orm--Dinner of Ministers--Story of La
Ronciere--The King's Crotchets.
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CHAPTER XXVII.

The Speakership--Temporary Houses of Parliament--Church Reform--
Dissenters' Marriage Bill--Peel's False Position--Burke--
Palmerston's Talents as a Man of Business and Unpopularity--
Sympathy of Continental Courts with the Tories--Abercromby
elected Speaker--Defeat of the Government--Tactics of the
Opposition--The Speaker does not dine with Peel--Meeting of
Stanley's Friends--Debate on the Address--Lord John Russell
leads the Opposition--The Stanley Party--Second Defeat of the
Government--Peel's Ability--The Lichfield House Meeting--Debate
on Lord Londonderry's Appointment--His Speech in the Lords and
Resignation--Sir E. Sugden resigns the Great Seal of Ireland--
Lady Canterbury--Brougham in the House of Lords--Peel's
Readiness and Courage--Lord Canterbury and Stratford Canning
proposed for Canada--Approaching Fall of the Peel Government--
Meetings of the Opposition--Further Defeat--Sir Robert Peel's
own View of the State of Affairs--He resigns.
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CHAPTER XXVIII.

Lord Grey and Sir James Graham express Conservative Views--
Opinions of Lord Stanley--Lord Grey sees the King, but is not
asked to resume Office--Lord Melbourne's Second
Administration--His Moderation--A Difficulty--Spring Rice--A
Joyless Victory--Exclusion of Brougham--The New Cabinet--Lord
John Russell defeated in Devonshire--Lord Alvanley and
O'Connell--Duel with Morgan O'Connell--Lord Wellesley resigns
the Lord Stewardship--The Eliot Convention--Swift _v._ Kelly--
The Kembles--London University Charter discussed at the Privy
Council--Corporation Reform--Formation of the Conservative
Party--The King's Habits--Secretaryship of Jamaica--Lord
Melbourne's Tithe Bill--The Pope rejects the Recommendation of
the British Government--Relations with Rome--Carlists and
Christinos in Spain--Walcheren--The King's Address to Sir
Charles Grey--Stanley and Graham cross the House--Failure of
Stanley's Tactics--Alava and the Duke of Cumberland--A Sinecure
Placeman--Lord Glenelg and the King--Concert at Stafford
House--The King's Aversion to his Ministers and to the
Speaker--Decision on the Secretaryship of Jamaica--Archbishop
W