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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt:...him. Neither Lady William nor Hastings thinks that it can last. "If the House," he said, "had come to a vote last night, Palmerston would have been in a minority. We shall see what will be done when Roebuck names his committee on Thursday, but at present there is a majority for carrying on the inquiry at any risk." 'Lady William has no hopes of Lord John's success in Vienna, but is anxious to get him out of England. "His family," she says, "are trying to keep him at home, not only because he is now in bed with influenza and not fit for the journey, but also with vague hopes of his return to the Premiership. I have no such expectations," she said, "at least at present, for nothing can equal his London unpopularity. It is perfectly true that he ought to have resigned in November, but he tells me that Lord Lansdowne, Lord Palmerston, and Sir G. Grey all entreated him to remain. Perhaps I have lived too much abroad to enter thoroughly into the English feeling that a man's first duty is to his party, and his second to his country." Afterwards Duke of Bedford. 'My son brought home news from the Chancellor this evening that the Government have resolved, if Roebuck's motion for naming the committee of inquiry is carried on Thursday, to dissolve.' 'Wednesday, February 22.--I wrapped myself in. furs, and got to the Athenaeum. The first person that I saw there was Charles Austin. 'He is alarmed at the defection of the Peelites--that is, of Gladstone, Graham, Herbert, and Lord Canning--which was announced last night. He fears that it may pave the way to a Derby Government, which must be disastrous, not because they are peculiarly dishonest--all statesmen are dishonest--but from their gross, hopeless...