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worn-out royal and noble stocks,' warns the House of Peers, even while he is asking for its aid, that it cannot be 'a permanent institution,' and makes no secret of his universal preference for the institutions and social arrangements which prevail on the other side of the Atlantic. If the Whigs labour under any delusion as to the estimation in which he holds them, or the fate to which he destines them, it has certainly not been because he has withheld that information from them, or has conveyed it with undue delicacy or reserve. From his bearing upon this Reform Bill, they may learn what its probable operation will be in the judgment of one who has devoted a lifetime to studying the political tendencies of the large centres of population. From the intense enthusiasm with which he has thrown himself into the support of this Bill, it is easy to see that he believes it will fulfil the aims he has so frequently avowed. He evidently thinks that the object of his life is within his reach-that the downfall of his aristocratic and landowning enemies is at hand. So eager is he to finish with them that he has lost all control over his language. He will not stop to conciliate, or temporise, or treat. If the recalcitrant Whigs are not convinced, they must be browbeaten and bullied. Their resistance to a scheme of Reform, which will simply annihilate them, is a dirty conspiracy.' The Parliament which shows signs of reluctance at passing a Bill which will probably unseat two-thirds of its members is the offspring of landlord power in the counties, and tumult and corruption in the boroughs.' He can see but one remedy. Parliament-street, from Charing Cross to the venerable Abbey,' is to be filled with men seeking a Reform Bill,' who will beat down as by one blow the power that threatens to bolt the door of Parliament against the people.' He does not condescend to argue the matter or to deprecate on public grounds the opposition that is being offered to the Bill. He knows that the Whigs are deeply apprehensive of it, and that a considerable number of them will certainly resist it. He is not surprised, for Parliament is elected by landlord power,' which to his mind is the earthly embodiment of the spirit of evil. But he thinks it as base as it is vile. If only sufficiently threatened, it will hasten to pass the measure it detests. It remains for a few days to show whether he wrongs it by this estimate of its courage. If the second reading of this Bill should pass a House of Commons which utterly abhors it, Mr. Bright will have deserved his victory, for it will prove that his menaces were well aimed, and that he has learnt that greatest secret of success, the art of knowing whom to despise. The votes of some half-dozen Whig

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members will probably decide whether the aristocratic constitution, upon which their historic party has been built up, is or is not to be sacrificed to the tactics or the blunders of the hour. If, moved by the importunity with which they have been beset, or by some paltry personal fear, they are false to their real belief, the step they take can never be retraced. We shall only have the melancholy consolation of reflecting that if the classes who now hold political power have not courage enough to uphold their own convictions, at a juncture so momentous, against the threats of demagogues or the entreaties of placemen, they have lost the moral title to rule and are fit only to be cast aside.

INDEX

TO THE

HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.

ABD-UL-AZEEZ, assassination of, de-
scribed, 202-account of his reign,204.
Adelung's Mithridates' contains the
Lord's Prayer in 500 languages, 399.
Esthesis, meaning of the term in Plato,

133.

African discovery chiefly made from
the east coast, 1-lake Shirwa, 7-
care bestowed on graves, 10-manu-
facture of iron tools, ib.-tyranny of
fashion. 12-hair-dressing and dyeing
the hair red, ib.-effects of periodical
dronghts, 15-sale of wives and
daughters, 21.

Allen (Archdeacon) on the importance
of biography, 505.

American institutions, 273-the heaviest
national debt in the world, ib.-the
largest number of disaffected citizens,
ib.

Angelo (Michael), the Homer of paint-
ing, 294.

Arabia (Palgrave's), 182-Arab con-
quests and literature, 183-unchanged
character, 185-sacred black stone,
ib.-historical Arabia extends far be-
yond the peninsula, 186-geographi-
cal divisions of Arabia, ib.-the cen-
tral province of Nejd (see Nejd), 187
-Mr. Palgrave's description of the
sandy ocean, 198-interruption of
Mahomedan pilgrimages, 206.
Armagh, the Book of, 482-mutilation
of it, 487.

Arnold's (Matthew) Essays on Criticism,

102.

Artificial-flower making, statistics of,

377.

Aryan family of languages, 401, 418.
Assassin, origin of the word, 185.
Attorney-General, origin of the title,
329-Attornatus Regis, 340.
Audley (Lord Chancellor), character of,

359.

Bacon's (Lord) corruption as chancellor,
357-servility to the Crown, 358.
Vol. 119.-No. 238.

Baker's discovery of the Albert Nyanza,

22.

Baron (Chief), when the title first used,

330.
Barons of the Exchequer, origin of, 335.
greater and lesser, 47.
wars of the, 44.

Berry's (Miss) Journals and Corre-
spondence, 154- - association with
Horace Walpole, 157-visit to France
during the Peace of Amiens, 165-
friendship with Madame de Staël, 166
-imaginary epitaph on herself, 167
-her opinion of the subordinate posi-
tion of her sex, 169-according to
Madame de Staël, by far the cleverest
woman in England,' 171-her journal,
ib.her comedy of Fashionable
Friends,' 175-Comparative View
of Social Life in France and Eng-
land,' 176-her sense of the value of
Good Society, 177.

Bible not to be used as a scientific text-
book, 427.

Billing (Chief Justice), Lord Campbell's
attack on, 343.

