• Jamaica Bill, the, i. 196
  • Jarnac, Philippe de Rohan Chabot, Comte de, First Secretary of the French Embassy in London, ii. 409; Spanish marriages affair, 420, 431; on the annexation of Cracow, 430; details of the Spanish marriages, iii. 6; on Lord Normanby, Lord Palmerston, and M. Guizot, 56
  • Jekyll, Mr., pun of, ii. 232
  • Jersey, Right Hon. Earl of, the, Master of the Horse, ii. 37
  • Jervis, Right Hon. Sir John, Attorney-General, difficulty about his son’s election, iii. 122
  • Journal, reflexions on keeping a, i. 36
  • Judge and Jury Court, the, ii. 123
  • Judicial Committee, the, petition of apprentices from British Guiana, i. 80; Amendment Bill, 273; suggestions for, 274; petition of the Serjeants-at-Law, 156-160; James Wood’s Will case, ii. 28; Lord Brougham’s Bill, 225; working of, 226; Vice-Presidency of, 227; Lord Hertford’s Will case, 231; the Gorham case, iii. 300-304; judgement, 323
  • Junius, letters of, proposed new edition of, ii. 346; Macaulay’s opinion on, 416
  • Kay, Dr. (afterwards Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, Bart.), visit to Poor Law school of, i. 230; Battersea schools, ii. 86
  • Kelburne, Viscount (afterwards Lord Glasgow), racing transactions, ii. 160
  • Kent, H.R.H. the Duchess of, conversation of, with Princesse Lieven, i. 15, 16
  • King, Locke, Mr., motion of, for the extension of the suffrage, iii. 378
  • Kisseleff, Count, and M. Guizot, iii. 46
  • Kossuth, in England, iii. 413; reception of, 414; speeches of, 416
  • Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, i. 171; Chief Secretary for Ireland, ii. 405; afterwards Vice-President of the Board of Trade, 405
  • Ladies of the Bedchamber, affair of the, i. 201, 209; steps taken (1841) to avert recurrence of difficulty, ii. 7, 8
  • Lahore, death of the King of, i. 360
  • Lakes, the English, visit to, iii. 409
  • Lamartine, ‘Histoire des Girondins,’ iii. 111; greatness of, in the French revolution, 141; reply to the Irish deputation, 161
  • Lambert, Hôtel, account of the, iii. 44
  • Lambeth, dinner at, i. 99
  • Lancaster, Duchy of, appointment of a council for, ii. 427
  • Langdale, Right Hon. Lord, at the Judicial Committee, ii. 266
  • Lansdowne, Right Hon. Marquis of, Lord President of the Council, ii. 405; defence of Lord Palmerston, iii. 174; declines the Premiership, 243; and Count Colloredo, 289; on Reform, 414
  • Lansdowne House, ball at, i. 282
  • ‘Lays of Ancient Rome,’ publication of, ii. 116
  • Ledru Rollin, iii. 153
  • Lehzen, Baroness, the, i. 21; at Windsor, 246; leaves Windsor, ii. 110
  • Le Marchant, Sir Denis, anecdote, iii. 75
  • Lemoinne, M., iii. 240
  • Lemon, Mr., ii. 162
  • Lesseps, M., Consul at Barcelona, iii. 38
  • Lewis, Right Hon. George Cornewall, Lewis v. Ferrand, ii. 429; mission of, to Netherby, iii. 411, 412; Herefordshire election, 463
  • Lichfield, Rt. Hon. Earl of, quarrel of, with Mr. Wallace, i. 29
  • Liège, visit to, ii. 166
  • Lieven, Princesse, audience of the Queen, i. 15; of the Duchess of Kent, 15; and Lady Palmerston, ii. 130; account of interview between Guizot and Thiers, 287; on the Spanish marriage disputes, iii. 18; conversations with, 36, 42, 48; flight of, 137; account of the Revolution (1848), 137-141; on French affairs, 153; dines with Lord Palmerston, 157
  • Limerick, affray at, iii. 172
  • Lincoln, Rt. Hon. Earl of (afterwards fifth Duke of Newcastle), in the Cabinet, ii. 267; Woods and Forests in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, 37
  • Lines cut on an hotel window, ii. 16
  • Literature, evils of inferior, iii. 208
  • Livy, character of Hannibal, i. 57
  • Logan, Dr., iii. 126
  • London, Bishop of, at Gorhambury, ii. 111, 112; charge of, 112; dispute of, with the Hon. and Rev. William Capel, 113
  • Lonsdale, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the, Lord President of the Council in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
  • Lord Mayor, the, and the picture of the Queen’s First Council, i. 79, 82
  • Lords, House of, debate on Canadian Rebellion, i. 49; debates on the Canada Bill, 51-53; skirmish between Lords Melbourne and Lyndhurst, 68; violence of Lord Brougham, 71; debate on the Coolie question, 73; appeal of Small v. Attwood, 83; debate on affairs in Spain, 102; debate on the naval instructions, 111; the Bishops on the Ecclesiastical Discipline Bill, 120; attack on Lord Durham’s Ordinance, 123; review of session of 1838, 126; the Turton case, 170; Lord Roden’s motion on the state of Ireland, 175; debate on the Bedchamber affair, 211, 212; Lord Melbourne declines to make Radical concessions, 213; debate, 213; majority against proposed Committee of Council on Education, 224; debate on Irish policy of the Government, 228; naturalisation of Prince Albert, 259; debate on the China question, 286; St. Sulpice question, 388; debate on the Address (1841), ii. 31; vote of thanks to Lord Ashburton, 152; debate on Lord Roden’s motion, 194; Lord Aberdeen’s Scotch Church Patronage Bill, 206, 207; Lord Brougham’s Judicial Committee Bill, 225, 234; debate on the Corn Laws, 370; debate conciliatory to France, iii. 39; defeat of the Protectionists, 59; debate on the Enlistment Bill, 77; Government beaten on the Diplomatic Bill, 126; opening of the session (1849), 263; Sicilian arms affair, 276; debate on the Navigation Bill, 287; affair of Lord Roden, 310, 312; debate and division on the Pacifico affair, 341; Lord Torrington’s defence, 402
