Haydon, Mr.-Criticism of his pictures, Law and Police-continued.
“The Banishment of Aristides,” and Elizabeth Butcher for infanticide, 45; “ Nero at the Burning of Rome,” 59 ; of Mary Goodall for procuring abor- his melancholy suicide, 91; meeting tion, at Nottingham, 48; Pemberton on behalf of his family, 96
V. Collins, slander, 56; extraordinary
trial for bigamy at Dublin, Regina v. Ibrahim Pasha, visit of his Highness to Mary Anne Scott, 63; homicide in this country, his progress, 84
Drury-lane, 66 ; illegal marriages of a INDIA–The Sikhs retreat upon the Sut Roman Catholic and a Protestant by a
lej after the battle of Ferozeshah, (355); Roman Catholic clergyman, 70; out- proclamation of the Governor-General rage in Pear-street, Westminster, 74; to the protected States, [356]; opera poisonings at Runcorn, 75; trial of tions of Sir Harry Smith, opens com Lieutenant Hawkey, the Gosport duel, munication with Loodiana after a severe 109; law of Life Assurance, 1 16; trial skirmish, attacks and totally defeats the of Henri, the regicide, 122; poisoning Sikhs at the brilliant battle of Aliwal, in Kildare, 124; selling poisonous [357]; the Sikh forces concentrated in berries, death of two persons, 126; the entrenched camp at Sobraon are extraordinary forgery, examination of there attacked by the united British Captain Richardson, 128; suicide of forces, and totally defeated, with im Colonel Thornton, charged with for- mense slaughter, (360]; the British gery, 131 ; forgery of railway scrip, forces cross the Sutlej, proclamation of 140; forged notes, 153; manslaughter the Governor-General, [363]; the in Spitalfields, 158; robbery by two Sikh Government seeks peace, the men in women's clothes, 172; a boy rajah surrenders, terms of the peace, thrown from the gallery of the Totten- (365); Lahore occupied, [366] ; the ham-street Theatre, 192 definitive treaty, [368]; arrangements Law Cases—Trial of Lecomte for an with Gholab Singh, (371); rajah Lall attempt to assassinate the King of the Singh deposed, (371)
French, 334; marriage with a deceased India- The overland mail of January, wife's sister, trial of John Chadwick for
16; of February, victories of Moodkee bigamy, 341 ; Mary Elizabeth Smith and Ferozeshah, 24; of March, 41 ; v. Earl Ferrers, breach of promise of of March, battle of Aliwal, 52; of marriage, 349; trial of Samuel Yar- March, battle of Sobraon, 57 ; prayer of ham for murder at Yarmouth, 363 ; thanksgiving for these victories, 61'; the the Berwick Bank robbery, trial of British army enter Lahore, surrender Mrs. Thomson, 371
of the Maharajah, 65 Ireland— Addresses to the Queen respect- MARRIAGES, 218 ing the failure of the potato crop, from
METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, 423 London and Dublin, 2; murder of Mexico-Revolutionary movement, Ge- Mr. Carrick at Ennis, 50; fatal affray neral Herrera resigns, and General at Bird Hill, Tipperary, 76; state of, Paredes succeeds to the Presidency, 119; poisoning in Kildare, 124; failure (347); the American Minister quits of the potato crop, 132; great disturb Mexico, and war declared, (347); ances in, 147 ; conflict between the Santa Anna exiled at Havanna, the police and whiteboys, 169; disturb. Americans invade Mexico, take Mata- ed state of, 170; sale of fire-arms, moras, and defeat the Mexicans at 196
Pala Alto, [348]; take Monterey after ITALY - See PAPAL STATES
a desperate resistance, (349); Santa
Anna recalled, and resumes the Presi. Law and Police_Trial of two waiters dency, his manifesto, (349); progress
for robbery at the Trafalgar Hotel, 5; of the American arms, 1350] trial of Thomas Smith and Anne Jones Mexico, The war in- battle of Palo for a robbery at Camberwell, 9; fees Alto, 87 to barristers' clerks, judgment of Lord MINISTRY, list of the, as it stood at Sir Langdale, 15; of Bryan Seery at Mul R. Peel's resignation, 205; as formed lingar, 19; theatrical engagements, by Lord John Russell, 206 Grant v. Maddox, 23; trial of Captain MisceLLANEOUS - Floods in Wales, 2 ; Johnstone of the Tory, 26 ; trial of Mr. addresses to her Majesty from the Cor- Pym, the Gosport duel, 42; of Mar. porations of London and Dublin, 2; garet Stoker for infanticide, 43; of military rewards—the new regulations
Miscellaneous-continued.