Biographies in which the artist is pre-
dominant, 155.

Birds, remarkable intelligence of, 6.
Birmingham, manufactures of, 381.
Blaauw's The Baron's War,' 26.
Bright's (Mr.) support of the Ministry,
253-advice to begin with a mild Re-
form Bill, 258-threat of coercing Par-
liament by mobs, 558-the keeper of
the conscience of the Government, 539.
Browning's (Mr.) self-culture and poetry,

74.

Bunbury's caricatures, 239.

Bunsen Baron) and Max Müller, anec-
dote concerning, 434.
Burckhardt on Arabia, 187.

Burgh's (Hubert de) opposition to the
Papacy, 37.

Bury (Richard de), Chancellor, 349.
Buxton's (Mr.) 'Ideas of the Day on
Policy,' 226.

Callot (Jacques), the caricaturist, 223.
2 P

Campbell's (Lord) Lives of the Chan-
cellors,' blunders of, 342-reckless
remancing, 344.

Cantilupe, the last Englishman who
attained a place in the Roman ca-
lendar, 54.

Carbon, its affinity for oxygen, 437-
carbonic acid and oxide, ib.-carbon-
ate of lime, 438.

Cardinal virtues, their first enumeration
in Plato or Pindar, 144.
Caricature and grotesque in literature
and art, 215-origin of the word cari-
cature, 216-grylli, 218-grossness
and profanity of comic art in the
middle ages, 219-grotesque me-
diæval sculpture and carving, 221-
the devils droll but not frightful, ib.
-representations of the arch-fiend,
ib.-Dances of Death, 223-the hor-
rible repulsively mixed with the ludi-
crous, early political caricatures,
225.-woodcuts in Fox's Martyrs,'
226-caricature standards in the Great
Rebellion, ib.-playing cards a ve-
hicle of political caricature, ib.—em-
blematical character of early carica-
tures, 227.-caricatures of the British
lion, 290-Hogarth an epoch in
the history of the grotesque and
comic, ib.-Gillray heralded a new
era, 232-Sayer and Bunbury, 239-
remarkable printsellers, 241-Fores's
Caricature Museum, ib.-Doyle (the
celebrated H. B.), ib.-the 'Punch'
school, 243-French caricature, ib.
-mixture of burlesque with the ter-
rible in the caricatures of the Re-
volution, 245-Tableaux de la Révo-
lution Française, 245-caricatures of
Louis XVIII., 246-of Louis Phi-
lippe, 247.

Caroline (Princess of Wales), described
by Miss Berry, 172.
Carrel's (Armand) opposition to Louis
Philippe, 91.

Catherine II. of Russia, her Compara-
tive Dictionary, 398.
Cenotaph, cenobite, encenia, from Kevós,
κοινός, and καινός, 398.

Champfleury's (M.) saying on satirists,
237- Histoire de la Caricature Mo-
derne,' 243.
Charivari, the, 248.

Charlet's lithographed French carica-
tures, 248.

Charlotte (Princess), at fifteen, 173.
Chancellor, origin of the title, 332.
Children's Employment Commission,
364-children in the earthenware
manufacture, 366.-enormous per-

centage of mortality among children
under five, 367-occupation of mould-
runners described, ib.-lucifer-match
manufacture, 369-cartridges, paper-
staining, and fustian-cutting, 370-
children of two years old employed in
lace-making, 371-lace-schools, ib.-
straw-plait manufacture, 373-five a
common age to commence working,
374 hosiery manufacture, 375-
millinery and dressmaking, 376-
artificial flower-making, 377-metal
manufactures, 378-parental task-
masters, 379-nail manufacture, 382
-children hired by piece-workers,
383-children attending pin-making
machines the most ignorant class,
ib.-ignorance of the commonest sub-
jects, 384-children in the brick
manufacture, 385.-children using
heavy hammers, 388-glass manufac-
ture, 389-gang-masters contracting
for agricultural labour, 391-demo-
ralisation of girls, 392.

Church (Irish), its early independence
of Rome, 475 -two Churches in
Ireland from the conquest to the Re-
formation, 495 three orders of
saints of the Irish Church, 496-
Archbishop Anselm's letter to Mur-
tach O'Brien, 497.

Coal, nature, origin, and varieties of,
437--formation of coal, 439.-lig-
nite or brown coal, 441-stages of
the transformation
of vegetable
matter into anthracite, 443-Chi-
nese coal, 444-beds of anthracite
in South Wales, 445- cannel coal,
b. coal-cutting machines, 447
'holeing,' ib.-'ten-yard' coal of
South Staffordshire, 449-waste of
coal in burning, 451-Swedish stoves,
453-plants poisoned by smoke, 454
-saving from the consumption of
smoke, 455-invention for econo-
mising fuel, 456-the slack question,
458-manufacture of oils from coal
by distillation, 459-gaseous fuel, ib.
-duration of our coal-fields, 463-a
substitute for coal visionary, 465-
export of coal, 470-the coal-tax, 471
-the largest coalfield in the world
that of the United States, 472-
European coalfields, ib.

Coif, origin of the Sergeant's, 336.
Coke's (Sir E.) unfeeling coarseness
in conducting State prosecutions,
359-noble stand for the independ-
ence of the Bench, ib.-character,
360.

Common Law, its origin, 46.

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