periodicals written and published at, i 14.
Eupatoria captured, iii 95; the Russians repulsed at, iii 155.
Evans, Sir De Lacy, at battle of the Alma, iii 95.
Exchange, burning of Royal, i 246. Executions, public, abolished, iv 169. Exeter, Bishop of, conciliatory proposal on church-rates, iv 13. Exhibition of 1851, ii 231. See Crystal Palace.
Exhibition of 1862, iv 123; opposition to, iv 124: superior to that of 1851, iv 124; opening ceremony, iv 125; statis- tics of, iv 125; account of the building and its contents, iv 125.
Exiles in England, amusing account of, ii 157. Expenditure, national, increase of, ii
35: Sir Robert Peel on, ii Exploration, activity in, iv 20. Eyre, Governor. See Jamaica.
Factory Act, extension of the, iv 153. Factory system, Wordsworth on the evils of the, i 266; Hutton's experience of, i 266; attempts at legislation by the elder Sir Robert Peel, &c., i 266. Failures, commercial, in 1857, iii 220. Faraday, Professor, lectures at the Royal Institution, iv 9; on spiritualism,
iv 19. Female suffrage, increasing attention given to, ii 28; Mr. Disraeli's descrip- tion of a discussion on, ii 29. Fenian organization, iv 250. See Ire- land.
Ferdinand, King of Naples, tyranny of, iv 66.
Ferrand, Mr. Busfield, charges against free-trade advocates, ii 33. Fiji Islands, cession of, iv 292. Financial reform, increased attention given to, iii 330; cost of collecting the revenue, iii 330; Mr. Bright's scheme for, iii 330.
Finlay, Mr., claim against the Greek government, ii 212.
Fire at Tooley Street, London, iv 187. Flogging in the army, motions to abo- lish, ii 17: cruelties of, 174; amelior- ation of, ii 175. Foreign affairs: the Spanish legion and Don Carlos, i 190; the German Zollver- ein, i 190; revolution in Belgium, i 190; insurrection in Poland, i 191; riots in France, i 191; attempt to suppress poli- tical societies in France, i 193. Foreign Enlistment Bill, iii 140; causes ill feeling in America, iii 193. Forster, Mr. Wm. E., his early career,
iv 211. Fox, William Johnson, advocates the abolition of the corn-laws, ii 52. France, riots in, i 191; attempt to sup- press political societies in, i 193: Fieschi's attempt to assassinate the king, i 194; its relations with Turkey and Egypt, ii 2; Thiers' ministry, ii 3: quarrel with England on the Turkish question, ii 3; successes in Algeria, ii
4: removal of the body of Napoleon | Garibaldi, from St. Helena, ii 4; attempt of Louis Napoleon to cause a revolt, ii 5: dis- satisfaction of the people with the gov- ernment, ii 5; agrees to the policy of the western powers on the Turkish question, ii 6; growing discontent in, i 135; reform banquets, ii 136; insur- rection in Paris, ii 137; flight of the king, i 137; provisional government formed, ii 138; escape of Louis Napo- leon from Ham, ii 138; republic set up, ii 225; distress among the working- classes, ii 225; government undertakes to provide for them, ii 225; the republic proclaimed, ii 225; disaffection in the country, ii 226; emancipation of slaves in the colonies, ii 227; failure of attempt at insurrection, ii 227; the elections and formation of a government, ii 228; another unsuccessful attempt at insur- rection, ii 228; Louis Napoleon Bona- parte elected a representative, ii 228; repeated insurrections, ii 229; forma- tion of a constitution, ii 230; election of Louis Napoleon as president, ii 230; the coup d'état, ii 251 (see Napoleon, Louis); proclamation of the empire, ii 326; Cobden's efforts to bring about a commercial treaty with, iii 319; hostil- ity of Germany to, iii 323; M. Ollivier's speech on national disarmament, iv 164; war with Prussia, iv 285. Franchise, county and borough, iv 309. Franco-Austrian war. See Italy. Franco-German war, iv 285. Franklin, Sir John, starts on his Arctic expedition, ii 203; search for, iii 5; ex- pedition of Captain M'Clintock in search of, iv 20.
Frauds and robberies, increase of, iii 232; Sir John Dean Paul, Strahan, and Bates, iii 232; John Sadlier, M.P., iii 232; failure of the Royal British Bank, iii 233; Redpath, iii 236. Frederick VII. of Denmark, his death, iv 146.
Free Church of Scotland, ii 167. Free-trade, progress towards, i 22; agi- tation for repeal of the corn-laws, i 275; meeting in Manchester in favour of, ii 41.
Free-trade Hall, Manchester, opening of, ii 28.
