Chapter 105

refusal of Foreign Office, ii. 413-418; accepts Foreign Office, ii. 422-427; resigns Foreign Secretaryship, ii. _431_; Leadership without office, ii. 438; pledged to introduction of Reform Bill, ii. _451_ possible retirement, ii. 457, 458; war measures, ii. 467; President of the Council, iii. _1_, 34; withdraws Reform Bill, iii. _2_, _8_, 15, _16_, _23_; incomprehensible actions, iii. _21_, 22; Disraeli's attack on, iii. _38_; Austrian alliance, iii. 48, 50; urges more vigorous measures, iii. _53_; proposed resignation, iii. 57-60; and Mr Kennedy's loss of office, iii. 61; Ministry defeated, resignation, iii. _64_, 72, 74, 79; visit to Paris, iii. _69_; failure to form a Government, iii. 87-96; Government of 1855, iii. 98; Vienna Conference, iii. _64_, _105_; Colonial Office, iii. _109_, 110; Austria's proposed terms of Crimean settlement, iii. _120_; attacks on, and resignation, iii. _121_, _131_, 132, _133_;