Peel, Sir Robert, 21, 50; leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, 52; opposes the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 56; and Catholic Emancipation, 58; and the first Reform Bill, 69, 70, 73, 76, 83; Prime Minister, 102; resignation, 104; and the Whig Ladies-in-Waiting, 114; his motion of want of confidence in the Melbourne Administration, 122; again Prime Minister, 123, 124; characteristics, 126, 127; and the grant to Maynooth College, 127, 128, 130; on the state of Ireland, 128; and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 131; resignation and resumption of office, 134, 136; proposes gradual repeal of Corn Laws, 138, 139; defeat and resignation on the Coercion Bill, 140, 155; and Lord Palmerston, 170; death, 176, 177; and the Emperor Nicholas, 215 Pelissier, General, 263, 267 Pembroke Lodge, 307, 351-353, 356, 357 Penal Code, the, before the era of Reform, 24, 48, 107 Peninsular Campaign, its costliness, 22 Penryn, 40, 51, 52 People's Charter, the, 165 Peterloo Massacre, the, 38 Petty, Lord Henry (afterwards third Marquis of Lansdowne), 12 Pius IX., and his decree of 1850, 182, 183 Playfair, Professor John, 12 Polignac, Prince de, 60, 61 Polish revolt of 1863, 321 Poor Law Amendment Act (Ireland), 93, 107, 151 Poor Law Board, 160 Poor Laws, 89, 126 Potato famine, 130, 146, 148, 149 Prisons, regulation of, 107 Protestant Operative Association of Dublin, 129 Prussia and the Vienna Note, 227; and the Crimean War, 243 Public Health Act, 162 'Punch,' cartoons, &c., in, 192, 241, 242, 307, 367 Pusey, Dr., 161 and _note_, 183 RAGLAN, Lord, 246, 252, 267 'Recollections and Suggestions,' publication of, 280 Redistribution of Seats Bill, 330 Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de: skill in diplomacy, and early diplomatic life, 218-220; return to Constantinople, 220, 221; and the second Congress at Vienna, 260