Giuseppe, declares war against Austria, ii 152; fights his way to Rome, ii 152; his career, ii 153; his heroic defence of Rome, ii 153; escapes with the remnant of his army, ii 154: retires to Caprera, iv 67; goes to America, iv 67; makes and sells can- dles in New York, ii 154; iv 67; master of trading vessels, iv 67; presentation of a sword at Newcastle, iv 67: his per- sonal appearance in 1849, iv 68; takes part in the Franco-Italian war, iv 69; his preparations for the liberation of Sicily, iv 69; captures Palermo, iv 70; Cavour's plans, iv 71; the position of France and England, iv 71; statecraft of the Sardinian government, iv 72; the pope excommunicates the invaders and usurpers, iv 72; appeal of the King of Naples, iv 73: Garibaldi's proclama- tion declaring his intention to free the Neapolitan states, iv 73; crosses to the mainland, iv 74; rapid successes of his army, iv 75; his entry into Naples, iv 75; necessity of keeping Garibaldi out of Rome, iv 76; Cavour's plan, iv 76; the Sardinian army conquers the Papal territory, iv 78; meeting of Vic- tor Emmanuel and Garibaldi, iv 97: Victor Emmanuel chosen king of the Two Sicilies, iv 80; Garibaldi resigns the dictatorship and retires to Caprera, iv 80; his disinterestedness, iv 81; is elected to the Italian parliament, iv 83; retires, iv 83; raises a force for the cap- ture of Rome, iv 83; he is opposed at Aspromonte, iv 84: is wounded and imprisoned for a short time, iv 84; re- moved to Caprera, iv 84; his enthusi- astic reception in London, iv 85; re- turns to Caprera, iv 85; takes up arms against Austria in 1866, iv 85; is wounded and returns to Caprera, iv 85; another attempt to take Rome, iv 86. Garotte, public indignation against, iii 233; infliction of flogging as a punish- ment, iii 234.
General election of 1865, results of, iv 178; general election of 1868, iv 267; Mr. Gladstone defeated, iv 267; changes in the new House of Commons, iv 269; strength of Liberal and Conservative parties, iv 269; elections of 1880, iv 323. George III., death of, i 6.
Friends, Society of, deputation to the George IV., death of, i 38. czar, iii 62.
Frogmore, death of the Duchess of Kent at, iv 49; Prince Albert buried at, iv 56.
Frome-Bennett case, iii 13. Frost, John, the Chartist, i 263.
Game-laws, attempt to mitigate, i 28; injury inflicted by, ii 58; Mr. Bright obtains a committee of inquiry into, ii 59: suicide of Lord Stradbroke's gamekeepers, ii 59: statistics of con- victions for breaches of the game-laws,
ii 59. Gang system, evils of the, iv 282. Gardiner, Allan, missionary, his suffer- ings in Patagonia, ii 299.
Germany, hostile feeling towards France, iii 323.
Gibson, Milner, advocates the remission of the taxes on knowledge, ii 203; loses his seat, iii 204.
Gladstone, John, his political opinions and character, i 8; early history of the family, i 8.
Gladstone, William Ewart, his early school life, i ro; enters Eton School,i11; contributes to the Eton Miscellany, Eton Magazine, i 15: at Oxford Uni- versity, i 41; enters parliament as mem- ber for Newark, i 114; his remarks on slavery, i 116; is commissioner of the treasury, i 130; under-secretary to the colonies, i 140; opposes motion for re- form of the Irish Church, i 140: opposes proposed inquiry into bribery and cor- ruption at Liverpool, i 141; opposes
Universities Admission Bill, i 141; Lord Macaulay's opinion of him, i 141; his speech on the Irish Church, i 141; speech on abolition of slavery, i 150; is charged with inconsistency, i 201; his work on The State in its Relations with the Church, i 203; criticisms of Macaulay and the Quarterly Review, i 203; his correspondence with Macau- lay, i 204; his change of opinion on the subject, i 206; his speech on the Dis- senters' Chapel Bill, i 283; appointed vice-president of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint, i 318; his re- putation at this time, i 318; speech on the opium war, i 320; his marriage, i 320; he supports Sir Robert Peel's proposed sliding-scale, ii 22; withdraws from Peel's government on account.of posal to increase the Maynooth grant, 47; his early opinions on free-trade, ii 53: proposes to abolish restrictions on the importation of machinery, ii 53; his part in obtaining improvements in railway system, ii 54; on the sugar duties, ii 72; supports the Maynooth College Bill, ii 81; becomes colonial secretary, ii 94; on the conduct of Sir James Brooke in the East, ii 159; on abolition of the navigation laws, ii 187, 188; proposes an ecclesiastical constitution for the Australian colonies, ii 197; speech on the Don Pacifico affair, ii 217; on the death of Sir Robert Peel, ii 223; his charges against the administration of justice in Naples, ii 259; replies to his charges, ii 271; is chancellor of the exchequer, ii 316; his first budget, ii 329; his budget of 1854, i 52; supplementary budget, iii 59; his attitude with regard to Rus- sia and Turkey in 1854 and 1877, iii 60; on the origin and reasons of the Crimean war, iii 68; writing in 1878 on the