smiling nod; and
Morpeth a hand salute with all his might, as we crossed in riding. On
Monday night after the division, Peel said just as it was known and
about to be announced, "Jamaica was a good horse to start."' Of his own
share in the performance, Mr. Gladstone only says that he spoke a dry
speech to a somewhat reluctant House. 'I cannot work up my matter at all
in such a plight. However, considering what it was, they behaved very
well. A loud cheer on the announcement of the numbers from our people,
in which I did not join.'

To have won the race by so narrow a majority as five seemed to the
whigs, wearied of their own impotence and just discredit, a good plea
for getting out of office. Peel proceeded to begin the formation of a
government, but the operation broke down upon an affair of the
bedchamber. He supposed the Queen to object to the removal of any of the
ladies of her household, and the Queen supposed him to insist on the
removal of them all. The situation was unedifying and nonsensical, but
the Queen was not yet twenty, and Lord Melbourne had for once failed to
teach a prudent lesson. A few days saw Melbourne back in office, and in
office he remained for two years longer.[137]

II

MARRIAGE

In June 1839 the understanding arrived at with Miss Catherine Glynne
during the previous winter in Sicily, ripened into a definite
engagement, and on the 25th of the following July their marriage took
place amid much rejoicing and festivity at Hawarden. At the same time
and place, Mary Glynne, the younger sister, was married to Lord
Lyttelton. Sir Stephen Glynne, their brother, was the ninth, and as was
to happen, the last baronet. Their mother, born Mary Neville, was the
daughter of the second Lord Braybrooke and Mary Grenville his wife,
sister of the first Marquis of Buckingham. Hence Lady Glynne was one of
a historic clan, granddaughter of George Grenville, the minister of
American taxation, and niece of William, Lord Grenville, head of the
cabinet of All the Talents in 1806. She was first cousin therefore of
the younger Pitt, and the Glynnes could boast of a family connection
with three prime ministers, or if we choose to add Lord Chatham who
married Hester Grenville, with four.[138] 'I told her,' Mr. Gladstone
recorded on this occasion of their engagement (June 8th), 'what was my
original destination and desire in life; in what sense and ma