POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND SANITARY
PARLIAMENT.-Its opening, the royal speech, 26.
HOUSE OF LORDS.-Debate on the address,
27; opening of the new Parliament, royal
speech, and debate on the address, 243;
Aberdeen's (Lord) speech on the new ad-
ministration, 276; Ali Morad's territo-
ries, 75; amendment of proceedings in
the Court of Chancery, 244; assembling
of Parliament by proclamation, bill to
amend the statutory law, 53; Ava, the
war with, 75, 76, 99; Birkenhead, loss
of the, 76; business of the House before
Christmas, 245; Caffre war, 28; Caffres,
sale of gunpowder to the, 28; Cape of
Good Hope, constitution granted to,
122; Chancery reform, 52; Clancarty
(Lord) and the oath prescribed for Roman
Catholics, 28; commercial policy, 266;
Common Procedure Amendment Bill,
28; coffee mixed with chicory, 98, 123;
corn duties, 52; County Courts Exten-
sion Bill, 29; criminal offenders, mutual
surrender of, between France and Eng-
land, 122, 123; Crystal Palace, 75;
De Bode (Baron), petition from, 123;
Derby's (Earl) reason for taking office,
51; doctrine, question of, 99; duration
of the session, 75; elections, corrupt
practices at, 123; Enfranchisement of
Copyholds Bill, 100; foreign refugees,
76; French compensation fund, 123;
gunpowder, the sale of, to the Caffres,
28; Indian territories, 75; Jamaica,
distressed state of, 192: Largos, attack
upon, 29; lunatic asylum for criminal
lunatics, 53; Mather (Mr.), case of,
28, 122, 123; Maynooth grant, 75, 99;
Megæra, troop-ship, 28, 29; Militia
Bill, 123; Murray (Mr.) the case of, 99;
national school grants, 123; Navy Pay
Bill, 123; New South Wales petition,
123; New Zealand Bill, 123, 124;
property tax, 99; railway amalgama-
tion, 123; railway regulations, 245;
resignation of ministers, 29; recog-
nition of the ench Empire, 267; River
Plate, affairs of the, 53; Rosas (General),
honours paid to, 98, 99; sanitary state
of London, 98; Smith's (Sir H.), conduct
at the Cape, the Duke of Welling-
ton's approval of, 27; St. Alban's
disfranchisement, 77; volunteer rifle
corps, 53; Von Beck (Baroness), 123;
Warner's (Captain) invention, 99;
Wellington (the Duke), funeral of the,
244, Lord Derby's speech on the, 245;
wills, bill to amend the law of, 53;
prorogation, 147.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-Opening of Parlia- ment, debate on the address, 29; opening of the New Parliament, debate on the address, 246; Australia, de- sertion of seamen in, 106; augmentation of the armed and paid forces, 58; ballot, vote by, 78; ballast heavers of the port of London, 81; Bennett (Mr.), vicar of Frome, 81, 106, 126, 163; Bethlehem hospital, 247; Brazil, our relations with, 81; British American railway, 124; Bishopric of Christchurch (New Zealand) bill, 132; carriages, the duty on, 34; chancery reform bill, 59; chan- cery, relief of suitors in the, 31; cha- ritable trusts bill, 61; Clarendon (Lord), charge against, as viceroy of Ireland, 35; colonial bishops bill, 101, 106; Constantinople, repairing the chapel of the embassy at, 12; convocation, 247; copyright amendment bill, 59; copy- right treaty with France, 33; county courts extension bill, 81; county election polls bill, 127, 133; county rates expen- diture bill, 35; Crystal Palace, 101;
dangerous animals bill, 57; deserters from foreign ships, 60; Disraeli's (Mr.) financial statement, 268; division on the, 272; dissolution of Parliament, intention regarding the, 56, 79; eccle-
siastical personages and episcopal
revenues, 101, 127; elections corrupt
practices bill, 33, 81, 107, 134; extra-
mural interments, 55; financial state-
