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ABERCROMBY, Mr., his exposure of
Scotch jobbery, 362
Aberdeen, Earl of, his censure of
Whig foreign policy, 246; his wish
to maintain the kingdom of the
United Netherlands, 253; he is
made Colonial Secretary, 514
Abolition of custom of settlement,
454; of indigence impossible, 437
- of the slave trade, Lord Grey's
only enactment, 33, note; history
of the, 325-337

Acland, Sir Thomas, his support of
reform, 144

Acts of burgh reform passed, 363
Adelaide, Queen, her unostentatious
nature, 51; dismissal of Lord
Melbourne imputed to, 495
Admiralty, reconstruction of the,
under Lord Grey, 31; freedom of
contract in the, 449; Lord De
Grey appointed to the, 509
Adulteration of goods checked by
penalties, 61

Affiliation, Duke of Wellington's
legislation as to, 452

Africa, South, conquest and treaty in,
468

African labour, possibly unsuited to

American islands, 335

Age of members higher in reformed
than unreformed Parliaments, 282
Agistment tithe, how levied, 409
Agitator, O'Connell as an, 42
Agnew, Sir Andrew, his support of
reform, 144

Aix-la-Chapelle, the congress of, re-
ferred to, 263

Alava, General, his
Toryism, 168, note

courageous

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Alcohol, its national effects, 295,
319
Alexander, a constitution granted to
the Poles by the Czar, 270
'All the talents' ministry, 27
Alliance, signing of the quadruple,
276
Almsgiving, prejudicial working of,
433

Althorp, John Spencer, Viscount,
leader of the House of Commons,
23; his independent position, 46;
his political career, 52–76; he pro-
poses a tax on transfers, 57; would
have preferred an income tax, 60;
he lowers the duty on timb r, 69;
he improves the wine duties, 71;
his patience and good sense in
debate, 135; his firmness, 163;
his budget described, 286; he has
scruples as to the Coercion Bill,
299; his views as to the disposal
of Irish Church funds, 313; he
endeavours to screen the planters,
325; is over-estimated by Lord
Grey, 370, 399; his remonstrance
to Lord Brougham quoted, 394;
his proposed resignation, and the
declaration of confidence in, 396;
he proposes composition for tithes,
408; he shrinks from the office of
Premier, 482; becomes a peer on
the death of his father, 493
Amendment of the law of Europe,
263-268

America possibly not suited for
African slave labour, 335

- North, Sir Charles Lyell as to the
deterioration produced by slave-
holding in, 333

of

American timber, demand for, 67
Anglesey, Lord, made Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, 40, 299, note
Anomalies, British patience under,
80; of representation, 87;
legislation as to paupers, 423
Anti-slavery party, their efforts,
317; their weakness, 320; their
success, 336

Antwerp, the town but not the cita-
del of, ceded by Holland to
Belgium, 267; importance of its
political position to England, 269
Appleby, Lord Maitland's efforts to
preserve the borough of, 161
Appropriation by the State of Church
revenues, arguments for, 375; of
Church funds in Ireland, 536; Bill
for, carried, 540

Archæology, its temporary alliance
with love of political liberty,

252
Aristocracy, the term defined, 481,
note; of intellect not shaken by
reform, 288

Army, Lord Palmerston's influence
not dependent on the, 247
Assessed taxes, an illusory test of
wealth, 196

Assessment of property in parishes,
434

Assimilation between England and
Ireland attempted, 291
Auckland, Lord, President of the
Board of Trade, 28

Australia, England's uncontested
possession of, 468, note; dread of
convicts in, 469

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South, colony established in,
475; Mr. Wakefield's scheme for,
478; discovery of copper in, 479
Autonomy of the Isle of Man, 120;
demanded by the Belgians, 253

BAGOT, Sir Charles, sent as ambassa-
dor to Vienna, 511

Balance of power, the, redressed by
Palmerston, 276

Ballot, vote by, proposed by Lord
Durham, 25; arguments as to the,
118

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Baltic timber trade, 66

Bank of England paid by the State
for effecting transfers, 57, 59;
attempt to produce a panic at the,

219

Barbadoes, persecution of a mis-
sionary in, 319

Baring, Mr. Alexander, becomes
leader of the Tories, 231; he calls
on Lord Grey's Cabinet to resume
its duties, 233; his opinion as to
the liability of England to Russia,
265, note; is in Sir R. Peel's
Cabinet, 510

Barnes, Mr., his antagonism to the
Poor Law, 459

Barrow, Mr., Secretary to the Admi-
ralty under Lord Grey, 31
Basis of the valuation of land, 531
Bastards, legislation as to the sup-
port of, 451, 452

Bastille, the name applied to work-
houses, 444

Belgium, constitutional government

in, 129; Palmerston's making of,
a masterpiece of policy, 249; asks
for autonomy, 253; Leopold
elected King of, 258; prompt
assistance given by France to, 259;
neutrality of, declared, 268
Bentinck, Lord William, reform of
the East India Company effected
during his rule, 346; he puts an
end to the practice of Suttee, 352,

note

Birmingham, the franchise voted to,
by Mr. Huskisson, 85; its claim
to the franchise, 92; its sympathy
with reform, 218
Bishoprics in Ireland, reduction of,

