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Saint-Simon, Duc de, _Mémoires_, i. 435

Sak, proposed occupation of, iii. 185

Saldanha, Marshal, ii. 90

Sale, Lady, her journal, i. 383

---- Sir Robert, success in Afghanistan, i. _370_, 383, 402; pension, i. 444; death, ii. 76

Salisbury, Bishop of (Dr Fisher), Queen's reminiscences of, i. 10

---- Marquess of, President of the Council, iii. 272

Sand, George, _Comtesse de Rudolstadt_, novel by, ii. 27

Sandon, Viscount, Sugar Duties, i. _275_

Sandwich, Countess of, i. 177

Sans Souci, death of King of Prussia at, iii. 424

Sardinia, Princess Clothilde of, marriage of, iii. _308_, _331_

---- Kings of, _see_ Charles Albert and Victor Emmanuel

Sardinia, ii. _141_, _175_; war with Austria, ii. _178_, _182_, 186, 190, 193; Western Alliance against Russia, iii. _63_; success against Russia, iii. _135_, 154, 161; Treaty of Peace, iii. 213; alliance with England and France against Russia, iii. _307_; war with Austria, and cession of Lombardy to, iii. _308_; refusal to disarm, iii. _327_; sympathy with, iii. 328; Government of Tuscany, iii. 329; Napoleon's promise of help, iii. _331_; Duchies of Parma, Modena and Romagna, transferred to, iii. _380_; disavowal of Garibaldi, iii. _380_

Savoy, annexation to France, iii. _379_, 385, 395

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, House of, history of, i. 1, 2, 3

Saxe-Coburg, Ernest, Duke of, (Prince Consort's father), i. 4, 22, _48_; death, ii. 6

---- Ernest, Prince of (Prince Consort's brother), i. 49, 62; illness, i. 69

---- Prince Augustus of, parentage and marriage, i. 4, 431, 458, 459

Saxe-Saalfeld-Coburg, Duchess of, i. 13, 18

---- Francis, Duke of, i. 8, 22; iii. _437_

Saxe-Weimar, Prince Edward of, letter to the Queen, iii. 54

---- Prince William and Princess Louise of, i. 31

Saxony, Crown Prince of, iii. 458

---- Frederick Augustus II., King of, ii. 12, 16

Schleinitz, M., ii. 250

Schleswig, ii. _141_, 182, 192, _195_; union with Holstein, ii. 222, 249, _254_, 258; iii. _281_

_School for Scandal_, i. 218

Schulenberg, Countess, iii. 457

Schwartzenberg, Prince, Prime Minister of Austria, ii. 378, 380

Scone Palace, Queen's visit to, i. 429, 430

Scotch Fusiliers, wounded from the Crimea, iii. 110

Scotland, Church crisis, i. 447, 448, _450_; Admission of Ministers Bill, i. 488, _489_; the Queen's visit to Balmoral, ii. 321-323, 392, 394-396; to Edinburgh, iii. 406

Scott, General, iii. 469

---- Gilbert, architect, iii. _444_

Scutari, iii. _2_; hospital at, iii. 61, 62, 78

Search, right of, on the high seas, ii. 6; iii. 466, 468, 469

Seaton, Lord, _see_ Colborne

Sebastopol, iii. _1_, 43, 44; bombardment, iii. 50; fall, iii. _64_, 142

Secretary of State, _see_ State, Secretary of

---- at War, _see_ War, Secretary at

Sepoys, mutiny of, iii. _224_, 237, 238

Septennial Act, i. _56_; ii. 121

Serpent's Island, Russia's claim to, iii. _159_, _208_

Settembrini, iii. 312

Sévigné, Mme. de, i. 40; iii. 172

Seville, Duke of (Don Enrique), ii. 45

Seymour, Lord (afterwards Duke of Somerset), Roebuck Committee Reports, iii. 112. _See_ Somerset, Duke of

---- Admiral, occupies Chinese fort, iii. _223_

---- Mr Digby, M.P., iii. 402, 404

---- Sir Hamilton, Minister at Brussels, i. 139, 320; Envoy-Extraordinary at Lisbon, ii. 119, 134, 179, 180, _181_; Petersburg, ii. 286; Eastern Question, ii. _431_; recall from St Petersburg, iii. _10_; interview with the Czar, iii. 26; "neutralisation," iii. 151

Shaftesbury, Earl of, _see_ Ashley, Lord

Sheil, Mr, Minister at the Court of Tuscany, ii. 279; death, ii. 319

Shere Singh, surrender of, ii. 217

Short, Dr Thomas Vowler (afterwards Bishop of Sodor and Man), i. 64; _Sketch of History of Church of England_, i. 452

Sibthorp, Colonel, iii. 76

Sicily, rising in, ii. _141_, _208_. _See_ Garibaldi

Sikhs (_see_ India), aggressive, ii. _30_; defeat of, ii. _71_, 77; boundaries, ii. 74; murder of two Englishmen, ii. _142_; hostility of, ii. 196, 197; successful operations against, ii. _208_, 217

Silesia, insurrection in, ii. _72_

Silistria, Turkish success at, iii. _1_, _36_

Simpson, General, retirement from the command in the Crimea, iii. _64_; death of Lord Raglan, iii. 128; Commander-in-Chief, iii. 130; position, iii. 134; Queen's congratulations on fall of Sebastopol, iii. 142, 143

Sinclair, Sir George, M.P., i. 448

Singapore, convict population of, iii. 278

Singh, Maharajah Dhuleep, _see_ Dhuleep

Sinope Harbour, affair of, ii. _432_, 471; iii. 115

Slavery, abolition of, i. 20, 277, 377, 382

Slidell, Mr, Southern Confederacy Envoy, iii. 466, 468, 469

Smith, Mr Robert Vernon (afterwards Lord Lyveden), Under-Secretary for War and the Colonies, i. _275_, 468; iii. 76; Board of Control, iii. _109_, 127, 128; annexation of Oudh, iii. _176_, _219_; on Indian Mutiny, iii. 239;