At a banquet to him in Sheffield in 1869 he delivered his "political testament": "Beware of Trades Unions; beware of Ireland; beware of America." (Leader, _Autobiography and Letters of Roebuck_, p.

330.)] [Footnote 1104: May 31, 1864, Lindsay proposed to introduce another recognition motion, but on July 25 complained he had had no chance to make it, and asked Palmerston if the Government was not going to act.
The reply was a brief negative.] [Footnote 1105: The _Times_, July 18, 1863.] [Footnote 1106: The power of the _Times_ in influencing public opinion through its news columns was very great.

At the time it stood far in the lead in its foreign correspondence and the information printed necessarily was that absorbed by the great majority of the British public.

Writing on January 23, 1863, of the mis-information spread about America by the _Times_, Goldwin Smith asserted: "I think I never felt so much as in this matter the enormous power which the _Times_ has, not from the quality of its writing, which of late has been rather poor, but from its exclusive command of publicity and its exclusive access to a vast number of minds.

The _ignorance_ in which it has been able to keep a great part of the public is astounding." (To E.S.Beesly.