to
the crown;
writes to the Queen on the abolition of the authority of the East
India Company;
is defeated on the Conspiracy Bill and resigns;
returns to office;
disapproves of the reduction of the paper-duty;
desires to uphold the House of Lords.
Papineau. M., organizes an insurrection in Canada.
Parke, Sir J., is created a peer for life.
Parliament, first meeting of the United.
Peel, Sir Robert, responsible for the change of ministry in 1834;
becomes Home-secretary;
resigns his seat for Oxford and fails to be re-elected;
impropriety of his resignation;
speech on introducing the bill for Catholic Emancipation;
becomes Prime-minister;
declines to form an administration in 1839;
supports Lord J. Russell's resolutions in the case of Stockdale _v._
Hansard;
his opinion on the question in which House the Prime-minister should
be;
becomes Prime-minister in 1841;
revises the commercial tariff;
suspends the Corn-law;
causes its abolition.
Peel, Colonel, organizes the Volunteers.
Peerages, life, legality of.
Peers, the House of, strikes out of a corn bill some clauses giving
bounties;
their right to inquire into the public expenditure asserted by Lord
Camden and others;
their privileges as to money-bills;
provisions as to Irish peers in the Act of Union;
proposed creation of peers to carry the Reform Bill considered;
the House of Peers rejects the abolition of the paper-duty.
Penal laws, in Ireland;
repeal of;
in the United Kingdom.
Penu, Mr., sent from America to England with "the Olive Branch."
Perceval, Mr., becomes Prime-minister;
proposes a Regency bill;
is murdered.
Percy, Lord, proposes the entire abolition of slavery.
Persigny, M. de, French Secretary of State, his despatch on Orsini's
conspiracy.
Pigott, Sir A., brings in a bill on the slave-trade.
Pitt, see Earl of Chatham.
Pitt, Mr. T., denounces the influence of the crown.
Pitt, Mr. W., on the privileges of House of Commons respecting
money-bills;
_note_;
becomes Prime-minister;
his long struggle against, and eventual defeat of the Opposition;
comparisons between his father and him;
his India bill;
his Quebec bill;
his Regency bill;
founds Maynouth;
carries the Irish Union;
resigns on the Catholic question.
Plunkett, Mr., opposes the Irish Union.
Ponsonby, Mr. G., condemns the policy of open questions.
Poor-law, the, reform of.
Portland, Duke of, becom