Lord Clarendon's favourable View of the Peace--General Evans' Proposal to embark after the Battle of Inkerman--Sir E. Lyons defends Lord Raglan--Peace concluded--Sir J. Graham's gloomy View of Affairs--Edward Ellice's Plan--Favourable Reception of the Peace--A Lull in Politics--A Sabbatarian Question--The Trial of Palmer for Murder--Defeat of the Opposition--Danger of War with the United States--Ristori as an Actress--Defeat of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill--Return of the Guards--Baron Parke on the Life Peerage--Close of the Session--O'Donnell and Espartero in Spain--Chances of War--Coronation of the Czar--Apathy of the Nation--Expense of the Coronation at Moscow--Interference at Naples--Foreign Relations--Progress of Democracy in England--Russia, France, England, and Naples--Russian Intrigues with France--The Bolgrad Question--The Quarrel with Naples--The Formation of Lord Palmerston's Government in 1855--Death of Sir John Jervis--Sir Alexander Cockburn's Appointment--James Wortley Solicitor-General--Conference on the Treaty of Paris--Low Church Bishops--Leadership of the Opposition--Coolness in Paris--Dictatorial Policy to Brazil. [Sidenote: RETURN TO ENGLAND.] _London, March 21st, Good Friday._--I left Paris on Wednesday morning with Mr. and Mrs. Reeve, dined at Boulogne, crossed over in the evening, and arrived in London yesterday morning at eleven o'clock. When near Folkestone we were caught in a fog, lost our way, and were very near having to anchor and pass the night at sea. After a vast deal of whistling and bellowing, stopping and going on, the fog cleared a little, lights became visible, and we entered the harbour with no other inconvenience than having made a long _détour_, and being an hour later than our proper time. I regretted leaving Paris, where I was treated with so much affection and hospitality, and on the whole very well amused. On Monday, I dined with the Duchesse de Mouchy; on Tuesday night Clarendon came after dinner to see me before my departure, and we had some talk about the peace and the terms. He spoke very cheerfully about it and seems not at all dissatisfied, nor to feel any alarm about its reception. As it is, without at all acknowledging that he has made any sacrifices, he considers that the influence he has acquired for England, particularly with Austria and Turkey, is far more valuable than any items of concession from Russia would have been. Buol told him that he was now quite convinced that England was the Power to which Austria must really look with confidence and reliance on her honour and friendship, and the Turk was still more warm and vehement in assurances of the same kind. This was elicited from the Austrians by the fact of England having supported the condition of the Bessarabian cession, while France took part with Russia and threw Austria over. Moreover, Clarendon does not, like Cowley, complain of the Emperor Napoleon, but