ss the Ticino, iii. _327_;
French victories, iii. _352_;
conclusion and terms of peace, iii. _354_, _359_, _360_;
Italy, iii. 382

Ayrton, Mr, iii. 239

Azeglio, Count, Premier of Sardinia, ii. 386; iii. 368

Baden, crisis at, ii. 220

---- Princess Mary of, i. 470

Bagot, Sir Charles, Governor-General of Canada, i. 323, 334

Baines, Matthew Talbot, Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster,
iii. _116_, 149;
Conspiracy Bill, iii. 265, 272

Bala Rao, Indian Mutiny, iii. _351_

Balaklava, successes at, iii. _2_, 50;
hurricane and loss of life at, iii. 56;
iii. 189

Ballard, Lieutenant, siege of Silistria, iii. _36_

Ballot, the, i. _56_; ii. 335

Balmoral Castle, Queen's description of, ii. 194, 323;
Queen's first occupation of, iii. _141_

Baltic, English, expedition to the, iii. 16, 115

Bandeira, Sa da, i. _55_

Bands, on Sundays, iii. 194

Bank Charter Act, ii. _1_;
infringement of, ii. _115_;
suspension of, iii. _224_

Barbes, Armand, i. _179_

Barclay & Perkins' brewery, attack on General Haynau, ii. _269_

Barham, Lady (afterwards Countess of Gainsborough), i. 124, 318;
ii. 274

Baring, F. (afterwards Lord Northbrook), Chancellor of the
Exchequer, i. 264, 281, 308, 314; ii. 60, 84, 287, 312, 347;
capture of Lagos, ii. 365, 366;
Board of Works, ii. 421; iii. 79;
Government of 1855, iii. 91

---- Thomas, ii. 368;
Indian Mutiny debate, iii. 239;
India Bill, iii. 294

Barkly, Sir H., Governor of Victoria, iii. 190

Barnard, General, death at Delhi, iii. 243

Barrackpore, funeral of Lady Canning, iii. 475

Barrot, Odilon, i. 248; ii. 149

Barrow, Sir John, i. 432

Barry, Sir Charles, knighted, ii. 363

Bastide, M., ii. 187

Baudrand, General Comte, i. 83

Bayley, Rev. Emilius, iii. 416

Bean, attempt on the Queen's life, i. _370_, 407

Beas, River, ii. 74

Beatrice, Princess (afterwards Princess Henry of Battenberg),
birth and christening, iii. 234

Beauclerk, Lord Amelius, i. 108

Beaufort, Duke of, i. 334

Beauharnais, Eugene de, Duke of Leuchtenberg, iii. 354

Beauvale, Lord (afterwards second Viscount Melbourne), i. 191;
i. 232, 418, 490, 512; ii. 165, 436

Beche, Sir Henry T. de la, geologist, i. 315

Bedford, seventh Duke of, i. 296, 509; ii. 130, 132, 195, 257;
opinion of Lord Palmerston, ii. 260, 261;
ii. 403; iii. 89;
Queen's appreciation of Endsleigh, iii. 203

Begum, the ex-Queen of Oudh, iii. 351

Belgians, King o