Goulburn and Hardinge, you and I might have our own way on most things; but when, as is now the case, able men fill every department, such men will have opinions, and hold to them; but, unfortunately, they are often too busy with their own department to follow up foreign questions so as to be fully masters of them, and their conclusions are generally on the timid side of what ought to be the best.”[213] The further development of the Danish Question need not be dwelt on here, as it affected the policy neither of the Cabinet nor of the Court. The Germans resumed the war as soon as the Conference broke up. Uninterrupted victory put them in complete possession of the Duchies, to which Denmark finally renounced all claim by the Treaty of Vienna, which was signed on the 18th of October. CHAPTER IX. THE HEIR-PRESUMPTIVE. Disputes with American Belligerents--The Southern Privateers--Uneasiness of the Queen--Federal Recruiting in Ireland--Mr. Gladstone’s Budget--Revival of the Reform Agitation--Mr. Gladstone Joins the Reformers--“Essays and Reviews”--A Heresy-Hunt in Convocation--A Ribald Chancellor--The Parliamentary Duel between Wilberforce and Westbury--The Vote of Censure on Mr. Lowe--The Five Under-Secretaries and the House of Commons--Prorogation of Parliament--The Strife in the United States--Gambling in Cotton--A Commercial Panic in England--The Battle of Chancellorsville--Sherman’s March through Georgia--The Canadian Raiders--The Presidential Election--Birth of the Heir-Presumptive--Baptism of the Heir-Presumptive--The Queen’s Gift to her Little Grandson--The Queen and the Floods at Sheffield--The Murder of Mr. Briggs--The Queen Refuses a Reprieve to the Murderer--The Queen’s Letter to the Princess Louis--John Brown and the Queen’s Pony--Dr. Norman McLeod’s Message from the Queen--An Anniversary of Sorrow and Sympathy.