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Chapter XIX: The Closing Years (3)

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Robertson, manager of the Royal Aquarium, his libel action against Labouchere, 501

Robertson, M.P., J. M., his account of Bradlaugh's parliamentary struggle, 142 _n._

Robinson, Lionel, on Labouchere's financial interest in the _Daily News_, 96

Robinson, Sir John, _Fifty Years of Fleet Street_, quoted, 133 _n._; manager of the _Daily News_, 96, 120, 128 _n._; on the syndicate of the _Daily News_, 95

Rochdale, 484; Chamberlain at, 322

Rochefort, Henri, release and triumph of, 127, 130

Roell, Dutch statesman, 6

Roman Catholicism in Ireland, Labouchere on, 86

Roman Catholics delighted by Gladstone's article against Darwin, 267; support Bradlaugh, 156

Rome, 535; Fouché, Governor of, 11, 12

Ronan, counsel for the _Times_, 374 _n._

Rosebery, Earl of, as Foreign Secretary, 420, 423; Chamberlain on his Home Rule policy, 298; his letters to Labouchere _re_ Home Rule, 268, 277, 283, 287, 307; his Premiership, 423, 424; Labouchere on, 224

Rosmead, Lord, his work as Commissioner in South Africa, 428, 429

Rossa, O'Donovan, 284, 310

Rothschild, Baron, as a politician, 240; his Egyptian loans, 190, 191, 193, 194, 206; procures Labouchere a pass, 140

Rouen, Labouchere at, 120

Rouher, M., on the French army, 123

Rousby, Mrs. Wybert, appears at the New Queen's Theatre, 99, 102

Rousseau, J.-J., on his own education, 21

Rovigo, Duc de, Napoleon's aide-de-camp, 11

Royal Aquarium, Westminster, Robinson manager of, 501

Royal Parks and Pleasure Grounds, Labouchere on the upkeep of, 84, 409

Rudini, Marchesa di, daughter of Labouchere, 535, 539~40

Rumbold, Sir Horace, meets Labouchere at Constantinople, 63

Ruppenheim, Schloss of, Labouchere at, 54

Russell, Charles (Lord Russell of Killowen), his defence of Labouchere, 501; his defence of Parnell, 374 _n._, 375, 378, 384, 389-98, 402; on the Coercion Bill, 182

Russell, Lord John, Foreign Secretary, appoints Labouchere to Buenos Ayres, 65; checks Labouchere's information from St. Petersburg, 59

Russell, Odo, in Paris during the siege, 120

Russians, the, Labouchere's opinion of, 56, 57; their method of playing cards, 58

Ryder, Mr., in _The Last Days of Pompeii_, 100-1

Saarbrück, French Army Corps at, 124

St. Anthony's Falls, 41

St. Augustine, _Confessions of_, 21

St. Cloud, Napoleon at, 10

St. James's Club, Labouchere's membership of, 70

St. James's Hall, Home Rule meeting at, 324, 327

St. Martin's Hall, 98

St. Patrick, Order of, 241

St. Paul, Labouchere at, 40

St. Petersburg, Crampton Ambassador at, 46 _n._; Labouchere as attaché in, 52, 55-60

St. Thomas, Labouchere at, 32

Sala, George Augustus, at Evans', 29; his reminiscences of Labouchere, 99, 116; witnesses Pigott's confession, 394, 398-401

Sale of Liquor on Sundays Bill, the, 83

Salisbury, Marquis of, attends the Berlin Congress, 191, 192; his Egyptian policy as Foreign Secretary, 191-4, 221, 223; Irish policy of his first administration, 251, 257, 270, 271, 274, 286 _n._, 288, 305; Churchill's letter to, _re_ Home Rule, 279-80, 298; his defeat and resignation, 317 _n._; as leader of the Opposition, 319, 344, 347; his second administration, 357, 406, 409, 411; his third administration, 438; on the Transvaal, 441, 450, 451

Sampson, city editor of the _Times_, Labouchere's attacks on, 107

San Francisco, Healy in, 310

Sardinia, kingdom of, 61

Sardou, _La Patrie_, 103

_Saturday Review_ on Labouchere, 513

Saunders, Labouchere on, 352

Sazary, Napoleon's aide-de-camp, 11

Schalk, Burger, President, 456

Scholl, Aurélien, 120

Schreiner, Mr., 449

Schwarzenberg, Prince, Premier of Austria, Palmerston's grudge against, 67

Scudamore, F. I., on the staff of the _World_, 107

Sculthorpe Rectory, Fakenham, 21 _n._

Seagrove, Captain, at Michelstown, 368, 369, 372

Secret Societies in Ireland, 171, 177

Sedan, battle of, 125, 127

Selby, Lord, his letter to Labouchere _re_ retirement, 524

Sexton, his imprisonment, 172, 174; his services in the Irish party, 260, 261, 315, 363; on the Coercion Bill, 178, 187

