363, 432 Army Regulation Bill, the, 363 Arrest, avoiding, 664 Arrest, freedom from, 539 dishonest use of the privilege, 539 Lord Cochrane's in the House of Lord Althorp's, 227 Mr. Bradlaugh's, 590 Arrest the five members, the attempt Arresting the servant of a member, 511 Ashby and White, the case of, 46 Ash Wednesday in the Upper House, Asian mystery and Batavian grace, 329 Ass between two burdens, the, 391 the pilot, 426 Ballot Act, the, 526 first election under the, 526 Ballot question brought home, the, 657 bamboo," 427 Bar, appearances at the, 670 Barebone's Parliament, 7 Barons, "iron and silken," 129 Bath, the Earl of (see "Pulteney ") Battery, a masked, 143 Bills, introduction of, in the Upper Bills quashed by the Sovereign, 18, 45 66 Bishops, Elizabeth and the, 17 Falkland's saying about, 85 Bishops in Parliament, the, 163, 639 Black Prince, the, and the Good Parlia- Black Rod, a slight from the, 21 Black servant, Lord Camelford's, 205 Blowing up the House, 28 Blue ribbon of the Turf, the, 349 "Blustering majority," a, 421 Board of Admiralty, the, examining a Boast, a magniloquent, 221 Boldness, youthful, 140 never was a," 146 the Angry," 170 "the white-headed," 403 the King thwarted by a, 71 Boys in the House of Commons, 20 Boycotting" a member, 588 Bradlaugh, Mr., 589, &c. Brand, Mr. Speaker (vii.), 549, 577, 580, his action in a crisis, 604 his rules under urgency, 629 Breach, stepping in at the, 97 parliamentary agents and, 519 Bribing members with foreign money,14 British rule, responsibilities of, 367 Broom," 233 Brother, always a weak, in the House, 395 Brougham, Lord, 232, 498, 541, 642, 644, 671 and the Duke of Buckingham, 645 and Canning, 233 and O'Connell, 642 and Sir Edward Sugden, 239 Career, "the most remarkable parlia mentary," 376 Caricature, a living, 119 and Bernadotte's troops, 189 suggested as Prime Minister, 190 Catholic Emancipation, 56, 257 Catholic Relief Bill, the, 202 system, introduction of the, 529 Caution, a, 15; a paternal, 255 Celebrities, minor, 497 Celebrity, an Irish, 497 Censure, "the mildest," 543 on a member, 582 Chancellor's difficulty, a, 203 Chancellors of the Exchequer, list of, 682 Chancellorship offered to Townshend, the, 139 Chancery, a coup-de-main in, 176 Changing sides in the House, 576 Character, an unaccustomed, 410 "collective character" in, 673 Charles I. and the Parliament, the Charles II., Parliament "fooled" by, Chartist petition of 1848, the, C20 his personal characteristics, 121 the death of, 127 examples of his eloquence, 129 Chester, disfranchised voters at, 523 and the Ministry, 21 on Bolingbroke, 101 on Mr. Murray, 131 "Chicken Taylor," 499 Child father of the man, the, 206 Chiltern Hundreds, the, 609 Chinese War, defeat of the Palmerston Government on the, 293 Chivalry, feats of, commended, 10 Churchill, Lord Randolph, 63, 479, 495 "Civis Romanus sum," 287, 353 thought of as Prime Minister, 298 Closure of debate, new rule for the, first application of the, 607 Club, "the best," 60, 670 Clubs, the relations of members and Coach, upsetting the, 278 Cobden and Peel, 384 "Cobden and Bright," power of, 389 Commons, the "Garter" in the, 624 Commons and the City printers, the, 563 Commons and the influence of the Commons stopping a royal grant, the, (see also "House of Commons ") division in the Lords' on the, 617 an ambiguous, 175 Contingency, an "elegant," 514 Contribution, a gallant, 33 Conversion, sudden, 445 Cook, Mr. Secretary, 23, 24 Cornet, the terrible, 121 the repeal of the, 263, 384 Cornwallis, Lord, and the Union with Corrupt practices in 1880, 521 Corruption, a charge of, against increased prevalence of, 523 Corruption, Parliamentary, preventing a dissolution, 392 Corruption, the Speaker an agent of, 43 of Election Commissions, 524 Cottage, the poor man's, 130 Council, the first, after the Conquest, 2 Counting himself out, 614 Counting ten for one, 40 County franchise, the, 407 Coup d'état, Lord Palmerston and the, Court, a picture of the, 109 distrust at, overcome, 292 Court candidate in the 17th century, a, 507 |