CHAPTER XVIII

PEMBROKE LODGE

1847-1878

Looking back--Society at Pembroke Lodge--Home life--The house and

its memories--Charles Dickens's speech at Liverpool--Literary

friendships--Lady Russell's description of her husband--A packet of

letters--His children's recollections--A glimpse of Carlyle--A

witty impromptu--Closing days--Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone--The jubilee

of the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts--'Punch' on the

'Golden Wedding'--Death--The Queen's letter--Lord Shaftesbury's

estimate of Lord John's career--His great qualities.

PEACE with honour--a phrase which Lord John used long before Lord

Beaconsfield made it famous--sums up the settled tranquillity and simple

dignity of the life at Pembroke Lodge. No man was more entitled to rest

on his laurels than Lord John Russell. He was in the House of Commons,

and made his first proposals for Parliamentary redress, in the reign of

George III. His great victory on behalf of the rights of conscience was

won by the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in the reign of

George IV. He had piloted the first Reform Bill through the storms of

prejudice and passion which had assailed that great measure in the reign

of William IV. He was Home Secretary when Queen Victoria's reign began,

and since then he had served her Majesty and the nation with unwearied

devotion for almost the life-time of a generation. He was Secretary for

the Colonies during a period when the expansion of England brought

delicate constitutional questions to the front, and was Minister of

Foreign Affairs when struggling nationalities looked to England, and did

not seek her help in vain. Twice Prime Minister in periods of storm and

stress, he had left his mark, directly or indirectly, on the

statute-book in much progressive legislation, and, in spite of mistakes

in policy, had at length quitted office with the reputation of an honest

and enlightened statesman.

Peel at the age of fifty-eight had judged himself worthy of retirement;

but Russell was almost seventy-four, and only his indomitable spirit had

enabled him to hold his own in public life against uncertain health

during the whole course of his career. In this respect, at least, Lord

John possessed that 'strong patience which outwearies fate.' He was

always delicate, and in his closing years he was accustomed to tell,

with great glee, those about him an incident in his own experience,

which happened when the century was entering its teens and he was just

leaving his own. Three physicians were summoned in consultation, for his

life appeared to be hanging on a thread. He described how they carefully

thumped him, and put him through the usual ordeal. Then they looked

extremely grave and retired to an adjoining room. The young invalid

could hear them talking quite plainly, and dreaded their return with the

sentence of death. Presently the conversation grew animated, and Lord

John found, to his surprise, they were talking about anything in the

world except himself. On coming back, all the advice they gave was that

he ought to travel abroad for a time. It jumped with his mood, and he

took it, and to the end of his days travel never failed to restore his

energies.

[Sidenote: IN SYLVAN RETREAT]

'For some years after his retirement from Ministerial life,' says Mr.

Lecky, 'he gathered round him at Pembroke Lodge a society that could

hardly be equalled--certainly not surpassed--in England. In the summer

Sunday afternoons there might be seen beneath the shade of those

majestic oaks nearly all that was distinguished in English politics and

much that was distinguished in English literature, and few eminent

foreigners visited England without making a pilgrimage to the old

statesman. Unhappily, this did not last to the end. Failing memory and

the weakness of extreme old age at last withdrew him completely from the

society he was so eminently fitted to adorn, but to those who had known

him in his brighter days he has left a memory which can never be

effaced.'

Pembroke Lodge, on the fringe of Richmond Park, was, for more than

thirty years, Lord John Russell's home. In his busiest years, whenever

he could escape from town, the rambling, picturesque old house, which

the Queen had given him, was his chosen and greatly loved place of

retreat. 'Happy days,' records Lady Russell, 'so full of reality. The

hours of work so cheerfully got through, the hours of leisure so

delightful.' When in office much of each week was of necessity passed at

his house in Chesham Place, but he appreciated the freedom and seclusion

of Pembroke Lodge, and took a keen delight in its beautiful garden, with

its winding walks, magnificent views, and spreading forest trees--truly

a haunt of ancient peace, as well as of modern fellowship. There, in old

age, Lord Russell loved to wander with wife or child or friend, and

there, through the loop-holes of retreat amid his books and flowers, he

watched the great world, and occasionally sallied forth, so long as

strength remained, to bear his part in its affairs.

Lord John Russell in his closing years thoroughly distrusted Turkish

rule in Europe. He declared that he had formerly tried with Lord

Palmerston's aid to improve the Turks, but came to the conclusion that

the task was hopeless, and he witnessed with gladness the various

movements to throw off their control in South-Eastern Europe. He was one

of the first to call attention to the Bulgarian atrocities, and he

joined the national protest with the political ardour which moral

indignation was still able to kindle in a statesman who cherished his

old ideals at the age of eighty-four. Two passages from Lady Russell's

journal in the year 1876 speak for themselves:--'August 18. My dearest

husband eighty-four. The year has left its mark upon him, a deeper mark

than most years ... but he is happy, even merry. Seventy or eighty of

our school children came up and sang in front of his window. They had

made a gay flag on which were written four lines of a little poem to

him. He was much pleased and moved with the pretty sight and pretty

sound. I may say the same of Lord Granville, who happened to be here at

the time.' Two months later occurs the following entry: 'Interesting

visit from the Bulgarian delegates, who called to thank John for the

part he has taken. They utterly deny the probability of civil war or

bloodshed between different Christian sects, or between Christian and

Mussulman, in case of Bulgaria and the other insurgent provinces

obtaining self-government. Their simple, heart-felt words of gratitude

to John were touching to us all.'

History repeats itself at Pembroke Lodge. On May 16, 1895, a party of

Armenian refugees went thither on the ground that 'the name of Lord John

Russell is honoured by every Christian under the rule of the Turk.' It

recalled to Lady Russell the incident just recorded, and the interview,

she states, was 'a heart-breaking one, although gratitude for British

sympathy seemed uppermost in what they wished to express. After they

were gone I thought, as I have often thought before, how right my

husband was in feeling and in saying, as he often did, that Goldsmith

was quite wrong in these two lines in "The Traveller":

'How small of all that human hearts endure

That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

He often recited them with disapproval when any occurrence made him feel

how false they were.'

[Sidenote: KINGLAKE'S DESCRIPTION]

Lord John's manner of life, like his personal tastes, was simple. He

contrived to set the guests who gathered around him at his wife's

receptions perfectly at their ease, by his old-fashioned gallantry,

happy humour, and bright, vigorous talk. One room in Pembroke Lodge,

from the windows of which a glorious view of the wooded valley is

obtained, has been rendered famous by Kinglake's description[44] of a

certain drowsy summer evening in June 1854, when the Aberdeen Cabinet

assembled in it, at the very moment when they were drifting into war.

Other rooms in the house are full of memories of Garibaldi and

Livingstone, of statesmen, ambassadors, authors, and, indeed, of men

distinguished in every walk of life, but chiefly of Lord John himself,

in days of intellectual toil, as well as in hours of friendly

intercourse and happy relaxation.

Charles Dickens, speaking in 1869 at a banquet in Liverpool, held in his

honour, over which Lord Dufferin presided, refused to allow what he

regarded as a covert sneer against the House of Lords to pass

unchallenged. He repelled the insinuation with unusual warmth, and laid

stress on his own regard for individual members of that assembly. Then,

on the spur of the moment, came an unexpected personal tribute. He

declared that 'there was no man in England whom he respected more in his

public capacity, loved more in his private capacity, or from whom he had

received more remarkable proofs of his honour and love of literature

than Lord John Russell.' The compliment took Lord Russell by surprise;

but if space allowed, or necessity claimed, it would be easy to prove

that it was not undeserved. From the days of his youth, when he lived

under the roof of Dr. Playfair, and attended the classes of Professor

Dugald Stewart in Edinburgh, and took his part, as a _protege_ of Lord

Holland, in the brilliant society of Holland House, Lord John's leanings

towards literature, and friendship with other literary men had been

marked. As in the case of other Prime Ministers of the Queen's reign,

and notably of Derby, Beaconsfield, and Mr. Gladstone, literature was

his pastime, if politics was his pursuit, for his interests were always

wider than the question of the hour. He was the friend of Sir James

Mackintosh and of Sydney Smith, who playfully termed him 'Lord John

Reformer,' of Moore and Rogers, Jeffrey and Macaulay, Dickens and

Thackeray, Tyndall and Sir Richard Owen, Motley and Sir Henry Taylor,

Browning and Tennyson, to mention only a few representative men.

[Sidenote: LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS]

When the students of Glasgow University wished, in 1846, to do him

honour, Lord John gracefully begged them to appoint as Lord Rector a

man of creative genius, like Wordsworth, rather than himself. As Prime

Minister he honoured science by selecting Sir John Herschel as Master of

the Mint, and literature, by the recommendation of Alfred Tennyson as

Poet Laureate. When Sir Walter Scott was creeping back in broken health

from Naples to die at Abbotsford it was Lord John who cheered the sad

hours of illness in the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn Street, by a

delicately worded offer of financial help from the public funds. Leigh

Hunt, Christopher North, Sheridan Knowles, Father Mathew, the widow of

Dr. Chalmers, and the children of Tom Hood are names which suggest the

direction in which he used his patronage as First Minister of the Crown.

He was in the habit of enlivening his political dinner parties by

invoking the aid of literary men of wit and distinction, and nothing

delighted him more than to bring, in this pleasant fashion, literature

and politics to close quarters. The final pages of his 'Recollections

and Suggestions' were written in Lord Tennyson's study at Aldworth, and

his relations with Moore at an earlier stage of his life were even more

intimate.

Lord John Russell was twice married: first, on April 11, 1835, to

Adelaide, daughter of Mr. Thomas Lister, of Armitage Park,

Staffordshire, the young widow of Thomas, second Lord Ribblesdale; and

second, on July 20, 1841, to Lady Frances Anna Maria Elliot, second

daughter of Gilbert, second Earl of Minto. By his first wife he had two

daughters, the late Lady Victoria Villiers, and Lady Georgiana Peel; and

by his second three sons and one daughter--John, Viscount Amberley, the

Hon. George William Gilbert, formerly of the 9th Lancers, the Hon.

Francis Albert Rollo, and Lady Mary Agatha. Viscount Amberley married,

on November 8, 1864, the fifth daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley.

Lord Amberley died two years before his father, and the peerage

descended to the elder of his two sons, the present Earl Russell.

