Volume III Part 6 (2/2)
Tickets were given to the inhabitants of a certain district, and the number was about 4,000; but, as many more came, the old Peer could not endure that there should be anybody hungering outside his gates, and he went out himself and ordered the barriers to be taken down and adiven to all They think 6,000 were fed Gentlehbourhood carved for the the peasantry The food was distributed from the tents and carried off upon hurdles to all parts of the seay airs The day was glorious--an unclouded sky and soft southern breeze Nothing could exceed the pleasure of that fine old fellow; he was in and out of the s of his rooht of these poor wretches, all attired in their best, cra themselves and their brats with asa day of relaxation and happiness After a certain tiates were thrown open: all who chose came in, and walked about the shrubbery and up to the s of the house At night there was a great display of fireworks, and I should think, at the tian, not less than 10,000 people were asseayest andaffecting in the conterave, from which he had only lately been reprieved, with hisin the diffusion of happiness and finding keen gratification in relieving the distresses and contributing to the pleasures of the poor I thought how applicable to hiyric of Burke's on the Indian kings: 'delighting to reign in the dispensation of happiness during the contracted space of hus of a vivacious mind to extend the doeneration to generation as the guardian, the protector, the nourisher of mankind'
May 24th, 1834 {p085}
The Chancellor, who loves to unbosom himself to Sefton because he knows the latter thinks hi, tells him that it is nuts to him to be attacked by noble Lords in the Upper House, and that they had better leave him alone if they care for their own hides Since he loves these assaults, last night he got his bellyful, for he was baited by a dozen at least, and he did not co and happy as usual The matter related to the Pluralities Bill, which he had introduced so notice, and after having toldothers) that there was nothing ht
In short, he was at his tricks again, lying and shuffling, false and then insolent, and all for no discernible end The debate exhibits a detail of his et out of the scrape he had got himself into It is because scarcely any or rather no motive was apparent that it is with difficulty believed that he meant to deceive anybody But it is in the nature of the htforward; some object, no matter how trivial, presents itself to his busy and disteins to think by what artifice and what underhand work he can bring it about; and thus he exposes hies of dishonourable conduct without any adequate consideration or cause He reue by force of habit, who could not keep his hand out of his neighbour's pocket though he knew there was nothing in it, nor help cheating at cards though he are he should not be paid if he won It is thought that the exhibition of last night will not be without its influence upon the fate of this Ade Head: SPLIT ON THE IRISH CHURCH]
The Government is on the very brink of dissolution The Irish Church Bill is the iainst the ard to the Appropriation clause Stanley, _they think_, would have knocked under if Grahaed him on to resistance They attribute all the present bother to Grahas It is iuess hoill end, and there is a terrible tur for two hours yesterday The violent party evidently wish Lord Grey to let Stanley go out, and those who choose to go with hirave, and that sort of thing, and what they call 'throw themselves on the House of Commons and the country' On the other hand the half-Tories and moderates wish the Government to adopt a moderate tone and course, and seek support from the House of Lords As to the House of Coh thick and thin one day and buffeting theht before last Althorp was beaten, after i the strangest declarations I am very sorry that there should be a chance of a split on such a question as the Irish Church, which really is not tenable His colleagues (or their friends at least) suspect that Graham kicks up this dust with ulterior views, and they think he aims at a junction with Peel--Stanley of course included--and coreat evil if the Government is broken up just now, but it is quite clear that they cannot go on long; it is a question of ton told , and he will be rather shy of giving to the world a second voluot so bedevilled two years ago
The Lievens are recalled, which is a great misfortune to society
She is inconsolable The pill is gilded well, for he is overnor to the Imperial Prince, the E, and Palmerston's obstinate refusal to appoint anybody else, has probably contributed to this change His colleagues have endeavoured to persuade hirave, whom they wish to provide for, but he will not hear of it I can't conceive why they don't let hiainers in every way We are nohat is called a s have put overn the country theovern it either 'Tihest day'
May 28th, 1834 {p088}
On returning froned, and it was supposed Ripon would follow their example[3] Althorp adjourned the debate till Monday next
Sefton 'never was so happy in his life' It is a bad sign when he is happy--notto be wicked, only very foolish and violent I have rarely seen the effects of a neglected education and a vivacious temperament manifested in a reat deal of cleverness, but who, from the above causes and the absence of the habit of moral discipline and of calm and patient reflection, is a fool, and a very mischievous one They will be forced to put Peers in the vacant places, because nobody can get re-elected The rotten boroughs now seem not quite such abo advantages
[3] [The members of the Grey Administration who seceded on the Appropriation Resolution (as it was termed), moved by Mr Ward, were the Duke of Richmond, Postmaster-General; the Earl of Ripon, Privy Seal; Mr Stanley, Cabinet Secretary; and Sir Jaham became Postmaster-General, the Earl of Carlisle Privy Seal, Lord Auckland first Lord of the Ad Rice Colonial Secretary]
June 1st, 1834 {p088}
The arrangenations were pretty quickly s, Tories, and Radicals join in full cry against them, and the 'Times,' in a succession of bitter, vituperative articles, very well done, fires off its conte up of the Cabinet The most unpopular appears to be Lord Auckland's appointh I like hie and objectionable He has neither reputation nor political calibre to entitle him to such an elevation, and his want of urbanity and forbidding manner seem to render him peculiarly unfit for the post they have conferred on hiood First Lord of the Admiralty I have heard many praises and not one coeneral opinion is that this Cabinet, so a; but as they clearly mean to throw themselves upon the House of Commons, and as the House will at all events support theer; they will at any rate, scra the recess it will be seen whether they can acquire public confidence and what chance they have of carrying on the governe Head: THE IRISH CHURCH]
