COLONIAL Empire, area of, compared with area of England, 427; compared with Persian and Roman Empires, 428; and with Russia, Germany, France and America, 428; progress of, as indicated by increase of populations, 428; by advance in education, 429; by institution of Colonial Parliaments, 429. COLONIAL offices, in Downing Street, completed in 1876, 432. COLONIAL party in House of Commons, 434. COLONIAL peerages, 434. COLONIAL secretary, Sir George Grey, first, in 1854, 431; office of, previously held in conjunction with some other office, 431. COLONIAL secretaries, eminent, Duke of Newcastle in 1859, 431; Lord Cardwell, 431. COLONIES, social development of, in the past, 438; anticipations of, in the future, 438. COLONISTS, London clubs devoted to, and their friends, 434; Radicalism of, 432; as displayed in Legislatures of New Zealand, New South Wales and Victoria, 432. COMMERCIAL middle class, growth of, 259; beginnings of, in the days of the Edwards, 259; culminated with Cobden, 259; not five Conservative members connected with, in 1835, 260. COMMONS, House of, composition of, in 1707, 252; number of members of, in 1707, compared with 1879, 254; altered manners of members of, 254; 'cockcrowings' in debates of, on Church Rates, 254; 'disorder' in, during debates on Mr Gladstone's second Irish Bill, 254. CONSTITUENCIES, right of appeal to, 263; permission to appeal to, given to Sir R. Peel in 1841, 263; alternative of immediate or postponed appeal to, placed before the Queen in 1868 by Disraeli, 264. CONTRAST between condition of working classes now and twenty years ago, 153. CONVOCATION, revival of, in 1854, 400; declares _Essays and Reviews_ heretical, 400; reflects, as a clerical parliament, views of church, 400; work of, illustrated, 400; possible use of, in event of disestablishment, 401. CORPORATION Act, introduced by Lord John Russell in 1835, 93; two millions of Englishmen affected by, 93; abuses prior to passing of, 94; London not included in operation of, 95; reasons for excluding London from operation of, 103. CORRUPT Practices at Elections Bill, 1883, 260. COUNTRY squire, disappearance of, in country and in Parliament, 259.