Lady Russell states: 'Our way of life during the session, from the time

we first settled in Pembroke Lodge till John ceased to take any active

part in politics, was to be there from Wednesday to Thursday and from

Saturday to Monday. This made him spend much time on the road; but he

always said the good it did him to snatch all he could of the delight of

his own quiet country home, to breathe its pure air, and be cheered by

the sight of his merry children, far outweighed the time and trouble it

cost him. When he was able to leave town tolerably early, he used

sometimes to ride down all the way; but he oftener drove to Hammersmith

Bridge, where his horse, and such of our children as were old enough to

ride met him, and how joyfully I used to catch the first sight of the

happy riders--he on his roan "Surrey" and they on their pretty

ponies--from the little mount in our grounds! He was very fond of

riding, and in far later days, when age and infirmity obliged him to

give it up, used often to say in a sad tone, pointing to some of his

favourite grassy rides, as we drove together in the park, "Ah! what

pleasant gallops we used to have along there!"' Lord John was seen to

great advantage in his own home and with his children. Even when the

cares of State pressed most heavily on him he always seemed to the

children about him to have leisure to enter with gay alacrity into their

plans and amusements. When at home, no matter how urgent the business in

hand, he always saw them either in the house or the garden every day,

and took the liveliest interest in the round of their life, alike in

work and play. He had conquered the art of bearing care lightly. He

seldom allowed public affairs to distract him in moments of leisure. He

was able to throw aside the cares of office, and to enter with vivacity

and humour into social diversions. His equable temper and placid

disposition served him in good stead amid the turmoil and excitement of

political life.

[Sidenote: A PACKET OF OLD LETTERS]

Sorrows, neither few nor light, fell upon the household at Pembroke

Lodge in the closing years of Lord Russell's life; but 'trials,' as Lady

Russell puts it in her journal, 'had taught Lord John to feel for

others, and age had but deepened his religion of love.' In reply to a

birthday letter from Mr. Archibald Peel, his son-in-law, and nephew of

his great political rival he said: 'Thanks for your good wishes. Happy

returns! I always find them, as my children are so affectionate and

loving; "many" I cannot expect, but I have played my part.' Two or three

extracts from a packet of letters addressed by Lord John to his

daughter, Lady Georgiana Peel, will be read with interest. The majority

of them are of too intimate and personal a kind for quotation. Yet the

whole of them leave the impression that Lord John, who reproaches

himself in one instance as a bad correspondent, was at least a

singularly good father. They cover a considerable term of years, and

though for the most part dealing with private affairs, and often in a

spirit of pleasant raillery, here and there allusions to public events

occur in passing. In one of them, written from Gotha in the autumn of

1862, when Lord John was in attendance on her Majesty, he says: 'We have

been dull here, but the time has never hung heavy on our hands. Four

boxes of despatches and then telegrams, all requiring answers, have been

our daily food.' He refers touchingly to the Queen's grief, and there is

also an allusion to the minor tribulation of a certain little boy in

England who had just crossed the threshold of school-life. Probably

Lord John was thinking of his own harsh treatment at Westminster, more

than sixty years before, when he wrote: 'Poor Willy! He will find a

public school a rough place, and the tears will come into his eyes when

he thinks of the very soft nest he left at home.'

Ecclesiastical affairs never lost their interest to the author of the

Durham Letter, and the following comments show his attitude on Church

questions. The first is from a letter written on May 23, 1867: 'The

Church has been greatly disturbed. The Bishop of Salisbury has claimed

for the English clergy all the power of the Roman priests. The question

whether they are to wear white surplices, or blue, green, yellow, or

red, becomes a minor question in comparison. Of course the Bishop and

those who think with him throw off the authority of our excellent

Thirty-nine Articles altogether, and ought to leave the Church to the

Protestant clergy and laity.' England just then, in Carlyle's judgment,

was 'shooting Niagara,' and Disraeli's reform proposals were making a

stir in the opposite camp. In the letter above quoted Lord John says:

'Happily, we are about to get rid of the compound householder. I am told

Dizzy expects to be the first President of the British Republic.' Mr.

Gladstone, according to Lord Houghton, seemed at the same moment 'quite

awed with the diabolical cleverness of Dizzy.' The second bears date

Woburn Abbey, September 29, 1868: 'Dr. Temple is a man I greatly admire,

and he has become more valuable to his country since the death of our

admirable Dean of St. Paul's. If I had any voice in the appointment,

Temple is the man I should wish to see succeed to Milman; but I suppose

the "Essays and Reviews" will tell heavily against him.' 'We lead a very

quiet life here and a very happy one. I sometimes regret not seeing my

old political friends a little oftener.' 'In June [1869] I expect

Dickens to visit us. We went to see him last night in the murder of

Nancy by Sikes, and Mrs. Gamp. He acts like a great actor, and writes

like a great author. Irish Church is looming very near in the Commons,

and, in June, in the Lords. The Archbishops and Bishops do not wish to

oppose the second reading, but Lord Cairns is prepared to hack and hew

in committee.'

[Sidenote: LADY GEORGIANA PEEL]

The recollections of Lord John's children reveal, by incidents too

trivial in themselves to quote, how completely he entered into their

life. Lady Georgiana Peel recalls her childish tears when her father

arrived too late from London one evening to see one of the glorious

sunsets which he had taught her to admire. 'I can feel now his hand on

my forehead in any childish illness, or clasping mine in the garden, as

he led me out to forget some trifling sorrow.' She lays stress on his

patience and serene temper, on his tender heart, and on the fact that he

always found leisure on the busiest day to enter into the daily life of

his little girls. Half heartedness, either in work or play, was not to

his mind. '_Do_ what you are doing' was the advice he gave to his

children.

One of the elder children in far-off days at Pembroke Lodge, Mrs.

Warburton, Lord John's step-daughter, recalls wet days in the country,

when her father would break the tedium of temporary imprisonment indoors

by romping with his children. 'I have never forgotten his expression of

horror when in a game of hide-and-seek he banged the door accidentally

in my elder sister's face and we heard her fall. Looking back to the

home life, its regularity always astonishes me. The daily walks,

prayers, and meals regular and punctual as a rule.... He was shy and we

were shy, but I think we spoke quite freely with him, and he seldom

said more than "Foolish child" when we ventured on any startling views

on things. Once I remember rousing his indignation when I gave out, with

sententious priggishness, that the Duke of Wellington laboured under

great difficulties in Spain caused by the "factious opposition at home;"

that was beyond "Foolish child," but my discomforted distress was soon

soothed by a pat on the cheek, and an amused twinkle in his kind eyes.'

Lord Amberley, four days before his death, declared that he had all his

life 'met with nothing but kindness and gentleness' from his father. He

added: 'I do earnestly hope that at the end of his long and noble life

he may be spared the pain of losing a son.'

Mr. Rollo Russell says: 'My father was very fond of history, and I can

remember his often turning back to Hume, Macaulay, Hallam, and other

historical works. He read various books on the French Revolution with

great interest. He had several classics always near him, such as Homer

and Virgil; and he always carried about with him a small edition of

Horace. Of Shakespeare he could repeat much, and knew the plays well,

entering into and discussing the characters. He admired Milton very

greatly and was fond of reading "Paradise Lost." He was very fond of

several Italian and Spanish books, by the greatest authors of those

countries. Of lighter reading, he admired most, I think, "Don Quixote,"

Sir Walter Scott's novels, Miss Evans' ("George Eliot") novels, Miss

Austen's, and Dickens and Thackeray. Scott especially he loved to read

over again. He told me he bought "Waverley" when it first came out, and

was so interested in it that he sat up a great part of the night till he

had finished it.'

[Sidenote: THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS]

Lady Russell states that Grote's 'History of Greece' was one of the

last books her husband read, and she adds: 'Many of his friends must

have seen its volumes open before him on the desk of his blue armchair

in his sitting-room at Pembroke Lodge in the last year or two of his

life. It was often exchanged for Jowett's "Plato," in which he took

great delight, and which he persevered in trying to read, when, alas!

the worn-out brain refused to take in the meaning.'

Lord John was a delightful travelling companion, and he liked to journey

with his children about him. His cheerfulness and merriment on these

occasions is a happy memory. Dr. Anderson, of Richmond, who has been for

many years on intimate terms at Pembroke Lodge, and was much abroad with

Lord John in the capacity of physician and friend, states that all who

came in contact personally with him became deeply attached to him. This

arose not only from the charm of his manner and conversation, but from

the fact that he felt they trusted him implicitly. 'I never saw anyone

laugh so heartily. He seemed almost convulsed with merriment, and he

once told me that after a supper with Tom Moore, the recollection of

some of the witty things said during the course of the evening so

tickled him, that he had to stop and hold by the railings while laughing

on his way home. I once asked which of all the merry pictures in "Punch"

referring to himself amused him the most, and he at once replied: "The

little boy who has written 'No Popery' on a wall and is running away

because he sees a policeman coming. I think that was very funny!"' Dr.

Anderson says that Lord John was generous to a fault and easily moved to

tears, and adds: 'I never knew any one more tender in illness or more

anxious to help.' He states that Lord John told him that he had

encountered Carlyle one day in Regent Street. He stopped, and asked him

if he had seen a paragraph in that morning's 'Times' about the Pope.

'What!' exclaimed Carlyle, 'the Pope, the Pope! The back of ma han' for

that auld chimera!'

Lady Russell says: 'As far as I recollect he never but once worked after

dinner. He always came up to the drawing-room with us, was able to cast

off public cares, and chat and laugh, and read and be read to, or join

in little games, such as capping verses, of which he was very fond.'

Lord John used often to write prologues and epilogues for the

drawing-room plays which they were accustomed to perform. Space forbids

the quotation of these sparkling and often humorous verses, but the

following instance of his ready wit occurred in the drawing-room at

Minto, and is given on the authority of Mr. George Elliot. At a game

where everyone was required to write some verses, answering the question

written on a paper to be handed to him, and bringing in a word written

on the same, the paper that fell to the lot of Lord John contained this

question: 'Do you admire Sir Robert Peel?' and 'soldier' the word to be

brought in. His answer was:

'I ne'er was a soldier of Peel,

Or ever yet stood at his back;

For while he wriggled on like an eel,

I swam straight ahead like a _Jack_.'

Mr. Gladstone states that perhaps the finest retort he ever heard in the

House of Commons was that of Lord John in reply to Sir Francis Burdett.

The latter had abandoned his Radicalism in old age, and was foolish

enough to sneer at the 'cant of patriotism.' 'I quite agree, said Lord

John, 'with the honourable baronet that the cant of patriotism is a bad

thing. But I can tell him a worse--the _re_cant of patriotism--which I

will gladly go along with him in reprobating whenever he shows me an

example of it.'

