- Abercromby, Mr., 103
- Aberdeen, Lord, Foreign Secretary in Peel’s Cabinet, 125;
- and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 132;
- forms the Coalition Government, 203, 206;
- early political life and characteristics, 209;
- and the Secret Memorandum, 216, 225;
- friendly relations with the Emperor Nicholas, 217, 233;
- belief in the peaceful intentions of Russia, 225, 231;
- vacillation on the eve of the Crimean War, 229, 234;
- public prejudice against him, 233;
- home policy, 240;
- fall of his Government, 257;
- relations with Lord John Russell, 346, 347
- Adelaide, Queen, 82, 83
- ‘Adullamites,’ 329
- Afghanistan, invasion of, 121, 170
- ‘Alabama’ Case, the, 312-319
- Albert, Prince, and Lord Palmerston, 177;
- letter on the defeat of the Turks at Sinope, 232;
- and Count Buol’s scheme, 261;
- letter on the position of affairs in the Crimea, 263;
- death, and characteristics, 308, 309;
- last official act, 310
- Alexander II., 259, 321
- Alien Acts, the, 27
- All the Talents, Ministry of, 63, 64
- Alma, the battle of, 246
- Althorp, Lord, 48, 56, 67, 79;
- and his part in carrying the Reform Bill, 81, 82, 87;
- characteristics, 81, 82, 88, 92;
- introduces the Poor Law Amendment Act (Ireland), 93, 96;
- and the Coercion Act, 96;
- succeeds to the Peerage as Earl Spencer, 100. See also Spencer, Lord
- Amberley, Viscount, 356
- America, war between England and, 21, 22;
- Napoleon’s opinion of the war, 31;
- and the ‘Trent’ affair, 310-312;
- Civil War, 310, 313;
- and the Alabama Case, 312-319
- Anti-Corn-Law League, its founding 121, 126, 131
- Argyll, Duke of, 295, 327
- Armenia, massacres in, 269, 353
- Arms Bill, 146, 147;
- Auckland, Lord, 96
- Austria, revolt in Vienna of 1848, 171;
- and the retention of Lombardy and Venice, 172, 300;
- and the Vienna Note, 227;
- and the Crimean War, 243;
- proposed alliance with England and France to defend the integrity of Turkey, 261;
- her power in Italy, 300;
- campaign against France and Italy, and battles of Magenta and Solferino, 302, 303;
- and the peace of Villafranca, 303
- Bagehot, Walter, 86, 323
- Ballot, the: Grote’s attempts to introduce a bill, 90, 111
- Bathurst, Lord, 50
- Bedford, fourth Duke of, his ‘Correspondence’ edited by Lord John Russell, 278
- — Francis, fifth Duke of, 3
- — sixth Duke of, father of Lord John Russell, 3;
- opinion of English Universities, 11, 16;
- encouragement given to Lord John in political training, 14, 36;
- characteristics, 16;
- and Lord John’s leadership of the Opposition, 103;
- and Joseph Lancaster, 115
- — seventh Duke of, 202
- — first Earl of, 2
- Belgium: the question of its independence, 172, 340, 341
- Bentinck, Lord George, 138, 140, 141, 150, 160, 201
- Bessborough, Lord, 146, 151
- Birmingham, unrepresented in the House of Commons, 23, 38, 51, 60, 71;
- great meeting on the Reform question at, 79, 296
- Bismarck, Count, 321-323
- Blandford, Lord, 59
- Blessington, Lady, 42
- Blomfield, Bishop, 115
- Bradlaugh, Mr., 332
- Bribery and corruption before the era of Reform, 23, 61;
- Lord John Russell’s resolutions for the discovery and punishment of, 43
- Bridgeman, Mr. George (afterwards Earl of Bradford), 16, 18, 20
- Bright, John, on the influences at work in the repeal of the Corn Laws, 130, 131;
- on disaffection in Ireland, and the Arms Bill, 155, 156, 202, 206, 208, 287;
- relations with Lord John Russell, 294, 329;
- and the ‘Adullamites,’ 329
- Brougham, Lord, 56, 67;
- and the Reform Bill cry, 74;
- speech on the second Reform Bill, 78, 83;
- opinion of Lord John Russell, 110
- Buccleuch, Duke of, 134, 136
- Bulgaria, massacres in, 269, 352
- Bulwer, Sir H., 174
- Buol, Count, 261, 263
- Burdett, Sir Francis, 25, 26;
- his motion for universal suffrage, 35; 70
- Buxton, Thomas Fowell, 89
- Byng, Hon. Georgiana, 3
- Camelford, 40
- Campbell, Lord, 157
- Canada: the rebellion, 110;
- Earl of Durham appointed Governor-General, 110
- Canning, Mr., 43;
- his Ministry, 50;
- death, 51
- Capital crimes, 107
- Cardwell, Mr., 290
- Carlisle, Earl of, 96
- Carlyle, Thomas, and the Chartists, 166, 167, 358, 362
- Caroline, Queen, proceedings against, 41
- Cartwright, Dr., 5
- Cartwright, Major, 5, 25, 26, 38, 39
- Cassiobury, 36, 112
- Castlereagh, Lord, 21, 40, 63
- Catholics: political restrictions against them, 48;
- agitation for Emancipation, 58, 59;
- passing of the Emancipation Bill, 59;
- and the decree of Pius IX., 182-184;
- and the Durham Letter, 184-188
- Cato Street Conspiracy, 40
- ‘Cave of Adullam,’ 329
- Cavour, Count, 300, 301, 302
- Chadwick, Sir Edwin, 162
- Chartist movement, 163;
- and Feargus O’Connor, 165-168;
- and its literature, 166
- Chatham, Lord, on borough representation, 24, 25, 26
- Chelsea Hospital, 62
- Cheshunt College, 365
- China, opium war against, 121
- Church of England, the, and its adoption of Romish practices, 185, 186
- Clare, Lord, 6, 7
- Clarendon, Lord, 119, 141;
- his Vice-royalty of Ireland, 153, 182, 196;
- at the Foreign Office, 221, 224, 231;
- on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, 260;
- Count Buol’s proposals, 262, 263, 327
- Clive, Mr. Robert, 16, 20
- Clubs for the advancement of Reform, 26
- Cobbett, William, 26, 64
- Cobden, Richard, and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 131, 132, 134;
- and Wellington, 136, 202, 206, 208, 287;
- relations with Lord John Russell, 294;
- negotiates the Commercial Treaty with France, 295, 296;
- death, 325
- Coercion Act: Lord Grey proposes its renewal, 96;
- Lord John Russell’s speech, 97, 98;
- and O’Connell, 98, 99;
- Peel’s proposal for its renewal, 140
- Conspiracy Bill, the, 289, 290
- Conyngham, Marquis of, 96
- Corn Laws, 121;
- John Bright on the influences working for their repeal, 130, 131;
- of 1670 reproduced in 1815, 131 n.;
