The Conference on the Danish question will either make or mar the Government.

If they can patch up a peace they will remain in office.

If they fail, out they go[1173]." Here was early expressed the real hope of one faction of extreme Southern friends in the Danish question.

But Lindsay had not yet made clear where he stood on a possible use of a European situation to affect the cause of the South.

Now, as always, he was the principal confidant and friend of Mason in England, but he was on ordinary political questions not in sympathy with Tory principles or measures.