pointed by Lord Durham, i. 110; appointment
criticised, 158; debate on, in House of Lords, 170

Underwood, Lady Cecilia, at dinner at Devonshire House, i. 278;
created Duchess of Inverness, 282; at a ball at Lansdowne
House, 282

Urquhart, Mr., and Lord Palmerston, i. 117; account of, 119; the
'Portfolio,' 158

Usk Castle, visit to, i. 220

Usk salmon, i. 220

Ventura, General, ii. 100

Victoria, Her Majesty Queen, accession of, i. 2; praise of, 14,
20; audience to Princesse Lieven, 15; interview of, with the
Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, 20; visit to Queen
Adelaide, 21; cordiality to Lord Melbourne, 22; picture of
first Council of, 83; at a ball at the Palace, 91; Coronation
of, 105, 106; two sermons, 116; and Lord Melbourne, 130; life
at Windsor, 146; resignation of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, 200;
the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-206; declaration of marriage of,
247; opens Parliament (1840), 253; Marriage of, 266; goes to
the Ancient Concert, 275; at a ball at Lansdowne House, 282;
shot at, 288; on the Eastern Question, 323; visit to Nuneham
and Oxford, ii. 13; visit to Chiswick, 14; visit to Woburn, 26;
council for appointing ministers in Sir R. Peel's
Administration, 37; admirable behaviour of, 38; appointments in
the Household (1841), 42, 43; reception of the new Ministers,
44; birth of the Prince of Wales, 51; the new Ministers, 84;
shot at, 96; first visit to Scotland, 108; visit to the Chateau
d'Eu, 196, 200; visit to Chatsworth, 215; fancy ball, 283;
absence in Germany, 292; sends for Lord J. Russell, 317; Lord
J. Russell's audience, 322, 323; letter on Lord Palmerston's
despatch, 424; decorations for the Peninsular soldiers, 434;
good order of private affairs of, iii. 67; correspondence on
the Spanish marriages, 168; visit of the Prince of Prussia to,
179; affection of, for the Orleans Royal family, 186; annoyance
of, at Lord Palmerston's conduct, 289; visit to Ireland, 295;
life at Balmoral, 296; on Lord Palmerston's conduct of foreign
affairs, 317; sends for the Duke of Wellington, 388; on the
crisis, 390

'Victoria and Albert,' the, Royal yacht, ii. 196

Vienna, outbreak at, iii. 158

Villiers, Right Hon. Charles P., correspondence with Cobden, ii.
349

Villiers, Hon. Edward, death and character of, ii. 208, 209

Visconti, Madame, i. 365

Wakefield, Mr. Edward Gibbon, appointed by Lord Durham, i. 110

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