- Sir Robert Peel proposes their gradual repeal, 138;
- bill for repeal passes both Houses, 139;
- total repeal carried by Russell, 145
- Cranworth, Lord, 327
- Crime, excessive penalties for, 24
- Crimean War: causes, 213-235;
- outbreak, 243, 246;
- Alma, 246;
- Balaclava and Inkerman, 247;
- siege of Sebastopol, 246, 247;
- privation and pestilence amongst the Allies, 248, 252;
- Roebuck’s motion in the House of Commons to inquire into the condition of the army before Sebastopol, and Lord John Russell’s speech on the question, 254-257;
- failure of Vienna Conference and renewal of the campaign, 267;
- fall of Sebastopol, 268;
- losses of Russia, and of the Allies, 268;
- treaty of Paris, 268
- Croker, J. W., 80, 139
- Dalling, Lord, 180
- Denmark and the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 322, 323
- Derby, Lord, Administration of, 199, 200, 202, 206;
- fails to form a Ministry on the resignation of Lord Aberdeen, 258;
- succeeds to the Premiership on the resignation of Lord Palmerston, 290;
- resignation, 293
- Devonshire, Duke of, 49
-
Dickens, Charles, his tribute to Lord Russell, 354
- Disraeli, Benjamin, and the ‘poisoned chalice,’ 135;
- attacks Peel on the proposal to repeal the Corn Laws, 138;
- and the Coercion Bill, 140, 141, 160;
- and ‘Sybil,’ 166;
- and the dismissal of Lord Palmerston, 180, 181;
- on Lord John Russell’s position after the issue of the Durham Letter, 188;
- his Budget of 1852, 199, 210;
- leadership of the Conservative party, 201;
- resolution condemning the Palmerston Ministry, 264;
- on the exclusion of Lord John from Lord Grey’s Cabinet, 273, 290;
- his Reform Bill, 291, 292;
- on the Prince Consort, 309;
- his ‘diabolical cleverness,’ 333 n.
- Dissenters. See Nonconformists
- ‘Don Carlos,’ by Lord John Russell, 279
- ‘Don Pacifico’ affair, the, 175
- Dufferin, Lord, 327, 363
- Duffy, Sir Gavan, on Irish landowners, 149
- Duhamel, General, his scheme for the acquisition of India by Russia, 218
- Duncannon, Lord, 67, 91, 92;
- Dunkellin, Lord, 329, 331
- Durazzo, Madame, 37
- Durham, Lord, his advanced opinions and popularity with the Radicals, 66, 164;
- and the preparation of the Reform Bill, 67, 68;
- and the scene in the House of Commons during the introduction of the bill, 69, 89;
- resigns office, 92;
- appointed Governor-General of Canada, 110;
- defended by Lord John Russell, 111;
- popularity, 164
- Durham Letter, the, 184-189, 191
- East India Company, 89, 288, 289
- East Retford, 51
- Ebrington, Lord, 75;
- moves a vote of confidence in Lord Grey’s Government, 79;
- moves a second vote of confidence, 83, 91, 92
- Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 191-193
- ‘Edinburgh Letter,’ the, 133
- Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13
- — University, Lord John Russell at, 11-14;
- and the influence of Professors Dugald Stewart and John Playfair, 12;
- and the Speculative Society, 13
- Education at the beginning of the century, 24;
- Roebuck’s scheme, 89;
- Bill of 1839, 114, 115;
- measure for providing competent teachers for elementary schools, 159;
- Lord John Russell’s scheme of National Education, 284;
- Mr. Forster’s measure, 285
- Egypt, war between Turkey and, 119
- Elcho, Lord, 329
- Eldon, Lord, 40, 50;
- and the proposed repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 57, 58, 63
- Elections, Parliamentary, cost of, 23
- Elliot, Hon. George, 195, 279, 347, 362
- Encumbered Estates Act, 157
- Erskine, Lord, 25
- ‘Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution,’ by Lord John Russell, 274, 275
- Factory Act, 159
- Famine, Irish, 130, 146, 148, 149
- Farnborough, Lord, 107
- Fielden, Mr., 159
- Fitzpatrick, General, 20
- Flood, Mr., and Reform, 77, and note
- Fonblanque, Albany, 47, 84, 196, 197
- Forster, W. E., and the Irish famine, 149;
- tribute to Lord John Russell for his work in the cause of education, 285, 327
- Fortescue, Mr. Chichester, Lord John Russell’s ‘Letters on the State of Ireland’ to, 280, 342
- Fox, Charles James, his influence on Lord John Russell, 8;
- on Parliamentary Representation, 25;
- and the Test and Corporation Acts, 54, 55;
- Russell’s Biography of him, 98, 272, 277
- France: Napoleon’s intention to create a new aristocracy, 31;
- and England’s alliance, 120;
- overthrow and flight of Louis Philippe, 163, 171;
- and the Spanish marriages, 171;
- Revolution of 1848, 171;
- and the ‘Don Pacifico’ affair, 175;
- and the Crimean War, 225, 229;
- the Orsini Conspiracy, 289, 290;
- Commercial Treaty with England, 295, 296;
- campaign with Italy, against Austria, 302, 303;
- annexation of Savoy, 305
- Free Trade: the question coming to the front, 121;
- and Tory opposition, 132;
- conversion of Peel, 137, 138;
- and the Commercial Treaty with France, 296
- French Revolution, its influence on the English people, 24, 36
- Friends of the People, Society of the, 25, 63
- Froude, Mr., on the improvements effected by the Reform Bill, 86, 87
- ‘Gagging Acts,’ the, 39, 40
- Garibaldi, General, 300;
- entry into Naples, 306;
- visit to Pembroke Lodge, 307
- Gascoigne, General, 73
- Gatton, 23
- Gavazzi, Father, 186
- George III., his madness and blindness, 27;
- and Catholic Emancipation, 59
- George IV. and Queen Caroline, 41;
- and Catholic Emancipation, 59;
- death, 60, 64
-
Gibson, Milner, 141, 208, 287, 295
- Gladstone, Mr., on the Colonial policy of the Melbourne Government, 117;
- Colonial Secretary, 136;
- and Sir Robert Peel, 176;
- his attack on Disraeli’s Budget, 199;
- and Disraeli’s claim to lead the Conservative party, 201 and note;
- and Lord John Russell’s claim to the Premiership on the fall of the Derby Government, 202;
- takes office under Lord Aberdeen, 207;
- first Budget, 210;
- and the income tax, 240;
- resigns office, 258, 290;
- Chancellor of the Exchequer (1859), 295;
