. _261_;
1859, iii. _307_;
1860, iii. _379_;
1861, iii. _420_

Anson, George, i. 199;
Private Secretary to Prince Albert, i. _201_, 206;
interviews with Baron Stockmar, i. 224, 330, 331;
interviews with Lord Melbourne, i. 224, 256, 268, 269, 296,
297, 303, 304, 311;
interviews with Sir Robert Peel, i. 271, 273, 284, 312;
memoranda by, i. 295, 298, 322, 337, 338, 368;
illness, i. 490;
ii. 36, 46, 67

---- Sir George, i. 201

Antonelli, Cardinal, iii. 311

Antwerp, Queen's visit to, ii. _45_;
ii. 68

Apponyi, Count, Austrian Ambassador, i. 237

Apprenticeship in Jamaica, i. _102_

Aquila, Comte d', ii. _32_

Arbuthnot, Colonel, i. 314, 398

Ardenne, ii. 16

Argyll, eighth Duke of, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 420;
Government of 1855, iii. 97;
Privy Seal, iii. 104;
Divorce Bill, iii. 231;
Lord Privy Seal, iii. 348;
Abolition of Paper Duty, iii. 403

Argyll, Duchess of, ii. 376

"Aristocratic," meaning of, i. 107

Army (_see_ Militia), estimates i. 99;
civil government of, i. 147;
bravery of troops, ii. 74;
victory, ii. 77;
Peninsular medals, ii. 109-113;
officers' commissions, ii. 185;
in India, ii. 212;
Prince Consort, ii. 365;
military appointments, ii. 393;
national defences, ii. 396-398;
Queen on augmentation of, iii. 12;
embarkation for the Crimea, iii. 14;
reserve to be sent out, iii. 36;
Bomarsund, iii. _36_;
battle of the Alma, iii. 44;
Indian contingents, iii. 46;
Balaklava, iii. 50;
Sebastopol, iii. 50, _63_;
Inkerman, iii. _53_;
Foreign Enlistment Bill, iii. _58_;
fall of Sebastopol, iii. _64_;
privations of the Army, iii. 68-70;
New Board, iii. 71;
laxity of discipline, iii. 153;
land transport, iii. 157;
retrenchments, iii. 188;
peace establishment, iii. 191;
review of Crimean troops at Aldershot, iii. _198_, 199, 200;
military education, iii. 218, 220;
Indian Mutiny, iii. _224_, 234, 236;
Militia embodied, iii. 241;
Queen's view on need of increasing, iii. 245, 257;
vote of thanks to, iii. _261_;
question of control, iii. 293;
indivisibility of, iii. 319;
Committee on Military Departments, iii. 351

Arnold, Dr, ii. 273

_Arrow_, Chinese dispute, iii. _223_, _228_

Arthur, Prince (afterwards Duke of Connaught), christening,
ii. 231; iii. 121;
birthday, iii. 189;
iii. 436

Ascot, Queen's visit to the races, ii. 13

Ashburton, Baron, i. 368, 462

Ashley, Lord