Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
people, 151, 152, 156, 157, 158, 338, 342;
and the Arms Bill (1847), 154;
again visits Ireland, 158;
education measures, 159;
returned again for the City, 160;
his appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, 161;
and the Chartist demonstration of 1848, 166, 168;
relations with Lord Palmerston, 170;
on the political situation in Europe after the French Revolution of
1848, 171, 172;
and Palmerston's action in the 'Don Pacifico' affair, 176;
tribute to Sir Robert Peel, 177;
dismisses Palmerston from the Foreign Office, 180;
and the breach with Palmerston, 181;
his 'Durham Letter,' 184-191;
introduces the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 191;
resigns the Premiership, but returns to office on the failure of
Lord Stanley to form a Ministry, 193;
resignation on the vote on the Militia Bill, 195;
his Reform Bill of 1852, 196;
defence of Lord Clarendon, 196;
edits 'Memoirs and Journal of Thomas Moore,' 204;
accepts Foreign Secretaryship in the Aberdeen Administration, 206;
his vacillation in taking office under Lord Aberdeen not due to
personal motives, 205;
retires from Foreign Office, 210, 221;
on the projects of Russia, 218, 224, 225;
and the Vienna Note, 227;
speech at Greenock on the prospects of war, 227;
memorandum to the Cabinet on the eve of the Crimean War, 228;
Reform Bill of 1854, 236, 239, 241;
resignation, 241;
resumes his seat in the Cabinet, 242;
speech in the House of Commons on withdrawing his Reform measure,
242, 243;
proposes a rearrangement of the War and Colonial departments, 244,
248, 251;
presses Lord Aberdeen to take decisive action with regard to the
Crimean War, 248;
memorandum on the Crimean War, 251;
proposed resignation, 251, 252;
resignation on Roebuck's motion to inquire into the condition of the
Army in the Crimea, and his speech on the question, 254-257;
becomes Colonial Secretary in Palmerston's Government, 258;
plenipotentiary at second Congress of Vienna, 259-263;
consents at Palmerston's request to remain in the Ministry, 263;
explanations in the House of Commons regarding the failure of the
Vienna Conference, 264, 265;
announces his resignation (1855), 265;
speech in defence of his late colleagues against Roebuck's motion of
censure, 266;
his mistake in joining the Coalition Ministry, 271;
leisure, travel, &c., 272;
literary labours, 272-281, 354;
and the pension for Moore, 278;
remarks on his own career in 'Recollections and Suggestions,' 281,
336;
allusions to Joseph Lancaster, 282;
work in the cause of education, 282-285, 339;
scheme of National Education (1856), 284;
opposes Lord Palmerston on the 'Arrow' question, 287;
speech in the City and re-election, 287, 288;
supports Palmerston at the Indian Mutiny crisis, 288;
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