consequences. April 8th, 1835 {p.246} [Page Head: DEFEAT OF SIR R. PEEL'S MINISTRY.] There was a majority of twenty-seven last night, which I conclude settles the business.[8] There was to be a Cabinet this morning at eleven, at which they had resolved to agree upon their resignations. Wharncliffe saw the King last night. He is very composed; they think they can infuse courage and firmness into him, but when he is left to himself, I doubt him. Nothing can be imagined more painful on both sides than his approaching interview with the once rejected and now triumphant Whigs. Yesterday I rode with Ellice up the Park. He said, 'Grey will do anything they wish him to do, but I think he had better have nothing to do with it.' He talked of the new Government that will be formed as having no difficulty; that they might have if Peel and the Tories went into violent opposition, which he is convinced Peel will not do. I said they might go on till the Tithe Bill went to the House of Lords, when they would expunge the appropriation clause. He said, 'They won't be so mad; there is no Church of Ireland now, and the question is whether there shall be one, for without that clause no Tithe Bill will 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}