Measures for carrying the Second Reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords--The Party of the Waverers--The Russo-Dutch Loan--Resistance of the Tory Peers--Lord Melbourne's Views on the Government--Macaulay at Holland House--Reluctance of the Government to create Peers--Duke of Wellington intractable-- Peel's Despondency--Lord Grey on the Measures of Conciliation-- Lord Wharncliffe sees the King--Prospects of the Waverers-- Conversations with Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerston--Duke of Richmond on the Creation of Peers--Interview of Lord Grey with the Waverers--Minute drawn up--Bethnal Green--The Archbishop of Canterbury vacillates--Violence of Extreme Parties--Princess Lieven's Journal--Lord Holland for making Peers--Irish National Education--Seizure of Ancona--Reform Bill passes the House of Commons--Lord Dudley's Madness--Debate in the Lords. January 24th, 1832 {p.237} Yesterday morning Frederick Lamb came to me and told me that the question of the Peers was again in agitation, that the King had agreed to make as many as they pleased, and had understood Wharncliffe's conversation with his Majesty not to have contained any distinct assurance that he would vote for the second reading of the Bill. Our party in the Cabinet still fight the battle, however, and Stanley (on whom all depends) is said to be firm, but circumstances may compel them to give way, and Lord Grey (who is suspected to have in his heart many misgivings as to this measure), when left to Durham and Co., yields everything. Under these circumstances I went to Wharncliffe last night, to persuade him to declare his intentions without loss of time. He owned that he had not _pledged_ himself to the King, and he was frightened to death at the idea of taking this step, lest it should give umbrage to the Tories, and he should find himself without any support at all. We went, however, together to Grosvenor Square, and had a long conference with Harrowby, whom I found equally undecided. [Page Head: PLANS OF CONCILIATION.]