/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 1859. November 3. – ….The alleged insurrection and seizure of the Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, of which we received an imperfect account last week, remains still a source of anxiety. [...]

1859. June 30.–Ball at Buckingham Palace last evening. Leopold of Belgium, the Count of Flanders, and the Prince of Oporto were present. The Prince of Wales, too, on his return from Rome and travels, looking more manly and much improved, though still very boyish and undersized. Lord Clarence Paget, Milner Gibson, Monckton Milnes, and Charles [...]

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/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 1858. August 24.–Had a long and interesting visit from Lord Brougham. He was born in 1778, and is, therefore, eighty years of age; and yet he conversed with the ardour [...]

1858. July 18.–The squadron which returned from the unsuccessful efforts to lay the Atlantic electric cable, has refitted with coal, etc., and quit again to-day for another attempt.

1858. July 5.–Yesterday, the Fourth of July, was commemorated for the first time, at a public dinner, by an association of Americans at London Tavern, in the city. The company was large, and remained together, speaking most tediously to toasts, until twelve at night. I thought the occasion a good one for announcing definitely the [...]

/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 1858. June 18.–The New York Herald disproves the reported aggression off Pensacola, and represents the idea of war as blown over. There would appear to have been great exaggeration in [...]

/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 1858. June 17.–Rumor of an attack by a British cruiser upon one of our vessels in the Gulf of Pensacola, and a seaman killed. If this prove true, we shall [...]

/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 1858. June 10.–Reception and dance at Lady Palmerston’s. Had conversation with Stanley of Alderney, who seemed astonished when I gave an unqualified contradiction to the statement he borrowed from the [...]

/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 1858. June 8.–I ought to mark this day with a white stone, for, after great anxiety and labour, with varying hopes and fears for more than a week, I have [...]

/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 1858. June 6.–Constant employment on the questions pending with the Foreign Office has prevented me from making memoranda. The conduct of the British naval cruisers is intolerable, and creates great [...]

/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 1858. May 29.–Two despatches from the State Department reached me on the subject of interference by British cruisers with our commerce in the West Indies and on the African coast, [...]

1858. May 25.–Went in the evening to Lord Chief-Justice Campbell’s. Impossible to convey to his learned Lordship’s head an exact idea of the limited and federate character of the Government of the United States. He insists that Congress should suppress polygamy among the Mormons. I in vain tell him that, whatever may be the power [...]

1858. April 21.—First at the Botanic Garden, second at Northumberland House, and third at the Prime Minister’s. Got myself presented to Pélissier, who immediately asked how the Kansas question stood? With all their affected indifference, these European politicians have a keen eye for American differences! Conversed long with Lord Derby about the leading forms of [...]