The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861

Chapter 28

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Baring, F. (afterwards Lord Northbrook), Chancellor of the Exchequer, i. 264, 281, 308, 314; ii. 60, 84, 287, 312, 347; capture of Lagos, ii. 365, 366; Board of Works, ii. 421; iii. 79; Government of 1855, iii. 91

---- Thomas, ii. 368; Indian Mutiny debate, iii. 239; India Bill, iii. 294

Barkly, Sir H., Governor of Victoria, iii. 190

Barnard, General, death at Delhi, iii. 243

Barrackpore, funeral of Lady Canning, iii. 475

Barrot, Odilon, i. 248; ii. 149

Barrow, Sir John, i. 432

Barry, Sir Charles, knighted, ii. 363

Bastide, M., ii. 187

Baudrand, General Comte, i. 83

Bayley, Rev. Emilius, iii. 416

Bean, attempt on the Queen's life, i. _370_, 407

Beas, River, ii. 74

Beatrice, Princess (afterwards Princess Henry of Battenberg), birth and christening, iii. 234

Beauclerk, Lord Amelius, i. 108

Beaufort, Duke of, i. 334

Beauharnais, Eugène de, Duke of Leuchtenberg, iii. 354

Beauvale, Lord (afterwards second Viscount Melbourne), i. 191; i. 232, 418, 490, 512; ii. 165, 436

Beche, Sir Henry T. de la, geologist, i. 315

Bedford, seventh Duke of, i. 296, 509; ii. 130, 132, 195, 257; opinion of Lord Palmerston, ii. 260, 261; ii. 403; iii. 89; Queen's appreciation of Endsleigh, iii. 203

Begum, the ex-Queen of Oudh, iii. 351

Belgians, King of, _see_ Leopold

---- Queen of, _see_ Louise

Belgium, dispute with Holland, i. _43_, _102_, 119, _142_, 145, 146; independence of, i. 118; King Leopold's views on, i. 152, 153; and England, i. 134, 151; ii. 68; and Germany, i. 379; and Emperor of Russia, ii. 15; abortive insurrection, ii. _172_; neutrality of, iii. 171

Belsham, William, _History of Great Britain_, i. 467

Bengal Mutiny, iii. _224_

Bentinck, Lord George, attack on Sir R. Peel, ii. 79, 80;