ABD-EL-KADER, saves Christians
in Damascus, 237 Abdul-Aziz in England. 327-28 Aberdeen, Lord, Foreign Secretary, 31; and Pacifico case, 97; Prime Minister Coalition Ministry, 1852, 128; conversations with Czar Nicholas, 136; dislike of war, 146; and Crimean War, 162
Aborigines Protection Society and Jamaica question, 282 Abyssinian war, 334-39 Acre, bombardment of, 30
Adams and Alabama, 247; and recognition of South meaning war, 248-49
Adullamites, the, 291; and Lord Derby, 294
Afghanistan, war in, 1841-42, 44-57, Afghans in Sikh war, 175; war in, 425-26
Agricultural labourer, the, 383-86 Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammed,
48; kills Macnaghten, 49; treating with English, 50; interview with Lady Macnaghten, 52; defeated,
Alabama, Confederate privateer, 246- 48, 251; claims, 374-78
Alamayou, son of Theodore of Abys- sinia, death of, 339
Alexander II. comes to Russian throne, 157; and Constantinople, 415
Alexandra, Princess, married to Prince of Wales, 258-59
Allen and Manchester rescue, 317 Alma, battle of, 147-48
Alsace yielded to Germany, 372
America and Foreign Legion Act, 161; and Congress of Paris, 161; civil war in, 239-251; Alabama claims, 374-78
Andrassy Note, 411-12
Anne, Queen, and Scotch Church, 34 Anson, advances on Delhi, 180 Anti-Corn Law League,
leaders, 69-72; agitation of, 72-75; conversion of Peel, 75-77; Dis- raeli's opposition, 78-84
Anti-Slavery Society and Jamaica question, 282
Arch, Joseph, 384-86
Argyll, Duke of, 278-79; Indian Office, 351
Arnaud, St., and Crimea, 147; death of, 158
Arrow, the Lorcha, 164-67 Artisans' Dwelling Bill, 404 Ashantee War, 253, 396-97 Ashburton Treaty, 66
Ashley, Lord-see Shaftesbury Atlantic cable, 164; laid, 298-99 Antonelli, sympathy with North,
Auckland, Lord, and Dost Mohammed, 46; succeeded by Lord Ellen- borough, 54
Austria, war with Prussia, men- tioned, 4; and Turkish war with Mohammed Ali, 30; Hungarian rebellion, 113; Kossuth in Eng- land, 114-15; war with France, 217-18, 221; and Polish insurrec- tion, 255-56; war with Prussia, 298; war with Denmark, 357-60 Australia, discovery of gold in, 168; and transportation, 168
Australian Islands, the, 309-10 Ayrton, Mr., unpopularity of, 371 Azimoolah Khan, in England, 183- 84; makes terms with Cawnpore garrison, 186
BALAKLAVA, battle of, 150
Ballot Bill of 1871, 368-70
Ballot, vote by, demanded by Char- tists, 18
Bank Charter Act, 64
Baring, Mr., budget of, 30-31
and Bulgarian atrocities, 413 Baxter, Mr., resigns Secretaryship, Treasury, 395
Beaconsfield-see Disraeli Beale, James, advises Mill to stand for Westminster, 269
Beales, Mr. E., and Polish insurrec- tion, 255; and reform meeting, Hyde Park, 295-97
Bean, attempts life of Queen, 43 Bedchamber question, the, 37-39 Bentinck, Lord George. forms pro- tection party, 82; and sugar duties,
Bentinck, Lord W., suppression of Suttee, 175
Berar, annexation of, 175
Berlin Memorandum, 412; Treaty of, 421-22
Bernard, Mr. M., and Alabama com- mission, 376
Bernard, Simon, accomplice of Orsini, trial of, 201, 204-205 Bessarabia ceded to Russia, 422-23 Beyrout, massacre in, 237 Birmingham, Radical neeting in, in 1837, 16; Chartist riot in, 19; manufacture of Orsini bombs at, 201 Bismarck
and Schleswig-Holstein question, 257; and Black Sea Clause, 373-74; Congress of Berlin,
Black Sea neutralised, 160; clause abrogated, 373-74
Blanc, Dr., Abyssinian prisoner, 335, 337
Bokhara, Burnes's travels in, 45; English prisoners in, 56-57 Borough franchise and Mr. Glad- stone, 264
Bosnia, rising in, 410-11; and treaty of Berlin i., 422
