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Playfair, Dr, Irish Commissioner, potato disease, ii. 48

Plombières, compact of, iii. _308_, _385_

Poerio, iii. 312

Poles and Russia, ii. 15, 17

Polk, President (U.S.A.), ii. _30_

Pollock, General (afterwards Sir George), successes in Afghanistan, i. _370_, 402, 442; G.C.B., i. 444

Pollon, Count, Sardinian Minister, i. 148

Ponsonby, Lord (Ambassador at Constantinople), i. 232, 234; ii. 114

Poor Law Act, i. 20, _102_, 108, 382; State maintenance of the poor, ii. 67; commission, ii. 130

Pope, _see_ Pius IX. and Gregory XVI. _The Pope and the Congress_, famous pamphlet, iii. _382_

Porte, the, i. 179; and Austria, i. 191; convention of 1828, i. 229, 232; and Mehemet Ali, i. 237; Eastern Question, ii. _431_, 441-444, _449_, 452-465, 469; iii. _1_, 12, 13, _20_; Turkish success, iii. _36_; Alma, iii. _43_, 50; Inkerman, iii. _53;_ Four Points Negotiation, iii. _63_, 65; protection of Christian subjects, iii. _152_

Portland, third Duke of, i. 357

---- fifth Duke of, iii. 227

Portugal, revolution, i. _43_, 54, 92; and England, i. _57_, 149, 356; ii. 111, 118, 134; and Spain, i. 59, 62; ii. 119; new Ministry, i. _92_; slave trade, i. 115; insurrection, ii. _72_, 90; civil war and constitutional troubles, ii. _109_, 116, 117, 119, 120, 129; Lord Palmerston's attack on, ii. _179_; case of Don Pacifico, ii. _231_, _234_, 235, 239, _240_, _243_

---- King of (Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg), i. 45; Queen's opinion of, i. 46; Commander-in-Chief, i. 47, _55_; Queen's letter to, on slave trade, i. 115; and Lord Howard de Walden, i. 133

---- Maria da Gloria, Queen of, i. 4, _43_, _44_, 94; letter on Queen's engagement, i. 200; dismissal of Ministry, ii. _109_, 134; iii. 10

---- Stephanie, Queen of, iii. 332, 466

---- Prince of, the Pope sponsor to, i. 392

Post Office, inauguration of penny post, i. 141, 176; Sunday delivery, ii. 244

Pottinger, Sir Henry, successes in China, i. _254_, 265; G.C.B., i. 444;