306; Welsh difficulties as to, 518
Bishops, the, their course as to re-
form, 178; the real sufferers in
clerical trials, 522

Blackstone, Judge, quoted as to
representation, 114

Blockade of Russian ports, necessarily
ineffectual, 273

Blomfield, Dr., Bishop of London,
votes with the Tories, 179; his
public spirit, 203; on the commis-
sion as to legal relief, 418
Board of Control, the, official duties
of its President, 26; assumes

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superiority over the Court of East
India Directors, 343
Boards of Guardians, representative

mode of electing, 424; social good
effected by, 428: they are em-
powered to hold real property,
430; their powers and liabilities,

431

Borough-mongers, 168

Boroughs, proposal to disable the
small, 82; criterion of population
applied to, 87; compensation of
extinct, 110; money value of,
110, note; the condemned, 122;
mathematical calculation as to,
195; definite number of, to be
abolished, 209

Botany Bay named by Mr. Banks,
the botanist, 470

Boulter, Bishop, is willing to give up
tithes in Ireland, 409

Bounty, Queen Anne's, its origin,
305

Bourne, Mr. Sturges, his early efforts
for dealing with pauperism, 417;
on the commission for inquiring
into legal relief, 418

Bribery facilitated by the reformers,

106; the ballot considered as a
check to, 118; failure of Lord J.
Russell's legislation against, 405
Brighton, the Court at, 498
Bristol, riots in, 185; described, 188;
their true character, 192
British Constitution, some peculiari-
ties of the, 491

dominions, proposed representa-
tion of, 120
Brougham, Lord, his relations with

Lord Grey, 33; his character, 34;
he refuses the Attorney-General-
ship, and accepts the Lord Chan-
cellorship, 35; his legislative
achievements, 38; is taken into
favour by William IV., 45; his
influence with William IV., 153;
his vanity, 181; his action as to
the creation of new peers, 235;
his finessing a cause of Lord
Grey's resignation, 369; his
management of the Marquess
Wellesley, 393; his inconsistency,
395; his lack of openness to Lord
Grey, 398; is repulsed by Lord

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547

Grey, 399; his objection to doles
and charities, 433; his strong
opinion as to perjury, 452; Mr.
Barnes's antagonism towards, 459
Burgage tenure, at Knaresborough,
abolished, 105

Burgh reform, Acts of, passed, 363
Burghs of Scotland, their reforma-

tion, 357; mode of nominating
the councillors of the, 358
Burgos, the siege of, alluded to, 234
Burke, Mr., as to the sale of Irish

boroughs, 110, note; on Parlia-
mentary reform, 136; shrinks from
opposing slavery, 337

Burnet, Bishop, his account of Lady
Rachel Russell, 10

Buxton, Mr. Fowell, his declaration
as to the murder of slaves, 323:
he votes for the appropriation of
the Irish Church funds for school
purposes, 536

By-laws should be enforced by in-
dependent authorities, 420

CABINET, the, principle of its office
originated by Lord Grey, 32; re-
signation of Lord Grey's, 222; its
unanimity in the reform crisis,
238; formation of Sir R. Peel's,
509
Calcutta, creation of the bishopric of,
306

Cambridge, restoration of its fran-
chise, 104

Canada, hardships encountered by
emigrants to, 464, 466

Canadian timber trade, how ori-
ginated, 67

Canals, introduction of, 73
Canning, Mr., Earl Grey stands aloof
from, 16; his argument against
reform no longer tenable, 80;
Duke of Clarence made High
Admiral by, 491; Sir R. Peel's
wish to help the son of, 509
Canning, Mr. Stratford, unacceptable
to the Czar as ambassador, 511
Canton, monopoly of trade with,
held by the East India Company,
341

Cape wine, diminished importation
of, 469

Capital, its definition, 472, note; not
necessarily money, 474
Capitation tax levied on immigrants
into Canada, 464

Carlos, Don, joins Don Miguel in
Portugal, 278

Carteret, Mr., one of the best cham-
pions of England against Europe,

12

Castlereagh, Lord, State of the
United Netherlands devised by,
255; his anti-slavery efforts at
Vienna, 318

Catholic Church in Ireland helped
by France, 294; its prejudicial
effect, 295

religion, Pagan type of, in the
Peninsula, 280

Celts of Ireland less easy to govern
than others, 295

Chadwick, Mr., on the Committee of
Inquiry as to legal relief, 418
'Chairing' members explained, 105
Chalmers, Dr., his experiment in
Glasgow as to almsgiving, 433
Chanceries, temporal, their nature,
520
Chandos, Lord, is opposed to reform,
160; succeeds in altering the Bill,
164; he proposes the fifty-pound
franchise for tenant farmers, 165;
his amendment as to tenant
farmers successful, 199
Characteristics of the Irish, 290
Charities and doles, indigence pro-
moted by, 433

Charter, the Great, its nature, 9;
new, for the East India Company,
344

Chassé, General, breaks the truce
between Belgium and Holland,
259; he retreats before the French,
261