[Sidenote: LORD DUFFERIN'S RECOLLECTIONS]

Lord John Russell once declared that he had no need to go far in search

of happiness, as he had it at his own doors, and this was the impression

left on every visitor to Pembroke Lodge. Lord Dufferin states that all

his recollections gather around Lord John's domestic life. He never

possessed a kinder friend or one who was more pleasant in the retirement

of his home. Lord Dufferin adds: 'One of his most charming

characteristics was that he was so simple, so untheatrical, so genuine,

that his existence, at least when I knew him, flowed at a very high

level of thought and feeling, but was unmarked by anything very

dramatic. His conversation was too delightful, full of anecdote; but

then his anecdotes were not like those told by the ordinary _raconteur_,

and were simple reminiscences of his own personal experience and

intercourse with other distinguished men. Again, his stories were told

in such an unpretending way that, though you were delighted with what

you had heard, you were still more delighted with the speaker himself.'

The closing years of Lord Russell's career were marked by settled peace,

the consciousness of great tasks worthily accomplished, the unfaltering

devotion of household love, the friendship of the Queen, the confidence

of a younger race of statesmen, and the respect of the nation.

Deputations of working men found their way to Pembroke Lodge to greet

the old leader of the party of progress, and school children gathered

about him in summer on the lawn, and were gladdened by his kindly smile

and passing word. In good report and in evil report, in days of power

and in days of weakness, the Countess Russell cheered, helped, and

solaced him, and brought not only rare womanly devotion, but unusual

intellectual gifts to his aid at the critical moments of his life, when

bearing the strain of public responsibility, and in the simple round of

common duty. The nation may recognise the services of its great men, but

can never gauge to the full extent the influences which sustained them.

The uplifting associations of a singularly happy domestic life must be

taken into account in any estimate of the forces which shaped Lord John

Russell's career. It is enough to say--indeed, more cannot with

propriety be added--that through the political stress and strain of

nearly forty years Lady Russell proved herself to be a loyal and

noble-hearted wife.

There is another subject, which cannot be paraded on the printed page,

and yet, since religion was the central principle of Lord John Russell's

life, some allusion to his position on the highest of all subjects

becomes imperative. His religion was thorough; it ran right through his

nature. It was practical, and revealed itself in deeds which spoke

louder than words. 'I rest in the faith of Jeremy Taylor,' were his

words, 'Barrow, Tillotson, Hoadly, Samuel Clarke, Middleton, Warburton,

and Arnold, without attempting to reconcile points of difference between

these great men. I prefer the simple words of Christ to any dogmatic

interpretation of them.' Dean Stanley, whom he used to call his

Pope--always playfully adding, 'but not an infallible one'--declared

shortly before Lord Russell's death that 'he was a man who was firmly

convinced that in Christianity, whether as held by the National Church

or Nonconformist, there was something greater and vaster than each of

the particular communions professed and advocated, something which made

it worth while to develop those universal principles of religion that

are common to all who accept in any real sense the fundamental truths of

Christianity.'

[Sidenote: MR. SPURGEON'S BLESSING]

Mr. Spurgeon, in conversation with the writer of these pages, related an

incident concerning Lord John which deserves at least passing record, as

an illustration of his swift appreciation of ability and the reality of

his recognition of religious equality. Lord John was upwards of sixty at

the time, and the famous Baptist preacher, though the rage of the town,

was scarcely more than twenty. The Metropolitan Tabernacle had as yet

not been built. Mr. Spurgeon was at the Surrey Music Hall, and there the

great congregation had gathered around this youthful master of

assemblies. One Sunday night, at the close of the service, Lord John

Russell came into the vestry to speak a kindly word of encouragement to

the young preacher. One of the children of the ex-Prime Minister was

with him, and before the interview ended Lord John asked the

Nonconformist minister to give his blessing to the child. Mr. Spurgeon

never forgot the incident, or the bearing of the man who came to him,

amid a crowd of others, on that Sunday night.

In opening the new buildings of Cheshunt College in 1871, Lord John

alluded to the foundress of that seat of theological learning, Lady

Huntingdon, as a woman who was far in advance of her times, since, a

century before the abolition of University tests, she made it possible

to divinity students to obtain academical training without binding

themselves at the outset to any religious community.

During the early months of 1878 Lord John's strength failed rapidly, and

it became more and more apparent that the plough was nearing the end of

the furrow. His old courage and calmness remained to the end. Mr. and

Mrs. Gladstone called at Pembroke Lodge on April 20, and he sent down

word that he wished to see them. 'I took them to him for a few minutes,'

relates Lady Russell. 'Happily, he was clear in his mind, and said to

Mr. Gladstone, "I am sorry you are not in the Ministry," and kissed her

affectionately, and was so cordial to both that they were greatly

touched.' He told Lady Russell that he had enjoyed his life. 'I have

made mistakes, but in all I did my object was the public good!' Then

after a pause: 'I have sometimes seemed cold to my friends, but it was

not in my heart.' A change for the worse set in on May 1, and the last

sands of life were slipping quietly through the glass when the

Nonconformist deputation came on the 9th of that month to present Lord

Russell with an address of congratulation on the occasion of the jubilee

of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts.[45] Lady Russell and her

children received the Deputation. In the course of her reply to the

address Lady Russell said that of all the 'victories won by that great

party to which in his later as in his earlier years Lord John had been

inseparably attached,' there was none dearer to his memory at that

moment than that which they had called to remembrance. 'It was a proud

and a sad day,' is the entry in Lady Russell's journal. 'We had hoped

some time ago that he might perhaps see the Deputation for a moment in

his room, but he was too ill for that to be possible.'

A few days later, there appeared in the columns of 'Punch' some

commemorative verses entitled 'A Golden Wedding.' They expressed the

feeling that was uppermost in the heart of the nation, and two or three

verses may here be recorded:--

The Golden Wedding of Lord John and Liberty his love--

'Twixt the Russells' House and Liberty, 'twas ever hand and glove--

His love in those dark ages, he has lived through with his bride,

To look back on them from the sunset of his quiet eventide.

His love when he that loved her and sought her for his own

Must do more than suit and service, must do battle, trumpet blown,

Must slay the fiery dragons that guarded every gate

On the roads by which men travelled for work of Church and State.

Now time brings its revenges, and all are loud to own

How beautiful a bride she was, how fond, how faithful shown;

But she knows the man who loved her when lovers were but few,

And she hails this golden wedding--fifty years of tried and true.

Look and listen, my Lord Russell: 'tis your golden wedding-day;

We may not press your brave old hand, but you hear what we've to say.

A blessing on the bridal that has known its fifty years,

But never known its fallings-out, delusions, doubt, or fears.

[Sidenote: VICTORIOUS PEACE]

The end came softly. 'I fall back on the faith of my childhood,' were

the words he uttered to Dr. Anderson. The closing scene is thus recorded

in Mr. Rollo Russell's journal: 'May 28 [1878].--He was better this

morning, though still in a very weak state. He spoke more distinctly,

called me by my name, and said something which I could not understand.

He did not seem to be suffering ... and has, all through his long

illness, been cheerful to a degree that surprises everybody about him,

not complaining of anything, but seeming to feel that he was being well

cared for. About midday he became worse ... but bore it all calmly. My

mother was with him continually.... Towards ten he was much worse, and

in a few minutes, while my mother was holding his hand, he breathed out

gently the remainder of life.' Westminster Abbey was offered as a place

of burial, but, in accordance with his own expressed wish, Lord John

Russell was gathered to his fathers at Chenies. The Queen's sympathy and

her sense of loss were expressed in the following letter:--

'Balmoral: May 30, 1878.

'DEAR LADY RUSSELL,--It was only yesterday afternoon that I heard

through the papers that your dear husband had left this world of sorrows

and trials peacefully and full of years the night before, or I would

have telegraphed and written sooner. You will believe that I truly

regret an old friend of forty years' standing, and whose personal

kindness in trying and anxious times I shall _ever_ remember. "Lord

John," as I knew him best, was one of my _first_ and _most

distinguished_ Ministers, and his departure recalls many eventful times.

'To you, dear Lady Russell, who were ever one of the most devoted of

wives, this must be a terrible blow, though you must have for some time

been prepared for it. But one is _never_ prepared for the blow when it

comes, and you have had such trials and sorrows of late years that I

most truly sympathise with you. Your dear and devoted daughter will, I

know, be the greatest possible comfort to you, and I trust that your

grandsons will grow up to be all you could wish.

'Believe me always, yours affectionately,

'VICTORIA R. AND I.'

[Sidenote: HIS GREAT QUALITIES]

Lord Shaftesbury wrote in his journal some words about Lord Russell

which speak for themselves. After recording that he had reached the ripe

age of eighty-six, and that he had been a conspicuous man for more than

half a century, he added that to have 'begun with disapprobation, to

have fought through many difficulties, to have announced, and acted

on, principles new to the day in which he lived, to have filled many

important offices, to have made many speeches, and written many books,

and in his whole course to have done much with credit, and nothing with

dishonour, and so to have sustained and advanced his reputation to the

very end, is a mighty commendation.'

When some one told Sir Stafford Northcote that Lord John was dead, the

tidings were accompanied by the trite but sympathetic comment, 'Poor

Lord Russell!' 'Why do you call him poor?' was the quick retort. 'Lord

Russell had the chance of doing a great work and--he did it.'

Lord John was not faultless, and most assuredly he was not infallible.

He made mistakes, and sometimes was inclined to pay too little heed to

the claims of others, and not to weigh with sufficient care the force of

his own impetuous words. The taunt of 'finality' has seldom been less

deserved. In most directions he kept an open mind, and seems, like

Coleridge, to have believed that an error is sometimes the shadow of a

great truth yet behind the horizon. Mr. Gladstone asserts that his old

chief was always ready to stand in the post of difficulty, and possessed

an inexhaustible sympathy with human suffering.

It is at least certain that Lord John Russell served England--the

country whose freedom, he once declared, he 'worshipped'--with unwearied

devotion, with a high sense of honour, with a courage which never

faltered, with an integrity which has never been impeached. He followed

duty to the utmost verge of life, and--full himself of moral

susceptibility--he reverenced the conscience of every man.

FOOTNOTES:

[44] _History of the War in the Crimea_, by A. W, Kinglake, vol. ii.

sixth edition, pp. 249-50.

Lady Russell states that Lord John used to smile at Kinglake's

rhetorical exaggeration of the scene. Her impression is that only two of

the Cabinet, and not, as the historian puts it, 'all but a small

minority,' fell asleep. The Duke of Argyll or Mr. Gladstone can alone

settle the point at issue.

