William Cobbett
Joseph Hume
Thos. S. Duncombe
Thomas Wakley
George Grote
Sir S. St. B. Whalley
De Lacy Evans
John Arthur Roebuck
John Temple Leader
Daniel Whittle Harvey
Thomas Attwood
Joshua Scholefield
J. S. Buckingham
Daniel Gastrell
John Bowring
Alex. Graham Speirs
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Feargus O'Connor
G. Standish Barry
John O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell
Edward S. Ruthven
Martin Joseph Blake
Morgan J. O'Connell
Maurice O'Connell
Cornwall (East Division).
Tiverton.
Petersfield.
Oldham.
owning and moneyed classes at end of
eighteenth century, 61
Arms Act for Ireland. See Ireland
Army, the, proposal to abolish purchase
in, in 1862, 462; motions to abolish
flogging in, 106, 119, 179, 219, 244,
276
Artisans, inquiry in 1824 respecting, and
consequent laws, 178; panic and re-
action in consequence, 182; Artisans'
Dwellings Bill, 468
Ashley, Lord (afterwards Earl of Shaftes-
bury), religious education, 328, 378;
factory acts, 333, 334; corn laws, 345
Attwood, Thomas, 295, 301
Austerlitz, battle of, 80
regard to reform, 187, 220; opposes
provision for Canning's family, 211;
universal suffrage and the ballot, 221;
takes office under Lord Grey, 226; and
resigns on Irish coercion question, 253;
Church rates question, 249; Irish
Church question, 251; corn law
question, 254; becomes Earl Spencer,
America, South, English prevention of
foreign interference with Spanish colo-
nies, 177; and formal recognition of
their independence, 181
America, United States of. See United
States
American colonies, the British, war with,
15, 16; different views of our right
to tax them, 15, 16; their cause
the cause of freedom elsewhere, 18;
opposition of Westminster committee
to war with, 33; treaty of peace with,
40 amount borrowed for war with,
64
Annual parliaments advocated by West-
minster committee, 31; Whig idea of,
in 1819, 130, 131; one of the points of
the Charter, 293
Arbitration, international, Cobden's mo-
tion for, in 1849 defeated, 372
Aristocracy, the authority of the old,
superseded by the interest of the land-
Baines, E., 455, 461
Ballot, the, advocated by Westminster
committee, 1783, 30; resolutions or
bills for, 221, 236, 266, 280, 288, 292,
300, 323, 363, 370, 374, 387, 392, 401,
407, 416, 421, 426, 436, 445, 449, 451,
456, 461; O'Connell's proposals for,
221; Russell's opposition to, 288; first
receives majority of Liberal votes, 292;
decreased support of, in 1862, 451
Bamford's "Life of a Radical," 134
Bank Charter, the, 242; its suspension
in 1857, 246
Bankes' Sinecure Bill, 110
Baring, F., 304, 310
Barré, Colonel, 15, 28
Bass, M. T., 378 (note), 406 (note)
Bathurst, C., 157, 195
Baxter, W. E., 467
Beauclerk, Major, 238
Beaufoy, Mr., 57
Beckett, Sir J., 196
Beckford, Alderman, 28
Bed-chamber question," the, 299
Bedford, Duke of, 19
Belfast, 431
Belgium, 224
Bellingham, 108
Bentham, Jeremy, an important charac-
teristic of his teaching, 131
Bentinck, Lord George, 353, 366
Berkeley, Grantley, 374
Berkeley, Hon. H. F., votes for reform,
341 (note); annual motions for the
ballot, 370, 374, 387, 392, 401, 407,
416, 421, 426, 436, 445, 449, 456, 461;
votes for national education scheme,
378 (note)
Bethel, Sir R. (afterwards Lord West-
bury), 432, 462
Birmingham: Newhall Hill meeting and
election of legislatorial attorney, 132;
Manchester tragedy, 135; its proposed
enfranchisement, 210, 220, 221; Chartist
agitation, 362; returns Mr. Bright, 425;
proposed increase of members, 444, 471;
Brookfield's reform demonstration, 474;
summonses for poor rates, 482
Bishops, the, motions to exclude, from
House of Peers, 248, 280
Blandford, Marquis of, 219, 220
Blanketeers, the, 124
Bonaparte, Napoleon, belief of Fox and
Radicals in, 60; how regarded in 1801,
74; successes in 1806, 79; hatred of
England, 85; orders in council, 93;
his reverses, III; defeat and abdica-
tion, 112; escape from Elba, war, final
defeat, 114
Boroughs, number of new, created by
Reform Act 1832, 231
Bourbons, the, restoration of, 103
Bouverie, Hon. E. P., notes on pp. 341,
364, 378, 406
Brand, Mr., 88, 103, 106, 110
Bribery and corruption, Curwen's bill to
prevent, 95; charges of, against Perceval
and Castlereagh, 95; Russell's proposal
to recognize rights of, 222; proposals to
prevent, 139, 154, 155, 201
Bright, Jacob, 377
Bright, John, first elected to Parliament
Crawford's
for Durham, 314, 331;.
