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 256 History of the Radical Party in Parliament. [1833- most trusted leaders of the popular party. There was a good deal of opposition in feeling and in policy between Durham and Brougham, and it was one of the causes of Radical sus- picion and discontent that the former had been forced or manoeuvred out of the Cabinet. When Parliament .broke up, Lord Grey went into Scotland, and was welcomed on his way at many places by public demonstrations, gratitude for his lifelong services having already overcome the dissatisfaction with the immediate cause of his retirement. He was accom- panied by his son-in-law Durham. The Lord Chancellor, Brougham, had also started on a round of exhibitions of him- self as a great popular statesman, which were regarded with astonishment at the time, and are now the subject of little more than ridicule. In some places he posed as the adviser of progress and reform, at others he announced himself as the friend of moderation. At Edinburgh, on the I5th of September, the two parties met, Brougham attending and speaking at a great meeting held in honour of Grey. His speech on this occasion took the moderation tack, and he spoke with vehemence and at great length against reformers, who, in a fretful impatience, en- dangered all progress by rash attempts to go too fast. It was impossible for Durham to refrain from answering a challenge so evidently directed to him, and in reply he said, " My noble and learned friend, Lord Brougham, has been pleased to give some advice which I have no doubt he deems very sound to some classes of persons I know none such who evince too strong a desire to get rid of ancient abuses, and fretful im- patience in awaiting the remedies of them. Now, I frankly confess I am one of those persons who see with regret every hour which passes over the existence of recognized and un- reformed abuses." The cheers which greeted this sentiment, from ministers who were present as well as from the general audience, formed a rebuke to the Lord Chancellor, which his temper and his self-importance rendered him unable to bear. A few days after he made a speech at Salisbury, in which he defied Durham to meet him in the House of Lords a curious