s, 215

Pelissier, General, 263, 267

Pembroke Lodge, 307, 351-353, 356, 357

Penal Code, the, before the era of Reform, 24, 48, 107

Peninsular Campaign, its costliness, 22

Penryn, 40, 51, 52

People's Charter, the, 165

Peterloo Massacre, the, 38

Petty, Lord Henry (afterwards third Marquis of Lansdowne), 12

Pius IX., and his decree of 1850, 182, 183

Playfair, Professor John, 12

Polignac, Prince de, 60, 61

Polish revolt of 1863, 321

Poor Law Amendment Act (Ireland), 93, 107, 151

Poor Law Board, 160

Poor Laws, 89, 126

Potato famine, 130, 146, 148, 149

Prisons, regulation of, 107

Protestant Operative Association of Dublin, 129

Prussia and the Vienna Note, 227;
and the Crimean War, 243

Public Health Act, 162

'Punch,' cartoons, &c., in, 192, 241, 242, 307, 367

Pusey, Dr., 161 and _note_, 183

RAGLAN, Lord, 246, 252, 267

'Recollections and Suggestions,' publication of, 280

Redistribution of Seats Bill, 330

Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de: skill in diplomacy, and early diplomatic
life, 218-220;
return to Constantinople, 220, 221;
and the second Congress at Vienna, 260

Reform: its early advocates, 25-27;
and the Society of the Friends of the People, 25;
Lord John Russell's first speech on the subject, 35;
Sir Francis Burdett's motion of 1819, 35;
Lord John brings forward his first resolutions in the House of
Commons, 40;
disfranchisement of Grampound, 43;
Lord John's motion for an addition of 100 members to the House of
Commons, 43;
resolutions brought forward by Lord Blandford, 59;
rejection of Lord John's Bill for enfranchising Manchester,
Birmingham, and Leeds, 60;
O'Connell's motion for Triennial Parliaments, &c., 60;
declaration of the Duke of Wellington, 61;
the Committee of Four and the first Reform Bill, 67, 68;
introduction and second reading of the first Bill in the Commons,
69-73;
the second Bill, 75-78;
public excitement on the rejection of the second Bill by the House
of Lords, 79, 80;
the third Bill passes the Commons, 81;
the Bill passes the House of Lords, and receives the Royal Assent,
84;
secured by popular enthusiasm, 85, 87;
Lord John's Bill of 1852, 196;
Bill of 1854, 236, 237, 239;
Disraeli's Bill, 291, 292;
Lord John's Bill of 1860, 296;
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