Queen Victoria to Viscount Palmerston

DEATH OF LORD CAMPBELL

24th June 1861.

The Queen approves of Sir R. Bethell as Lord Campbell's successor. Lord Palmerston is aware of the Queen's objections to the appointment; they will have weighed with him as much as with her. If therefore he finally makes this recommendation, the Queen must assume that under all the circumstances he considers it the best solution of the difficulty, and that his Colleagues take the same view.

Footnote 18: Lord Campbell died at the age of eighty-two; his successor was created Lord Westbury.