Army, how to avoid party spirit in, 84. 
     Control of by the crown, 96.
   ——­ British, can bear neither success nor failure, 97.
   ——­ in Portugal, croaking spirit among officers, 106.
   ——­ British, the worst men only enter as privates, 111.
   ——­ what they want is coolness in action, not headlong bravery, 115.
   ——­ officers, as well as soldiers, require keeping in order, 118.
   ——­ its morale important to discipline, 126.
   ——­ Indian, eulogium on it, 479.
   ——­ Indian, eulogium on it, and Lord Hastings, 135.

   Asiatic policy contrasted with European, 86.

   Australia, 463.

   Ballot, the, and universal suffrage, dangerous, 427.

   Belgium, its neutrality the foundation of its independence, 409.

   Beresford, Marshal, characteristic letter to, 134.

   Birmingham, riots in 1839, 427.

   Bishops in Ireland, objections to reducing their number, 333.

   Blockade, what constitutes one, 332.

   Blucher, his vandalism averted, 132, 133.

   Bourbons, their re-establishment necessary to the peace of Europe, 129.

   Bribe, indignant rejection of one in India, 82.

   British character for faith must be preserved in India, 89.

   Buonaparte, his system hollow, 103. 
     His disgusting tyranny, 113.
   ——­ A general re-action predicted, 119. 
     Effects of his government, 128.
   ——­ The Duke will not be his executioner, 131.

   Canada, plan of operations against the United States, 125. 
     Conduct of the Canadian leaders, 390.
   ——­ The rebels must be reduced, 390. 
     Objections to a legislative council, 392.

   Canning.  The Duke of Wellington felt no hostility to him, 142.

   Catholic emancipation, impossible to grant it, 136, 153.
   ——­ reasons in favour of it, 155, 156, 158, 160, 162, 163, 166,
       169, 172, 173, 180, 183, 184, 186, 187, 190. 
     Repeal averted by it, 221, 240.

   Chancellor, the Lord, his right to the patronage of his office, 268.

   Charity, money in aid of labour is better than, 118.

   China, reasons why the opium trade was stopped, 451. 
     Opium not the real cause of the war, 452. 
     Defence of Capt.  Elliot, 452. 
     Real causes of the Chinese war, 479.

   Church, the, should educate the people, 308, 456.

   Church rate martyrs, real state of the case, 458.

   Civil list, principle on which arranged, 235.

   Clergy of Ireland, depressed by the Melbourne government, 357.

   Colonies, importance of to the mother country, 456.

   Commissariat, importance of, to troops, 82.

   Corn law of 1828, principle on which founded, 143.
   ——­ worked well, 208, 209.