[45] Amongst those who assembled in the drawing-room of Pembroke Lodge

on that historic occasion were Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., Mr. Samuel

Morley, M.P., Mr. Edward Baines, Sir Charles Reed, Mr. Carvell Williams,

M.P., who came on behalf of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies. The

Congregationalists were represented by such men as the Rev. Baldwin

Brown and the Rev. Guinness Rogers; the Baptists by Dr. Underhill; the

Presbyterians by Dr. McEwan; and the Unitarians by Mr. Middleton

Aspland.

INDEX

ABERCROMBY, Mr., 103

Aberdeen, Lord, Foreign Secretary in Peel's Cabinet, 125;

and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 132;

forms the Coalition Government, 203, 206;

early political life and characteristics, 209;

and the Secret Memorandum, 216, 225;

friendly relations with the Emperor Nicholas, 217, 233;

belief in the peaceful intentions of Russia, 225, 231;

vacillation on the eve of the Crimean War, 229, 234;

public prejudice against him, 233;

home policy, 240;

fall of his Government, 257;

relations with Lord John Russell, 346, 347

Adelaide, Queen, 82, 83

'Adullamites,' 329

Afghanistan, invasion of, 121, 170

'Alabama' Case, the, 312-319

Albert, Prince, and Lord Palmerston, 177;

letter on the defeat of the Turks at Sinope, 232;

and Count Buol's scheme, 261;

letter on the position of affairs in the Crimea, 263;

death, and characteristics, 308, 309;

last official act, 310

Alexander II., 259, 321

Alien Acts, the, 27

All the Talents, Ministry of, 63, 64

Alma, the battle of, 246

Althorp, Lord, 48, 56, 67, 79;

and his part in carrying the Reform Bill, 81, 82, 87;

characteristics, 81, 82, 88, 92;

introduces the Poor Law Amendment Act (Ireland), 93, 96;

and the Coercion Act, 96;

succeeds to the Peerage as Earl Spencer, 100.

_See also_ Spencer, Lord

Amberley, Viscount, 356

America, war between England and, 21, 22;

Napoleon's opinion of the war, 31;

and the 'Trent' affair, 310-312;

Civil War, 310, 313;

and the Alabama Case, 312-319

Anti-Corn-Law League, its founding 121, 126, 131

Argyll, Duke of, 295, 327

Armenia, massacres in, 269, 353

Arms Bill, 146, 147;

of 1847, 154

Auckland, Lord, 96

Austria, revolt in Vienna of 1848, 171;

and the retention of Lombardy and Venice, 172, 300;

and the Vienna Note, 227;

and the Crimean War, 243;

proposed alliance with England and France to defend the integrity of

Turkey, 261;

her power in Italy, 300;

campaign against France and Italy, and battles of Magenta and

Solferino, 302, 303;

and the peace of Villafranca, 303

BAGEHOT, Walter, 86, 323

Ballot, the: Grote's attempts to introduce a bill, 90, 111

Bathurst, Lord, 50

Bedford, fourth Duke of, his 'Correspondence' edited by Lord John

Russell, 278

-- Francis, fifth Duke of, 3

-- sixth Duke of, father of Lord John Russell, 3;

opinion of English Universities, 11, 16;

encouragement given to Lord John in political training, 14, 36;

characteristics, 16;

and Lord John's leadership of the Opposition, 103;

and Joseph Lancaster, 115

-- seventh Duke of, 202

-- first Earl of, 2

Belgium: the question of its independence, 172, 340, 341

Bentinck, Lord George, 138, 140, 141, 150, 160, 201

Bessborough, Lord, 146, 151

Birmingham, unrepresented in the House of Commons, 23, 38, 51, 60, 71;

great meeting on the Reform question at, 79, 296

Bismarck, Count, 321-323

Blandford, Lord, 59

Blessington, Lady, 42

Blomfield, Bishop, 115

Bradlaugh, Mr., 332

Bribery and corruption before the era of Reform, 23, 61;

Lord John Russell's resolutions for the discovery and punishment

of, 43

Bridgeman, Mr. George (afterwards Earl of Bradford), 16, 18, 20

Bright, John, on the influences at work in the repeal of the Corn

Laws, 130, 131;

on disaffection in Ireland, and the Arms Bill, 155, 156, 202, 206,

208, 287;

relations with Lord John Russell, 294, 329;

and the 'Adullamites,' 329

Brougham, Lord, 56, 67;

and the Reform Bill cry, 74;

speech on the second Reform Bill, 78, 83;

opinion of Lord John Russell, 110

Buccleuch, Duke of, 134, 136

Bulgaria, massacres in, 269, 352

Bulwer, Sir H., 174

Buol, Count, 261, 263

Burdett, Sir Francis, 25, 26;

his motion for universal suffrage, 35; 70

Buxton, Thomas Fowell, 89

Byng, Hon. Georgiana, 3

CAMELFORD, 40

Campbell, Lord, 157

Canada: the rebellion, 110;

Earl of Durham appointed Governor-General, 110

Canning, Mr., 43;

his Ministry, 50;

death, 51

Capital crimes, 107

Cardwell, Mr., 290

Carlisle, Earl of, 96

Carlyle, Thomas, and the Chartists, 166, 167, 358, 362

Caroline, Queen, proceedings against, 41

Cartwright, Dr., 5

Cartwright, Major, 5, 25, 26, 38, 39

Cassiobury, 36, 112

Castlereagh, Lord, 21, 40, 63

Catholics: political restrictions against them, 48;

agitation for Emancipation, 58, 59;

passing of the Emancipation Bill, 59;

and the decree of Pius IX., 182-184;

and the Durham Letter, 184-188

Cato Street Conspiracy, 40

'Cave of Adullam,' 329

Cavour, Count, 300, 301, 302

Chadwick, Sir Edwin, 162

Chartist movement, 163;

and Feargus O'Connor, 165-168;

and its literature, 166

Chatham, Lord, on borough representation, 24, 25, 26

Chelsea Hospital, 62

Cheshunt College, 365

China, opium war against, 121

Church of England, the, and its adoption of Romish practices, 185, 186

Clare, Lord, 6, 7

Clarendon, Lord, 119, 141;

his Vice-royalty of Ireland, 153, 182, 196;

at the Foreign Office, 221, 224, 231;

on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, 260;

Count Buol's proposals, 262, 263, 327

Clive, Mr. Robert, 16, 20

Clubs for the advancement of Reform, 26

Cobbett, William, 26, 64

Cobden, Richard, and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 131, 132, 134;

and Wellington, 136, 202, 206, 208, 287;

relations with Lord John Russell, 294;

negotiates the Commercial Treaty with France, 295, 296;

death, 325

Coercion Act: Lord Grey proposes its renewal, 96;

Lord John Russell's speech, 97, 98;

and O'Connell, 98, 99;

Peel's proposal for its renewal, 140

Conspiracy Bill, the, 289, 290

Conyngham, Marquis of, 96

Corn Laws, 121;

John Bright on the influences working for their repeal, 130, 131;

of 1670 reproduced in 1815, 131 _n._;

Sir Robert Peel proposes their gradual repeal, 138;

bill for repeal passes both Houses, 139;

total repeal carried by Russell, 145

Cranworth, Lord, 327

Crime, excessive penalties for, 24

Crimean War: causes, 213-235;

outbreak, 243, 246;

Alma, 246;

Balaclava and Inkerman, 247;

siege of Sebastopol, 246, 247;

privation and pestilence amongst the Allies, 248, 252;

Roebuck's motion in the House of Commons to inquire into the

condition of the army before Sebastopol, and Lord John Russell's

speech on the question, 254-257;

failure of Vienna Conference and renewal of the campaign, 267;

fall of Sebastopol, 268;

losses of Russia, and of the Allies, 268;

treaty of Paris, 268

Croker, J. W., 80, 139

DALLING, Lord, 180

Denmark and the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 322, 323

Derby, Lord, Administration of, 199, 200, 202, 206;

fails to form a Ministry on the resignation of Lord Aberdeen, 258;

succeeds to the Premiership on the resignation of Lord Palmerston,

290;

resignation, 293

Devonshire, Duke of, 49

Dickens, Charles, his tribute to Lord Russell, 354

Disraeli, Benjamin, and the 'poisoned chalice,' 135;

attacks Peel on the proposal to repeal the Corn Laws, 138;

and the Coercion Bill, 140, 141, 160;

and 'Sybil,' 166;

and the dismissal of Lord Palmerston, 180, 181;

on Lord John Russell's position after the issue of the Durham

Letter, 188;

his Budget of 1852, 199, 210;

leadership of the Conservative party, 201;

resolution condemning the Palmerston Ministry, 264;

on the exclusion of Lord John from Lord Grey's Cabinet, 273, 290;

his Reform Bill, 291, 292;

on the Prince Consort, 309;

his 'diabolical cleverness,' 333 _n._

Dissenters. _See_ Nonconformists

'Don Carlos,' by Lord John Russell, 279

'Don Pacifico' affair, the, 175

Dufferin, Lord, 327, 363

Duffy, Sir Gavan, on Irish landowners, 149

Duhamel, General, his scheme for the acquisition of India by Russia,

218

Duncannon, Lord, 67, 91, 92;

appointed Home Secretary, 99. _See also_ Bessborough, Lord

Dunkellin, Lord, 329, 331

Durazzo, Madame, 37

Durham, Lord, his advanced opinions and popularity with the Radicals,

66, 164;

and the preparation of the Reform Bill, 67, 68;

and the scene in the House of Commons during the introduction of the

bill, 69, 89;

resigns office, 92;

appointed Governor-General of Canada, 110;

defended by Lord John Russell, 111;

popularity, 164

Durham Letter, the, 184-189, 191

EAST INDIA COMPANY, 89, 288, 289

East Retford, 51

Ebrington, Lord, 75;

moves a vote of confidence in Lord Grey's Government, 79;

moves a second vote of confidence, 83, 91, 92

Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 191-193

'Edinburgh Letter,' the, 133

Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13

-- University, Lord John Russell at, 11-14;

and the influence of Professors Dugald Stewart and John Playfair,

12;

and the Speculative Society, 13

Education at the beginning of the century, 24;

Roebuck's scheme, 89;

Bill of 1839, 114, 115;

measure for providing competent teachers for elementary schools,

159;

Lord John Russell's scheme of National Education, 284;

Mr. Forster's measure, 285

Egypt, war between Turkey and, 119

Elcho, Lord, 329

Eldon, Lord, 40, 50;

and the proposed repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 57, 58, 63