Bosphorus, no foreign ship of war
admitted into, 30; question of, 144-45; and Congress of Paris, 160
Bosquet, General, on Charge of Light Brigade, 150
Bourke, Mr., and Irish University Bill, 393
Bowlby, Mr., murdered by Chinese, 235
Bowring, Sir John, and Lorcha Arrow, 165, 167
Bramwell, Baron, and ticket of leave system, 169
Bright, John, and Anti-Corn Law League, 71, 72; on Irish famine, 74 ; and Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 103; and Peace Society, 146; unseated, 167, 209; Disraeli's Reform Bill, 219; and Fancy Franchises,' 220; at Willis's Rooms, 221; and Palmerston Ministry, 224; and Lords on Paper Duty, 229-30; and Alabama, 247; on Cobden's death, 267; and new Parliament, 1865, 271; and Adullamites, 291; and reform agitation, 1866, 295; and Disraeli's reform by resolution, 300; on suspension Habeas Corpus in Ireland, 311; and Manchester prisoners, 317; and Irish State Church, 343-44; President, Board of Trade, 350; Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, 395; and leadership, 405; and Bulgarian atrocities, 413
British Columbia, founded by Lytton, 215; and confederation, 307 Broadhead and Sheffield outrages, 319-21
Brougham, Lord, character of, 6-7; and sugar duties, 87; and Pacifico case, 97; opposes Great Exhibition, 107; and Jews, 210; death of, 348-49
Bruce, Abyssinian traveller, 335 Bruce, Frederick, and Chinese war, 1859-60, 233-35
Bruce, in Gladstone ministry, 1868, 351; and Parliamentary Elections Committee, 369; and liquor ques- tion, 381; leaves Home Office, 394; becomes Lord Aberdare, 395 Brydon, Dr., the last man of the army of Cabul, 53; in siege of Lucknow, 191 Buccleuch, Duke of, opposed to repeal of corn law, 75
Buckingham, Duke of, Colonial Secretary, 303
Bulgaria, insurrection in, 410; the atrocities, 410-14; and Treaty of Berlin, 421
Bull Run, battle of, 241 Buller, Charles, in Parliament of 1837, 8
Burdett, Sir F., and Dundonald, 239 Burke, Colonel, 316
Burnes, Alexander, in Afghanistan, 45; mutilation of despatches, 46; murder of, 48
Butt, Isaac, and home rule, 390-91 Byron controversy, 389
CABUL, proverb concerning, 45;
Burnes at, 45; entry of Shah Soojah, 47; withdrawal of British army from, 51-53; entered by Pollock, 55; bazaar of, destroyed, 55; Dost Mohammed, in again, 57; murder of Cavagnari in, 425 'Cæsar, unemployed,' term applied to Durham, 23
Caffre war, 1850, 120
Cairnes, Professor, opposes Irish Uni- versity Bill, 393
Cairns, Sir Hugh, after Lord, 209, 279-80; Lord Chancellor, 330 Cambridge, Duke of, and Great Exhi- bition, 108
Cameron, Captain, Abyssinian pri- soner, 335-36
Campbell, Lord, opposes Great Exhi- bition, 107
Sir Colin, at Lucknow, 192; advances on Cawnpore, 193; re- conquers Lucknow, 194; announces end of mutiny, 195
Canada, in 1837, 20; Papineau's re- bellion, 21; Durham's mission, 22-25; Canadian Government Bill, 25; and confederation, 306-309; Fenian invasion of, 315 Canning, Lord, and Pacifico case, 97; and Peelites, 104; Governor-General India, 174-176; Indian mutiny, 177-78; capture of Delhi, 181; proclamation, 196-98; Viceroy, 200; death, 266
Canrobert at Crimea, 158 Canterbury, Archbishop of, and Prin-
cess Victoria's accession, 2; and Public Worship Bill, 399, 400 Canton, Port of, thrown open, 27;
bombarded, 165; captured, 206- 207
Cardwell, and Peelites, 104; on Ellen- borough despatch, 197; and Con- spiracy Bill, 206; Irish Secretary, 223; unsuccessfully opposed by Thackeray at Oxford, 265; and Jamaica, 282; and Canadian Con- federation, 308; War Secretary, 351; war reforms, 363-64 Carlisle, Lord, and Bedchamber ques- tion, 37
