n of, 139; extraordinary behaviour of, 141; position of,
145; vindication of, 148; despatch on the secret committee of
the directors, 219; recall of, 238

Ellice, Right Hon. Edward, at Brocket, iii. 375

Elliot, Captain (afterwards Sir Charles), return of, from China,
ii. 49, 52

Emir Beschir, _see_ Eastern Question

Ems, visit to, ii. 287

Endsleigh, visit to, iii. 205

Epsom, racing transactions of Lord G. Bentinck and Lord Kelburne,
ii. 160

Espartero, downfall of, ii. 201

Eton College case, ii. 411

Eu, Chateau d', visit to, of Queen Victoria, ii. 196, 200; the
agreement at, 201

Evans, Sir De Lacy, made a K.C.B., i. 65

'Every Man in his Humour,' performance of, ii. 302

Exchequer Bills, forgery of, ii. 50; anecdotes of, 56, 57

Exchequer, Court of, anecdote, iii. 125

Exeter, Bishop of, attacks the Archbishop, i. 120; on the St.
Sulpice question, 388; charge of, ii. 136; attack on Newman,
136; reply to a Privy Council judgement, 136; the Gorham Case,
iii. 300

Exeter, visit to, iii. 207

Exhibition, the Great, 1851, opening of, iii. 405

Eyre, Lieutenant, book by, on Cabul, &c., ii. 137

Faubourg St. Germain, political feeling in the, iii. 42

Faucher, M. Leon, in London, iii. 410

Felbrigg Hall, visit to, ii. 120

Ferdinand I., Emperor of Austria, political crisis, 1848, iii.
159

FitzGerald and Vesey, Lord, conversation with, i. 46; death of,
ii. 158

Fitzroy, Lord Charles, resigns the office of Vice-Chamberlain,
i. 86

Fleetwood, Sir H., motion on L10 householders, i. 216

Foley, Lord, anecdote, i. 217

Foster, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 378

Fox, Right Hon. C. J., account of the death of, i. 154

Fox, Maule, Right Hon., Secretary at War, ii. 405

Fox, Mr. William, member for Oldham, iii. 103

Fox, Miss, death of, ii. 274

France, Lord Palmerston's hostility to, i. 347; attempt at
conciliation with, 351; debate in the Chamber on Eastern
affairs, 354; dispute with, on the Tahiti affair, ii. 253;
opinions on change of government in England (1845), 345, 347;
estrangement with, on the Spanish marriages question, iii. 10,
11; effect of conciliatory debate in England, 39; threatened
rupture with, 62; estrangement from England, 73; revolution in
1848, 132; state of, 148, 152; Provisional Government in, 152;
M. Delessert on affairs in, 157; anarchy in, 178; fighting in
Paris, 202; tranquillity, 219; Prince Louis Napoleon elected
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