PAN
Militis,” 594; *‘1792 and 1853,”
597 ; “Thoughts on the Peril of
Portsmouth,” 594.
Panics, The Three, 612, T76.
Papal aggression, account of the,
541.
Paris, Peace Congress held there in
1849, 510; treaty of, 643.
Parkes, Joseph, of Birmingham, 138.
Parliament of 1841, 7; dissolution
of, 178 ; feeling of, 296 ; scene in the
House of Commons on the Corn Law
agitation, 257 ; question in, of 1843,
288; proceedings, in 1846, 863;
meets, Nov. 4, 1852, 585; meets,
June 7, 1859, 690.
Parties, political, 1830, 1841, 187;
state of, 1846, 356.
Partridge and Price, Cobden enters
warehouse of, in 1828, 15,
Paschal, Captain, anecdote of a, Feb.,
1826, 12.
Pasha, Suleiman, 306.
Passports, abolition of, 791,
Paulton, Mr., 921, 93v.
Peace movement and Free Trade,
230.
Peace movement, misrepresentation
of, 609.
Peace Society, 520.
Peel’s, Sir Robert, speech on Corn
Law agitation, March 18, 1839,
150; views of, on corm question,
181, 182; advance in his opinion
on corn laws, 170; proposals to
his cabinet, 1842, 216; proposals
unsatisfactory to League, 219, 220 ;
proposal an insult to goin effigy
burned, 221; a Free Trader, 237:
position of, 237 ; budget of, 1842,
237; Cobden’s impression of, 241;
Oobden thinks him willing to listen,
242; Cobden a thorn in his side,
243; Cobden meets arguments,
244 ; replies to Cobden, 246; peroration
 of his speech in answer
to Cobden, 259 ; his character, 260 ;
accepts Cobden’s explanation, 261 :
unfavourable criticism of the Tories
in Oxford, 264; says vepeal not
wanted, 292 ; a trimmer, 293 ; cabinet
summoned after Edinburgh letter,
1845, 339 ; goes to Windsor after Lord
John Russell’s failure to form ministry,
 346 ; champion of Protestantism,
repealer of Test and Corporation
Acts, 347: and his party, 1845,

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PHR
847 ; inconsistencies, 848 ; speeches
in vindication of Free Trade policy,
349 ; Bill, first reading of, 1846, great
majority of Free Traders, 357 ; advises
 his followers to grant the Game
Law Committee, 816 ; proposes lower
orices, 822 ; dislike of Mr. Disraeli’s
sharacter, 324 ; introduces the grant
bo the Catholic College at Maynooth,
326 ; resignation of, after Edinburgh
etter, Dec. 5, 1845, 840 ; withdraws
vis resignation, Dec. 20, 1845, 846 ;
iis position with his party, 1845,
347 ; conversion to Free Trade prin.
iiples, 349; League and, 350; resoneciliation
 of, to Cobden, 353 ; exolanation
 regarding Cobden, 1846;
Jobden’s expression of regret, 354;
iollowers of, 356; no conception of
‘ntense feeling about Free Trade,
1846, 357 ; autumn of 1845 turningoi
 in career of, 857; position,
ifficulties of, 859 ; ministry, doom
of, 859; an earnest convert, 366;
speech on the necessity of a new
commercial system, Jan, 22, 1846,
374 ; announces his resignation in a
remarkable speech, June 29, 1846,
388 ; all letters carefully preserved,
391 ; reply, June 24, 1846, to Cobden’s
 letter of June 23, 1846, 397.
401; speech on his commercial
policy 1848, 479, 535, 537, 538 ; death
of, 541, £88, 593, 606, 704, 712;
and commercial treaty with France,
823 ; sober politics of, 800.
veelites in favour of non-intervention,
614.
2ekin, English ambassador at, 846,
People’s budget, an outline sketched
by Cobden, 498, 499.
Perkins, Mr., Cobden visited by, at
Smyrna, 76.
Perpignan, Cobden at, 423.
Persigny, M. de, on commercial reform
in France, 718; and the state of
opinion in England, 719; on the
empire, 768 ; diplomatic difficulties
in England, 783 ; abolition of passport
 question, 791.
2erth, at, 286.
Pegchiera, fortress of, 735.
Petitti, Count, 488.
““ Peveril of the Peak ”’ coach, 15.
Philanthropists, Cobden’s attacks on
the, 185, 187.
Phrenology. See Combe, George.