Abercromby, Mr.,103Aberdeen, 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,346,347Adelaide, Queen,82,83‘Adullamites,’329Afghanistan, invasion of,121,170‘Alabama’ Case, the,312-319Albert, 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,310Alexander II.,259,321Alien Acts, the,27All the Talents, Ministry of,63,64Alma, the battle of,246Althorp, 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 alsoSpencer, LordAmberley, Viscount,356America, 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,312-319Anti-Corn-Law League, its founding121,126,131Argyll, Duke of,295,327Armenia, massacres in,269,353Arms Bill,146,147;of 1847,154Auckland, Lord,96Austria, 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,303Bagehot, Walter,86,323Ballot, the: Grote’s attempts to introduce a bill,90,111Bathurst, Lord,50Bedford, 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,2Belgium: the question of its independence,172,340,341Bentinck, Lord George,138,140,141,150,160,201Bessborough, Lord,146,151Birmingham, unrepresented in the House of Commons,23,38,51,60,71;great meeting on the Reform question at,79,296Bismarck, Count,321-323Blandford, Lord,59Blessington, Lady,42Blomfield, Bishop,115Bradlaugh, Mr.,332Bribery and corruption before the era of Reform,23,61;Lord John Russell’s resolutions for the discovery and punishment of,43Bridgeman, Mr. George (afterwards Earl of Bradford),16,18,20Bright, 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,’329Brougham, Lord,56,67;and the Reform Bill cry,74;speech on the second Reform Bill,78,83;opinion of Lord John Russell,110Buccleuch, Duke of,134,136Bulgaria, massacres in,269,352Bulwer, Sir H.,174Buol, Count,261,263Burdett, Sir Francis,25,26;his motion for universal suffrage,35;70Buxton, Thomas Fowell,89Byng, Hon. Georgiana,3Camelford,40Campbell, Lord,157Canada: the rebellion,110;Earl of Durham appointed Governor-General,110Canning, Mr.,43;his Ministry,50;death,51Capital crimes,107Cardwell, Mr.,290Carlisle, Earl of,96Carlyle, Thomas, and the Chartists,166,167,358,362Caroline, Queen, proceedings against,41Cartwright, Dr.,5Cartwright, Major,5,25,26,38,39Cassiobury,36,112Castlereagh, Lord,21,40,63Catholics: 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,184-188Cato Street Conspiracy,40‘Cave of Adullam,’329Cavour, Count,300,301,302Chadwick, Sir Edwin,162Chartist movement,163;and Feargus O’Connor,165-168;and its literature,166Chatham, Lord, on borough representation,24,25,26Chelsea Hospital,62Cheshunt College,365China, opium war against,121Church of England, the, and its adoption of Romish practices,185,186Clare, Lord,6,7Clarendon, 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,262,263,327Clive, Mr. Robert,16,20Clubs for the advancement of Reform,26Cobbett, William,26,64Cobden, 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,325Coercion 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,140Conspiracy Bill, the,289,290Conyngham, Marquis of,96Corn Laws,121;John Bright on the influences working for their repeal,130,131;of 1670 reproduced in 1815,131n.;Sir Robert Peel proposes their gradual repeal,138;bill for repeal passes both Houses,139;total repeal carried by Russell,145Cranworth, Lord,327Crime, excessive penalties for,24Crimean 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,268Croker, J. W.,80,139Dalling, Lord,180Denmark and the Schleswig-Holstein Question,322,323Derby, 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,293Devonshire, Duke of,49Dickens, Charles, his tribute to Lord Russell,354Disraeli, 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,’333n.Dissenters.SeeNonconformists‘Don Carlos,’ by Lord John Russell,279‘Don Pacifico’ affair, the,175Dufferin, Lord,327,363Duffy, Sir Gavan, on Irish landowners,149Duhamel, General, his scheme for the acquisition of India by Russia,218Duncannon, Lord,67,91,92;appointed Home Secretary,99.See alsoBessborough, LordDunkellin, Lord,329,331Durazzo, Madame,37Durham, 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,164Durham Letter, the,184-189,191East India Company,89,288,289East Retford,51Ebrington, Lord,75;moves a vote of confidence in Lord Grey’s Government,79;moves a second vote of confidence,83,91,92Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,191-193‘Edinburgh Letter,’ the,133Edinburgh 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,13Education 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,285Egypt, war between Turkey