The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 614 pages of information about The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860.

The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 614 pages of information about The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860.
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, writes to the Queen. 
Normanby, Lord, ambassador in Paris, complains of Lord Palmerston. 
North, Lord, supports the decision in favor of Mr. Luttrell;
  opposes Mr. Grenville’s act;
  opposes Mr. Seymour’s bill to limit the Nullum Tempus Act;
  opposes reform of Parliament;
  rejects the demands of Ireland. 
Northington, Lord C., defends the embargo on corn;
  indicates the supremacy of Parliament.
Nullum Tempus Act, the, extended.

O’CONNELL, Mr. D., is returned for Clare;
  is chief of the Catholic Association. 
Octennial act for Ireland. 
“Olive Branch, the,”
Onslow, Colonel, complains of the publication of the debates. 
Orsini, conspiracy of.

PALMERSTON, Lord, is dismissed from the Foreign-office;
  introduces the bill for the transfer of the government of India 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. 

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