INDEX. Abercromby, J., 185, 263, 300 Aberdeen, 128, 189 Aberdeen, Lord, 398, 407, 410, 414 Aberdeen Ministry, the, composition of, 398 ; character, defeat, and resignation of, 409 Acland, Sir Thomas, 291 Addington, H. .&<? Sidmouth Administrative reform, 416, 417 Advertisement duty, the, motion to re- peal carried, 400 Agitations : for reform, 119 et seq., 125, 132, 473 et seq., 476 ; Chartist, 359 et seq. ; suppression of, 124, 125. Agricultural distress in 1822, 160 Alien Act, the, of 1814, 112 Allotments of land to labourers advocated in 1834, 248 Althorpe, Viscount, his action with 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, 257 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293 Arbitration, international, Cobden's mo- tion for, in 1849 defeated, 372 Aristocracy, the authority of the old, superseded by the interest of the land- owning and moneyed classes at end of eighteenth century, 61 Arms Act for Ireland.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 Austria, 80, 359, 440 Authority versus Liberty, struggle of, at end of eighteenth century, 60, 61 Ayrton, A. S., 451 B Baines, E., 455, 461 Ballot, the, advocated by Westminster committee, 1783, 30 ; resolutions or bills for, 221, 236, 266, 280, 288, 292, 30. 323. 3 6 3 370, 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, no Baring, F., 304, 310 Barre, 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, SirJ., 196 Beckford, Alderman, 28 " Bed-chamber question," the, 299 Bedford, Duke of, 19 Belfast, 431 Belgium, 224 Bellingham, 108
