_200_

Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne on origin of term, i. 358

Primogeniture, i. _56_
_Prince_, loss of the steamer, at Balaklava, iii. _56_

Principalities, the Danubian, Russia's invasion of, iii. _1_, 12,
_13_, 17, 32;
relinquishment of Russia's protectorate, iii. _152_, _158_, 180,
_233_, _262_

Prior, Matthew, i. 504

Privilege Question, i. _209_

Property, qualification, i. _56_

Protection, i. _278_; ii. 66, 293, 294;
Lord Derby, ii. 384;
abandoned by Disraeli, ii. _404_

Protectionists, ii. 66, _71_, 81, 83, 86, 123, 216, _231_;
check to, ii. 233, 248, _283_, 289, 298, 315, 384, 468; iii. 88

Protestant, Prince Consort's declaration, i. 203-205;
Low Church bigotry, ii. 37;
Church in Ireland, ii. 83

Proxy, voting, i. _56_

Prussia (_see_ Prussia, King of), and Holland, i. 119; ii. 275, 278;
Eastern Question, ii. _452_;
alliance with Austria, iii. _1_;
position in impending war, iii. 17, 115;
and England, iii. 161;
admission to war conference, iii. 171, 181

---- King of (Frederick William IV.), i. 365;
visit to Queen Victoria, i. 376, 378-380;
on Swiss quarrels, ii. 137;
on French Revolution, ii. 150;
declines Imperial Crown of Germany, ii. _219_;
Diet of Erfurt, ii. 229;
peace with Denmark, ii. 254;
and Austria, ii. 276, 280;
Queen Victoria's letter to, on his position, iii. 17;
reply, iii. 28;
Russia's influence over, iii. 31;
letter from the Queen, iii. 107;
iii. 454;
account of his death, iii. 420, 423-426

Prussia, Queen of, iii. 425, 426

Prussia, Prince of (afterwards King William I.), visit to Queen Victoria,
ii. 172, 251, 253;
a refugee, ii. _176_;
Queen's appreciation of, ii. 256;
coronation, iii. _455_, 456-459;
interview with Napoleon, iii. 467

---- Prince Frederick William of (afterwards Emperor Frederick),
question of marriage, iii. 142, 146, 147, 182, 195, 205, 220;
marriage to the Princess Royal, iii. 253, _261_, 455;
birth of a son (present Emperor), iii. 314;
death of the King of Prussia, iii. 423-426;
coronation of the King and Queen of Prussia, iii. 456-459

---- Marie Louise Augusta, Princess of (grandmother of present German
Emperor), ii. 106, 318, 319;
Queen writes to, on death of Czar, iii. 112

Pulteney, Mr (afterwards Earl of Bath), i. 391

Punjab (_see_ India), ii. _142_, 196;
annexation of, ii. _208_, 220; iii. _178_

Puseyites, ii. 16, 273, 277, 282, 376

Quadruple