To satisfy all classes, to tolerate the intolerant, and to represent the non-political King of England, although appointed for his political opinions, are the duties of the Lord-Lieutenant. Surrounded by lynx-eyed critics, Tory and Nationalist, he has to be something more than the shadow of the monarch, and he is not allowed to escape criticism, although the king for whom he acts as deputy is supposed to be above it. It is not an enviable post, and never will be. That Lord Aberdeen and Lady Aberdeen have been successful nobody will deny, and Ireland will lose two good friends when their term of office comes to an end. The introduction of Mr. Asquith's Home Rule Bill makes the Irish viceroy's position more delicate than ever. Its success means the end of the official ascendancy, and bureaucracies always fight desperately until the first shot is fired. When Liberalism has achieved its ambition, the Irish bureaucracy will cease to hold the power that makes or mars every viceroyalty. {343} INDEX Abercorn, Marquis and first Duke of, 264 Abercorn's second viceroyalty, Duke of, 273 Aberdeen and Belfast, Lord, 332 Aberdeen and Gladstone, Lord, 295 Aberdeen, fourth Earl of, 257 Aberdeen's first viceroyalty, Lord, 295 Aberdeen, Lady, 296 Aberdeen's second viceroyalty, Lord, 326-342 Aberdeen, seventh Earl of, 295 Aberdeen's visit to Rome, Lord, 332 Abercromby, Sir Ralph, 204 Addison, Joseph, 131 Albert, visit of Prince, 300 Ambrose, Eleanor, 150 America, British North, 216 Andrews, Dr., 157, 175 Anglesey and George IV., Lord, 229 Anglesey and O'Connell, 234 Anglesey divorced, Lord, 230 Anglesey, Marquis of, 227 Anglesey on agitation, 232 Anglesey's second viceroyalty, Lord, 234 Anglo-Irish, Rise of, 31 Annesley, Arthur, 89 Armagh, Archbishop of, 52 Arran, Lord, 128 Asquith's Home Rule Bill, Mr., 342 Asquith, Miss Violet, 337