A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W.

Aberdeen, Lord, succeeds Palmerston as Foreign Secretary, 81;
Palmerston refers to him as an example of antiquated imbecility, 109;
his attempt to avenge the insult, 113;
becomes Prime Minister on Lord Derby’s resignation, 147;
his timid policy on the eve of the Crimean war, 147, 153;
is defeated on Mr. Roebuck’s motion for inquiry, and resigns, 162;
helps Palmerston in Court difficulties, 165.
Alma, the battle of, false expectations as to the effects of, 161.
Althorp’s, Lord, elevation to the peerage, some political consequences of, 61.
Ashburton’s, Lord, unsatisfactory treaty with America on the right of search for slavers, 85.
Austria, abdication of the Emperor of, 105;
war of Italian Independence, 97, 105-107, 188, 190;
Hungarian struggle for independence, 109;
abandons Lombardy, 99, 108;
Palmerston’s hatred of its political system, 107, 110, 189;
Palmerston’s advice to, 105.
Balance of power in Europe, the, 47, 69.
Bedchamber, Ladies of the, Government complications through, 74.
Belgium and Holland, 47;
our treaty obligations to, 104.
Bentinck, Lord George, as leader of the House of Commons, 145.
Bright, Mr., preaches peace at the Reform Club, and finds fault with Lord Palmerston, 160;
as an orator, 210.
British Legion in Spain, the, 63.
Brocket Hall, 12, 75.
Brougham, Lord, Lamartine’s refusal to naturalize, 104.
Bulwer, Mr., ambassador at Paris, 76.
Cabinet, the English, its exceptional nature, 28.
Canning, Mr., 11, 12, 16;
his eloquence, 25;
Prime Minister on Lord Liverpool’s death, 31;
his influence on Palmerston’s character, 41, 55;
his death, 36.
Canning, Sir Stratford, “friend of the Porte,” 110.
Canning’s, Visct, severe speech in the Lords re Don Pacifico, 121;
his heroism as Viceroy during the Indian Mutiny, 179.
Catholic Emancipation, 36, 43;
circumstances leading to, 38.
Cavour’s surrender of Savoy and Nice, 188.
Chartist riots, 104.
Clarence, the Duke of, Whig sympathies of, 40.
Clarendon, Lord, 8;
Foreign Secretary, 155;
declares that we drifted into the Crimean war, 170.
Cobden, Mr., attacks Lord Palmerston on his China policy, 176;
and loses his seat at the ensuing election, 177.
Cockburn’s, Mr., effective speech on Mr. Roebuck’s motion, 124.
Colonels, the French, 184.
Court interference in foreign politics, Palmerston’s jealousy of, 4, 106.
Crimean War, cause of, 151;
“red tape,” 161, 165;
cost of, 169;
right and wrong of, 170.
Cumberland, the Duke of, a violent Tory, 41;
contingent heir to the throne, 74.
Dalling’s, Lord, fragmentary Memoirs of Palmerston, 34, 45.
Danish Expedition, the, the occasion of Palmerston’s maiden speech, 15.
Danubian Principalities, Russian occupation of, 151.
Davis, Lieut., shoots at Palmerston, 22.
Derby, Lord, 6;
weakness of his Ministry, 145;
resigns on Disraeli’s budget being thrown out, 147;
succeeds Lord Palmerston in office, 184;
goes out on the question of Reform, 185.
Disraeli, Mr., motion “On the State of the Nation,” 107;
member of Lord Derby’s Ministry, 145;
his budget is thrown out, 147;
strong attack on Russell’s Denmark policy, 197.
Don Pacifico’s claims for compensation, debate on, 7, 14, 83, 122;
absurdity of, 114.
Doubleday’s, Mr., Newcastle speech on Palmerston, 72.
Eldon, Lord, exclusion from Wellington’s Cabinet, 37;
one of the last of the “Protestants,” 38.
Fitzgerald, Mr. Vesey, County Clare refuses to re-elect, 39.
Free-Trade, the only political question in 1852, 145;
Lord Derby’s Government accepts resolution in favour of, 147.
French, the, national love of aggrandisement a misfortune to Europe, 78;
schemes for increase of territory, 188, 196.
George III., 18;
and the American taxation scheme, 32.
George IV., Prince Regent, 18;
personally hates Palmerston, 32;
intrigues about Crown lands, 35.
Gladstone, Mr., quits Palmerston’s Cabinet on the Maynooth Grant, 86;
on the Tory benches, 123;
speaks on the Don Pacifico claims, 123;
effect of his Neapolitan letters, 132;
retires from Lord Palmerston’s Cabinet at the time of the Crimean war, 166;
his versatility, 204;
eloquence, 210.
Goderich’s, Lord, brief administration on Canning’s death, 35.
Goulburn, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer, 37.