  • Louis Philippe, King, policy of, on the Eastern Question, i. 339; receives Queen Victoria at the Château d’Eu, ii. 196, 200; on Spanish affairs, 200; aversion of, to Lord Palmerston, 345; shot at by Lecomte, 388; letter to M. Guizot, 414; conduct of, in the affair of the Spanish marriages, 418-423; Cracow affair, 429; at the Tuileries, iii. 35; and Danton, anecdote of, 111; fall of, 135; arrival of, in England, 137; as Comte de Neuilly, 137; conduct of, during the Revolution, 139, 143; narrative of the Revolution, 150; at Claremont, 154; letter of, on the Spanish marriages, 168; courtesy of Queen Victoria to, 186; on the French generals, 205; reported communication from M. Thiers, 239; interview with Lord Clarendon, 239; and Admiral Cécille, 268; M. Malac’s mission, 328; death of, 364
  • Lowther, Rt. Hon. Lord, Postmaster-General, ii. 37
  • Ludlow, visit to, i. 217; castle of, 218
  • Lushington, Rt. Hon. Dr., negotiation of, with the Duke of Wellington, i. 278
  • Luttrell, Mr., death and character of, iii. 425
  • Lyndhurst, Rt. Hon. Lord, and Lord Melbourne, i. 69; judgement of, in Small v. Attwood, reversed, 80; anecdote of, and Lord Brougham, 160; at Gore House, 255; Lord Chancellor in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; exchange of patronage with Lord Ripon, 413; reply to Lord G. Bentinck, 413, 415
  • Lynedoch, Lord, at Woburn, ii. 46
  • Macaulay, Rt. Hon. Thomas Babington, return of, from India, i. 112; on the state of parties, 112; talents of, 121; elected at Edinburgh, 215; ‘Grote and his wife,’ 215; speech of, 215; a saying of Lord Brougham’s, 240; conversational powers of, 367; Mr. Henry Taylor’s remark on, 367; anecdotes of, 368; collected ballads, ii. 60; at Bowood, 69, 70; ‘Lays of Ancient Rome,’ 116; meets Ranke, 203; Maynooth speech of, 279; attack on the Irish Church, 282; repartee of, 339; on Junius, 416; History of England, iii. 252; elected at Edinburgh, 460
  • MacDougal, Mr., Chartist meeting, iii. 193
  • MacGregor, Mr., and Lord Ripon, on Free Trade, ii. 53
  • MacHale, Dr., appointment of, ii. 217
  • MacLeod, case of, i. 383
  • Macready as ‘Richelieu,’ i. 173
  • Maitland, General Sir Thomas, anecdote of mistaken identity, i. 285
  • Malac, M., mission of, to Claremont, iii. 328
  • Malmesbury, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the, Foreign Secretary in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
  • Malvern, visit to, i. 219
  • Manchester, riots at, ii. 98; visit to, 305
  • ‘Mango,’ trial of, i. 23; wins the St. Leger, 23
  • Manners, Rt. Hon. Lord John, First Commissioner of Works in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
  • Marie Amélie, Queen, courage of, iii. 140
  • Marlborough, Duchess of, letters of the, ii. 67; anecdotes of, 67
  • Marliani, pamphlet by, i. 251
  • Mayence, visit to, ii. 169, 174
  • Maynooth Grant, ii. 276; debate on, 279
  • Mehemet Ali, see Eastern Question
  • Melbourne, Rt. Hon. Lord, adviser of the Queen, i. 22; attack of, on Lord Brougham, 33; position of the Government, 62; and Lord Lyndhurst, 69; and the Queen, 130; at Windsor, 147; resigns, 199; the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-209; resumes the Government, 207; declines to make Radical concessions, 213; effect of speech, 214; on Mr. Creevey’s Journal, 275; alarmed at affairs in the East, 303, 307; indecision of, 312; asleep at the Cabinet, 321; remarks on Lord Palmerston, 363; advice to the Queen, ii. 23; advice to Sir R. Peel on behaviour to the Queen, 39; attack of palsy, 116; failing health of, 214; and the Court of Rome, 217; on O’Connell’s trial, 233; on the Post-Office affairs, 289; nervous condition of, 292; breaks out on the Corn Laws at Windsor, 351; visit to, at Brocket, iii. 119; anecdote of, 121; death of, 240; character of, 241; devotion of, to the Queen, 244; compared to Sallustius Crispus, 246; conversations and opinions, 247; declaration in regard to the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 253; manuscript books of, 376
  • Melrose, visit to, iii. 291
  • Metcalfe, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles, on Afghanistan, ii. 99; Governor-General of Canada, 117
  • Metternich, Prince, on the Eastern Question, i. 306; suggestion of, 325; flight of, iii. 155; fall of, 158
  • Milman, Very Rev. Dean, dinner at the house of, ii. 60
  • Minto, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 405; mission of, to Italy, iii. 108
  • Miraflores, mission of, to Paris, iii. 20
  • Mirasol, mission of, to London, iii. 183
  • Mitchell, John, affray at Limerick, iii. 172; conviction of, 182
  • Molé, M., opinion of affairs, iii. 20; attempts to form a government, 139, 143
  • Molesworth, Right Hon. Sir William, moves vote of censure on Lord Glenelg, i. 72
