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on the understanding on which
Lord John accepted office in the
Aberdeen Ministry, 164; commu-
nication from Lord Strafford, 203;
settles an annuity on Lord John,
282; persuades him to answer an
attack made by Mr. Disraeli on the
framers of the great Reform Act,
296; death of, 336

Temple, Sir W. (Lord Palmerston's
brother), ii. 52

Ten Hours Bill, the, i. 455

Tennyson, Mr., member for Bleching-
ley, i. 144; his Bill to shorten the
duration of Parliaments, 193, 194
Tennyson, Mr., created poet-laureate,
ii. 145; 450

Test Act, the, i. 140

Thiers, M., i. 358; threatens Austria
with war if she is not moderate in
her demands on Italy, ii. 50 n;
quoted, 319

Thomson, Colonel, i. 305 n
Thomson, Poulett, i. 215, 335, 358, 367
Thornton, Mr., i. 1

Thornton, Sir Edward, ii. 361

Thouvenel, M. (French Foreign Minis-
ter), ii. 315-318, 324
Tierney, Mr., i. 26, 108, 110, 111, 128,
134, 154

Tilsit, Treaty of, i. 36
Timber, duties on, i. 368; ii. 79

Times,' the, attack of, on the Russell
administration for permitting the
Sicilian insurgents to be supplied
with arms, ii. 51; accuses Lord John
of jobbery, 423 n

Tithes Bill, i. 184, 201, 227, 257, 260,

266, 272, 300

Tithe war in Ireland, i. 184
Todd, Captain, i. 52 n

Torrens, Mr., i. 284 n

Torres Vedras, lines of, i. 53

Towns, Bill for promoting the health of,

ii. 93
Tractarianism, ii. 116
Trant, General, i. 61
Treaty of Vienna, ii. 8

Trent,' the, ii. 345

Trevelyan, Sir George, his Life of Lord
Macaulay, ii. 91; 273
Tufnell, Mr., i. 400 n
Turgot, M., ii. 140

Turkey, its struggle with Greece, i.

151; with Russia, 151; war of,
with Egypt, 346; refuses to give up
fugitive Hungarians, ii. 54; 134,
135; maladministration of govern-
ment in, 178

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UNITED STATES, warlike feeling in the,
towards England, i. 421; ii. 14

VAILLANT, MARSHAL, ii. 236; his
answer to the French Emperor re-
garding the probable evacuation of
the Crimea, 264

Van Diemen's Land, ii. 104
Vansittart, Mr., i. 109
Vattel, quoted, ii. 329

Vaughan, Dr. (head-master of Harrow
School), ii. 279

Vernon, Dr. (Archbishop of York),
death of, i. 475

Vernon, Mr., quoted, ii. 210
Victor Emanuel, King of Sardinia, pro-
jected marriage of his daughter with
Prince Napoleon, ii. 301; seeks Lord
John's advice, 313; is saluted as
King of Italy by Garibaldi, 325;
enters Venice, 422

