He at times expressed himself privately as believing the Union would not be restored but was wise enough to refrain from such comment publicly.

(Monypenny, _Disraeli_, IV, p.

328.)] [Footnote 1097: Hansard, 3rd.Ser., CLXXII, p.

252.] [Footnote 1098: _The Index_ felt it necessary to combat this, and on July 9 published a "letter from Paris" stating such criticisms to be negligible as emanating wholly from minority and opposition papers.

"All the sympathies of the French Government have, from the outset, been with the South, and this, quite independently of other reasons, dictated the line which the opposition press has consistently followed; the Orleanist _Debats_, Republican _Siecle_, The Palais Royal _Opinion_, all join in the halloo against the South."] [Footnote 1099: Palmerston MS.