motion for redress of grievances, 332
(note); Maynooth grant, 343;
position in 1847, 358; reform, 1848,
364 (note); abolition of Church rates,
372; advocates non-intervention
1850, 379; 'Papal Aggression," 384;
bill, 393;
Irish tenant-right
Eastern Question," 402, 403; bill to
abolish primogeniture, 406 (note);
protests against levity respecting
Crimean war, attacked by Palmer-
conditional support of
ston, 407;
Palmerston, 415; Chinese ("Arrow")
teller in division
question, 425;
overthrowing Palmerston, 428; Derby
Reform
Government India Bill, 431;
Bill, 1859, 435; his power in 1859, 439;
Whig seceders on Reform Bill, 445;
American civil war, 455; Whig and
Conservative attacks about 1866, 466 et
seq.; Irish grievances, 468; a hero of
reform demonstration, 474; general
recognition of his statesmanship, 476;
declares for household suffrage, 480;
the condition of his entering the Cabinet,
483
Brotherton, J., 325
Brougham, Henry, Lord, counsel for
Liverpool merchants in opposition to
Orders in Council in 1807.93; enters
Parliament in 1810, and teller for motion
to abolish flogging in the army, 106, 107;
assists in defeating Orders in Council,
107; defeated by Canning for Liver-
pool in 1812, III; speaks against sus-
pension of Habeas Corpus in 1817, 123;
considered the originator of national
education scheme; attacks Canning,
173; opposition to bill to suppress
Catholic Association, 183; Duke of
York and Catholic emancipation, 186;
universal suffrage and the ballot, 221;
reform, 225; takes office under Grey,
226; national education, 246; tour
in the country, and attack on Durham,
256; attack on Durham on Canadian
business, 290; corn laws, 297; re-
votes
semblance to Roebuck, 314;
against acquittal of O'Connell, 337
Buckingham, Duke of, 318, 320
Buckingham, J. S., 238, 244
Buckingham, Marquis of, 1IO
Budget, the feeble proposals of Spring
Rice, 303; defeat of Government in
at 1851
1841, 309; dissatisfaction
budget, 385, 388; Gladstone's success-
ful budgets, 400; Disraeli's amendment
to 1857 budget, 424
Buenos Ayres, recognition of independ-
ence of, 177
Buller, Charles, his character, 238; Angli-
can episcopacy, 275; protest against
Russell's declaration on reform, 288;
Jamaica constitution, 298
Buller, Sir J. F., 305
Bulwer.
Burdett, Sir Francis, first elected to
Parliament in 1796, 65; position in
1807, 92; supports charges against
Duke of York, 94; scheme of reform
in 1809, 95; conflict with House of
Commons and committal to Tower in
1810, 98-100; his character and prin-
ciples he represented, 101; release
and disappointment of the people, 102;
effect of these events, 103; motion to
abolish flogging in the army, 106; op-
poses Government bill to put down
machinery riots, etc., 107; demand
for reform in 1816, 117; teller against
introduction of Seditious Meetings Bill
in 1817, 122 (note); presents petition
for annual parliaments and universal
suffrage, 126; opposes Westminster
Hustings Bill, 127; motion for reform
and his justification of the conduct of
the Radicals, 129; Buxton's opinion of,
137; chief of the avowed Radicals in
1821, 149; fined for libel in a letter
about Manchester massacre, and feel-
ings evoked thereby, 150; Catholic
emancipation, 173, 185, 212; protest
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