The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) / A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852

The result, then, appears to be that, in the olden time, the king had unlimited power in matters of honour and precedence, and could confer whatever dignity or pre-eminence he thought fit, upon any of his subjects. That this power has been expressly restrained, quoad the Parliament Chamber and the Council, but exists unfettered in all other respects.

In Parliament (should Prince Albert be created a peer), he would only be entitled to a seat at the bottom of the degree to which he might belong, and he would be expressly prohibited from sitting nearer to the throne. In the Privy Council likewise (if made a Privy Councillor) he would be entitled to no especial place, but everywhere else, at ceremonials of every description, at royal marriages, christenings or funerals, at banquets, processions, and courtly receptions, at installations and investitures, at all religious, civil, or military celebrations, upon all occasions, formal or social, public or private, the Queen may grant to her husband an indisputable precedence and pre-eminence over every other subject in the realm. It will probably be less difficult to obtain a concurrence of opinion as to the extent of the Queen’s constitutional right in granting precedence, than as to the manner in which it would be morally fit, and just to others, that this right should be exercised.

The bill, as originally introduced in the House of Lords, was undoubtedly liable to serious objections; but it is difficult to discover any valid reason why the Prince, Consort to the Queen, should not be invested for his own life with the highest personal dignity which it is in the power of the Crown to confer.

It has been said, that to place Prince Albert before the princes of the blood royal would be an invasion of the birth right of these illustrious persons. This seems to be the result of a confused notion, that a privilege of precedence is identical with a beneficial interest—it may be a man’s birth right to succeed in some contingency to the throne, or to a title or to an estate, and it would be injurious, and therefore unjust, to thrust any interloper between him and his chance, however remote it might be, of such succession. But the same Act which limits the prerogative of the Crown, confers on the Royal Dukes and Great Officers of State the only right of precedence which they possess, and while they can claim no more than was given to them, the Crown is as surely entitled to all that was left to it by that Act. No individual can insist upon an indefeasible right never to be preceded, under any circumstances, by any other individual not having a status defined by this Act, and as the uncles of the Queen, and the hereditary Earl Marshal of England, occupy their respective steps in the ladder of precedence, by the self-same title, there would be no greater violation of birthright in placing an individual without a status before the Duke of Sussex, than there would in placing him before the Duke of Norfolk; if there be any injustice at all, the difference would not be in the principle, but in its local or personal application.

The question, then, is one of expediency, and of propriety, to be determined with reference to its own special circumstances, and according to the analogies which can be brought to bear upon it; there is not only no case exactly in point to refer to, but there is none sufficiently analogous to be taken as a precedent. When Queen Anne came to the throne, Prince George of Denmark was the only prince in England (all his children being dead), and no new Act was necessary to give him precedence, if the Queen had desired it, inasmuch as there was nobody for him to precede. The condition of a Queen Consort is certainly very different from that of a Prince Consort; but upon the broad principle of moral fitness, there seems no reason why the husband of the Queen regnant should not be invested, by virtue of his consortium, with the highest dignity, over other men, just as the wife of the king is participant by virtue of her marriage of divers prerogatives over other women. For the prerogatives with which the law invests her are allotted to her not upon her own account, but upon that of the king; she is considered as a feme sole, and has certain capacities and rights, ‘in order that the king whose continual care and study is for the public, should not be troubled and disquieted on account of his wife’s domestic affairs.’ And the law, which out of respect to the king makes it high treason to compass or imagine the death of his wife, when she becomes a widow ceases to surround her with this protection. It is the king alone, his dignity and his comfort, which the law regards, and the privileges and pre-eminences of his family are conferred or established in such modes and proportions as may be most conducive thereto.

The principle on which precedence is established is that of propinquity to the sovereign, and no propinquity can be so close as that of the husband to the wife, nor does it seem unreasonable that all other subjects should be required to yield the outward forms of honour and respect to the man who is elevated to a station so far above them, whom she is herself bound to ‘love, honour, serve, and obey,’ and who is superior to her in their natural, while still subordinate in their civil and political relations. Many people who are not unwilling to concede a high degree of precedence to the Prince, are very sensitive about the dignity of the heir apparent, and while they are content that he should precede his other children, would on no account allow him to be superior in rank to a Prince of Wales. The difficulty in these cases is to establish a principle; but that difficulty is rendered much greater if, when the principle is once admitted, it is not taken with all its legitimate and necessary consequences. If the Prince is entitled to claim precedency over any of the blood-royal of England, above all others, he may claim it upon every moral ground over his own children, nor is there any civil or political consideration in reference to the heir apparent, requiring that an exception should be made in his behalf. There seem to exist confused notions of something very extraordinary and transcendant in the status of a Prince of Wales, but the difference between him and his younger brother is not very great; and the only positive privilege with which the law certainly and exclusively invests the heir apparent, is that of making it high treason to attempt his life.[16]

The heir apparent is Prince of Wales, and Duke of Cornwall, but he is not necessarily either the one or the other, and except on a certain condition he cannot be the latter.[17] For as the king creates his elder son, or heir apparent, Prince of Wales, he has the power of withholding such creation, and though the eldest son of the king is Duke of Cornwall by inheritance, the dukedom is limited to the first begotten son of the king.[18]

The Prince of Wales has no right or privilege beyond those of any other subject; he owes the same faith and allegiance to the sovereign; and since 1789 none have ever ventured to assert that he could claim the regency rather than any other subject. His political condition, therefore, is little if at all different from that of the rest of the Royal Family. His personal propinquity to the sovereign must be less than that of his father, and the question is, whether there is anything so peculiar in his status as to supersede those natural relations of father and son, which, according to all human custom, as well as divine injunction, involve the duty of honour from the latter to the former.

The son’s enfranchisement from parental rule when he arrives at years of discretion does not exempt him from the honour he is bound by the law of God and nature to pay to his parents.[19] The son is under a perpetual obligation to honour his father by all outward expressions, and from this obligation no state can absolve him. ‘The honour due to parents’ (says Locke) ‘a monarch on his throne owes his mother, and yet this lessens not his authority, nor subjects him to her government.’[20] The monarchical theory ascribes to the King of England two bodies or capacities, a natural body, and a politic or mystical body, and ‘from this mystical union of the ideal with the real king, the enquirer after constitutional information is led through childish reasoning and unintelligible jargon, to practical consequences founded on expediency.’[21] These practical consequences are the complete subordination of the natural to the politic capacity of the sovereign, and that moral revolution which supersedes the duty of the son to the father by the superior duty of the subject to the sovereign. Nothing less transcendental seems sufficient to cancel the force of this natural obligation, and while father and son are both in the condition of subjects, the filial and parental relations need not be outwardly reversed.

