finding the dean, had written as much as here follows on a scrap
of paper, when he came in....

The object of this paper was to induce the archbishop to
discountenance any plan for pressing the postponement of the
provisions respecting the residue, and to deal with us in
preference respecting any practicable concession to the church.
When the dean came in, I explained this further, recited the
purport of my interview with the Queen, and on his asking me
confidentially for his own information, I let him know that the
further pecuniary concession we were prepared to recommend would
be some L170,000 or L180,000.

_Sunday, July 18._--In the afternoon Lord Granville called on me
and brought me a confidential memorandum, containing an overture
which Mr. Disraeli had placed in the hands of Lord Bessborough for
communication to us. [Memorandum not recoverable.] He had
represented the terms as those which he had with much difficulty
induced Lord Cairns to consent to. While the contention as to the
residue was abandoned, and pecuniary concessions alone were
sought, the demand amounted, according to our computation, to
between L900,000 and L1,000,000.... This it was evident was
utterly inadmissible. I saw no possibility of approach to it; and
considered that a further quarter of a million or thereabouts was
all that the House of Commons could be expected or asked further
to concede. On the same afternoon Lord Granville, falling in with
Mr. Goschen, asked him what he thought the very most that could be
had--would it be L500,000? Goschen answered L300,000, and with this
Glyn agreed. Mr. Disraeli desired an answer before three on
Monday.

_Monday, July 19._--Those members of the government who had acted
as a sort of committee in the Irish church question met in the
afternoon. We were all agreed in opinion that the Disraeli
overture must be rejected, though without closing the door; and a
reply was prepared in this sense, which Lord Granville undertook
to send. [_Draft, in the above sense that no sum approaching
L1,000,000 could be entertained._]

Meantime the archbishop had arrived in Downing Street, in
pursuance of the arrangements of Saturday; and a paper was either
now drawn, or sanctioned by my colleagues, I do not remember
which, in order to form the basis of my communicatio