Crimean war, iii 87; speech on the conduct of the Crimean war, iii 145; chancellor of the exchequer, iii 151: resigns, iii 154, 155; on the breaking up of political parties, iii 167; advocates negotiations for peace, iii 169, 183; on the terms of peace with Russia, iii 194; on the quarrel with the United States concerning foreign enlistment, iii 195; on the education of neglected children, iii 215; his visit to Corfu, iii 289; chan- cellor of the exchequer, iii 292; Home- ric studies, iii 298; address as chancel- lor of the University of Edinburgh, iii 298; visit to the Ionian Islands, iii 299; gratuitous services as commis- sioner extraordinary at Corfu, iii 306; his position in the Palmerston ministry, iii 306; his budget of 1859, iii 316; he introduces budget of 1860, iii 331; on the French commercial treaty, iii 333; abolition of excise duty on paper,iii 335: iv 26; the impressed stamp on news- papers abolished, iii 335; on the func- tions of laymen in the church, iv 12; opposes abolition of church-rates, iv 14; on interference by the House of Lords with taxation, iv 29; his budget of 1861, iv 31; his budget of 1862, iv 119; speech by Mr. Disraeli against the budget, iv 122; Mr. Gladstone's reply, iv 122;
his financial statement of 1863, iv 146; proposed club-tax and tax on charities negatived, iv 146; his speech on en- dowed institutions, iv 146; details of the budget, iv 147; the income-tax, iv 148; our trade with France, iv 148, 172; he supports the Dissenters' Burial Bill, iv 171; his budget of 1864, iv 171; his scheme for government life annui- ties and assurance, iv 127; his budget of 1865, iv 173; speech on reform,iv 174; his views on the Irish Church, iv 175; loses his seat for Oxford University, iv 176; his speech at Manchester, iv 177; is returned for South Lancashire,iv 178; becomes leader of the House of Com- mons, iv 182; his speeches at Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1865, iv 182; his views on English Evangelicalism, iv 202; his budget of 1866, iv 212; its proposals regarding the national debt, iv 213; his speeches on the reform bill of 1866, iv 214, 217, 219; his resignation of office, iv 222; his opposition to Mr. Disraeli's reform bill, iv 229, on the Fenian outrages, iv 258; his view of the Irish problem, iv 259; his resolutions for disestablishment of the Irish Church, iv 263; is defeated in Lancashire, but returned for Greenwich, iv 267; forms a ministry, iv 269; its members, iv 270; introduces his bill for disestablishing the Irish Church, iv 270; its provisions, iv 270; it passes second reading, iv 273, and becomes law, 275: introduces and carries Irish Land Bill, iv 276; intro- duces education bill for Ireland, iv 289; his government defeated, iv 289; he resigns, but compelled to remain in office, iv 289; he resigns in 1874, iv 290; his letter to Lord Granville, iv. 290; introduces bill for abolition of com- pulsory church-rates, iv 295; his views on disestablishment of the Church, iv 296, 300; on Ritualism, iv 298; on the Abolition of Patronage and Public Wor- ship Regulation bills, iv 300; his pam- phlet on the Vatican Decrees, iv 303; his public life, iv 304; his pamphlet on Turkish affairs, iv 316; the Midlothian Campaign, iv 323; is again prime minis- ter, iv 323; his measures for Ireland, and action against Home Rule obstruc- tion, iv 325. Glenelg, Lord, colonial secretary, i 228; retires from office, i 229.
Godwin, William, political economist, i 51.
Godwin, Major-general, commander in the Burmese war, iii 197. Gold, discovery of, in Victoria, ii 201; in California, ii 201.
Goodman's confession, i 101.
Görgei, Arthur, dictator of Hungary,
Gorham, Rev. Cornelius, ii 170. Gorilla, discovery of the, iv 24. Goschen, Mr., his early career, iv 211. Gough, Lord, conquers the Punjaub,
Goulbourn, Mr., chancellor of the ex- chequer, i 318; ii 60. Graham, Sir James, in Melbourne's
ministry, i 127; declines to join Peel's, i 131; speech on the Irish Church,
i 138; is home-secretary, i 318; public feeling against him for opening letters in the post-office, i 336; his speech on Lord Derby's protection policy, ii 304: is first lord of the admiralty, ii 316; his instructions to Sir Charles Napier, iii 77; quarrel between, iii 78; first lord of the admiralty under Palmerston, iii 151; resigns, iii 154, 155. Grant, Sir Hope, commands the forces in China, iv 61.
Grant, General, captures Vicksburg, iv 142; appointed to command the forces, iv 142; takes Richmond, iv
Granville, Lord, made foreign minister, ii 274; lord-president of the council, ii 316; iii 151; secretary for the colonies, iv 270.
Great Eastern steamship, iii 327; its usefulness in laying telegraph cables, iii 329.
Great Exhibition. See Crystal Palace. Greece, quarrel with Britain on the Don Pacifico and other claims, ii 212; seizure of war-vessels and blockade of the Greek coast, ii 213; settlement of dispute, ii 214; election of Prince Al- fred as king, iv 145; the honour de- clined, iv 145; Prince William of Den- mark elected, iv 145.
