Volume III Part 6 (1/2)
April 23rd, 1834 {p079}
Nothing could go off more quietly than the procession on Monday
There were about 25,000 men, mostly well dressed, no noise or tuether; Melbourne's ansas good They say 250,000nas;'
the intireat a crowd asseo by The King sent all the royal carriages, and every other carriage in London was there, I believe--a po's coround on which she could claie IV's ham made one of his exhibitions in the House of Lords the other night about the Ca the Duke of Gloucester with ravity It was very droll and very witty, I fancy, but very unbecoht O'Connell spoke for five hours on the repeal of the Union
April 25th, 1834 {p080}
[Page Head: LONDON UNIVERSITY CHARTER]
Yesterday the Privy Councilfor a charter, and the counter-petitions of Oxford and Cae was rather curious, considering the relative political position of some of the parties All the Cabinet Ministers were summoned; Lords Grey and Holland were there, the Chancellor, Denman, Lyndhurst, Eldon, the two Archbishops, and the Bishop of London
Old Eldon got a fall as he caham and the rest were full of civilities and tenderness, but he said 'it was of no consequence, for the _brains_ had been knocked out long ago' Wetherellspeech, and did not conclude It is seldom that the sounds of merrih and the gallery too There were Allen of Holland House and Phillpotts sitting cheek by jowl to hear the discussion
May 11th, 1834 {p080}
More than three weeks, and _rebus New The debate on the repeal of the Union was th than the excellence of the speeches, except Spring Rice's, which was both long and good, and Peel's, the latter supereminently so O'Connell spoke for five hours and a quarter, and Rice for six hours; each occupied a night, after the manner of American orators The minority was much smaller than was expected Since that the only question of consequence in the House of Coot a larger majority than they had hoped for, and such an one as to set the ain spoke very well, and old Byng entlemanlike speech Independence now-a-days relatespower nobody is suspected of being dependent on the Crown or the Minister, and the question is if a man be independent of the popular cry or of his own constituency
The King has been exhibiting so to anything like actual derange the Guards and _blowing up_ people at Court He made the Guards, both horse and foot, perform their evolutions before him; he examined their barracks, clothes, arht to hiht show them the way to use it in soave a great deal of trouble and ry with Lord de Saury because he would begin explaining and apologizing, first at the levee and then at the drawing-room; and he reprehended him very sharply at both places An explanation afterwards took place through Lord Cary because de Saumarez would prate at the levee, when he told hi the subject
The debate at the Council Board ter It was tiresoe, for he will talk sovery anxious to abbreviate the business, he ought to have avoided saying pungent things, which elicited rejoinders and excited heat The extreravity and patient attention of old Eldon struck me forcibly as contrasted with the air of _ennui_, the frequent and audible yawns, and the flippant and sarcastic interruptions of the Chancellor Wetherell made a very able speech, which he afterwards published Theincident occurred in an answer of Bickersteth's to one of the Chancellor's interruptions He said, talking of degrees, 'Pray, Mr Bickersteth, what is to prevent the London University granting degrees _now_?'
to which, he replied, 'The universal scorn and conteham said no more; the effect was really fine There was a little debate upon Portugal in the House of Cohly handled by Baring A report was believed that Don Carlos had sailed for England, and that an agreeuel and Pedro, but it turned out to be false nobody, however, doubts that the quadruple alliance will settle the Portuguese business, if not the Spanish
May 12th, 1834 {p082}
There was a report yesterday that Palmerston was out and Durhaallery when Palht, and must have been well satisfied I met Peel at dinner yesterday, and after it he talked to me of this report, which he concluded was not true; but he said that Palmerston had seemed bereft of his senses, and that in his speech he had attempted a new line quite unusual with hi so miserable he had never heard He then talked of Stanley; expressed his indignation at hearing O'Connell bepraised by the , especially by Stanley hiht in such terard of veracity, ' and again 'he attacked him, but took care how he attacked others, who he kneere not restrained by obligations such as he was under to bear with his language;' in other words, calling him a liar and a coward; and after this Stanley condescended to flatter him and applaud his speech He said that he had expected better things of Stanley, and was really distressed to hear it
[Page Head: DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE WHIGS]
I dined with the Duke of Wellington on Saturday Arbuthnot was there, and he said the Duke is in a state of unutterable disgust with the present Governn policy, which he fancies they shape in systematic and wilful opposition to his own This, of course, is ination, and rather a preposterous notion He says the Duke does not think well of the state of the country, but that he grasps with eagerness at any sy prosperity, and (what is rather inconsistent with his bad opinion of affairs) he is always telling the foreigners (ie
the Areat error if they think the power or resources of England in any way is, is, however, invincible, and of very ancient date, as this proves Arbuthnot said that he was looking over a box of papers the other day, and hit upon the copy of a letter he had written to Lord Liverpool, by desire of soues, to dissuade hi at the time of the first Lady Liverpool's death With it there was a scrap on which ritten, 'Taken down frou, he (the Duke) should think himself at liberty to join any other party or set of s out of power, as he was convinced that whenever they got in they would ruin the country Lord Liverpool said that they (The Tories) had been too long in possession of the Government
May 23rd, 1834 {p083}
New remarkably new In the House of Co on shaht in a very absurd Bill for the better observance of the Sabbath (an old sinner he, who never cared three straws for the Sabbath), which Brougham attacked with excessive virulence and all his powers of ridicule and sarcash, very heartily, but on a division, the Bishops all voting with Wynford, the latter carried the second reading by three in a very thin House The next day the Chancellor caent style, very sh Review' than a Parliamentary protest Wynford was in the House when he entered his protest, and he called out to him, 'Holloa, _Best_, look ati is cracked, and I dare say there is soets so very choleric, and is so indecent in his wrath Besides his squabble with old Lord de Saumarez, he broke out the other day at the Exhibition (So him the pictures, and Sir Martin Shee (I believe, but a out Admiral Napier's, said, 'That is one of our naval heroes; to which his Majesty was pleased to reply that if he served hi hi of all is what appeared in the 'Gazette' of Tuesday--the peerage conferred on ---- She is a disreputable, half-ive her this co Queen, for he wanted towould have consented
[Page Head: FeTE AT PETWORTH]
On Monday last I went to Petworth, and saw the finest _fete_ that could be given Lord Egremont has been accusto parishes (wo-house and tennis court, where they were ad place; but when he recovered he was bent upon having it, and, as it was put off till the suht it was; fifty-four tables, each fifty feet long, were placed in a vast se could bethan to look at the preparations The tables were all spread with cloths, and plates, and dishes; two great tents were erected in the middle to receive the provisions, which were conveyed in carts, like as and loaves were piled like cannon balls, and innumerable joints of boiled and roast beef were spread out, while hot joints were prepared in the kitchen, and sent forth as soon as the firing of guns announced the hour of the feast