- tribute to Russell on his accession to the Peerage, 297, 298;
- unseated at Oxford, 325;
- Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Russell, 327;
- introduces a Reform Bill, 328;
- tribute to Lord Russell, 330;
- ovation at Carlton House Terrace, 332;
- and the Irish Question, 342, 363, 366
- Glenelg, Lord, 112
- Goderich, Lord, 52, 93
- Gordon, Lady Georgiana, 3
- Gore, Hon. Charles, 348
- Gorham Case, the, 182
- Gortschakoff, Prince, 261, 267
- Goschen, Mr., 327
- Graham, Sir James, 67;
- withdraws from Lord Grey’s Ministry, 95;
- accuses Lord John Russell of encouraging sedition, 119;
- Home Secretary under Peel, 125;
- declines the Governor-Generalship of India, 141, 202, 207, 232, 254, 258, 290
- Grampound, 27, 40, 41;
- Granville, Lord, appointed Foreign Secretary, 182;
- on Lord John Russell’s speech in defence of his late colleagues, 266;
- fails to form a Ministry on the defeat of Lord Derby, 293;
- becomes President of the Council, 295
- Great Exhibition of 1851, 193, 200, 234, 308
- Greece and the ‘Don Pacifico’ affair, 175
- Greenock, Lord John Russell’s speech on the prospects of war, at, 227
- Greville, Charles, comments of, 61, 69, 72, 73, 102, 130, 180, 207, 257, 286
- Grey, (Charles, second) Lord, 15, 25;
- and Lord John Russell’s efforts on behalf of liberty, 58, 61;
- forms an Administration, 62, 65;
- early labours in the cause of Reform, 63, 64;
- characteristics, 65;
- announcement in the House of Lords with regard to the introduction of the first Reform Bill, 68;
- speech on the second Reform Bill, 76-78;
- resigns office, but resumes power on the inability of the Duke of Wellington to form a Ministry, 83, 92;
- changes in his Cabinet, 96;
- proposes the renewal of the Coercion Act, 96;
- resigns the Premiership, 99
- Grey (Henry, third), Lord, 134;
- Secretary to the Colonies under Lord John Russell, 141
- Grey, Sir George, Home Secretary under Lord John Russell, 141;
- and Irish crime, 153;
- appointed Colonial Secretary, 245, 295;
- Home Secretary, 327
- Grillion’s Club, 27, 28
- Grosvenor, Earl, 329, 330
- Grote, George, 90, 110, 111, 320
- Habeas Corpus Act, suspension of, 33, 34
- Hampden, Dr., and the see of Hereford, 161
- Hampden Clubs, 26
- Harcourt, Archbishop, on religious tests, 57
- Harding, Sir John, and the ‘Alabama’ Case, 315-317
- Hardinge, Sir Henry (afterwards Viscount), 82, 249
- Hartington, Lord, 292, 327
- Henley, Mr., 291
- Herbert of Lea, Lord, 232
- Herbert, Sidney, 207, 244, 254, 258
- Herschel, Sir John, 355
- Hobhouse, Sir J. C., 70, 141
- Holland, Lord, visit of Lord John Russell to the Peninsula with, 9-11, 30, 53, 57, 119;
- and the Life of Charles James Fox, 276
- Holland House, 8, 15, 143
- Holy Places in Palestine, dispute concerning, 213, 218
- Horsman, Mr., 329
- Houghton, Lord, 294
- House of Commons, abuses and defects in representation before the era of Reform, 22, 23;
- presentation of the petition of the Friends of the People, 25, 26;
- suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, 33, 34;
- Sir Francis Burdett’s motion for universal suffrage, and Lord John Russell’s speech, 35;
- and the ‘Gagging Acts,’ 39, 40;
- Lord John’s first resolutions in favour of Reform, 40;
- Lord John proposes an addition of 100 members, 43;
- introduction and second reading of the first Reform Bill, 69-73;
- dissolution, 74;
- first Reform Bill, 69-73;
- second Reform Bill, 75, 76;
- third Reform Bill, 81;
- the first Reformed Parliament, 88;
- number of Protectionists in 1847, 160
- House of Lords, and the proposed enfranchisement of Manchester, 52;
- and the Test and Corporation Acts, 56, 57;
- effect of the Duke of Wellington’s declaration against Reform, 61;
- its rejection of Reform, 78;
-
urged by William IV. to withdraw opposition to the Reform Bill, 84;
- passing of the Reform Bill, 84;
- and the Jewish Disabilities Bill, 198, 291
- Howick, Lord, 134
- Hume, Joseph, 72, 80, 90, 121
- Hunt, Mr. Ward, 330
- — ‘Orator,’ 26
- Huskisson, Mr., 56
- Hyde Park, Reform demonstration in, 332
- Indemnity Bill for Dissenters, 51
- India, Napoleon’s prophecy as to the acquisition by Russia of, 31;
- Duhamel’s scheme for its acquisition by Russia, 218;
- Mutiny in, 288
- India Bills, 210, 290
- Inkerman, battle of, 247
- Ireland: condition of affairs on the accession of the Duke of Wellington to power, 53;
- agitation for Catholic Emancipation, 58, 59;
- and O’Connell, 90;
- Lord John Russell’s visit in 1833, 91, 92;
- Poor Law Amendment Act, 93, 107;
- Mr. Littleton’s Tithe Bill, 93;
- Tithe Bill of 1835, 105, 107;
- Municipal Bill, 105, 112;
- passing of the Tithe Bill, 112;
- Maynooth grant, 127, 128;
- potato famine, 130, 146, 148, 149;
- Peel’s proposal for renewal of Coercion Act, 140;
- proposed renewal of Arms Bill, 147, 148;
- revolt of Young Ireland against O’Connell, 147;
- measures to relieve distress, 150-152;
- crime, 153, 154;
- Arms Bill (1847), 154;
- Treason Felony Act, 157;
- Encumbered Estates Act, 157;
- emigration, 158
- Irish Church: Mr. Ward’s motion, 95;
- Peel’s accusation against Lord John Russell, 97;
- Lord John’s motion of April 1835, 103, 104
- Italy: Lord John Russell’s impressions, 37;
- Lord John’s second visit, 48, 49;
- and the retention by Austria of Lombardy and Venice, 172, 300;
- accession of Victor Emmanuel II. to the throne of Sardinia, 301;
- campaign, with France, against Austria, 302, 303;
- the Peace of Villafranca, 303;
- intervention of England, 304;
- annexation of Savoy by France, 305;
- entry of Garibaldi into Naples, and proclamation of Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy, 306
- Jamaica Bill, the, 114
- Jews: exclusion from Parliament, 57;
- rejection in the Lords of bill for their relief, 89, 198, 210;
- passing of the bill in 1858, 290, 291
- Jones, Gale, 13