ment, 101; foreign affairs, alteration in
the administration of, 29; foreign com-
merce, 54; free-trade, intention of the
government with regard to, 58, 51; free-
trade, intentions of the new government
respecting, 248; Mr. Villiers in favour
of, 268; general board of health
bill, 134; grand juries bill, to dispense
with, 81; Harwich, bribery at, 78; hop
duty, 59; Household Narrative, 57;
Indian territory, government of the, 81;
Ionian Islands, 79; Jewish disabilities
bill, 134; Jamaica, condition of, 124,
134; Lefevre (Mr.) elected speaker of the
House, 245; Mather's (Mr.) case, 31,
129, 148; Meer Roostun, late Ameer of
Scinde, the case of, 134; metropolitan
burials bill, 133, 134; metropolitan
sewers bill, 133; metropolitan water
bill, 133; militia, Lord John Russell's,
34, 36; militia, Lord Derby's, 77, 83,
103, 106, 125; militia franchise, 81;
ministerial explanations, 57, 79; Murray
(Mr.), case of, 124; Maynooth grant, 106,
107, 125. 131; national board of educa
tion, 58; New South Wales, petition
from, 133; new writs for elections, 53;
New Zealand government bill, 106, 124,
128, 133; Oban and Glasgow railway,
55; O'Connor (Mr.), Fergus, disorderly
conduct of, 128, 133; Paget (Mr.),
seizure of his papers at Dresden, 248;
Palmerston's (Lord), dismissal, 29;
paper duty and taxes on knowledge,
105; parish constable's bill, 82; parish
vestries bill, 132; parliamentary
reform bill, 54; policy of the new
administration, 57, poor-law board con-
tinuance bill, 107; postage labels, ma-
chine for perforating the sheets of,
unfair treatment of the inventor, 55;
preserved meats for the navy, 33; pro-
tection to refugees, 59; public business,
124; public houses (Scotland) bill, 32;
recognition of the French Empire, 269;
reform bill, the new, 33, 54; reform of
the ecclesiastical courts, 248; relief of
the landed interest, 60; representative
system, 59; resignation of the ministers,
37, Roman Catholic processions, 132;
resignation of Lord Derby's government,
267; Scotland, law reform, act for, 33;
shipping trade, 58; stamp duty, 31; St.
Alban's disfranchisement, 34, 54, 59; sugar duties, 54; synod of the Church of England in the colonies, 134; taxes on knowledge, 82; tenant right, 33; Turkey and Egypt, 59; universities of Scotland bill, 100; university lists, 34; ventila- tion of the House, 31, 55; votes to occupiers of tenements of 101. per year, 100; voting for members, extension of the people's rights, 32; water in the metropolis, 31; Wellington (the Duke), funeral of the, 247; expense of the, 248; the Queen's message relating to the, 247; Wingate and Smith (Messrs.) the case of, 132, 148; working classes, measures to benefit the condition of the, 128; prorogation, 148; members re- turned to serve in the new parliament, 149; members of the Aberdeen adminis- tration, 273.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.-Army estimates, 56; building of iron steamers, 58; Caffre war, 80; civil service estimates, 124; commissariat votes, 60; convey- ance of specie on board ships of war,
58; exchequer bills, 60; medals for naval actions, 58; navy estimates, 58; naval reserve, 58; ordnance estimates, 60; patronage of the dockyard, 58. IRELAND. - Consolidated charities act,
53; Cuffe-street savings bank, 56, dis-
turbances in, 28; disturbed districts,
the, 56; encumbered estates, 134: funds
for educational purposes, 52; improve-
ment of landed property, 248; incum-
bered estates commission act, 56; Irish
valuation bill, 134; Maynooth grant,
75, 99, 106, 107, 125, 181; Maynooth,
system of education at, 104; national
education, 124; new reform bill, 33;
outrages in, 28; prevention of crime in,
132, 134.
