Chapter 6

Sir R. Peel arrives--The First Council--The King's Address--Lord Stanley and Sir J. Graham decline to join the Government--Lord Wharncliffe and Sir E. Knatchbull join--The Ministers sworn in--Peel's Address to his Constituents--Dinner at the Mansion House--Offer to Lord Roden--Prospects of the Election-- Stanley's Want of Influence--Pozzo di Borgo's Views--Russia and England--Nomination of Lord Londonderry to St. Petersburg-- Parliament dissolved--State of the Constituencies--A Governor-General for India--Sebastiani and St. Aulaire--Anecdote of Princess Metternich--The City Elections--Lord Lyndhurst's View of the Government--Violence of the Opposition--Close Contest at Rochester--Sydney Herbert--Sir John Hobhouse's Views-- Anecdotes--County Elections--The Queen supposed to be with Child--Church Reform--Dinner of Ministers--Story of La Roncière--The King's Crotchets. Page 174