CHAPTER XXXII.

Difficulties ahead--Lord John Russell resigns--Conduct of the Opposition--Lord Stanley waits on the Queen--Sir James Graham's Views--Ministerial Negotiations--Lord Stanley attempts to form a Ministry--Lord Stanley fails--The Whig Ministry returns to Office--Sir James Graham stands aloof--Dislocation of Parties--Embarrassments arising from the Papal Aggression Bill--Weakness of the Government--Relations of Sir James Graham and the Whigs--Debate on the Papal Aggression Bill--A Measure of Chancery Reform--Lord Stanley at Newmarket--Hostility of the Peelites--Opening of the Great Exhibition--Defeats of the Ministry--The Exhibition saves the Government--M. Thiers in London--Close of the Season--The Jew Bill--Overture to Sir James Graham--Which is declined--Autumn Visits and Agitation--Lord John Russell's Reform Bill--The Creed of a Capuchin--Kossuth's Reception in England--The Kossuth Agitation in England--Mr. Disraeli on Lord George Bentinck--Sir James Graham's Fears of Reform--Dangers from Lord Palmerston's arbitrary Conduct--Case of Greece--Case of Sicily--The Coup d'…tat of the 2nd December 377