A ranar 14 ga Janairu, 1858, wani ɗan gudun hijirar Italiya daga Burtaniya mai suna Felice Orsini ya yi ƙoƙari ya kashe Napoleon III tare da bam da aka yi a Ingila. Rikicin diplomasiyya da ya biyo baya ya lalata gwamnati, kuma Palmerston ya yi murabus. An sake mayar da Derby a matsayin firaminista. Victoria da Albert sun halarci bude sabon tafki a tashar jiragen ruwa na soja na Faransa na Cherbourg a ranar 5 ga Agusta, 1858, a ƙoƙarin Napoleon III ya tabbatar da Birtaniya cewa an shirya shirye-shiryensa na soja a wani wuri. Bayan dawowarsa Victoria ta rubuta wa Derby yana tsawata masa saboda rashin talauci na Royal Navy idan aka kwatanta da Faransanci. Ma'aikatar Derby ba ta daɗe ba, kuma a watan Yunin 1859 Victoria ta sake kiran Palmerston zuwa ofishin. Kwana goma sha ɗaya bayan yunkurin kisan gillar Faransa a Faransa, ɗan fari na Orsini ya auri Yarima Frederick William na Prussia a London.
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