[236] Life of Lord Palmerston, by the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Vol. II., p. 273.
[237] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 335.
[238] Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, Biographical Sketch and Letters, p. 111.
[239] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 345.
[240] Forty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Political, by Thomas Frost, p. 291.
[241] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 347.
[242] When Lord Grosvenor divided the House on an amendment to the Second Reading of the Bill, he gathered round him a body of nondescript Liberals—many of whom had been disappointed in their quest of office—whom Mr. Bright likened to those who took refuge in the cave of Adullam.
[243] Forty Adullamites had promised to support him.
[244] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 358.
[245] The speech of Mr. Mill struck terror into the hearts of the reactionary landlords, who had all thought that their rents would go on rising for centuries to come. For further references, see Letters and Journals of W. Stanley Jevons, edited by his Wife, pp. 203, 216, 218, 223, and 224, London: Macmillan (1886).