Yesterday night we read the India Bill a second time.

It was a Wednesday, and the reporters gave hardly any account of what passed.
They always resent being forced to attend on that day, which is their holiday.

I made the best speech, by general agreement, and in my own opinion, that I ever made in my life.

I was an hour and three-quarters up; and such compliments as I had from Lord Althorp, Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, Wynne, O'Connell, Grant, the Speaker, and twenty other people, you never heard.

As there is no report of the speech, I have been persuaded, rather against my will, to correct it for publication.