Government, pre-requisites of cabi- net. See Cabinet Government
English, miscellaneous stimates of, 16; "Her Ma- jesty's Opposition," 19; imi- tability of, 162; without mon- archy, 62-66; by public meet- ing, 138, 140; revolutionary, 204; criticism of English, 206- 218
Grant Duff, Mr., 192 Greece, the king in ancient, 35, 36; constitution of later, 37; a legislator in, and his policy, 57, 273-275 Grenville, Lord, 285
Grey, Sir George, X.
Lord, 106, 127, 178, 246, 247, 285
Grote, 34, 37, 275
Italy and Victor Emmanuel, 55
Lincoln, Mrs., Queen Victoria's letter to, 38
Liverpool, 152; Lord, 29 Lloyd, 154
Lombard Street, lxix.
London, 52, 151, 227; Corporation
of the City, 288, 289 Lords, the House of, effect of Reform Act of 1867, xxv.-li., a "dignified institution," 13, 57, 62, 89-129; office of the House, 89, 90; influence of nobility, 90, 91; evil of idolatry of office, 92; social prestige of the "best people " not so great as formerly, 93, 94; influence in House of Commons, 96; evil of two coequal Houses, 97; Reform Act of 1832, 99; now a revising and suspending House, 100; Duke of Welling- ton's letter to Lord Derby, 100-104; Lord Grey and theory of two chambers, 106; merits and demerits, 111-120; the business of diplomacy, 120; opportunity of reform by admission of life peers, 122; abolition of proxies, 124; judi- cial function, 125; real sub- sidiary functions, 126; danger to, 129; the House and the Cabinet, 128, 129; and relation with the Commons, 227; Whig and Tory spirit, 244 Louis Napoleon, 34, 74
- Phillippe, 29, 55, 83, 196 Lowe (Lord Sherbrooke), 128 Lowther, Lord, 95 Lyme Regis, 152
Lyndhurst, Lord, xxxiv., 114, 121, 123, 124, 132, 214, 247
MACAULAY, Lord, 124, 282, 285 Mackintosh, Sir James, 281 Magna Charta, 281 Malmesbury, Lord, 78
Masham, Mrs., 246 Massachusetts, 228 Melbourne, Lord, 11, 14, 15, 102 Mill, John Stuart, 1, 149, 152 Ministry, on changes of, 176-218
a specific peculiarity, 176; producer of three great evils, 177; power of single objector, 178; four things in mitigation of evils, 180; official defence of Parliament, 183- 185; example of administra- tion in case of Poor Law, 189; Presidential election changes in America, 190; bureaucracy in Prussia, 192, 193; true principles of art of business, 197: use of a fresh mind, 199, 200; four important forms of government, 202; defects of each, 202-205; difficulties of administration under English Constitution, army, navy, Home, foreign affairs, 205- 208; serious ignorance, 209; offices result of growth, 212; office of Lord Chancellor, 213 example of the Budget method, 217, 218; Sir R. Peel's Mini stry, 235; Harley's, 246 Moltke, Count, 249 Monarchy, The, 33-88; in ancient Greece, 34-37.
