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

Chapter 64

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Hugo, Victor (1802-1885), _Napoléon le Petit_, ii. _391_

Hull, Queen's visit to, iii. 49

Hume, Joseph, i. 60, 90, 147; ii. 70, _123_

Humiliation, days of, Queen's views on, iii. 19, 20; national prayer and humiliation, iii. 247, 248

Hummelauer, Baron, ii. 174

Hungary, submission of, ii. _208_, 223

Hunt, Mr Leigh, i. 412

Huskisson, Mr, i. 278

Hutchinson, Mrs, biographer of her husband, i. 52

Ibrahim Pasha, (son of Mehemet Ali), i. _142_, 246

_Idées Napoléoniennes_, ii. 374

Income Tax, Queen's decision to pay, i. 387; iii. 36; Bill, i. 403, 405; raised, ii. _141_, 303, 307, 312, 388; reduction for farmers, ii. 406; ii. _431_; iii. 226; increase, iii. _379_; reduction, iii. _420_

Indemnity Act, iii. _224_, _256_

India (_see_ Afghanistan and East India Co.), policy as to Herat, i. 327-329; reinforcements for China, i. 336; success in, i. 481; retention of the Scinde, i. 502; recall of Lord Ellenborough, ii. _1_, 9, 18, 19; education, ii. 28; public offices opened to Hindoos, ii. 29; Sikhs aggressive, ii. _30_; Sikhs defeated, ii. _71_; extension of boundaries, ii. 74; prosperity under British rule, ii. 125; origin of Sikh War, ii. _142_; necessity of making Punjab a British province, ii. 196; successful operations against Sikhs, ii, _208_, 217; safety of English prisoners, ii. 217; disarmament of Sikhs, ii. 217; annexation of the Punjab, ii. 220; state of, ii. 400; honours to Duke of Wellington, ii. 401; India Bill, ii. _431_, 447; satisfactory state of, iii. 45-48, 53; troops for the Crimea, iii. 46; Oudh placed under British control, iii. _159_; Mutiny in, iii. _223_, _235_, 235-238; Lucknow, iii. _243_, _248_, 249; Cawnpore, massacre of garrison, iii. _247_, _248_, 249; future government of India, iii. 257, _262_, _293_; Oudh Proclamation, iii. _262_, _281_, 282; Indian Army organisation, iii. 282, _295_, 302; proclamation, iii. 298; title of Viceroy, iii. 304; religious question, iii. 304; army question, iii. 317-320; termination of the Mutiny, iii. 350; status of Bussahir, iii. 360; titles and honours, iii. 387; letters of thanks to civil servants, iii. 399

Indus, ii. 74

Inkerman, battle of, iii. _252_; account of the battle, iii. 54-56

Insanity, plea of, i. 469

Inverness, Duchess of (wife of Duke of Sussex), i. 479, 480

Ionian Islands, constitution of, iii. 301

Ireland, Secret Societies, i. _43_; Municipal Corporations Bill, i. _56_, 66; Tithe Bill, i. 66; and O'Connell, i. 130; Committee for, i. 149; registration, i. 265; repeal agitation, i. _450_; Arms Bill, i. 482; indictment of O'Connell, ii. _1_; report of Potato Commission, ii. 48; failure of potato crop, ii. 53; Coercion Bill, ii. _71_, 79, 81; Queen's proposed visit to, ii. 93, 95, 127; alarming state of, ii. _141_, 170, 188; Queen's visit to, ii. _208_, 223, 224; enthusiasm of people, ii. 226; brevet promotions, ii. 227; another visit to, iii. _420_

Irun, capture of, i. _57_

Isabella, Queen, of Spain, i. 59, 62; guardianship of, i. 346; proposed marriage of, i. 349, 432, 485, 486, 487, 512; ii. 4, _31_, 32, 44, _71_, 90, 96, 107, 389; iii. 6, _51_

Ismail, surrender of, iii. _159_

Issendorf, M. de, iii, 455

Isturitz, Señor, Spanish statesman, flight, i. _44_; ii. 97, 99

Italy, special mission to the Vatican, ii. 128; revolution, ii. _141_; and Austria, ii. 174; and England, ii. _182_, 183, 187, 386, 387; Piedmontese successes in Northern, ii. _191_, 191, _208_, 213; and Austria, iii. 306, 322; proposed congress and war, iii. 324-354; Pope's opinion of Italians, iii. 357; insurrection at Perugia, iii. 358; Treaty of Zurich and congress to settle Italian affairs, iii. _374_, _379_; French policy in, iii. 412; summary of events in 1861, iii. _420_; Palmerston's views on, iii. 427, 428

Jackson, Serjeant J. D., Irish Solicitor-General, i. 352, 354

Jamaica, troubles in, and constitution of, i. _102_, _141_, 153; Bill, i. 176

James, Edwin, successful defence of Dr Bernard, iii. _274_

Japan, treaty with, iii. _262_

Jarnac, Count, French Ambassador, ii. 21, 160

Jaux, M. de, ii. 429

Jenkinson, Lady Louisa, i. 121

Jenner, Dr (afterwards Sir William), Physician-Extraordinary to the Queen, in attendance on Prince Consort, iii. 473, 476

Jersey, Earl of, Master of the Horse, i. 310

Jewish Disabilities Bill, iii. _224_

Jocelyn, Lord, on Free Trade, ii. 403

---- Lady, i. 380; iii. 427; _see_ also Cowper, Lady Fanny

John, Archduke, younger son of the Emperor Leopold II, i. 431; ii. 171, 188, 191, 193

---- Prince of Portugal, brother of King Pedro, iii. 457

Joinville, Prince de, i. 94, 452, 480; imprudent _brochure_, ii. _1_, 11, 24, 27;