control of policy through, 353 necessity of Parliamentary vigilance in the management of, 389-391
Indian, Parliamentary super- vision of, 390, 400
Flogging, as a criminal punish- ment, 437-439; 459
Foreign affairs, recent prominence of, in Parliamentary debate, 179
- Mr. Disraeli on the importance of, 179
policy as to, not generally initi- ated in Parliament, 180
recent legislation bearing on, 180-208
- conduct of Lord Palmerston as Secretary for, in 1850 and 1851, 284-290; 310–315
Foreign affairs, indifference of the country to, after the Treaty of Vienna, 363, 364
- doctrine of non-intervention in, 365-367
- revived interest in, on the reopening of the Eastern Ques- tion in 1876, 367
- review of recent policy with regard to, 373-380
comments on recent policy with regard to, 380–387 Foreign Enlistment Act. 1854, 254 1870, 204; 206–208 Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 1878, 187-189; 191
FORSTER, MR. W. E., policy in- augurated by the Education Act of, 149
FORSYTH, MR., on cession of territory by Royal Prerogative, 414
Franconia and Strathclyde Case, 200
FREEMAN, MR. E. A., letter of Sir G. C. Lewis to, on the legal status of the Cabinet, 275, 276
FRERE. SIR BARTLE, expressions of sympathy with, by the Queen, during the Zulu war, 330, 331 - policy of annexation recom- mended by, 407, 408
Fugitive Slave Circulars, 195, 196
GIFFARD, SIR HARDINGE, instance of, in office but not in Parlia- ment, 337, note
GILLON, MR., motion of, for an increased grant to the Duke of Sussex, 226 GLADSTONE, MR., action of, in the repeal of the Paper Duties, 22 on the practice of the House of Lords in proposing money grants, 24, 25
use of a Royal warrant by, for
abolishing purchase in the army, 28-31
GLADSTONE, MR., on Mr. Richard's
motion on International Arbitra- tion, 181
on the title to the Crown Lands, 217, 218
- on the amendment of the Crown Private Estates Act, 219, 220
on Parliamentary provision for the Royal Family, 227; 229–233 on the Bedchamber question, 237
- action of, on the Russian war question in 1855, 256; 259, 260, note
on the internal relations of the Cabinet, 278-281
on the dismissal of the Mel- bourne Ministry by William IV., 305, 306
Gold Coast of Africa, extra- territorial jurisdiction on the, 187 GORDON, SIR ARTHUR, on the duties of the Governor of a Crown Colony, 415-417 Government.
(See also Ministry, Party Government, Local Go- vernment)
structure of the English, the subject of investigation, 2 Constitutional dangers inherent in the mechanism of, 466-468 Government of India Act Amend- ment Act, 1869, 196; 401 GRAHAM, SIR JAMES, part taken by, on the Russian war question in 1855, 258, 259
GREY, EARL, on proposals for grants of money not originated by the Crown, 25
on the internal relations of the Cabinet, 281-283
- conduct of William IV. in regard to the formation of a Ministry by, 302
on the party allegiance of a Government, 351-353 GROTE, MR. GEORGE, on the Ballot, 41, 42
GUIZOT, history of representation as given by, 46, note
on the Police panic in 1829, 144 - on the Spanish marriages, 364, note
HALLAM, period covered by the Constitutional History of, 1
- on the creation of Peers, 29, 30, note
on the Cabinet and the Privy Council, 272-275
Half-past twelve rule, 90, 91 Hanover, king of, heir presump. tive to the Crown, 212
revenues of the kingdom of, detached from those of the English Crown, 223
- refusal of precedence to the Prince Consort by the king of, 243 HANSARD, case of Stockdale v., 77, 78
HARCOURT, SIR W. VERNON, on the procedure of the House of Lords, 100-102
HARE, MR. THOMAS, scheme of, for minority representation, 59- 64
HARLEY, paper on the right of petitioning attributed to, 75, note
HARTINGTON, LORD, on the Stand. ing Orders of the House of Lords, 102
remarks of, on the explanation given of the Queen's corre- spondence with Lord Lytton and Sir Bartle Frere, 334, 335 HEALTH, PUBLIC, legislation re- lating to, 145-147; 425-427; 456-461
topics included under the title of, 146 HERBERT, MR. SIDNEY, part taken by, on the Russian war question in 1855, 258, 259
House of Commons, possible modi- fications of the procedure of, as to private bills, 94-96 procedure of the, relating to supply, 96-99
powers and privileges of the Victorian Legislature not to exceed those of the, 161
presence of the Prince Consort in the, at a Corn Law debate, 250-252
- selection of a ministry by William IV., without reference to the, 301-309
- party organisation in the, 340- 343
- dependence of the Ministry on the, 344, 345
- control of expenditure by the, as a means of controlling Ministerial policy, 353
dependence of the, on the Government, 353-358
- doctrine of non-intervention in foreign affairs in the, 363-367 opposed views on the Eastern question in the, 368–370
- tendency of the, as of all democratic legislatures, encroachment on private liber- ties, 424, 425
division of labour between the, and the people, 464-466 House of Lords, indivisible from the House of Commons, 18, 19 Appellate Jurisdiction of the 19, 20
ment, on the abolition of army purchase, 28-31
House of Lords, Lord Macaulay and the Duke of Wellington on the impotence of the, 31, 32 petitions to the, 76 procedure of the, 99-102 the Lord Chancellor as speaker of the, 101, 102, note
the Church of England repre- sented in the, 104
support of University reform in the, 113, 114
Colonial Legislative Councils not analogous to the, 165, 166 place of the Prince Consort in the, 240
- influence of the, on the fate of a Ministry, 344
- occasional influence of the, on the side of the public, against the other House, 465 Household, the Royal, organisa- tion of the, 233-238 Howard v. Gossett, 83, 84 Hudson's Bay, Act for the ad- mission of, into the Dominion of Canada, 1868, 172 Hudson's Bay, admission of, into the Dominion of Canada, 172 organisation of government in, 403, 404
HUME, MR., motion of, as to the proposed annuity for the Prince Consort, 239
Imperialism, in India, 375; 381 - use of the term, 408
Professor Maurice on, 409, 410 Lord Carnarvon on, 410-413 India (see also East India Com- pany, Afghanistan, &c.)
