“. . . We had a capital assembly at Lady Grey’s, and I collected clearly that we
are not going to resign, let the majority in the Lords against our Irish Church
* He did so within a year.
1832-33.]
MISS BERRY’S DINNER-PARTY.
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Reform Bill be what
it may; so that is all as it should be. The great
stumbling-block before us is—will the Lords consent to the future
reduction of the Irish Bishops. It is a bitter pill for them to swallow: I
don’t see how the English Bishops are to stand it; and yet I am perfectly
convinced that if that bill is flung out in the Lords, the present House of Commons, either in this very session or the next,
will commence operations for dislodging the Bishops from the H. of Lords
altogether; and eventually they must succeed.”