- Keble, Dr., 183
- Kennington Common, Chartist demonstration on, 166-168
- King, Mr. Locke, 193
- Kinglake, Mr., 266, 353
- Kingsley, Charles, his ‘Alton Locke,’ 166
- Kossuth, Louis, his visit to England, 179
- Labouchere, Mr. (afterwards Lord Taunton), 116, 147
- Lambton, Mr. (father of the first Earl of Durham), 25
- Lancashire Cotton Famine, 319
- Lancaster, Joseph, 115 and note, 281, 282
- Lansdowne, Lord, 52, 141, 202, 205, 240, 251, 258
- Lascelles, Mr., 23
- Lecky, Mr. W. E. H., his reminiscences of Earl Russell, 335-339
- Leech, John, 192, 241
- Leeds, unrepresented in the House of Commons, 23, 38, 60, 71, 296
- ‘Letters written for the Post, and not for the Press,’ question of authorship of, 279, 280
- Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, 210, 226, 238;
- Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Palmerston’s Ministry, 258;
- on Lord John Russell’s speech announcing his resignation (1855), 265, 295
- Lhuys, M. Drouyn de, 261, 262
- Lincoln, President, assassination of, 325
- Lister, Sir Villiers, 348
- Littleton, Mr. (afterwards Lord Hatherton), and the Irish Title Bill, 93;
- Liverpool, Lord, 21, 33, 50, 63
- Llandaff, Bishop of, and the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 57
- London University, 106, 107;
- proposed enfranchisement of, 296
- Londonderry, Marquis of, 79
- Louis Philippe, overthrow and flight of, 163, 171;
- and the Spanish marriages, 171
- Lowe, Mr., 327, 329, 332
- Luddites, riots of the, 32
- Lyndhurst, Lord, and Jewish Lord Chancellors, 291
- Lyons, Sir Edmund, 252
- Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer, 208, 265
- Macaulay, Lord, 141;
- urges Lord John Russell to take office in the Coalition Ministry, 204
- Mackintosh, Sir James, 25, 39, 53
- Magenta, battle of, 303
- Malmesbury, Lord, 137
-
Maltby, Dr., Bishop of Durham, and Lord John Russell’s ‘Durham Letter,’ 184
- Manchester, unrepresented in the House of Commons, 23, 38, 51, 60, 71, 126, 155;
- creation of bishopric of, 160, 296
- Martineau, Harriet, 129
- Maule, Fox, 141
- Maynooth College, 127-130
- Mazzini, 300
- McCarthy, Mr. Justin, on the attitude of the Catholics towards Lord John Russell, 188
- Melbourne, Lord, becomes Prime Minister, 99;
- dismissed by William IV., 100, 101;
- again Prime Minister, 104;
- Queen Victoria’s regard for him, 108, 109;
- characteristics, 108, 170;
- opinion of the ballot, 109;
- resigns, but is recalled to power, 114;
- his recognition of Russell’s influence as leader in the Commons, 120;
- blunders of his Government, 122;
- defeat of his Government, 123, 144
- Melville, Lord, 8
- ‘Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe from the Peace of Utrecht,’ by Lord John Russell, 275
- Memorandum, Secret, 216, 225
- Menschikoff, Prince, 223, 224
- Metternich, 171, 300
- Miall, Edward, 242
- Militia Bill, the, 194, 195
- Milton, Lord, 23
- Mitchel, John, 157, 158
- Moldavia and Wallachia, occupation by Russia of, 224, 229, 259
- Monson, Lord, 23
- Moore, Thomas, his ‘Remonstrance,’ 34;
- accompanies Lord John Russell to the Continent, 36;
- extracts from his journal, 37, 39, 41;
- anxiety as to Lord John’s politics, 52;
- on Lord John’s success with his motion for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 58;
- and Lardner’s Encyclopædia, 91;
- Russell’s ‘Memoirs and Correspondence’ of Moore, 204, 272, 278
- Morpeth, Lord, 141
- Municipal Reform Act, 90, 104
- Napoleon I., Lord Russell’s boyish hatred of, 9;
- Lord John’s interview with him at Elba, 28-31;
- his description of Wellington, 30;
- opinions on European politics, &c., 29-31;
- and Talma, 37
- Napoleon III., 167;
- and the Coup d’État of 1851, 179;
- and the fear of his invading England, 194;
- and the custody of the Holy Places, 218;
- his alliance with England during the Crimean War, 262;
- visit to England (1855), 267;
- interview with Count Cavour, 302;
- designs with regard to Italy, 303, 304;
- and the Peace of Villafranca, 303
- Navigation Acts, 197
- Nesselrode, Count, 214, 215
- New Zealand becomes part of the British dominions, 117, 199
- Newcastle, Duke of, 207, 232;
- unpopularity as Secretary for War, 244, 249, 250;
- incapacity as War Minister, 245
- Newman, Dr., 161, 182
- Nicholas, Emperor, his ambitious projects, 213, 214;
- visit to England in 1844 and the Secret Memorandum, 215, 216;
- friendship with Lord Aberdeen, 217;
- letter to Queen Victoria, 230;
- ‘Generals Janvier et Février,’ 259;
- death, 259
- Nightingale, Miss Florence, 250
- Nonconformists: the Indemnity Bill, 51;
- agitation for repeal of Test and Corporation Acts and their repeal moved and carried by Lord John Russell, 53-57;
- the Marriage Bill and Registration Act, 106;
- and the struggle for civil and religious liberty, 184;
- deputation to Lord Russell, 366
- Normanby, Lord, 116, 179, 180
- Northcote, Sir Stafford, 369
- Nottingham Castle, 79
- ‘Nun of Arrouca, The,’ 278
- O’Brien, Smith, 140, 157, 158
- O’Connell, Daniel, 53;
- his election for Clare, 58, 90, 92;
- on the revenues of the Irish Church, 97;
- and the Coercion Bill, 97, 99, 140, 146;
- and Lord John Russell, 147;
- and the potato famine, 149, 158
- O’Connor, Feargus, 165-168
- Old Sarum, 23, 71
- Oltenitza, battle of, 230
- Omar Pacha, 230
- Opium war, the, 121
- Orloff, Count, 214
- Orsini conspiracy, the, 289, 290
- Oxford Movement, the, 161, 182-186, 189
- Palmerston, Lord, 21, 56, 119;
- and the despatch to Metternich, 120;
- Foreign Secretary under Lord John Russell, 141;
- compared with Russell, 144;
- early official life and politics, 169;
- his independent action, 169, 174, 175, 177;
- his despatch to France on the Spanish marriages, 171;
- foreign policy, 173, 174;
- despatch to Sir H. Bulwer at Madrid, 174;
- and the ‘Don Pacifico’ affair, 175;
- popularity, 177;
