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530 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