Elections, Parliamentary, cost of, 23

Elliot, Hon. George, 195, 279, 347, 362

Encumbered Estates Act, 157

Erskine, Lord, 25

'Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution,' by

Lord John Russell, 274, 275

FACTORY ACT, 159

Famine, Irish, 130, 146, 148, 149

Farnborough, Lord, 107

Fielden, Mr., 159

Fitzpatrick, General, 20

Flood, Mr., and Reform, 77, and _note_

Fonblanque, Albany, 47, 84, 196, 197

Forster, W. E., and the Irish famine, 149;

tribute to Lord John Russell for his work in the cause of education,

285, 327

Fortescue, Mr. Chichester, Lord John Russell's 'Letters on the State

of Ireland' to, 280, 342

Fox, Charles James, his influence on Lord John Russell, 8;

on Parliamentary Representation, 25;

and the Test and Corporation Acts, 54, 55;

Russell's Biography of him, 98, 272, 277

France: Napoleon's intention to create a new aristocracy, 31;

and England's alliance, 120;

overthrow and flight of Louis Philippe, 163, 171;

and the Spanish marriages, 171;

Revolution of 1848, 171;

and the 'Don Pacifico' affair, 175;

and the Crimean War, 225, 229;

the Orsini Conspiracy, 289, 290;

Commercial Treaty with England, 295, 296;

campaign with Italy, against Austria, 302, 303;

annexation of Savoy, 305

Free Trade: the question coming to the front, 121;

and Tory opposition, 132;

conversion of Peel, 137, 138;

and the Commercial Treaty with France, 296

French Revolution, its influence on the English people, 24, 36

Friends of the People, Society of the, 25, 63

Froude, Mr., on the improvements effected by the Reform Bill, 86, 87

'GAGGING ACTS,' the, 39, 40

Garibaldi, General, 300;

entry into Naples, 306;

visit to Pembroke Lodge, 307

Gascoigne, General, 73

Gatton, 23

Gavazzi, Father, 186

George III., his madness and blindness, 27;

and Catholic Emancipation, 59

George IV. and Queen Caroline, 41;

and Catholic Emancipation, 59;

death, 60, 64

Gibson, Milner, 141, 208, 287, 295

Gladstone, Mr., on the Colonial policy of the Melbourne Government,

117;

Colonial Secretary, 136;

and Sir Robert Peel, 176;

his attack on Disraeli's Budget, 199;

and Disraeli's claim to lead the Conservative party, 201 and _note_;

and Lord John Russell's claim to the Premiership on the fall of the

Derby Government, 202;

takes office under Lord Aberdeen, 207;

first Budget, 210;

and the income tax, 240;

resigns office, 258, 290;

Chancellor of the Exchequer (1859), 295;

tribute to Russell on his accession to the Peerage, 297, 298;

unseated at Oxford, 325;

Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Russell, 327;

introduces a Reform Bill, 328;

tribute to Lord Russell, 330;

ovation at Carlton House Terrace, 332;

and the Irish Question, 342, 363, 366

Glenelg, Lord, 112

Goderich, Lord, 52, 93

Gordon, Lady Georgiana, 3

Gore, Hon. Charles, 348

Gorham Case, the, 182

Gortschakoff, Prince, 261, 267

Goschen, Mr., 327

Graham, Sir James, 67;

withdraws from Lord Grey's Ministry, 95;

accuses Lord John Russell of encouraging sedition, 119;

Home Secretary under Peel, 125;

declines the Governor-Generalship of India, 141, 202, 207, 232, 254,

258, 290

Grampound, 27, 40, 41;

disfranchised, 43

Granville, Lord, appointed Foreign Secretary, 182;

on Lord John Russell's speech in defence of his late colleagues,

266;

fails to form a Ministry on the defeat of Lord Derby, 293;

becomes President of the Council, 295

Great Exhibition of 1851, 193, 200, 234, 308

Greece and the 'Don Pacifico' affair, 175

Greenock, Lord John Russell's speech on the prospects of war, at, 227

Greville, Charles, comments of, 61, 69, 72, 73, 102, 130, 180, 207,

257, 286

Grey, (Charles, second) Lord, 15, 25;

and Lord John Russell's efforts on behalf of liberty, 58, 61;

forms an Administration, 62, 65;

early labours in the cause of Reform, 63, 64;

characteristics, 65;

announcement in the House of Lords with regard to the introduction

of the first Reform Bill, 68;

speech on the second Reform Bill, 76-78;

resigns office, but resumes power on the inability of the Duke of

Wellington to form a Ministry, 83, 92;

changes in his Cabinet, 96;

proposes the renewal of the Coercion Act, 96;

resigns the Premiership, 99

Grey (Henry, third), Lord, 134;

Secretary to the Colonies under Lord John Russell, 141

Grey, Sir George, Home Secretary under Lord John Russell, 141;

and Irish crime, 153;

appointed Colonial Secretary, 245, 295;

Home Secretary, 327

Grillion's Club, 27, 28

Grosvenor, Earl, 329, 330

Grote, George, 90, 110, 111, 320

HABEAS CORPUS ACT, suspension of, 33, 34

Hampden, Dr., and the see of Hereford, 161

Hampden Clubs, 26

Harcourt, Archbishop, on religious tests, 57

Harding, Sir John, and the 'Alabama' Case, 315-317

Hardinge, Sir Henry (afterwards Viscount), 82, 249

Hartington, Lord, 292, 327

Henley, Mr., 291

Herbert of Lea, Lord, 232

Herbert, Sidney, 207, 244, 254, 258

Herschel, Sir John, 355

Hobhouse, Sir J. C., 70, 141

Holland, Lord, visit of Lord John Russell to the Peninsula with, 9-11,

30, 53, 57, 119;

and the Life of Charles James Fox, 276

Holland House, 8, 15, 143

Holy Places in Palestine, dispute concerning, 213, 218

Horsman, Mr., 329

Houghton, Lord, 294

House of Commons, abuses and defects in representation before the era

of Reform, 22, 23;

presentation of the petition of the Friends of the People, 25, 26;

suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, 33, 34;

Sir Francis Burdett's motion for universal suffrage, and Lord John

Russell's speech, 35;

and the 'Gagging Acts,' 39, 40;

Lord John's first resolutions in favour of Reform, 40;

Lord John proposes an addition of 100 members, 43;

introduction and second reading of the first Reform Bill, 69-73;

dissolution, 74;

first Reform Bill, 69-73;

second Reform Bill, 75, 76;

third Reform Bill, 81;

the first Reformed Parliament, 88;

number of Protectionists in 1847, 160

House of Lords, and the proposed enfranchisement of Manchester, 52;

and the Test and Corporation Acts, 56, 57;

effect of the Duke of Wellington's declaration against Reform, 61;

its rejection of Reform, 78;

urged by William IV. to withdraw opposition to the Reform Bill, 84;

passing of the Reform Bill, 84;

and the Jewish Disabilities Bill, 198, 291

Howick, Lord, 134

Hume, Joseph, 72, 80, 90, 121

Hunt, Mr. Ward, 330

-- 'Orator,' 26

Huskisson, Mr., 56

Hyde Park, Reform demonstration in, 332

INDEMNITY BILL for Dissenters, 51

India, Napoleon's prophecy as to the acquisition by Russia of, 31;

Duhamel's scheme for its acquisition by Russia, 218;

Mutiny in, 288

India Bills, 210, 290

Inkerman, battle of, 247

Ireland: condition of affairs on the accession of the Duke of

Wellington to power, 53;

agitation for Catholic Emancipation, 58, 59;

and O'Connell, 90;

Lord John Russell's visit in 1833, 91, 92;

Poor Law Amendment Act, 93, 107;

Mr. Littleton's Tithe Bill, 93;

Tithe Bill of 1835, 105, 107;

Municipal Bill, 105, 112;

passing of the Tithe Bill, 112;

Maynooth grant, 127, 128;

potato famine, 130, 146, 148, 149;

Peel's proposal for renewal of Coercion Act, 140;

proposed renewal of Arms Bill, 147, 148;

revolt of Young Ireland against O'Connell, 147;

measures to relieve distress, 150-152;

crime, 153, 154;

Arms Bill (1847), 154;

Treason Felony Act, 157;

Encumbered Estates Act, 157;

emigration, 158

Irish Church: Mr. Ward's motion, 95;

Peel's accusation against Lord John Russell, 97;

Lord John's motion of April 1835, 103, 104

Italy: Lord John Russell's impressions, 37;

Lord John's second visit, 48, 49;

and the retention by Austria of Lombardy and Venice, 172, 300;

accession of Victor Emmanuel II. to the throne of Sardinia, 301;

campaign, with France, against Austria, 302, 303;

the Peace of Villafranca, 303;

intervention of England, 304;

annexation of Savoy by France, 305;

entry of Garibaldi into Naples, and proclamation of Victor Emmanuel

as King of Italy, 306

JAMAICA BILL, the, 114

Jews: exclusion from Parliament, 57;

rejection in the Lords of bill for their relief, 89, 198, 210;

passing of the bill in 1858, 290, 291

Jones, Gale, 13

KEBLE, Dr., 183

Kennington Common, Chartist demonstration on, 166-168

King, Mr. Locke, 193

Kinglake, Mr., 266, 353

Kingsley, Charles, his 'Alton Locke,' 166

Kossuth, Louis, his visit to England, 179

LABOUCHERE, Mr. (afterwards Lord Taunton), 116, 147

Lambton, Mr. (father of the first Earl of Durham), 25

Lancashire Cotton Famine, 319

Lancaster, Joseph, 115 and _note_, 281, 282

Lansdowne, Lord, 52, 141, 202, 205, 240, 251, 258

Lascelles, Mr., 23

Lecky, Mr. W. E. H., his reminiscences of Earl Russell, 335-339

Leech, John, 192, 241

Leeds, unrepresented in the House of Commons, 23, 38, 60, 71, 296

'Letters written for the Post, and not for the Press,' question of

authorship of, 279, 280

Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, 210, 226, 238;

Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Palmerston's Ministry, 258;

on Lord John Russell's speech announcing his resignation (1855),

265, 295

Lhuys, M. Drouyn de, 261, 262

Lincoln, President, assassination of, 325

Lister, Sir Villiers, 348

Littleton, Mr. (afterwards Lord Hatherton), and the Irish Title Bill,

93;

and the Coercion Act, 97

Liverpool, Lord, 21, 33, 50, 63

Llandaff, Bishop of, and the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts,

