182

PHR
Phrenologist, The, play written by
Cobden, 26.
Piedmont, 7486.
Pirzus, fleet despatched to, 536.
Pitt, Cobden ‘contrasts, with Lord
Palmerston, 795 ; commercial treaty
with France, 1786, 805.
Polish insurrection, 18683, 868.
Political changes, 1853, 612.
Political life, condition of, 815.
Political torpor, 1863, 881.
Ponsonby, Lord, 76.
Poor, rural, condition of, 157.
Pope and Free Trade, 438; receives
Cobden, conversation with him, 1847,
433,
Portpatrick, Cobden goes to, Feb.,
1826, 12.
Portsmouth, fortifications of, 875.
Ports not to be open until 1849, 355.
Portugal, 537.
Post, Morning, calumniates League,
155, 278.
Potsdam, Cobden goes to, drives with
King, 447.
Press, hostilitiés in the, 1839, 155.
Price Partridge and, Cobden enters
warehouse of, 1826, 15.
Privateering, 882.
Protection, petition for, 3586,
Protectionists, anger of, after first
reading of Peel's Repeal Bill,
358; led by Mr. Disraeli after
the death of Lord George Bentinck
in 1848, 479; do not accept defeat
till 1852, 479; in office, 572-591
 ; disfavour of the budget with,
606.
‘ Provincial Letters” of Pascal, 811.
Prussia, the treasurer of the Zollverein ;
great power of, 1838, 129; Coben’s
 views on the government of,
130 ; exportation of corn from, $40,
598.
Public opinion, excitement of, 1852,
594.
Pulsky, 570.
Punch, cartoon of Cobden, 343.
Pusey, Dr., 91.
Pyramids, Cobden’s description of, §5.

QUAXERS and peace movement, 609,
Quarterly Review, the, 255.
Quay Street, Manchester, residence of
Cobden in, 158.
Jueen, the, and Lord Palmerston,
579.

INDEX

RUS
Raproar party, 610.
Radical politics, Mr. Mill and, 91.
Radicalism, economic, and the new
Cabinet, 591.
Radicals, blunders of, their characteristics,
 126; and Crimean War,
619.
Rangoon, 579.
Reform, parliamentary, proposals for,
555.
deform Act, the, of 1832, 249; influence
 of, on society, 89, 90 ; restlessness,
 mental activity after, and
wishes for social regeneration, 91.
Reform Bill, Disraeli’s, 689.
Reform Club, opinion of Cobden,
243,
Reform, French Parliamentary, 417. ,
Register, great difference to Cobden’
party by improvement of, 304. .
Repeal, * petition for, 356; publi
opinion of, 857.
Revel, Count, 437.
Revolution, omens of, in Paris, 1846,
417,
Ricardo, 263 ; free trader, 800.
Richmond, Duke of, 384.
Ridgway, 606.
Riga, Cobden goes to, 451.
Rochdale, 689 ; deputation from, 6938:
speech at, 919.
Roebuck, 186, 244; Cobden thinks
him *“ a clever fellow,” 137 ; Cobden’s
estimate of, as Free Trader, 181;
speech on the League, Feb. 17, 1843,
261, 947,
Rogers, Thorold, 921.
Romagna, 785.
Rome, Cobden at, Jan., 1847, 427-435.

Rosario Villa, Cobden’s Maltese guide,
1836, 48,
Rossi, Count, 434,
Rossini, 760.
Rouher, M., 707, 716, 726, 748, 759,
767, 781 ; signs the French treaty,
730; Lord Palmerston’s fortification
speech, 781; French treaty, 785;
French navy, 832.
ussell, Lord Charles, 275.
ussell, Lord John, 148; moves to
establish a fixed duty on wheat,
May 7, 1841, 170; speech, Feb. 17,
1843, 260; introduces nine resolutions
 with a view to improving the
working class, 316; supports the
Maynooth Grant, 326 : famous letter