i. 106

Troy House, visit to, i. 219; built by Duke of Beaufort, 1689, 219

Tuileries, reception at the, iii. 35

Turton, Mr., appointed by Lord Durham, i. 110; appointment criticised, 158; debate on, in House of Lords, 170

Underwood, Lady Cecilia, at dinner at Devonshire House, i. 278; created Duchess of Inverness, 282; at a ball at Lansdowne House, 282

Urquhart, Mr., and Lord Palmerston, i. 117; account of, 119; the 'Portfolio,' 158

Usk Castle, visit to, i. 220

Usk salmon, i. 220

Ventura, General, ii. 100

Victoria, Her Majesty Queen, accession of, i. 2; praise of, 14, 20; audience to Princesse Lieven, 15; interview of, with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, 20; visit to Queen Adelaide, 21; cordiality to Lord Melbourne, 22; picture of first Council of, 83; at a ball at the Palace, 91; Coronation of, 105, 106; two sermons, 116; and Lord Melbourne, 130; life at Windsor, 146; resignation of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, 200; the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-206; declaration of marriage of, 247; opens Parliament (1840), 253; Marriage of, 266; goes to the Ancient Concert, 275; at a ball at Lansdowne House, 282; shot at, 288; on the Eastern Question, 323; visit to Nuneham and Oxford, ii. 13; visit to Chiswick, 14; visit to Woburn, 26; council for appointing ministers in Sir R. Peel's Administration, 37; admirable behaviour of, 38; appointments in the Household (1841), 42, 43; reception of the new Ministers, 44; birth of the Prince of Wales, 51; the new Ministers, 84; shot at, 96; first visit to Scotland, 108; visit to the Château d'Eu, 196, 200; visit to Chatsworth, 215; fancy ball, 283; absence in Germany, 292; sends for Lord J. Russell, 317; Lord J. Russell's audience, 322, 323; letter on Lord Palmerston's despatch, 424; decorations for the Peninsular soldiers, 434; good order of private affairs of, iii. 67; correspondence on the Spanish marriages, 168; visit of the Prince of Prussia to, 179; affection of, for the Orleans Royal family, 186; annoyance of, at Lord Palmerston's conduct, 289; visit to Ireland, 295; life at Balmoral, 296; on Lord Palmerston's conduct of foreign affairs, 317; sends for the Duke of Wellington, 388; on the crisis, 390

'Victoria and Albert,' the, Royal yacht, ii. 196

Vienna, outbreak at, iii. 158

Villiers, Right Hon. Charles P., correspondence with Cobden, ii. 349

Villiers, Hon. Edward, death and character of, ii. 208, 209

Visconti, Madame, i. 365

Wakefield, Mr. Edward Gibbon, appointed by Lord Durham, i. 110

Wakley, Mr., i. 60

Wales, H.R.H. Prince of, birth of, ii. 51; question of promotion for the officer on guard, 51; question of a baronetcy for the Mayor of Chester, 52; armorial bearings of, 63; gazetted Duke of Saxony, 65

Wales, North, excursion to, ii. 15-20; the inhabitants of, 19

Walewski, Count, mission of, i. 315; opinion of Lord Palmerston,