Sketches in the House: The Story of a Memorable Session (1893)

by T. P. O'Connor

INDEX.

• Address, the; [17-30]
• Agriculture; [24-28]
• Alarm, a false; [185-6]
• Anarchy, the unloosing of; [166-7]
• Allan, Mr.; [258]
• Apology, Mr. H. Fisher's; [250-1]
  • —— a lame; [251-2]
• Argyll, the Duke of; [275-6]
• Asquith, H.H.; [15], [42], [46], [52], [128-30], [185]
  • —— A splendid speech; [28-9]
  • —— Advocate rather than Minister; [28]
  • —— as Leader; [148]
  • —— and the miners; [162]
• Austin in the fight, Mr.; [249]

• Baiting the lion; [78]
• Bannerman, Campbell- (see Campbell-Bannerman).
• Balfour, A.J.; [29], [77], [86], [126], [141], [178], [183-6], [195], [204], [211], [224-5], [231], [234], [239], [266-7]
  • —— Independent of tradition; [17]
  • —— and Sir John Gorst; [26]
  • —— and Home Rule; [37]
  • —— attacks the chairman; [65]
  • —— and Churchill deadly foes; [72-3]
  • —— and Chamberlain unfriendly; [73]
  • —— and resident magistrates; [94]
  • —— and the Vote of Censure; [104-5]
  • ——'s sensitiveness; [106]
  • —— limp; [128-9]
  • —— and Gladstone; [195], [196]
  • —— the unready; [215-6]
• Bartlett, Ashmead; [123-4]
  • ——'s character; [54]
• Bartley, G.T.C.; [55], [57], [200-1], [258]
• Barton and Dunbar; [117], [148-9]
• Beach, Sir Michael Hicks (see Hicks-Beach).
• Beaufoy, M.H.; [17]
• Belfast Catholics, The attack on; [147-9]
• Biggar, Mr., a reminiscence; [98-9]
• Bills, bringing in; [13-4]
• Bimetallism; [55], [57], [200-1]
• Birrell, Augustin; [116-7]
• Bolton, T.; [268]
  • —— and the fight; [249]
• Bowles, Gibson; [64], [258]
• Brodrick, Mr. St. John; [237-9]
  • —— and Mr. Gladstone; [181-2]
• Bryce Mr. J., and Home Rule; [38]
• Bryne, Mr.; [189]
• Budget, The; [146-7], [151-2]
• Bullet in Downing Street, the; [153-5]
• Burnie, Mr.; [258]
  • ——'s appearance; [16], [62]
  • —— and Lowther; [65]
  • —— and Chamberlain; [196]
  • —— and the fight; [249]
  • —— A triumph for Mr.; [259-60]
  • —— in fighting form; [266-7]
• Burns, John; [163]
• Bursting of the cyclone, the; [248-9]
• Burt, "Tommy"; [150-1]
• Byles, W.P.; [69]

• Calm before the storm, the; [111]
• Campbell-Bannerman, Mr.; [258-9]
  • ——'s wit; [26]
• Carlton Club echoes; [77]
  • —— in the Green Street Court-House; [93-5]
  • —— the lawyer and the hangman; [94]
  • —— and Fred Archer; [139]
• Carson, E.; [92-3], [138-40]
• Cavendish, Victor; [177]
  • ——'s resemblance to his father; [12]
• Chamberlain, Austen; [135]
  • ——'s party; [12]
  • —— and "Tom Potter"—an incident; [21-2]
  • —— A tumble for; [27]
  • —— attacks the chairman; [65]
  • —— and Balfour unfriendly; [73]
  • ——'s inaccuracy; [73-4]
  • —— as a Jingo; [100-1]
  • —— and Gladstone; [118-9], [143-4]
  • —— and Parnell; [119-20]
  • —— abashed; [121]
  • ——'s dustheap; [128]
  • —— pleased; [132-3], [143-4]
  • —— angry; [134-5]
  • —— disorderly; [167]
  • —— obstructive; [170]
  • —— inferior to Balfour; [183]
  • —— and the Daily News, [189-95]
  • —— and Burns; [196]
  • —— and Gladstone—a contrast; [206]
  • —— and Mr. Dillon's forgetfulness; [219-26]
  • —— and Harrington; [223-226]
  • —— and the fight in the House; [242-6]
  • ——'s beautiful elocution; [243-4]
• Chamberlain, Joseph; [13], [43], [66], [77], [81], [97], [101-2], [136-7], [178], [185-7], [189], [204], [228], [231], [234], [237], [264-5]
• Chambers, a contrast between the two; [271]
• Chaplin, Henry; [261]
• Charwomen and ratcatchers; [212-3]
  • —— his genius and fall; [20]
  • —— improving; [46]
  • —— and Balfour deadly foes; [72-3]
  • —— and Gladstone; [169-70]
• Churchill, Lord Randolph,; [58], [110], [132], [161], [167], [247]
  • —— entry of a ghost; [157-8]
• Clanricarde, Lord; [155-7]
• Claque in Parliament, The; [54]
• Clothes; [201-4]
• Cobbe, Mr.; [210]
• Cochrane left limp; [78]
• Collings, a "rodent," Jesse; [27]
• Comic relief; [18]
• Condon and the fight, Tom; [249]
• Consolations of old age, the; [192-3]
• Conservative opportunity, A; [188-9]
• Conybeare and the Speaker, Mr.; [226-7]
  • ——'s H's; [22]
• Courtney, L.H.; [13], [185], [263]
  • —— interruption; [129-30]
• Cranborne's impudence, Lord; [68], [176]
• Crean in the Fight, Mr.; [249]
• Criminal combination, a; [65-6]
• Cunningham Graham (see Graham, Cunningham).
• Cyclone, the bursting of the; [249]

