een these two; but Graham's
reception of this remark implied a contrary opinion.

Lincoln, now Duke of Newcastle, he found obdurate in another direction,
speaking with great asperity against Lord Derby and his party; he would
make no vows as to junction, not even that he would not join Disraeli;
but he thought this government must be opposed and overthrown; then
those who led the charge against it would reap the reward; if the
Peelites did not place themselves in a prominent position, others would.
They had a further conversation. The duke told him that Beresford, the
whip, had sent out orders to tory newspapers to run them down; that the
same worthy had said 'The Peelites, let them go to hell.' Mr. Gladstone
replied that Beresford's language was not a good test of the feelings of
his party, and that his violence and that of other people was stimulated
by what they imagined or heard of the Peelites. Newcastle persisted in
his disbelief in the government. 'During this conversation, held on a
sofa at the Carlton, we were rather warm; and I said to him, "It
appears to me that you do not believe this party to be composed even of
men of honour or of gentlemen."... He clung to the idea that we were
hereafter to form a party of our own, containing all the good elements
of both parties. To which I replied, the country cannot be governed by a
third or middle party unless it be for a time only, and on the whole I
thought a liberal policy would be worked out with greater security to
the country through the medium of the conservative party, and I thought
a position like Peel's on the liberal side of that party preferable,
comparing all advantages and disadvantages, to the conservative side of
the liberal party. And when he spoke of the tories as the obstructive
body I said not all of them--for instance Mr. Pitt, Mr. Canning, Mr.
Huskisson, and in some degree Lord Londonderry and Lord Liverpool.'

FOUR SHADES OF PEELITES

The upshot of all these discussions was the discovery that there were at
least four distinct shades among the Peelites. 'Newcastle stands nearly
alone, if not quite, in the rather high-flown idea that we are to create
and lead a great, virtuous, powerful intelligent party, neither the
actual conservative nor the actual liberal party but a new one. Apart
from these witcheries, Graham was ready to take his place in the liberal
ranks; Cardwell, Fitzroy and Oswald would I think have gone with hi