Greville, clerk of the council, his de- scription of the first privy-council of Queen Victoria, i 209; describes her appearance and manner, i 212. Grey, Earl (second), forms a ministry, i 69; Reform Bill introduced, i 72; is respected by the nation, i 80; his min- istry resign but recalled, i 88; on church establishments, i 112; split in his cabinet and resignation of ministry, i 124; declines to form a ministry, i 145.
Grey, Earl (third), colonial secretary in Russell's ministry, i 116.
Grey, Earl de, Lord-lieutenant of Ire- land, i 318.
Grey, Sir George, home secretary in Russell and Palmerston ministries, ii 116; iii 151.
Grey, Sir George, Governor of New Zealand, ii 14; his difficulties in deal- ing with the natives, ii 14: puts the affairs of South Australia and New Zealand in order, ii 190.
Gros, Baron, French envoy to China, iv 61.
Grote, George, enters Parliament in 1832, i 107.
Guano, first importation of, ii 175. Guizot, M., his resignation, ii 2; re- called to power, ii 6; policy and popu- larity, i 6; anecdote of, 132; his character, ii 132; intrigues about the Spanish marriages, ii 134.
Habeas Corpus Act suspended, iv 251. Hall, Sir Benjamin, his political prin- ciples, i 280; first commissioner of Woods and Forests, iii 151.
Hallam, a great talker, i 186; his death. iv 38.
Halley's comet, appearance of, in 1835,
Hampden, Dr., and the see of Hereford, ii 169.
Handel Centenary at the Crystal Pal-
Handel Festival, an annual celebration, iv 9.
Hanover, separation of, from Great Bri- tain, i 211.
Harcourt, Sir William, iv 302; is solici- tor-general, iv 303.
Hardinge, Lord, commander-in-chief, ii 320.
Harrison, Mr., secretary for Ireland, iii
Hartington, Marquis of, moves a vote of want of confidence in the Derby government, iii 291; defeated for North Lancashire, iv 269; becomes post-mas- ter-general, iv 270; becomes Liberal leader in the Commons, iv 290; con- flicting opinions concerning his lord- ship, iv 291.
Hartley Colliery tragedy, iv 57. Harvest, deficient, in 1837-8, i 276. Hassall, Dr. Arthur Hill, superintends the Lancet adulteration commission, iii 229.
Hastings, Lady Flora, i 232. Hastings, Warren, i 287. Hatherley, Lord, lord-chancellor, iv
Hope, Admiral, attempts to storm the Taku forts, iv 61.
Horsman, Mr., Irish secretary, iii 151. Houses of Parliament, completion of, iv 4.
Howe, introduction of sewing-machine by, iv 19.
Howitt, William, explosive writing in his Journal, ii 151.
Hubbard, Mr., bill on church-rates, iv
Hudson, George, railway king, ii 179. Hughes, Mr. Thomas, on trades-unions, iv 241.
Hugo, Victor, ii 145.
Hume, Joseph, leader of the Radicals, i 81; his early career, i 82; ii 45; advo- cates the cause of the Canadian colon- ists, i 224; character of, ii 45; his indus- try, ii 46; his annual motion for parlia- mentary reform, ii 309; supports Mr. Gladstone's war budget, iii 58; his death, iii 58.
Hungarian insurrection, ii 155: Francis Deak's popularity, ii 156; Kossuth pro- visional governor, ii 156; Arthur Görgei succeeds Kossuth as dictator, ii 156; surrender of the Hungarian army, ii 156.
Hunt, Leigh, conductor of Examiner newspaper, ii 161; sarcastic articles on the prince regent, ii 161; breadth of view in his advocacy of reforms, ii 162; pension granted to, ii 161; death of, iv 38.
Hydepark Riots of 1866, iv 224.
Haynau, General, mobbed in London, Ibrahim Pasha, ii ii 140.
Hayti, crowning of Soulouque emperor of, iii 4.
Head, Major, puts down the revolt in Canada, i 224; receives a baronetcy, i
Heathcote, Sir W., opposes the aboli- tion of church-rates, iv 14; sketch of,
iv 14. Henley, Mr., president of Board of Trade, ii 296.
Hennessey, Pope, iv 86.
Herbert, Sir Sydney, enters parliament in 1834 as a Tory, i 184; at first a hesi- tating speaker, i 185; his ancestry, i 185; secretary to the admiralty, i 318; secretary at war, 317; colonial secre- tary, iii 151; resigns, iii 154, 155; raised to the peerage, iv death of, iv 42. High-Church, Ritualism, and Low- Church, iv 11.
Hill, Rowland, his early training and history, i 237; advocates a penny post- age, i 239; appointed to superintend its working, i 241.
Hodson, Lieutenant, his vigour in the suppression of Indian mutiny, iii 261; shoots the King of Delhi's sons, 263. Holmfirth, bursting of reservoir at, ii 288; iv 184.
Holyoake, Mr., the Secularist, iii 7. Home Rulers, their policy of obstruc- tion, iv 322. Hood, Thomas, ii 15.
