[66] Greville, on the other hand, grumbled at Peel, for taking high birth and connections as substitutes for other qualities, because he made Sidney Herbert secretary at the board of control, instead of making him a lord of the treasury, and sending 'Gladstone, who is a very clever man,' to the other and more responsible post.
[67] Lord Stanmore's Earl of Aberdeen (1893), p. iii.
[68] Parker's Peel, ii. p. 267.
[69] O'Connell paid Newark a short visit in 1836—spoke against Mr. Gladstone for an hour in the open air, and then left the town, both he and it much as they had been before his arrival.
[70] Walpole, Life of Lord John Russell, ii. p. 455.
CHAPTER III
PROGRESS IN PUBLIC LIFE
(1835-1838)