Chapter XIX

1850

Grand Duchess Stephanie--The Draft to Greece--Lord
Palmerston's explanation--Lord John Russell's plan--Suggested
rearrangement--_Status quo_ maintained--Baron Stockmar's
Memorandum--State of France--The Prince's speech--Lord
Palmerston and Spain--Lord Howden--The Koh-i-noor diamond--A
change imminent--Lord John Russell's report--Sunday delivery
of letters--Prince George of Cambridge--The Earldom
of Tipperary--Mr Roebuck's motion--Lord Stanley's
motion--Holstein and Germany--Lord Palmerston's
explanation--The Protocol--Christening of Prince Arthur--Don
Pacifico Debate--Sir Robert Peel's accident--Letter from King
of Denmark--Death of Sir Robert Peel--The Queen assaulted
by Pate--Death of Duke of Cambridge--Prince of Prussia--The
Foreign Office--Denmark and Schleswig--Sir Charles Napier's
resignation--Lord Palmerston--Lord Clarendon's opinion--Duke
of Bedford's opinion--Lord John Russell's report--Press
attacks on Lord Palmerston--Duties of Foreign Secretary--Death
of King Louis Philippe--Visit to Scotland--Illness of Queen
Louise--Attack on General Haynau--Note to Baron Koller--The
Draft gone--Lord Palmerston rebuked--Holstein--A great
grief--Mr Tennyson made Poet Laureate--Ritualists and
Roman Catholics--Unrest in Europe--England and
Germany--Constitutionalism in Germany--Austria and
Prussia--Religious strife--England and Rome--Lady Peel--The
Papal aggression--Ecclesiastical Titles Bill 231-282