_150_, 190, 272

Labour Bill, Mines, i. _370_;
Factories, ii. _1_

Laeken, Royal Palace in Belgium, i. 34

Lagos, capture of, ii. 366

Lahore, ii. 217

Lamartine, M., ii. _173_, _174_

Lambeth Palace, i. 388

Landgravine, Princess Elisabeth, i. 212

Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873),
artist, i. 396, 397

Langdale, Lord, Master of the Rolls, i. 335

Lansdowne, Marquess of, Lord President of the Council, i. 74, 281;
ii. 83, 86, 236, 237;
Government crisis, ii. 290, 308, 310, 413-417;
in the Cabinet, ii. 424;
Reform Bill, ii. 468;
and Lord John Russell, iii. 58;
formation of the Government of 1855, iii. 85-89, 90, 93, 94, 97,
98, 102;
Cabinet, iii. 103, 104;
his ministerial life, iii. _104_;
iii. 190;
declines a dukedom, iii. _246_

Laporte, i. 220

La Susse, French Admiral, ii. 26

Lavradio, M., Portuguese statesman, i. 58

Law, administration of, ii. 67

---- Lords, want of, iii. 145

Lawrence, Sir Henry, Military Administrator at Oudh, death at Lucknow,
iii. _224_, 242

Lawrence, Mrs George, courage of, ii. 217

---- Sir J., Oudh Proclamation, iii. 286

Layard, Mr, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, iii. 76, 98, 376,
443-447

Lee, Dr James Prince (afterwards Bishop of Manchester), ii. 131

Leeke, Admiral Sir Henry, capture of Bushire, iii. _159_

Lefevre, Mr Shaw (afterwards Viscount Eversley), Speaker, i. 141, 176;
iii. _223_, 230

Lefroy, John Henry, Inspector-General of Army Schools, iii. 220

Lehzen, Baroness (Queen's governess), i. 12, 14, 25, 122, 224

Leicester, Earl of, i. 350

Leigh, Mr Pemberton (afterwards Lord Kingsdown), ii. 284; iii. 145;
declines Lord Chancellorship, iii. 271

Leiningen, House of, history of, i. _9_

---- Prince of, marriage, i. 3;
death, i. 9

---- Prince Charles of (son of above), i. 13, 120, 125, 126; ii. 188;
death, iii. _216_, 217

---- Princess Feodore, _see_ Feodore

Leith, proposed dockyard at, iii. 151

Le Marchant, Sir John Gaspard, Lieut. Gov. of Nova Scotia, iii. 189

Lennox, Lady Caroline, i. 121

Leopold, Prince (afterwards Duke of Albany), birth, ii. 444

---- Duke of Brabant (afterwards 2nd King of the Belgians), i. 59;
ii. 6

---- 1st King of the Belgians, birth and parentage, i. 4, 22;
Queen's reminiscences of, i. 10, 11, 13, 22;
kindness to Duchess of Kent, i. 11;
influence on, and kindness to the Queen, i. 19, 22, 23;
in the Russian army, refusal of throne of Greece,