| Collection | Victorian Papers, Main Series |
| Description | [With regard to Sugar Duties] Queen Victoria expresses satisfaction at the majorities the other night [July 10]. Presumably Lord John cannot say when the Session is likely to end? Is it not much to be regretted that the measure relative to the Navigation laws is to be given up, and was it unavoidable?
She sends a report of Prince Albert's reception at York from Col. Phipps.
The Queen asks that if she should not go to Ireland, could she go to Balmoral for 10 days or a fortnight without shocking the Irish? To see her own place would be a natural thing; but it is impossible to say if she can get away, even for so short a time.
[Regarding the exiled French Royal Family] Queen Victoria concludes that there could be no objection to the Duc de Nemours bringing or fetching the Duchess to and from Osborne. He is the Queen's cousin, and consequently in a different postion from the others, in addition to which he does not wish to stay overnight, merely to pay a morning visit. If the King and Queen [of the French] and the other Princes and Princesses should ask to come for a morning visit to Osborne and return the same day, as they do at Buckingham Palace, would there be any objection?
The Queen comments that the Archduke John's answer to the Frankfort Deputation is very judicious, and the whole thing seems to have gone off well. [ |