2; anecdote, iii. 75

Bath, visit to, i. 222; Mr. Harry Greville at, 222; Abbey Church
at, 223

Battersea Schools, the, i. 131; lecture at, 151; visit to the,
ii. 86

Battle of the Diamond, the, i. 30, 31

Bavaria, King of, the, abdication of, iii. 155

Beaudesert, party at, i. 48

Beaumaris, visit to, ii. 17

Beaumont, M. Gustave de, appointed French Ambassador to the Court
of St. James's, iii. 218

Beauvale, Lord, and Lord Palmerston, iii. 120

Bedchamber, ladies of the, affair of the, i. 201, 209

Bedford, fourth Duke of, diary of, ii. 47

Bedford, sixth Duke of, letter of Lord Brougham to, on education,
i. 238

Bedford, seventh Duke of, Devonshire property of, iii. 206

Bedford, Duchess of, resignation of, ii. 32

Bentinck, Lord George, racing transactions of, ii. 160; speech on
the Corn Laws, 373; denounces a supposed job, 413; railway
scheme defeated, iii. 57; speech on the Cracow affair, 67;
attack on Mr. Labouchere, 71; attacked by Lord J. Russell, 197;
death of, 222; character of, 223, 232; career of, 224, 234;
'Orlando' trial, 228; political career of, 229; Disraeli's life
of, 417, 423

Bentinck, Lady William, death of, and character, ii. 157; funeral
of, 159

Berlin, revolution in, iii. 155

Berry, Miss, ii. 201; anecdote of, 202

Berry, Miss Agnes, ii. 201, 202

Bessborough, Right Hon. Earl of, opinion of, on affairs, ii. 353;
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 405; illness of, iii. 77, 80;
letter to Lord J. Russell, 81; death of, 82

Beyrout, bombardment of, i. 328

Birkenhead, visit to, ii. 282

Birthday reflexions, i. 85

Blanc, Louis M., iii. 152; at dinner, 235

Blessington, the Countess of, society at Gore House, i. 167;
works of, 168

Bonaparte, Jerome, Count de Montfort, at Gore House, i. 277

Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, afterwards Emperor of the French,
_see_ Napoleon

Bordeaux, Duc de, visit to England of the, ii. 211; reception of
the, 212, 213

Bourqueney, Baron, letter from M. Guizot to the, i. 348;
misreported conversation with Lord Palmerston, 381

Bowood, party at, ii. 69

Bradshaw, Mr., disloyal speech of, at Canterbury, i. 244; duel
with Mr. Horsman, 254, 255

Bresson, Count, instructions to, on the Spanish marriages,
iii. 24 (_see_ Spanish Marriages)

Bridgewater House, private theatricals at, ii. 96

Bridgewater Trust, account of the, ii. 303

British Museum, correspondence with the, about the missing Privy