Reform: its early advocates, 25-27; and the Society of the Friends of the People, 25; Lord John Russell's first speech on the subject, 35; Sir Francis Burdett's motion of 1819, 35; Lord John brings forward his first resolutions in the House of Commons, 40; disfranchisement of Grampound, 43; Lord John's motion for an addition of 100 members to the House of Commons, 43; resolutions brought forward by Lord Blandford, 59; rejection of Lord John's Bill for enfranchising Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, 60; O'Connell's motion for Triennial Parliaments, &c., 60; declaration of the Duke of Wellington, 61; the Committee of Four and the first Reform Bill, 67, 68; introduction and second reading of the first Bill in the Commons, 69-73; the second Bill, 75-78; public excitement on the rejection of the second Bill by the House of Lords, 79, 80; the third Bill passes the Commons, 81; the Bill passes the House of Lords, and receives the Royal Assent, 84; secured by popular enthusiasm, 85, 87; Lord John's Bill of 1852, 196; Bill of 1854, 236, 237, 239; Disraeli's Bill, 291, 292; Lord John's Bill of 1860, 296; Bill introduced by Mr. Gladstone, 328 Regent, Prince, insulted on returning from opening Parliament, 32; and the Peterloo Massacre, 38 Revolution, French (1848), 171 Rice, Mr. Spring, 96 Richmond, Duke of, 89, 95, 124 Ripon, Lord, 95, 124 Roden, Lord, 113 Roebuck, J. A., and education, 89; moves vote of confidence in the Russell Administration, 176; his motion to inquire into the condition of the Army in the Crimea, 254 Rogers, Samuel, 123, 276 Rothschild, Baron, 291 Russell, Mr. G. W. E., 344 Russell, John, the first Constable of Corfe Castle, 1, 2 Russell, Sir John, Speaker of the House of Commons, 2 Russell, John, the third, and first Earl of Bedford, 2