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1871

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

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I see a horrible phaeton before me in the coming break up of the Government who seem bent upon self-destruction, and in the consequent struggle of the Conservatives to get back into office. It would be a very foolish attempt but some of them seem to be bent upon making it. Sandon began to talk to me of it this afternoon.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 35 , December 2009 , pp. 197 - 200
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2009

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333 John Scott Russell (1808–1882), a marine engineer and inventor, conceived the idea of a Council of Legislation, consisting of Conservative peers, and a Council of Workmen, consisting of labour leaders, to agree on a programme of reform that would bring the labour leaders towards Conservatism. Apart from Carnarvon, Salisbury, Manners, Pakington, Northcote, and Hardy were so-called members.

334 Army (Purchase System). The Royal Warrant. Government statement: Hansard, CCVIII, 20 July 1970, cols 16–23.

335 Ibid., Granville, cols 2 and 10, Richmond, col. 6.

336 ‘The secret treaty’, Daily Telegraph, 13 October 1871, p. 4.

337 Pakington had summoned a meeting of the Committee at the Carlton on 1 August. Carnarvon had attended, together with Hardy, Manners, and Sandon. Carnarvon was disturbed at the newspaper accounts of the negotiations. Singling out the Daily News, he told Sandon, ‘The form in which it appears is a travesty of our resolutions as agreed at the meeting at the Carlton’ (Carnarvon to Sandon, 15 October 1871: Harrowby Papers, 2nd series, ii, fo. 102). For details of the alleged agreement on a seven-point programme between peers and working men, see Feuchtwanger, E., Disraeli, Democracy and the Tory Party (Oxford, 1968) pp. 92–93Google Scholar.

338 Pakington's presidential address at the Social Science Congress at Leeds on 4 October included a plea for legislation to improve the condition of the working classes in housing, education, and food. See Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (1871), pp. 1–21.

339 Carnarvon informed Salisbury that Disraeli had advised Pakington to stay silent and that members should ‘prevent the publication of anything purporting to be a collective statement’ (Carnarvon to Salisbury, 20 October 1871: Cranbrook Papers, HA3, T501/262).

340 ‘The visit to Hughenden was amusing and pleasant [. . .]. We sat up till one o'clock’ (Sandon to Lady Sandon, 24 October 1871: Harrowby Papers, 2nd series, xlv, fo. 80).

341 Hardy noted in his diary on reading The Times on 25 October, ‘The statement and memorandum appear quite unexceptionable and the leader in The Times so accepts them’ (Johnson, p. 144).

342 Carnarvon replied, ‘Like you, I was satisfied on reading it that we were not open to attack’ (Carnarvon to Hardy, 26 October 1871: Cranbrook Papers, HA3 T501/262).