Horne, the late Attorney-General, seems likely to fall between the stools. When Brougham proposed to him to take a puisne judgeship, he said he had been an equity lawyer all his life, and had no mind to enter on a course of common law, for which he was not qualified, and proposed that he should not go the circuits, and be Deputy-Speaker of the House of Lords. Brougham told him there would be no difficulty, and then told Lord Grey he had settled it with Horne, but did not tell him what Horne required. The general movement was made, and when Horne desired to see Lord Grey he told him that his terms could not be complied with, so he became a victim to the trickery and shuffling of the Chancellor, who wanted to get him out, and did not care how. I hear that his colleagues are quite aware of all his tricks and his intrigues, and have not the slightest confidence in him. He thinks of nothing but the establishment of political power on the basis of patronage, and accordingly he grasps at all he can. All the commissions of enquiry which are set on foot afford him the means of patronage, but I doubt all will not do. He is emasculated by being in the House of Lords, and he will hardly get anybody to do his business for him in the House of Commons. CHAPTER XXIII. Spain--Russia and Turkey--Sir R. Peel's Pictures--Peel and Stanley--Lord Brougham's Judicial Changes--Lord Brougham's Defence--Admission of Dissenters to the Universities--Lord Denman's Peerage--Growing Ascendency of Peel--An Apology for Lord Brougham--Personal Reflections--Crime in Dorsetshire-- Spain and Portugal--Procession of the Trades' Unions--Lady Hertford's Funeral--Petition of the London University for a Charter--Repeal of the Union--Excitement of the King--Brougham and Eldon at the Privy Council--Duke of Wellington's Aversion to the Whigs--Lord Brougham and Lord Wynford--Fête at Petworth--Lord Brougham's Conduct on the Pluralities Bill-- Crisis in the Cabinet--Prince Lieven recalled--Stanley, Graham, and the Duke of Richmond resign on the Irish Church Bill-- History of the Crisis--Ward's Motion defeated by moving the previous question--Affairs of Portugal--Effects of the late Change--Oxford Commemoration--Peel's Declaration--Festival in Westminster Abbey--Don Carlos on his way to Spain--Stanley's 'Thimble-rig' Speech--Resignation of Lord Grey--Mr. Greville's account of the Causes of his Retirement--The Government reconstituted by Lord Melbourne--Lord Duncannon Secretary of State. March 12th, 1834 {p.068}