Chapter XXIV

Return to Paris--Possibility of a Tory Government--Hostility
to Lord Palmerston--Lord Aberdeen's Dissatisfaction--The
Duke's short View of the Case--Sir Robert Peel's Repugnance
to take Office--Lord John Russell--Further Disputes of Guizot
and Lord Normanby--The Quarrel with the Embassy--Lord Stanley
attacks the Government--The Normanby Quarrel--Lord Palmerston
threatens to break off Diplomatic Relations with France--Sir
Robert Peel's Opinion of Lord Palmerston--Mr. Walter--The
'Times'--The Normanby Quarrel made up--Mr. Greville's Opinion
of his own Journals--Income of the Royal Family--Lord George
Bentinck--Lord Normanby's _…tourderies_--The Government gains
Strength--The Irish Poor Law--The Czar places a large Sum with
the Bank of France--State of Ireland--Lord George Bentinck
as a Leader--Foreign Affairs--Archbishop Whately--Birthday
Reflexions--Lord Dudley's Diary--Power of the Press--Mr.
Disraeli and Mr. Moxon--The Defence of the Country--Troubles
in Portugal--Illness of Lord Bessborough--The Duke of
Wellington on the Army--Spain and Portugal--Abolition of the
Lord-Lieutenancy contemplated by Lord John--Difficulty of
abolishing the Lord-Lieutenancy--Deaths of Lord Bessborough
and of O'Connell--Lord Clarendon's Appointment--The End of
O'Connell--The Governor-Generalship of India--Sir James Graham
thought of--Failure of Debates on the Portuguese Question--The
Duke's Statue--The Governor-Generalship of India offered to
Sir James Graham--Sir Robert Peel's Position--Failures of the
Government--The Duke of Wellington's Popularity--Opinion in
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CHAPTER XXV.

Panic in the Money Market--The Bank Act--Sir Robert Peel's
Authority--Suspension of the Banking Act of 1844--Death of
the Archbishop of York--Meeting of Parliament--Irish Coercion
Bill--Opinion of the Lord-Lieutenant--Weakness of the Irish
Measures--Sir Robert Peel on the Bank Charter Act--The Duke of
Wellington on the Defences of the Country--English Catholic
Affairs at Rome--Illness of Lord Chancellor Cottenham--Bishop
Hampden's Appointment'--Chloroform--Lamartine's 'Girondins'--The
Hampden Dispute--Death of Lord Harrowby--Taxation--Leadership of
the Opposition--The Hampden War--Scenes in Spain--Visit to Lord
Melbourne--Lord Melbourne at Windsor--Burnham Beeches--Letter to
Cobden--Leadership of the Opposition--Views of Sir James Graham
on the Colonies--Archbishop Sumner--Baron Alderson--Diplomatic
Relations with Rome--Weakness of the Government--Bad Effects of
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