of Canrobert--Death of Lord Raglan--General Simpson in
command--Lord John resigns--Battle of the Tchernaya--Visit
to Paris--At the tomb of Bonaparte--Fall of Sebastopol--Life
Peerages--Prince Frederick William of Prussia--Offer to Lord
Stanley--France and Austria--Visit of the King of Sardinia
63-157

CHAPTER XXV

1856

The Conference--The Queen's determination--Russia accepts
the terms--Sardinia and the Conference--Protection of
neutrals--The Crimean enquiry--Incorporation of Oudh--Canning
succeeds Dalhousie--Unclouded horizon in India--Future of the
Principalities--Birth of the Prince Imperial--The Princess
Royal--The Treaty of Paris--End of the War--Garter for Lord
Palmerston--The Title of Prince Consort--Position of the
Queen's husband--Retirement of Lord Hardinge--Appointment of
the Duke of Cambridge--Lord Granville's mission--Coronation of
the Czar--A Royal proposal--Russian procrastination--Death
of Lord Hardinge--The Archduke Maximilian--Affair of
Neuchatel--Death of Prince Charles of Leiningen--Dispute with
the United States 158-222

CHAPTER XXVI

1857

The China War--Position of Parties--Defeat of the
Government--The General Election--The Divorce
Bill--Betrothal of Princess Charlotte of Belgium--The Indian
Mutiny--Delhi--Cawnpore--Marriage of Princess
Charlotte--Visit of the Emperor Napoleon--Death of Sir
Henry Lawrence--Condition of Lucknow--Sir Colin
Campbell--Reinforcement of Lucknow--Death of the Duchesse
de Nemours--Crisis in the City--Future Government of
India--Clemency of Lord Canning--Death of Havelock 223-260

CHAPTER XXVII

1858

Marriage of Princess Royal--The Orsini _attentat_--The
Conspiracy Bill--Resignation of the Government--Lord Derby
summoned--The new Cabinet--Trial of Bernard--The Emperor and
the Carbonari--Capture of Lucknow--Confirmation of the Prince
of Wales--The second India Bill--The Oudh Proclamation--Lord
Ellenborough's despatch--A crisis--Lord Derby's despatch--Lord
Aberdeen consulted--Prerogative of Dissolution--Collapse
of the attack--Views of Sir James Outram--Offer to
Mr Gladstone--Purification of the Thames--Visit to
Cherbourg--British Columbia--The Ionian Islands--The
Princess Royal in Prussia The India Office--Lord Canning's
Proclamation--Napoleon and Italy 261-3