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Molyneux, 74

Monasticism, 24

Montesquieu, 132, 136

Montmorin, Mme, de, 139

Moral standard, changes in, 14-19, 266

Murray, 254

Napoleon I., 142-146, 149

Napoleon III., 280, 288

Narbonne, Louis de, 138-141

Necker, Mme., 134, 135, 142

Necker, Monsieur, 133, 138, 140, 144, 146, 149

Necker, Germaine, see Staël, Mme. de

Newcastle, Duke of, 45, 189

Newman, Cardinal, 90, 96, 249-251, 269, 270

O'Connell, 164, 165, 171, 174, 189, 192, 193, 286

Old-age pensions, 307, 309, 311-316; proposals for, 300, 309, 310, 313; Royal Commission, 303; Rothschild Committee, 304, 305; Chaplin Committee, 305, 307

Orangemen, 84, 173, 189, 190

Palestine, return of Jews to, 129, 130

Paley, 95, 260

Palmerston, Lord, 46, 178, 206-209, 211, 246, 279-282

Parker, editor of Peel Correspondence, 153, 156, 192

Parnell, C.S., 186

Parnell Commission, 88, 89

Parsons, 73, 84

Pasteur, 121

Pauperism, diminution of, 298-309

Peel, Sir Lawrence, 156

Peel, Sir Robert, education, 154, 155; career, 151, 153-156, 168, 172, 177, 187, 188, 194; abolition of Corn Laws, 152, 153; Irish Secretary, 156, 157, 167, 174-187; relations with O'Connell, 174; correspondence, 153, 173, 175-185, 189, 190, 191, 197-199; Croker and, 177, 178; advocates unsectarian education for Ireland, 185, 190; Catholic Emancipation, 152, 153, 168-174, 187, 189-191, 193-195, 197-199; financial measures, 187, 194, 195; patronage, 178-183, 191, 192; police force organised, 184, 185; Home Secretary, 188-198; parliamentary skill, 152, 153, 157, 181, 191; debating powers, 172, 173; Queen Victoria and, 282, 286; recantations, 152, 153, 187, 193, 194; estimate of his character and abilities, 151-154, 156, 157, 172, 181, 191

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