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INDEX.

Life and death, exercise of the power

of, 29

Life peerages, 58

Light out of darkness, 178
Lion discomfited, the, 157
Lion, insulting the, 120
"Lion put to flight," a, 157
Little Parliament, the, 7
Liverpool, the Earl of, 194
as a debater, 195
Lobby, alone in the, 453
Locke King, Mr., 358
Logician out of place, a, 130

London, address from the City of, to
the King, on the Middlesex elec-
tions, 128

Londoners, the, and Peter de la Mare,

10

and the marriage of Mary, 14
Longevity, 43

Long Parliament, the, 6
Longest Parliament, the, 7
Long retention of seats, 60
Long sitting, a, 449

Longest recorded sitting, the, 449
"Looking hard," 367

"Looming in the future," 298
Lord Advocate, seeing the, 480
Lord Chancellor, addressing the, 434
resignation of, on parliamentary
censure, 58

Lord Chancellors, list of, 500
Lord Chancellorship deferred, 360
Brougham's stride to the, 226

Lord Mayor, &c., committed to the
Tower, 425

Lord's Prayer, altering the, 33
Lords, House of, "No, no," in the,
215

rejection of money bills by the, 233
the Speaker of the, 431

talent in the, 267

Lords, the, and the privilege of the
Commons, 12

rescinding a committal by the Com-
mons, 46

Lords giving protections, the, 405
Lords "in a balloon," the, 323

Lords' protests in recent legislation,
59

Loughborough, Lord, 132

Lowe, Robert, Lord Sherbrooke, 345
Lowthers, long representation by the,
60

Loyalty, Thurlow's gush of, 134
Lucas, Dr., 183, 478

Lucid interval, a, 367

"Luminous Gibbon," the, 165
Luttrell seated for Middlesex, 128
and Wilkes, 130

"Lycurgus of the Lower House," the,

221

Lyndhurst, Lord, 231

his first appearance in the Com-
mons, 231

and Eldon, 232

Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Lord, 285
his early appearance as a Reformer,
285

Lytton's "St. Stephen's" quoted, 76,
141, 169, 178, 187, 199, 206, 258,
315, 358, 396, 417

"New Timon" quoted, 263, 289

M.
Macaulay, Lord, 280

his characteristics as a speaker,

280

his early speeches, 281
Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor, cen.
sured, 48

Mace of the Commons, the, 432
appearance of the, at committees,
446

Mackintosh, Sir James, 172

and Tierney elected for Knares-
borough, 397

Mad Parliament, the, 4
Magician's wand, the, 145

Magna Charta, &c., 3, 66, 86, 466
Chatham on, 122

'Magna Charta will have no Sove-
reign," 65

Magnaminity, 103

Maintaining a point, 207
Majorities, fighting against, 205
Majority, a pocket, 51
Malacca, the Straits of, 307
Malediction, a posthumous, 109
"Man in the Moon," the, 387
Management, clever, 386
Manner, an imposing, 114
Mansfield, the Earl of, 123

his powers of debate, 123
Marks of a bad subject, 73
Marten, Harry, 78, 83
Martin and starling, 124
Martin of Galway, 429, 478
Martyr, a parliamentary, 67
spoiling a, 79

Marvell, Andrew, 85

"Master of jibes," a, 357

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"Masters at Westminster," the, 37
our future," 346
Masters,
Maxim of the Commons, a,
Maynard, Mr. Serjeant, 43
Mazzini's letters opened, 253
"Measures, not men," 225
"Meddle and muddle," 291
"Meddlesome" Commons, the, 15

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Metaphysician, a "hard hearted," 213
Miall, Mr., 353, 489

and Mr. Gladstone, 324
Middleman, a parliamentary, 295
Middlesex elections, the, 117, 125, 128
"Mildest censure," the, 407
Militia Bill, Lord J. Russell's, 274
Milton's imprisonment, Marvell and, 85
Mind triumphing over matter, 264
Mine, "Europe on a," 279
Minister, an unpopular, 112
Minister of England, the, 272
Minister, "that thing called a," 125
Minister's difficulties, a British, 302
Minister's duty, a, 327

Minister's responsibility, the, 332
Ministers," Her Majesty's," 361
Ministers in their cups, 481

mimicked by the Sovereign, 236

"Ministry" or "Cabinet Council ?" 39

Minorities, tyranny of, 327
Minority, a "glorious," 454

Minority representation, 328, 393
Minstrels, the Derby, 341
Miscellaneous anecdotes, 373
Miscount, a, 453

Mistake, "there was no," &c., 214
"Mister Most," 385

"Mr. Speaker," Grattan rehearsing to,
181

"Mitred front" of religion, the, 154
Mob, every numerous assembly a, 97
members and the, 479

a mob in the Irish House, 479
Mob orator, the, 258

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Non-attendance of members, 447
Non-interference, 334

"No, no," in the Lords, 215
"No Popery," 265

No Popery riots, the, 52

Norfolk, an election for, 200 years ago,
376

North, Lord, 50, 51, 120, 124, 371,
459, 476

losing his temper, 127

Fox dismissed by, 145

Northcote, Sir Stafford, 361, 412, 413,
461, 462

Norton, Sir F., 466

and the King, 49, 50

"Not heard," motion that a member
be, 435

Not heartless, 366

Not so bad as he seemed, 221
Not too old to learn, 232

"Not yet prepared," 311

Note-taking, dislike of the House to, 422

"cannot be stopped," 422
"Nottingham lambs," the, 390
Novelties, mere, 464

Number and payment of members, 37

0.