  • Monmouth, visit to, i. 219; historical interest of, 219
  • Monmouth convicts, the, i. 261
  • Montgomery, Mr. Alfred, hoax of Lord Brougham’s death, i. 243
  • Montpensier, H.R.H. Duchesse de, Infanta of Spain, marriage of the, ii. 418; at the Tuileries, iii. 35 (see Spanish Marriages)
  • ‘Morning Chronicle,’ the, conduct of, i. 179; ill-timed hostility of, to France, 326, 327; violent article on M. Guizot, iii. 42; attacks on Lord Aberdeen, 52; purchased by the Peelites, 128
  • Mounier, Baron, mission of, i. 356
  • Moxon, Mr., and Mr. Disraeli, iii. 75
  • Mulgrave, Right Hon. Earl of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, i. 30
  • Munster, Right Hon. Earl of, returns the keys of the Round Tower, i. 17; death of the, ii. 94
  • Muntz, Mr., appointed magistrate, i. 227
  • Murray, Sir George, asked to review the ‘Wellington Despatches’ in the ‘Edinburgh Review,’ i. 38, 57
  • Napier, Sir Charles, sent to India as Commander-in-Chief, iii. 274, 276, 280
  • Napier, Admiral, proclamation of, i. 305
  • Naples, insurrection at, iii. 216; Lord Palmerston’s breach of neutrality, 261, 271; Lord Palmerston’s claims on, 419
  • Napoleon, Louis, Prince (afterwards Emperor of the French), at Gore House, i. 167; success of, iii. 239; elected President of the French Republic, 253; position of, 329; coup d’état, 1851, 420; M. Thiers’ account of, 443; and Lord Normanby, 441
  • Narvaez, intrigues of, iii. 194
  • Navigation Laws, the, iii. 283, 287
  • Netherlands, King of the, at Goodwood, ii. 287
  • Newcastle, fourth Duke of, dismissed from the Lord-Lieutenancy of Nottinghamshire, i. 194; letter of the, to the Lord Chancellor, 195; interview of the, with the Duke of Wellington, 195
  • Newport, Mayor of, the, at Court, i. 249
  • Newport, Chartist riot at, i. 249, 256; result of the trial, 260
  • Norbury, Right Hon. Earl of, murder of the, i. 157
  • Norman Court, visit to, i. 133
  • Normanby, Right Hon. Marquis of, the, succeeds Lord Glenelg at the Colonial Office, i. 161, 164; Irish administration of, 176; at a Greenwich dinner, 237; despatches relating to the Spanish marriages, iii. 17; indiscretion of, 30, 34; relations of, with M. Thiers, 35; communications of, with M. Thiers, 40; bad terms of, with M. Guizot, 43, 46; condition of the Embassy, 49; perplexity of, 58; further misunderstanding, 59, 60; the quarrel made up, 66; more blunders, 69; results in Europe of the squabble, 72; proposed as Ambassador to Rome, 108; resigns, 441, 445; and Louis Napoleon, 442
  • North, Right Hon. Lord, anecdote of, ii. 116
  • Nottinghamshire election, iii. 389
  • Novara, battle of, iii. 282
  • Oakley Park, visit to, i. 218
  • O’Brien, Smith, return of, to Ireland, iii. 167; affair at Limerick, 172; search for, 213; capture of, 215
  • O’Connell, Daniel, speech of, at the ‘Crown and Anchor’ Tavern, i. 66, 67; declines the Mastership of the Irish Rolls, 101; speech of, 279; conduct of, on Irish measures, ii. 132; proclamation of, prohibiting Repeal meeting, 204; arrest of, 205; trial of, 210, 218; popularity of, 214; advice of, on Ireland, 220, 221; result of the trial of, 228; release of, 255; death of, iii. 82; career of, 85
  • O’Connor, Feargus, at the Chartist meeting (1848), iii. 166
  • Odilon Barrot, conduct of, in the French Revolution, iii. 140, 144
  • Orange, Princess of, the, ii. 287
  • Orangemen, discomfiture of, i. 30
  • Orford, Right Hon. Earl of (Horace Walpole), letters of the, to Sir Horace Mann, ii. 202
  • ‘Orlando’ takes the Derby Stakes, ii. 250; the trial, iii. 228
  • Orleans, H.R.H. Duchesse d’, iii. 35; on the proposed reconciliation between the two branches of the French Royal family, 329
  • Ossington, visit to, ii. 309
  • Ostend, passage to, ii. 166
  • Ovid, quotation from, i. 238
  • Oxford, Bishop of, anti-slavery speech of, ii. 411; want of tact of, 411; correspondence with Dr. Hampden, iii. 115
  • Pacifico, Don, the case of, iii. 308, 311; debate on, in the House of Lords, 341
  • Pakington, Right Hon. Sir John, Colonial Secretary in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
  • Palace, the, dinner at, i. 77; balls at, 9, 109
  • Palmerston, Right Hon. Viscount, and Mr. Urquhart. i. 117, 119; and the ‘Portfolio,’ 159; policy in the East (1840), 297-304; objections to policy of, 301; coolness of, 304; conduct of, at the outset of the Eastern Question, 308; offers to resign, 308; independence of, at the Foreign Office, 309; the Eastern Question, 312-314; at the Cabinet on the Eastern Question, 321; hostility of, to France, 326; article in the ‘Morning Chronicle,’ 326; triumph of, 330; note from the French Government, 335; ignores his colleagues, 345; defends Lord Ponsonby, 347; hostility to France, 347, 353; and the Tories, 363; position of, 364; settlement of the Eastern Question, 377-383; jobbing at the Foreign Office, ii. 48; attack on, in a Berlin newspaper, 75; and consequent misunderstanding, 75; abuses the treaty of Washington, 104, 109; attacks on the Government, 105, 106; and the press, 130; commencement of coalition with M. Thiers, 267; consternation