck, J. A. Butler, Hon. P. Kinlock, G Romilly, J. Cobbett, W. Lloyd, J. H. Strutt, Edward Dykes, F. L. B. Lynch, A. H. Sutton, Rt. Hon. C. M., Evans, George Nagle, Sir R. Speaker. Ewart, W. O'Connell, Daniel Vigors, N. A. Faithful, G. O'Connell, John Fielden, W. J. O'Connell, Morgan Warburton, Henry, Teller.