- and the Queen’s instructions, 178;
- and the Kossuth incident, 179;
- and the Coup d’État in Paris (1851), 179;
- dismissed from the Foreign Office, 180;
- declines the Irish Viceroyalty, 181;
- his amendment on the Militia Bill, 195;
- offered a seat in Lord Derby’s Cabinet, 201;
- Home Secretary under Lord Aberdeen, 207;
-
urges the despatch of the fleet to the Bosphorus, 225;
- resignation, and its withdrawal, 237, 238;
- succeeds Lord Aberdeen as Prime Minister, 258;
- and Count Buol’s proposals, 262, 263;
- defeat on the ‘Arrow’ question and return to power after the General Election, 287;
- defeat and resignation on the Conspiracy Bill, 290;
- renewal of friendly relations with Russell, 293;
- forms a Ministry on the defeat of Lord Derby, 293, 295;
- indifference to Reform, 296;
- on Cabinet opinions, 323;
- death, 325;
- Lord Lyttelton’s opinion of him, 326
- Panmure, Lord, 243, 258
- Papal aggression, and the decree of Pius IX., 182-184;
- and the Durham Letter, 184-188
- Paris, Treaty of, 268
- Parliamentary representation before the era of Reform, 22, 23
- Parnell, Sir H., 62
- ‘Partington, Dame,’ and Sydney Smith’s speech on Reform, 80
- ‘Peace with honour,’ 227, 349
- Peel, Lady Georgiana, 357
- Peel, Sir Robert, 21, 50;
- leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, 52;
- opposes the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 56;
- and Catholic Emancipation, 58;
- and the first Reform Bill, 69, 70, 73, 76, 83;
- Prime Minister, 102;
- resignation, 104;
- and the Whig Ladies-in-Waiting, 114;
- his motion of want of confidence in the Melbourne Administration, 122;
- again Prime Minister, 123, 124;
- characteristics, 126, 127;
- and the grant to Maynooth College, 127, 128, 130;
- on the state of Ireland, 128;
- and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 131;
- resignation and resumption of office, 134, 136;
- proposes gradual repeal of Corn Laws, 138, 139;
- defeat and resignation on the Coercion Bill, 140, 155;
- and Lord Palmerston, 170;
- death, 176, 177;
- and the Emperor Nicholas, 215
- Pélissier, General, 263, 267
- Pembroke Lodge, 307, 351-353, 356, 357
- Penal Code, the, before the era of Reform, 24, 48, 107
- Peninsular Campaign, its costliness, 22
- Penryn, 40, 51, 52
- People’s Charter, the, 165
- Peterloo Massacre, the, 38
- Petty, Lord Henry (afterwards third Marquis of Lansdowne), 12
- Pius IX., and his decree of 1850, 182, 183
- Playfair, Professor John, 12
- Polignac, Prince de, 60, 61
- Polish revolt of 1863, 321
- Poor Law Amendment Act (Ireland), 93, 107, 151
- Poor Law Board, 160
- Poor Laws, 89, 126
- Potato famine, 130, 146, 148, 149
- Prisons, regulation of, 107
- Protestant Operative Association of Dublin, 129
- Prussia and the Vienna Note, 227;
- Public Health Act, 162
- ‘Punch,’ cartoons, &c., in, 192, 241, 242, 307, 367
- Pusey, Dr., 161 and note, 183
- Raglan, Lord, 246, 252, 267
- ‘Recollections and Suggestions,’ publication of, 280
- Redistribution of Seats Bill, 330
- Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de: skill in diplomacy, and early diplomatic life, 218-220;
- return to Constantinople, 220, 221;
- and the second Congress at Vienna, 260
- Reform: its early advocates, 25-27;
- and the Society of the Friends of the People, 25;
- Lord John Russell’s first speech on the subject, 35;
- Sir Francis Burdett’s motion of 1819, 35;
- Lord John brings forward his first resolutions in the House of Commons, 40;
- disfranchisement of Grampound, 43;
- Lord John’s motion for an addition of 100 members to the House of Commons, 43;
- resolutions brought forward by Lord Blandford, 59;
- rejection of Lord John’s Bill for enfranchising Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, 60;
- O’Connell’s motion for Triennial Parliaments, &c., 60;
- declaration of the Duke of Wellington, 61;
- the Committee of Four and the first Reform Bill, 67, 68;
- introduction and second reading of the first Bill in the Commons, 69-73;
- the second Bill, 75-78;
- public excitement on the rejection of the second Bill by the House of Lords, 79, 80;
- the third Bill passes the Commons, 81;
- the Bill passes the House of Lords, and receives the Royal Assent, 84;
- secured by popular enthusiasm, 85, 87;
- Lord John’s Bill of 1852, 196;
- Bill of 1854, 236, 237, 239;
- Disraeli’s Bill, 291, 292;
- Lord John’s Bill of 1860, 296;
- Bill introduced by Mr. Gladstone, 328
- Regent, Prince, insulted on returning from opening Parliament, 32;
- and the Peterloo Massacre, 38
- Revolution, French (1848), 171
- Rice, Mr. Spring, 96
- Richmond, Duke of, 89, 95, 124
- Ripon, Lord, 95, 124
- Roden, Lord, 113
- Roebuck, J. A., and education, 89;
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moves vote of confidence in the Russell Administration, 176;
- his motion to inquire into the condition of the Army in the Crimea, 254
- Rogers, Samuel, 123, 276
- Rothschild, Baron, 291
- Russell, Mr. G. W. E., 344
- Russell, John, the first Constable of Corfe Castle, 1, 2
- Russell, Sir John, Speaker of the House of Commons, 2
- Russell, John, the third, and first Earl of Bedford, 2
- Russell, Lord John: ancestry, 1, 2;
- boyhood and education, 3-9;
- schooldays at Sunbury and Westminster, 3-5;
- extracts from journal kept at Westminster, 4, 5;
- passion for the theatre, 4;
- education under Dr. Cartwright, 5;
- dedicates a manuscript book to Pitt, 6;
- schooldays and schoolfellows at Woodnesborough, 6-9;
- writes satirical verses and dramatic prologues, 7, 8;
- opinion on the case of Lord Melville, 8;
- influence of Mr. Fox upon him, 8;
- at Holland House, 8, 336;
- friendship with Sydney Smith, 8;
- visit to the English lakes and Scotland, 9;
- impressions of Sir Walter Scott, 9;
- first visit to the House of Lords, 9;
- visit to the Peninsula with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11;
