1859. February 4.—The day devoted to home despatches. The Times makes this morning an annoying blunder about my cordially shaking hands at the opening of Parliament with the Minister of Hayti, although a man of colour. The poor fellow was not present at all, and I have never interchanged a recognition or word with him. He is, as I have often noticed, a very well-behaved mulatto, about whom I would never dream of doing or saying an unkind thing.
At the Court of St. James
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