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 English Constitution; Spencer Walpole, Foreign Relations; The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837—61; 3 vols., 1907; in edition of 1908, i, pp. 106–7 (Palmerston to Queen Victoria, February 25, 1838); ii, pp. 221–2 (Lord John Russell to Prince Albert, on procedure as to the drafting of dispatches and on Palmerston, June 19, 1849), p. 264 and pp. 363–4 (the Queen’s memorandum to Lord John Russell, 'shortly to explain'—'with reference to the communication about Lord Palmerston'—what it is she expects from her Foreign Secretary, August 12, 1850), pp. 351–3 (Queen Victoria to Lord John Russell, December 28, 1851: 'The Queen thinks the moment of the change'—on Palmerston's dismissal—'in the person of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to afford a fit opportunity to have the principles upon which our Foreign Affairs have been conducted since the beginning of 1848 re-considered by Lord John Russell and his Cabinet'); iii, pp. 68–9 (the Queen to Lord Aberdeen, January 13, 1855), p. 334 (the Queen to the Earl of Malmesbury: 'The Queen is much afraid of these telegraphic short messages on principles of policy', May 20, 1859), pp. 367–8, 370, 371, 372–3 (the Queen, Russell, and Palmerston on responsibility for the conduct of foreign policy: 'What is the use of the Queen's open, and, she fears, sometimes wearisome correspondence with her Ministers, what the use of long deliberations of the Cabinet, if the very policy can be carried out by indirect means which can be set aside officially, and what protection has the Queen against this practice?'—The Queen to Russell, September 5, 1859. 'Lord John Russell feels, on his own part, that he must offer to your Majesty such advice as he thinks best adapted to secure the interests and dignity of your Majesty and the country. He will be held by Parliament responsible for that advice. It will always be in your Majesty's power to reject it altogether.'—Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria, October 7, 1859). Hansard,