Pensionary Parliament, the, 7 "the sovereign," 148 "People who will govern this country," Pepys's Diary quoted, 35, &c. his parliamentary career, 193 the Chartist, of 1848, 455 Wilkes presenting a, 130 manufacture of fictitious, 422 Phillips, Sir Robert, 23, 24 Philosopher's peculiarities, a, 172 171 Physician, a Tory, and his Whig Piety and ability, 466 Pillory, members in the, 17, 48 Pitt, William (the elder), 113 (see also and Horace Walpole (the elder), 119 Pitt, William (the younger), 138, 370, 451 as a child, 143 and Fox in childhood, 143 joining the Shelburne Administra- his first speech, 138 his most effective speech, 140 the King's criticism on his oratory, 140 his signal, 184 and Dundas, 481 and Melville's impeachment, 431 prompting Wilberforce, 169 Plagiarism, a, 232 Plague, attempt to communicate it to Play, Parliament "as good as a," 37 Plays, the Act for licensing, 464 Pleasantries, election, 146 a parallel to the Plimsoll case, 476 66 Point, leading up to a, 295 Political training, 166 Poll, "look to the state of the," 296 Polypus and the rock, the, 345 Pope on Walpole, 106 "Potations pottle deep," 471 Power," the balance of," 105 Power in the State, the supreme, 346 66 Practice, a reprehensible," 412 Praise, superlative, 194 Precedent, Parliamentary, 457 Precedents," tea-kettle," 295 "Precious possessions," 268 Prediction, a, and a threat. 462 an unfulfilled, 235 Preference, a maternal, 226 Prejudice, an attack on, 173 Premier, the, and the Commons, 239 also Commander-in-Chief, 237 Premiership, declining the, 354 Preparation for Parliamentary life, 181 "blood full of," 113 Press, the Commons and the, in 1875, Prime Minister, wanting to be, 292 Prince Consort, the, 290, 313 Printed documents, privilege of, 410 Prior and Somers, 91 Private bills, referees voting on, 441 of the Commons, the Lords and the, defence of Parliamentary, 70 the King erasing a declaration of, a rank abuse of, 405 of printed documents, 410 Privilege v. Law, 46 Privy Councillors, motion for copy of Prizefighter, a, in Parliament, 368 Profligacy, ministerial, in the last cen- Promise fulfilled, a, 75 Property qualification, abolition of the, Southey and the, 486 Publication of debates, 421 of evidence before committees, 428 Pulteney, William, 103, 105, 107, 480 Purchase in the army, the abolition of, Purse-strings, holding the, 37 and Strafford, 75 Remonstrance, the Great, 30, 73 Reply, a brief, 220 a crushing, 136 Reporters, accommodation for, in the Reporters' gallery, origin of the, 427 Reporting, the father of Parliamentary, in the last century, 423 "Reprehensible" practice, a, 412 Reprimand for breach of privilege, a, Reproof, administering, 277 66 Resignation," Mr. Gladstone's, 330 of Lord Chancellor on parliamentary Respected and feared, 83 Responsibilities of British rule, the, Responsibility, the Minister's, 332 "Restless activity," a defence of, 270 Retaliation, 184 Retention of seats, long, 60 Retort, a, 88 Retractation, compelling a, 114 Returning officers' charges, contrasts in, Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 486 and Burke, a conversation between, Rhetoric, cold, 370 "heedless," 302 the country governed by, 303 Ricardo, Mr., 381 Rice, Mr. Spring, and the reporters, Rich elected Speaker, 13 Richard II. absenting himself from Par- Shippen, William, and Walpole, 103 "Shooting the policeman," 273 Short sittings and good debates, 439 taking opposite, 433 and Wilberforce, 170 Sidney, Algernon, 82, 86 Silent, the, and the eloquent, 95 Simplicity, "tremendous," 346 Sinecure, Burke seeking a, 153 Sine qua non, a, 205 "Single-speech Hamilton," 365 INDEX. Small and noisy, the, 159 Smith, Sydney, speech of, at Taunton, 56 Smoking in Parliament, 451 at debate, 37 Sovereign mimicking his Ministers, a, Sovereign people, the, 148 Sovereigns, death of foreign, not Sparks, occasional, 264 Speaker of the Commons, the, 431 of the Lords, 431 Speaker, approbation of, refused by the Sovereign, 41 a courtier censured by the, 48 a disturbance quelled by the, 472 a faithful Speaker punished, 10 a Speaker flouting the King, 49 a powerful, 107 a quarrel with the, 438 royal rewards to the, 12 seeing the, 481 a squinting, 438 a sympathetic, 432 taking part in debate, 50 Speaker an agent of corruption, the, 43 Speaker's address on election, an early, 10 Speaker's lament, a, 448 Speaker's warrant, support of the, 204 Speaker, a suggestive, 366 Speaking against a member, 408 burnt by order of the Commons, 23 a syllogistic, 190 Speeches from the throne, recent, 430 long, introduced by the elder Pitt, 115 good, never without effect, 160 Spiritual Peers, the, 154 Splitdevil, Dr., 196 Spoiling nature, 175 66 Spoke once," 125 Sport, "historically national," 451 1 Stability, an element of, 175 Stanhope Ministry, the, and the limita- Stanley, Lord Brougham and, 230 Star, the bright particular, 154 a new crop of, 289 a school for, 318 "Statute books in dog's ears," 121 Stewardship of Chiltern Hundreds, 449 Sting, taking out the, 202 "Stockdale v. Hansard," the case of, Storm, allaying a, 73 calming the, 326 raising a, 287 "Stormy petrel of debate," the, 352 |