EDITORIAL NOTES - Aberdeen ministry
the, 266; Africa, the war on the
coast of, 25; American fisheries dis-
pute, 169; Anti-Corn-Law League, 26,
49; Achilli v. Newman, trial, 122; grant
for a new trial, 242; Argentine con-
federation, 170; Australian convict
question, 25; Australia, the gold dig-
gings, 73, 122; Australian grievances,
122; Australia, scarcity of wool from,
98; Bentinck, Lord H., in North Not-
tingham, 145; Beresford, Mr. and the
non-electors, 146; a good and a safe
man wanted at Derby, W. B., 146, 266;
Birkenhead, loss of the, 74; bookselling
question, the, 74, 91; budget, Mr. Disraeli
opening the, 97; Cape, the war at the,
25, 98; chancery abuses, 26; chancery,
abolition of the masters of, 74; cholera,
preparations for the, 170; Christopher
(Mr.) in Lincolnshire, 145; church, dis-
putes in the, 75; Cobden (Mr.), on the
hustings, 145; convocation, 217, 242;
crystal palace, Lord Derby on opening
the, on Sunday, 242; Cumming (Mrs.),
the chancery proceedings against, 50;
death of the Duke of Wellington, 193;
Derby's (Lord) speech at a dinner
given by the Lord Mayor, 97; Disraeli
(Mr.) at his election dinner, 145;
Derby administration, fall of the,
266; Disraeli's (Mr.) speech on the
death of the Duke of Wellington, 241;
Exeter, the bishop of, and the confes-
sional, 217; Exeter's, the Marquis of,
wish at Blandford, 146; forebodings on
opening of the new year, 1; Franklin,
Sir John, 74, 218; France and the
northern powers, 98; French claims to
the holy sepulchre, 26; French inter-
ference with Turkey, 170; French in-
vasion, 98; French press, 25; free-
traders, 147; general election, 121, 145;
gold diggings in Australia, 73; House-
hold Narrative, proceedings of the Court of Exchequer against the, 74; income- tax, 26; Indian empire, proposed in- quiry into the administration of govern- ment on the, 75; Ireland, the favourable condition of, 218; Irish discussions on religious equality, 218; Kelly, Sir Fitz- roy, in Suffolk, 146; Kossuth's speech, 241; Louis Napoleon's method of governing, 49; Louis Napoleon and the empire, 170; Louis Napoleon elected emperor, 241; Manchester free-trade meeting, 26; Manners, Lord John, at Colchester, 145; Mather (Mr.), the case of, 121; murders in Ireland, 218; May- nooth grant and the no-popery cry, 98, 121; militia question, and resignation of Lord John Russell, 25; militia bill, 25, 75, 98; national defences, 25; new ministry, work in hand for the, 25; new year, forebodings of the, 1; New Zealand bill, 122; Pitcairn's Island, a visitor from, 219; popish processions, the pro- clamation against, 121; Queen of Spain, attempt to assassinate the, 26; rifle
practice for the people, 2; Rosas, the fall of, 26, 49; Russell, Lord John's, resignation, 25; Salomons, Mr. Alder- man, and the Court of Exchequer, 74; sanitary reform, 25; Schwartzenburg, Prince, death of, 74; Scottish universi- ties, religious tests in the, 97; Sellon (Miss) and the Puseyites, 50; spring assizes, 50; Six-mile Bridge affair, 170; Smithfield removal, 170; St. Albans bribery, the, 51; universities, the, 97; Wagner, Madlle., and the rival operas, 73; Walpole's (Mr.) notion of a new franchise, 74; Wellington, death of the Duke of, 93.