Imports and exports, statistics of food,
Income-tax, first imposed, i 330; Sir Robert Peel appeals to the house on behalf of, ii 36; opposition of Lord John Russell and Mr. Roebuck to, ii
India, historical notice of, i 287; Board of Control established, i 287; troubles with Afghanistan and the Sikhs, i 288; changes in, ii 160; changes in, since 1853, iii 209; mutiny of Sepoys in, iii 240; its causes, iii 240; improvements in the condition of the country, iii 241; severity of the British to the natives, iii 241; previous warnings of discontent, iii 242; Colonel Hodgson's pamphlet, iii 242; improvements introduced by Lord Dalhousie, iii 243; extension of British rule in, iii 244; the Koh-i-noor diamond sent to England, iii 244: Azi- moolah Khan visits London, iii 245: Lord Canning succeeds Lord Dal- housie, iii 245; causes of the mutiny, iii 245; origin of the name Pandies as applied to revolted Sepoys, iii 247: dis- tribution of chupatties, iii 247; disposi- tion of the troops in the country on the outbreak of the mutiny, iii 247; out- break at Meerut and Delhi, iii 248; the news reaches Lahore and the Sepoys there disarmed, iii 249; those at Mool- tan disarmed, iii 250; troops on their way to China intercepted by Lord
Canning, iii 250; outbreak at Lucknow, iii
250; outbreak at Cawnpore, iii 251; Sir Hugh Wheeler applies to Nana Sahib for assistance, iii 252; heroic defence of the garrison, iii 253; treachery of Nana Sahib and massacre of the garrison, iii 253; Sir Colin Campbell sent out, iii 255; General Havelock marches on Cawnpore and captures it, iii 256; defeat of Nana Sahib and blow- ing up of the magazine, iii 256; Outram and Havelock march on Lucknow, iii 257; entry into the Residency, iii 258; advance of Sir Colin Campbell on Lucknow, iii 258; its fall, iii 259; death of Sir Henry Havelock, iii 260; siege of Delhi, iii 260; blowing up of the Cashmere Gate, iii 262; the city cap- tured, iii 262; capture of the King of Delhi and shooting of his sons, iii 263; punishments inflicted on the rebels at Cawnpore, iii 264; Disraeli on the mode of governing, iii 265; Cobden on Indian government, iii 266; disposal of the King of Delhi, iii 268; death of the Rhance of Jhansi, iii 268; general order by Sir Hugh Rose, iii 268; Sir Colin Campbell announces the end of the rebellion, iii 268; proposal to trans- fer the government from the East India Company to the crown, iii 274; bills of Lord Palmerston and Lord Derby, iii 274; act for the better government of India finally passed, iii 275; the queen proclaimed throughout, iii 275; separate European army abolished, iv 43. Inkerman, battle of, iii 111; descriptions of, iii 112, 113; cruelties of the Rus- sians, iii 114.
Insanity laws, discussion on the, ii 40. Inspection of prisons, conflict between House of Commons and the law courts concerning, i 269.
Insurrections on the Continent, i 91. International law, improvements in, iii
Inundation of the sea in 1862, iv 185. Ionian Islands, political condition of, iii 209; Mr. Gladstone sent as lord commissioner visits the, iii 289, 299; they demand to be annexed to Greece, iii 299; finally handed over, iii 300. Ireland, agitation and distress in, i 18, 37, 120; crimes in, in 1832, i 121; coer- cive measures, i 121; church and mili- tary statistics in 1833, i 123; failure of the potato crop in, ii 85; poverty of the cottars and alarming distress in, ii 87; increase of crime in, ii 107; bill for the protection of life and property thrown out, ii 107; Sir Robert Peel resigns, ii 108; increasing famine and crime, ii 116; remedial measures adopted, ii 117; opposition to the establishment of se- cular colleges, ii 117; injurious effects of the relief granted, ii 118; Mr. Smith of Deanston on how to improve Ireland, ii 119; Lord George Bentinck's pro- posal, ii 119; spiritlessness of the people, ii 120; the Young Ireland party, ii 120; repeal year, ii 123; results of famine, ii 141; need of improved cookery, ii 141; statistics of mortality and relief during the famine, ii 182; punishment of agi- tators, ii 181, 184; the "Cabbage Gar-
den Insurrection," ii 181; deplorable condition of the people in 1848, i 184: Prince Albert on, ii 184; visit of the queen to, ii 185; Mr. Sharman Craw- ford moves for leave to bring in a land bill, ii 290; political condition of, iv 247: seditious proceedings of professional agitators, iv 248; Fenian threats against England, iv 248; proceedings of Irish Americans, iv 248; views of British statesmen on, iv 249; the Fenian or- ganization, iv 250; Stephens and Ma- honey, iv 250; suspension of Habeas Corpus Act, iv 251; Fenian raid on Canada, iv 251; Irish-American attempt on Ireland, iv 251; capture of Colonel Burke and others, iv 252; attack on prison van at Manchester and murder of Sergeant Brett, iv 253; execution of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien, iv 255; outrage on Clerkenwell Prison, iv 255: execution of Barrett, iv 256; outrages in Ireland, iv 257; great procession in memory of the Manchester murderers, iv 257; the land question, iv 260; the Ulster "Custom," iv 261; Mr. Maguire's proposed inquiry into condition of Ire- land, iv 262; Mr. Gladstone introduces the Irish Land Bill, iv 276; its provi- sions, iv 277; it becomes law, iv 279; a national education bill introduced, iv 289; continued outrages in, iv 324; Mr. Gladstone's later measures, iv 325. Irish Brigade raised, iv 76, 86; Mr. Pope Hennessey conspicuous in its forma- tion, iv 86.
