INDEX. Life and death, exercise of the power of, 29 Life peerages, 58 Light out of darkness, 178 London, address from the City of, to Londoners, the, and Peter de la Mare, 10 and the marriage of Mary, 14 Long Parliament, the, 6 Longest recorded sitting, the, 449 "Looming in the future," 298 Lord Chancellors, list of, 500 Lord Mayor, &c., committed to the Lord's Prayer, altering the, 33 rejection of money bills by the, 233 talent in the, 267 Lords, the, and the privilege of the rescinding a committal by the Com- Lords giving protections, the, 405 Lords' protests in recent legislation, Loughborough, Lord, 132 Lowe, Robert, Lord Sherbrooke, 345 Loyalty, Thurlow's gush of, 134 Lucid interval, a, 367 "Luminous Gibbon," the, 165 "Lycurgus of the Lower House," the, 221 Lyndhurst, Lord, 231 his first appearance in the Com- and Eldon, 232 Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Lord, 285 Lytton's "St. Stephen's" quoted, 76, "New Timon" quoted, 263, 289 M. his characteristics as a speaker, 280 his early speeches, 281 Mace of the Commons, the, 432 Mackintosh, Sir James, 172 and Tierney elected for Knares- Mad Parliament, the, 4 Magna Charta, &c., 3, 66, 86, 466 'Magna Charta will have no Sove- Magnaminity, 103 Maintaining a point, 207 his powers of debate, 123 Marvell, Andrew, 85 "Master of jibes," a, 357 "Masters at Westminster," the, 37 Metaphysician, a "hard hearted," 213 and Mr. Gladstone, 324 Minister's responsibility, the, 332 mimicked by the Sovereign, 236 "Ministry" or "Cabinet Council ?" 39 Minorities, tyranny of, 327 Minority representation, 328, 393 Mistake, "there was no," &c., 214 "Mr. Speaker," Grattan rehearsing to, "Mitred front" of religion, the, 154 a mob in the Irish House, 479 Non-attendance of members, 447 "No, no," in the Lords, 215 No Popery riots, the, 52 Norfolk, an election for, 200 years ago, North, Lord, 50, 51, 120, 124, 371, losing his temper, 127 Fox dismissed by, 145 Northcote, Sir Stafford, 361, 412, 413, Norton, Sir F., 466 and the King, 49, 50 "Not heard," motion that a member Not heartless, 366 Not so bad as he seemed, 221 "Not yet prepared," 311 Note-taking, dislike of the House to, 422 "cannot be stopped," 422 Number and payment of members, 37 0. Oath or affirmation ? 443 Oath taken by Privy Councillors, the, 349 O'Brien, Mr Smith, 333 Obstruction, Parliamentary, 362, 449, 460 the "barricade" of, 461 the "sacred rite" of, 462 statistics of, 461 measures against, 461, 462 Obstruction and the British Constitu tion, 299 O'Connell, Daniel, 255, 400, 467 and Disraeli, 291 and Professor Pryme, 42 his return for Clare, 54 his last speech, 259 O'Connell, John, motion by, to exclude strangers, 415 stories by, 401, 487 O'Connor, Feargus, 455 named in the House, 437 Offensive speech forbidden, 472 Official restraint v. political morality, 351 "Oftener-if-need-be's," the, 154 Old Sarum, Horne Tooke returned for, "Old ways the safest," 25 Onslow, Mr. Speaker, 48, 437, 438, 448 Onslow line, the, 152 "On the side of the angels," 301 Opening scene, the, 441 Open pollings, the last, 391 Opponent, an unexpected, 257 Opposition, "his Majesty's," 198 220 "Opposition over the water," the, 126 327 Oracle, a wooden, 184 Oration, an exciting, 155 Oratory, common-place, 176 exemplary, 65 influential, 90 "express train," 280 finished, 142 long-winded, 485 Chatham's, 115 Grattan's, leading to expulsion of the King's criticism on William "Order" in the veins, 152 Orders of the Bath and Garter, the, 100 Orders, peremptory, 115 'Organised hypocrisy," the, 294 Osborne, Ralph Bernal, 277, 352, 354, 391, 398, 488 "Our masters at Westminster," 37 P. Pakington, Sir J., 59 Palmer, Sir Roundell, 360 Palmerston, Lord, 268, 336, 351, 352, 355, 432, 459, 474, 489 Palmerston, Lord (continued), his coming to the front, 269 his dismissal from the Foreign Secre- his début in the Premiership, 276 Parke, Sir J., made Lord Wensleydale, "Parliament," the name of, 3 the writ of summons to, 4 government by, 98 the "omnipotence" of, 1 the "intense glare at the doors of," 339 Parliament, a strenuous, 22 a suicidal, 11 Parliament, Byron's impressions of, Parliament convening itself, 34 Parliament from Temple Bar, a, 341 Parliament of Bats, the, 5 Parliaments of England and the United Parliaments, cats and, 459 Parliamentary eloquence, evanescence Parliamentary reform, Lord North and, Pauper proxies, 397 Payment of members, 9, 37, 440 Peace and war, Canning on, 210 Pease, Mr., returned for South Dur. Pedestrian, not a good, 95 Peel, Sir Robert, 54, 55, 186, 188, 225, and Feargus O'Connor, 248 a saying of Peel's, 205 his challenge to O'Connell, 243 the fall of, 249 the Minister's valediction, 250 limitation of the, 99 in abeyance, 60 effect of Chatham's elevation to the, Peerages, life, 58 Peers, claim to the franchise by, 410 disparaging the, 108 influence of, on elections, 374 Peeresses' gallery, the, 419 |