chwartzenberg, Prince, Prime Minister of Austria, ii. 378, 380

Scone Palace, Queen's visit to, i. 429, 430

Scotch Fusiliers, wounded from the Crimea, iii. 110

Scotland, Church crisis, i. 447, 448, _450_;
Admission of Ministers Bill, i. 488, _489_;
the Queen's visit to Balmoral, ii. 321-323, 392, 394-396;
to Edinburgh, iii. 406

Scott, General, iii. 469

---- Gilbert, architect, iii. _444_

Scutari, iii. _2_;
hospital at, iii. 61, 62, 78

Search, right of, on the high seas, ii. 6; iii. 466, 468, 469

Seaton, Lord, _see_ Colborne

Sebastopol, iii. _1_, 43, 44;
bombardment, iii. 50;
fall, iii. _64_, 142

Secretary of State, _see_ State, Secretary of

---- at War, _see_ War, Secretary at

Sepoys, mutiny of, iii. _224_, 237, 238

Septennial Act, i. _56_; ii. 121

Serpent's Island, Russia's claim to, iii. _159_, _208_

Settembrini, iii. 312

Sevigne, Mme. de, i. 40; iii. 172

Seville, Duke of (Don Enrique), ii. 45

Seymour, Lord (afterwards Duke of Somerset), Roebuck Committee Reports,
iii. 112.
_See_ Somerset, Duke of

---- Admiral, occupies Chinese fort, iii. _223_

---- Mr Digby, M.P., iii. 402, 404

---- Sir Hamilton, Minister at Brussels, i. 139, 320;
Envoy-Extraordinary at Lisbon, ii. 119, 134, 179, 180, _181_;
Petersburg, ii. 286;
Eastern Question, ii. _431_;
recall from St Petersburg, iii. _10_;
interview with the Czar, iii. 26;
"neutralisation," iii. 151

Shaftesbury, Earl of, _see_ Ashley, Lord

Sheil, Mr, Minister at the Court of Tuscany, ii. 279;
death, ii. 319

Shere Singh, surrender of, ii. 217

Short, Dr Thomas Vowler (afterwards Bishop of Sodor and Man), i. 64;
_Sketch of History of Church of England_, i. 452

Sibthorp, Colonel, iii. 76

Sicily, rising in, ii. _141_, _208_.
_See_ Garibaldi

Sikhs (_see_ India), aggressive, ii. _30_;
defeat of, ii. _71_, 77;
boundaries, ii. 74;
murder of two Englishmen, ii. _142_;
hostility of, ii. 196, 197;
successful operations against, ii. _208_, 217

Silesia, insurrection in, ii. _72_

Silistria, Turkish success at, iii. _1_, _36_

Simpson, General, retirement from the
command in the Crimea, iii. _64_;
death of Lord Raglan, iii. 128;
Commander-in-Chief, iii. 130;
position, iii. 134;
Queen's congratulations on fall of Sebastopol, iii. 142, 143

Sinclair, Sir George, M.P., i. 448

Singapore, convict population of, iii. 278

Singh, Maharajah Dhuleep, _see_ Dhuleep