Sezzed Jamal ed Din, 216

Shakespearian revivals announced by Labouchere, 104

Shannon, solicitor, Pigott's letter to, 395, 401

Shaw, George Bernard, 496

Sheffield, attaché in Paris, 120

_Sheffield Telegraph_ on Bradlaugh, 145

Shekan, battle of, 210, 212

Sheppard, Jack, relics of, in Newgate, 115

Sherif Pasha, administration of, 209

Shipman, Dr., M.P. for Northampton, 519

Sicily, kingdom of, 8, 9

Simla, Lord Lytton at, 192 _n._

Simon, Jules, member of the Provisional Government, 127

Simon, M.P., Serjeant, 146, 150; defends Forster's Irish Bill, 169

Simpson, Palgrave, part author of _Time and the Hour_, 98 _n._

_Sixty Years in the Wilderness_, by Sir H. Lucy, quoted, 250 _n._

Smith, Barnard, his complaint against Labouchere for cribbing, 23-26

Smith, J. G., at Northampton, 489

Smith, Librarian in the House of Commons, 301

Smith, Sir Archibald Levin, member of the Parnell Commission, 373

Smith, W. H., on the Coercion Bill, 187

Soames, Mr., solicitor, concerned in the Parnell forgery case, 360, 385, 389, 395, 401, 405

Social Democratic Federation, programme of the, 474-76

Socialism, Labouchere's attitude to, 418, 458-89

Socrates, Labouchere on, 516

Soissons, 123 _n._

Soudan, the, Gordon as Governor-General of, 209

---- War, the, 209-18, 434

South Africa, Labouchere's sympathy with, 259

South African Republic. _See_ Transvaal.

South America, Labouchere's visit to, 31-8

Southampton, 441

Southwark, representation of, 93

Spain, kingdom of, 8, 199

Spencer, Lord, as Viceroy of Ireland, 174, 178, 181, 184, 186, 267, 317, 320

Spender, James, Montagu White on, 447, 448

Spezia, Labouchere at, 109

Spion Kop, 441

Stael, Madame de, questions Napoleon on his ideal woman, 246

Stamforth, John, contests Athlone, 525

_Standard, The_, on Home Rule, 256; O'Shea correspondent in Paris for, 141 _n._; publishes Gladstone's Home Rule scheme, 277 _n._, 286 _n._

Stanley, Hon. Frederick, 76 _n._

Stansfield, 338

Stead, William, his letter in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, 411

Stewart, Colonel, his information _re_ Hicks Pasha, 210

Stewart, Patrick, 170

Stockholm, Labouchere's duel while attaché in, 50, 51, 72

Stormberg, 440

Strassburg, French army at, 122 _n._

Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord, as Ambassador at Constantinople, 62, 63, 68

Stratford-on-Avon, Mr. Flower of, 75

Stroud, Labouchere at, 332

Stuart, Professor James, speaks against the Coercion Bill, 363

Suakim, political importance of, 214-18

Suez Canal, the, political importance of, 199, 201, 204, 206

Suffrage, Adult Manhood, Labouchere on, 229-48

---- Woman, Labouchere's opposition to, 244-46

Sugden, Charles James, Labouchere's letter to, _re_ prefaces, 537

Swansea, Chamberlain at, 189

Sweating Committee, the, 471

---- in Government offices, 478-79

Sweden, Queen of, 53

Swift, Dean, on cattle-maiming, 169

Sydney, N.S.W., 393

Talana, battle of, 440

Talavera, battle of, 7

Talleyrand, Prince, presents Labouchere with a box of dominoes, 14

Tariff Reform, Labouchere on, 532

Taunton, Henry Labouchere the elder M.P. for, 13, 14-15; Sir Henry James M.P. for, 525

Taunton, Henry, Baron, differentiates between himself and his brother, 16; is invited to assist his nephew at Windsor, 82; Labouchere declines to inherit his title, 251; political career of, 13-15, 67