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jamaica ques- tion, 286
Carnarvon, Lord, Colonial Secretary, 1866, 294; Colonial Secretary, 1874, 397; resigns on 'Ten Minutes Bill, 301-303; resigns, 418 Cashmere and Runjeet Singh, 46 Catherine II. and Treaty of Kutchuk- Kainardji, 138
Catholic emancipation, 58 Cavagnari, Louis, murder of, in Cabul,
Cavour and Crimean war, 158; and Congress of Paris, 161; and Na- poleon's Italian policy, 201, 217–18; sympathy with North, 242; com- pared with Bismarck, 257 Cawnpore, story of, 182-191 Cecil-see Salisbury Cetewayo, 427-29 Chalmers, Dr., 34-35 Chartism, 16-19; 88-91 Chelmsford, Lord, and Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 105; and Lorcha Arrow, 166; removed from woolsack, 330- 31; and Abyssinian prisoners, 335 - General Lord, in South Africa, 429
Chester Castle, Fenian attack on, 315 Chevalier, Michel, 227
Chimneys, prohibition of children climbing, 28
Childers, Hugh, in Gladstone Ministry, 1868, 351; resigns, 395 Children, regulation of labour of, 28 Chillianwallah, battle of, 175 China, opium war, 25-28; Lorcha Arrow, 164-67; war with, 233-37 Chupatties, the, 177
Church Patronage Scotland Bill, 398 Clarendon, Lord, Foreign Secretary, 275, 350; and Alabama claims, 374-75
Clerkenwell explosion, 317-18 Clontarf, O'Connell's meeting at, 60
Clyde, Lord-see Campbell, Sir Colin Coalition Ministry, 128; fall of, 154- 55 Cobden, enters Parliament in 1841, 32; Anti-Corn Law League, 69–71; Palmerston's foreign policy, 97; Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 103; Peace Society, 146; Lorcha Arrow, 166-67; refuses office under Palmer- ston, 223-24; commercial treaty with France, 226-27; death of, 267
Cockburn, speech on Pacifico case, 97– 98
Cochrane-see Dundonald
Coleridge, Samuel, and postal system, 14-15
Collier, Sir Robert, 380
Columbia River and Oregon Treaty, 67
Commercial Treaty with France, 226-
Conciliation Hall and O'Connell, 60 Condon, or Shore and Manchester rescue, 317
Confederation of North American Pro- vinces, 306-309 Congress of Berlin, 420-21
Conolly, Captain, prisoner in Bok- hara, 57
'Conservative,' first use of term, 8 Consort, Prince, marriage of to Queen
announced, 39; character, 40; mar- riage, 41; long unpopular, 42; and duelling system, 42; and Great Ex- hibition, 106-9; and Palmerston's foreign policy, 111-13; unpopular during Crimean war, 151; and Louis Napoleon, 157; death of, 244-45
Conspiracy to Murder Bill, 199-206; dropped, 209
Constantine, his travelling contrasted with Peel's, 12
Constantinople Conference, 415-16 Conyngham, Lord, and Queen's acces- sion, 2
Cooke, Mr., and electric telegraph, 12 Co-operative societies, 324-27 Copyright question, 64
Corn Laws -see Anti-Corn Law League
Corry, Mr., at Admiralty, 303 Coup d'état, 116-18
Cowen, Joseph, and Queen's Title Bill,
Dalhousie, Lord, in India, 174; dis-
regards Hindoo principle of adop- tion, 183; death of, 266 Dalling, Lord, 'There was a Palmer- ston,' 118
Damascus, massacre in, 237 Danube, navigation of thrown open, 160; principalities and Congress of Paris, 161
Dardanelles, no foreign war ships ad- mitted into, 30; question of, 144- 45; and Congress of Paris, 160 Davis, Jefferson, President Southern Confederacy, 240; and Confederate navy, 246; captured, 250
Davis, J. C. B., and Alabama com- mission, 376
Davis, Thomas, and 'Young Ireland,' 91
Death, decrease of punishment of, 28 Delhi, mutiny in, 172; princes of,
killed by Hodson, 191; old king sent to Rangoon, 195
Denman, Lord, Evidence Act, 210-11 Denmark, war with Prussia and Austria, 257-60