Acts of Parliament-The New Metropolitan Burial, 163. Administration of city charities, an inves- tigation into the, 231. Agricultural interest, a deputation to Lord J. Russell, with reference to, 38. Agricultural Society, the royal, show of farming implements at Lewes, 162; the Worcester societies annual dinner, 229; Dumfries and Kirkbright dinner, 229; Surrey meeting and dinner, 229; South Buckingham annual dinner, 259; meet- ings of the Waltham, Herefordshire, Chertsey, and Cranbrook Associations, 229; cattle show at Belford, 181; royal society of Ireland show, 181; meeting at Framlingham, 205.
Amazon, destruction of the, by fire, 10.
Army distribution at home and abroad, 62.
Artists' benevolent fund dinner, 112.
Bartholomew fair, 204.
Bennett (Mr.), address to the Marchioness
of Bath from the parishioners of Frome
against, 3.
Bethlehem hospital, treatment of patients
in, 258.
Bristol, rapid progress of the port of, 13. British Association, 203.
British and Foreign Society meeting, 111. Charing Cross hospital, annual meeting of the governors of, 162.
Christmas feast to the poor at Leicester-
square soup kitchen, 12.
Cholera, progress of the, 203.
City dispensary, report of the, 13.
City railway terminus, Mr. C. Pearson's
plan for a, 258.
Commissioners of Customs, notice to
masters of vessels in case of improper
seizure, 204.
Convocation of the province of York, 37.
*Convocation, assembly of the two houses
of, 37, 250.
Copyright, convention between France
and England, 12.
Cork, the Exhibition at, 141.
Cotton, the annual growth in the United
States, 230.
Cromer, purchased by Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, 181.
Crystal palace, purchase of the, 112. Crystal palace at Sydendam, ceremony of placing the first pillar, 180. Department of practical art, important memorandum isued by the, 112.
Domestic servants' association, 112.
EDUCATION-Education of the working
classes in Wales, 25; King Edward's
School at Birmingham, commemoration
of the founding, 90; Lambeth ragged
schools, annual meeting, 91; national
school society, the, 140; Queen's college,
first annual visitation, 90.
Emigration and colonisation, the progress
of, 17, 93, 114, 142, 165, 184, 201, 233.
Encumbered estates sales, 141, 181, 203.
Electric telegraph across the Irish Channel,
140.
Electric telegraph in the Bank of England,
140.
Electric telegraph connected to the fire
engine stations at Boston, 13.
Encumbered Estates, the, 13.
Exhibition, the Great, cost of removal of,
&c., 66.
Female Penitentiary (the Liverpool), an-
nual meeting, 66.
Flax, Sir J. Graham on the cultivation of,
Game laws, Sir J. Graham's step towards relaxing the severity of the, 205. Goldsmiths' Company's entertainment to her Majesty's ministers, 81.
Gorham case, declaration in support of the decision in the, 2.
Great Exhibition at Cork, opening of the,
Greenwich Observatory, arrangements to connect it by wires to the electric telc- graph, 12.
Hospital for diseases of the chest, anniver- sary festival, 66.
Hospital at Brompton for consumption and
diseases of the chest, 111.
International postage association, 181.
Iron-stone discovered in Northampton-
shire, 12, 90.
Legal education report, 42.
Liberal members of the House of Com-
mons, assembly at Lord J. Russell's, 61.
Literary fund, the royal, 66, 112.
Library and reading-room for the working
classes, meeting of the parishioners of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields to establish a,
140.
Liverpool, opening of the free library at,
London City Mission meeting, 111.
Manchester free library, opening of the, 204, 229.
Married soldiers' society to promote the
erection of improved dwellings for, 162.
Marylebone, a meeting in, to establish
free library, 231.
Mechi's (Mr.) annual gathering at Tiptree
Hall, 162.
