onary spirit to
which the war had given rise.

"The Emperors having separated in the same cordial manner in
which they had met, the Emperor of the French himself drew up
the preliminaries and sent them in the evening to Verona
by his cousin, the Prince Napoleon. Being introduced to the
Emperor of Austria, who received His Imperial Highness
very courteously, His Majesty said, after reading the
preliminaries, that he must beg the Prince to excuse him for
a short time, as he had others to consult before signing them.
He then went into an adjoining room where, according to Prince
Napoleon's account, a loud and angry discussion ensued, in
which the Prince distinguished the Emperor's voice broken by
tears, as if His Majesty had been obliged to have recourse to
persuasion, to silence the opposition made to the conditions,
and it was not until some time had elapsed that His Majesty
returned and signed the paper containing them, or rather
I infer that he retained the paper signed by the Emperor
Napoleon, and returned one of similar purport signed by
himself; for among all the curious circumstances connected
with this transaction, not the least curious is the fact that
there does not exist any document recording the preliminaries
with the double signature of both Emperors."]

[Pageheading: INDIAN AFFAIRS]

_Queen Victoria to Sir Charles Wood._

OSBORNE, _23rd July 1859_.

The Queen's attention has been attracted by No. 86 (Foreign
Department) of the printed abstracts of letters received from India,
relating to the affairs of Bussahir.[68] She would ask Sir C. Wood
to consider, with his Council, whether means could not be found for
making acts of confiscation, sequestration, spoliation, transfer of
Government, or whatever they may be called, dependent upon some formal
and judicial proceeding which should secure the Queen from acts being
done in her name--which might not be entirely justifiable morally, as
well as legally--which should relieve the Government agents from
the fearful responsibility of being sole advisers on steps implying
judicial condemnation without trial on their mere personal opinion,
and from which they derive themselves additional personal advancement
in power, position, possibly emolument, etc., etc., and lastly, which
would give the people of India security that the Government only acts
after impartial judi