In spite of all our exertions the end of the Session seems further and further off every day.

If you would do me the favour of inviting Sibthorpe to Chevening Park you might be the means of saving my life, and that of thirty or forty more of us who are forced to swallow the last dregs of the oratory of this Parliament; and nauseous dregs they are."] On Saturday we met,--for the last time, I hope, on business.

When the House rose, I set off for Holland House.

We had a small party, but a very distinguished one.

Lord Grey, the Chancellor, Lord Palmerston, Luttrell, and myself were the only guests.