MEETINGS.-Agricultural, 222; Anti-Corn- Law League, 62; Church Pastoral Aid Society, 112; confessional at Plymouth, 251; letters from the Archbishop of Canterbury, 251; diocesan synods, 4; free trade, at Manchester, 251; Friends of Italy, 251; Leeds Reformers, 3; Maynooth, to discontinue the grant to, 4; metropolitan interment, 13; at Man- chester, on the subject of labour, 61; militia, against the, 107; property tax, against the renewal of, 2; Sheffield, the constituency of, 3; solicitors at Derby, 230; Sons of the Clergy, 112; Taxes on knowledge, 276; Westminster Reform Society, 3.
Members returned to serve in the new Parliament, 149.
Merchant Seamen's Fund, new regula-
tions, 12.
Metropolitan Burial Act, the, 163.
Metropolitan Board
of Sewers,
meeting, 181, 203.
Metropolitan Sanitary Association, 90.
Museum of Practical and Ornamental
Art, 204.
National Galleries, purchase of land by
the Royal Commissioners of the Great
Exhibition for the, 230.
New Ministry, names of the, 38.
Obituary.-Abercromby, Loid, 164; Ady,
Joseph, 208; Baird, Sir David, 16;
Baker, Admiral, 16; Berry, Miss, 277;
Blackwood, Robert, Esq., 42; Castanos,
Gen., Duke of Baylen, 232; Chipman,
Chief Justice of New Brunswick, 16;
Cockburn, Major-General Sir James,
97; Colby, Major-General, 232; Corn-
wallis, Earl of, 113; Denmark, the
Dowager Queen of, 91; D'Orsay, Count,
182; Downman, Sir Thomas, Lieutenant-
General, 182; Dinorben, Lord, 232;
Excelmans, Marshal, 164; Finden, Mr.
William, 231; Forbes, Sir Charles, 67;
Gay, Madam, 67; Gerard, Marshal, 92;
Graydon, Colonel R. E., 42; Prince
Gustavus, Duke of Upland, 232;
Hamilton, his Grace, the Duke of, 182;
Jackson, Vice-Admiral, 141; Keat, Dr.,
67; Neild, J. J., 208; Kensington, Lord,
182; Landseer, John, Esq., 67; Loring,
Sir Wentworth, 182; Lovelace, the
Countess of, 277; Mackay, Alex-
ander, 113; Mackworth, Sir Digby,
Bart., 232; M'Kinley, 16; Mensdorff,
Ponelly, the Count, 164; Marmont,
Marshal, 67; Montague, Sir W. A.,
Vice-Admiral, 67; Moore, Thomas, 67;
Newbigging, Sir W., 261; Panmure,
Lord, 91; Praed, Vice-Admiral, 232;
Paterson, Mrs., one of Burns' heroines,
233; Parker, Sir James, Vice-Chancellor,
182; Robinson, General Sir F., 16;
Saxe-Weimar, the Duchess of, 91;
Schwartzenberg, Prince, 91; Shelley
Sir John, 91; Somers, Earl, 232; St.
Andrew's, the Bishop of, 232; Talbot,
the Right Hon. J. C., 141; Townsend,
Dr., Bishop of Meath, 232; Thomason,
Thomas, Esq., of Edinburgh, 232;
Watson, the Hon. R., 112; Webster,
Daniel, 261; Wellington, the Duke of,
296; Wheatley, Major-General Sir H.,
67; Wilson, Thomas Esq., 232; Wur-
temberg, Prince Paul, 92.
O'Brien, William Smith, and his com-
panions, petition to the Lord-Lieutenant,
entreating the royal clemency in behalf
of, 107.
PAPAL.-Opening of Roman Catholic
schools at Hackney, 3; Sellon, Miss,
charged with Popish practices, 67; pro-
clamation against Roman Catholic
processions, 135.
Pauperism, the decrease of, 205.