Miscellaneous-continued. 4; the railway mania, its height, 10; the Wellington statue placed on the its fall, 53; list of subscribers to rail arch at Hyde Park Corner, 144; form ways under 2,0001., 11 ; rating of Prince of prayer in this time of scarcity, 145 ; Albert's farm, 12; extraordinary mor Borneo, attack on the pirates, 146 ; tality in a family, 13; fees to barristers' hurricane at the Havannah, 154; ex- clerks, judgment of Lord Langdale, traordinary occurrence in a railway 15; antiquities under Covent-garden carriage, 155; the Caucasus, defeat of market, 16 ; siege operations at Chat the Russians, 160; disastrous storms, ham, 17; fatal affray with poachers at 160; gallant rescue of the crew of a Saltram, 18; fluctuations of the funds, French ship, 161; model dwelling for 22; the electrical girl, 23; railway the working classes, 165; violent gales, deposits, 30; Westminster election, 35 ; several wrecks, 177 ; railway compen- South Notts' election, 35; Prince Wal sation, 5001. for a broken leg, 179; a demar of Prussia at Ferozeshah, 38; runaway locomotive, 179; extraordi- action by Belany, at Newcastle, 39; nary affair at Nottingham, a dead child Nottingham election, 41; Bridport sent in a basket, 181; experiments election, 45; our wooden walls, the with Captain Warner's long range, 182; Bellerophon and the Calcutta, 47; the proctors of Cambridge, 184; the General Tom Thumb, 30; Sir Harry financial crisis of 1839, the Bank of Smith, sketch of the services of, 52; England and the Bank of France, 186; fanaticism, “the unknown tongues," hurricane at Genoa, 189; the sub- 54; marriage in Hanover, 55; Oxford marine telegraph at Portsmouth, 191; and Cambridge boat race, 58; inge the weather, several persons frozen nious smuggling, 59; Mr. Haydon's to death, 193; law of copyright, the pictures, 59; prayer of thanksgiving Ency, lopædia Britannica, 196; use for the victories in India, 61; eruptions of æther in surgery, 199; court-mar- of Mount Hecla, 69; Falkirk election, tial, loss of H. M. S. Osprey, 200; 69; clandestine marriage of Lady the weather, 202; discovery of gun Anna Grenville, 71; shocking tragedy
cotton, 203 at Battersea Bridge, 72; Royal Aca Monte Video-Gallant action between demy exhibition, 73; sale of the Duval the English and the French squadron, collection of pictures, 76; escape of and Rosas' batteries, 21; continuance Prince Louis Napoleon from Ham, 79; of the blockade by the Buenos Ayreans, Epsom races, 80; the Saltmarshe gal intervention of the English and French lery of pictures, 83; visit of Ibrahim Governments, [352]; mediation fails, Pasha, 84; Ascot races, 86; sale of gallant action between the batteries of the Upcott manuscripts, 90; thunder Rosas and the combined squadron at storms, 97; resignation of Sir Robert Puente Obligado, [353]; account of Peel, 98; the Oregon settlement, 98; the action with the batteries, 21 grand review in Hyde Park, 99; the Mortality, table of, 423 re-elections, 103; extraordinary flight Murders-Of Helen Stark, and suicide of of butterflies, 105; flogging in ihe the murderer, 31 ; of James Bostock, army, 105 ; troop ship in a hurricane, in Drury Lane, 32; of his children, by 113; christening of the infant princess, M. Horeau, and suicide, 34; of Mr. 113; attempt of Henri to assassinate Carrick, at Ennis, 50; in Drury Lane, the King of the French, 113; Good 66; shocking tragedy at Battersea wood races, 113; Prince Albert's visit Bridge, 72; poisonings at Runcorn, to Liverpool, 114; great hail storm in 75; wholesale poisonings in Norfolk, London, immense damage, 114; de 77; murder and suicide in Widegate structive flood at Bristol, 117; decay Street, Whitechapel, 83; of a police- of Westminster Bridge, 118; earth man, at Dagenham, 101 ; at the Guild- quakes at Leghorn, 119; inauguration hall Coffee House, 120; at Chester- of the Scott monument, 119; union of field, 136; at Little Benton, 15l; of the Rhine and the Danube by the his wife and sery by Mr. O'Grady, Ludwig's Canal, 128; progress of com in Limerick, 167; shocking murder mercial reform among foreign states, and suicide in the Thames, 195 132; address to Sir R. Peel from Elbing, 133; fatal poaching affray near New Zealand - General dissatisfaction Newton Abbott, 135; Doncaster races, caused by the government of Captain 138; election of Lord Mayor, 144 ; Fitzroy, [386]; he is displaced and
New Zealand-continued.