in France at possible return of, to the Foreign Office, 345; visit of, to Paris, 383; letter to King Louis Philippe, 388; Foreign Secretary, 405; incipient disputes with France, 409; Spanish marriages, 418, iii. 6; despatch to Sir H. Bulwer, ii. 424; conversation with, on the Spanish marriages, iii. 15; conduct discussed by M. Guizot, 20, 26; effect of despatch, 25; M. Guizot’s complaints of, 30; mismanagement of, 40; and the ‘Morning Chronicle,’ 52; threatens a rupture with France, 62; consequences in Europe, 72; anecdote of, 121; dinner to M. Guizot, 157; despatch to Sir H. Bulwer, 169; conduct of, attacked in the House of Lords, 173; omission of, 178; and the Duc de Broglie, 185; Sicilian arms affair, 261, 271, 276; attacks on, 261; and Count Colloredo, 282, 283; suppression of a despatch, 288; the Greek dispute, 308, 311; quarrels with France, 330; Baron Brunnow complains, 332; able speech of, 346; Radical dinner to, 362; conversation with, 374; and Kossuth, 413, 416; Finsbury and Islington deputation, 415; claims on Naples, 419; dismissal of, from the Foreign Office, 426; own version of the affair, 428; succeeded by Earl Granville, 433; complete account of the affair, 434; further details, 444; explanations in Parliament, 446
  • Palmerston, Lady, conversation with, on Eastern affairs, i. 330
  • Panic in the money market, iii, 99; proposed measures of the Government, 101
  • Panshanger, party at, ii. 415
  • Papal aggression, iii. 366
  • Paris, visit to (1847), iii. 16-50; Mrs. Austin’s salon, 38; ball at the Hôtel de Ville, 42; ball at Mme. Pozzo di Borgo’s, 42; visit to M. Cousin, 44; the Hôtel Lambert, 44; Mme. de Circourt’s salon, 45; Mme. de Girardin’s salon, 45; farewell visits, 48; Revolution (1848), 132; state of, 149, 284; fighting in the streets of, 199; details of fighting, 202; the Archbishop of, killed on a barricade, 200, 203; the coup d’état of Louis Napoleon, 420
  • Parke, Rt. Hon. Baron, and Lord Brougham, i. 59
  • Parker, Admiral, instructions to, iii. 216
  • Parkes, Mr. Joseph, tour of, i. 194
  • Parliament, dissolution of, debated, ii. 5; resolved on, 9, 12, 13; dissolved, 14; opening of (1842), 81; opening of, and state of parties (1844), 222
  • Parliamentary proceedings, see Lords, House of, and Commons, House of
  • Payne, Knight, built Downton Castle, i. 218
  • Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert, informed of the moderation of Lord J. Russell, i. 188; caution of, 193; sent for by the Queen, 200; the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-209; coldness of, to Lord J. Russell, 259; thrown over on the Canada Bill, by the Duke of Wellington, 294; vote of censure on the Government, ii. 10; sent for to Windsor, 33; forms an administration (1841), 37; conversation with the Queen, 41; Corn Bill (1842), 83; Budget, 87; difficulties of, 189; unpopularity of, 191, 247; Maynooth Grant, 276; resignation of, 317; position of, 324; conduct of, 328; resumes office, 332; vindication of, in Mr. Greville’s pamphlet, 350, 368; measure for sliding-scale duties on corn, 357; discussions on the measure, 357-366; position of, 380; anecdote of, 387; conversation with, 389; assailed by the Protectionists, 392; behaviour to Mr. Canning, 397; resigns office, 401; resolution of, not to take office, 433; position of, iii. 94; unpopularity of, in Liverpool, 97; correspondence with Mr. Croker, 98; influence of, 100; position of, 146; on obstruction, 163; reluctance of, to take office, 199; anecdote of, and Huskisson, 216; conversation with Lord Clarendon, 286; on foreign affairs, 315; accident to, 347; death of, 348; character of, 349; career of, 350-358; effects of death of, 358; conduct of, on the East Retford franchise, 424
  • Peel, Rt. Hon. Gen. Jonathan, affronts Mr. Disraeli, ii. 388
  • Peel, Frederic (afterwards Rt. Hon. Sir F. Peel, K.C.M.G.), maiden speech of, iii. 288
  • Penryn Castle, visit to, ii. 17
  • Perceval, Rev. Mr., preaches before the Queen, i. 116
  • Pereira, Mr., lecture of, i. 78
  • Perez, Antonio, anecdote of a manuscript, ii. 129
  • Phillips, Sir Thomas, at Windsor, i. 249
  • Phillpotts, see Exeter, Bishop of
  • Pigou, Mr., and the Duke of Wellington’s letter on the defence of the country, iii. 107
  • Piscatory, M., in the French Revolution, iii. 140
  • Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, peerages, ii. 235
  • Plas Newydd, visit to Lord Anglesea at, ii. 16
  • Plunket, Rt. Hon. Lord, compelled to resign the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, ii. 14
  • Plymouth, visit to, iii. 207
  • Poland, reported annexation of, by Russia, iii. 4
  • Ponsonby, Rt. Hon. George, Irish Chancellor, i. 153; and Curran, 153
  • Ponsonby, Viscount, despatch of, announcing Mehemet Ali’s deposition, i. 334; recall of, proposed, 346; defended by Lord Palmerston, 347; violence of, 361; conversation with, ii. 110
  • Pontois, M. de, communication of, to the Porte, i. 304
  • Porson, anecdote of, ii. 114
  • ‘Portfolio,’ the, i. 117, 118, 158
  • Portland, third Duke of, anecdote of the, iii. 212
  • Portugal, Donna Maria, Queen of, iii. 79
