iii. _380_;
iii. 415

Playfair, Dr, Irish Commissioner, potato disease, ii. 48

Plombieres, compact of, iii. _308_, _385_

Poerio, iii. 312

Poles and Russia, ii. 15, 17

Polk, President (U.S.A.), ii. _30_

Pollock, General (afterwards Sir George), successes in Afghanistan,
i. _370_, 402, 442;
G.C.B., i. 444

Pollon, Count, Sardinian Minister, i. 148

Ponsonby, Lord (Ambassador at Constantinople), i. 232, 234; ii. 114

Poor Law Act, i. 20, _102_, 108, 382;
State maintenance of the poor, ii. 67;
commission, ii. 130

Pope, _see_ Pius IX. and Gregory XVI.
_The Pope and the Congress_, famous pamphlet, iii. _382_

Porte, the, i. 179;
and Austria, i. 191;
convention of 1828, i. 229, 232;
and Mehemet Ali, i. 237;
Eastern Question, ii. _431_, 441-444, _449_, 452-465, 469;
iii. _1_, 12, 13, _20_;
Turkish success, iii. _36_;
Alma, iii. _43_, 50;
Inkerman, iii. _53;_
Four Points Negotiation, iii. _63_, 65;
protection of Christian subjects, iii. _152_

Portland, third Duke of, i. 357

---- fifth Duke of, iii. 227

Portugal, revolution, i. _43_, 54, 92;
and England, i. _57_, 149, 356; ii. 111, 118, 134;
and Spain, i. 59, 62; ii. 119;
new Ministry, i. _92_;
slave trade, i. 115;
insurrection, ii. _72_, 90;
civil war and constitutional troubles, ii. _109_, 116, 117, 119,
120, 129;
Lord Palmerston's attack on, ii. _179_;
case of Don Pacifico, ii. _231_, _234_, 235, 239, _240_, _243_

---- King of (Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg), i. 45;
Queen's opinion of, i. 46;
Commander-in-Chief, i. 47, _55_;
Queen's letter to, on slave trade, i. 115;
and Lord Howard de Walden, i. 133

---- Maria da Gloria, Queen of, i. 4, _43_, _44_, 94;
letter on Queen's engagement, i. 200;
dismissal of Ministry, ii. _109_, 134; iii. 10

---- Stephanie, Queen of, iii. 332, 466

---- Prince of, the Pope sponsor to, i. 392

Post Office, inauguration of penny post, i. 141, 176;
Sunday delivery, ii. 244

Pottinger, Sir Henry, successes in China, i. _254_, 265;
G.C.B., i. 444;
i. 446, 447, 449

Powys, Captain, i. 426

Pozzo di Borgo, Count, Russian Ambassador, i. 67

Praet, Van, i. 134, 136

Praetorius, Dr, i. 361

Praslin, Duchesse de, murdered by her husband, ii. _115_, 128

Prescott (Canada), i. _136_

---- Mr, Deputy Governor of the Bank, ii. 130

Presentations, fatigue of receiving, i. 470, 471

Preston, riot, i. 424

Pretorius, Boer leader, ii.