Graham, Sir James, speaks on the Don Pacifico claims, 122;
prepares resolution in favour of Free-Trade, 145.
Grant, Charles, 38, 41.
Granville, Lord, as Foreign Secretary and Ambassador at Paris, 33, 48;
his difficulties in attempting to form a Government, 186.
Grey, Lord, Prime Minister, 44;
resigns, 60.
Guizot, M., in London, 68;
disagrees with Palmerston, 76, 77, 81, 84;
his share in effecting the Spanish marriages, 93;
his fall, 98.
Haynau’s, General, visit to England, 130.
Herries, Mr., 32;
Palmerston’s charges against, 35.
Holland, Lord, offends Palmerston, 77.
Hungary: see Austria.
Huskisson, Mr., 37, 41;
member of Wellington’s Cabinet, 38.
India, abolition of the East India Company and formation of Indian Civil Service, 181.
Italy, Unification of, 188, 190.
Jamaica Constitution the question of the, 74.
Lamartine, Provisional President of French Republic, 102;
receives deputations of Irish agitators, 103.
Lamb, William, 41, 80;
is created Lord Melbourne, 60.
Lansdowne, Lord, persuades Palmerston to accept Lord Aberdeen’s offer of the Home Office, 147.
Leopold, King of the Belgians, 51.
Liverpool, Lord, as Prime Minister, 19;
Palmerston’s relations with, 21, 24, 30;
his death, 25, 31.
Lombardy: see Austria.
Lorcha Arrow, the, 175.
Lords, the House of, meddles with taxation, 191.
Louis Philippe’s designs in Egypt, 67, 78;
Palmerston’s opinion of, 67, 68, 98;
refuses the popular demand for reforms in Paris, 100;
takes refuge in England, 101;
his death, 129.
Lyndhurst, Lord, 20;
as Lord Chancellor, 37.
Malmesbury, Lord, Lord Palmerston’s guardian, 11.
Maynooth Grant, the, 86.
Mehemet Ali’s Eastern schemes, 66;
submits to European pressure, 78.
Melbourne, Lord, succeeds Lord Grey as Premier, 60;
his close connection with Palmerston, 12, 80;
death, 80.
Mentschikoff crosses the Pruth, 151.
Metternich, Palmerston’s dislike of, 99, 110, 117.
Minto’s, Lord, services at Rome, 95;
during Sicilian Revolution, 99.
Montpensier, Duke de, marries the sister of the Queen of Spain, 92.
Mutiny, the Indian, 177-179.
Napier, Sir Charles, “Don Carlos de Ponza,” 66;
at Sidon and Acre, 73;
Palmerston’s premature praise of, 160.
Napoleon’s, Louis, Coup d’Etat, 132;
English opinion on, 133;
allied with England in the Crimea, 152, 160;
his conduct in the matter of Savoy and Nice, 188;
the Danish war, 196.
Newcastle, the Duke of, at the War Office during the Crimean war, 162.
Nicholas, the Czar, claims the protectorate of the Greek Church in Turkey, 151;
his mistaken idea of England, 155, 156;
dispatches his fleet from Sevastopol, 157;
his death, 166.
Nimmo, the Irish engineer, 24, 42.
Normanby, Lord, 94;
our Ambassador at Paris, 100, 101;
differs from Palmerston on the Greek Compensation question, 116;
and as to the Coup d’Etat, 134.
O’Connell, Mr., is elected for Clare, 39;
on Irish coercion, 60;
is convicted for conspiracy, but released by the Lords, 85.
Orsini, 182.
Osborne, Bernal, 123.
Palmerston, Lord, materials for life of, 1;
his tendency to lessen the power of the Crown, 3, 107;
two charges against, 4;
his success as a Foreign Minister, 8, 27, 46;
fifty years in office, 8;
his character, 9, 16, 17;
constitution, 10;
“Cupid,” 10, 20, 25;
early life and education, 10, 11;
stands unsuccessfully for the University of Cambridge, 11;
unseated for Horsham, 11;
member for Newtown, 11;
Junior Lord, 11;
member for Tiverton, 12, 62, 77;
his means, 12;
as an Irish landlord, 12, 23, 42;
his advantages of person, 12;
his mode of life, 12, 26;
advocates a military college, 15;
as an orator, 15, 24, 211;
his first speech in Parliament, 16;
Secretary at War, 17, 33;
magnifies the office, 20;
political apprenticeship, 17;
theory of official life, 17, 18, 20, 26, 42, 53;
Tory traditions and Liberal leanings, 10, 18, 30;
member for Cambridge, 1812-25, 19;
enters Lord Liverpool’s Cabinet, 3, 19, 27;
impression made on contemporaries by, 16, 167.
Peel, Sir Robert, Palmerston’s opinion of, 24;
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