Victoria, Queen, accession of, i. 281 ;
cordial in her support of Lord Mel-
bourne's ministry, 301; grief at its
resignation, 320; opposes Sir Robert
Peel's demand for the removal of the
ladies of her household, 320; desire
for the religious education of youth,
329; marriage with Prince Albert,
341; anxiety on the subject of war
with France, 353; letter to Lord
John on the resignation of the Mel-
bourne Ministry, 381; summons
Lord John to undertake the for-
mation of a government on the r-
signation of Sir Robert Peel, 411;
letter from Lord John announcing
his failure to form an administra-
tion, 417; recalls Sir Robert Peel,
420; presents Lord John with Pem-
broke Lodge, Richmond, 449;
wishes to intervene in the revolt in
Portugal, ii. 9; her anxiety as to
Palmerston's foreign policy, 43; her
attitude in the Austro-Italian conflict,
46; on the selection of an envoy at
the Conference on Italian affairs, 47;
long consultation on foreign affairs
with Lord John, 49; increased alarm
and dissatisfaction with Palmerston's
Austro-Italian policy, 52; directs
that all despatches submitted for her
approval should pass through the
hands of Lord John, 53; her similar
request on a previous occasion, 54n;
her displeasure with Lord Palmerston
for his unaltered despatch to Mr.
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wrong in matter and manner in his
conduct of the Greek dispute, 60;
carries her complaints to the Irish
Viceroy, 62; her memorandum on
the relations between a Foreign
Minister and his sovereign, 63; her
visit to Ireland, 85; prorogues Par-
liament in person, 101; requests
the aid of Lord Aberdeen and Sir
James Graham in helping Lord John
to reconstruct his ministry, 124; on
their failure requests Lord John to
form a ministry, 128; disapproves
of the policy of Lord Palmerston
in the Schleswig-Holstein question,
132; annoyance on the demi-official
announcement that Palmerston in-
tended to receive Kossuth, 133;
and further at his reception of ad-
dresses disrespectful to the Emperors
of Austria and Russia, 136; desires
that the correspondence on this sub-
ject be brought before the Cabinet,
137; their decision, 137; advice to
her ministers on the Coup d'état,
138; demands Lord Palmerston's
dismissal from the Foreign Office,
142; sends for Lords Lansdowne and
Aberdeen to form a ministry, 160;
letter to Lord John on her selection
of Lord Aberdeen as Prime Minister,
161; annoyance at the accusations
made of Prince Albert's unconstitu-
tional interference in foreign and do-
mestic affairs, 203; gratitude to Lord
John for his able defence of the Prince,
203; is particularly pleased' with
Lord John's speech in defence of his
postponement of a Reform Bill, 205;
and warmly approves of his conduct,
208; communicates to both Houses
the declaration of war with Russia,
214; letter from and to Lord John
on Mr. Disraeli's attack on the
Aberdeen ministry, 225; receives
with concern Lord John's resignation,
237; sends for Lord Derby to form
a government, 241; applies to Lord
Lansdowne for the same purpose,
241; interview with Lord John, 241;
places herself in Lord Palmerston's
hands, 241; is said to be opposed to
dissolution, 287; her language re-
garding the Italian question at the
beginning of 1859, 301; decides the
question of supremacy between Lord
Palmerston and Lord John by asking
both to serve under Lord Granville,
306; sends for Palmerston, 308;
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used by Ministers regarding the
Italian question, 312; appeals to the
whole Cabinet, 312; her alarm at
the action of her Ministers, 315;
issues proclamation enjoining neu-
trality in the coming strife between
the Northern and Southern States of
America, 342; death of the Prince
Consort, 347; receives invitation
from the Emperor Napoleon to
attend a Congress of the sovereigns
of Europe, 382; her answer, 382;
disapproves of the action of Palmers-
ton and Russell in their proposed
despatch to Austria, regarding action
of the fleet, 392; letter to Lord
Russell on the death of Lord Pal-
merston, 407; receives with regret
the decision of Lord John's Cabinet
to resign, 413; correspondence with
Lord Russell on the crisis, 414, 415 ;
reluctantly consents to receive the
resignation of the Cabinet, 417;
sends for Mr. Gladstone to form an
administration, 434

Vienna, revolution in, 38; bombarded
by Jellachich, 49

Vienna Conference, ii. 241; the four
points of the protocol of the Western
powers, 248

Vienna Note, the, ii. 183-185, 188, 194
Villafranca, meeting of French and

Austrian Emperors at, ii. 310; pro-
posed Treaty of, 310
Villiers, Lady Emily, ii. 433
Villiers, Lady Victoria, Landseer's
sketch of, ii. 113, 280, 347 n, 424 ;
see also Russell, Victoria
Villiers, Rt. Hon. Charles, i. 370,
426, 440; resolutions on the Act
of 1846, ii. 159, 399

Vitzthum, Count, his description of
Lord John Russell's despatch on
Italian affairs, ii. 327 ; quoted, 374 n
Vivian, Sir Hussey, i. 331 n
Vyvyan, Sir Richard, i. 173

WAKEFIELD theory of colonisation, i.
368

Walcheren expedition, the, i. 48
Waldegrave, Lord, i. 72
Waldemar, institution of, ii. 372
Wales, Prince of, ii. 350 n
Walewski, M., i. 351: personally

assured by Palmerston of his approval
of the Coup d'état, ii. 138; 140, 142,
261; desires the English Government
to strengthen the conspiracy laws,
295; 313, 315

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Walker, Admiral, i. 362 n
Walpole, Captain John (fourth son of
second Earl of Orford), i. 53
Walpole, Sir Robert, i. 127 n, 160
Warburton, Mr., i. 219, 223; letter
from O'Connell, 273

Warburton, Mrs., i. 402; delicate
health of, ii. 131

Warburton, Rev. Mr., marriage with
Isabel Lester, ii. 174

Ward, Mr. (master at Westminster
School), i. 6

Ward, Mr., motion for reducing the
temporal possessions of the Irish
Church, i. 200; author of 'Appro-
priation,' 203; resolution on the
Church in Ireland, 226; letter to
Lord John, 367

Watson, Dr. (Bishop of Llandaff), i.
30, 79

Watts, Alaric, i. 149

Watts, Mr. (editor of the Souvenir '),

i. 392

Wellesley, H. (afterwards Lord Cow-
ley), i. 52; see Cowley, Lord
Wellesley, J., memorandum of, ii. 31,
32; his inclosures to the Duke of
Wellington on the Lamartine cor-
respondence, 33, 35
Wellesley, Lord, i. 197, 229
Wellesley, Sir Arthur (Duke of Wel-

lington), in the Peninsula, i. 37, 38;
in the lines of Torres Vedras, 53;
enters Madrid, 59; retreat from
before Burgos, 63; at Cadiz, 64; in
command of the army of occupation
in France, 93; retires from the
Cabinet in 1827, 133; forms a
Ministry, 138; 139, 145, 146; anger
of the Tories with, 148; forwards
Catholic emancipation, 148, 153;
ideas on Reform, 157; resignation
of, 158; windows of his house
broken by the mob, 172; pledged to
Reform in the representation of the
people, 177; fails to form a ministry
on Lord Grey's resignation, ∙177;
recommends Sir Robert Peel
Prime Minister, 211; dramatic satire
on him by Lord John, 212; dealing
with the Corporation Bill, 245;
advises postponement of the Irish
Municipal Bill, 279; advice on the
crisis with France in 1840, 346;
influence in the Lords, 427; ii. 12;
demands fresh defences for England,
13; refers to the critical nature of
England's relations with the United
States, 14; points out the vulnera-
bility of the English coast, 14; his

