Marriage (see also Bigamy and Divorce),
Buckle's fallacious notions re-
garding statistics of, 318
Mosaic laws on, bearing of, on divorce
of Henry VIII. , 32
of Reformed clergy, effect of, on
Catholicism, 62
second, of Napoleon, 445
views on, of George Eliot and others,
-92
dispensations, as employed by Alex-
ander VI. , 76-7
Mars-la-Tour, battle of, 244, 256
Martineau, Harriet, intercourse with
George Eliot, 288 ; the breach
with, 288
Mary I. , Queen of England, marriages
proposed for —
with Charles V. , 7
with Prince of France, 16
with Salisbury (and why), 10
uncertainty of her succession, 9
Mary, Queen of Scots, as affected by
the Secret Decretal, 46
Mary, Princess of Orange, daughter of
Charles I. , 86
Mass for the dead, the, attitude to, of
Alexander VI., 78
Matamoros, fall of, 163
Maurine fathers at Rome, 464
Maximilian, Archduke Ferdinand of
Austria (see also under Mexico),
proposed as Emperor of Mexico
by Napoleon III., 151 ; the
crown offered to him, 154 ;
his character, history, and family,
154-6 ; his conditions of accept-
ance, 156, 157, 158 ; his reasons
for accepting, 154-7 ; impossi-
bilities of the position, 158 ; his
policy and its consequences,
especially as to clergy, 158-9 ;
the first disaster, and the next,
159 ; its results, 160 ; weak
points in his government, educa-
tion, and Indian distress, 160-61 ;
efforts to form an army, the
struggle with Juarez, 161 ;
United States intervention, 162
et seq. ; its consequences as to
Napoleon and Maximilian, who
suggests abdication, 163 ; de-
spairing efforts and vacillation,
164 ; his hopeless position, 165-
7 ; his escape from Queretaro,
167 ; his recapture, 167-8 ;
his abdication, 168 ; the court-
martial, 168 ; indictments, 168 ;
defence, 157, 169 ; United States
wish for clemency, 170, 171 ;
his death decided on, 170-71 ;
story of the end, 171-3
Maximilian, Emperor Elect of Ger-
many, his wild schemes, 8 ; and
Campeggio, 41 ; and the Papacy,
70
Maxwell, Sir W. Stirling, careful scholar-
ship of, and Lord Houghton's
estimation of, 423
Mazarin, Cardinal, and the Fronde,
90 ; his schemes for marrying a
niece to Charles II., 91
Mazzini, in George Eliot's circle, 292,
297; accused of criminal practices,
292; and the proposed Neapolitan
army, i860., 197
sole triumph of, and crimes, 194
on the difference between himself and
Cavour's monarchical revolutions,
192-3; on the alleged local
patriotism of Cavour, 190 ; and
on the Italian Liberals, 190-91 ;
on Piedmont as " Italy in the
germ," 193 ; error of his deduc-
tions in the foregoing, 193-4
Mecklenburg, Duke of, 1870., 267
Medal, celebrated, ' ' Perdam Babylonis, "
date of, 71
Mediaeval history, German writers on,
Meija, and the surrender of Matamoros,
with Maximilian at Queretaro, 167, , 169; tragedy of his prison- days, 172 Melanchthon, Philip, and the bigamy of Philip of Hesse, 50 Mendelssohn, 335 Mendez, General, and the execution of Arteaga, 162 ; his own fate, 168 Mendoza, Charles V. 's ambassador to Henry VIII. , 19 Mensdorff, Count, cited on war of ., 485 Menzel, 352 Metaphysics, George Eliot's contempt for, 293 Metternich, Prince, 146, 371 and Napoleon's divorce, 445 no bribes from France received by,
success of ministry of, 444 Talleyrand's advice to, 412 ; and opinion of, 398 Metz, region dominated by war of ., 240 ; forces attacking and defending, 241-5 ; the siege, 245,
; the price of peace, 251 ;
the fall of, 259 ; its consequences,
et seq., 489