  • Portugal, state of affairs in, iii. 76, 77, 79
  • Post Office, letters opened at the, ii. 249; alleged opening of Mr. Thomas Duncombe’s letters, 272; Lord Melbourne’s warrants for opening letters, 289
  • Pozzo di Borgo, Comtesse, ball at the house of, iii. 42
  • Prandi, at Burnham Beeches, iii. 122
  • Precedence Question, see H.R.H. Albert, Prince; Mr. Greville’s pamphlet on, see Appendix, vol. i.; of ambassadors, i. 282
  • ‘President,’ the, loss of, i. 391
  • Pritchard, Mr., and the Tahiti affair, ii. 252
  • Privilege Question, the, i. 257; disputes on, 270
  • Privy Council, position of the sons of the Sovereign, i. 274; introduction of Prince Albert, 274
  • Privy Council Office, correspondence with the British Museum on the missing registers, ii. 162; (see Judicial Committee)
  • Protectionist party, position of the, iii. 380
  • Protestant agitation, iii. 368, 369, 373
  • Protocol signed, 1840, i. 309
  • Prussia, King of, arrival of the, ii. 77; sight-seeing, 78; at the House of Lords, 81; lunches with Mrs. Fry. 81
  • Prussia, Prince of, the, flight of, iii. 155; visit of, to Queen Victoria, 179
  • Prussia, state of, iii. 238; retrospect of 1848, 257
  • ‘Punch,’ cartoon in, iii. 407
  • Quarterly Review, the, article on Sir R. Peel’s policy, ii. 200; article on Lord Orford’s letters, 202
  • Rachel, Mlle., as Hermione, ii. 6; recites at Windsor Castle, 11
  • Radetzki, Marshal, victory of, iii. 282
  • Radical party, the, reduced, i. 215; dissatisfaction at Lord J. Russell, 216
  • Radowitz, General, invited to Windsor, iii. 372
  • Raglan Castle, visit to, i. 220
  • Railway, first time of travelling on the, i. 11; speculation, ii. 300
  • Ranke, Professor, breakfasts with Sir G. C. Lewis, ii. 203
  • Rapallo, Exchequer Bills, ii. 50; advanced money to Louis Napoleon, 50
  • Reeve, Henry, Mr., first acquaintance of, with Mr. Greville, i. 27; goes to Paris, 388; declines to make an affidavit for Lord Brougham, ii. 207; and King Louis Philippe, 216; letters of, from Paris, 345-347
  • Reform, question of, iii. 469
  • Repeal magistrates, the, restored, ii. 407
  • Revolution, the French (1848), iii. 132; details of, 138, 142 (see France)
  • Revolution in Austria, iii. 155, 158
  • Rhine, voyage up the, ii. 167
  • ‘Richelieu,’ first representation of, i. 173
  • Riddlesworth, visit to, ii. 205
  • Ripon, Right Hon. Earl of, the, and Mr. Macgregor at the Board of Trade, ii. 5; President of the Board of Trade in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, 37; differs with Mr. Macgregor, 53; exchange of patronage with Lord Lyndhurst, 413
  • Roden, Right Hon. Earl of, dismissed from the Commission of the Peace, iii. 310
  • Roebuck, Mr., vote of confidence in the Government, iii. 344
  • Rolfe, Right Hon. Baron (afterwards Lord Chancellor Cranworth), at Ampthill, ii. 265; estimate of Lord Eldon, 265
  • Rolle, Lord, at the Queen’s Coronation, i. 107
  • Rome, retrospect of the year 1848, iii. 257
  • Romsey, church at, ii. 105
  • Ross, visit to, i. 219; ‘The Man of,’ 219
  • Rossi, Count, on French affairs, i. 343
  • Rothschild, house of the family of, at Frankfort, ii. 171, 173
  • Royal Academy of Arts, lecture at the, iii. 375
  • Royal Institution, evening at the, i. 78
  • ‘Running Rein,’ case of, ii. 250
  • Russell, Right Hon. Lord John, attack on the Bishop of Exeter, i. 66; finality speech of, 181; position of, 182; sentiments of moderation towards Sir R. Peel, expressed through Sir J. Graham, 183, 189; skilful speech of, 190; threatened by the Radicals, 191; slight to an Irish member, 194; letter to the electors of Stroud, 196; brings in the Jamaica Bill, 196; speech on Sir H. Fleetwood’s motion, 216; note to Sir R. Peel, 259; as leader, 293; alarmed, at affairs in the East, 303, 307; opposes Lord Palmerston’s policy, 312; Cabinet on the Eastern Question, 320; weakness of, 331; efforts of, to settle affairs in the East, 333; threatens to resign, 344; intentions of (1841), ii. 27; attack on two judges, 84; conversation at Holland House on the Reform Bill, 121; dissatisfaction of, at the American Treaty, 126; sent for by the Queen, 317; difficulties in forming a Government, 319, 331; resigns, 332; promise to the Queen, 361; convokes a meeting of Whig Peers, 394; forms a Government, 405; conversation with, on French affairs, iii. 55; threatened with personal violence, 65; speech on the Irish Poor Law, 69; position of, 96; financial statement of, 126; results, 128; difficulties with Lord Palmerston, 185; West India Sugar Bill, 193; subsequent crisis, 195; peerage suggested for, 281, 285; despatch relating to the Spanish marriages, 298; Government defeated on the Pacifico affair, 341; indecision of, 342; conversation with Lord Clarendon, 361; letter on the Papal aggression, 367, 370; resigns, 378; negotiations for the formation of a government, 383; return of, to office, 389; negotiations with Sir J. Graham, 395, 399, 401; overtures to Sir J. Graham, 410, 412; dismissal of Lord Palmerston, 426, 429; details of the affair, 434, 444; explanations in Parliament, 446; resignation of, 447