China, trade of the East India Com-
pany with, 340; export of opium
to, not forbidden, 344
Church and King ministries, resig-
nation of the last of the, I; and
State, Whig conception of the
connection between, 8; cess in
Ireland, abolition of, 302; funds
in Ireland, proposed application of,
to schools, 536; rates, Sir R.
Peel's willingness to exempt dis-

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senters from, 523; property, legis-
lative control of, 314; revenues,
Irish, principle of dealing with,
372; view of marriage, 524
City, the, gives its voice for reform,
219

Civil list, the, 47; definition of,
48

Claret, its political significance, 70
Clergy, vindication of their political
action, 205; in Ireland, their dis-
tress, 297; the, not State officers,
381
Clerical incomes, taxation on, 305;
misdemeanours, special judicature
as to, 521; revenues, proposed
free use of, 374, 375
Climate of Canada, hardships of
emigrants from the, 464; of India
a bar to colonisation, 346
Clive, Lord, grateful to the reformers
for their concessions, 193
Coal, abundance of, in Britain, 71;
modes of obtaining, 73
Cobbett, Mr., a claimant for one of
the Manchester seats, 96; his po-
litical course, 283

Cockburn, Mr. Henry, Solicitor-
General for Scotland, 25; his de-
scription of the ten days' suspense,

214

Codification of laws in India at-
tempted, 356

Coercion Bill, the, its harsh working,
299, 388; passing of, 301; its
partial renewal, 389
Colonization of Ireland attempted,
293; of India impracticable, 346;
of genteel persons a failure, 472
Colony established in South Aus-

tralia, 475; at Swan River, 470
Commerce, Russian, carried on by
land rather than sea, 273
Commission appointed to inquire
into the state of the Protest-
ant Church in Ireland, 378;
appointed by Sir R. Peel for in-
quiring into Church revenues,
509; its arrangements as to the
seat of the bishops in Parliament,
519; appointed on the slavery
question, 325

Commissions, royal, how constituted,
364

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Committees,
work, 365
Common law as opposed to 'equity,'
207, note
Commons, House of, in the time of
George III., 137; condition of the
Irish House of, 241; result of the
exclusion of peers from the House
of, 491
Commutation of tithes, its principle
anticipated by Mr. Grattan, 410;
attempted by Sir R. Peel, 530
Company, the East India, 337; its
trade, 340; new charter for the,
343
Compensation of extinct boroughs
discussed, 109; to West India
planters, granted, 328
Composition for tithes, distinguished
from commutation, 408, note; not
practicable in Ireland, 412; Act
for, proposed by Mr. Stanley, 413;
and amended by Mr. O'Connell,
414; thrown out by the Lords,
415

Parliamentary, their

Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle referred
to, 263

Conservative Club, the, 229
Conservative Government, appro-
priation of Church revenues to
secular purposes by a, 375; help
to Liberal measures, 515, 516;
party founded by Sir R. Peel,
497

Consols, fall of, in November 1830, 2
Constabulary, hatred of the, in Ire-

land, 297

Constantia wine presented to cabinet
ministers, 469

Constitution, a, granted to Poland
by Alexander, 270; and revoked
by Nicholas, 274

Constitutional Government in Bel-
gium, 129

Contract, freedom of, in the Admi-
ralty, 449

Control, Board of, its office, 26;
government of the foreign policy
of India by the, 343
Convicts, value of their labour, 464;
dread of them, 469

Cook, Captain, value to England of
his discoveries, 468

Co-operation of England and France

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for the intimidation of Holland,
267

Coorg, the Rajah of, deposed, 346
Copper mines, discovery of, in South
Australia, 479

Corn Laws, Ebenezer Elliott's
rhymes against the, 92; threat-
enings of attack on the, 164; as-
sailed by Mr. Hume, 287
Corn, price of, taken as guide to the
proposed composition of tithes,
411, 413

Cornwall, number of boroughs in,
84, 86

Coronation, curtailment of festivities
at that of William IV., 51
Corporations, ecclesiastical, in Ire-
land, 315

Cotton, import duty on raw, 75
Council, power of the Governor-
General in, 347

Counties, originally equally repre-

sented, 111; distinction retained
between boroughs and, 114
County franchise, mode of attaining,
115; unlike in England and Ire-
land, 244

members, their support of the
Reform Bill, 143

Courtenay, Mr., Vice-President of
the Board of Trade, votes for the
lowering of the timber duty, 69
Courts-martial substituted for ses-
sions under the Coercion Bill, 300
Coventry, the suffrage in, 108
Cowley, Lord, made ambassador at
Paris, 51

Creation of new peers considered,
224; and sanctioned, 236
Creole, real meaning of the term,
323, note

Croker, Mr., his determined resist-
ance to reform, 160

Cromwell, his ferocious restoration
of order in Ireland, 293
Crown colonies unrepresented, 321
Customs, barbarous, prohibited in
India, 352

Czartoryski, Adam, President of the
Warsaw Diet, 272

DEANS, bishoprics founded without,
519; and chapters in Ireland, 315