Taxation on food and drink, Labouchere on, 236

Taylor, Tom, _Joan of Arc_, 102; _Twixt Axe and Crown_, 99

Telbin and Moore, Messrs., 98

Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 70, 198, 218

_Temple Bar_, "Over Babylon to Baalbek," 113

_Temps, Le_, on Lord Rosebery, 420

Terry, Ellen, at Twickenham, 356; in the _Double Marriage_, 99

Tewfik, Khedive, his rule in Egypt, 194, 211

Thackeray, W. M., 497; at Evans', 29

Theatre-goers, Labouchere on, 101, 102

Therapia, British Embassy in, 83

_Thérèse Raquin_, 338

Thesiger, Q.C., acts as counsel for Abbot _v._ Labouchere, 108, 109

Thiers, _Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire_, 10 _n._

Thistle, Order of the, 241

Thornton, banker, 16

Thornton, Edward, Labouchere's letters to, 518, 530-31

Thornton, Godfrey, 14 _n._

Thornton, Rev. Spenser, 14 _n._

Tichborne case, the, Labouchere's reminiscences of, 116

_Time and the Hour_, production of, 98-99

_Times, The_ Arabi's letter to, 222; Bell manager of, 436; denunciations of its city edition by Labouchere, 108; its case against O'Donnell, 371-74, 392; its case against Parnell, 377-94; its correspondents in Paris during the siege, 141 _n._; Labouchere denies proprietorship of _Queen's Messenger_ in, 110; Labouchere's letters in, _re_ his exclusion from the Cabinet, 415; Labouchere's letters to, _re_ Home Rule, 291-98, 304, 309, 356; Labouchere's letters to, _re_ the Income Tax, 246; on Home Rule, 256, 293; on Labouchere's letters from Paris, 119; on the Middlesex election of 1868, 87-89, 92; on "Parnellism and Crime," 358-60, 364-65, 367, 371; on the Windsor election petition, 78-80; publishes Gladstone's Home Rule scheme, 277 _n._; publishes supposed letters from Parnell, 359, 371-75, 405; quoted, 438; report of Soudanese War in, 219

_Times' History of the War in South Africa, The_, quoted, 429 _n._, 437 _n._, 456 _n._

Tipperary, 135

Tokar, conquest of, 213

Tonsley, Mr., 415

Toole, J. L., plays at New Queen's Theatre, 99

Tory democrats, Labouchere on, 248

Toulba Pasha, exile of, 221

Tours, Crawford correspondent at, 120, 121

Trades Unionism, Labouchere on, 471

Trainbearer, office of, 246

Transvaal, English population of, 426, 428, 436, 437; its invasion by Dr. Jameson, 426-37

Trevelyan, Sir George, 150, 407; Healy on, 267, 303; on the Coercion Bill, 180, 188

Triple Alliance, the, Labouchere's opinions on, 410, 418

Trochu, General, Commander-in-chief in Paris, 125, 129; Labouchere's estimate of, 136, 137

_Truth_, Grenville Murray's "Queer Stories," 109; Horace Voules as manager and editor of, 493-512; Labouchere's editorship of, 14, 106, 109, 110, 117, 493-511; Labouchere's reminiscences of youth in, 17 _n._, 20 _n._, 30-46, 53 _n._, 91; libel actions against, 472, 499-502; on the Boer War, 445 _n._, 446, 455, 457; on Bradlaugh, 161; on Chamberlain, 228; on the Chartered Company of B.S.A., 431-34; on the Egyptian policy, 200, 202, 204-5; on his exclusion from the Cabinet, 415; on hoaxes, 405-8; on Home Rule, 287, 315; on the House of Commons, 529-30; on India, 200; on the Irish question, 187-89; on Lord Dudley, 525; on the Michelstown murders, 369, 370; on the Pigott forgeries, 375, 404, 405; on owning a dog, 419; parody of _Lest We Forget_, in, 448; Queen Victoria's dislike to Labouchere's proprietorship of, 414; "The Ghastly Gaymarket," 105 _n._

Tryon, Sir George, at Eton, 18

Tunis, French occupation of, 192

Turin, Nationalist sympathies in, 61

Turkey, its intervention in Egypt, 194-202; its relations with England, 196-97, 199; leases Cyprus to England, 191, 192

Turner, Colonel, in Ireland, Healy on, 361

Tuscany, deposition of the Grand Duke of, 61, 62

Twickenham, Labouchere at, 40, 323-28, 333, 354, 356, 408

_Twixt Axe and Crown_, produced at New Queen's Theatre, 99

Uganda, English policy in, Labouchere on, 421

Uitlanders, grievances of the, 426, 427, 437, 442, 451

Ulster, opposition to Home Rule in, 280, 284, 291, 299, 345

_United Ireland_, 255 _n._, 257, 309

United States of America, salary of the President, 42

Usedom, Countess d', caricature of, 70

Valencay, Kolli at, 10

Vandort, Dr., physician to Arabi Pasha,220

_Vanity Fair_, 492

Vansittart, Mr., contests Windsor, 76, 77

Venezuela, 434

Venice, Labouchere at, 111

Vera Cruz, Labouchere at, 32-35, 38

Verdun, Bazaine at, 124

Versailles, Labouchere at, 139, 140; Prussian army at, 127, 128, 139, 140

Victor Emmanuel II., Labouchere's reminiscences of, 62

Victoria, Queen, 85; Gladstone submits scheme for Home Rule to, 270, 277, 286 _n._, 288; her Civil List, 234; her objection to Labouchere's inclusion in the Ministry, 67, 413-15; King Louis of Bavaria inquires for, 49

