anticipate it. Now that the fate of the Government is decided, she
is prepared to grant those favours and acknowledgments of service for
which Lord Derby asked in his letter. The Queen _could_ not reconcile
it with her own feelings, however, were she to omit this opportunity,
when Lord Derby for the second time resigns the post of her Prime
Minister, of giving to him personally a public mark of her approbation
of his services. The Queen therefore asks him to accept the Garter
from her hands.

As the Queen holds a Drawing-room to-day, and receives the City
Address after it, Lord Derby will be aware how little time she has
this morning (being naturally anxious to have some conversation with
him with as little delay as possible); she would ask him to come here
either at half-past eleven or half-past twelve o'clock.

_The Earl of Derby to Queen Victoria._

ST JAMES'S SQUARE, _11th June 1859_.

Lord Derby, with his humble duty, submits to your Majesty the
expression of his deep gratitude for your Majesty's most gracious note
this moment received, and for the terms in which your Majesty has been
pleased to speak of his very imperfect services. He gratefully accepts
the honour which your Majesty has been pleased to confer upon him as a
mark of your Majesty's personal favour. As a Minister, he could never
have advised your Majesty to bestow it upon him, and he could not have
accepted it on the recommendation of any Government to which he was
politically opposed; but as a spontaneous act of your Majesty, it
acquires in his eyes a value which nothing else could have given to
it. Lord Derby is this moment going down to the Cabinet, as a matter
of form, and will obey your Majesty's commands as soon as possible
after half-past eleven, when he will have an opportunity of expressing
in person his deep sense of your Majesty's goodness, and his entire
devotedness, in whatever situation he may be placed, to your Majesty's
service.

[Pageheading: LORD GRANVILLE SUMMONED]

_Memorandum by Earl Granville._

[_Undated. 11th June 1859._]

I waited at four o'clock this afternoon[48] upon the Queen by Her
Majesty's gracious commands. The Queen was pleased to remark upon the
importance of the present crisis. Her Majesty informed me that Lord
Derby had resigned, and that she had sent for me to desire that I
should attempt to form another Administration, which Her Majesty
wished should be strong and comprehensive. I respectf