Irving, Edward, i 110. Isabella, Queen of Spain, ii 290. Italy, fate of Ruffini, ii r; sympathy with Mazzini, ii r; condition in 1848, ii 151; spread of secret societies, ii 152; insurrectionary movements, ii 152; Charles Albert takes the lead, ii 152; Garibaldi declares war against Austria, ii 152; enters Rome and a republic pro- claimed, ii 152; Victor Emmanuel suc- ceeds his father, ii 153; the French, Austrian, and Neapolitan armies ad- vance upon Rome, ii 153; gallant de- fence of Garibaldi, ii 153: end of the Roman Republic, ii 154; Austrian rule unendurable, iii 306; policy of Cavour and of Mazzini, iii 307; Mazzini and Garibaldi, iii 307; the Emperor of the French contemplates hostilities with Austria, iii 308; Victor Emmanuel's declaration, iii 308; feeling in England, iii 308; the emperor's letter to the queen, iii 309; unpopularity of the war in France, iii 310; Prince Albert on the emperor's position, iii 310; negotiations with Lord Cowley, iii 310; the queen on Napoleon's position, iii 311; M. Thiers' opinion, iii 311; proposal for the disarmament of the great powers, iii 311; Austria preparing for war, iii 312; memorandum of the Sardinian govern- ment, iii 312; Austria demands the dis- armament of Sardinia, iii 313; Victor Emmanuel's proclamation to his troops, iii 313; the Austrian army ordered to enter Sardinia, iii 313; the emperor takes command of the French army, iii 313; positions of the armies, iii 313: battle of Montebello, iii 313; defeat of
the Austrians at Palestro, iii 314; defeat of the Austrians at Magenta, ii 314; the Emperor of France and King of Sar- dinia enter Milan, iii 315; retreat of the Austrians, iii 315; battle of Sol- ferino, iii 315; meeting of the emperors at Villafranca, iii 315; treaty signed, iii 316; dissatisfaction of Sardinia and resignation of Cavour, iii 322; com- plaints of Sardinia against the conduct of Austria, iv 66; tyrannous govern- ment in Naples, iv 66; Garibaldi's con- quest of Sicily and Naples (see Gari- baldi), iv 69; Victor Emmanuel oc- cupies the Papal territory, iv 78; chosen king of the Two Sicilies, iv 80; Lord John Russell's despatch on the action of the Sardinian government, iv 81; Ratazzi succeeds Cavour as minister, iv 83; tries to repeat Cavour's policy, iv 83: Garibaldi raises a force for an attack on Rome, iv 83; he is opposed by government troops at Aspromonte, iv 84; seat of government removed to Florence, iv 85; Venetia joined to Italy, iv 85; another unsuccessful attack on Rome, iv 86; discussion in the House of Commons on the government policy, iv 86.
Jamaica, proposal to suspend the con- stitution of, i 158; serious riots in, iv 190; condition of the negro in, iv 191; George Wm. Gordon and Paul Bogle, iv 191; course pursued by Governor Eyre, iv 192; execution of Gordon, iv 193; severities practised on the in- surgents, iv 193; public sympathy felt for Gordon, iv 194; Carlyle defends Eyre, iv 194; he is suspended, and a commission of inquiry appointed,iv 195; the prosecution against him fails, iv
Japan, opening up of trade with, iv 20. Jerrold, Douglas, death of, iv 38. Jews, admission of, to House of Com- mons, iv 36.
Jingoes, origin of the name, iv 317. Jones, Ernest, ii 145.
Jones, William, conceals himself in Buckingham Palace, i 315. Jowett, Professor, iv 202, 204; opposi- tion to, iv 206.
Judicature Bill passed, iv 289.
Kaffirs, war with, ii 275, 309. Kars, defence of, iii 187. Kenealy, Dr., is returned for Stoke- upon-Trent, iv 294.
Kent, Duchess of, income granted to, i 220; illness of, iv 49; the queen's de- scription of her last hours, iv 49; her death, iv 50.
Kent, Duke of, i 182. Kimberley, Lord, lord privy-seal, iv 270. Kingsley, Charles, efforts to improve the condition of the labouring classes, ii 150; his opposition to the Manchester school, i 306; his Christian socialism,
iii 221; appointed professor of history, iv 202.
Knowledge, repeal of taxes on, ii 296. Koh-i-noor diamond sent to England, iii 244.
Kossuth, Louis, ii 142; learns the English language, ii 142; becomes pro- visional governor of Hungary, ii 156; resigns the dictatorship and flees to Turkey, ii 156; reaches England, ii 157: his American tour, ii 275.
