Russia, and India, 31, 218; projects and demands with regard to Turkey, 223, 224; occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia, 224, 229; rejection of the Vienna Note, 226; destroys Turkish fleet at Sinope, 230; evacuates the Principalities, 243; operations in the Crimea, 246-252; death of the Emperor Nicholas, 259; fall of Sebastopol, and losses in the war, 268; and the Polish revolt, 321 SALAMANCA, battle of, 16, 17 Sardinia, and the Crimean War, 267 Schleswig-Holstein question, the, 172, 322, 323 Scott, Sir Walter, Lord John Russell's first acquaintance with, 9; and the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13, 91, 355 Sebastopol, siege and fall of, 246, 247, 268 Secret Memorandum, the, 216, 225 Sefton, Lord, 75 Selborne, Lord, on the 'Alabama' case, 312-319; impressions of Lord Russell, 345 Seymour, Sir Hamilton, 214 Seymour, Lord Webb, 12 Shaftesbury, Lord, and factory children, 89; and Lord John Russell's support of Peel, 129, 130; and the Factory Bill, 159; special constable in 1848, 167; and Cardinal Wiseman's manifesto, 187; on the Coalition Government, 211, 212, 368 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake,' battle between the, 22 Shelley and the Peterloo massacre, 38 Sheridan, Mr., 25 Sidmouth, Lord, 21, 40, 63, 85 Simpson, General, 267 Sinope, destruction of Turkish fleet at, 230, 232, 233 Slave trade, 22, 48, 89 Smith, Rev. --, Vicar of Woodnesborough, a tutor of Lord John Russell's, 6 Smith, Dr. Southwood, and the Public Health Act, 162 Smith, Sydney, friendship with Lord John Russell, 8; on Reform, 27; on the political situation after Canning's accession to power, 50, 51; and 'Dame Partington,' 80; hopeful of the triumph of Reform, 84; and 'Lord John Reformer,' 90; on Lord John's influence in the Melbourne Government, 113 Society of the Friends of the People, 25, 63 Solferino, battle of, 303 Spain, Lord John Russell's visit with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11; Lord John's sympathy, 9, 10; Lord John's second visit, 14, 15; Lord John's third visit and adventures, 16-20; entry of Wellington into Madrid, 16; the Spanish marriages, 171, 172; Lord Palmerston's interference, 174 Spencer, Lord, on the alliance of England with France, 120 Spurgeon, C. H., 365 Stanhope, Colonel, 14, 15 Stanley, Lord, and Irish affairs, 92, 93; Secretary for the Colonies, 93; and the Irish Church, 95; withdraws from Lord Grey's Cabinet, 95; Secretary for the Colonies under Peel, 124, 134; succeeds to the House of Lords, 141; challenges Palmerston's foreign policy, 176; fails to form a Ministry on the resignation of Lord John Russell, 193 Stanmore, Lord, 118, 119, 211, 231, 233, 347 Stansfeld, Mr., 327 Stewart, Dugald, 12 Stockmar, Baron, 101, 216 Sussex, Duke of, and the claims of Dissenters, 53