57

London University, 106, 107;

proposed enfranchisement of, 296

Londonderry, Marquis of, 79

Louis Philippe, overthrow and flight of, 163, 171;

and the Spanish marriages, 171

Lowe, Mr., 327, 329, 332

Luddites, riots of the, 32

Lyndhurst, Lord, and Jewish Lord Chancellors, 291

Lyons, Sir Edmund, 252

Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer, 208, 265

MACAULAY, Lord, 141;

urges Lord John Russell to take office in the Coalition Ministry,

204

Mackintosh, Sir James, 25, 39, 53

Magenta, battle of, 303

Malmesbury, Lord, 137

Maltby, Dr., Bishop of Durham, and Lord John Russell's 'Durham

Letter,' 184

Manchester, unrepresented in the House of Commons, 23, 38, 51, 60, 71,

126, 155;

creation of bishopric of, 160, 296

Martineau, Harriet, 129

Maule, Fox, 141

Maynooth College, 127-130

Mazzini, 300

McCarthy, Mr. Justin, on the attitude of the Catholics towards Lord

John Russell, 188

Melbourne, Lord, becomes Prime Minister, 99;

dismissed by William IV., 100, 101;

again Prime Minister, 104;

Queen Victoria's regard for him, 108, 109;

characteristics, 108, 170;

opinion of the ballot, 109;

resigns, but is recalled to power, 114;

his recognition of Russell's influence as leader in the Commons,

120;

blunders of his Government, 122;

defeat of his Government, 123, 144

Melville, Lord, 8

'Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe from the Peace of Utrecht,' by Lord

John Russell, 275

Memorandum, Secret, 216, 225

Menschikoff, Prince, 223, 224

Metternich, 171, 300

Miall, Edward, 242

Militia Bill, the, 194, 195

Milton, Lord, 23

Mitchel, John, 157, 158

Moldavia and Wallachia, occupation by Russia of, 224, 229, 259

Monson, Lord, 23

Moore, Thomas, his 'Remonstrance,' 34;

accompanies Lord John Russell to the Continent, 36;

extracts from his journal, 37, 39, 41;

anxiety as to Lord John's politics, 52;

on Lord John's success with his motion for the repeal of the Test

and Corporation Acts, 58;

and Lardner's Encyclopaedia, 91;

Russell's 'Memoirs and Correspondence' of Moore, 204, 272, 278

Morpeth, Lord, 141

Municipal Reform Act, 90, 104

NAPOLEON I., Lord Russell's boyish hatred of, 9;

Lord John's interview with him at Elba, 28-31;

his description of Wellington, 30;

opinions on European politics, &c., 29-31;

and Talma, 37

Napoleon III., 167;

and the _Coup d'Etat_ of 1851, 179;

and the fear of his invading England, 194;

and the custody of the Holy Places, 218;

his alliance with England during the Crimean War, 262;

visit to England (1855), 267;

interview with Count Cavour, 302;

designs with regard to Italy, 303, 304;

and the Peace of Villafranca, 303

Navigation Acts, 197

Nesselrode, Count, 214, 215

New Zealand becomes part of the British dominions, 117, 199

Newcastle, Duke of, 207, 232;

unpopularity as Secretary for War, 244, 249, 250;

incapacity as War Minister, 245

Newman, Dr., 161, 182

Nicholas, Emperor, his ambitious projects, 213, 214;

visit to England in 1844 and the Secret Memorandum, 215, 216;

friendship with Lord Aberdeen, 217;

letter to Queen Victoria, 230;

'Generals Janvier et Fevrier,' 259;

death, 259

Nightingale, Miss Florence, 250

Nonconformists: the Indemnity Bill, 51;

agitation for repeal of Test and Corporation Acts and their repeal

moved and carried by Lord John Russell, 53-57;

the Marriage Bill and Registration Act, 106;

and the struggle for civil and religious liberty, 184;

deputation to Lord Russell, 366

Normanby, Lord, 116, 179, 180

Northcote, Sir Stafford, 369

Nottingham Castle, 79

'Nun of Arrouca, The,' 278

O'BRIEN, Smith, 140, 157, 158

O'Connell, Daniel, 53;

his election for Clare, 58, 90, 92;

on the revenues of the Irish Church, 97;

and the Coercion Bill, 97, 99, 140, 146;

and Lord John Russell, 147;

and the potato famine, 149, 158

O'Connor, Feargus, 165-168

Old Sarum, 23, 71

Oltenitza, battle of, 230

Omar Pacha, 230

Opium war, the, 121

Orloff, Count, 214

Orsini conspiracy, the, 289, 290

Oxford Movement, the, 161, 182-186, 189

PALMERSTON, Lord, 21, 56, 119;

and the despatch to Metternich, 120;

Foreign Secretary under Lord John Russell, 141;

compared with Russell, 144;

early official life and politics, 169;

his independent action, 169, 174, 175, 177;

his despatch to France on the Spanish marriages, 171;

foreign policy, 173, 174;

despatch to Sir H. Bulwer at Madrid, 174;

and the 'Don Pacifico' affair, 175;

popularity, 177;

and the Queen's instructions, 178;

and the Kossuth incident, 179;

and the _Coup d'Etat_ in Paris (1851), 179;

dismissed from the Foreign Office, 180;

declines the Irish Viceroyalty, 181;

his amendment on the Militia Bill, 195;

offered a seat in Lord Derby's Cabinet, 201;

Home Secretary under Lord Aberdeen, 207;

urges the despatch of the fleet to the Bosphorus, 225;

resignation, and its withdrawal, 237, 238;

succeeds Lord Aberdeen as Prime Minister, 258;

and Count Buol's proposals, 262, 263;

defeat on the 'Arrow' question and return to power after the General

Election, 287;

defeat and resignation on the Conspiracy Bill, 290;

renewal of friendly relations with Russell, 293;

forms a Ministry on the defeat of Lord Derby, 293, 295;

indifference to Reform, 296;

on Cabinet opinions, 323;

death, 325;

Lord Lyttelton's opinion of him, 326

Panmure, Lord, 243, 258

Papal aggression, and the decree of Pius IX., 182-184;

and the Durham Letter, 184-188

Paris, Treaty of, 268

Parliamentary representation before the era of Reform, 22, 23

Parnell, Sir H., 62

'Partington, Dame,' and Sydney Smith's speech on Reform, 80

'Peace with honour,' 227, 349

Peel, Lady Georgiana, 357

Peel, Sir Robert, 21, 50;

leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, 52;

opposes the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 56;

and Catholic Emancipation, 58;

and the first Reform Bill, 69, 70, 73, 76, 83;

Prime Minister, 102;

resignation, 104;

and the Whig Ladies-in-Waiting, 114;

his motion of want of confidence in the Melbourne Administration,

122;

again Prime Minister, 123, 124;

characteristics, 126, 127;

and the grant to Maynooth College, 127, 128, 130;

on the state of Ireland, 128;

and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 131;

resignation and resumption of office, 134, 136;

proposes gradual repeal of Corn Laws, 138, 139;

defeat and resignation on the Coercion Bill, 140, 155;

and Lord Palmerston, 170;

death, 176, 177;

and the Emperor Nicholas, 215

Pelissier, General, 263, 267

Pembroke Lodge, 307, 351-353, 356, 357

Penal Code, the, before the era of Reform, 24, 48, 107

Peninsular Campaign, its costliness, 22

Penryn, 40, 51, 52

People's Charter, the, 165

Peterloo Massacre, the, 38

Petty, Lord Henry (afterwards third Marquis of Lansdowne), 12

Pius IX., and his decree of 1850, 182, 183

Playfair, Professor John, 12

Polignac, Prince de, 60, 61

Polish revolt of 1863, 321

Poor Law Amendment Act (Ireland), 93, 107, 151

Poor Law Board, 160

Poor Laws, 89, 126

Potato famine, 130, 146, 148, 149

Prisons, regulation of, 107

Protestant Operative Association of Dublin, 129

Prussia and the Vienna Note, 227;

and the Crimean War, 243

Public Health Act, 162

'Punch,' cartoons, &c., in, 192, 241, 242, 307, 367

Pusey, Dr., 161 and _note_, 183

RAGLAN, Lord, 246, 252, 267

'Recollections and Suggestions,' publication of, 280

Redistribution of Seats Bill, 330

Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de: skill in diplomacy, and early diplomatic

life, 218-220;

return to Constantinople, 220, 221;

and the second Congress at Vienna, 260

Reform: its early advocates, 25-27;

and the Society of the Friends of the People, 25;

Lord John Russell's first speech on the subject, 35;

Sir Francis Burdett's motion of 1819, 35;

Lord John brings forward his first resolutions in the House of

Commons, 40;

disfranchisement of Grampound, 43;

Lord John's motion for an addition of 100 members to the House of

Commons, 43;

resolutions brought forward by Lord Blandford, 59;

rejection of Lord John's Bill for enfranchising Manchester,

Birmingham, and Leeds, 60;

O'Connell's motion for Triennial Parliaments, &c., 60;

declaration of the Duke of Wellington, 61;

the Committee of Four and the first Reform Bill, 67, 68;

introduction and second reading of the first Bill in the Commons,

69-73;

the second Bill, 75-78;

public excitement on the rejection of the second Bill by the House

of Lords, 79, 80;

the third Bill passes the Commons, 81;

the Bill passes the House of Lords, and receives the Royal Assent,

84;

secured by popular enthusiasm, 85, 87;

Lord John's Bill of 1852, 196;

Bill of 1854, 236, 237, 239;

Disraeli's Bill, 291, 292;

Lord John's Bill of 1860, 296;

