| Collection | Victorian Papers, Main Series |
| Description | Russell feels that the objections mentioned by Bulwer to his own proposition have very great weight, namely: 1. That Cuba is misgoverned by Spain. 2. That the treaties between this country and Spain in regard to the Slave Trade are flagrantly violated. While these exist there appears to be danger in any treaty which binds this country to the defence of Cuba as a Spanish possession. The same objections do not lie against a temporary agreement with France to stop adventurers from invading Cuba from the United States of America. Russell has proposed to Palmerston to urge on the United States a temper of moderation in questions between them and Spain. The Earl of Meath declines the ribband (of the Order of St Patrick] on account of his reduced fortune. Russell names Lord Carew. Russell agrees [with Queen Victoria's shock at the ill-natured and unbecoming action of the "Times" in its attack on the Queen of the French and the Orleans Family], but declines to interfere. The newspapers take their own line, and Russell quotes an instance of the "Journal des Debats", devoted to the cause of the Orleans, attacking and misrepresenting Russell's policy. No Orleans prince interfered to prevent those attacks. The "Times" a paper constant only to interests of Austria, and is in the habit of attacking the Government whenever it can do so with effect. |