If the Queen, therefore, should be advised to grant to her Royal Consort letters patent of precedence immediately next to her own person, and at the same time make him a Privy Councillor, there would be no practical difficulty with regard to his place at the Council Board, notwithstanding the legal exception; there custom has in a great measure superseded law. The occasions are very rare when any of the Royal Dukes are present; and upon all others, the Prince would sit upon the right hand of Her Majesty, and precedence would be conceded to him as a matter of course. The Council Board is no longer what it was in the days of Henry VIII., at which time the King sat there regularly in person. The greater part of the Privy Councillors were in constant attendance upon him.[22] They resided in the Court, and accompanied him wherever he went; much (though far from all) of the most important business of the State was transacted there, and the order of sitting, when the members had to deliver their opinions seriatim, beginning with the lowest, was not unimportant. Councils are now merely formal assemblies, for the expedition of certain orders, which must emanate from the sovereign in person.

When any of the Royal Dukes are present, they sit next the Queen on her right hand, the Lord President always next her on her left. And, although the Lord President and the Chancellor (when present) sit on either side of the Queen, all the other officers are indiscriminately placed. It would not probably be deemed advisable to go back to the end of the seventeenth century for a precedent, or it would be found that Prince George of Denmark sat in council, without taking any oaths; not, therefore, as a Privy Councillor, but pro honoris causâ. He always, however, occupied the place of honour, and his attendance was very regular, though there is no record of his having ever taken the oaths; and, at the accession of King William, when all the other Privy Councillors were sworn, it is expressly stated that Prince George was not.[23]

It is much to be regretted that such heat and irritation have been manifested in the discussion of this question, and certainly between the proceedings in both Houses of Parliament. Prince Albert may well have thought his reception neither cordial nor flattering; but the truth is, that any mortification which either the Prince or the Queen may have felt (and in her it is only natural, whether just or not) is at least as attributable to the really objectionable nature of the propositions which were made, as to the opposition which they encountered.

Nothing herein is more to be deplored than that any mistaken zeal should misrepresent the conduct, or any hasty impression misconstrue the motives, of the Duke of Wellington. His whole life has been a continual manifestation of loyalty and of superiority to petty purposes, and unworthy inducements; but his notions of loyalty are of a nature which mere courtiers are unable to comprehend, because he always considers the honour and the interests of the Crown, in preference to the personal inclination of the sovereign.

Of all men who ever lived he has sought the least the popularity he has so largely acquired—the tide of which, sometimes diverted by transient causes, has always returned with accumulated force. With him it is no ’echo of folly, and shadow of renown,’ but a deep, affecting, almost sublime national feeling, which exults in him as the living representative of national glory. If there be an exception in any place to this universal sentiment, let us hope that the impression will not endure, that the cloud of momentary error will be dispersed, and that justice, ample and not tardy, will be rendered to

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INDEX.

• Abbotsford, visit to, iii. 291
• Aberdeen, Rt. Hon. Earl of, Foreign Secretary in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; and the Spanish quarrels, 73, 74; at the Château d’Eu, 200; communications of, with the ‘Times,’ 200; Scotch Church Patronage Bill, 206; handsome behaviour of, to Lord Palmerston, 406; communications of, with the ‘Times’ on the Corn Laws, 311; reluctance of, to distrust M. Guizot, iii. 53; negotiations with, on the formation of a Government (1851), 383
• Acland, Sir Thomas, motion of, i. 92
• Adair, Sir Robert, anecdotes, iii. 212
• Adelaide, Queen, at Exeter Hall, ii. 97
• Afghanistan, expedition to, i. 241; events in (1842), ii. 85, 89; withdrawal from, 99, 101; recapture of Ghuznee and Cabul and release of the prisoners, 123, 125; indignation in England, 136
• Aix-la-Chapelle, visit to, ii. 167
• ‘Alarm,’ accident to, at the Derby, ii. 284; wins at Newmarket, 302; wins the Emperor’s Cup, 396
• Alava, General, i. 241; conversation with, 241, 242
• Albert, H.R.H. Prince, betrothal of, to the Queen announced, i. 247; proposed allowance for, 258; naturalisation of, 259; precedence of, 259, 263; refused, 265; Mr. Greville’s pamphlet on the Precedence Question, 266, 269; see Appendix, vol. i.; marriage of, 266, 269, 272; precedence conceded by the Duke of Cambridge, 270; name inserted in the Liturgy, 272; gazetted, 273; introduction of, 305; at Oxford, ii. 13; declines an invitation to the Waterloo Dinner, 15; and the King of Hanover, 192; hunting at Belvoir, 216; conversation with the Duke of Bedford, 264; elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, iii. 65; installed, 97; at Balmoral, 296; on Lord Palmerston’s conduct of foreign affairs, 317
• Aldborough, Lady, at Baden Baden, ii. 183
• Alexander, Grand Duke (afterwards Emperor Alexander II. of Russia), departure of, i. 215; munificence of, 215
• Allen, Mr. John, i. 38; death of, ii. 153; account of, 154
• Alliance meeting at Hertford, ii. 415
• Althorp, library at, ii. 275
• Alvanley, Lord, death of, iii. 304; character of, 305
• America, case of McLeod, i. 383; boundary question settled, ii. 101; discovery of a missing map, 102
• Ampthill, visit to, i. 250
• Anglesey, Marquis of, the, speech of, at the Waterloo Dinner, i. 102-104; wounded at Waterloo, 135; visit to, in North Wales, ii. 16-17; reception of, at Carnarvon, 18
• Anti-Papal Bill, the objections of the Peelites to, iii. 385, 387; objections to, 392, 393; debate on, 400
• Antwerp, visit to, ii. 287
• Arbuthnot, Mr., death of, iii. 362; character of, 363
• Arkwright, Mr., death of, ii. 157
• Armstrong, Colonel, ii. 94
• Ashburton, Lord, mission of, to the United States, ii. 71; signs the Treaty of Washington, 101
• ‘Atlantic,’ fête on board the, iii. 409
• Auchterarder Case, the, ii. 206, 207
• Auckland, Lord, great ability of, ii. 63; First Lord of the Admiralty, 405; death of, iii. 254; career of, 255; character of, 255
• Augusta, H.R.H. Princess, Royal consent given for the marriage of the, ii. 118
• Austin, Mrs., salon of, in Paris, iii. 38
• Austria, revolution in, iii. 155, 158; victories over the Piedmontese, 218; at Novara, 282
• Austria, Ferdinand, Emperor of, decision of, iii. 159