PERSONAL.-Queen, her Majesty, the, and
Prince Albert, distribution to the poor
on her birthday, 16; gift of apartments
in Hampton-court Palace to the widows
of the officers Pennycuik and Cureton,
42; chapter of the order of the Thistle,
Lord Saltoun invested, 67; investiture
of the order of the Bath, 91; Rajah of
Coorg and his daughter presented to
the, 113; the marine trip of, 163; anni-
versary of the coronation, 164; christen-
ing of the daughter of the Rajah of
Coorg, 164; visit to the King of the
Belgians, 182; excursions in the High-
lands, 205; visit to the tubular bridge
over the Menai Straits, 231; the Govern-
ment School of Mines, 16.
Belcher's, Sir Edward, arctic expedition, 91
Beresford's, W., speech at Castle Heding-
ham, 219.
Canning, Sir Stratford, raised to the
peerage, 113.
Cathcart, Major-General, appointed Go-
vernor of the Cape, 16.
Cholmeley's, Sir M., doubts of the Pro-
tectionist Premier, 135.
Costello, Miss I.. S., grant of 757. a-year
to, 231.
Cullen, Dr., appointed by the Pope Arch- bishop of Dublin, 141.
Disraeli's, Mr., address to the electors of
Buckingham, 135; specch on the death
of the Duke of Wellington, parallel
passages from a panegyric by M. Thiers
on Marshal De St. Cyr, 251.
Fitzclarence, Lord Frederick, appointed commander-in-chief at Bombay, 113. Fordyce's, Colonel, legacy to the soldiers under his command, 113.
Franklin, Sir John, vessels the Erebus and Terror, supposed discovery of, 91. Halford's, Mrs., munificent charity lega- cies, 276. Hardinge, Viscount, appointed to the command of the army, 205, 231. Humboldt's, Baron von, eighty-third birthday, 205.
Jenny Lind's marriage to M. Otto Gold- schmidt, at Boston, 42.
Kossuth's arrival in England from the
United States, 164.
Londonderry's, the Marquis, letter to Louis Napoleon regarding Abd el-Kader, 182.
Meagher's, the Irish convict, escape from Van Diemen's Land, 91 Neild, Mr., the will of, leaving her Majesty the Queen, 250,000l., 232, 261.
Newman, Dr., numerous subscription for
his defence, 205.
O'Connor, Mr. Feargus, removed to Dr. Took's establishment at Chiswick, 141.
Pugin, Mrs., grant of 1007. a year to, 231.
Rosas, General, in England, 113.
Shrewsbury's (Earl of), property and will,
276.
Smith, General Sir Harry, recalled from
the Cape, 42.
Smythe, the Hon. G., and Col. Romilly, duel between, 113. Somerset, Lord Fitzroy, appointed Master- General of the Ordnance, 231.
Southey, Mrs. C., grant of 2001. a year to,
231.
Wellington, the Duke of, and the farmer at Windsor, 16; the Waterloo banquet, 191; death of his Grace, and sketch of his life, 206; preparations for the
funeral, 232; removal from Walmer, 259; lying in state, 259; the funeral, 259.
Wilson's, Professor, resignation of the university of Edinburgh, 91.
Physicians, a charter to the royal college
of, 181.
Poland, annual meeting of the friends of,
Political dinner, conservative and whig, 197.
Railway, amalgamation schemes for, 258. Reclamation of land covered by the sea, 161.
RETURNS, REPORTS, &c.
Army distribution at home and abroad, 62. Births, deaths, and marriages, 41, 180, 257. British vessels engaged in foreign trade,
Census returns of Ireland, 181. Coffee, statistics respecting, 13. County courts, business transacted in the, 6. Cotton, the growth of, in the United States, 230.
Court of Chancery, returns respecting the, 108.
Edinburgh, the rental of the city of, 141. Electors, the number of, registered in Great Britain in the years 1850-51, 61. Encumbered estates, report of the commis. sioner, 141, 181, 203.
Great Exhibition surplus, 275.
Hackney carriages, the number of licenses
of, 140.
Health of London, 162.
