16, 1862, warned against acceptance of Gladstone's Newcastle utterances as indicating Government policy, asserted that the bulk of English opinion was with him, but ignorantly interpreted Cabinet hesitation to the "favour of the North and bitter enmity to the South, which has animated the diplomatic career of Lord Russell...." Throughout the war, Russell, to _The Index_, was the evil genius of the Government.] [Footnote 789: Palmerston MS.] [Footnote 790: Maxwell, _Clarendon_, II, 279.] [Footnote 791: Palmerston MS.] [Footnote 792: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1863.

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