ever
pass.'

[8] [The Ministry was defeated on the Irish Tithe Bill on
the 3rd of April by a majority of 33 in a House of 611;
on the 6th of April by a majority of 25 in a House of
499; and on the 7th of April by a majority of 27 in a
House of 543.]

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
Whateley--Irish Church Bill--Payment of Catholic Clergy--Peel
and Lord John Russell--Factious Conduct of Tory Peers--The
King's Violence--Debate on the Corporation Bill.

April 9th, 1835 {p.248}

Yesterday the Ministers resigned. Peel announced it to the House of
Commons in a short but admirable speech by all accounts, exactly
suitable to the occasion, and to his principal object--that of
setting himself right with his own supporters, who begin to
acquiesce, though rather sulkily, in the course he has pursued. Lord
Grey is to be with the King this morning. He was riding quietly in
the Park yesterday afternoon, and neither knew nor cared
(apparently) whether he had been sent for or not. His daughter told
me (for I rode with them up Constitution Hill) that his family could
not wish him to return to office, but would not interfere. She then
talked, much to my surprise, of the possibility of a junction
between him and Peel;