Bill introduced by Mr. Gladstone, 328

Regent, Prince, insulted on returning from opening Parliament, 32;

and the Peterloo Massacre, 38

Revolution, French (1848), 171

Rice, Mr. Spring, 96

Richmond, Duke of, 89, 95, 124

Ripon, Lord, 95, 124

Roden, Lord, 113

Roebuck, J. A., and education, 89;

moves vote of confidence in the Russell Administration, 176;

his motion to inquire into the condition of the Army in the Crimea,

254

Rogers, Samuel, 123, 276

Rothschild, Baron, 291

Russell, Mr. G. W. E., 344

Russell, John, the first Constable of Corfe Castle, 1, 2

Russell, Sir John, Speaker of the House of Commons, 2

Russell, John, the third, and first Earl of Bedford, 2

Russell, Lord John: ancestry, 1, 2;

boyhood and education, 3-9;

schooldays at Sunbury and Westminster, 3-5;

extracts from journal kept at Westminster, 4, 5;

passion for the theatre, 4;

education under Dr. Cartwright, 5;

dedicates a manuscript book to Pitt, 6;

schooldays and schoolfellows at Woodnesborough, 6-9;

writes satirical verses and dramatic prologues, 7, 8;

opinion on the case of Lord Melville, 8;

influence of Mr. Fox upon him, 8;

at Holland House, 8, 336;

friendship with Sydney Smith, 8;

visit to the English lakes and Scotland, 9;

impressions of Sir Walter Scott, 9;

first visit to the House of Lords, 9;

visit to the Peninsula with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11;

political predilections and sympathy with Spain, 9-11;

goes to Edinburgh University, 11;

impressions of Professors Dugald Stewart and John Playfair, 12, 13;

his powers of debate at the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13;

early bias towards Parliamentary Reform, 14;

second visit to Spain, 14, 15;

first impressions of Lord Wellington, 15;

commands a company of the Bedfordshire Militia, 16;

third visit to Spain, 16-20;

on the field of Salamanca, 17;

at Wellington's head-quarters, 17;

his ride to Frenida, 18;

dines with a canon at Plasencia, 19;

at Talavera and Madrid, 20;

elected member for Tavistock, 20;

his opinion of Lord Liverpool, 21;

maiden speech in Parliament, 27;

speech on the Alien Acts, 27;

elected a member of Grillion's Club, 27;

his Italian tour of 1814-15, 28-31;

interview with Napoleon at Elba, 28-31;

speeches in Parliament against the renewal of war with France,

against the income-tax and the Army Estimates, 32;

on the proposal to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, 33, 34;

proposes to abandon politics, 34;

literary labours and travel, 34;

returned again for Tavistock at the General Election of 1818, 34;

first speech in the House of Commons on Parliamentary Reform, 35;

growth of his influence in Parliament, 36;

visit to the Continent with Thomas Moore, 36, 37;

impressions of Italy, 37;

brings forward in Parliament his first resolutions in favour of

Reform, 40;

his bill for disfranchising Penryn, Camelford, Grampound, and

Barnstaple, 40;

returned to Parliament for Huntingdon, 40;

and the case of Grampound, 40, 41, 42, 43;

takes the side of Queen Caroline, 41;

writes 'The Nun of Arrouca,' 42;

taciturnity in French society, 42;

his resolutions for the discovery and punishment of bribery, &c.,

43, 44;

proposes an addition of 100 members to the House of Commons, 43;

increase of his political influence, 45, 46;

unseated in Huntingdonshire, and his second visit to Italy, 48, 49;

elected for Bandon Bridge, 49;

on the condition of the Tory party on Canning's accession to power,

50;

and restrictions upon Dissenters, 51;

proposal to enfranchise Manchester, 51;

moves the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 55-57;

and Catholic Emancipation, 59;

rejection of his bill for enfranchising Manchester, Birmingham, and

Leeds, 60;

defeated at Bedford, 60;

visit to Paris, and efforts to save the life of Prince de Polignac,

60, 61;

elected for Tavistock, and appointed Paymaster-General, 62;

prepares the first Reform Bill in conjunction with Lord Durham and

others, 67;

introduces the bill, 69-72;

moves the second reading of the Bill, 73;

returned to Parliament for Devonshire, 75;

raised to Cabinet rank, and introduces second Reform Bill, 75;

reply to vote of thanks from Birmingham, 79;

introduces the third Reform Bill, 80;

carries the bill to the Lords, 81;

and the Municipal Reform Act, 90, 104;

opposition to Radical measures, 90;

and the wants of Ireland, 91;

visit to Ireland, 91, 92;

on Mr. Littleton's Irish Tithe Bill, 94, 95;

'upsets the coach,' 95;

on Coercion Acts, 97, 98;

allusion to his Biography of Fox, 98;

and the leadership in the House of Commons under the first Melbourne

Ministry, 100, 101;

William IV.'s opinion of him, 101;

returned for South Devon on Peel's accession to power, 102;

as leader of the Opposition, 103;

and the meeting at Lichfield House, 103;

defeats the Government with his Irish Church motion, 104;

marriage, 104, 355;

appointment to the Home Office in the second Melbourne

Administration, 104;

defeated in Devonshire, and elected for Stroud, 104;

presented with a testimonial at Bristol, 105;

and the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, 106;

and the Tithe Commutation Act, 106, 107;

again returned for Stroud, 107;

allusion to the accession of the Queen, 108;

declines to take part in further measures of Reform, and is called

by Radicals 'Finality John,' 110;

death of his wife, 112;

Education Bill of 1839, 114, 115;

as Colonial Secretary, 116-118, 338;

his appointment of a Chartist magistrate, 119;

and the Corn Laws, 121;

returned for the City of London, 122;

second marriage, 123;

Wellington's opinion of him, 123;

his opinion of Peel's Administration, 126;

supports Peel on the Maynooth question, 129, 130;

and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 131-134, 139;

and the 'Edinburgh Letter,' 133;

fails to form a Ministry on the resignation of Peel, 134, 135;

opposes Peel's proposal for renewal of Coercion Act, 139, 140;

succeeds Peel as Prime Minister, 141;

address in the City, 142;

political qualities, 143, 145;

contrasted with Palmerston, 144;

his measure for total repeal of Corn Laws, 145;

and sugar duties, 146;

proposes renewal of Irish Arms Bill, 146;

his Irish policy, and anxiety and efforts for the improvement of the

people, 151, 152, 156, 157, 158, 338, 342;

and the Arms Bill (1847), 154;

again visits Ireland, 158;

education measures, 159;

returned again for the City, 160;

his appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, 161;

and the Chartist demonstration of 1848, 166, 168;

relations with Lord Palmerston, 170;

on the political situation in Europe after the French Revolution of

1848, 171, 172;

and Palmerston's action in the 'Don Pacifico' affair, 176;

tribute to Sir Robert Peel, 177;

dismisses Palmerston from the Foreign Office, 180;

and the breach with Palmerston, 181;

his 'Durham Letter,' 184-191;

introduces the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 191;

resigns the Premiership, but returns to office on the failure of

Lord Stanley to form a Ministry, 193;

resignation on the vote on the Militia Bill, 195;

his Reform Bill of 1852, 196;

defence of Lord Clarendon, 196;

edits 'Memoirs and Journal of Thomas Moore,' 204;

accepts Foreign Secretaryship in the Aberdeen Administration, 206;

his vacillation in taking office under Lord Aberdeen not due to

personal motives, 205;

retires from Foreign Office, 210, 221;

on the projects of Russia, 218, 224, 225;

and the Vienna Note, 227;

speech at Greenock on the prospects of war, 227;

memorandum to the Cabinet on the eve of the Crimean War, 228;

Reform Bill of 1854, 236, 239, 241;

resignation, 241;

resumes his seat in the Cabinet, 242;

speech in the House of Commons on withdrawing his Reform measure,

242, 243;

proposes a rearrangement of the War and Colonial departments, 244,

248, 251;

presses Lord Aberdeen to take decisive action with regard to the

Crimean War, 248;

memorandum on the Crimean War, 251;

proposed resignation, 251, 252;

resignation on Roebuck's motion to inquire into the condition of the

Army in the Crimea, and his speech on the question, 254-257;

becomes Colonial Secretary in Palmerston's Government, 258;

plenipotentiary at second Congress of Vienna, 259-263;

consents at Palmerston's request to remain in the Ministry, 263;

explanations in the House of Commons regarding the failure of the

Vienna Conference, 264, 265;

announces his resignation (1855), 265;

speech in defence of his late colleagues against Roebuck's motion of

censure, 266;

his mistake in joining the Coalition Ministry, 271;

leisure, travel, &c., 272;

literary labours, 272-281, 354;

and the pension for Moore, 278;

remarks on his own career in 'Recollections and Suggestions,' 281,

336;

allusions to Joseph Lancaster, 282;

work in the cause of education, 282-285, 339;

scheme of National Education (1856), 284;

opposes Lord Palmerston on the 'Arrow' question, 287;

speech in the City and re-election, 287, 288;

supports Palmerston at the Indian Mutiny crisis, 288;

on the Conspiracy Bill, 289, 290;

supports Lord Derby in passing the India Bill, 290;

thanked by Jews for his aid in removing their disabilities, 291;

attacks Disraeli's Reform Bill, 292;

renewal of friendly intercourse with Palmerston, 293;

relations with Cobden and Bright, 294;

joins Palmerston's Administration (1859) as Foreign Secretary, 295;

introduces a new Reform Bill, 296;

raised to the Peerage, 297;

acquires the Ardsalla estate, and receives the Garter, 298;

his work at the Foreign Office, 299, 300;

intervention in Italian affairs, 304, 339;

protests against the annexation of Savoy by France, 305;

receives Garibaldi at Pembroke Lodge, 307;

his reception in Italy, 307;

and the 'Trent' affair, 311;

and the 'Alabama' case, 313-319, 341;

on the Polish revolt, 321;

and the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty, 322, 323;

as Foreign Secretary, 323, 324;

on Palmerston's vivacity, 325;

second Premiership on the death of Palmerston, 325;

tribute to Lord Palmerston, 327;

defeated on the questions of Reform and Redistribution of Seats,

331;

Mr. Lecky's reminiscences of him, 335-339;

relations with colleagues and opponents, 336, 337, 347;

speech on the maintenance of the independence of Belgium, 340;

letter on the claims of the Vatican, 341, 342;

letters to the 'Times' on the government of Ireland, 343;

and Home Rule, 338, 343, 344;

independent attitude towards the throne, 344;

relations with Lord Aberdeen, 346, 347;

Lord Selborne's impressions of him, 345;

his private secretaries' impressions of him, 347, 348;

life at Pembroke Lodge, 351-353;

stories about doctors, 350;

visit of Bulgarian delegates, 352;

friendships, 355;

his use of patronage, 355;

his children, 356;

home life, and his children's reminiscences, 356-361;

Dr. Anderson's recollections, 361;

a meeting with Carlyle, 362;

Lord Dufferin's recollections, 363;

religious faith, 364;

interview with Spurgeon, 365;

at Cheshunt College, 365;

Nonconformist deputation, 366;

'Golden Wedding,' 367;

death, 367;

opinion of Lord Shaftesbury, 368;

a remark of Sir Stafford Northcote's, 369

Russell, Hon. Rollo, 360, 367

Russell, William, Member of Parliament in the reign of Edward II., 2

Russell, Lord William (of the seventeenth century), 1;