and,119Elcho, Lord,329Eldon, Lord,40,50;and the proposed repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts,57,58,63Elections, Parliamentary, cost of,23Elliot, Hon. George,195,279,347,362Encumbered Estates Act,157Erskine, Lord,25‘Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution,’ by Lord John Russell,274,275Factory Act,159Famine, Irish,130,146,148,149Farnborough, Lord,107Fielden, Mr.,159Fitzpatrick, General,20Flood, Mr., and Reform,77, andnoteFonblanque, Albany,47,84,196,197Forster, W. E., and the Irish famine,149;tribute to Lord John Russell for his work in the cause of education,285,327Fortescue, Mr. Chichester, Lord John Russell’s ‘Letters on the State of Ireland’ to,280,342Fox, 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,98,272,277France: 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,305Free Trade: the question coming to the front,121;and Tory opposition,132;conversion of Peel,137,138;and the Commercial Treaty with France,296French Revolution, its influence on the English people,24,36Friends of the People, Society of the,25,63Froude, Mr., on the improvements effected by the Reform Bill,86,87‘Gagging Acts,’ the,39,40Garibaldi, General,300;entry into Naples,306;visit to Pembroke Lodge,307Gascoigne, General,73Gatton,23Gavazzi, Father,186George III., his madness and blindness,27;and Catholic Emancipation,59George IV. and Queen Caroline,41;and Catholic Emancipation,59;death,60,64Gibson, Milner,141,208,287,295Gladstone, 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,201andnote;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,342,363,366Glenelg, Lord,112Goderich, Lord,52,93Gordon, Lady Georgiana,3Gore, Hon. Charles,348Gorham Case, the,182Gortschakoff, Prince,261,267Goschen, Mr.,327Graham, 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,141,202,207,232,254,258,290Grampound,27,40,41;disfranchised,43Granville, 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,295Great Exhibition of 1851,193,200,234,308Greece and the ‘Don Pacifico’ affair,175Greenock, Lord John Russell’s speech on the prospects of war, at,227Greville, Charles, comments of,61,69,72,73,102,130,180,207,257,286Grey, (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,99Grey (Henry, third), Lord,134;Secretary to the Colonies under Lord John Russell,141Grey, Sir George, Home Secretary under Lord John Russell,141;and Irish crime,153;appointed Colonial Secretary,245,295;Home Secretary,327Grillion’s Club,27,28Grosvenor, Earl,329,330Grote, George,90,110,111,320Habeas Corpus Act, suspension of,33,34Hampden, Dr., and the see of Hereford,161Hampden Clubs,26Harcourt, Archbishop, on religious tests,57Harding, Sir John, and the ‘Alabama’ Case,315-317Hardinge, Sir Henry (afterwards Viscount),82,249Hartington, Lord,292,327Henley, Mr.,291Herbert of Lea, Lord,232Herbert, Sidney,207,244,254,258Herschel, Sir John,355Hobhouse, Sir J. C.,70,141Holland, Lord, visit of Lord John Russell to the Peninsula with,9-11,30,53,57,119;and the Life of Charles James Fox,276Holland House,8,15,143Holy Places in Palestine, dispute concerning,213,218Horsman, Mr.,329Houghton, Lord,294House 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 1847,160House 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,198,291Howick, Lord,134Hume, Joseph,72,80,90,121Hunt, Mr. Ward,330— ‘Orator,’26Huskisson, Mr.,56Hyde Park, Reform demonstration in,332Indemnity Billfor Dissenters,51India, Napoleon’s prophecy as to the acquisition by Russia of,31;Duhamel’s scheme for its acquisition by Russia,218;Mutiny in,288India Bills,210,290Inkerman, battle of,247Ireland: 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,158Irish Church: Mr. Ward’s motion,95;Peel’s accusation against Lord John Russell,97;Lord John’s motion of April 1835,103,104Italy: 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,306Jamaica Bill, the,114Jews: exclusion from Parliament,57;rejection in the Lords of bill for their relief,89,198,210;passing of the bill in 1858,290,291Jones, Gale,13Keble, Dr.,183Kennington Common, Chartist demonstration on,166-168King, Mr. Locke,193Kinglake, Mr.,266,353Kingsley, Charles, his ‘Alton Locke,’166Kossuth, Louis, his visit to England,179Labouchere, Mr. (afterwards Lord Taunton),116,147Lambton, Mr. (father of the first Earl of Durham),25Lancashire Cotton Famine,319Lancaster, Joseph,115andnote,281,282Lansdowne, Lord,52,141,202,205,240,251,258Lascelles, Mr.,23Lecky, Mr. W. E. H., his reminiscences of Earl