CHAPTER XVII.

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. Page 237