CHAPTER XXX.

The Case of Gorham _v._ the Bishop of Exeter--Death of Lord Alvanley--The Session opened--State of Parties--Clouds arise--The Greek Affair--The Ceylon Committee--The Removal of Lord Roden--The Pacifico Affair--Lord Clarendon arrives--The Dolly's Brae Debate--The Irish Encumbered Estates Act--The Greek Affair--Conversation with Sir Robert Peel--The Roden Affair--The Queen's View of Lord Palmerston's Foreign Policy--Debate on Mr. Disraeli's Motion--Mr. Gladstone's Equivocal Position--Grillon's Club--Precarious Position of the Government--The Gorham Judgement--The African Squadron--Ministerial Troubles--The Greek Dispute--Lord Campbell Lord Chief Justice--Negotiation between the Branches of the House of Bourbon--The French Ambassador recalled from London--Lord Palmerston's Prevarications--The Case of the French Government--Intention to remove Lord Palmerston from the Foreign Office--First Speech of Mr. Stanley--Sir James Graham's Schemes of Reform--Debate in the Lords on the Greek Dispute--Effects of the Division--Lord Palmerston's Great Speech 300