Lady Hewley's Charity, i 282. Lady novelists, ii 301. Lamoricière, General, commander of Papal troops, iv 67. Lancashire, distress in, iv 125; pro- visions for relief, iv 126; Mr. Cobden on the amount of distress, iv 126; poor- law relief, iv 127; aid from America, iv 127; Mrs. Gladstone's efforts, iv 129; improvement of health and decrease of mortality in distressed districts, iv 129; occupation provided, iv 129. Lansdowne, Lord, in cabinet without office, ii 317.
Lawrence, Sir Henry, stationed in the Punjaub, iii 247; his death, iii 251. Lawrence, Sir John, stationed in the Punjaub, iii 247; his able administra- tion and tact, iii 269; rewards for his services, iii 270.
Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, president of the United Kingdom Alliance, iv 151. Layard, Austin Henry, his career, iii 139; his excavations near Nineveh, 175; attacks the government on the Crimean war, iii 139; attacks Palmer- ston's government, iii 153. Laymen in the church, Gladstone on functions of, iv 12.
Leech, John, death of, iv 197. Lehzen, Louise, governess to Princess Victoria, i 215.
Leicester the Glass-blower, iv 239. Leopold, chosen King of Belgium, i 91; guardian and adviser of Princess Vic- toria, i 217; promotes her marriage with Prince Albert, i 292. Leopold, illness of Prince, iv 292. Letheby, Dr., his sanitary inquiries, iii 226; remedies suggested, iii 228. Lewis, Sir G. C., chancellor of the ex- chequer, iii 155: his antecedents, iii 163; his budget, iii 163, 164.
Liberia, establishment of colony of, iv
Lincoln, Abraham, elected President of the United States, iv 101; character and career, iv 101; personal appear- ance, iv 102; his reply to an address from Manchester, iv 126; assassination of, iv 143.
Lind, Jenny, her extraordinary success, ii 208.
Liquor traffic, bill for regulation of, iv 288.
Livingstone, David, early life and educa- tion, iv 20; joins the London Mission- ary Society and is sent to South Africa, iv 21; his marriage, iv 21; his great journey to Lake Ngami, iv 22;
receives the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, iv 22; Sir Ro- derick Murchison on his discoveries, iv 22; recommends the growth of cotton in Africa, iv 22; explorations on the Zambesi, iv 22; leaves England for his last journey, iv 23; honours given to him, iv 23.
Local Government Acts, iv 286. Loch Katrine water supply for Glasgow, inauguration of, iv 5. Londonderry, Marquis of, his claim for place, i 133.
London University, receives power to grant degrees, i 135.
Lords, House of, rejection of bill for re- peal of the paper-duty, iv 28; report of committee of Commons on precedents for such a course, iv 28; Mr. Bright dissents from report, iv 28; Mr. Glad- stone's opinion, iv 29; resolutions car- ried in the Commons, iv 29. Lorne, Marquis of, marriage with Prin- cess Louise, iii 304.
Louis Philippe, King of France, i 90; attempt on his life, ii 6; news reaches the House of Commons of his flight and abdication, ii 133; intrigues con- cerning the Spanish marriage, ii 133. Lowe, Mr., his amendment urging pro- secution of the war, iii 169, 176, 178; supports the bill for limited liability in joint-stock companies, iii 303; his early career, iii 303; advances in political offices, iii 304; his character as an educationist, iv 169; is charged with mutilating school inspectors' reports, iv 170; he resigns office, iv 170; his speeches on reform bill of 1866, iv 215, 218; his attack on Mr. Disraeli, iv 234: chancellor of the exchequer, iv 270; his budget of 1869, iv 273; his budget of 1871, iv 287; proposed tax on lucifer matches, iv 287. Lucknow, outbreak at, and vigorous measures taken by Sir Henry Law- rence, iii 250; entry of General Have- lock into, iii 258.
Lyndhurst, Lord, his ancestors, i 113; began his parliamentary career as a Radical, i 113; lord chancellor in various ministries, i 98, 113, 129, 318; a law reformer, i 113; attorney-general, i113; friendship between him and Can- ning, i 113; his generosity and good- humour, i 114; his bills to amend the law concerning parliamentary oaths, and to better the position of married women, iii 12; his speech on the unfaithfulness of Russia, iii 91; advocates additions to the national defences, iii 305. Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer, speech on the conduct of the Crimean war, iii 144: motion to censure the government, iii 181; supports Disraeli's reform bill of 1859, iii 291; Disraeli's description of his oration, iii 291; secretary for the colonies, iii 299; his success as a poli- tician and defects as a speaker, iii 300; his political creed and industry as a writer, iii 300; created a baronet,iii 301; his personal peculiarities, iii 301; his romantic novels and dramas, iii 301; his political progress and literary suc- cess, i 302; his unhappy marriage,
iii 302; anecdote of, by Mr. Ballantine, iii 302; interested in criminal investiga- tions, iii 302; Lord Rector of Glasgow | Maurice, Rev. Frederic Denison, on University, iii
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, enters parliament, i 104; his high place as a speaker, i 104; advocates reform, i 105; a great talker, i 186; war secre- tary, i 289; opposes Peel's sliding- scale, ii 23; his description of a stormy scene in the House of Commons, ii 40; on the sugar duties, ii 72; on the May- nooth College Bill, ii 79; loses his seat for Edinburgh, ii 80; paymaster of the forces, ii 116; publication of his His- tory of England, ii 163; is again re- turned for Edinburgh, iii 10; speech on the Militia Bill, iii 11; his death, iv 39; his position as an author and politician, iv 39: Mr. Gladstone's re- view of, iv 39.
