Chapter XXII

Fall of Sir Robert Peel--Lord John's Interview with
Peel--Lord John and the Duke--Lord Clarendon and Lord
Aberdeen--Favourable Position of the new Ministry--Lord
Melbourne's Disappointment--Smooth Water--Generous Conduct
of Lord Aberdeen--Restoration of Magistrates removed from
the Commission as Repealers--The Irish Arms Bill--Distrust
of Lord Palmerston--The Arms Bill given up--The Bishop of
Oxford's Exhortations--Differences with France--An Exchange of
Appointments--Squabble between Lord George Bentinck and Lord
Lyndhurst--Macaulay on Junius--Lord Chesterfield--Bretby and
Woburn--Lord John Russell's Moderation--The Spanish Marriage--Bad
Faith of the French Government--Unanimous Censure of the Spanish
Marriages--Lord Bessborough in Ireland--Correspondence on the
Spanish Marriages--Council of the Duchy--The Annexation of Cracow
to Austria--Action of Lewis Ferrand--Strange Intrigue imputed to
Louis Philippe--Conversation with Count Jarnac on the Spanish
Marriages--The Queen and Sir Robert Peel--M. Guizot's Note on the
Spanish Marriages--Decoration of the Peninsular Soldiers--State of
Ireland _page_ 401

A JOURNAL

OF THE

REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA

FROM 1837 TO 1852.