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"Small-Journal Wynn," 231, 368 Smelling bottle for a Parliamentary antagonist, a, 231

Smith, Sydney, speech of, at Taunton, 56

Smoking in Parliament, 451
"Smouldering emotions," 439
Snakes, parties moved like, 109
Solomon, the judgment of, 232
Somers, Lord, 47, 90

Southey vacating his seat, 486
South Sea bubble, the, 48
Sovereign, communication of Parlia-

mentary proceedings to the, 426 presence of the, in the early Parliaments, 429

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Speaker's address on election, an early,

10

Speaker's lament, a, 448

Speaker's lists, 439

Speaker's warrant, support of the, 204 Speakers of the House of Commons, lists of the, 496, 499

Speaker, a suggestive, 366
Speaking, effective, 186

Speaking against a member, 408 Speech to Parliament, the opening, 430 a King's, read under difficulties, 430 strong terms respecting a, 117 Speech, a borrowed, 206

burnt by order of the Commons, 23
a first and last, 483
a forcible first, 77
an impulsive, 317
irrepressible, 222
a long, cut short, 485
a minute gun, 113
a parenthetical, 185

a pithy, 69

a syllogistic, 190

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Sport, "historically national," 451
Spurs, wearing of, in the House, 452
Spurring the Commons, Charles I., 24
Squeak," 368

Stability, an element of, 175
Stamp Act, the, 121

Stanhope Ministry, the, and the limitation of the peerage, 99

Stanley, Lord Brougham and, 230
and O'Connell, 287

Star, the bright particular, 154
Statesman, what is a ? 297
Statesmen, a hint to, 96

a new crop of, 289

a school for, 318

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"Tender passion" in Reform, the, Tenterden's last speech, Lord, 56 Terrier, the Scotch, 338 Terror added to death, a, 228 Thanks of Parliament to Schomber and Wellington, 457

to General Fairfax, 458 to Admiral Gardner, 458 Theatre, the House of Commons the, 464

"Thief in the night," a, 322 Thompson, Col., and the exclusion strangers, 415

Thing in a wrong place, a, 275
Things taken for granted, 173
Thorpe, case of Speaker, 12
Threat, a, 462

a terrible, 485

"Three ways," the, 333 "Three-cornered" constituencies. Three-decker, a, 270

Throne, taking possession of the, 43 "Thumb-screws and other instr

ments," 307

Thurlow, Lord, 133

abashed, 134

and Shelburne, 137
and Wedderburn, 132
Tibetot, Sir John, 12
Tickling the victims, 210
Tide of democracy, the, 290

Tierney, George, 168, 199, 382
Timid counsels, 21

Titles and trappings, 112
Toler and Ponsonby, 478
Top-boots, to Court in, 452

the last wearer of, in the House, "Tory" and "Whig,” origin of the terms, 42

Tory, Burdett a high, 200 Toryism, views of, 303 "Tottenham in his boots," 452 Tower, Walpole's committal to the, Lord Mayor Crosby sent to the, aldermen committed to the, 485 Townshend, Charles, 113, 130

Townshend, Lord, and Walpole, quar

rel between, 104

Tracking the Minister, 205
Traffic in Irish boroughs, 235
Tragedy or comedy? 137
Transitory impressions, 173
Translation, a, 142
a free, 203

Transplanted too late, 185

Treasonable proceedings, 226

Treasury bench, influence of the, 335

: Treaties of peace, 174

Trevor, Sir John, 43, 44, 438

Tribute, a, from an opponent, 311
"Trickery, trash," &c., 369
Triennial Parliaments, 95, 278
"Trimmer," the, 90

Trinity College, Dublin, the students
of, 182

Triumph, a "Conservative," 356
Troublesome elector, answering a, 277
"True in the abstract," 333
Turncoats, tailors and, 192
Turf, devotion to the, 312

the "blue ribbon of the," 314
"Turk upon the shoulders," a, 339
Turning point, a, 297

"Turning their backs upon them-
selves," 177

Turnspit a member of Parliament, a, 153

Tutor to Queen Victoria, a political,

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Wages, payment of, to members, 37, 440

a member suing for his, 9 Waiting to conquer, 419

Walpole, Sir Robert, 95, 98, 108, 109, 451, 464

his part taken, 100
character of, 106
Pitt and, 117

Walpole, Horace, in the House of
Commons, 144

and Speaker Onslow, 438 Wales, Home Rule for, 327

Waller in Parliament at seventeen, 20 War, "a great country cannot have a little," 239

"drifting" into, 279

a defence of the Crimean, 285 an appeal against, 338 War Secretaries, list of, 500 Warburton, Bishop, 466 Ward, Mr., expelled, &c., 48 Ward, Lord Dudley, 366 Ward's case, Mr. J. S., 412 Warlike errand, a, 206 Warwick, Sir P., 31, 73 Watchman, a ministerial, 132 Waterford, an election for, 398 Watson, Alderman, 367 "W. B.," letter from, 387 "We are seven," 382 Webster, Daniel, quoted, 22 Wedderburn, Alexander (Lord Loughborough), 132 Burke and, 157

M M

Wellington, the Duke of, 54, 149, 180, 192, 211, 222, 229, 234, 335, 457 his first appearance in the House of Lords, 235

characteristies of his speeches, 240

Wellington (continued), " down to the

House," in his last days, 211

his duel with Winchilsea, 206 and Castlereagh, first appearances of, 234

and Huskisson, 213 Wensleydale life peerage, the, 58 Wentworth, Peter, 15, 16

Westbury, Lord Chancellor, resignation of, 58

and the Bishop of Oxforò, 469 Westminster elections, 394 described by a foreigner, 395 Wetherell, Sir Charles, 367 Whalley, Mr., 325

committed, 404

Wharton, Lord, 376

Wharton, the Duke of, 485

What the House of Commons loves, 490

"Whig" and "Tory," origin of the terms, 42

"Whig dogs," the, 424

"Whigs caught bathing," the, 294
Whigs, "dishing the,'' 291
"Whip," whipping the, 184
Whip by the Court, a, 35

Whips' circulars for attendance, 446
Whiston, William, and Steele, 95
Whitbread, Mr., 188, 212
Whitebait and seal, 190

Whitebait dinner, the Ministerial,

451

Whitelocke, Mr., 28

Wilberforce, Bishop, 470, 471 Wilberforce, William, 169, 428, 490

his parliamentary dinners, 169 Wilkes, John, 117, 128, 129, 481 as a speaker, 129

and Thurlow, 135

William III., assent to a bill refused by, 45

grant by, stopped by the Commons, 45

William IV. and Lords Grey and

Brougham, 55, 227

and the dismissal of the Melbo
Ministry, 219
threatening impeachment, 220
reading his speech under diffra
ties, 430

Windham, William, 166
his saying of Pitt, 138
his speeches, 142

Windsor Castle, dating from, 282 Wisdom, "great," in Parliament, 491 reputed, 92

"Wisdom of our ancestors," the, 199 Wolsey's attempt to overawe Commons, 63

Woman, the Shunammite, 342
Women and the franchise, 343
Women as witnesses, 488
Women in Parliament, 488
Women, old, 438

Women petitioners, 489
Wonderful Parliament, the, 5
Writ delayed by a sheriff, a, 373
Writ of summons to Parliament, the
Writs, new, 450

Writer, an unready, 183
Wynn, Charles Williams, 231, 368

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