succeeded by Captain Grey, his speech to the Legislative Council, [387]; operations against the native rebel chiefs, singular capture of Heki's pah,
(389); the natives submit, [390] New Zealand, the war in; capture of
Heki's pah, 87 Nova SCOTIA— Speech of Lord Falk-
land on opening the Legislative Ses- sion, [381]; and at its close, (382]
PAPAL STATES, THE-Death of Pope
Gregory XVI., election of Cardinal Mastei Ferretti (Pius IX.), [298]; the new Pope proclaims an amnesty for political offenders, [299]; great popu-
larity of the new Pontift, [299] PARLIAMENT - Sudden break up of Sir
R. Peel's Government; its causes, the failure of the potato crop, and conse- quent removal of the Corn Laws, [2]; Lord John Russell receives Her Ma- jesty's command to form a Ministry, but fails, and Sir R. Peel resumes of- fice as an opponent of the Corn Laws, (3); examination of his motives, [3]; Parliament opened by Her Majesty ; Her speech from the Throne, [4] ; in the Lords, address moved by Lord Howe, and seconded by Lord De Ros, and adopted, [6]; the Duke of Rich- mond originates a discussion on the conduct of Government; he is fol- lowed by the Duke of Wellington, Lord Stanley, Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Brougham, and others, [6]; in the
Commons, Lord F. Egerton moves, and Mr. B. Denison seconds, the address, [8]; Sir R. Peel enters into a long explanation of his views and motives, and of the transactions attending his resignation, [9]; Lord John Russell makes a similar state- ment, [15]; Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Miles make a severe attack on Sir R. Peel's conduct, [22]; address carried without a division, [23]; Ministerial explanation in the House of Lords. by the Duke of Wellington, [23]; the Marquis of Lansdowne announces bis abandonment of a fixed duty, [26]
The Corn Bill— Sir R. Peel unfolds his scheme of commercial and financial policy, [29]; its reception by the House, (36); on motion for commit- tee, Mr. P. Miles moves that the House go into committee that day six months, (37]; a debate of twelve nights fol- lows, forty-eight members speaking against, and fifty-five in favour of, the VOL. LXXXVIII.
Parliament-continued.
amendment ; digest of the principal speeches ; amendment rejected by 337 against 240, [68]; House in commit- tee, Mr. Villiers moves the total abo- lition of the corn duties, [69]; rejected by a large majority, [72] ; further dis- cussions, [72]; the second reading oc- casions a four nights' debate, [72]; Sir R. Peel's reply to attacks made on him, [73]; carried by 302 to 214, [74]; further discussions, House in committee, Lord G. Bentinck's amendment, [74] ; on the bringing up of the report, [75]; the third reading carried by 327 to 229, [76] ; debate upon the Corn Bill in the House of Lords; the Earl of Ripon moves the second reading, [77]; the Duke of Richmond moves that it be read a second time that day six months, [78]; debate; second reading carried by 211 to 164, [94]; House in com- mittee; amendment of the Duke of Buckingham, (94); of the Earl of Wicklow, (95); the Report, amend- ment of Lord Ashburton, [96]; the third reading carried without a division, [97]
The Customs' Duties Bill-Discus- sions on various articles of the new Tariff, [100]; hops, silks, [100]; fo- reign spirits, [105]; live animals, [105]; timber, (107]; the third read- ing; amendment of Lord George Bentinck, [111]; amendment with- drawn, and Bill passed, [114); debate on the second reading in the House of Lords, [114]; the Duke of Richmond moves that the silk-weavers be heard by counsel at the bar, [116] ; in com- mittee, Lord Stanley attacks the Bill generally, various clauses carried, (118]; Duke of Richmond moves the omission of the silk duties clause, [118]; Bill read a third time, [119]
The Budget - The Chancellor of the Exchequer makes his financial state- ment, (119]; remarked upon by va- rious Members, [122]
Ireland— Murders and outrages in that country, [123]; the Earl of St. Germans introduces the Protection for Life Bill, which passes, with amend- ments, [123— 127]; received in the Commons with determined opposition, [127]; motion for leave carried, [129]; Sir James Graham moves the first reading, [130]; a fierce discussion of several nights ensues ; Bill carried by majority of 149, [135]; the second
2 K
Parliamente continued.