- origin of British rule in, 150 Parliamentary government of, · 151; 167-172; 392-403
powers of the Governor-General of, 170; 174
India, extra-territorial jurisdiction in, 196
- title of the Queen as Empress of, 213-215; 375; 380; 381; 385 correspondence of the Queen with the Viceroy of, during the Afghan war, 330-334
recent foreign policy in re- ference to, 368; 381; 384; 388 recent policy in, 374, 375; 378-382; 388; 398
recent legislation for, 395–397 repeal of cotton duties in, 398, 399
- annual statement as to finances of, required by Parliament, 399 announcement of the com- mencement of war in, required by Parliament, 400
recent extension of the Pre- rogative in, 400, 401
- consequences of the transfer of the government of, from the Company to the Crown, 401-
- grounds alleged for annexa- tions in, 407 India Acts :-
Regulating Act (East India
Company), of 1773, 168, 169 Indian Territories Government Act of 1833, 169-171; 395; 402, 403
Act for the better Government of India, 1858, 171, 172; 337, note; 380; 386; 395–397; 399; 400
Indian Councils Act of 1861, 174; 196; 395; 397; 401
Act of 1865, 196
Acts of 1869, 196; 401
Indian troops, transport of, to Malta, 377; 381; 382; 385-387; 391, 392
Indian Vernacular Press, restric- tions placed on, 380; 398 Industry. (See Economy, social) Institutions, English, foreign copies of insulated, 4
- isolation of, in treatment, 11
Jamaica, alteration of the con- stitution of, 157, 158 Jervis Acts, 1847, 1848 (to protect Justices of the Peace), 444 Judicial Reform, 136; 427-456 Jurisdiction, appellate, of the
House of Lords, 19, 20
in election cases, surrendered by the House of Commons, 43- 45
of the House of Commons in cases of contempt, 82-84 reconstitution of local, 137- 149; 428-434
- territorial limits of Colonial, 167
extra-territorial, 187-199 exercise of extra-territorial, in Cyprus, 188-194
extra-territorial, in India, 196 in territorial waters, 199-202 criminal, 427-455
summary, of Magistrates, 431- 434
Jury, trial by, abandoned in civil cases, 449
- trial by, in criminal cases, 451
requirement of unanimity of a,
KELLY, LORD CHIEF BARON, letter of, to the Lord Chancellor on the secresy of Privy Council- lors, 295-298
KENT, DUCHESS OF, regent in case of the accession of Queen Victoria during her minority,
- grant to the, on the Queen's accession, 225, 226 Kidnapping Act, 1872, 197, 198
Lancaster and Cornwall, Duchies of, reform of the management of the, 223, 224 LANSDOWNE, LORD, arrangement of the Queen's household by Lord Melbourne and, 234, 235
- opinion of, on the coup d'état, 288 Legislation, Home, 103-149; 427- 461
- Constitutional advance shown in recent home, 103
economic, scientific spirit of recent, 122, 126
Colonial, 150-178; 392-404 relating to foreign affairs, 179- 208
-judicial and criminal, 427-456 LEITRIM, EARL OF, exclusion of strangers from a debate on the murder of the, 81, 82 Letters-Patent (Colonies)
1863 (26 and 27 Vict. c. 76), 176 LEWIS, SIR G. C., on minority representation, 58, 60
on the legal status and internal relations of the Cabinet, 275-278 LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT, Chap. IV., 422-461
provision for the, a distinctive mark of the English Constitu- tion, 3; 422, 423
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