• Daily News and Chamberlain, the; [189-95]
• Dalziel, Mr.; [236], [258]
• Davenport, Mr. Bromley; [67]
• Davitt, Michael—a portrait; [124]
• Deeper and deeper; [176-7]
• Defeat, a Government; [252-3]
• Demos and dinner; [209-10]
• Devonshire, funereal; [273-4]
• De Worms, Baron; [90]
  • —— and Egypt; [158-9]
• Dilke, Sir Charles; [16], [99-100], [252-56]
• Dillon and Chamberlain, Mr.; [218-26], [264]
• Disappointed office seekers; [52]
• Disestablishment; [200-1]
  • —— A recollection of; [69]
  • —— Coningsby; [263]
• Disraeli—an oriental juggler; [56]
• Division, a tight; [179-80]
• Divisions; [48], [110], [144-5], [150], [162], [169], [177], [179-80], [187-8], [236-7], [240-1], [253], [268], [282]
• Divorce, Irish objections to; [199-200]
• Duty of Liberals, the plain; [257-8]
• Dynamitards, release of; [29]

• Egypt; [158-61]
• Eirenicon, a great; [160-1]
• Ellis, Tom; [144]
• Employers' liability; [42-3], [150-1]
• Epoch of brutality, the; [78]

• Fall of the flag, the; [234]
• False alarm, a; [185-6]
• Farmer, pity the poor (see Agriculture)
• Fateful moment, the; [218]
• Fergusson, Sir James; [252]
• Field unsteady, the; [236]
• Fight in the House, the; [242-53]
• First fence, the; [164-5], [169]
• Fisher & the fight, Hayes; [251-2]
• Forster, Arnold; [149]
  • —— and Sexton; [227-8]
• Foster, Sir Walter; [177]
• Fowler, H.H.; [41-2]
• Freemasonry and Mr. Gladstone; [210-12]

• Gibbs, A.G.H.; [176]
  • —— and the fight, Vicary; [246-7], [250]
• • —— and her husband; [176]
• Gladstone, Mrs.; [35]
  • —— in 1880; [13]
  • ——'s entrance and appearance; [18-9], [32-4]
  • —— on the Address; [18-20]
  • —— and Mr. Collings; [27]
  • —— and his secretaries; [28]
  • ——'s speech on Home Rule; [32-6]
  • ——'s great peroration; [35-6]
  • ——'s Olympian wrath; [47]
  • —— indefatigable; [80-1]
  • —— the survival; [82-3]
  • —— dreams; [84-5]
  • —— and the Vote of Censure; [106-8]
  • —— An episode; [108-9]
  • —— and Chamberlain; [118-9], [143-4], [172-3]
  • —— and Parnell; [120-1]
  • —— a great speech; [141-4]
  • —— and the bullet; [154-5]
  • —— and Egypt; [159-61]
  • —— and the miners; [163]
  • —— and Churchill; [169-70]
  • —— his greatest speech; [169-70]
  • —— and Lord Wolmer; [180-1]
  • —— and Bryce; [181-2]
  • ——'s hearing; [182-3]
  • —— and Balfour; [195-6]
  • ——'s rejuvenescence; [202-3]
  • ——'s dress; [202-3]
  • —— the Grand Old Philosopher; [205-6]
  • —— and Chamberlain, a contrast; [206]
  • —— and Freemasonry; [210-2]
  • —— a splendid gambler; [233-4]
  • —— to the rescue; [238-40]
  • —— and the fight; [252]
  • —— and his tactics; [256-7]
  • —— and the guillotine; [257]
  • —— a mighty speech; [260-3]
• Gladstone, William Ewart; [51], [60], [78-86], [102-4], [110-6], [144], [178], [180-6], [188-9], [191-5], [200-1], [205], [214-5], [228], [231-3], [237]
  • —— and Mr. Balfour's face; [26]
  • —— Tory distrust of; [46]
• Gorst, Sir John; [25-6], [90-1]
  • —— to the rescue; [61]
  • —— attacks the Chairman; [65]
  • —— a good speech; [131-2]
  • —— playful; [151-2]
• Goschen, J.H.; [55], [241], [267]
• Government and private Members, the; [153]
• Graham, Cunningham; [25]
• Great night, A; [35]
  • —— a coming man; [255-6]
• Grey, Sir Edward; [23-4]
• Griffiths, Ellis; [45]
• Guillotine, but not yet, the; [197]