Import and export trade of the United
Kingdoms, 67.
trial of three men for, 108; on Catherine
Tierney by Mrs. Acock, 153; on Storey,
a detective policeman, by some stock-
broker's clerks, 153; William Liss,
charged with assaulting his father, 176;
on a policeman, by a notorious ruffian,
James Cannon, a chimney sweep, 221;
on a policeman, by a private in the 1st
Life Guards, 224; on two railway offi-
cials, by Sir James Rivers, bart., 225: on
a poor woman by a Roman Catholic
Priest, 274.
Attempt to poison his wife, trial of
William Baldry for, 1; to murder Mr.
Barber at Bermondsey, Edward Staggles
charged with, 39; to murder his wife,
trial of Edwin Harris for, 62; to murder
his wife by poison, Mathew Colgan
charged with, 63; Richard Ambler,
surgeon, tried for inveigling into his
house a young woman with intent, &c.,
108; attempted murder and suicide by
Martin White, a Chelsea pensioner, 137;
attempted suicide, 155; Eliza Bentley,
charged with attempting suicide, 175;
Francis Thopier, charged with attempt-
ing suicide, 175; to murder a young
woman at Yarmouth, by Samuel Howth,
224.
Aylesbury assizes, point of difference
between the judge and the high sheriff,
Sailors' Home, and Destitute
Asylum, yearly meeting, 42.
Sailors widows, the Cambridge Asylum
for, 111.
Sellon (Miss), charged with popish prac- tices, 67.
Servants' Royal Provident Benevolent So-
ciety, 112.
Sewerage and drainage of the metropolis,
42.
Strike of engineers, machinists, &c., 14, 41.
Submarine telegraph, direct communi-
cation between London and Paris, 259.
Tenant-right movement in Ireland, 196.
Theatrical Fund (the General) anniversary
festival, 90.
The women of England to the women of
the United States on the subject of
Slavery, 275.
Trade in the provinces, 230.
Training Institution for masters and mis-
tresses of the schools of the National
Society, laying the first stone by Prince
Albert, 112.
University of London, meeting of the
ruling body, 112.
University of London, meeting of the
undergraduates, 112.
University of Oxford, report of the royal
Achilli v. Newman, 137, 254.
Adultery, Rev. Stephen Mathews, of
Hanging Heaton, deprived of his living
for, 65.
Agrarian conspirators at Monaghan, trial
of, 5.
Arches Court, decision in the case of the Rev. Mr. Gladstone v. Bishop of Lon- don, 137.
Assault on a police constable by Mr. Feargus O'Connor, 38: Eliza Coffield
manding money of Mr. Solly, 199.
Betting houses, effects of frequenting, 252.
Bigamy, cases of, 226, 254.
Bills of acceptance, caution to tradesmen,
108.
Breach of Promise of Marriage-Emma Oldaker and George Davis, 154; Miss Hoff and Mr. Savage, 154; Fanny Bird and George Bantall, 159. Burglaries in St. Andrew's-road, New- ington-causeway, 7; at Mr. Farley's, at Great Raveley, sentence of transportation against the prisoners, 63; robbing a farm at Castletreasure, 199; burglary at Mrs. Lamb's, at Twickenham, 225; at Messrs. Whittaker's, 252.
Burning the Bible, a Franciscan monk
charged with, 63.
Cathedral trusts and their fulfilment, case
of the Rev. Mr. Whiston decided by the
Bishop of Rochester, 225.
Chancery, the Court of, returns respecting
the, 108; new rules and orders in the
Court of, 197; prisoner released after
thirteen years' confinement, 172; suit
commenced above one hundred years
ago, 175.
Charitable institutions and idle vagrants,
Derby election, case of bribery at the, 159. Destitution, a dreadful case of, 252. Disturbed state of the county of Armagh, 5. Domestic tragedy at Loughrea, murder of two children by the mother, 5. Duel between two French gentlemen near Windsor, 225, 254.
Emigrants, complaints of, against shipping agents, 173; cases of importance to, 156, 201, 223.