- political predilections and sympathy with Spain, 9-11;
- goes to Edinburgh University, 11;
- impressions of Professors Dugald Stewart and John Playfair, 12, 13;
- his powers of debate at the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13;
- early bias towards Parliamentary Reform, 14;
- second visit to Spain, 14, 15;
- first impressions of Lord Wellington, 15;
- commands a company of the Bedfordshire Militia, 16;
- third visit to Spain, 16-20;
- on the field of Salamanca, 17;
- at Wellington’s head-quarters, 17;
- his ride to Frenida, 18;
- dines with a canon at Plasencia, 19;
- at Talavera and Madrid, 20;
- elected member for Tavistock, 20;
- his opinion of Lord Liverpool, 21;
- maiden speech in Parliament, 27;
- speech on the Alien Acts, 27;
- elected a member of Grillion’s Club, 27;
- his Italian tour of 1814-15, 28-31;
- interview with Napoleon at Elba, 28-31;
- speeches in Parliament against the renewal of war with France, against the income-tax and the Army Estimates, 32;
- on the proposal to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, 33, 34;
- proposes to abandon politics, 34;
- literary labours and travel, 34;
- returned again for Tavistock at the General Election of 1818, 34;
- first speech in the House of Commons on Parliamentary Reform, 35;
- growth of his influence in Parliament, 36;
- visit to the Continent with Thomas Moore, 36, 37;
- impressions of Italy, 37;
- brings forward in Parliament his first resolutions in favour of Reform, 40;
- his bill for disfranchising Penryn, Camelford, Grampound, and Barnstaple, 40;
- returned to Parliament for Huntingdon, 40;
- and the case of Grampound, 40, 41, 42, 43;
- takes the side of Queen Caroline, 41;
- writes ‘The Nun of Arrouca,’ 42;
- taciturnity in French society, 42;
- his resolutions for the discovery and punishment of bribery, &c., 43, 44;
- proposes an addition of 100 members to the House of Commons, 43;
- increase of his political influence, 45, 46;
- unseated in Huntingdonshire, and his second visit to Italy, 48, 49;
- elected for Bandon Bridge, 49;
- on the condition of the Tory party on Canning’s accession to power, 50;
- and restrictions upon Dissenters, 51;
- proposal to enfranchise Manchester, 51;
- moves the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 55-57;
- and Catholic Emancipation, 59;
- rejection of his bill for enfranchising Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, 60;
- defeated at Bedford, 60;
- visit to Paris, and efforts to save the life of Prince de Polignac, 60, 61;
- elected for Tavistock, and appointed Paymaster-General, 62;
- prepares the first Reform Bill in conjunction with Lord Durham and others, 67;
- introduces the bill, 69-72;
- moves the second reading of the Bill, 73;
- returned to Parliament for Devonshire, 75;
- raised to Cabinet rank, and introduces second Reform Bill, 75;
- reply to vote of thanks from Birmingham, 79;
- introduces the third Reform Bill, 80;
- carries the bill to the Lords, 81;
- and the Municipal Reform Act, 90, 104;
- opposition to Radical measures, 90;
- and the wants of Ireland, 91;
- visit to Ireland, 91, 92;
- on Mr. Littleton’s Irish Tithe Bill, 94, 95;
- ‘upsets the coach,’ 95;
- on Coercion Acts, 97, 98;
- allusion to his Biography of Fox, 98;
- and the leadership in the House of Commons under the first Melbourne Ministry, 100, 101;
- William IV.’s opinion of him, 101;
- returned for South Devon on Peel’s accession to power, 102;
- as leader of the Opposition, 103;
- and the meeting at Lichfield House, 103;
- defeats the Government with his Irish Church motion, 104;
- marriage, 104, 355;
- appointment to the Home Office in the second Melbourne Administration, 104;
- defeated in Devonshire, and elected for Stroud, 104;
- presented with a testimonial at Bristol, 105;
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and the Dissenters’ Marriage Bill, 106;
- and the Tithe Commutation Act, 106, 107;
- again returned for Stroud, 107;
- allusion to the accession of the Queen, 108;
- declines to take part in further measures of Reform, and is called by Radicals ‘Finality John,’ 110;
- death of his wife, 112;
- Education Bill of 1839, 114, 115;
- as Colonial Secretary, 116-118, 338;
- his appointment of a Chartist magistrate, 119;
- and the Corn Laws, 121;
- returned for the City of London, 122;
- second marriage, 123;
- Wellington’s opinion of him, 123;
- his opinion of Peel’s Administration, 126;
- supports Peel on the Maynooth question, 129, 130;
- and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 131-134, 139;
- and the ‘Edinburgh Letter,’ 133;
- fails to form a Ministry on the resignation of Peel, 134, 135;
- opposes Peel’s proposal for renewal of Coercion Act, 139, 140;
- succeeds Peel as Prime Minister, 141;
- address in the City, 142;
- political qualities, 143, 145;
- contrasted with Palmerston, 144;
- his measure for total repeal of Corn Laws, 145;
- and sugar duties, 146;
- proposes renewal of Irish Arms Bill, 146;
- his Irish policy, and anxiety and efforts for the improvement of the people, 151, 152, 156, 157, 158, 338, 342;
- and the Arms Bill (1847), 154;
- again visits Ireland, 158;
- education measures, 159;
- returned again for the City, 160;
- his appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, 161;
- and the Chartist demonstration of 1848, 166, 168;
- relations with Lord Palmerston, 170;
- on the political situation in Europe after the French Revolution of 1848, 171, 172;
- and Palmerston’s action in the ‘Don Pacifico’ affair, 176;
- tribute to Sir Robert Peel, 177;
- dismisses Palmerston from the Foreign Office, 180;
- and the breach with Palmerston, 181;
- his ‘Durham Letter,’ 184-191;
- introduces the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 191;
