t require to be specially and differently educated, and be
restricted to look to India for their whole career. Officers attached
to native troops are in a different position.

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_The Earl of Derby to Queen Victoria._

ST JAMES'S SQUARE, _7th February 1859_.

Lord Derby, with his humble duty, submits to your Majesty his grateful
acknowledgments for your Majesty's most gracious note received this
evening, the contents, and still more the tenor of which have relieved
him from the painful apprehension that he might be called upon to
choose between a strong sense of public duty, and, on the other side,
his deep devotion to your Majesty's service, and his gratitude for the
favourable consideration which his imperfect attempts to discharge
his public duty had always received at your Majesty's hand. The
explanation, with which he has now been honoured, of your Majesty's
views has entirely dispelled those apprehensions, and he feels that
he has only to thank your Majesty for the gracious explanation, with
which he has been honoured, of your Majesty's motives in addressing to
him the letter which certainly caused him "deep pain."...[12]

[Footnote 12: Lord Derby then proceeded to deal at some length
with the status of the troops in India, concluding with the
opinion that the local forces in India should never exceed
those sent from home as part of the Regular Army, subject to
the ordinary routine of service.]

_Queen Victoria to the Earl of Derby._

WINDSOR CASTLE, _8th February 1859_.

The Queen has received Lord Derby's letter of yesterday, and is
pleased to find that he now appreciates the motives which dictated her
first letter. It needs no assurance on her side that she never doubted
those which actuate Lord Derby. The Queen will, in compliance with
his request, defer any further notice of the subject until the
Commissioners shall have made their report; it would not be fair,
however, to Lord Derby, not to add that she fears from his explanation
that he has not now correctly estimated the nature of the Queen's
objection, which is not to a variety of forces, terms of service,
local or general employment, etc., etc., etc., established in one
Army, but to the principle of _two_ British Armies.

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_Queen Victoria to General Peel._[13]

_13th February 1859_.

The Queen relies with confidence that when