ii. 418;

at the Tuileries, iii. 35 (_see_ Spanish Marriages)

'Morning Chronicle,' the, conduct of, i. 179; ill-timed hostility of, to France, 326, 327; violent article on M. Guizot, iii. 42; attacks on Lord Aberdeen, 52; purchased by the Peelites, 128

Mounier, Baron, mission of, i. 356

Moxon, Mr., and Mr. Disraeli, iii. 75

Mulgrave, Right Hon. Earl of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, i. 30

Munster, Right Hon. Earl of, returns the keys of the Round Tower, i. 17; death of the, ii. 94

Muntz, Mr., appointed magistrate, i. 227

Murray, Sir George, asked to review the 'Wellington Despatches' in the 'Edinburgh Review,' i. 38, 57

Napier, Sir Charles, sent to India as Commander-in-Chief, iii. 274, 276, 280

Napier, Admiral, proclamation of, i. 305

Naples, insurrection at, iii. 216; Lord Palmerston's breach of neutrality, 261, 271; Lord Palmerston's claims on, 419

Napoleon, Louis, Prince (afterwards Emperor of the French), at Gore House, i. 167; success of, iii. 239; elected President of the French Republic, 253; position of, 329; _coup d'Ètat_, 1851, 420; M. Thiers' account of, 443; and Lord Normanby, 441

Narvaez, intrigues of, iii. 194

Navigation Laws, the, iii. 283, 287

Netherlands, King of the, at Goodwood, ii. 287

Newcastle, fourth Duke of, dismissed from the Lord-Lieutenancy of Nottinghamshire, i. 194; letter of the, to the Lord Chancellor, 195; interview of the, with the Duke of Wellington, 195

Newport, Mayor of, the, at Court, i. 249

Newport, Chartist riot at, i. 249, 256; result of the trial, 260

Norbury, Right Hon. Earl of, murder of the, i. 157

Norman Court, visit to, i. 133

Normanby, Right Hon. Marquis of, the, succeeds Lord Glenelg at the Colonial Office, i. 161, 164; Irish administration of, 176; at a Greenwich dinner, 237; despatches relating to the Spanish marriages, iii. 17; indiscretion of, 30, 34; relations of, with M. Thiers, 35; communications of, with M. Thiers, 40; bad terms of, with M. Guizot, 43, 46; condition of the Embassy, 49; perplexity of, 58; further misunderstanding, 59, 60; the quarrel made up, 66; more blunders, 69; results in Europe of the squabble, 72; proposed as Ambassador to Rome, 108; resigns, 441, 445; and Louis Napoleon, 442

North, Right Hon. Lord, anecdote of, ii. 116

Nottinghamshire election, iii. 389

Novara, battle of, iii. 282

Oakley Park, visit to, i. 218

O'Brien, Smith, return of, to Ireland, iii. 167; affair at Limerick, 172; search for, 213; capture of, 215

O'Connell, Daniel, speech of, at the 'Crown and Anchor' Tavern, i. 66, 67; declines the Mastership of the Irish Rolls, 101; speech of, 279; conduct of, on Irish measures, ii. 132; proclamation of, prohibiting Repeal meeting, 204; arrest of, 205; trial of, 210, 218; popularity of, 214; advice of, on Ireland, 220, 221; result of the trial of, 228; release of, 255; death of, iii. 82; career of, 85

O'Connor, Feargus, at the Chartist meeting (1848), iii. 166

Odilon Barrot, conduct of, in the French Revolution, iii. 140, 144

Orange, Princess of, the, ii. 287

Orangemen, discomfiture of, i. 30

Orford, Right Hon. Earl of (Horace Walpole), letters of the, to Sir Horace Mann, ii. 202

'Orlando' takes the Derby Stakes, ii. 250; the trial, iii. 228

Orleans, H.R.H. Duchesse d', iii. 35; on the proposed reconciliation between the two branches of the French Royal family, 329

Ossington, visit to, ii. 309

Ostend, passage to, ii. 166

Ovid, quotation from, i. 238

Oxford, Bishop of, anti-slavery speech of, ii. 411; want of tact of, 411; correspondence with Dr. Hampden, iii. 115

Pacifico, Don, the case of, iii. 308, 311; debate on, in the House of Lords, 341

Pakington, Right Hon. Sir John, Colonial Secretary in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451

