Russell to Palmerston, Oct.

6, 1862.
Lyons' departure had been altered from October n to October 25.] [Footnote 778: Morley, _Gladstone_, II, p.79.Morley calls this utterance a great error which was long to embarrass Gladstone, who himself later so characterized it.] [Footnote 779: Adams, _A Crisis in Downing Street_, p.

402.] [Footnote 780: Bright to Sumner, October 10, 1862.Mass.Hist.

Soc.
_Proceedings_, XLVI, p.108.Bright was wholly in the dark as to a Ministerial project.

Much of this letter is devoted to the emancipation proclamation which did not at first greatly appeal to Bright as a wise measure.] [Footnote 781: The _Times_, October 9 and 10, while surprised that Gladstone and not Palmerston, was the spokesman, accepted the speech as equivalent to a governmental pronouncement.