POLAND - Insurrection in Silesia, and reading moved; protracted discussion ; massacres in the Circle of Tarnow, digest of speeches, [135 to 152]; (304); organized in Cracow, where a on the division, the Government de provisional government is formed, and feated by a majority of 73, [152] ; re the city is consequently occupied by the markable coincidence, that the Corn Austrians, (304); and by the Russians Bill passes the Lords, the news of and Prussians, [305]; edict of the Em- the Oregon Treaty, and the destruc peror of Austria annexing Cracow to tion of the Ministry occur
on the
the Imperial dominions, (305); city same day, [152]; Sir R. Peel and taken possession of by Count Castig- his colleagues resign, [152]; Sir R. lione, his manifesto announcing the Peel's speech on announcing his resig determination of the three Powers - nation, (1.53]
extinction of the last remnant of Polish Formation of Lord John Russell's nationality, [307) Ministry, [101); their intended policy, Pope, death of his Holiness Pope Gre. and discussion thereon, [162 to 167] ; gory XVI., 86; election of Cardinal the Sugar Duties, Lord J. Russell pro Mastei (Pius IX.), 90 poses a plan for a permanent settle PORTUGAL- The Cortes opened by a ment, [167]; amendment of Lord royal speech, [294]; insurrection in George Bentinck, and debate, [173] ; the Upper Minho, [295]; the Cabral resolutions carried by a large majority, Ministry dissolved; extraordinary con-
debate on the first reading in the vocation of the Grand Cortes; suspen- Lords, [185] ; Lord Stanley moves an sion of cash payments by the Bank of amendment, [187]; first reading car Lisbon, [296]; ministry of the Duke ried, (191); second reading opposed of Palmella, (296]; ministry of the by the bishops of Oxford and London, Marquis of Saldanha, [297]; exten- but carried, (191)
sion of the civil war, and rebels defeated The Arms Bill (Ireland) adopted by at Viana, Sà da Bandiera near Chaves, Lord J. Russell, [193]; great dissatis (297); the Duke de Palmella takes re- faction, and long discussion, [194]; fuge on board an English man-of-war, second reading carried, but Lord John [298] Russell announces the abandonment of PROMOTIONS, 316 the Bill, (197); discussions arising Public DOCUMENTS_Finance Accounts from the failure of the potato crop in for the year 1846, 376; list of public Ireland ; Lord J. Russell proposes the and general Acts passed during Session Public Works Bill, [198]; discussion 1846, 395; local and personal Acts, in the Lords, [200]; further legisla 399; private Acts printed, 417; prices lative measures, [202]; fogging in of stock, 421 ; average prices of com, the army. Capt. Layard moves av ad. hay, straw, clover, and butchers' meat, dress on the subject, [203] ; a limiting 422; tables of mortality, bankrupts, and order issued by the Commander-in meteorology, 423; University honours, Chief, [205]; Dr. Bowring's motion Oxford, 424; Cambridge, 426 ; tables for total abolition of the practice, and of the Coru and Custome' Duties, 428; debate, (207); motion rejected, [209]; the broad and narrow gauge; extracts statement of the Duke of Wellington from the Report of the Commissioners, in the House of Lords, (209); occu 435 pation of Cracow; Lord Beaumont moves for papers; speeches of the mar QUEEN, THE--Addresses to, from the quis of Lansdowne, and others, (210); Corporations of London and Dublin, 2; Mr. Hume makes a similar motion in the birth of a princess, 78; christening of Commons, debate, [212]; Sees of St. the Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, Asaph and Bangor; Earl Powis brings 113; visits the Channel Islands, and in a Bill, [213]; debate on the second Cornwall, 121, visits the Marquis of reading, which is carried, (216); Bill Salisbury at Hatfield, 162; visits the withdrawn, [216]; the Poor Laws, the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel, 181 Law of Settlement, (217); Local Courts Bill, (217); Parliament pro Railways. The railway mania, its rise, 10; rogued by commission; the Lord Com its fall, 53; railway subscribers under missioners' speech, [217]
20001., list of, 11; railway deposits, PATENTS, List of, 472
30; 500% damages awarded to Mr. POETRY, 477
Shillibeer for a broken leg, 179
Rio de la Plata, gallant action with Rosas' Spain—continued.