- resigns the Premiership, but returns to office on the failure of Lord Stanley to form a Ministry, 193;
- resignation on the vote on the Militia Bill, 195;
- his Reform Bill of 1852, 196;
- defence of Lord Clarendon, 196;
- edits ‘Memoirs and Journal of Thomas Moore,’ 204;
- accepts Foreign Secretaryship in the Aberdeen Administration, 206;
- his vacillation in taking office under Lord Aberdeen not due to personal motives, 205;
- retires from Foreign Office, 210, 221;
- on the projects of Russia, 218, 224, 225;
- and the Vienna Note, 227;
- speech at Greenock on the prospects of war, 227;
- memorandum to the Cabinet on the eve of the Crimean War, 228;
- Reform Bill of 1854, 236, 239, 241;
- resignation, 241;
- resumes his seat in the Cabinet, 242;
- speech in the House of Commons on withdrawing his Reform measure, 242, 243;
- proposes a rearrangement of the War and Colonial departments, 244, 248, 251;
- presses Lord Aberdeen to take decisive action with regard to the Crimean War, 248;
- memorandum on the Crimean War, 251;
- proposed resignation, 251, 252;
- resignation on Roebuck’s motion to inquire into the condition of the Army in the Crimea, and his speech on the question, 254-257;
- becomes Colonial Secretary in Palmerston’s Government, 258;
- plenipotentiary at second Congress of Vienna, 259-263;
- consents at Palmerston’s request to remain in the Ministry, 263;
- explanations in the House of Commons regarding the failure of the Vienna Conference, 264, 265;
- announces his resignation (1855), 265;
- speech in defence of his late colleagues against Roebuck’s motion of censure, 266;
- his mistake in joining the Coalition Ministry, 271;
- leisure, travel, &c., 272;
- literary labours, 272-281, 354;
- and the pension for Moore, 278;
- remarks on his own career in ‘Recollections and Suggestions,’ 281, 336;
- allusions to Joseph Lancaster, 282;
- work in the cause of education, 282-285, 339;
- scheme of National Education (1856), 284;
- opposes Lord Palmerston on the ‘Arrow’ question, 287;
- speech in the City and re-election, 287, 288;
- supports Palmerston at the Indian Mutiny crisis, 288;
- on the Conspiracy Bill, 289, 290;
- supports Lord Derby in passing the India Bill, 290;
- thanked by Jews for his aid in removing their disabilities, 291;
- attacks Disraeli’s Reform Bill, 292;
- renewal of friendly intercourse with Palmerston, 293;
- relations with Cobden and Bright, 294;
- joins Palmerston’s Administration (1859) as Foreign Secretary, 295;
- introduces a new Reform Bill, 296;
- raised to the Peerage, 297;
- acquires the Ardsalla estate, and receives the Garter, 298;
- his work at the Foreign Office, 299, 300;
- intervention in Italian affairs, 304, 339;
- protests against the annexation of Savoy by France, 305;
- receives Garibaldi at Pembroke Lodge, 307;
- his reception in Italy, 307;
- and the ‘Trent’ affair, 311;
- and the ‘Alabama’ case, 313-319, 341;
- on the Polish revolt, 321;
- and the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty, 322, 323;
- as Foreign Secretary, 323, 324;
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on Palmerston’s vivacity, 325;
- second Premiership on the death of Palmerston, 325;
- tribute to Lord Palmerston, 327;
- defeated on the questions of Reform and Redistribution of Seats, 331;
- Mr. Lecky’s reminiscences of him, 335-339;
- relations with colleagues and opponents, 336, 337, 347;
- speech on the maintenance of the independence of Belgium, 340;
- letter on the claims of the Vatican, 341, 342;
- letters to the ‘Times’ on the government of Ireland, 343;
- and Home Rule, 338, 343, 344;
- independent attitude towards the throne, 344;
- relations with Lord Aberdeen, 346, 347;
- Lord Selborne’s impressions of him, 345;
- his private secretaries’ impressions of him, 347, 348;
- life at Pembroke Lodge, 351-353;
- stories about doctors, 350;
- visit of Bulgarian delegates, 352;
- friendships, 355;
- his use of patronage, 355;
- his children, 356;
- home life, and his children’s reminiscences, 356-361;
- Dr. Anderson’s recollections, 361;
- a meeting with Carlyle, 362;
- Lord Dufferin’s recollections, 363;
- religious faith, 364;
- interview with Spurgeon, 365;
- at Cheshunt College, 365;
- Nonconformist deputation, 366;
- ‘Golden Wedding,’ 367;
- death, 367;
- opinion of Lord Shaftesbury, 368;
- a remark of Sir Stafford Northcote’s, 369
- Russell, Hon. Rollo, 360, 367
- Russell, William, Member of Parliament in the reign of Edward II., 2
- Russell, Lord William (of the seventeenth century), 1;
- Lord John Russell’s Biography of him, 274
- Russell, Lord William, Lord John Russell’s brother, 6;
- wounded at Talavera, 14, 34;
- letter to Lord John, 49
- Russia, and India, 31, 218;
- projects and demands with regard to Turkey, 223, 224;
- occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia, 224, 229;
- rejection of the Vienna Note, 226;
- destroys Turkish fleet at Sinope, 230;
- evacuates the Principalities, 243;
- operations in the Crimea, 246-252;
- death of the Emperor Nicholas, 259;
- fall of Sebastopol, and losses in the war, 268;
- and the Polish revolt, 321
- Salamanca, battle of, 16, 17
- Sardinia, and the Crimean War, 267
- Schleswig-Holstein question, the, 172, 322, 323
- Scott, Sir Walter, Lord John Russell’s first acquaintance with, 9;
- and the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13, 91, 355
- Sebastopol, siege and fall of, 246, 247, 268
- Secret Memorandum, the, 216, 225
- Sefton, Lord, 75
- Selborne, Lord, on the ‘Alabama’ case, 312-319;
- impressions of Lord Russell, 345
- Seymour, Sir Hamilton, 214
- Seymour, Lord Webb, 12
- Shaftesbury, Lord, and factory children, 89;
- and Lord John Russell’s support of Peel, 129, 130;
- and the Factory Bill, 159;
- special constable in 1848, 167;
- and Cardinal Wiseman’s manifesto, 187;
