← The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861, Volume 2
Decipher from Lord Cowley
Paris, 6th February 1859.
(1 a.m. Received 4 a.m.)
A great change for the better. The Queen's letter has produced an excellent effect, as also the Debates in Parliament. The Emperor has expressed himself ready to subscribe to every word of Lord Derby's speech.
Footnote 11: Parliament was opened by the Queen in person on the 3rd; the ensuing debates, and especially the speeches of the Liberal leaders, showed that, however much the English nation, as a whole, might sympathise with Italian aspirations for the expulsion of the Austrians from Lombardy, they would regard unfavourably a war commenced in defiance of Treaty obligations.