M'Clintock, Captain, his expedition in the Fox, iv 20.
the Manchester school, ii 306; dis- missed for teaching certain views on the subject of eternal punishment, iii 43: appointed professor of moral philosophy, iv 202.
Maynooth College Bill, introduced by Sir Robert Peel, ii 78; speech by Mac- aulay on, ii 79; supported by Gladstone and opposed by Disraeli, ii 81; passing of, ii 82.
Maynooth Grant, Mr. Aytoun's motion on, iv 266; compensation for with- drawal of, iv 271.
Mayo, assassination of Lord, iv 319. Mazzini, Joseph, the father of Italian freedom, ii 143; his early life, ii 143: personal appearance, ii 144: joins the Carbonari, ii 145; joins the insurrection in Italy, ii 152; chosen president of the republic in Rome, ii 152; his reception in England, i 336; general sympathy with, ii 1; Carlyle's praise of, ii 1; his account of an hour of suffering, ii 1. Meagher of the Sword, iii 7. Mechi, Mr., experiments in agriculture, iii 2.
Medical science, advances in, ii 178.
Mackenzie, Bishop, in Africa, iv 22. Mackintosh, Sir James, his efforts to ameliorate the criminal code, i 17. Macnaghten, Sir William, murdered in Meerut, beginning of mutiny at, iii 248. Cabul, ii 8.
Magazines, beginning of popular, i 112. Magenta, battle of, iii 314.
Mahoney, Fenian head-centre, iv 251. Mail-coaches, i 236.
Malmesbury, Lord, foreign secretary in Lord Derby's ministries, ii 296; iii 287.
Malt duty, motion to repeal, in 1835,
Malthus on population, i 52. Manchester, rapid growth of, i 275: turn-out of mill-workers, i 278; meet- ings prohibited and dispersed, i 279; meeting of trades delegates and resolu- tions adopted, including the People's Charter, i 280; employers resolve to keep the mills closed, i 280. Manchester school of politics, rise of, ii 139; opponents of the, ii 139, 305. Manin, Daniel, revolutionist at Venice,
Manners, Lord John, commissioner of Woods and Forests, ii 296. Manning, Henry Edward, birth and education, iv 17: joins the Roman Ca- tholic Church, iv 18; made a cardinal, iv 18.
Manteuffel, Prussian minister, iii 34. Maronites. See Druses.
Marriage laws, unsatisfactory nature of the old, i 177; interpretation of them by Sir Matthew Hale, i 178; attempts to amend, i 178, 179; a reform accom- plished, i 179.
Married women, laws relating to, i 273;
Martaban, capture of, iii 197. Martineau, Harriet, her influence in Liberal politics, i 81; declines a pen- sion, i 81; on the Chartists, i 280; on the potato disease, ii 86. Martini-Henry rifle, invention of, iii 326. Mathew, Father, his early career, i 255;
Mehemet Ali, viceroy of Egypt, i 291; British government decline to assist him, i 292; his revolt against Turkey, ii 2; is opposed by England and sup- ported by France, ii 3; refuses the terms of the western powers, 5; at last signs a convention, ii 6.
Melbourne, Lord, characteristics of, i 99; Sydney Smith's opinion of, i 99; becomes prime minister, i 126; anec- dotes of, i 127; his ministry dismissed, i 128, but recalled, 145; resigns, but shortly after forms another ministry, i 158; weakness of ministry, i 212; ad- viser of the young queen, i 214: refuses the Garter, i 215: supposed undue in- fluence of, over the queen, i 215; inac- tivity of his ministry, i 305; Conserva- tive attacks on, i 305; defeat of, and dissolution of parliament, i 311; Earl Russell on the situation, i 311; vote of want of confidence in the ministry car- ried, i 313; they resign, i 314; carica- ture of, i 315; his character and domes- tic life, i 315; strange conduct of his wife, i 316; solitude and neglect of his later life, i 317; his account of a states- man's position, ii 44; his reception of a deputation of radical working-men, ii 45; his death, ii 44. Metropolitan Underground Railway, iv 3, 199.
Mexico, Juarez president of the repub- lic, iv 155; disorder in the country, iv 155 action of Britain, France, and Spain, iv 155: the United States refuse to join the convention, iv 155; a Euro- pean expedition sent out, iv 155; pro- clamation by the allied powers, iv 156; Mexican opposition to General Al- monte, iv 156; Napoleon III.'s views with regard to the Archduke Maxi- milian, iv 156; M. Billault's statement in the Corps Législatif, iv 156; confer-
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