rst came to a Patent case the day before, both
in high spirits. After it was over Lyndhurst came into my room,
when I said, 'You look in high force.' 'Oh no,' said he, 'I am
quite _passe_, entirely done up.' Just then Brougham came in,
when I said to him, pointing to Lyndhurst, 'He says he is quite
_passe_ and done up.' 'Just like me,' he said; 'I am quite
_passe_ too.' 'Then,' I said, 'there can be no use in two such
poor worn-out creatures as you two going to the House of Lords.'
'Do you hear him?' cried out Brougham: 'A capital suggestion of
the Clerk of the Council: we won't go to the House of Lords at
all; let us go together to _Hamble_.'[14] And then he seized
Lyndhurst's arm, and off they went together chuckling and
laughing and brimful of mischief.

[14] Hamble is the country seat of Sir Arthur Paget, who was
present with Brougham.

He came out the night of the Address with a very brilliant
speech, and with a fierce and bitter philippic against O'Connell
for having insinuated that Lord Norbury had been shot by his own
son. Last night, O'Connell retaliated in the House of Commons,
and denying that he had even thought of, or insinuated any such
thing, he hurled back an invective still fiercer, bitterer, more
insulting, and very powerful too. Very little discussion grew out
of the Queen's Speech, all parties being agreed to defer the
consideration of great questions till brought regularly on. There
was a pretty strong demonstration in the House of Commons in
favour of the Corn Laws, so as to render it improbable that
anything will be done. The only thing which seems to threaten the
Government at present is, the hatred that has sprung up between
the English Radicals and the Irish, and the animosity which
prevails among the former against O'Connell. If this is carried
to the length of inducing the English Radicals to keep aloof on
some important question, Ministers may find themselves in a
minority, and resign thereon; and this is what the Tories are
looking to as their best chance.

February 10th, Sunday, 1839 {p.161}

[Page Head: RESIGNATION OF LORD GLENELG.]

On Friday, Lord Glenelg announced in the House of Lords that he
had resigned,[15] though it would have been more correct to have
stated that he had been turned out. He said very little, but that
little conveyed a sense of ill-usage and a mortified spirit; none
of the Ministers uttered a word. Many wonder that they ventured
to make an