Endangering the lives of railway pas- sengers, 109.
Expense of pleading in law courts, a case
of the, 136.
False imprisonment, trial for damages
for, 171.
Forgery, William Henry committed for
circulating false bills of exchange, 173;
forging a certificate of marriage, trial of
Wilton Butler, a sapper and miner,
for, 172.
Fracas between Mr. Campbell Foster and Mr. Digby, 159.
Frankfort (Lord), charged with sending improper letters, 173; sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, 273. Fraudulent, trial of William Bennett and others, alias the Hon. William O'Brien Fitzgerald, for obtaining money under false pretences, 152; cheating at cards, trial of Charles Staden and John James for, 157; fraudulently obtaining a por- trait of the Earl of Desart, trial of C. Collier for, 157; trial of Richard Sill for obtaining money from Henry Broome by false pretences, 173, 201; trial of Richard Burnell for unlawfully obtaining a sovereign and a half from a poor woman with intent to defraud her, 223; obtaining money by means of fraudulent cheques, 220.
Glen Tilt case, judgment of the House of
Lords against the Duke of Atholl, 137.
Gladstone v. the Bishop of London, 137.
Highway robbery, trial of John Messham
for, at Lewes, 158.
Hill, Sarah Anne, commutation of her
sentence of death to transportation, 7.
Illegitimate child, refusing to support
the, 5.
Ill-using two children, trial of Elizabeth
Johnston for, 155.
Imposture and credulity, remarkable case
of, at Shottisham, 200.
Incendiary fires, 155.
Inefficacy of the poor-law, 86.
Innate depravity, Eliza and the blind negro, 136.
Inquest on Mr. Sand, drowned by the sinking of the Duchess of Kent, 173. Irish Orangemen, arrest of twenty-four for attempting to parade the streets, 173. Joint-stock companies, a point of great importance to shareholders, 39. Libel.-Action against Mr. Birch, pro- prietor of the World newspaper, 136; Dr. Achilli against Dr. John Newman, 137; a new trial granted, 234; Sir Charles Napier v. Mr. J. Murray, 254.
Lodging houses, summonses for not ob-
Lunacy.-Commission to inquire into the
serving the regulation of the act, 222.
state of Mr. John Price, 64; against
Mrs. Cumming, 7, 65; judgment on
Lord Dinorben, 86; action, Henry
Baker for unlawfully keeping lunatics in
his private house, 137; insufficient care
of, 158.
Manslaughter-of a child, trial of Charlotte
Larkin for the, 64; trial of a surgeon for
the manslaughter of Ann Noakes, 172;
of his brother, trial of a boy for the, 254. Meat unfit for human food, charge against a salesman for exposing, 59.
Medical fees, action for, 7.
Money won at play, action for, 254.
Moreton (Mr.), of the Daily News, killed
by Mr. Bower, of the Morning Advertiser,
at Paris, 220.
MURDERS of Mrs. Barnes, at Belper, 5; sentence of the prisoner, 65; of George Bush, at Bath, by a pedlar, 158; James Cleary, at Askeaton, county Limerick, 39; of John Cunan, in Leitrim, 5; of James Deegan, 31st Regiment, near Fermoy, Ireland, 221; Giovanne Kala- bergo, by a nephew, at Banbury, 6, 62; of William Manifold, Esq., in King's county, 224; Mr. Maplethorpe, at Hull, 109; William Roberts, in a night affray with poachers, 63; Mr. O'Callaghan Ryan, at Waterford, 199; of Mr. Alex- ander Robinson, by James Barker, near Sheffield, 198; of William Shine, at Adair, county Limerick, 221; Mr. Thomas Stackpoole, by his uncle, in Clare, 200; Elizabeth Thomas, by her son, at Prenton, 171; Sarah Watts, near Frome, trial of the men for, 85; of Fanny Walker, by Stephen Walker, suicide of the murderer, 109; of Mrs. Wheeler, by
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