258;
  on the rule of aristocracy and growth of democracy, ii. 300
Arnold, The History of the Cotton Famine, ii. 6 note[2], 10, 11;
  quoted:  first effects of the war on the cotton trade, 9-10;
  cotton operatives’ song, 17 note[6];
  on the members for Lancashire, 26-7
Ashburton, Lord, i. 13;
  Ashburton Mission, i. 13
Aspinwall and Forbes, Mission of, in England, ii. 130 note[2] Atlanta, captured by Sherman, ii. 233-5;
  effect of, on Northern attitude, 233-4;
  effect of, on Lincoln’s re-election, 235
Atlantic Monthly, The, ii. 109 note[3]; 279 and note[3]

Bagley, Mr., ii. 224
Balch, The Alabama Arbitration, cited, ii. 129 note[1]
Baligny. See Belligny
Bancroft, Frederic, cited, i. 117 note;
  analysis of Seward’s object in Declaration of Paris negotiation, 150-3;
  view on Russell’s aims in, 152 and note[2]
  Life of Seward, cited or quoted, i. 106 note[1], 118 note,
    130 note[3]; 132 note[3], 138, 150-3, 186 notes,
    191 note[4], 196 note[1], 200 note[2],
    213 note[4], 231 note[3], 280
    and note[1], 281; ii. 1-2, 96,
    99 note[2], 143 note[3], 253 note[1],
    258 note[1]
Banks, Governor, i. 37 note
Baring, ii. 96 note[3]
Bath, Marquis of, ii. 193 note
Beals, Mr., ii. 191
Bedford, Duke of, i. 96 and note[3]
Bee Hive, The, cited, ii. 293 note
Beecher, Henry Ward, ii. 184 and
  note[3]
Beesly, Professor, speech of, at
  Trades Unions of London Meeting,
  ii. 292
Belfast Whig, The, i. 70 note[1];
  231 note
Belligny, French Consul at Charleston,
  i. 185 note[1], 186, 188, 189,
  191 and note[4]
Bell’s Weekly Messenger, quoted,
  ii. 104
Benjamin, Confederate Secretary
  of State, ii. 5; Mercier’s interview
  with, i. 284, 285; report of,
  to Slidell on Mercier’s visit,
  284 note[2]; instructions of, to
  Slidell offering commercial advantages
  for French intervention,
  ii. 24 and note[2]; on idea
  of Confederate loan, 158-9; recalls
  Mason, 179; and recognition
  of the Confederacy, 217; on the
  attitude of France to the Confederacy,
  236 note[2]; plan of
  offering abolition of slavery in
  return for recognition, 249;
  otherwise mentioned, i. 292;
  ii. 88 note[2], 148, 154 note[1], 213
  note[1]
Bentinck, i. 268, 269
Bernard, Montague: 
  Neutrality, The, of Great Britain
    during the American Civil War,
    quoted, i., 100 and note[1],
    137-8; ii. 118; cited, i. 171
    note[1], 245 note[3],