• Backhouse, Mr., correspondence of, with Mr. Urquhart, i. 158
• Bacourt, M. de, opinion of, of the Treaty of Washington, ii. 101
• Baden Baden, arrival at, ii. 176; society at, 177-186; excursions, 178-186; scenery, 179
• Bagot, Sir Charles, Governor-General of Canada, ii. 117
• Baillie, Right Hon. Henry, motion of, for a Committee of Enquiry on Ceylon, British Guiana, and Mauritius, iii. 269
• Ball, fancy, at the Palace, ii. 283
• Ballot, The (for debates on, see Lords, House of, and Commons, House of), division on, i. 61; an open question, 216
• Balmoral, Council at, iii. 295; the Court at, 296
• Bangor Cathedral, service at, ii. 17
• Bank Charter Act, the, suspended, iii. 101
• Barcelona, bombardment of, ii. 201
• Baring, Hon. William Bingham (afterwards second Baron Ashburton), returned for North Staffordshire, i. 17
• Baring, Hon. Francis (afterwards third Baron Ashburton), on French politics, iii. 35
• Baring, Sir Francis, First Lord of the Admiralty, iii. 260
• Barnes, Mr., i. 123; death of, ii. 2; anecdote, iii. 75
• Bath, visit to, i. 222; Mr. Harry Greville at, 222; Abbey Church at, 223
• Battersea Schools, the, i. 131; lecture at, 151; visit to the, ii. 86
• Battle of the Diamond, the, i. 30, 31
• Bavaria, King of, the, abdication of, iii. 155
• Beaudesert, party at, i. 48
• Beaumaris, visit to, ii. 17
• Beaumont, M. Gustave de, appointed French Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, iii. 218
• Beauvale, Lord, and Lord Palmerston, iii. 120
• Bedchamber, ladies of the, affair of the, i. 201, 209
• Bedford, fourth Duke of, diary of, ii. 47
• Bedford, sixth Duke of, letter of Lord Brougham to, on education, i. 238
• Bedford, seventh Duke of, Devonshire property of, iii. 206
• Bedford, Duchess of, resignation of, ii. 32
• Bentinck, Lord George, racing transactions of, ii. 160; speech on the Corn Laws, 373; denounces a supposed job, 413; railway scheme defeated, iii. 57; speech on the Cracow affair, 67; attack on Mr. Labouchere, 71; attacked by Lord J. Russell, 197; death of, 222; character of, 223, 232; career of, 224, 234; ‘Orlando’ trial, 228; political career of, 229; Disraeli’s life of, 417, 423
• Bentinck, Lady William, death of, and character, ii. 157; funeral of, 159
• Berlin, revolution in, iii. 155
• Berry, Miss, ii. 201; anecdote of, 202
• Berry, Miss Agnes, ii. 201, 202
• Bessborough, Right Hon. Earl of, opinion of, on affairs, ii. 353; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 405; illness of, iii. 77, 80; letter to Lord J. Russell, 81; death of, 82
• Beyrout, bombardment of, i. 328
• Birkenhead, visit to, ii. 282
• Birthday reflexions, i. 85
• Blanc, Louis M., iii. 152; at dinner, 235
• Blessington, the Countess of, society at Gore House, i. 167; works of, 168
• Bonaparte, Jérôme, Count de Montfort, at Gore House, i. 277
• Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, afterwards Emperor of the French, see Napoleon
• Bordeaux, Duc de, visit to England of the, ii. 211; reception of the, 212, 213
• Bourqueney, Baron, letter from M. Guizot to the, i. 348; misreported conversation with Lord Palmerston, 381
• Bowood, party at, ii. 69
• Bradshaw, Mr., disloyal speech of, at Canterbury, i. 244; duel with Mr. Horsman, 254, 255
• Bresson, Count, instructions to, on the Spanish marriages, iii. 24 (see Spanish Marriages)
• Bridgewater House, private theatricals at, ii. 96
• Bridgewater Trust, account of the, ii. 303
• British Museum, correspondence with the, about the missing Privy Council Registers, ii. 162
• Broadlands, visit to, ii. 104
• Brocket, visits to, iii. 119, 375; manuscripts at, 376
• Broglie, Duc de, speech of the, iii. 37
• Brougham, Lord, scene with Lord Melbourne, i. 32; ability of, 33; on the ballot, 59; anecdote of, 59; habits of, 60; and Wakley, 60; at the Council Office, 65; qualities of, 66; in the House of Lords, 69, 71; anti-slavery speech, 73; speech on Small v. Attwood, 83; article on Lady C. Bury’s book, 90; and Mr. Handley, 99; contrast to the Duke of Wellington, 111; attacks Lord Durham’s Ordinance, 123; pamphlet letter to the Queen, 149; reconciled to Lord Durham, 150; denies the pamphlet, 152; and Lord Melbourne, 152; and the Serjeants-at-Law, 156; anecdote of, and Lord Lyndhurst, 160; on the Bedchamber affair, 211, 212; attacks the Ministers, 213; great speech censuring the Irish policy of the Government, 228; freaks of, at a Greenwich dinner, 229; proposes the health of the Duke of Wellington at the Dover dinner, 237, 240; letter on education, 238; anecdotes of, 240; pretended death of, 243, 245, 247; squabbles with M. de Tocqueville and others, ii. 150, 151; intercourse with the Court, 151; endeavours to obtain an affidavit from Mr. Reeve, 207; Judicial Committee Bill, 225, 234; caprices of, 235; makes eleven speeches in the House of Lords, 242; at the Judicial Committee, 242; executor to Lord Melbourne, iii. 252
• Brown, Mr., M.P., fête on board the ‘Atlantic,’ iii. 409
• Brunnow, Baron, mission of, to England, i. 242; letter of, complaining of Lord Palmerston’s conduct, iii. 332; on foreign affairs, 345
• Buccleuch, the Duke of, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 82; Lord President of the Council, 337
• Buccleuch, the Duchess of, Mistress of the Robes, ii. 44
• Buckingham, the Duke of, Lord Privy Seal in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; resignation of, 79; First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
• Buckinghamshire, dispute on the appointment of sheriff, ii. 144
• Buckinghamshire magistrates, appointment of the, ii. 66; opinion of the Duke of Wellington on, 77
• Buckland, Dr., at the Grange, ii. 264
• Bugeaud, Marshal, commands the troops in Paris in 1848, iii. 144
• Buller, Charles, Mr., Radical opinions of, i. 32; appointed by Lord Durham, 109; author of Lord Durham’s report, 163; paper of, on Ireland, iii. 221; death of, 241; character of, 249
• Bulwer, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Lytton, play of ‘Richelieu,’ i. 173
• Bulwer, Sir Henry, expulsion of, from Spain, iii. 169; arrival of, in London, 180; defence, 181; debate in the House of Commons, 190; intrigues in Spain, 194 (for despatches to, see Spanish Marriages)
• Burge, William, Mr., Q.C., i. 255
• Burghersh, Lord (afterwards Earl of Westmorland), opera by, i. 116; mistake of, ii. 275
• Burghley, party at, i. 37
• Burgoyne, Sir John, letter from the Duke of Wellington to, iii. 107
• Burke, Rt. Hon. Edmund, iii. 213
• Bury, Lady Charlotte, book by, i. 48; book reviewed by Lord Brougham, 65, 90
• Butler, Mrs., reading of, at Bowood, ii. 69; in the ‘Hunchback,’ 96