batteries on the Parana, 21, -- See Queen's marriage discussed by the Ca- MONTE VIDEO
binets of France and England, [283]; Robberies—at the Trafalgar Hotel, 5; notes of the different parties—the Bri-
burglaries at Hull, 49; extensive rob tish Government plead the Treaty of bery at Liverpool, 76; of the Berwick Utrecht, (285); arrangement that the Bank, 125; at Ealing, 157; and at Queen shall marry Don Francisco tempted murder of Mr. M'Gill d'Assis, and the Infanta Louisa the Duc Knutsford, 159; by a young French de Montpensier, [286]; manifesto of woman, 170; by two men in women's the Count de Montemolin, son of Don clothes, 172; highway robbery and at Carlos, [287]; solemnization of the tempted murder at Hertford, 187
marriages at the same time, (289); the
Duc and Duchess de Montpensier Sale of the church of St. Bennet Fink, depart for Paris, [290]; the Isturitz 14
Ministry broken up, (291); opening of Scotland, destitution in, 198
the new Cortes, and Speech from the Sheriffs for the year 1846, 207
Throne, (291) Shipwrecks -- Of the Cataraqui, four hun STATE PAPER— Treaty between Her
dred lives lost, 25; of the Bencoolen, 31; Majesty and the United States of of the Great Liverpool, 36; collision, America, for the settlement of the the Waterwitch, 58; of the Mary, 60; Oregon Boundary, 453 collision in the Mersey, awful loss of Stocks-Table of the lowest and highest life; the Sea Nymph and the Rambler, prices for each month, 421 81; stranding of the Great Britain, 139; three steamers on shore together, 167; TURKEY— Massacre of the Nestorians; of the Cape Packet and massacre of the plague in Asia, 180 the crew, 168; collisions of the Albion and the City of London, steamer, and UNITED STATES-Discussions in the Se. the Duke of Clarence and an American nate on the Oregon Question ; speeches bark, 174; the Sceptre, Jessie, Tor of Messrs. Hannegan, Colquitt, Dix and rance, Ajax, steamer, Newcastle, steam Benton, [309]; effect of the Queen's er, Sea Lark, and many other vessels Speech on the debates in Congress ; damaged during violent gales, 177; speeches of Messrs. Dayton, Allan, and collision of the Sultana and Maria, Čass, (312]; “joint resolutions” pro- steamers, on the Mississippi, many lives posed by Mr. Colquitt; speeches of lost, 177; the Atlantic, steamer, of Mr. Webster and Crittenden, [313]; New York, forty lives lost, 178; the resolutions for giving notice to put an barque Hope, and dreadful sufferings end to the joint occupation of the ter. of the crew, 190; loss of H. M. Š. ritory, passed by the House of Repre- Osprey, and court-martial on the offi sentatives, [314] ; substituted resolu- cers and crew, 200
tion adopted by the Senate, (315); Smith, Sir Harry, sketch of the services special message of the President recom- of, 52
mending increased military prepara- SPAIN Question of the Queen's mar tions, [315); debate in the Senate on
riage, (270]; debates in the Senate on the Oregon question ; speeches of the address; dissensions with the Papal Messrs. Heywood, Hannegan, and Cal- See, [271); speech of Signor Calde houn, (316); resolution moved by ron, (273); contests for the Queen's Mr. Clayton ; speeches of Messrs. hand; manifesto of Don Enrique, he is Webster, Cass, Benton, and Hanne- obliged to quit Spain, (275); resigna gan, [320]; resolution carried in the tion of General Narvaez ; unsuccessful Senate authorizing the President to attempts to form a ministry by M. give notice of the termination of the de Viluma, and De Miraflores, [277]; joint occupancy if he think proper, the latter overthrown, and General Nar (324 to 326); a Bill passed for the vaez resumes office ; his arbitrary pro occupation of the Oregon Territory, ceedings, (279); decree suspending the (326); amicable compromise of the liberty of the press, (279); break up question offered by Lord Aberdeen, of the Narvaez ministry, (282); revo and accepted by the Senate and Pre- lutionary movements in Galicia sup sident, (327); war declared against pressed, (283); the question of the Mexico, [326] ; New Tariff Bill,
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