—Source.—Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837-1861, vol. ii., p. 221. (London: 1907.)
Queen Victoria to Lord John Russell.
Osborne, July 25, 1848.
The Queen must tell Lord John what she has repeatedly told Lord Palmerston, but without apparent effect, that the establishment of an entente cordiale with the French Republic, for the purpose of driving the Austrians out of their dominions in Italy, would be a disgrace to this country.... The notion of establishing a Venetian State under French guarantee is too absurd.
CONQUEST OF THE PUNJAB (1849).
Source.—Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837-1861, vol. ii., p. 257.
(London: 1907.)
The Earl of Dalhousie to Queen Victoria.
Camp, Ferozepore, March 24, 1849.
The Governor-General is not without fear that he may have intruded too often of late upon your Majesty’s time. But he is so satisfied of the extreme pleasure which your Majesty would experience on learning that the prisoners who were in the hands of the Sikhs, and especially the ladies and children, were once again safe in the British camp, that he would have ventured to convey to your Majesty that intelligence, even though he had not been able to add to it—as happily he can—the announcement of the surrender of the whole Khalsa army, and the end of the war with the Sikhs.