• Cabul, retreat from, ii. 85, 89, 107; recapture of, 123; opinion of the Duke of Wellington on the events at, 137, 138
• Cambridge, visit to, ii. 238
• Cambridge, University of, H.R.H. Prince Albert elected Chancellor of, iii. 65; installed, 97
• Cambridge, H.R.H. Adolphus, Duke of, concedes precedence to Prince Albert, i. 270; death of, iii. 366
• Cambridge, H.R.H. George, Duke of, precedence of, iii. 365, 366
• Campbell, Lord, Lord Chancellor of Ireland with a peerage, ii. 14; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 405; speech of son of, at Cambridge, iii. 89; Lord Chief Justice of England, 327; success in the Court of Queen’s Bench, 327
• Canada, insurrection in, i. 34; debate on, in the House of Commons, 34; Duke of Wellington on, 37; Lord Durham sent out as Governor-General, 49; state of, 53; discussions on, 55; Lord Durham’s Ordinance, 123; disallowed, 125; Lord Durham’s Proclamation, 134; report on administration of, 162; bill dealing with the Canada Clergy Reserves, 294; government of, ii. 117; Sir Charles Bagot succeeds Lord Sydenham, 117; Sir Charles Metcalfe appointed Governor-General, 117
• Canada Bill, see Commons, House of
• Candlish, Dr., sermon by, iii. 292
• Canford, visit to, ii. 105
• Canning, Rt. Hon. George, distrust of, ii. 399
• Canning, Stratford, Rt. Hon. Sir, opposition of, to Russia, iii. 279
• Cannizzaro, Duchess of, death of the, i. 365; account of the, 365, 366
• Canterbury, Archbishop of, Dr. Sumner appointed, iii. 125
• Capel, Hon. and Rev. William, dispute with the Bishop of London, ii. 113
• Capua, Prince of, the, at dinner at Devonshire House, i. 279
• Carnarvon, visit to, with Lord Anglesey, ii. 18
• Carnot, iii. 153
• ‘Carolus’ letter to the ‘Times,’ iii. 372, 374; see Appendix B, vol. iii.
• Catholic Clergy, Endowment question, ii. 199
• Cavaignac, General, iii. 199, 205
• Cécille, Admiral, Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, iii. 268
• Ceylon, committee of enquiry into administration of, iii. 269; witnesses, 308; evidence of Captain Watson, 312
• Chantrey, death of, ii. 60; monument by, in Lichfield Cathedral, 60
• Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, defeat of, iii. 218; abdication of, 282
• Chartists, progress of the, i. 155; precautions in London for great meeting of the (1848), iii. 160, 162, 164; failure of the demonstration, 165; dangerous manifestations in the country, 188; Government measures, 190; agitation, 191; demonstration, 192; establishment near Chenies, 215
• Chatham, Rt. Hon. Earl of, anecdotes of the, i. 245
• Chatsworth, visit to, ii. 204; visit of the Queen to, 215
• Chepstow, visit to, i. 222
• Chester, visit to, ii. 16
• Chester, Mayor of, question of baronetcy on the birth of the Prince of Wales, ii. 52
• Chillianwallah, battle of, iii. 273
• China, war with, i. 283; debate on, 283; Duke of Wellington on the war with, 286; annexation of Hong Kong, 383; return of Captain Elliot from, ii. 49, 52; views of Sir George Grey on, 72; treaty of peace with, 123
• Chiswick, visit of the Queen and Prince Albert to, ii. 14; fête at, for the Czar, 244
• Chloroform, an operation under, iii. 110
• Christina, Queen of Spain, intrigues of, ii. 419, 421; M. Guizot’s account of, iii. 32; conduct of, 119
• Church of Scotland, disruption in the, ii. 206
• Circourt, Madame de, salon of, iii. 45
• Clanricarde, Marquis of, Postmaster-General, ii. 405
• Claremont, council at, for events in the East, i. 328; lent to King Louis Philippe, iii. 154
• Clarence, H.R.H. Duke of, see William IV., King
• Clarendon, Rt. Hon. Earl of, office of Governor-General of Canada offered to the, i. 173; first appearance of the, in the House of Lords, 227; Lord Privy Seal, 243; on Eastern policy, 301; dissents from the treaty (1840), 304; conversation with M. Guizot, 305; offers to resign on the Eastern Question, 317; letter of, on Lord Holland’s death, and on French affairs, 341; confidence of the Queen in, ii. 403; President of the Board of Trade, 405; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, iii. 85; requires a Coercion Bill for Ireland, 105; and the Irish Catholics, 195; applies for more powers, 212; Proclamation of, 207; policy of, in Ireland, 217; interview of, with King Louis Philippe, 239; on Irish emigration, 251; on taking high office, 251; Irish relief, 285; conversation with Sir R. Peel, 286; success of the Queen’s visit to Ireland, 295; dismissal of Lord Roden, 310; explanation in the House of Lords, 313; Encumbered Estates Act in Ireland, 314; conversation with the Queen and Prince Albert on foreign affairs, 317; conversation with Lord J. Russell, 361; spoken of as Foreign Secretary, 428, 431
• Clifton, visit to, i. 222
• Cobden, Richard, Mr. Greville’s letter to, in the ‘Times,’ iii. 123; see Appendix A, vol. iii.
• Coburg marriage, fear of, in France, iii. 30
• Colborne, Sir John, Lieutenant-Governor of Canada, i. 35
• Coleridge, Stanza from ‘Ode to Tranquillity,’ i. 109
• Colloredo, Count, and Lord Palmerston, iii. 282, 283, 288
• Cologne, visit to the cathedral at, ii. 167
• Commons, House of, select committee on pensions, i. 29; disorder in, 31; debate on insurrection in Canada, 34; discussions on Canada, 55; division on the ballot, 59; scene in, 68; Pendarves’ motion, 70; vote of censure on Lord Glenelg, 72; amendment on, 73; Lord Eliot’s motion on Spain, 83; motion of Sir George Strickland on emancipation, 84; motion on Lord Durham’s expenses, 86; the Appropriation Clause, 93; Irish Municipal Corporation Bill, 100; session of 1838, 127; debate on the Irish policy of the Government, 190; Jamaica Bill, 196; division on, 199; Sir H. Fleetwood’s motion, 215; Ballot an open question, 216; the privilege question, 257, 271; Prince Albert’s allowance, 258; Ministers defeated on the Irish Registration Bill, 279; debate on vote of censure on measures resulting in Chinese war, 283; debate on the Registration Bill, 287; two new Irish Registration Bills, 373; Government defeated on Lord Morpeth’s Bill, 391; division on the Sugar Duties, ii. 8; vote of censure carried by one, 10; dissolution, 14; Sir R. Peel’s Corn Bill, 83, 86; attack of Lord J. Russell on Lord Corehouse, 84; Sir R. Peel’s Budget, 87; Vote of Thanks to Lord Ashburton, 152; Irish Arms Bill, 188, 194; debate on Ireland, 228, 230; division, 232; the Ten Hours Bill, 236; Government defeated on the Sugar Duties, 246; Maynooth Grant, 276; debate, 279; Sir R. Peel’s measure for sliding-scale duties on corn, 357; protracted debate on the Corn Laws, 366, 367, 371; scene in the House, 392; debate on the annexation of Cracow, iii. 67; Irish Poor Law, 69; Mr. Strutt’s Railroad Bill, 93, 95; Irish measures (1847), 104, 106; obstruction, 161, 163; mismanagement of, 186; West India Committee, 187; alteration of the Oath Bill, 187, 192; debate on occurrences in Spain, 190; West India Sugar Bill, 193; subsequent crisis, 195; irritation, 197; Irish Bill, 209; Irish grant opposed, 267; committee of enquiry on Ceylon and British Guiana, 269, 309; debate on, 270; Sicilian arms affair, 271, 277; maiden speech of Mr. Frederick Peel, 288; debate on the Poor Laws, 319; Mr. Hutt’s motion on the African squadron, 324; Stamp Bill, 325, 327; Mr. Roebuck’s vote of confidence, 344; Mr. Locke King’s motion, 378; Anti-Papal Bill, 400; Lord Palmerston’s dismissal, 446; Militia Bill, 447, 449; dissolution, 454; Reform question, 469
• Conference at Constantinople (1840), i. 328, 329
• Conroy, Sir John, i. 14, 20
• ‘Constitutionnel,’ indiscreet article in the, iii. 34
• Conway Castle, ii. 16
• Coplestone, Dr. (Bishop of Llandaff), publishes Lord Dudley’s letters, i. 273
• Corn Laws, i. 158, 164; allusion to, in the Queen’s Speech, ii. 82; Sir R. Peel’s Bill, 83; discussions on, 301; repeal of the, announced by the ‘Times,’ 309; consequent agitation, 312, 316; Sir R. Peel’s Government broken up, 317; Mr. Greville’s pamphlet, 350; Duke of Wellington on the, 351; Sir R. Peel’s measure for sliding-scale duties, 357; immediate repeal of, discussed, 360, 366; debate on the, 366; protracted discussions, 379
• Cornwall, the Duchy of, iii. 67
• Coronation of Queen Victoria, i. 105, 106
• Cottenham, Lord High Chancellor, ii. 405; resignation of, iii. 338
• Council, picture of the Queen’s first, i. 82; at Windsor, 145; for declaration of the Queen’s marriage, 247; at Windsor on crutches, ii. 203; at Osborne, resignation of Sir R. Peel, 316
• Courvoisier, murder of Lord W. Russell, i. 284
• Cousin, Victor, visit to, iii. 44
• Cowley, Lord, conversation with, in Paris, iii. 19; views of, on the Spanish marriage question, 26
• Cowley, Lord (afterwards Earl Cowley), Ambassador at Paris, iii. 441, 446; question of proxy, 472
• Cracow, ii. 427; the annexation of, 430, 431; debate on annexation of, iii. 67
• Creevey, Mr., death of, i. 63; offices held by, 63; letters and papers of, 64, 275
• Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, article by, in the ‘Quarterly Review,’ i. 103, 105; two anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington, 248; on Sir R. Peel’s policy, ii. 200; and the Duke of Wellington, iii. 98; and Sir R. Peel, 98
• Cromer, visit to, ii. 120
• Curran, anecdote of, i. 153; Master of the Rolls in Ireland, 153
• Czartoryski, Prince, at the Hôtel Lambert, iii. 44