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letter to Sir John Burgoyne on
invasion, 18; letters from and to
Lord John on retrenchment in army
expenditure, 29, 30; correspondence
with Lamartine, 31, 32, 34; letter
to Lord John on the Chartist pro-
cession, 68; refuses to believe in
the misconduct of the troops in the
Irish rebellion, 73; 128, 158 n; his
moral qualities cited for imitation,
161, 162

Wensleydale, Lord, ii. 437
Wessenberg, ii. 49

West, Master (boy actor), i. 8
Western, Lord, letter to Lord John, i.
261; quoted, 367

en.

Westminster, Duke of, on Lord John's
creation of peers, i. 457
Westminster School, management of,
in 1803, i. 6; fagging at, 9
Westmoreland, Lord, i. 133;
deavours to secure a pacific solution
of the Montenegrin difficulty, ii. 177;
185, 189; British ambassador at
Vienna, 213; his letter to Lord
John on the new proposals regarding
the Black Sea, 260

Weymouth, Lady, i. 2, 27

Wheat, price of, at the end of 1816, i. 87
Whitbread, Mr., i. 5, 17, 108, 155 n
Whitbread, Mrs., i. 5

White, Mr. (Consul-General at War-
saw), ii. 368

Whitmore, Mr. (Lady Lucy Bridge-
man's husband), i. 74

Wiffen, Mr. (librarian), i. 149
Wilberforce, Mr., i. 121

William IV. disapproves of Lord John's
letter to the Birmingham meeting, i.
173; his private influence exercised
to pass third Reform Bill, 178; op-
poses the appointment of Lord John
as the leader of the House, 208;
sends for the Duke of Wellington,
208; advised to select Sir Robert
Peel, 211; his action in dismissing
the Whig ministry canvassed, 217;
wishes to have Lord Grey as Prime
Minister, 232; antagonism to the
members of the Melbourne adminis-
tration, 239; delighted with Lord
John's defeat in Devonshire, 239;
language to ministers in the Council
chamber, 240; personal dislike to
Lord John overcome, 241; disap-
proves of the Corporation Bill,
243; deprecates collision with the
House of Lords, 245; attitude on
the Church Temporalities Bill, 246;
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247; alarm at O'Connell's invitation
to dinner by the Viceroy, 248; ap-
proves of Lord John's Bristol address,
251; objects to Lord Brougham's
appointment to any office, 252; re-
luctantly consents to abolish Orange
lodges in the army, 264; highly ap-
proves of Lord John's amendment to
Mr. Hume's motion on Orangeism,
265; dislike of Lord Glenelg, 240 n;
268; uneasiness at the proceedings
of the General Association, 274; on
Irish legislation, 274; excuse for not
opening Parliament in person, 275;
death of, 281

William, Prince of Orange, ii. 326
Wilmot, Sir E., motion on juvenile
criminals, i. 342

Wilson, Professor, pension to, ii. 146
Wilson, Sir Robert, i. 121 n; 135
Wiseman, Dr., made Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Westminster, ii. 119;
pastoral letter of, 125

Wodehouse, Lord (afterwards Lord
Kimberley), ii. 184, 386
Wood, Lady M., ii. 69

Wood, Sir Charles, resignation of, i. 336,
337; letters to Lord John, 419, 427;
on the potato famine, 435; quoted,
on the Spanish marriages, ii. 4;
16, 17; abandons the income-tax,
25; his views on Irish legislation,
65; opposed to expenditure on
Ireland, 78; agrees to the Canadian
loan, 79; his small influence in
debate, 90; attitude on Reform,

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102; defeated on the Budget, 105;
Budget of 1851, 122; financial mea-
sures of, 125; on the disfranchising
clause of Lord John's Reform Bill,
130; 150; 201; letter to Lord
John, 208; endeavours to dissuade
the latter from breaking up the Go-
vernment of Lord Aberdeen, 231 n;
quoted, 243; 408

Wood, Mr. Page (afterwards Lord
Hatherley), ii. 196

Woodnesboro' School, discipline at, i.

13
Wordsworth, William, and the Lord
Rectorship of Glasgow, ii. 145
Wrangel, Marshal, enters Schleswig,
ii. 389

Wynn, Rt. Hon. Charles, i. 119
Wyse, Mr. (British Minister at Athens),
his negotiations in the Greek im-
broglio with England, ii. 56-59; de-
precates the idea of asking Austria
to put down the Greek insurrection,
218