Catholic emancipation, impossible to grant it, 136, 153. ---- reasons in favour of it, 155, 156, 158, 160, 162, 163, 166, 169, 172, 173, 180, 183, 184, 186, 187, 190. Repeal averted by it, 221, 240. Chancellor, the Lord, his right to the patronage of his office, 268. Charity, money in aid of labour is better than, 118. China, reasons why the opium trade was stopped, 451. Opium not the real cause of the war, 452. Defence of Capt. Elliot, 452. Real causes of the Chinese war, 479. Church, the, should educate the people, 308, 456. Church rate martyrs, real state of the case, 458. Civil list, principle on which arranged, 235. Clergy of Ireland, depressed by the Melbourne government, 357. Colonies, importance of to the mother country, 456. Commissariat, importance of, to troops, 82. Corn law of 1828, principle on which founded, 143. ---- worked well, 208, 209. Corn laws. Why imposed, 466, 468. have improved agriculture. 414. Repeal would raise prices, 410. ---- If repealed, foreign sovereigns would tax the export of their corn, 417. Cotton and corn, 469. County meetings, their constitutional use, 138. Currency, theory of a metallic, 193, 338. Extended, means unlimited paper circulation, 197. Metallic, leads to reduction of taxation, 200. Democracy, concessions to it cannot be rescinded, 394. Durham, Lord, his ordinance in Canada illegal, 406. East India Company, eulogium on, 277. Importance of preserving the authority of, 329. Enemy's life, secret bargain for, ought not to be made by a commander, 81. Reward for, by proclamation, may be offered, 81. England the best country for the poor, 473. Enthusiasm of the people very fine in print, but not to be trusted to, 120. Equitable adjustment, how far to carry the principle, 213. Establishment, naval and military, necessary to the national honour, 209, 463. European and Asiatic policy contrasted, 86. Evans, General, strictures on his proceedings in Spain, 372. Expediency better, in politics, than principle, 328. Faith, British character for, must be preserved in India, 89. Finance administration of whigs and tories compared, 257. France, peace with, desirable, but difficult, 270. Free labour in the colonies, difficulty of getting it, 323. French retreats their rapidity accounted for, 97. French revolutionary armies, causes sustained, 98. ---- and English armies, their different constitution, 110. ---- the, would invade England if we withdrew from Spain, 113. Game laws, the, increase poaching, 319. George the Fourth, eulogium on him, 215. Grey policy, the, tends to war, 260. ---- government, the, encouraged the reform agitation, 261. ---- Effect of their savings, 310. Hampden, Dr., his case, 387. Holy alliance, all connexion with it repudiated, 328.