r, 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 Emancipati