Lord John Russell's Biography of him, 274

Russell, Lord William, Lord John Russell's brother, 6;

wounded at Talavera, 14, 34;

letter to Lord John, 49

Russia, and India, 31, 218;

projects and demands with regard to Turkey, 223, 224;

occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia, 224, 229;

rejection of the Vienna Note, 226;

destroys Turkish fleet at Sinope, 230;

evacuates the Principalities, 243;

operations in the Crimea, 246-252;

death of the Emperor Nicholas, 259;

fall of Sebastopol, and losses in the war, 268;

and the Polish revolt, 321

SALAMANCA, battle of, 16, 17

Sardinia, and the Crimean War, 267

Schleswig-Holstein question, the, 172, 322, 323

Scott, Sir Walter, Lord John Russell's first acquaintance with, 9;

and the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13, 91, 355

Sebastopol, siege and fall of, 246, 247, 268

Secret Memorandum, the, 216, 225

Sefton, Lord, 75

Selborne, Lord, on the 'Alabama' case, 312-319;

impressions of Lord Russell, 345

Seymour, Sir Hamilton, 214

Seymour, Lord Webb, 12

Shaftesbury, Lord, and factory children, 89;

and Lord John Russell's support of Peel, 129, 130;

and the Factory Bill, 159;

special constable in 1848, 167;

and Cardinal Wiseman's manifesto, 187;

on the Coalition Government, 211, 212, 368

'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake,' battle between the, 22

Shelley and the Peterloo massacre, 38

Sheridan, Mr., 25

Sidmouth, Lord, 21, 40, 63, 85

Simpson, General, 267

Sinope, destruction of Turkish fleet at, 230, 232, 233

Slave trade, 22, 48, 89

Smith, Rev. --, Vicar of Woodnesborough, a tutor of Lord John

Russell's, 6

Smith, Dr. Southwood, and the Public Health Act, 162

Smith, Sydney, friendship with Lord John Russell, 8;

on Reform, 27;

on the political situation after Canning's accession to power, 50,

51;

and 'Dame Partington,' 80;

hopeful of the triumph of Reform, 84;

and 'Lord John Reformer,' 90;

on Lord John's influence in the Melbourne Government, 113

Society of the Friends of the People, 25, 63

Solferino, battle of, 303

Spain, Lord John Russell's visit with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11;

Lord John's sympathy, 9, 10;

Lord John's second visit, 14, 15;

Lord John's third visit and adventures, 16-20;

entry of Wellington into Madrid, 16;

the Spanish marriages, 171, 172;

Lord Palmerston's interference, 174

Spencer, Lord, on the alliance of England with France, 120

Spurgeon, C. H., 365

Stanhope, Colonel, 14, 15

Stanley, Lord, and Irish affairs, 92, 93;

Secretary for the Colonies, 93;

and the Irish Church, 95;

withdraws from Lord Grey's Cabinet, 95;

Secretary for the Colonies under Peel, 124, 134;

succeeds to the House of Lords, 141;

challenges Palmerston's foreign policy, 176;

fails to form a Ministry on the resignation of Lord John Russell,

193

Stanmore, Lord, 118, 119, 211, 231, 233, 347

Stansfeld, Mr., 327

Stewart, Dugald, 12

Stockmar, Baron, 101, 216

Sussex, Duke of, and the claims of Dissenters, 53

Sweden, and the Crimean War, 267

Syllogism, a merry canon's, 19

TAHITI incident, the, 125

Tavistock, monastic lands granted to the first Earl of Bedford, 2;

election of Lord John Russell as member for, 20, 62

Tavistock, Lord, elder brother of Lord John Russell, 6, 11

Tennyson, Mr., 90

Tennyson, Lord, his appointment as Poet Laureate, 355

Test and Corporation Acts; agitation for their total repeal, 53, 54;

speech of Fox, 54, 55;

their provisions, 54;

jubilee of repeal, 366

Tithe Acts (Ireland): Mr. Littleton's Bill, 93, 94;

Bill of 1835, 105, 107;

Bill passes through Parliament, 112

Tithe Commutation Act, 106, 107

Tooke, Horne, 26

Trafalgar Square demonstration on the Reform question, 332

Treason Felony Act, 157

Treaty of Paris (1856), 268

'Trent' affair, the, 310-312

Turkey, war with Egypt, 119;

and the custody of the Holy Places in Palestine, 213;

the 'sick man' of Europe, 214, 215;

oppression of Christian subjects, 217;

reception of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, 222;

and the Vienna Note, 224-227;

ultimatum to Russia, 229;

destruction of fleet by Russia at Sinope, 230;

and the second Congress at Vienna, 259-262;

and the Treaty of Paris, 268, 269

UNIVERSITY of London, 106, 107;

proposed enfranchisement of, 296

VANSITTART, Mr., 21

Vaughan, Cardinal, on Romish practices in the Anglican Church, 190,

191

Victor Emmanuel II., accession to the throne of Sardinia, and efforts

to secure Italian independence, 301;

proclaimed King of Italy, 306

Victoria, Queen, accession, 107;

her regard for Lord Melbourne, 108, 109;

declines to dismiss her Whig Ladies-in-Waiting, 114;

visit to Ireland, 158;

instructions to Lord Palmerston, 178;

letter to Lord John Russell on the formation of a Coalition

Government, 203;

her view of the Coalition Ministry, 208;

reply to letter from the Czar on the eve of the Crimean War, 230;

and the death of the Prince Consort, 309;

letter to Lord Russell on the death of Palmerston, 326;

opens Parliament (1866), 328;

letter to Lady Russell on the death of the Earl, 368

Vienna, revolt of (1848), 171;

Congress, 224;

second Congress, 259-262

Vienna Note, 224-228

Villafranca, Treaty of, 303

Villiers, Mr. Charles, 121, 208

Vittoria, battle of, 20

Vitzthum, Count, 217, 324

WALPOLE, Mr. Spencer, on the Arms Bill of the Russell Administration,

154;

retires from the Home Office on the introduction of Disraeli's

Reform Bill, 291, 330

Ward, Mr., and the Irish Church, 90, 95

Wellington, Duke of, Lord John Russell's first impressions of, 15,

16, 17;

described by Napoleon, 30, 50;

becomes Prime Minister, 52;

and Catholic Emancipation, 58, 59;

his declaration against Reform, 61, 65;

resignation, 62;

predictions on the Reform question, 69;

failure to form a Ministry, 83;

lament on the triumph of Reform, 85, 114;

opinion of Lord John, 123;

and the Anti-Corn-Law agitation, 136, 137;

and the demonstration on Kennington Common of 1848, 166, 167;

and Sir Robert Peel, 176;

death, 200;

and the Emperor Nicholas, 215

Wesley, influence of the preaching of, 24

Westminster School, its condition at the beginning of the century, 3;

Lord John's experiences at, 3-5;

some of its celebrated scholars, 3, 4

Westmoreland, Lord, 50

Wetherell, Mr., and the first Reform Bill, 69

Whitfield, influence of his preaching, 24

Wilberforce, William, 89

William IV., his accession, 61, 64;

receives a petition in favour of the Grey Administration, 80;

refuses his sanction for the creation of new peers, 83;

lampooned, 83;

urges the House of Lords to withdraw opposition to the Reform Bill,

84;

dismisses the first Melbourne Ministry, 100, 101;

his opinion of Lord John Russell, 101

Winchilsea, Lord, 57

Wiseman, Cardinal, 182, 183, 186, 187

Wolseley, Sir Charles, 38

Wood, Sir Charles, 141, 193, 258

Working classes, their condition and claims in 1848, 163-165

Wynn, Mr. Charles, 41

ZURICH, Treaty of, 303

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exhibited in its true light, and in colours that will not

fade.'--STANDARD.

LORD MELBOURNE

BY HENRY DUNCKLEY ('VERAX').

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'It is hard to imagine a better piece of work than this short study

of Lord Melbourne by Mr. Dunckley. Amongst some of the most amusing

of Mr. Dunckley's pages--and hardly a page of this little book is

dull after the preliminary matter is passed by--is his account of

Lord Melbourne's dealings with theology and Church preferments....

Of two lives of the Queen's Prime Ministers which have as yet

appeared, we certainly give the preference to Mr. Dunckley's over

Mr. Froude's. Mr. Froude had the more attractive theme, but Mr.

Dunckley has made more of the less interesting theme.'--SPECTATOR.

SIR ROBERT PEEL

BY JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P.

SECOND EDITION, with an additional Chapter. With Photogravure Portrait.

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'Mr. McCarthy relates clearly and well the main incidents of Peel's

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still rage about his conduct in regard to the Roman Catholic Relief

Bill and the Repeal of the Corn Laws.'

SATURDAY REVIEW.

'Mr. McCarthy's chapters on Catholic Emancipation are written with

admirable impartiality, and he does ample justice to that

high-minded administrator, Lord Anglesey.'--ATHENAEUM.

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'Written in a manly and independent spirit, which we should expect

in one of his lineage ... an honest book.'--WORLD.

'One of the most complete and succinct accounts of his extraordinary

career that we have yet received.... A volume which we may specially

commend as the most attractive and authoritative history of the man

with whom it deals that has yet been given to the world.... Mr.

Russell's clear and able sketch of one whom he is justly proud to

call his friend.'--SPEAKER.

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BY H. D. TRAILL, D.C.L.

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theoretical knowledge of his subject should write it. But it is a

very rare thing indeed to find, as we find here, all three merits in

combination. The result is not only a remarkable criticism on a man;

it is, in part of it at least, the best and ... the most impartial

sketch of recent political history that we have recently

seen.'--SATURDAY REVIEW.

LORD PALMERSTON

BY THE MARQUIS OF LORNE.

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'The Marquis of Lorne's little book must be consulted by every

student who wishes to get a thorough understanding of European

history in the early part of the century. The documents to which the

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'A biography distinguished throughout by scrupulous fairness to its

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documents of solid historical importance, and hitherto no authentic

biography of Lord Aberdeen has existed, and the editor of the series

certainly made a large demand upon Sir Arthur Gordon's good nature

when he requested a biography compressed within the limits

prescribed. The author, however, has surmounted all difficulties

with admirable skill.'--ATHENAEUM.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL

BY STUART J. REID.

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The book contains a good deal of new material concerning the career

of the last of the great Whig statesmen. The Dowager-Countess of

Russell has given Mr. Reid access to her own journals, and has

personally taken a lively interest in the book; while other

relatives, intimate friends, and political associates have lent

their assistance.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

The original punctuation, language and spelling have been retained,

except where noted [correction in brackets]. Minor typographical

errors have been corrected without note.

Pg. 8: atmosphere of Woburn and Woodnesborourgh[Woodnesborough]

Pg. 18: and ink, and a bag of money. He woul[would] not carry anything

Pg. 74: said that the electors in the approachhing[approaching]

Pg. 86: wrote Mr. Froude in in[omitted] 1874. 'Its population

Pg. 244: riend[friend], Mr. Sidney Herbert, were regarded, perhaps

Pg. 265: a matter magnified beyond its true porportions[proportions].'

Pg. 376: and the _Coup d'Etat [d'Etat]_ of 1851, 179;

Pg. 376: and the _Coup d'Etat [d'Etat]_ in Paris (1851), 179;