United States of America: friction with, i. 134; relief sent from, to Lancashire in 1863, ii. 69; centenary of, iii. 48; relations with, iv. 22 _seq._ 25, 75, 98 Universities: _P.'s_ anti-academic bias, i. 87, 233; Irish University Bill, ii. 39; Universities Commission of 1872, ii. 132 _seq._; Universities Act of 1877, ii. 133; complaints of over-athleticism and expense, ii. 134; women at, ii. 260 _seq._; degrees for women, iii. 117; London University and women, iii. 119; education at, iii. 151 _seq._; teaching of Greek, iii. 154 _seq._; commerce at, iv. 155 Urquhart, David, i. 313 Vaccination Bill of 1898, iv. 119 _Vanguard_, loss of the, iii. 9 Vatican Decrees, iii. 158 _seq._ Vaticanism, ii. 101, 118 Vaughan, Father Bernard, iv. 250 Vaughan, Kate, actress, iii. 354 Vauxhall Gardens, i. 155 Vegetarianism, i. 240; iii. 209 Venetia annexed to Italy, ii. 26 Venezuela, dispute with, iv. 11, 22, 25 Verdi, Giuseppe, i. 277; ii. 301, 305, 297 _seq._; his _Otello_ performed, iii. 356, 359; _P._ and his later operas, iv. 332 Verne, Jules, iv. 186, 187 Verrey's Café, i. 217 Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, i. 280 Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, ii. 10, 17, 19, 196 Victor Emmanuel III visits England, iii. 233 _Victoria_, loss of the, iv. 191 Victoria, Princess Royal, betrothed, i. 198 Victoria, Queen, i. 91; reviews wounded soldiers, i. 130; V.C. instituted, i. 136; opens Royal Exchange, i. 149; preference for foreign talent, i. 149, 190; "bed-chamber" controversy, i. 165; marriage, i. 166; birth of Prince of Wales, i. 168; as Mother Hubbard, i. 169 _ill._; attack on, i. 186; as Calypso, i. 191 _ill._; visits Ireland, i. 196; surname of Windsor suggested, _ibid._; as Red Riding Hood, i. 307 _ill._; as Queen Canute, i. 309 _ill._; as Queen Hermione, ii. _front._; speech, 1860, ii. 16, 55; and Irish Church Bill, ii. 115 _ill._; as Queen of India, _ill._, ii. 173, 174 _seq._, 179 _seq._, 191 _seq._; letter to Mayor of Birmingham, ii. 245; Empress of India, iii. 4, 12, 215 _seq._; Golden Jubilee, iii. 6, 48, 226 _seq._; in seclusion, iii. 219 _seq._; attempt on her life, iii. 221; and Royal grants, iii. 232; Diamond Jubilee, iv. 27, 219-20; 80th birthday, iv. 34; death, iv. 42, 44; Memorial, iv. 201, 207; last years of reign, iv. 215 Victoria Theatre, ii. 285 Victorian age closes, iv. 3 _seq._ Villafranca, Peace of, ii. 12 Vivisection, iii. 103 Vokes family and pantomime, iii. 354 Voluntary schools, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's attitude to, iii. 57 Volunteers, ii. 13 Wages, i. 11, 17, 19, 33, 37, 72; and prices, iii. 104; iv. 105, 113, 119, 120 "Waggawock, The," ii. 209 Wagner, Johanna, i. 285