n to the
archbishop. I returned from my interview, and reported, as I
afterwards did to the Dean of Windsor, that his tone was friendly,
and that he appeared well disposed to the sort of arrangement I
had sketched.

_Tuesday, July 20._--The archbishop, who had communicated with Lord
Cairns in the interval, came to me early to-day and brought a
memorandum as a basis of agreement, which, to my surprise,
demanded higher terms than those of Mr. Disraeli.(182) I told the
archbishop the terms in which we had already expressed ourselves
to Mr. Disraeli.... Meantime an answer had come from Mr. Disraeli
stating that he could not do more. Then followed the meeting of
the opposition peers at the Duke of Marlborough's.

On the meeting of the Houses, a few of us considered what course
was to be taken if the Lords should again cast out of the preamble
the words which precluded concurrent endowment; and it was agreed
to stay the proceedings for the time, and consider among ourselves
what further to do. [Lord Granville has a pencil note on the
margin, "The first order I received was to throw up the bill, to
which I answered that I could not do more than adjourn the
debate."] Lord Granville made this announcement accordingly after
the Lords had, upon a hot debate and by a large majority, again
excluded our words from the preamble [173: 95]. This had been
after a speech from Lord Cairns, in which he announced his
intention of moving other amendments which he detailed, and which
were in general conformable to the proposals already made to us.
The first disposition of several of us this evening, myself
included, was to regard the proceeding of the opposition as now
complete; since the whole had been announced, the first stroke
struck, and the command shown of a force of peers amply sufficient
to do the rest.(183) ... The idea did not, however, include an
absolute abandonment of the bill, but only the suspension of our
responsibility for it, leaving the opposition to work their own
will, and with the intention, when this had been done, of
considering the matter further....

_Wednesday, July 21._--The cabinet met at 11; and I went to it in
the mind of last night. We discussed, however, at great length all
possible methods of proceeding that occurred to us. The result was
stated in a lette