toeckl to F.O., March 1-13, 1865. No.
523. Stoeckl was opposed to this.]

[Footnote 1307: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXVII, p. 1922.]

[Footnote 1308: _Ibid._, CLXXIX, p. 286.]

[Footnote 1309: F.O., Am., Vol. 1018. No. 297. Bruce to Russell, May 16,
1865.]

[Footnote 1310: _Ibid._, No. 303. Bruce to Russell, May 19, 1865.]

[Footnote 1311: _Parliamentary Papers, 1865, Commons_, Vol. LVII.
"Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North
America." No. 10.]

[Footnote 1312: _Ibid._, "Correspondence respecting the Cessation of
Civil War in North America."]

[Footnote 1313: _Ibid._, "Further Correspondence respecting the
Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 9.]

[Footnote 1314: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXX, pp. 1-6.]

[Footnote 1315: _Parliamentary Papers, 1865, Commons_, Vol. LVII.
"Correspondence respecting President's Proclamation of 22nd May, 1865."
Bruce to Russell, May 26, 1865.]

[Footnote 1316: _Ibid._, June 16, 1865.]

[Footnote 1317: _Ibid._, "Further Correspondence respecting the
Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 9. Seward to Bruce, June
19, 1865.]

[Footnote 1318: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXX, p. 1143.]

[Footnote 1319: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1865, _Commons_, Vol. LVII.
"Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North
America." No. 10.]

[Footnote 1320: Russian Archives, Stoeckl to F.O., Dec. 23, 1859/Jan. 4,
1860. No. 146.]

[Footnote 1321: _Ibid._, Stoeckl to F.O., Jan. 17-29, 1861. No. 267. He
reports that he has seen a confidential letter from Thouvenel to Mercier
outlining exactly his own ideas as to England being the sole gainer by
the dissolution of the Union.]

[Footnote 1322: For an analysis of this change see _The Cambridge
History of British Foreign Policy_, Vol II, p. 277, which also quotes a
remarkable speech by Disraeli.]

CHAPTER XVIII

THE KEY-NOTE OF BRITISH ATTITUDE

On May 8, 1865, the news was received in London of Johnston's surrender
to Sherman. On that same day there occurred in the Commons the first
serious debate in thirty-three years on a proposed expansion of the
electoral franchise. It was a dramatic coincidence and no mere
fortuitous one in the minds of thoughtful Englishmen who had seen in the
Civil War a struggle as fateful in British domestic policy as in that of
America herself. Throughout all British political agitation from the
time of the American revolution in 1776, there had run the thread