  • Russell, Lord William, murder of, i. 284
  • Russell, Lord William, G.C.B., recalled from Berlin, ii. 66
  • Russia, the Emperor Nicholas of, visit to London, ii. 243; review in Hyde Park, 243; fête at Chiswick, 244; appearance of, 244; arrangement with the Bank of France, iii. 70; and Louis Napoleon, 441; remark of, on the British fleet, 315
  • Russia, measures in Poland, iii. 5; interference with, 279; complains of Lord Palmerston, 332
  • Russian Note, the, iii. 323
  • Rutland, Duke of, birthday festivities of, i. 41, 44, 45
  • St. Aulaire, Marquis de, French Ambassador in London, ii. 58; dinner with, iii. 54
  • St. James’s Palace, arrangements for the apartments in, i. 280
  • St. Jean d’Acre, capture of, i. 354
  • St. Leger, won by ‘Mango,’ i. 23
  • St. Leonards, Right Hon. Lord, Lord Chancellor in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
  • Salamanca, battle of, Duke of Wellington’s account of the, i. 39
  • Sale, Mrs., letter of, from Cabul, ii. 85
  • Salic Law, the, proposed revival of, in Spain, iii. 13
  • Salisbury, Right Hon. the Marquis of, Lord Privy Seal in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
  • Salisbury Cathedral, visit to, i. 223
  • Sampayo, anecdote of a manuscript, ii. 129
  • Sandwich, Countess of, appointment of, i. 224
  • Sardinia, defeated by Austria, iii. 282
  • Schleswig-Holstein question, the, iii. 371
  • Schwabe, Mr., on Spain, iii. 38
  • Scotland, visit to, iii. 291; Balmoral, 295
  • Scrope, Davies, iii. 47
  • Seaton, Lord, see Colborne
  • Sefton, Right Hon. Earl of, death of the, i. 138; character of the, 138, 139
  • Selwyn, George, anecdotes of, i. 217
  • Serjeants-at-law, petition of the, i. 156, 160
  • Serrano, Marshal, intrigues of, iii. 194
  • Session, review of the (1838), i. 126, (1839) 231, (1840) 291, (1842) ii. 97, 98; opening of the (1849), iii. 263
  • Sicily, revolution in, iii. 123; Lord Palmerston’s breach of neutrality with the Government of, 261, 271, 276
  • Sikh war, the, ii. 372; termination of, 380; the campaign, iii. 214
  • Singleton, Archdeacon, death of, ii. 94
  • Smith, Rev. Sydney, death of, ii. 273
  • Smith, Bobus, death of, ii. 274
  • Small v. Attwood, i. 80, 81; judgement in, reversed, 83
  • Sobraon, victory of, ii. 380
  • Somerset, Lord Fitzroy (afterwards Lord Raglan), account of the Duke of Wellington’s campaigns, i. 135-137
  • Somerset, Right Hon. Lord Granville, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37
  • Somnauth, Temple of, the gates of the, carried off, ii. 123, 139
  • Sophia, H.R.H. Princess, death of the, iii. 184
  • Sotomayor, Duke of, and Lord Palmerston, iii. 169
  • Soult, Marshal, arrival of, in London, i. 103; at Queen Victoria’s coronation, 106; reception of, 113
  • Southern, Mr., on Irish affairs, iii. 171
  • Southwell, Church at, ii. 309
  • Spain, termination of the Carlist war, i. 241, 242; quarrels in, ii. 73; insurrection in, 201; intrigues in, 421; proposed revival of the Salic Law, iii. 13; political crisis in, 45; affairs in, 78; relations with, 183; debate in the House of Commons, 190; intrigues in, 194; expulsion of Sir H. Bulwer, 169
  • Spanish Marriages, the, first proposals for the Queen’s marriage (1838), i. 251; papers relating to the, iii. 6; detailed account of the affair, 7-11; further details, 15, 17; Princesse Lieven on the quarrels, 18; discussion with M. Guizot, 20-26, 30-33; letters relating to the, 168; beginning of the disputes, 412; account of intrigues, 418-423; indignation at, 425; conversation on, with M. de Jarnac, 431
  • Speakership, discussion on the, ii. 23
  • Spencer, Right Hon. Earl, anecdote of, when leader of the House of Commons, ii. 152; death of, 295; character of, 295-298
  • Spencer, Hon. John, anecdotes of, ii. 67
  • Spottiswoode Gang, the, i. 31
  • Stade Dues, the, ii. 107
  • Staleybridge, riots at, ii. 98
  • ‘Standard,’ the, contradicts the ‘Times’ on the repeal of the Corn Laws, ii. 313
  • Stanley, Right Hon. Lord (afterwards fourteenth Earl of Derby) at Knowsley, i. 11; Colonial Secretary in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; called up to the House of Lords, 256; good speech of, 395; replies to Lord Grey, iii. 200; Steward of the Jockey Club, 205; on the Dolly’s Brae affair, 310, 312; negotiations for the formation of a Government, 381, 384, 385; attempt to form a Government, 385; failure of the attempt, 386; at Newmarket, 402 (see Derby, Earl of)
  • Stanley, Edward Henry, Hon. (afterwards fifteenth Earl of Derby), maiden speech of, iii. 337
  • Stephen, Right Hon. Sir James, position of, at the Colonial Office, i. 174
  • Stephens, arrest of, i. 155
  • Sterling, John, Mr., and Coleridge, i. 109
  • Stowe, sale at, iii. 216
  • Strachan, Lady, ii. 91
  • Strutt, Right Hon. Edward (afterwards Lord Belper), Railroad Bill of, iii. 93, 95
  • Sudeley, Lord, loses three forged Exchequer Bills, ii. 57
  • Sumner, Dr., appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 125
  • Sussex, H.R.H. Duke of, the, claim of, i. 113, 115; at dinner at Devonshire House, 278; dissatisfaction of, 279; death of, ii. 155; funeral of, 156
