Appeal from son to father, an, 167 Apple-stall question in Parliament, an, Apprehended, easily, 243 Arbitrary proceeding of the Commons, Archbishop's wrath, an, 465 Archdeacon, the duties of an, 203 Aristocracy, a proud, 313 Army, the abolition of purchase in the, Army Regulation Bill, the, 325 Arrest, avoiding, 486 Arrest, freedom from, 403 dishonest use of the privilege, 403 Lord Cochrane's, in the House of Lord Althorp's, 217 Mr. Bradlaugh's, 444 Arrest the five members, the attempt Arresting the servant of a member, Artist, an, on a canvass, 486 Asgill expelled, 486 Ashby and White, the case of, 46 Asian mystery and Batavian grace, Asleep, Lord North, 124, 125 Ass between two burdens, the, 339 attempt to assassinate Palmerston, Bentinck, Lord George, 312 his early devotion to the turf, 321 Bentinck, Mr. C., 483 Mr. G., 439, 483 "Best of kings," &c., 153 Biding his time, Burke, 155 Billingsgate, a petition from, 125 Bills quashed by the Sovereign, 18, 45 Bishops, Elizabeth and the, 17 Bishops in Parliament, the, 465 Bishop's story stopped, a, 485 "Black and curly," 335 Black Prince, the, and the Good Parlia ment, 5 Black Rod, a slight from the, 21 the mace slighted by the, 432 Board of Admiralty, the, examining a Boast, a magniloquent, 211 Boldness, youthful, 132 Bolingbroke, Lord, 93 Bolting from the course, 314 Boroughs, rotten, 380, 382 Boroughs, small, and great men, 318 Bowyer, Sir G., 435 66 Boy, never was a," 138 the Angry, 160 Calling the House," 445 Camden, Earl, 133 "Candid friends," 296 Candidates and election petitions, 336 his introduction into Parliament, 207 his speech at Plymouth, 210 an artist on a, 486 Caucus system, introduction of the, 393 dictation, 394 Caution, a paternal, 241 Carleton, Sir Dudley, 21 and Bernadotte's troops, 180 Catholic Relief Bill, the, 192 Cave of Adullam, the, 303, 338 Cavendish, notes taken by Sir Henry, 414 Celebrities, minor, 365 Celebrity, an Irish, 365 Censure," the mildest," 407 Censure on the Speaker, vote of, 44 Censure, &c., without personal offence, Centuries, sleeping through the, 125 Chairman of committees, insulting the, 438 Challenge in the Peers, a, 409 Champagne, Canning and dry, 309 Chancellors of the Exchequer, list of, 500 Chancellorship offered to Townshend, Chancery, a coup-de-main in, 166 Character in Parliament, influence of, Characters, odd, 365 Charles I. and the Parliament, the Charles II., Parliament "fooled" by, Chartist petition of 1848, the, 455 his personal characteristics, 113 Chatham, employment of Indians by, loss of influence by his peerage, 120 his eloquence, examples of, 121 Chesterfield, the Earl of, 96 and the Ministry, 21 Child father of the man, the, 251 Chinese war, defeat of the Palmerston Chivalry, feats of, commended, 10 Confidence of the House, the, 362 Conflict between the woolsack and the Connections, family, in Governments, "Conquered race," the, 311 Constituencies, increase in the, in 1867, Constituency fined heavily, a, 383 Contrast, a, 165 elegant," 381 Contribution, a gallant, 33 Convention Parliament, the, 34 Conveyance of electors, origin of, 378 Cook, Mr. Secretary, 23, 24 Cooper, Ashley, 1st Earl of Shaftes- Cornet, the terrible, 113 the repeal of the, 59 prophesied by Palmerston, 270 Cornwallis, Lord, and the Union with Ireland, 53 Corruption, a charge of, Ministers, 481 against Corruption in the House, charges of, Corruption, parliamentary, preventing Corruption, the Speaker an agent of, 43 Costume, correct, 453 Cottage, the poor man's, 122 Council, the first, after the Conquest, 2 Counting himself out, 453 Counting ten for one, 40 County election expenses in 1876, &c., County franchise, the, 348 Coup d'état, Lord Palmerston and the, Court, a picture of the, 101 Court candidate in the 17th century, Courtier censured by the Speaker, a, Coventry, Sir John, 41 Cowley quoted by Sir R. Peel, 246 Crimean war, Mr. Roebuck's motion, an appeal against the, 338 a defence of the, 285 Criminal code, the reform of the, 171 his dissolution of the Long Parlia- his reform of the Commons, 34 Crowds, prevention of, 456 Crown, the Commons and the influence "Crumbling" Russia, 334 and Lord Brougham, 229 Curliness and sarcasm, 254 "Currycomb of the House," the, 179 "Day of no judgment," the, 159 Death of Castlereagh, 180 of Chatham, 120 of Huskisson, 214 Debate, an extraordinary, 200 presence of the Sovereign at, 37, 39 Debate, "the Rupert of," 289 the "stormy petrel of," 352 Debater, a fair, 195 Debates, good, and short sittings, 439 Debates, publication of, 421 Debating, "off-hand," 270 a sophistical, 69 Defence of the Queen, a, 342 Defence, Strafford's, 75 Lord Somers', 91 'Democratic tide," the, 290 Denmark, debate respecting, 352 Denunciation of Cobbett, Peel's, 245 Derby, Edw. Geoffrey, Earl of, 286, 471 his first speech, 286 Derby day, adjournment over the, 451 first, 318 of the second, 360 Derby Minstrels, the, 341 Designations given to Parliaments, peculiar, 4 "Desired" or "required ?" 435 Despatch, parliamentary, 18 Detention of members, compulsory, 27 Dexterity in a difficulty, 308 with a difficult subject, 97 Difference, all the, 224 Difficulties, a British Minister's, 302 Digby, Lord, 28, 29, 81, 218 Mr. John, 30 |