Life peerages, 58 Light out of darkness, 178 London, address from the City of, to the King, on the Middlesex elections, 128 Londoners, the, and Peter de la Mare, 10 and the marriage of Mary, 14 Longevity, 43 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, 33 215 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- Lords giving protections, the, 405 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 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 Commons, 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, censured, 48 Mace of the Commons, the, 432 appearance of the, at committees, 446 Mackintosh, Sir James, 172 and Tierney elected for Knaresborough, 397 Mad Parliament, the, 4 66 Magna Charta will have no Sovereign," 65 Magnaminity, 103 Maintaining a point, 207 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 Metaphysician, a "hard hearted," 213 Miall, Mr., 353, 489 and Mr. Gladstone, 324 Minister's responsibility, the, 332 Ministers in their cups, 481 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, 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 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 "Once bit, twice shy," 366 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 Opponent, an unexpected, 257 |