Oath or affirmation ? 443

Oath taken by Privy Councillors, the,

349

O'Brien, Mr Smith, 333
Observations, taking, 210

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
Octogenarian's speech, an, 233
"Odd" speaking, 181

Offensive speech forbidden, 472
"Off-hand" debating, 270
Office, a saying about, 168
a qualification for, 480
buried in, 480
lengthy tenure of, 191
Althorp's hatred of, 217

Official restraint v. political morality,

351

"Oftener-if-need-be's," the, 154

Old Sarum, Horne Tooke returned for,
195

"Old ways the safest," 25
"Old women," 271, 438
Oliver, Alderman, 466
"Once a carrier," 486
"Once bit, twice shy," 366
One mind, of, 64

Onslow, Mr. Speaker, 48, 437, 438, 448
on Pulteney, 107

Onslow line, the, 152

"On the side of the angels," 301
Opening of Parliament by James I. in
1621, 19

Opening scene, the, 441

Open pollings, the last, 391
Opinions, two, 130

Opponent, an unexpected, 257
Opposite sides, taking, 433

Opposition, "his Majesty's," 198
"Opposition," the, an irregular epithet,

220

"Opposition over the water," the, 126
Oppression of majorities or minorities,

327
Optimism, 153

Oracle, a wooden, 184

Oration, an exciting, 155
"Orator Hunt," 367
Orator, the mob, 258

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 students, 182

the King's criticism on William
Pitt's, 140

"Order" in the veins, 152

Orders of the Bath and Garter, the,

100

Orders, peremptory, 115

'Organised hypocrisy," the, 294
Orthodoxy and heterodoxy, 466

Osborne, Ralph Bernal, 277, 352, 354,

391, 398, 488

"Our masters at Westminster," 37
Oxfordshire, an expensive election in,
389

P.

Pakington, Sir J., 59

Palmer, Sir Roundell, 360

Palmerston, Lord, 268, 336, 351, 352,

355, 432, 459, 474, 489

Palmerston, Lord

(continued), his
entrance into Parliament, 268
his manner in debate, 278

coming to the front, 269

his dismissal from the Foreign Secre-
taryship, 273

his début in the Premiership, 276
proffer of office to Cobden, 335
Althorp the rival of Palmerston, 216
Disraeli and Palmerston, 293
Wellington and Palmerston, 240
Paper duty, repeal of the, 233, 319
Parasites, "fawning," 225
Parenthesis, a long, 185

Parke, Sir J., made Lord Wensleydale,
58

"Parliament," the name of, 3

the writ of summons to, 4

government by, 98

the "omnipotence" of, 1
paramount dignity of, 48

the "intense glare at the doors of,"

339

Parliament, a strenuous, 22

a suicidal, 11

Parliament, Byron's impressions of,
197

Parliament convening itself, 34
Parliament de la Bond, the, 5
Parliament "fooled" by Charles II.,
36

Parliament from Temple Bar, a, 341
Parliament, how long will it keep
"fresh ?" 459

Parliament of Bats, the, 5
"Parliament proof," Judge Jeffreys
not, 41

Parliaments of England and the United
Kingdom, lists of the, 493
Parliaments, antiquity of, 1
the earliest recorded, 3
peculiar designations given to, 4
selection of partial, 8
"the crisis of," 23
triennial, 95

Parliaments, cats and, 459
Parliaments clashing, the, 187
Parliamentum Diabolicum, 6
Parliamentum Indoctum, 5

Parliamentary eloquence, evanescence
of, in former days, 93
Parliamentary government, 284
Parliamentary instinct, 286
Parliamentary agents and bribery, 385
Parliamentary institutions, rise and
progress of, 1 to 61

Parliamentary reform, Lord North and,
126
Parnell, Mr., 462
suspended, 460

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Pauper proxies, 397

Payment of members, 9, 37, 440
Peace, treaties of, 174

Peace and war, Canning on, 210
"Peace with honour," 266

Pease, Mr., returned for South Dur.
ham, 57

Pedestrian, not a good, 95

Peel, Sir Robert, 54, 55, 186, 188, 225,
241, 296, 287, 333, 459
and Canning, 244

and Feargus O'Connor, 248
and Russell, 467

a saying of Peel's, 205
as a humourist, 247

his challenge to O'Connell, 243
compliment to Palmerston, 272
denunciation of Cobbett, 245
effect of Mr. Disraeli's attacks, 248
his New Tariff, 282

the fall of, 249

the Minister's valediction, 250
his character by Guizot, 251
Peerage "by Act of Parliament," 133
changes in the, 59

limitation of the, 99

in abeyance, 60
inalienable, 411

effect of Chatham's elevation to the,
119

Peerages, life, 58

Peers, claim to the franchise by, 410
creation of, 93, 133; threatened, in
1832, 55, 228

disparaging the, 108

influence of, on elections, 374
sitting in the House of Commons, 33
the Spiritual, 154

Peeresses' gallery, the, 419
Pelham, Henry, 109

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