• Dalhousie, Right Hon. Earl of, President of the Board of Trade, ii. 267; promising speech of, 395
• Danton, anecdote of, iii. 111
• D’Arblay, Madame, journal of, ii. 127
• Day, Sam, the jockey, death of, i. 133
• De Grey, Right Hon. Earl, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37
• Delane, Mr. John T., succeeds Mr. Barnes as editor of the ‘Times,’ ii. 3; information on the Corn Law question from Lord Aberdeen, 310, 315 (see ‘Times’)
• Delessert, M., on the state of France, iii. 157
• Denman, Lord, closes the term, ii. 63
• Derby, Right Hon. (fourteenth) Earl of, forms a government, iii. 447; conduct of the Government, 453; dissolution of Parliament, 454; at Goodwood, 463; and Lord Cowley’s proxy, 472; efforts to strengthen the Government, 473; see also Stanley
• Derby, the, accident to ‘Alarm,’ ii. 284
• De Ros, Lord, death of, i. 180
• Devonshire, Duke of, letters and papers of the, ii. 377
• Devonshire House, dinner at, to the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Capua, i. 278
• Dickens, Charles, performance of, at the St. James’s Theatre, ii. 302
• Disraeli, Right Hon. Benjamin, maiden speech of, i. 26, 30; quarrel with General Peel, ii. 388; Protectionist speech of, 392; and Mr. Moxon, iii. 75; defends Lord G. Bentinck, 197, 198; leader of the Protectionists, 264; ‘Life of Lord G. Bentinck,’ 417, 423; Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby’s Administration, 451; speech on the Budget, 451
• Dolly’s Brae affair, iii. 310, 313
• D’Orsay, Count, at Gore House, i. 167; death of, iii. 465; character of, 466
• Dost Mahomed, surrender of, i. 360
• Downton Castle, visit to, i. 218
• Drouyn de Lhuys, M., French Ambassador in London, iii. 326; on the Greek affair, 326; recall of, 330
• Drumlanrig, visit to, iii. 299
• Drummond, Mr. Edward, assassination of, ii. 141
• Drummond Castle, visit to, iii. 299
• Dudley, Lord, letters of, published, i. 273; diary of, destroyed, 275; diary of, iii. 74
• Duncannon, Lord, and the apartments in St. James’s Palace, i. 280
• Duncombe, Mr. Thomas, attack of, on the Post Office, ii. 272
• Dundas, Right Hon. Sir David, at Ampthill, i. 250; conversation of, ii. 133; as Solicitor-General, iii. 122
• Durham, Right Hon. Earl of, Governor-General of Canada, i. 49, 54; motion on expenses of, 86; behaviour of, 88; appointments of, attacked, 109; entry of, into Quebec, 110; ordinance of, attacked, 123; disallowed, 125; resignation of, 133; proclamation of, 134; return of, from Canada, 137, 141; conduct of, in Canada, 143; excuses of, 158; report of, on the administration of Canada, 162; distributes copies of report, 163; position of, 165; anecdote of, iii. 75