- on the Coalition Government, 211, 212, 368
- ‘Shannon’ and the ‘Chesapeake,’ battle between the, 22
- Shelley and the Peterloo massacre, 38
- Sheridan, Mr., 25
- Sidmouth, Lord, 21, 40, 63, 85
- Simpson, General, 267
- Sinope, destruction of Turkish fleet at, 230, 232, 233
- Slave trade, 22, 48, 89
- Smith, Rev. —, Vicar of Woodnesborough, a tutor of Lord John Russell’s, 6
- Smith, Dr. Southwood, and the Public Health Act, 162
- Smith, Sydney, friendship with Lord John Russell, 8;
- on Reform, 27;
- on the political situation after Canning’s accession to power, 50, 51;
- and ‘Dame Partington,’ 80;
- hopeful of the triumph of Reform, 84;
- and ‘Lord John Reformer,’ 90;
- on Lord John’s influence in the Melbourne Government, 113
- Society of the Friends of the People, 25, 63
- Solferino, battle of, 303
- Spain, Lord John Russell’s visit with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11;
- Lord John’s sympathy, 9, 10;
- Lord John’s second visit, 14, 15;
- Lord John’s third visit and adventures, 16-20;
- entry of Wellington into Madrid, 16;
- the Spanish marriages, 171, 172;
- Lord Palmerston’s interference, 174
- Spencer, Lord, on the alliance of England with France, 120
- Spurgeon, C. H., 365
- Stanhope, Colonel, 14, 15
- Stanley, Lord, and Irish affairs, 92, 93;
- Secretary for the Colonies, 93;
- and the Irish Church, 95;
- withdraws from Lord Grey’s Cabinet, 95;
- Secretary for the Colonies under Peel, 124, 134;
- succeeds to the House of Lords, 141;
- challenges Palmerston’s foreign policy, 176;
- fails to form a Ministry on the resignation of Lord John Russell, 193
- Stanmore, Lord, 118, 119, 211, 231, 233, 347
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Stansfeld, Mr., 327
- Stewart, Dugald, 12
- Stockmar, Baron, 101, 216
- Sussex, Duke of, and the claims of Dissenters, 53
- Sweden, and the Crimean War, 267
- Syllogism, a merry canon’s, 19
- Tahiti incident, the, 125
- Tavistock, monastic lands granted to the first Earl of Bedford, 2;
- election of Lord John Russell as member for, 20, 62
- Tavistock, Lord, elder brother of Lord John Russell, 6, 11
- Tennyson, Mr., 90
- Tennyson, Lord, his appointment as Poet Laureate, 355
- Test and Corporation Acts; agitation for their total repeal, 53, 54;
- speech of Fox, 54, 55;
- their provisions, 54;
- jubilee of repeal, 366
- Tithe Acts (Ireland): Mr. Littleton’s Bill, 93, 94;
- Bill of 1835, 105, 107;
- Bill passes through Parliament, 112
- Tithe Commutation Act, 106, 107
- Tooke, Horne, 26
- Trafalgar Square demonstration on the Reform question, 332
- Treason Felony Act, 157
- Treaty of Paris (1856), 268
- ‘Trent’ affair, the, 310-312
- Turkey, war with Egypt, 119;
- and the custody of the Holy Places in Palestine, 213;
- the ‘sick man’ of Europe, 214, 215;
- oppression of Christian subjects, 217;
- reception of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, 222;
- and the Vienna Note, 224-227;
- ultimatum to Russia, 229;
- destruction of fleet by Russia at Sinope, 230;
- and the second Congress at Vienna, 259-262;
- and the Treaty of Paris, 268, 269
- University of London, 106, 107;
- proposed enfranchisement of, 296
- Vansittart, Mr., 21
- Vaughan, Cardinal, on Romish practices in the Anglican Church, 190, 191
- Victor Emmanuel II., accession to the throne of Sardinia, and efforts to secure Italian independence, 301;
- proclaimed King of Italy, 306
- Victoria, Queen, accession, 107;
- her regard for Lord Melbourne, 108, 109;
- declines to dismiss her Whig Ladies-in-Waiting, 114;
- visit to Ireland, 158;
- instructions to Lord Palmerston, 178;
- letter to Lord John Russell on the formation of a Coalition Government, 203;
- her view of the Coalition Ministry, 208;
- reply to letter from the Czar on the eve of the Crimean War, 230;
- and the death of the Prince Consort, 309;
- letter to Lord Russell on the death of Palmerston, 326;
- opens Parliament (1866), 328;
- letter to Lady Russell on the death of the Earl, 368
- Vienna, revolt of (1848), 171;
- Vienna Note, 224-228
- Villafranca, Treaty of, 303
- Villiers, Mr. Charles, 121, 208
- Vittoria, battle of, 20
- Vitzthum, Count, 217, 324
- Walpole, Mr. Spencer, on the Arms Bill of the Russell Administration, 154;
- retires from the Home Office on the introduction of Disraeli’s Reform Bill, 291, 330
- Ward, Mr., and the Irish Church, 90, 95
- Wellington, Duke of, Lord John Russell’s first impressions of, 15, 16, 17;
- described by Napoleon, 30, 50;
- becomes Prime Minister, 52;
- and Catholic Emancipation, 58, 59;
- his declaration against Reform, 61, 65;
- resignation, 62;
- predictions on the Reform question, 69;
- failure to form a Ministry, 83;
- lament on the triumph of Reform, 85, 114;
- opinion of Lord John, 123;
- and the Anti-Corn-Law agitation, 136, 137;
- and the demonstration on Kennington Common of 1848, 166, 167;
- and Sir Robert Peel, 176;
- death, 200;
- and the Emperor Nicholas, 215
- Wesley, influence of the preaching of, 24
- Westminster School, its condition at the beginning of the century, 3;
- Lord John’s experiences at, 3-5;
- some of its celebrated scholars, 3, 4
- Westmoreland, Lord, 50
- Wetherell, Mr., and the first Reform Bill, 69
- Whitfield, influence of his preaching, 24
- Wilberforce, William, 89
- William IV., his accession, 61, 64;
- receives a petition in favour of the Grey Administration, 80;
- refuses his sanction for the creation of new peers, 83;
- lampooned, 83;
- urges the House of Lords to withdraw opposition to the Reform Bill, 84;
- dismisses the first Melbourne Ministry, 100, 101;
- his opinion of Lord John Russell, 101
- Winchilsea, Lord, 57
- Wiseman, Cardinal, 182, 183, 186, 187
- Wolseley, Sir Charles, 38
- Wood, Sir Charles, 141, 193, 258
- Working classes, their condition and claims in 1848, 163-165
- Wynn, Mr. Charles, 41