  • Sutton Sharpe, anecdotes, ii. 78
  • Sybilla, Margravine, the residence of, near Baden, ii. 184
  • Syria, military operations in, i. 328; affairs of, 346, 354
  • Tahiti affair, the, ii. 252
  • Talleyrand, death of, and character, i. 94; and Napoleon, ii. 193
  • Tavistock, Marquis of, i. 10
  • Taylor, Mr. Henry, paper by, on the West Indies, i. 197
  • Taymouth, visit to, iii. 292
  • Temple Church, service at the, ii. 159
  • Temple, Sir William, award on the claims on Naples, iii. 419
  • Thiers, M., resignation of, i. 343; beginning of coalition with Lord Palmerston, ii. 267; amicable meeting with M. Guizot, 278, 288; visit to England, 298; interview with Lord Aberdeen, 299; bitterness of, towards Talleyrand, 299; visit to, and conversation, iii. 27-29; dinner at, 29; cordial relations of, with the British Embassy, 35; communications with Lord Normanby, 40; bitterness of, 48; conduct of, during the Revolution, 140, 144; reported communication of, to King Louis Philippe, 239; visit to London, 407; account of the coup d’état, 443
  • Thomson, Right Hon. Charles Poulett (Lord Sydenham), sent to Canada, i. 235; death of, ii. 117; abilities of, 117
  • Thynne, Rev. Lord John, visit to, iii, 207
  • ‘Times,’ the, on the Corn Laws, i. 158; on Lord Durham’s report, 163; on the Eastern Question, 324; and Lord Palmerston, 362; death of Mr. Barnes, ii. 2; Mr. Delane appointed editor, 3; communications with the Government, 200; Mr. Henry Reeve’s article on the Duc de Bordeaux, 216; article announcing the repeal of the Corn Laws, 309; contradiction, 312, 314; supports Lord J. Russell’s Administration, 406; anecdote, iii. 75; on Lord Palmerston’s breach of neutrality, 261, 272; letter of ‘Carolus,’ 272, 274, see Appendix B, vol. iii., letter to Cobden, Appendix A, vol. iii.
  • Tintern Abbey, visit to, i. 221
  • Tocqueville, M. de, letter of, i. 362; attacked by Lord Brougham, ii. 150; on the state of parties in France, iii. 41
  • Torrington, Viscount, attack on, iii. 269; defence of, 402
  • Tory-Radical, a, i. 19
  • Tower of London, fire at the, ii. 51
  • Treason, High, cases of, i. 289
  • Treaty, July 15, 1840, for settling the affairs of the East, i. 297 (for results of Treaty, see Eastern Question)
  • Trench, Sir Frederic, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington, i. 106
  • Troy House, visit to, i. 219; built by Duke of Beaufort, 1689, 219
  • Tuileries, reception at the, iii. 35
  • Turton, Mr., appointed by Lord Durham, i. 110; appointment criticised, 158; debate on, in House of Lords, 170
  • Underwood, Lady Cecilia, at dinner at Devonshire House, i. 278; created Duchess of Inverness, 282; at a ball at Lansdowne House, 282
  • Urquhart, Mr., and Lord Palmerston, i. 117; account of, 119; the ‘Portfolio,’ 158
  • Usk Castle, visit to, i. 220
  • Usk salmon, i. 220
  • Ventura, General, ii. 100
  • Victoria, Her Majesty Queen, accession of, i. 2; praise of, 14, 20; audience to Princesse Lieven, 15; interview of, with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, 20; visit to Queen Adelaide, 21; cordiality to Lord Melbourne, 22; picture of first Council of, 83; at a ball at the Palace, 91; Coronation of, 105, 106; two sermons, 116; and Lord Melbourne, 130; life at Windsor, 146; resignation of Lord Melbourne’s Cabinet, 200; the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-206; declaration of marriage of, 247; opens Parliament (1840), 253; Marriage of, 266; goes to the Ancient Concert, 275; at a ball at Lansdowne House, 282; shot at, 288; on the Eastern Question, 323; visit to Nuneham and Oxford, ii. 13; visit to Chiswick, 14; visit to Woburn, 26; council for appointing ministers in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, 37; admirable behaviour of, 38; appointments in the Household (1841), 42, 43; reception of the new Ministers, 44; birth of the Prince of Wales, 51; the new Ministers, 84; shot at, 96; first visit to Scotland, 108; visit to the Château d’Eu, 196, 200; visit to Chatsworth, 215; fancy ball, 283; absence in Germany, 292; sends for Lord J. Russell, 317; Lord J. Russell’s audience, 322, 323; letter on Lord Palmerston’s despatch, 424; decorations for the Peninsular soldiers, 434; good order of private affairs of, iii. 67; correspondence on the Spanish marriages, 168; visit of the Prince of Prussia to, 179; affection of, for the Orleans Royal family, 186; annoyance of, at Lord Palmerston’s conduct, 289; visit to Ireland, 295; life at Balmoral, 296; on Lord Palmerston’s conduct of foreign affairs, 317; sends for the Duke of Wellington, 388; on the crisis, 390
  • ‘Victoria and Albert,’ the, Royal yacht, ii. 196
  • Vienna, outbreak at, iii. 158
  • Villiers, Right Hon. Charles P., correspondence with Cobden, ii. 349
  • Villiers, Hon. Edward, death and character of, ii. 208, 209
  • Visconti, Madame, i. 365
  • Wakefield, Mr. Edward Gibbon, appointed by Lord Durham, i. 110
  • Wakley, Mr., i. 60
  • Wales, H.R.H. Prince of, birth of, ii. 51; question of promotion for the officer on guard, 51; question of a baronetcy for the Mayor of Chester, 52; armorial bearings of, 63; gazetted Duke of Saxony, 65
