of the Southern defeat at Gettysburg and of Grant’s capture of Vicksburg, Lyons thought the complete collapse of the Confederacy an imminent possibility.  Leslie Stephen is a witness to the close relations of Seward and Lyons at this time.  He visited Washington about a month after Gettysburg and met Seward, being received with much cordiality as a verbal champion in England of the North. (He had as yet published no signed articles on the war.) In this conversation he was amused that Seward spoke of the friendly services of “Monkton Mill,” as a publicist on political economy. (Maitland, Leslie Stephen, p. 120.)]

[Footnote 1102:  In this issue a letter from the New York correspondent, dated July 1, declared that all of the North except New England, would welcome Lee’s triumph:  “... he and Mr. Jefferson Davis might ride in triumph up Broadway, amid the acclamations of a more enthusiastic multitude than ever assembled on the Continent of America.”  The New York city which soon after indulged in the “draft riots” might give some ground for such writing, but it was far fetched, nevertheless—­and New York was not the North.]

[Footnote 1103:  Hansard, 3rd Ser., CLXXII, 661 seq.  Ever afterwards Roebuck was insistent in expressions of dislike and fear of America.  At a banquet to him in Sheffield in 1869 he delivered his “political testament”:  “Beware of Trades Unions; beware of Ireland; beware of America.” (Leader, Autobiography and Letters of Roebuck, p. 330.)]

[Footnote 1104:  May 31, 1864, Lindsay proposed to introduce another recognition motion, but on July 25 complained he had had no chance to make it, and asked Palmerston if the Government was not going to act.  The reply was a brief negative.]

[Footnote 1105:  The Times, July 18, 1863.]

[Footnote 1106:  The power of the Times in influencing public opinion through its news columns was very great.  At the time it stood far in the lead in its foreign correspondence and the information printed necessarily was that absorbed by the great majority of the British public.  Writing on January 23, 1863, of the mis-information spread about America by the Times, Goldwin Smith asserted:  “I think I never felt so much as in this matter the enormous power which the Times has, not from the quality of its writing, which of late has been rather poor, but from its exclusive command of publicity and its exclusive access to a vast number of minds.  The ignorance in which it has been able to keep a great part of the public is astounding.” (To E.S.  Beesly.  Haultain, Correspondence of Goldwin Smith, p. 11.)]

[Footnote 1107:  The Index, July 23, 1863, p. 200.  The italics are mine.  The implication is that a day customarily celebrated as one of rejoicing has now become one for gloom.  No Englishman would be likely to regard July 4 as a day of rejoicing.]

[Footnote 1108:  Mason Papers.  To Mason, July 25, 1863.]