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 500 Index. Huskisson, William, takes office under Pitt, and his devotion to him, 77 ; President of Board of Trade, 171 ; approves of principle of amending corn laws, 175 ; influence on free trade, 175 ; claims to premiership, 204 ; re- tains office under Wellington on death of Canning, 205 ; opposes repeal of Test and Corporation Acts, 206 ; votes for enfranchisement of Birmingham, and offers to resign in consequence, 211 ; his forced resignation, 211 ; sup- ports enfranchisement of large boroughs, 220, 221 Hutchinson, C., 96 Hutt, W., 285 Hyde Park railings disturbance, 474 Impressment of seamen, motion to abolish, 344 Inclosures, 248 Income tax, the, 365, 385, 400 India ; Indian Bill, 1783, 42 ; reconstruc- tion of Government in 1833, 242 ; the mutiny, 426 ; transfer from company to the crown, 430 et seq. Indifferentism in the political world, con- sequences of, 48 Informers, Government, 119, 124, 125 Inglis, Sir R., 215, 378 Ireland, Alexander, 377 Ireland : Act of Union, 67 ; repeal of union advocated, 235, 322, 3^0 ; influ- ence of union on policy and parties, 69 et seq. ; Emmett's rebellion, 76 ; causes of chronic rebellion are left un- touched, 76 ; Marquis of Wellesley, 162 ; the Catholic Association, 179 ; Catholic emancipation attack on county seats, 213 ; relation of Irish members to English parties, 234 ; limitation of county franchise, 316 ; treatment of grievances, 163, 292, 326 ; trial of O'Connell and others, 337 ; the Maynooth grant, 342, 343 ; unsectarian colleges, 343, 421 ; potato disease, 344 ; disaffection in 1849, 367 ; in 1863, 453 ; Fenian outbreak, 447, 467 ; sus- pension of Habeas Corpus, 467 ; coer- cion acts and proposals, 93, 242, 253 et seq., 326, 349, 352, 359, 365, 461 ; municipal reform question, 273, 274, 278, 292, 303, 305, 306 ; the land question, 188, 330 ("Three F's "), 331, 343 (Devon commission), 354, 356, 365, 393, 447, 460, 468, 475, 477 ; the Irish Church question, 174, 179, 242, 243, 250, 251, 264, 265, 270, 274, 291, 292, 337, 421, 453, 460. See also Catholic emancipation and O'Connell. Isolation, period of, an inevitable stage in political and social organizations, 233 Italy, 168, 359, 443 J Jamaica, disturbances in, 298, 299 Jewish disabilities question, the, 207, 243. 359. 3 6 5- 432 Jones, John Gale, 98 Judge, instance of a, becoming member of a Cabinet. See Ellenborough. Juries : facts and law in libel cases, 56 ; firmness and honour in 1794, 64 K Kilkenny, 285 King, P. J. Locke, county franchise proposals, 374, 385, 393, 400, 423, 426, 449, 456 ; Hume's reform motion 1848, 364 ; primogeniture abolition, 376, 406, 434 ; administrative reform, 417 (note) ; Chinese question ("Arrow"), 424; property qualification abolition, 433 " King's friends," 13, 15, 78 Kossuth, 389 Laing, W., 469 Laird, J., 454 Lambton. See Durham Lanark, 141 Lancashire, South, 464 Land law reform, 280, 354, 376, 406, 434 Lansdowne, Marquis of, 139, 394, 398, 410 Langton, Gore, opposes corn laws in 1815, 116 Law, unconstitutional declaration of, 123, 124 Layard, A. H., 402, 404, 415, 416, 424, 425. 459 Leader, J. T., 285, 288, 290, 293, 295, 301, 322 (note) Lecture rooms, act to suppress where money taken, 123 Leeds, 135, 155, 221, 313, 316, 444, 462, 474 Lefevre, Shaw, 300, 395 Legal reforms effected in 1827, 201 " Legislatorial attorney " elected for Birmingham, 132 L' Estrange, Lieut. -Colonel, 134 Lewis, Sir G. C., 421 Libel, act declaring right of juries as to facts and law in cases of, 56 ; prose- cution of Cobbett and the Hunts in 1810, 105 ; Folkestone's motion for return of prosecutions for, 106 Liberalism, strongholds of, 13 ; social ostracism of at end of eighteenth cen- tury, 62 ; the hopelessness of even after death of Pitt, 82 ; methods of making increase felt, 203 ; increase of, 197, 241 Liberal policy adopted by Tory Govern- ment, instance of, 209 Liberals, necessarily democrats, 53 ; in- crease of number by election of 1796, 65 ; secession of Fox from the House, its effect and impropriety, ( 6, 67