i. 238

Bedford, seventh Duke of, Devonshire property of, iii. 206

Bedford, Duchess of, resignation of, ii. 32

Bentinck, Lord George, racing transactions of, ii. 160; speech on the Corn Laws, 373; denounces a supposed job, 413; railway scheme defeated, iii. 57; speech on the Cracow affair, 67; attack on Mr. Labouchere, 71; attacked by Lord J. Russell, 197; death of, 222; character of, 223, 232; career of, 224, 234; 'Orlando' trial, 228; political career of, 229; Disraeli's life of, 417, 423

Bentinck, Lady William, death of, and character, ii. 157; funeral of, 159

Berlin, revolution in, iii. 155

Berry, Miss, ii. 201; anecdote of, 202

Berry, Miss Agnes, ii. 201, 202

Bessborough, Right Hon. Earl of, opinion of, on affairs, ii. 353; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 405; illness of, iii. 77, 80; letter to Lord J. Russell, 81; death of, 82

Beyrout, bombardment of, i. 328

Birkenhead, visit to, ii. 282

Birthday reflexions, i. 85

Blanc, Louis M., iii. 152; at dinner, 235

Blessington, the Countess of, society at Gore House, i. 167; works of, 168

Bonaparte, Jérôme, Count de Montfort, at Gore House, i. 277

Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, afterwards Emperor of the French, _see_ Napoleon

Bordeaux, Duc de, visit to England of the, ii. 211; reception of the, 212, 213

Bourqueney, Baron, letter from M. Guizot to the, i. 348; misreported conversation with Lord Palmerston, 381

Bowood, party at, ii. 69

Bradshaw, Mr., disloyal speech of, at Canterbury, i. 244; duel with Mr. Horsman, 254, 255

Bresson, Count, instructions to, on the Spanish marriages, iii. 24 (_see_ Spanish Marriages)

Bridgewater House, private theatricals at, ii. 96

Bridgewater Trust, account of the, ii. 303

British Museum, correspondence with the, about the missing Privy Council Registers, ii. 162

Broadlands, visit to, ii. 104

Brocket, visits to, iii. 119, 375; manuscripts at, 376

Broglie, Duc de, speech of the, iii. 37

Brougham, Lord, scene with Lord Melbourne, i. 32; ability of, 33; on the ballot, 59; anecdote of, 59; habits of, 60; and Wakley, 60; at the Council Office, 65; qualities of, 66; in the House of Lords, 69, 71; anti-slavery speech, 73; speech on Small _v._ Attwood, 83; article on Lady C. Bury's book, 90; and Mr. Handley, 99; contrast to the Duke of Wellington, 111; attacks Lord Durham's Ordinance, 123; pamphlet letter to the Queen, 149; reconciled to Lord Durham, 150; denies the pamphlet, 152; and Lord Melbourne, 152; and the Serjeants-at-Law, 156; anecdote of, and Lord Lyndhurst, 160; on the Bedchamber affair, 211, 212; attacks the Ministers, 213; great speech censuring the Irish policy of the Government, 228; freaks of, at a Greenwich dinner, 229; proposes the health of the Duke of Wellington at the Dover dinner, 237, 240; letter on education, 238; anecdotes of, 240; pretended death of, 243, 245, 247; squabbles with M. de Tocqueville and others, ii. 150, 151; intercourse with the Court, 151; endeavours to obtain an affidavit from Mr. Reeve, 207; Judicial Committee Bill, 225, 234; caprices of, 235; makes eleven speeches in the House of Lords, 242; at the Judicial Committee, 242; executor to Lord Melbourne, iii. 252

Brown, Mr., M.P., _fête_ on board the 'Atlantic,' iii. 409

Brunnow, Baron, mission of, to England, i. 242; letter of, complaining of Lord Palmerston's conduct, iii. 332; on foreign affairs, 345

Buccleuch, the Duke of, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 82; Lord President of the Council, 337

Buccleuch, the Duchess of, Mistress of the Robes, ii. 44

Buckingham, the Duke of, Lord Privy Seal in Sir R. Peel's Administration, ii. 37; resignation of, 79; First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451

Buckinghamshire, dispute on the appointment of sheriff, ii. 144

Buckinghamshire magistrates, appointment of the, ii. 66; opinion of the Duke of Wellington on, 77

Buckland, Dr., at the Grange, ii. 264

Bugeaud, Marshal, commands the troops in Paris in 1848, iii. 144

Buller, Charles, Mr., Radical opinions of, i. 32; appointed by Lord Durham, 109; author of Lord Durham's report, 163; paper of, on Ireland, iii. 221; death of, 241; character of, 249

Bulwer, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Lytton, play of 'Richelieu,' i. 173

Bulwer, Sir Henry, expulsion of, from Spain, iii. 169; arrival of, in London, 180; defence, 181; debate in the House of Commons, 190; intrigues in Spain, 194 (_for_ despatches to, _see_ Spanish Marriages)

Burge, William, Mr., Q.C., i. 255

Burghersh, Lord (afterwards Earl of Westmorland), opera by, i. 116; mistake of, ii. 275

Burghley, party at, i. 37

Burgoyne, Sir John, letter from the Duke of Wellington to,