er a
Parliamentary title.

As to the right of the Crown to declare war and make peace, it
requires not a word of remark; yet Lord Stanley agrees to Mr
Gladstone's proposal to make over this prerogative with regard to
Indian questions to Parliament under the auspices of the Queen's
Government; she is thus placed in a position of less authority than
the President of the American Republic.[41]

When a Bill has been introduced into Parliament, after having received
the Sovereign's approval, she has the right to expect that her
Ministers will not subsequently introduce important alterations
without previously obtaining her sanction. In the first of the two
instances referred to by the Queen, Lord Stanley introduced the
alteration himself; in the second he agreed to it even without asking
for a moment's delay; and the Opposition party, which attempted to
guard the Queen's prerogative, was overborne by the Government Leader
of the House.

The Queen must remind Lord Derby that it is to him as the head of the
Government that she looks for the protection of those prerogatives
which form an integral part of the Constitution.

[Footnote 41: An important amendment made at the instance
of Mr Gladstone provided that, except for repelling actual
invasion or upon urgent necessity, the Queen's Indian forces
should not be employed in operations outside India, without
Parliamentary sanction.]

_The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._

LAEKEN, _16th July 1858_.

MY TRULY BELOVED VICTORIA,--Nothing can be _kinder_ or more
_affectionate_ than your dear letter of the 13th, and it would
have done _your warm heart_ good to have _seen how much I have been
delighted and moved by it_. I can only say that I love you both more
tenderly than I could love my own children. When your plans will be
nearer maturity, you will have the great kindness to let me know
what will be your Royal pleasure, to enable me _de m'y conformer bien
exactement_.

The feeling which occasions some grumbling at the Cherbourg visit[42]
is in fact a good feeling, but it is not over-wise. Two things are to
be done--(1) To make every reasonable exertion to remain on personal
good terms with the Emperor--which can be done. One party in England
says it is with the French nation that you are to be on loving terms;
this _cannot_ be, as the French dislike the English as a nation,
though they may be kind to you also personally. (2) The next is,