May 16th —The poor Westminster bank where all Meriel's kitchen money and other charities bank, has shut up like the others. . . .
June 22nd—rumours run wild: resignation, dissolution, and a vote of confidence being all on the cards.
June 26th—The [government] has resigned; and now we shall see what sort of hash the Tories will make of things. The war … is regularly afoot
History repeats itself
Crises are there to be survived – we are still here, despite the alarms of 1866, as reported in the above extracts from the Diaries of Lacy Lucy Cavendish
