5 o6 Index. Other proposals and bills, 225, 288, 296, 300. 3!6. 321, 327, 34i. 35'-. 3 6 3- 37i. 374. 424. 449. 455- 4^1, 468 County franchise proposals and bills, 3o. 374. 385. 3 8 7. 393- 400, 423, 426, 433- 449. 45 > Agitations for reform, 321, 473 et seq. , 477 Regency acts and proposals, 48, 223, 227 Religious liberty, efforts of Radicals, 243 ; attempt to violate, 329 et seq. See also Jewish disabilities Repeal of the union. See Ireland Report, instance of one, of speeches stated never to have been delivered, 251 (note) Representation, instance of necessity for, of all interests, 188 Kepresentative government possible only under conditions, 12 Retrenchment : Burke's plan of economic reform, 29 ; Dunning's motion, 33 ; Burke's motion, 34 ; question advocated by Westminster committee, 34 ; Whig leaders' attitude towards it, no; re- duction in expenditure advocated by Grey, 136 ; proposals in 1828, 211 ; measures carried in 1833, 246 ; question taken up by Government, effect on Radicals, 375 Revolution: result of 1688 revolution, 4; various in Europe in 1848 and effect of same in England, 359 ; reasons for immunity of England from it, 362 Ricardo, D., 141, 175 Rice, Spring, 185, 251, 303, 304 Richmond, Duke of, 251, 326 Rioters, confusion of them with reformers, 120 Ripon, 251 Rippon, C., 248 Robinson. . See Goderich Rochdale, 315, 395, 425 Rockingham, Marquis of, 14, 36, 39 Roebuck, J. A., his character, 238 ; his eccentricity, 314 ; his opinion of the Whigs, 239 ; repeal of news- paper duty, 255 ; his opinion of House of Lords, 270 ; attack on minis- ters, 277 ; attack on Government, 281 ; defeated in 1837, 285 ; Canadian legislative council, 290 ; returned for Bath, 314 ; Maynooth grant, 342 ; defeat at Bath and end of hearty union with Radicals, 357 ; representative Government in colonies, 372 ; Palmer- ston's foreign policy, 379, 380 ; " Papal Aggression," 383 ; primogeniture aboli- tion, 406 (note) ; inquiry into adminis- tration of Crimean war, 411, 413, 418 ; administrative reform, 417 (note) ; Chinese (" Arrow "} question, 424; Government Reform Bill, 435 ; votes against Tory Government, 4-)i ; Ameri- can civil war, 454 Efforts for national education, 247, 271, 280, 328, 330, 420 Chartist and reform questions, 293, 316, 321, 322 (note), 332 (note), 371 (note) Roll, J., 445 Romilly, Sir Samuel, 82, 106, 123, 124 Rothschild, Baron, 359, 433 Russell, Lord T. (1792-1793) 57, 59 (note) Russell, Lord John (afterwards Earl), enters Parliament, 113; alien bill, 113; the civil list, 148 ; repeal of Test and Corporation Acts, 206 ; universal suffrage and the ballot, 221 ; leadership of the House, 257, 269 ; rejected for Devon- shire, 268 ; declaration of policy, 269 ; municipal reform, 269 ; Canadian troubles, 289 ; uses Queen's name in debate, 305 ; nearly defeated for Lon- don, 313 ; Chartist petitioners, 322 ; sugar bill, 33=; ; " Edinburgh letter," 345 ; Jewish disabilities, 359 ; declara- tion of inability of the- peers to effect change of ministers, 380 ; ' ' Durham letter " and " Papal Aggression," 383 ; Kossuth, 389 ; militia bill, 390 ; opinion of the duties of Peelites, 393 ; his posi- tion and politics, 399; the " Eastern Question," 403 ; motion for inquiry into Crimean war, 408 ; his earnest desire for reforms, 409 ; Vienna congress, 411 ; Church rates abolition, 416, 421 ; Derby's " India Bill No. 2," 431 ; Palmerston, 414, 438 ; Whig cabal against Reform Bill, 444 ; removal to the House of Lords, 450 ; defeat of Government on Reform Bill, 473 Various proposals and bills for reform and his attitude towards the question, 130, 139, 147, 155, 162, 174 (Lambton's influence on him], 187, 210, 221, 227, 288, 296, 328, 342, 363, 371, 374, 385, 389 405, 423 435- 444. 449. .473 Various ornces held by him and re- tirements from same, 227, 304, 346, 351, 3 8 5.. 390. 398, 408, 414. 4!8, 465. 473 Irish Church questions, 251, 265, 295 Corn law questions, 279, 296, 297, 307, 309, 319, 332, 339, 340, 342, 345, National education, 302, 330, 342, 377. 399. 420 Russia, 168, 418. See also "Eastern Question " Ruthven, E. S., 246 Salisbury, Marquis of. See Cecil Sandon, Lord, 309 Sandwich, Lord, 19 Sardinia, 440 Saville, Sir George, 29, 32, 37 Sawbridge, Alderman, 20, 28, 37, 38 Scarlett, J., 198, 205 Scenes in the House : on division on Can- ning's foreign policy, 172 ; quarrel be- tween Brougham and Canning, 173 ; on Villier's corn law motion, 1840, 306