Vienna, Grenville Murray attaché in, 68; Labouchere in, 529; public parks of, 84

Villa d'Este, Labouchere at, 535, 536

Vinoy, General, in Paris, 128 _n._, 136

Vivian, Lord, as Consul-General in Egypt, 194

Voisin's, Paris, 139

Voltaire, Labouchere's neutrality compared with, 220, 513

_Voltaire_ on Labouchere, 412

Voters' Bill, a, Healy on, 273

Voules, Horace, his editorship of _Truth_, 493-512

Vulpera Tarasp, Labouchere at, 45, 454

Vyse, Colonel, contests Windsor, 76

Waddington, M., at the Berlin Congress, 192 _n._

Wady Halfa, 217

Wagner, F.S.A., Henry, his "Labouchere Pedigree," 14 _n._

"Wait and See" policy, the, Chamberlain on, 300

Walcheren, expedition to, 6

Walker, John F., 106-7

Walpole, Sir Robert, declines a decoration, 241

Walpole, M.P., Spencer, chairman of Select Committee on Bradlaugh case, 146, 150

Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, Churchill on, 282; his relations with Pigott, 381, 392, 404

Walter, case of O'Donnell _v._, 372, 373-74

War Loan Bill, the, 441

Warr, Lord de la, his interest in Arabi, 221, 223

Warrington, Chamberlain at, 257, 258

Wars of Religion, the, 1

Warton, M.P., Mr., on Bradlaugh, 149, 163

Washburne, Elihu, American Ambassador in Paris during the siege, 43

Washington, Labouchere as attaché at, 39, 45-46, 72; Labouchere's ambition to become Ambassador at, 71, 423

Waterhouse, Major, 76 _n._

Waterloo, battle of, 42, 57

Webster, Sir Richard, Attorney-General, on Parnell's supposed letters, 372-73, 386, 395, 397, 406; his examination of Pigott, 386-89

Weissenburg, battle of, 123

Welby, Lord, on Labouchere at Eton, 18

Wellesley, Lord, English Foreign Secretary, P.-C. Labouchère's mission to, 5-10

Wellington, Arthur, first Duke of, in the Peninsula, 7; on the battle of Waterloo, 42, 57

West, Sir Algernon, at Eton, 18

Westminster, Duke of, on the Irish party, 315

---- Hall, Women's Suffrage Petition in, 246

Westmoreland, Earl of, as Ambassador in Vienna, 68

Whalem, Bridget and Patrick, 168-69

Wharton, Mr., 427

Whewell, Master of Trinity, encounters Labouchere, 27-28

Whig party, the, Labouchere on, 229, 248, 305

Whig principles, their divergence from Radical principles, 42

Whist as a diplomatist's game, 49, 55, 58

Whitbread, M.P., Mr., 146, 150

White, Mr., on the Triple Alliance, 411

White, Montagu, Labouchere's correspondence with, 446-49, 451, 455

Wicklow, Parnell at, 258

Wiesbaden, Labouchere at, 30, 54

Wigan, Alfred, comedian, part manager of the New Queen's Theatre, 98

Wilkes, John, his struggle for political liberty, 163, 164

Williams, M.P., Watkin, 146, 150

Williams, Deacon, Thornton and Labouchere, bank of, 16

Willoughby, Captain, his part in the Jameson Raid, 426

Wilson, Sir Rivers, as English Commissioner and Finance Minister in Egypt, 193, 194, 206

Wilton Park, Bucks, 16

Winchilsea, Lord, on the staff of the _World_, 107

Winchester, Thorold, Bishop of, 2 _n._

Windsor, Labouchere elected for, and unseated, 70, 74-83, 95, 493

Wingfield, Lewis, in Paris during the siege, 138 _n._

Winterbotham, chairman at Stroud, 332

Wodehouse, English Ambassador in Paris during the siege, 43

Woking, Dilke at, 327

Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond, his motion against Bradlaugh, 146, 147, 150, 163

Wolseley, Garnet, Viscount, his mission in Egypt, 197, 208

Wolverhampton, Lord. _See_ Fowler, Sir H.

Wolverton, Lord, on Chamberlain and the Irish party, 337

Women, votes for, Labouchere's opposition to, 244-47, 517

Wood, Sir Evelyn, his command in Egypt, 209

Woollaston, examiner at Cambridge, 24

Woolwich, Chamberlain at, 323

_World, The_, Labouchere's connection with, 94, 106-11, 492, 495, 527

Wörth, battle of, 124, 127

Wyndham, Charles, at New Queen's Theatre, 99

Wyndham, George, member of the South Africa Commission, 427, 435, 436

Yarmouth, 6

Yates, Edmund, at Evans', 29; editor of the _World_, 492, 502; on Labouchere as a contributor, 106-11

Zanzibaris, troop of, in Uganda, 421

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