h._--Milner. Wraxall. A dinner-party. Wrote out a sketch
for an essay on Justification. Singing, whist, shooting. Copied a
paper for my father. _12th._--A day on the hill for roe. 14 guns.
[To Liverpool for public dinner at the Amphitheatre.] _18th._--Most
kindly heard. Canning's debut everything that could be desired. I
thought I spoke 35 minutes, but afterwards found it was 55. Read
_Marco Visconti_. _21st._--Operative dinner at Amphitheatre. Spoke
perhaps 16 or 18 minutes. _28th._--_Haddo_ [Lord Aberdeen's].
Finished _Marco Visconti_, a long bout, but I could not let it go.
Buckland's opening chapters. _On the whole_ satisfactory.
_30th._--Lord Aberdeen read prayers in the evening with simple and
earnest pathos. _Nov. 10th._--_Wilhehm Meister_, Book i., and there
I mean to leave it, unless I hear a better report of the succeeding
one than I could make of the first. Next day, recommenced with
great anticipations of delight the _Divina Commedia_.
_13th._--Finished Nicole _De l'Unite_. August. _De Civ._ [Every day
at this time.] _19th._--Began Cicero's _Tusculan Questions_....
_25th._--Aug. _Civ. Dei._ I am now in Book xiv. Cic. _Tusc._
finished. Book ii. _Purgatorio_, iii.-v. A dose of whist. Still
snow and rain. _26th._--Aug. Cicero. Billiards. _Purgatorio_,
vi.-viii. Began Dryden's _Fables._ My eyes are not in their best
plight, and I am obliged to consider type a little. _Jan. 3rd_,
1837.--Breakfasted with Dr. Chalmers. How kind my father is in
small matters as well as great--thoughtfully sending carriage.
_13th, Glasgow._--The pavilion astonishing, and the whole effect
very grand. Near 3500. Sir E. Peel spoke 1 h. 55 m. Explicit and
bold; it was a very great effort. I kept within 15 min.--quite long
enough. _14th._--71/2-51/2 mail to Carlisle. On all night, _15th._
Wetherby at 71/2. Leeds 101/2. Church there. Walked over to Wakefield.
Church there. Evening at Thornes. [Milnes Gaskell's.] _17th._--To
Newark. Very good meeting. Spoke 3/4 hour.

In this speech, after the regulation denunciation of the reckless
wickedness of O'Connell, he set about demonstrating the change that had
taken place in the character of public feeling during the last few
years. He pointed out that at the dissolution of 1831 the conservative
members of the House of Commons amounted perhaps to 50.