ohn, 49

Russia, and India, 31, 218;
projects and demands with regard to Turkey, 223, 224;
occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia, 224, 229;
rejection of the Vienna Note, 226;
destroys Turkish fleet at Sinope, 230;
evacuates the Principalities, 243;
operations in the Crimea, 246-252;
death of the Emperor Nicholas, 259;
fall of Sebastopol, and losses in the war, 268;
and the Polish revolt, 321

SALAMANCA, battle of, 16, 17

Sardinia, and the Crimean War, 267

Schleswig-Holstein question, the, 172, 322, 323

Scott, Sir Walter, Lord John Russell's first acquaintance with, 9;
and the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13, 91, 355

Sebastopol, siege and fall of, 246, 247, 268

Secret Memorandum, the, 216, 225

Sefton, Lord, 75

Selborne, Lord, on the 'Alabama' case, 312-319;
impressions of Lord Russell, 345

Seymour, Sir Hamilton, 214

Seymour, Lord Webb, 12

Shaftesbury, Lord, and factory children, 89;
and Lord John Russell's support of Peel, 129, 130;
and the Factory Bill, 159;
special constable in 1848, 167;
and Cardinal Wiseman's manifesto, 187;
on the Coalition Government, 211, 212, 368

'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake,' battle between the, 22

Shelley and the Peterloo massacre, 38

Sheridan, Mr., 25

Sidmouth, Lord, 21, 40, 63, 85

Simpson, General, 267

Sinope, destruction of Turkish fleet at, 230, 232, 233

Slave trade, 22, 48, 89

Smith, Rev. --, Vicar of Woodnesborough, a tutor of Lord John
Russell's, 6

Smith, Dr. Southwood, and the Public Health Act, 162

Smith, Sydney, friendship with Lord John Russell, 8;
on Reform, 27;
on the political situation after Canning's accession to power, 50,
51;
and 'Dame Partington,' 80;
hopeful of the triumph of Reform, 84;
and 'Lord John Reformer,' 90;
on Lord John's influence in the Melbourne Government, 113

Society of the Friends of the People, 25, 63

Solferino, battle of, 303

Spain, Lord John Russell's visit with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11;
Lord John's sympathy, 9, 10;
Lord John's second visit, 14, 15;
Lord John's third visit and adventures, 16-20;
entry of Wellington into Madrid, 16;
the Spanish marriages, 171, 172;
Lord Palmerston's interference, 174

Spencer, Lord, on the alliance of England with France, 120

Spurgeon, C. H., 365

Stanhope, Colonel, 14