Characteristics of English, 37; effect of a family on the throne, 38; strength of re- ligious monarch, 39; oath of allegiance, 39; mystic rights and loyalty, 40; sentiment of hereditary loyalty, 43; the Crown has no party, 45; a re- public beneath a monarchy, 49; the head of morality, 53; acts as disguise, 54; "estate of the realm," 57; prerogative powers, 58; unroyal Cabinet govern- ment, 66-72, 253; the post of sovereign, 74; rights of con- stitutional monarchy, 75; sagacity by long experience,
Parliament, power to dissolve, 15; a good choosing body, 25; ad- vantages of parliamentary constitution, 28; the Crimean difficulty, 29; members of, and social purposes," 46; train- ing of a minister, 84; educa- tion of the nation, 125; and public opinion, 167; a big meeting, 180; an outside ad- ministrator and, 186; Parlia- mentary head prevents inces- sant tyranny, 189; caprice of, 231; extrinsic checks on, 234; monarch and dissolution of Parliament, 237; Premier and, 239; Ministry and, 241, 242; once preservative_not_legisla- tive, 259; expressive function, 277, growth of, 277-285 Patent Office, the, 213
Peel, Sir Robert, 5, 9, 102, 119, 144, 169, 181, 233
Peers, life, 122, 127, 128, 243–248 Scotch, Irish, 244
Perceval, Mr., 285
Pitt, William, xviii., 67, 70, 87 Poor Law, administration of, 189 Presidential System, the, lxii.-
lxxiii., and the Government, 16, 17; nation, no influence under, 21; weakened by being divided, 23; and electoral system, 24; choice of a presi- dent, 26; inferior statesmen, 28; no elastic element, 30; commentary of American Civil War, 31; absence of revolu- tionary reserve, 32 Pretender, the, 41 Prime Minister, example of double election, 12; patronage of, 12, 13; position if no monarch existed, 45; responsibility of, 54; must be a firm leader, 131; head-master of nation, 169; choice of, 231, 232; power of 233, 234
Prince Consort, 51, 60, 61, 71, 77, 78, 86, 233
SALISBURY, Lord (Lord Cranborne), 177
Saturday Review, The, 171 Schleswig-Holstein difficulty, the, 65, 110
Sebright, Sir John, 251
"Select Charters" (Stubbs), 272 Sieyes, Abbé, 44, 73 Smith, Goldwin, lxvii. Society, constitution of, 48, 49 Socrates, 48 Solomon, 273
Somerset House, 189; Somerset- shire, 165
Stael, Mme. de, 82
State, the Emperor as the, 52; and two parties, 63 "Statesman X.," 32
and simple government, 227; the ultimate authority, 227, 228; the "safety-valve" and the "regulator," 229, 230; choice of premier, 232; ex- trinsic check on Parliament, 234; colonial governors, 234- 236; case of George III. and American War, 238, 239; action of William IV., 240, 241; probable action of power to create peers, 243; example in Queen Anne's reign, 246; and in reign of William IV., 247; growing spirit of matter- of-factness, 248, 249; thought and old, 250, 251, 252
Swiss Constitution, and power of veto, 98, 99, 111
Taxation, a necessary kind of legis- lation, 16, 17
Thiers, M., liii., lvi., lvii., lviii., 44
Thurlow, Lord, 60, 95
Times, The, xvi., 22, 23, 185 Tocqueville, de, 212, 289, 290 Treasury, the, and leading mini- ster, 12; Secretary of the, and Federal Government, 17, 212, 214, 216 Trent, the, 165
Tudor, House of, 277, 281 Tuileries, the, 51
VERSAILLES, liv. Victor Emmanuel, 55, 83 Victoria, 97, 99 Voltaire, 195
WALMODEN, Mme. de, 72 Walpole, Sir Robert, 11, 49, 72, 95,
War Office, 206, 215 Washington, 26, 130
Ways and Means department, 217 Wellington, Duke of, xxv., xxvii., xxxiv., 100-104, 121, 122, 249 Wells, Mr., Ixii., lxx., lxxi. Wensleydale, Lord, 124 Westbury, Lord, 214
Whigs, the, 41, 42, 65, 68, 69, 151, 189, 240, 241, 243, 283, 284, 285
Whitehall, the Court at, 50
William III., 40, 55
IV., 11, 53, 83, 101, 240,
246, 247, 248
Willis's rooms, 64
Wilson, James, 216, 217 Wiltshire, 165
Working men, political power of, xxii.; combination of, xxiii. ; danger of uneducated in- fluence, xxix.; consideration of in constitution, 37; Mr. Bright and, 166; unrepre- sented, 166, 174, 175 Würtemberg, 195
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