Russell,335-339Leech, John,192,241Leeds, 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,279,280Lewis, 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),265,295Lhuys, M. Drouyn de,261,262Lincoln, President, assassination of,325Lister, Sir Villiers,348Littleton, Mr. (afterwards Lord Hatherton), and the Irish Title Bill,93;and the Coercion Act,97Liverpool, Lord,21,33,50,63Llandaff, Bishop of, and the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts,57London University,106,107;proposed enfranchisement of,296Londonderry, Marquis of,79Louis Philippe, overthrow and flight of,163,171;and the Spanish marriages,171Lowe, Mr.,327,329,332Luddites, riots of the,32Lyndhurst, Lord, and Jewish Lord Chancellors,291Lyons, Sir Edmund,252Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer,208,265Macaulay, Lord,141;urges Lord John Russell to take office in the Coalition Ministry,204Mackintosh, Sir James,25,39,53Magenta, battle of,303Malmesbury, Lord,137Maltby, Dr., Bishop of Durham, and Lord John Russell’s ‘Durham Letter,’184Manchester, unrepresented in the House of Commons,23,38,51,60,71,126,155;creation of bishopric of,160,296Martineau, Harriet,129Maule, Fox,141Maynooth College,127-130Mazzini,300McCarthy, Mr. Justin, on the attitude of the Catholics towards Lord John Russell,188Melbourne, 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,123,144Melville, Lord,8‘Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe from the Peace of Utrecht,’ by Lord John Russell,275Memorandum, Secret,216,225Menschikoff, Prince,223,224Metternich,171,300Miall, Edward,242Militia Bill, the,194,195Milton, Lord,23Mitchel, John,157,158Moldavia and Wallachia, occupation by Russia of,224,229,259Monson, Lord,23Moore, 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,204,272,278Morpeth, Lord,141Municipal Reform Act,90,104Napoleon 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,37Napoleon III.,167;and theCoup d’Étatof 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,303Navigation Acts,197Nesselrode, Count,214,215New Zealand becomes part of the British dominions,117,199Newcastle, Duke of,207,232;unpopularity as Secretary for War,244,249,250;incapacity as War Minister,245Newman, Dr.,161,182Nicholas, 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,259Nightingale, Miss Florence,250Nonconformists: 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,366Normanby, Lord,116,179,180Northcote, Sir Stafford,369Nottingham Castle,79‘Nun of Arrouca, The,’278O’Brien, Smith,140,157,158O’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,149,158O’Connor, Feargus,165-168Old Sarum,23,71Oltenitza, battle of,230Omar Pacha,230Opium war, the,121Orloff, Count,214Orsini conspiracy, the,289,290Oxford Movement, the,161,182-186,189Palmerston, 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 theCoup d’Étatin 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,326Panmure, Lord,243,258Papal aggression, and the decree of Pius IX.,182-184;and the Durham Letter,184-188Paris, Treaty of,268Parliamentary representation before the era of Reform,22,23Parnell, Sir H.,62‘Partington, Dame,’ and Sydney Smith’s speech on Reform,80‘Peace with honour,’227,349Peel, Lady Georgiana,357Peel, 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,215Pélissier, General,263,267Pembroke Lodge,307,351-353,356,357Penal Code, the, before the era of Reform,24,48,107Peninsular Campaign, its costliness,22Penryn,40,51,52People’s Charter, the,165Peterloo Massacre, the,38Petty, Lord Henry (afterwards third Marquis of Lansdowne),12Pius IX., and his decree of 1850,182,183Playfair, Professor John,12Polignac, Prince de,60,61Polish revolt of 1863,321Poor Law Amendment Act (Ireland),93,107,151Poor Law Board,160Poor Laws,89,126Potato famine,130,146,148,149Prisons, regulation of,107Protestant Operative Association of Dublin,129Prussia and the Vienna Note,227;and the Crimean War,243Public Health Act,162‘Punch,’ cartoons, &c., in,192,241,242,307,367Pusey, Dr.,161andnote,183Raglan, Lord,246,252,267‘Recollections and Suggestions,’ publication of,280Redistribution of Seats Bill,330Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de: skill in diplomacy, and early diplomatic life,218-220;return to Constantinople,220,221;and the second Congress at Vienna,260Reform: 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,328Regent, Prince, insulted on returning from opening Parliament,32;and the Peterloo Massacre,38Revolution, French (1848),171Rice, Mr. Spring,96Richmond, Duke of,89,95,124Ripon, Lord,95,124Roden, Lord,113Roebuck, J. A., and education,89;moves vote of confidence in the Russell Administration,176;his motion to inquire into the condition of the Army in the Crimea,254Rogers, Samuel,123,276Rothschild, Baron,291Russell, Mr. G. W. E.,344Russell, John, the first Constable of Corfe Castle,1,2Russell, Sir John, Speaker of the House of Commons,2Russell, John, the third, and first Earl of Bedford,2Russell, 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;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;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,369Russell, Hon. Rollo,360,367Russell, William, Member of Parliament in the reign of Edward II.,2Russell, Lord William (of the seventeenth century),1;Lord John Russell’s Biography of him,274Russell, Lord William, Lord John Russell’s brother,6;wounded at Talavera,14,34;letter to Lord John,49Russia, 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,321Salamanca, battle of,16,17Sardinia, and the Crimean War,267Schleswig-Holstein question, the,172,322,323Scott, Sir Walter, Lord John Russell’s first acquaintance with,9;and the Edinburgh Speculative Society,13,91,355Sebastopol, siege and fall of,246,247,268Secret Memorandum, the,216,225Sefton, Lord,75Selborne, Lord, on the ‘Alabama’ case,312-319;impressions of Lord Russell,345Seymour, Sir Hamilton,214Seymour, Lord Webb,12Shaftesbury, 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,22Shelley and the Peterloo massacre,38Sheridan, Mr.,25Sidmouth, Lord,21,40,63,85Simpson, General,267Sinope, destruction of Turkish fleet at,230,232,233Slave trade,22,48,89Smith, Rev. —, Vicar of Woodnesborough, a tutor of Lord John Russell’s,6Smith, Dr. Southwood, and the Public Health Act,162Smith, 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,113Society of the Friends of the People,25,63Solferino, battle of,303Spain, 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,174Spencer, Lord, on the alliance of England with France,120Spurgeon, C. H.,365Stanhope, Colonel,14,15Stanley, 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,193Stanmore, Lord,118,119,211,231,233,347Stansfeld, Mr.,327Stewart, Dugald,12Stockmar, Baron,101,216Sussex, Duke of, and the claims of Dissenters,53Sweden, and the Crimean War,267Syllogism, a merry canon’s,19Tahitiincident, the,125Tavistock, monastic lands granted to the first Earl of Bedford,2;election of Lord John Russell as member for,20,62Tavistock, Lord, elder brother of Lord John Russell,6,11Tennyson, Mr.,90Tennyson, Lord, his appointment as Poet Laureate,355Test and Corporation Acts; agitation for their total repeal,53,54;speech of Fox,54,55;their provisions,54;jubilee of repeal,366Tithe Acts (Ireland): Mr. Littleton’s Bill,93,94;Bill of 1835,105,107;Bill passes through Parliament,112Tithe Commutation Act,106,107Tooke, Horne,26Trafalgar Square demonstration on the Reform question,332Treason Felony Act,157Treaty of Paris (1856),268‘Trent’ affair, the,310-312Turkey, 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,268,269Universityof London,106,107;proposed enfranchisement of,296Vansittart, Mr.,21Vaughan, Cardinal, on Romish practices in the Anglican Church,190,191Victor Emmanuel II., accession to the throne of Sardinia, and efforts to secure Italian independence,301;proclaimed King of Italy,306Victoria, 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,368Vienna, revolt of (1848),171;Congress,224;second Congress,259-262Vienna Note,224-228Villafranca, Treaty of,303Villiers, Mr. Charles,121,208Vittoria, battle of,20Vitzthum, Count,217,324Walpole, Mr. Spencer, on the Arms Bill of the Russell Administration,154;retires from the Home Office on the introduction of Disraeli’s Reform Bill,291,330Ward, Mr., and the Irish Church,90,95Wellington, 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,215Wesley, influence of the preaching of,24Westminster School, its condition at the beginning of the century,3;Lord John’s experiences at,3-5;some of its celebrated scholars,3,4Westmoreland, Lord,50Wetherell, Mr., and the first Reform Bill,69Whitfield, influence of his preaching,24Wilberforce, William,89William 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,101Winchilsea, Lord,57Wiseman, Cardinal,182,183,186,187Wolseley, Sir Charles,38Wood, Sir Charles,141,193,258Working classes, their condition and claims in 1848,163-165Wynn, Mr. Charles,41Zürich, Treaty of,303