• Eastern Question, the, beginning of, i. 242; in 1840, 297; anti-Palmerstonian policy of France, 302; communication of M. de Pontois to the Porte, 304, 306; conduct of ministers at the beginning, 308; protocol signed, 309; conversations with M. Guizot on, 310, 315, 319; indecision of ministers, 312 intentions of Lord John Russell, 313; discussions on, 315, 317, 325; cabinet on, 320; Prince Metternich’s suggestion, 325; Lord Holland’s remarks, 325; bombardment of Beyrout, and deposition of Mehemet Ali, 328; Lord Palmerston gains his point, 330; Lord Ponsonby’s despatch, 334; note from the French Government, 335; surrender of the Emir Beschir, 344; terms of conciliation with France, 351; mission of Baron Monnier, 356; unsettled affairs in Egypt, 361; settlement of (1841), 377-383; protocols signed, 383; the Hatti-sherif, 385; fresh obstacles, 387
• Easthope, Sir John, proprietor of the ‘Morning Chronicle,’ i. 179
• Eastnor Castle, i. 219
• Eaton, visit to, ii. 15; lines cut on an hotel window, 16
• Eden, Hon. and Rev. Robert (afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells), Rector of Battersea, i. 131; lecture in Battersea, 151; Battersea Schools, ii. 86
• Eden, Hon. Emily, letter of, i. 383; bitterness of, against Lord Ellenborough, ii. 128, 150
• Edinburgh, visit to, iii. 291
• ‘Edinburgh Review,’ originators of the, ii. 153
• Education question, the, ii. 212
• Egerton, Lord Francis, at Ems, ii. 287; house of, at Worsley, 303
• Egremont, Right Hon. Earl of, death of the, i. 23; character of the, 24; at Petworth, 25
• Egypt, see Eastern Question
• Election, general, result of, in 1837, i. 13, 16, 18; in 1841, ii. 15; result of, 20-22; in 1852, iii. 454; result of, 459
• Eldon, Right Hon. Earl of, death of the, i. 49
• Ellenborough, Right Hon. Earl of, Board of Control in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; anecdotes of, 78; proclamation of, 123, 125; attacks on, 128, 136, 138; Duke of Wellington’s opinion of, 139; extraordinary behaviour of, 141; position of, 145; vindication of, 148; despatch on the secret committee of the directors, 219; recall of, 238
• Ellice, Right Hon. Edward, at Brocket, iii. 375
• Elliot, Captain (afterwards Sir Charles), return of, from China, ii. 49, 52
• Emir Beschir, see Eastern Question
• Ems, visit to, ii. 287
• Endsleigh, visit to, iii. 205
• Epsom, racing transactions of Lord G. Bentinck and Lord Kelburne, ii. 160
• Espartero, downfall of, ii. 201
• Eton College case, ii. 411
• Eu, Château d’, visit to, of Queen Victoria, ii. 196, 200; the agreement at, 201
• Evans, Sir De Lacy, made a K.C.B., i. 65
• ‘Every Man in his Humour,’ performance of, ii. 302
• Exchequer Bills, forgery of, ii. 50; anecdotes of, 56, 57
• Exchequer, Court of, anecdote, iii. 125
• Exeter, Bishop of, attacks the Archbishop, i. 120; on the St. Sulpice question, 388; charge of, ii. 136; attack on Newman, 136; reply to a Privy Council judgement, 136; the Gorham Case, iii. 300
• Exeter, visit to, iii. 207
• Exhibition, the Great, 1851, opening of, iii. 405
• Eyre, Lieutenant, book by, on Cabul, &c., ii. 137