After rave, and others, I have acquired a tolerably correct understanding of the history of these inconvenient proceedings The speech of Lord John Russell, to which all this hubbub is attributed, may have somewhat accelerated, but did not produce, the crisis The difference has long existed in the Cabinet on the subject of the Irish Church, and ell known, for Althorp stated as much last year Stanley and Graham were both vehemently opposed to any Parliamentary appropriation of the surplus revenues of the Irish Church, but not exactly on the saht of Parliament to interfere at all; that is, he asserts that Parliaht to deal with the revenues of the Church than it would have to deal with his estate Grahaht, but contends that it is not expedient, that the connexion between the two countries is ether by the Protestant Church, and that anywith the Establishment will inevitably lead to its downfall He stands upon religious grounds I confess myself to be lost in astonishment at the views they take on this subject; that after sing the canats which were perched upon the camel's back, that they should not have perceived from the first that such reforreat measure, and, above all, that the prevalence of public opinion, abstract justice, and the condition of Ireland all loudly call for their adoption However, such are their opinions, and doubtless very conscientiously entertained Upon Ward'sannounced, it was proposed in the Cabinet that the difficulty should be waived for the present by reed; but on further investigation they discerned that if this was moved, in all probability it would not be carried, and under these circun In the Cabinet sonation, and matters remained unsettled when Althorp went down to the House of Coht of Ward's motion It was strictly true (as he said) that he was infor accepted their resignations at once, and appears to have expressed his opinion that they adopted the proper course, but he told the Duke of Richmond that the four members of the Cabinet who had quitted it were the four whoone it was to be settled how their places were to be supplied Ellice and Spring Rice were indispensable; the Radicals wanted Durhas wanted Radnor, Abercro, for he is likewise opposed to any h not perhaps to the extent that the seceders are, or to such a degree as to led, and they appear to have thought hih to remain He made Durham's exclusion a _sine qua non_, but I believe all the others were equally opposed to his re-ad Rice and Auckland are Lansdowne's personal friends and firreeable to hirave so entirely expected to come in that he told me on Epsom racecourse on Thursday last that he was to be one of the new Ministers, though he did not knohich place he was to have Great, therefore, was his disgust when they only offered him the Post Office without the Cabinet He refused it with sonation, and thinks himself very ill used I do not yet knohat are the reasons which induced thee to any of the above-ust, and will not serve to make the Administration more popular than before Durham is of course furious, and if Abercromby and the others did not expect or desire to co passed over, and in favour of such people
June 2nd, 1834 {p091}
[Page Head: HISTORY OF THE CRISIS]
Yesterday I dined with Stanley; there was a vast deal of fine company, outs and ins, Richrave ould not _come_ into it, Auckland, Palrave and o, in consequence of the difference in the Cabinet, which everybody knew, he had pressed his resignation on his colleagues, who refused to take it, that he had agreed to vote for the previous question on Ward's motion, but they were informed it would not be carried He then said, 'Why don't you takewas settled He then saw the King, who agreed to accept his resignation conditionally, provided Lord Grey could o down to his colleagues and talk it over He replied that it was too late, that he ought then to be in his place in the House of Co on He went down, saw Lord Grey, settled with hin, and then sent into the House of Commons to Althorp to let him know that it was so settled In such hurry, uncertainty, and confusion was this business done Stanley talked not with acrie situation in which the Government, and particularly Lord Grey, is placed, and he 'hoped'
they reat doubt if they would He said 'that Lord Grey continues to preside over a Cabinet which is to a certain degree committed to the principle of a nation of the colleagues hoht no concession is made to the principle of the e and unaccountable why the seceders have been suffered to go If any be made, it will be inconsistent with the letter which Lord Grey has just written to Ebrington, in a strain as conservative as the King's speech to the bishops' Thus Lord Grey appears to be tossed on the horns of a very inconvenient dile's, which Stanley alluded to, has reat noise, and is matter of considerable triumph to the Conservatives It is reported in the papers as it was really delivered, except some absurdities hich it was mixed It is by no means a bad speech, and very decided in its tone; but what matters decision and a pere? Lord Grey's letter was addressed to Ebrington in reply to an address signed byon the table at Brookes' for public inspection
June 3rd, 1834 {p092}
[Page Head: MR STANLEY IN OPPOSITION]
Lord Althorp su Street, which was nuh some of the usual supporters of Government stayed away as followers of Stanley He invited theood deal of speaking for and against, chiefly a he hoped he had their confidence; but thebroke up without any satisfactory conclusion, and at five o'clock the general impression was that Government would be beaten, and this in spite of a conviction that they would resign if they were In theI met Graham, who said that he did not knohether he and Stanley would speak or not, that they could not support the previous question without repudiating the declaration hich it was to be accompanied, that he considered the question to involve the fate of the Irish Church, and with it the connexion between the two countries I told him we differed entirely, but that I would not enter upon any arguht the Government would not stand He said a trereat question, and so we parted