Establishment and Endowment, (raised by the clauses appointing
bishops to Madras and Bombay, and balancing them with as many salaried
Presbyterian chaplains,) increased the length of the debates and the
number of the divisions; but the Government carried every point by
large majorities, and, with slight modifications in detail, and none in
principle, the measure became law with the almost universal approbation
both of Parliament and the country.

To Hannah M. Macaulay.

House of Commons. Monday night, half-past 12.

My dear Sister,--The papers will scarcely contain any account of what
passed yesterday in the House of Commons in the middle of the day.
Grant and I fought a battle with Briscoe and O'Connell in defence of
the Indian people, and won it by 38 to 6. It was a rascally claim of
a dishonest agent of the Company against the employers whom he had
cheated, and sold to their own tributaries. [In his great Indian speech
Macaulay referred to this affair, in a passage, the first sentence of
which has, by frequent quotation, been elevated into an apophthegm: "A
broken head in Cold Bath Fields produces a greater sensation than three
pitched battles in India. A few weeks ago we had to decide on a claim
brought by an individual against the revenues of India. If it had been
an English question the walls would scarcely have held the members who
would have flocked to the division. It was an Indian question; and we
could scarcely, by dint of supplication, make a House."] The nephew
of the original claimant has been pressing his case on the Board most
vehemently. He is an attorney living in Russell Square, and very likely
hears the word at St. John's Chapel. He hears it however to very little
purpose; for he lies as much as if he went to hear a "cauld clatter of
morality" at the parish church.

I remember that, when you were at Leamington two years ago, I used to
fill my letters with accounts of the people with whom I dined. High life
was new to me then; and now it has grown so familiar that I should
not, I fear, be able, as I formerly was, to select the striking
circumstances. I have dined with sundry great folks since you left
London, and I have attended a very splendid rout at Lord Grey's. I
stole thither, at about eleven, from the House of Commons with Stewart
Mackenzie. I do not mean to describe the beauty of the ladies, nor
the brilliancy of stars and uniforms. I mean only to tell you one
circumstance which struck, an