Derby, Lord, the Elder, in Parlia- ment, 1837, 9; character of, 10; Colonial Secretary, 1841, 31; op- posed to opening of ports, 74-75; vote of censure in Pacifico case, 96; sent for, 1851, 103; takes office, 121; and protection, 122; fails to form ministry, 155; and Lorcha Arrow, 165-66; and Indian Go- vernment, 199; new ministry, 207; contrasted with his son, 208; drops Conspiracy Bill, 209; and reform
schemes, 219; and paper duty, 228; on Parliament of 1865, 268; forms ministry, 294; phrase 'Leap in the Dark' wrongly ascribed to, 306; and Manchester prisoners, 317; re- tirement of, 329; death of, 353-55 Derby, Lord, the Younger, Indian Secretary, 199; Colonial Secretary, 207; contrasted with his father, 208-9; Indian Secretary, 214; Foreign Secretary, 1866, 294; and Atlantic cable, 298; announces his father's retirement, 329; and Abys- sinia, 337; and Irish State Church, 344; Foreign Secretary, 1874, 397; and Herzegovina rising, 410; and Andrassy Note, 411; and Berlin Memorandum, 412; and Constanti- nople Conference, 415; resigns, 418-19
Dickens, Charles, and Jamaica ques- tion, 286; death of, 359-60 Dilke, Sir Charles, and republicanism, 382-83
Dillon, John B., and 'Young Ireland,'
93; in Parliament, 270 Dillwyn and Irish State Church, 264 Disraeli, in Parliament of 1837, 8; early career, 79-81; attack on Peel, 81-82; sugar duties, 87; Papal Hierarchy, 101-3; 'There was a Palmerston,' 118; leader of House, 121-22; abandons Protection, 123; Budget of 1852, 127; answered by Gladstone, 128; on coalitions, 154- 55, 157; speaking contrasted with G. C. Lewis's, 163; and Lorcha Arrow, 166; and Indian Mutiny, 178; and Conspiracy Bill, 203, 205; Chan- cellor Exchequer, 207, 209; and Jews, 209-10; Reform Bill, 218- 21; and Graham, 222; on Lords, 229; on Reform Bill, 231-32; and Danish question, 260-61; and Cobden's death, 267; and new Parliament, 1865, 271; face to face with Gladstone, 277-78; and Lowe, 290-91; Chancellor of Exchequer, 1866, 294; and Reform disturb- ances, 296; and reform, 299; re- form by resolution, 300; the Ten Minutes' Bill, 301-3; the new Re- form Bill, 303-5; educating his party, 328-29; Prime Minister, 329-31; attacked by Salisbury, 345; dissolves, 346; resigns, 349- 50; and Irish State Church, 352-
53; and army purchase, 366; and Joseph Arch, 385-86; and Home Rule, 389; Irish University Bill, 393; declines office, 394; Prime Minister, 1874, 397; de- scribes Salisbury as master of jibes and flouts and jeers, 401; Public Worship Bill, 401; and Mr. Plim- soll, 403; contrasted with Glad- stone, 405-6; Suez Canal shares, 407; South African confederation, 407; appoints Lytton Viceroy of India, 408; Queen's Title Bill, 408- 9; Eastern Question, 409-12; Bul- garian atrocities, 413; becomes Lord Beaconsfield, 414; speech at Aylesbury, 414; and Russia, 415- 16; on Derby's resignation, 419; at Congress of Berlin, 420-21; 'Peace with Honour,' 423; popularity of Government on the wane, 425; dissolves, 431
East India Company and China, 26; and King of Delhi, 172; and Oude, 175; war with Persia, 176; end of, 198-200
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 99-106 Egypt and Mohammed Ali, 29–30; Viceroy in England, 328; purchase of Suez Canal shares, 407 Election petitions, 331-34 Elgin, Lord, and Indian Mutiny, 179; treaty with China, 207; China war, 233, 235-36; death of, 266 Ellenborough, Lord, Governor-Gene- ral of India, 54; character of, 54- 55; proclamation of, 57; annexes Scinde, 65; on Canning's procla-
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