  • Wales, North, excursion to, ii. 15-20; the inhabitants of, 19
  • Walewski, Count, mission of, i. 315; opinion of Lord Palmerston, iii. 418
  • Walpole, Rt. Hon. Spencer, position of, iii. 397; Home Secretary in Lord Derby’s Administration, 451; clause in the Militia Bill, 449
  • Walter, John, Mr., returned for Nottingham, i. 391; succeeds to the ‘Times,’ iii. 64
  • Washington, the Treaty of, signed, ii. 101; discovery of a missing map, 102; attacked by Lord Palmerston, 101, 104-106; controversy kept up, 109, 111; dissatisfaction of Lord J. Russell at, 126; ratification of, 147
  • Wellington, Duke of, the, on operations in Canada, i. 37; on his Spanish campaigns, 37-41, 46; advice of, to the King of Hanover, 42; patriotism of, 45; on the Canada Bill, 53; comparison of, with Hannibal, 57; at the Waterloo dinner, 103; meets Marshal Soult, 105; and Mr. Croker, 105; equestrian statue of, 106; contrast to Lord Brougham, 111; panegyric on despatches of, 120, 121; with Lord Anglesey at Waterloo, 135; at Orthez, 135; at Salamanca, 136; lost his army, 136; interview of, with the Duke of Newcastle, 195; assurance of support to Lord Melbourne after moderation of the latter, 213; effect of speech of, 214; angry vein of, 225; at the Dover dinner, 237; Mr. Croker’s anecdotes of, 248; serious seizure of, 267; on the Privilege Question, 270; altered appearance of, 271, 275; at Court, 278; instance of failing memory, 278; speech on the China question, 286; conversation with, 287; opposes the Canada Bill, 294; influence of, 296; on Eastern affairs, 300; illness of, 373; self-reliance of, ii. 34; irritability of, 43; chattels of, 59; delusions of, 61; meets the King of Prussia, 77; on events in Afghanistan, 89, 100, 137; at Exeter Hall, 97; opinion of Lord Ellenborough, 139; on the Duke of Marlborough, 192, 193; Talleyrand and Napoleon, 193; on the evils of the press, 220; deference shown to, at the Cabinet, 223; increasing irritability of, 223; correspondence with Lord Haddington, 224; at a review, 243; on the Corn Laws, 351; decorations for the Peninsular soldiers, 434; conversation with, iii. 55; reasons against taking office, 55; on the defence of the country, 76; on the Enlistment Bill, 76, 78; Wyatt’s statue of, 91; failing powers of, 97; and Mr. Croker, 98; letter of, on the defence of the country, 107; preparations of, for the great Chartist meeting, 162; death of Mr. Arbuthnot, 362; sent for by the Queen, 388; death and character of, 474
  • Wells, visit to, iii. 207
  • West Indies, threatened emancipation of the, i. 84
  • West India question, the, iii. 175
  • West India Committee, iii. 187
  • West India Bill, iii. 193
  • Westminster Play ‘Phormio,’ ii. 216
  • Wharncliffe, Rt. Hon. Lord, Lord President in Sir R. Peel’s Administration, ii. 37; management of the Privy Council Office, 212; contradicts the statement of the ‘Times’ on the repeal of the Corn Laws, 312-314; death of, 335
  • Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, in society, iii. 73
  • Wheatstone, Mr., i. 79
  • Whig Government, prospects of the, i. 180; state of the party, 193; split with the Radicals, 192; Government resigns, 199; defeat of the party at the general election (1841), ii. 21-23; negotiations with the Peelites (1851), iii, 383; possible coalition with the Peelites, discussed, 437-440
  • Wiesbaden, visits to, ii. 171, 285; theatre and society at, 172
  • ‘Wilberforce, Life of,’ review of, in the ‘Edinburgh Review,’ i. 90
  • Wilberforce, Archdeacon (afterwards Bishop of Oxford), at the Grange, ii. 264
  • Wilde, Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice, dinner party at, iii. 125
  • Wilkie, David, picture of the Queen’s First Council, i. 79, 82
  • William IV., H. M. King, as Duke of Clarence, i. 2; Lord High Admiral, 3; character of, 3; funeral of, 8
  • Wilton, visit to, i. 223
  • Windcliffe, visit to, i. 222
  • Windsor Castle, invitation to, i. 132; the Queen at, 146; Council at, 246; dinner at, 246; Mayor of Newport at, 249; anecdote of M. Guizot, 310; dinner in St. George’s Hall, ii. 11; Council and dinner at, 44, 45
  • Wiseman, Dr., ii. 25; conversation on relations with the Pope, iii. 108; manifesto of, 369
  • Woburn, visit of the Queen to, ii. 26; visit to, 46, 47; party at, 76; fire at, 76; management of the estate, 110; contrasted with Bretby, 416
  • Wolfe, General, anecdote of, ii. 120
  • Wolff, Dr., i. 88
  • Wood, Right Hon. Sir Charles, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 405; income-tax difficulty, iii. 146
  • Wood, Mr., President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, dismissal of, i. 165
  • Wood, James, Mr., will case of, ii. 28
  • Worms, visit to, ii. 287
  • Worsley, visit to, ii. 303
  • Wrest, visit to, i. 250-251
  • Wyatt, Matthew, statue by, of the Duke of Wellington, i. 106
  • Wye, the river, scenery on, i. 220, 222
  • Wyse, Right Hon. Sir Thomas, British Minister at Athens, iii. 334; instructions to, in the Greek dispute, 334
  • York, Archbishop of (Hon. Edward Harcourt), death of the, iii. 102
  • Zichy-Ferraris, Countess, ii. 91