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'The New Foreign Secretary', 1865. Lord Russell introducing the Earl of Clarendon to Queen Victoria. After the death of Lord Palmerston, shortly after the general election of 1865, the then Foreign Secretary, Lord Russell had taken over the leadership of the Liberal Party. The vacancy thus created in the Foreign Office was to be filled by the Earl of Clarendon, here being introduced as a worthy successor, and one trained in the ways of the Foreign Office by Lord Russell himself. Her Majesty states she hopes that Clarendon will do better than Russell had done. From Punch, or the London Charivari, November 4, 1865.