• Faubourg St. Germain, political feeling in the, iii. 42
• Faucher, M. Léon, in London, iii. 410
• Felbrigg Hall, visit to, ii. 120
• Ferdinand I., Emperor of Austria, political crisis, 1848, iii. 159
• FitzGerald and Vesey, Lord, conversation with, i. 46; death of, ii. 158
• Fitzroy, Lord Charles, resigns the office of Vice-Chamberlain, i. 86
• Fleetwood, Sir H., motion on 10ℓ. householders, i. 216
• Foley, Lord, anecdote, i. 217
• Foster, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 378
• Fox, Right Hon. C. J., account of the death of, i. 154
• Fox, Maule, Right Hon., Secretary at War, ii. 405
• Fox, Mr. William, member for Oldham, iii. 103
• Fox, Miss, death of, ii. 274
• France, Lord Palmerston’s hostility to, i. 347; attempt at conciliation with, 351; debate in the Chamber on Eastern affairs, 354; dispute with, on the Tahiti affair, ii. 253; opinions on change of government in England (1845), 345, 347; estrangement with, on the Spanish marriages question, iii. 10, 11; effect of conciliatory debate in England, 39; threatened rupture with, 62; estrangement from England, 73; revolution in 1848, 132; state of, 148, 152; Provisional Government in, 152; M. Delessert on affairs in, 157; anarchy in, 178; fighting in Paris, 202; tranquillity, 219; Prince Louis Napoleon elected President of the Republic, 253; unsatisfactory condition of the country, 284; share in the English and Greek dispute, 334, 337; coup d’état of Louis Napoleon, 420
• France, Bank of, arrangement with the Emperor of Russia, ii. 70
• Francis, Sir Philip, at Woburn, ii. 47
• Frankfort, visit to, ii. 169; Dannecker’s ‘Ariadne,’ 170; Rothschild’s house, 171; Jews’ Street, 173; the mother of the Rothschilds, 173
• Frost, Mr. John, a magistrate, i. 250; concerned in a Chartist riot, 250; trial of, 256
• Fullerton, Lady Georgiana, novel by, ii. 205

• Galiera, Duchesse de, ball at the house of the, iii. 35
• Garnier Pagès, iii. 153
• George II., King, anecdote of, ii. 215
• George IV., King, Memoirs of the time of, i. 48
• Germany, condition of the country and people of, ii. 180, 181
• Ghent, visit to, ii. 285
• Girondins, Histoire des, by Lamartine, iii. 111
• Gladstone, Rt. Hon. William E., President of the Board of Trade in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; resignation of, on the Maynooth Endowment, 267; explanation, 271
• Glasgow, visit to, iii. 292
• Glastonbury, Lord, and his peerage, ii. 236
• Glenelg, Rt. Hon. Lord, resignation of, i. 161
• Gomm, Sir William, Commander-in-Chief in India, iii. 273
• Goodrich Castle, i. 220
• Goodrich Court, armoury at, i. 221
• Goodwood, party at, ii. 408; iii. 463
• Gore House, dinner at, i. 166; hoax of Lord Brougham’s death, 243; party at, 255; Jérôme Bonaparte at, 277
• Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter, iii. 300-304; judgement, 323
• Gorhambury, visit to, ii. 111; Bishop of London at, 111, 112
• Goulburn, Rt. Hon. Henry, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37
• Graham, Rt. Hon. Sir James, conduct of, i. 9; negotiation of, between Sir R. Peel and Lord J. Russell, 185, 189; Home Secretary in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; on the state of parties, iii. 51; and the Governor-Generalship of India, 87; on the Cumberland election, 89; declines the Governor-Generalship of India, 92; on colonial matters, 124; on obstruction in the House of Commons, 161; declines the Admiralty, 259; reasons for declining, 262, 264; on administrative reforms, 338; forebodings of, 382; negotiations with the Whigs, 383; on the state of parties, 390; vacillation of, 394; and the Whigs, 398, 401; Lord J. Russell’s overtures to, 410; mission of Sir G. C. Lewis to Netherby, 411, 412; on public affairs, and a possible coalition, 435-439
• Granby, Marquis of, chosen leader of the Protectionist party, iii. 123; consistent conduct of, 471; appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, 472
• Grange, The, visit to, i. 137
• Granville, Rt. Hon. (first) Earl, paralytic seizure of, i. 390
• Granville, Rt. Hon. (second) Earl, Foreign Secretary, iii. 428; conversation with Lord Palmerston, 433; paper of, on foreign policy, 442
• Greece, disputes with, iii. 308, 311, 314; disputes continued, 325; opinions of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, 326; further disputes, 334; debate in House of Lords on dispute, 341; Lord Palmerston on brigandage in, 418
• Green, Mr., anatomical lecture by, iii. 375
• Greenwich dinner, freaks of Lord Brougham at a, i. 229; Lord Normanby’s health drunk at a, 237
• Gregory, Mr., house of, near Belvoir, i. 42
• Grenville, Thomas, Mr., anecdote of, i. 80; dinner with, ii. 114; anecdote of Porson, 114; Julio Clovio, 115; recollections and anecdotes, 116; anecdote of Wolfe, 120; death of, iii. 1; character of, 2
• Greville, Charles C., Mr., pamphlet of, on Prince Albert’s Precedence, i. 266, 269, 270 (see Appendix, vol. i.); book of, on Ireland, ii. 259; criticisms on, 260; publication of, objected to, 261, 266; publication decided on, 274; criticisms on, 276; opinions of the press on, 284; letters to France, 345; pamphlet ‘Sir R. Peel and the Corn Law Crisis,’ 350, 368; success of pamphlet, 354; visit to Paris (1847), iii. 16; birthday reflexions, 73; letter to Cobden in the ‘Times,’ 123 (see Appendix A, vol. iii.); removes to Bruton Street, 277; elected a member of Grillon’s Club, 321; letter of ‘Carolus,’ 372, 374 (see Appendix B, vol. iii.)
• Greville, Harry, Mr., at Bath, i. 222
• Greville, Mrs. Algernon, death of, i. 390
• Grey, Rt. Hon. Earl, prevents the formation of a Whig Government, ii. 330, 331; explanation of conduct of, 341-344, 353; Colonial Secretary, 405; Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland, iii. 65; remonstrance of, on Lord Palmerston’s conduct, 185; speech of, on the suppressed despatches, 200; discredit of, 309
• Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir George, Home Secretary, ii. 405
• Grey, Sir George (formerly Chief Justice of Bengal), views of, on Chinese affairs, ii. 72
• Grillon’s Club, dinner at, iii. 321
• Grote, George, Mr., returned for the City of London, i. 13; Radical party reduced to, 215; visit to, iii. 122
• Grove, The, visit to, ii. 111; agreeable party at, 289; Macaulay at, 415; return to, iii. 409
• Guards, the, question of promotion on the birth of the Prince of Wales, ii. 51
• Guernsey duties, affair of the, ii. 292
• Guizot, M., French Ambassador in London, i. 282; on the Eastern Question, 302, 303; at dinner at Windsor, 310; conversations with, on Eastern affairs, 311, 315, 317; on the deposition of Mehemet Ali, 328; difficulty of dealing with Lord Palmerston, 330; conciliatory efforts of, 335; note from the French Government, 335; succeeds M. Thiers (1840), 343; letter of, to Baron Bourqueney, 348; speech in the Chamber, 355; critical position of, ii. 269, 270; amicable meeting with M. Thiers, 278, 288; alarm at possible return of Lord Palmerston to the Foreign Office (1845), 345; conduct of, in the Spanish Marriages affair, 425; iii. 6; note in reply to Lord Palmerston, ii. 433; explanation relating to the Spanish Marriages, iii. 17; conversation with, on the Spanish Marriages, 20-26; complaints of Lord Palmerston, 30; and Lord Palmerston’s despatch, 33; indignation of, 42; bad terms of, with Lord Normanby, 42; resentment at Lord Normanby and Lord Palmerston, 46, 47; invited to the British Embassy ‘by mistake,’ 59; continuance of the quarrel, 60; the quarrel made up, 66; escape of, to England, 137, 145; conduct of, in the Revolution, 138; narrative of the Revolution, 142-145; dines with Lord Palmerston, 157
• Gurwood, Colonel, second of Mr. Bradshaw, i. 254

• Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Ireland, iii. 207; suspension of, renewed, 265
• Haddington, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the First Lord of the Admiralty in Sir Robert Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; declines the Governor-Generalship of India, 46; correspondence of, with the Duke of Wellington, 224
• Hampden, Dr., made Bishop of Hereford, iii. 109; consequent disputes, 112, 114; correspondence of, with the Bishop of Oxford, 115; correspondence on appointment of, as Regius Professor, 116, 117; case of, 118
• Hannibal, comparison with the Duke of Wellington, i. 57
• Hanover, the King of, proclamation of, i. 12; act of, on his accession, 42; declines to give up the apartments in St. James’s Palace, 280; arrival of, ii, 161; in London, 192; anecdote, 192
• Hanover, Stade Treaty with, ii. 107
• Hardinge, Rt. Hon. Lord, Secretary at War in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; Governor-General of India, 240; dinner at the India House, 242; sent to Ireland, iii. 213
• Harewood Lodge for Ascot, ii. 11
• Harrowby, Rt. Hon. Earl of, death of the, iii. 112
• Harrowby, Countess of, the, death of, i. 96; character of, 96, 98
• Hastings, Lady Flora, i. 172; death of, 224
• Head, Right Hon. Sir Edmund, Poor Law Commissioner, ii. 60
• Head, Right Hon. Sir Francis Bond, position of, i. 166; book by, 174
• Heidelberg, visit to, ii. 175
• Herbert, Right Hon. Sidney, in the Cabinet, ii. 267
• Hereford, Bishop of, appointment of, iii. 109, 112; consequent disputes, 114
• Herefordshire, state of the constituency, iii. 463
• Herrenheim, Château de, visit to the, ii. 287
• Herries, Right Hon. John C., President of the Board of Control in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
• Hertford, Marquis of, the, death of, ii. 90; account of, 91, 92; will of, disputed, 111; will case at the Judicial Committee, 231
• Hervey, Lord William, pamphlet by, suppressed, ii. 130
• Hesse, the Elector of, at Ems, ii. 287
• Hillingdon, visit to, ii. 121
• Hobhouse, Right Hon. Sir John Cam, conversation with, i. 241; President of the Board of Control, ii. 405
• Hodgson, Mr., i. 48
• Holland, Right Hon. Lord, objects to Lord Palmerston’s Eastern policy, i. 308, 309; on the Eastern Question, 325, 329; death of, 341; M. Guizot’s estimate of, 370
• Holland, Lady, death of, ii. 306; character of, 307
• Holland House, dinner at, i. 152; anecdotes of George Selwyn, 217; anecdotes, 245; dinner at, after Lord Holland’s death, 367; anecdotes, 368; death of John Allen, ii. 153
• Hook, Rev. Mr. (afterwards Dean of Chichester), preaches before the Queen, i. 116
• Horsman, Mr., duel of, with Mr. Bradshaw, i. 254, 255
• Hôtel de Ville, ball at the, iii. 42
• Howick, Lord, see Grey, Earl
• Hudson, Mr., ‘The Railway King,’ ruin of, iii. 273
• Hullah, John, Mr., system of teaching vocal music, i. 372; choral meeting at Exeter Hall, ii. 97
• ‘Hunchback, The,’ amateur performance of, ii. 96
• Huntington, William, S.S., story of, i. 369
• Huskisson, Right Hon. William, anecdote of, and Sir Robert Peel, iii. 216; conduct of, on the East Retford franchise, 424
• Hutt, Mr., motion of, on the African squadron, iii. 324

• India, the Sikh war, ii. 372; terminated, 380; retrospect of the campaign, iii. 214; discussions on the Governor-Generalship of, iii. 87; Governor-Generalship offered to Sir James Graham, 92
• Inverary, visit to, iii. 292
• Irby, Mr., death of, ii. 115
• Ireland, administration of Lord Normanby, i. 176; state of, ii. 197; debate on, 228, 230; division, 232; Mr. Greville’s book on the ‘Policy of England to,’ 259, 263; publication of book, 274; criticisms on, 275; opinions of the press on, 284; potato failure, 301; state of, 375, 426, 434, iii. 71; Lord-Lieutenancy discussed, 77, 80; plan for abolishing the office, 80; discussions on the Lord-Lieutenancy of, 81-85; critical state of, 103; Government measures, 104, 106; seditious state of, 156, 160; plans for improvement of, 167; affray at Limerick, 172; proclamation of the Lord-Lieutenant, 207; Habeas Corpus Act suspended, 207; strong measures taken, 209; reported outbreak, 210; flight of Smith O’Brien, 213; and capture, 215; Lord Clarendon’s policy in, 217; disaffection in, 220; proposed remedies for, 221; financial difficulties in, 237; emigration scheme, 251; renewal of suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, 265; distress in, 267; relief for, 285; the Queen’s visit to, 295; Encumbered Estates Act, 314; proposed abolition of the office of Lord-Lieutenant, 314; Papal Aggression, 367
• Irish Arms Bill, ii. 188, 194; proposal for renewing the, 408; given up, 410
• Irish Coercion Bill, ii. 375
• Irish Poor Law, iii. 69
• Irish Registration Bills, i. 373; Government defeated on Lord Morpeth’s Bill, 391
• Isabella II., Queen of Spain, marriage of, ii. 418, 420; conduct of, iii. 78; account of, 118; see Spanish Marriages
• Isturitz, sent away, iii. 193