110.] [Footnote 465: Palmerston had very close relations with Delane, of the _Times_, but that paper carefully maintained its independence of any party or faction.] [Footnote 466: Gladstone Papers.

Argyll to Gladstone, Dec.

30, 1861.] [Footnote 467: State Dept., Eng., Vol.78.No.97.Adams to Seward, Jan.
2, 1862.] [Footnote 468: Palmerston MS.] [Footnote 469: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p.233.Lyons officially reported that he carried no papers with him _( Parliamentary Papers_, 1862, _Lords_, Vol.XXV.

"Correspondence respecting the _Trent_." No.

19.
Lyons to Russell, Dec.