Palace, the, dinner at, i. 77; balls at, 9, 109

Palmerston, Right Hon. Viscount, and Mr. Urquhart. i. 117, 119; and the 'Portfolio,' 159; policy in the East (1840), 297-304; objections to policy of, 301; coolness of, 304; conduct of, at the outset of the Eastern Question, 308; offers to resign, 308; independence of, at the Foreign Office, 309; the Eastern Question, 312-314; at the Cabinet on the Eastern Question, 321; hostility of, to France, 326; article in the 'Morning Chronicle,' 326; triumph of, 330; note from the French Government, 335; ignores his colleagues, 345; defends Lord Ponsonby, 347; hostility to France, 347, 353; and the Tories, 363; position of, 364; settlement of the Eastern Question, 377-383; jobbing at the Foreign Office, ii. 48; attack on, in a Berlin newspaper, 75; and consequent misunderstanding, _ib._; abuses the treaty of Washington, 104, 109; attacks on the Government, 105, 106; and the press, 130; commencement of coalition with M. Thiers, 267; consternation in France at possible return of, to the Foreign Office, 345; visit of, to Paris, 383; letter to King Louis Philippe, 388; Foreign Secretary, 405; incipient disputes with France, 409; Spanish marriages, 418, iii. 6; despatch to Sir H. Bulwer, ii. 424; conversation with, on the Spanish marriages, iii. 15; conduct discussed by M. Guizot, 20, 26; effect of despatch, 25; M. Guizot's complaints of, 30; mismanagement of, 40; and the 'Morning Chronicle,' 52; threatens a rupture with France, 62; consequences in Europe, 72; anecdote of, 121; dinner to M. Guizot, 157; despatch to Sir H. Bulwer, 169; conduct of, attacked in the House of Lords, 173; omission of, 178; and the Duc de Broglie, 185; Sicilian arms affair, 261, 271, 276; attacks on, 261; and Count Colloredo, 282, 283; suppression of a despatch, 288; the Greek dispute, 308, 311; quarrels with France, 330; Baron Brunnow complains, 332; able speech of, 346; Radical dinner to, 362; conversation with, 374; and Kossuth, 413, 416; Finsbury and Islington deputation, 415; claims on Naples, 419; dismissal of, from the Foreign Office, 426; own version of the affair, 428; succeeded by Earl Granville, 433; complete account of the affair, 434; further details, 444; explanations in Parliament, 446

Palmerston, Lady, conversation with, on Eastern affairs, i. 330

Panic in the money market, iii, 99; proposed measures of the Government, 101

Panshanger, party at, ii. 415

Papal aggression, iii. 366

Paris, visit to (1847), iii. 16-50; Mrs. Austin's _salon_, 38; ball at the HÙtel de Ville, 42; ball at Mme. Pozzo di Borgo's, 42; visit to M. Cousin, 44; the HÙtel Lambert, 44; Mme. de Circourt's _salon_, 45; Mme. de Girardin's _salon_, 45; farewell visits, 48; Revolution (1848), 132; state of, 149, 284; fighting in the streets of, 199; details of fighting, 202; the Archbishop of, killed on a barricade, 200, 203; the _coup d'Ètat_ of Louis Napoleon, 420

Parke, Rt. Hon. Baron, and Lord Brougham, i. 59

Parker, Admiral, instructions to, iii. 216

Parkes, Mr. Joseph, tour of, i. 194

Parliament, dissolution of, debated, ii. 5; resolved on, 9, 12, 13; dissolved, 14; opening of (1842), 81; opening of, and state of parties (1844), 222

Parliamentary proceedings, _see_ Lords, House of, _and_ Commons, House of

Payne, Knight, built Downton Castle, i. 218

Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert, informed of the moderation of Lord J. Russell, i. 188; caution of, 193; sent for by the Queen, 200; the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-209; coldness of, to Lord J. Russell, 259; thrown over on the Canada Bill, by the Duke of Wellington, 294; vote of censure on the Government, ii. 10; sent for to Windsor, 33; forms an administration (1841), 37; conversation with the Queen, 41; Corn Bill (1842), 83; Budget, 87; difficulties of, 189; unpopularity of, 191, 247; Maynooth Grant, 276; resignation of, 317; position of, 324; conduct of, 328; resumes office, 332; vindication of, in Mr. Greville's pamphlet, 350, 368; measure for sliding-scale duties on corn, 357; discussions on the measure, 357-366; position of, 380; anecdote of, 387; conversation with, 389; assailed by the Protectionists, 392; behaviour to Mr. Canning, 397; resigns office, 401; resolution of, not to take office, 433; position of, iii. 94; unpopularity of, in Liverpool, 97; correspondence with Mr. Croker, 98; influence of, 100; position of, 146; on obstruction, 163; reluctance of, to take office, 199; anecdote of, and Huskisson, 216; conversation with Lord Clarendon, 286; on foreign affairs, 315; accident to, 347; death of, 348; character of, 349; career of, 350-358; effects of death of, 358; conduct of, on the East Retford franchise, 424

Peel, Rt. Hon. Gen. Jonathan, affronts Mr. Disraeli, ii. 388

Peel, Frederic (afterwards Rt. Hon. Sir F. Peel, K.C.M.G.), maiden speech of, iii. 288

Penryn Castle, visit to, ii. 17

Perceval, Rev. Mr., preaches before the Queen, i. 116

Pereira, Mr., lecture of, i. 78

Perez, Antonio, anecdote of a manuscript, ii. 129

Phillips, Sir Thomas, at Windsor, i. 249

Phillpotts, _see_ Exeter, Bishop of

Pigou, Mr., and the Duke of Wellington's letter on the defence of the country, iii. 107

Piscatory, M., in the French Revolution, iii. 140

Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, peerages, ii. 235

Plas Newydd, visit to Lord Anglesea at, ii. 16

Plunket, Rt. Hon. Lord, compelled to resign the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, ii. 14

Plymouth, visit to, iii. 207

Poland, reported annexation of, by Russia, iii. 4

Ponsonby, Rt. Hon. George, Irish Chancellor, i. 153; and Curran, 153

Ponsonby, Viscount, despatch of, announcing Mehemet Ali's deposition,