"Small-Journal Wynn," 231, 368 Smelling bottle for a Parliamentary antagonist, a, 231 Smith, Sydney, speech of, at Taunton, 56 Smoking in Parliament, 451 Southey vacating his seat, 486 mentary proceedings to the, 426 presence of the, in the early Parliaments, 429 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 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 pithy, 69 a syllogistic, 190 Sport, "historically national," 451 Stability, an element of, 175 Stanhope Ministry, the, and the limitation of the peerage, 99 Stanley, Lord Brougham and, 230 Star, the bright particular, 154 a new crop of, 289 a school for, 318 "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 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 Tierney, George, 168, 199, 382 Titles and trappings, 112 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 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 Trinity College, Dublin, the students Triumph, a "Conservative," 356 the "blue ribbon of the," 314 "Turning their backs upon them- Turnspit a member of Parliament, a, 153 Tutor to Queen Victoria, a political, 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 Walpole, Horace, in the House of 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 Whips' circulars for attendance, 446 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 Windham, William, 166 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 petitioners, 489 Writer, an unready, 183 |