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much." The discourse was truly evangelical and im- 

 pressive. He is the best preacher I have heard in 

 England next to Mr. Noel, and is more eloquent and 

 striking in manner than he, but has not the gentle 

 pathos and sweetness of Noel. . . . 



Tuesday evening, February 26. . . . Met Mr. Put- 

 nam 1 at half past four. We had arranged before- 

 hand that he should attempt to procure some orders 

 for admittance to the House of Lords, and that we 

 should go down together. I found he had been suc- 

 cessful, having sent his clerk with notes to some half 

 dozen peers in order to make sure, and he thus ob- 

 tained more orders than he wanted. For me I found 

 he had addressed a note in my name to the Bishop 

 of London, who very promptly sent me an order of 

 admittance. 



We set out accordingly. The room which is occu- 

 pied by the House of Lords temporarily, until the 

 New Houses of Parliament are built, is inferior in 

 size and accommodation to that of the Commons; 

 indeed there is nothing about it at all remarkable. 

 There was no business of very absorbing interest be- 

 fore the House this evening, and it adjourned as 

 early as eight. Still I had the good fortune to hear 

 nearly all those speak that I particularly cared for 

 except Wellington (who is sick) and Earl Durham. I 

 heard a long speech from Brougham and a very good 

 one, except that he took occasion to trumpet his own 

 good works. There was some fine sparring between 

 an Irish lord I do not remember, Lord Roden, Lord 

 Westmeath, and Lord Normanby, the late viceroy of 

 Ireland, a young man apparently, and a man of talent, 



1 Mr. George P. Putnam ; the American publisher and bookseller, 

 at this time established in London. 



