word of which went straight to the heart. Viscount Palmerston would,
however, humbly express a hope that the intensity of your Majesty's
grief may not lead your Majesty to neglect your health, the
preservation of which is so important for the welfare of your
Majesty's children, and for that of your Majesty's devotedly attached
and affectionate subjects; and which is so essentially necessary
to enable your Majesty to perform those duties which it will be the
object of your Majesty's life to fulfil.

Lord Granville has communicated to Viscount Palmerston your Majesty's
wish that Mr Dilke[66] should be made a Baronet, and that Mr
Bowring[67] should be made a Companion of the Bath, and both of these
things will be done accordingly. But there are three other persons
whose names Viscount Palmerston has for some time wished to submit to
your Majesty for the dignity of Baronet, and if your Majesty should
be graciously pleased to approve of them, the list would stand as
follows:

Mr Dilke.

Mr William Brown,[68] of Liverpool, a very wealthy and
distinguished merchant, who lately made a magnificent
present of a public library to his fellow-citizens.

Mr Thomas Davies Lloyd, a rich and highly respectable
gentleman of the county of Carnarvon.

Mr Rich, to whom the Government is under great obligation,
for having of his own accord and without any condition
vacated last year his seat for Richmond in Yorkshire,
and having thus enabled the Government to obtain the
valuable services of Mr Roundell Palmer as your Majesty's
Solicitor-General.

Viscount Palmerston has put into this box some private letters which
Lord Russell thinks your Majesty might perhaps like to look at.

[Footnote 66: Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke was on the Executive
Committee of the Exhibition of 1851, and on the Royal
Commission for the Exhibition of 1862. He died in 1869.]

[Footnote 67: Mr Edgar Bowring's Companionship was conferred
on him for services in connection with the earlier Exhibition.
He was afterwards M.P. for Exeter, 1868-1874.]

[Footnote 68: Mr Brown became a baronet in 1863.]

[Pageheading: COMFORT AND HOPE]

_Queen Victoria to Earl Canning._

OSBORNE, _10th January 1862_.

Lord Canning little thought when he wrote his kind and touching letter
of the 22nd November, that it would only reach the Queen when _she_
was _smitten_ and _bowed_ down to the earth by an event similar to
the o