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THE

HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE

OF

CURRENT EVENTS,

(FOR THE YEAR 1850,)

BEING

A MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT TO HOUSEHOLD WORDS,

CONDUCTED BY

CHARLES DICKENS.

LONDON:

OFFICE, 16, WELLINGTON STREET NORTH.

1850.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND SANITARY

PROGRESS.

PARLIAMENT Its opening by commission,

27; the royal speech, 27.

HOUSE OF LORDS-Debate on the, and

amendment, address, 28; accommoda-

tion for foreign ministers, 147; agricul-

tural distress, 100; Australian colonies

bill, 123, 124; steam communication

with, 178; breach of privilege, 148, 174;

Cambridge annuity, 148, 174; chancery

reform, 53, 124; civil list savings, 148,

173; clergy appeal bill, 74, 123; clergy

proceedings bill, 28; convicts prisons

bill, 52, 74; convict transportation, 28;

county courts extension, 148, 173; Cuban

expedition, 124; death of the Duke of

Cambridge, 148; death of Sir R. Peel,

147; Dolly's Brae collision, 29; door-

keepers' fees, 74, 173; ecclesiastical

commission, 28, 30, 173; expenditure of

public money for education, 147; fac-

tories bill, 148; French ambassador's

recall, 101; general board of health bill,

148; Greece, our relations with, 28, 52,

101, 124; inspection of coal mines, 148;

Irish encumbered estates amendment

act, 124, 125; landlord and tenant's bill,

148; parliamentary franchise, 123, 147,

148, 173; party processions, 51; poor

law, 28, 30; its abuses, 75; Marlborough

house, 172; marriages bill, 148; perse-

cution of protestant members in Ireland,

174; pirates' head-money repeal bill, 74;

railway audit bill, 28; registrarship of

the prerogative court, Canterbury, 100;

special pleadings, better regulation of,

74; Sunday labour in the post office, 125,

174; university reform, 100; universities,
commission of enquiry, 124; prorogation,
174.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-debate on the address,

and amendment, 30; abolition of the

punishment of death, 152; affirmation

bill, 78; African blockade, 56; agricul-

tural distress, 35; abolition of attorney's

certificate tax, 104, 152, 153, 154; Aus-

tralian colonies bill, 34, 57, 77, 101, 104,

106, 176; steam communication with,

154; benefices in plurality bill, 104;

British claims on Tuscany, 176; budget,

56; Cambridge annuity, 153, 177; colo-

nial policy, Lord J. Russell's statement,

33; county courts extension, 36; county

rates and expenditure, 34, 35; court of

chancery, 127; charitable trusts, 154.

COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY-Army estimates,

55, 175; half-pay estimates, 175; Holy-

rood, 177; Marlborough house, 175;

Cuffe-street savings bank, 177; new
house of commons, 177; public educa-
tion, 151; committees, judicial and diplo-
matic salaries, 58, 76, 78; Ceylon inquiry,
32, 33, 154, 178; state of the Duchies of
Cornwall and Lancaster, 58; compound
householders' bill. 154; consolidated fund
appropriation, 178; copyhold enfran-
chisement, 129, 152; county franchise
amendment, 151; county courts exten-
sion, 75, 127; county rates, 129; death
of Sir Robert Peel, 150; public memo-
rial, 152; desabilities of the naval assist-
ant surgeons, 74; despatches.rom British
Guiana, 153; ecclesiastical commissions
bill, 31, 102, 151, 154; ecclesiastical con-
stitution for the Australian colonies, 105;

education, Mr. Fox's bill for the promo-
tion of secular, 36, 77, 126; exhalations
from drains or graveyards, 178; expendi-
ture, public, Mr. Cobden's motion on,
54; expenditure, national, Mr. Drum-
mond's motion on, 55; extramural inter-
ments bill, 105; factories amendment
act, 55, 126, 127; friendly societies bill,
128; Greece, our relations with, 31, 53,
106, 128, 148, 149, 150; park encroach-
ments, 58; highways' management bill,
34, 56; Hungary, affairs of, 32; immi-
gration of Africans into the West India
colonies, 178; importation of foreign
corn, 106; India, growth of cotton in,
127; railways, 127; Ionian Islands (Sir
H. Ward's proceedings in), 178.

IRELAND-Abolition of the Irish vice-

royalty, 106, 126, 127; chancery, 34;

crime and outrage act continuance, 176,

177, 178; distressed union advances bill,

34, 101, 104; encumbered estates bill,

178; fisheries bill, 105; franchise exten-

sion, 52, 101, 105, 176; improvement of

towns, 129; Kilrush union, state of, 54;

landlords and tenants bill, 153, 176;

landlords and tenants bill (No. 2.), 177,

178; medical charities, 154; poor law,

126, 154; juvenile offenders' bill, 78;

larceny summary jurisdiction bill, 57,

77, 129; malt tax repeal, 151; Manches-

ter rectory divisions bill, 105; marriage

bill, 33, 36, 53, 106, 127, 152; mercantile

marine bill, 78, 151; metropolitan inter-

ments, 78, 125, 126, 127; national land

scheme, 53, 176; new house of commons,

101, 125, 126; oath of abjuration, 153;

parliamentary voters, 36; public libra-

ries and museums, 55, 75, 127; railway

accidents, 129; recal of the French am-

bassador, 106; registrar's office in bank-

ruptcy bill, 34; registrarship of the

prerogative court, Canterbury, 102;

motion for the repeal of the window tax,

75; advertisement duty, 105; taxes on

knowledge, 76; duty on home-made

spirits in bond, 127, 151; review of the

sessions, 178; revision of government

salaries, 103; Rothschild (Baron), case

of, 154, 174, 175, 176, 177; royal academy

receipts and expenditure, 58; sanitary

condition of bakers, 105; savings banks

amendment bill, 101, 178; school estab-

lishments bill, Scotland, 128; site of the

exhibition, 150: social improvement of

the labouring classes, 53; stamp duties

bill, 67, 77, 177; sugar duties' amend-

ment, 125; Sunday labour in the post

office, 125, 126, 128, 152, 178; Sunday

trading prevention bill, 154, 176; uní-

versities commission, 153; prorogation,

179.

145; position of literature in England,
123; Puseyite secessions, 193, 244; re-
duction of government salaries, 98; re-
form of the establishment, 244, 245;
Roman Catholic aggressions, Piedmont,
170; Thurles, 171, 193; cardinal Wise-
man and the new hierarchy, 241; Sunday
post, 121; university commission, 118,
142, 167, 214, 239.

Acts of Parliament, Provisions of recent-

county courts extension, 231; friendly

societies, 204; metropolitan interments,

186; pluralities amendment, 232; new

stamp act, 231.

Addiscombe, 274.

Albert, Prince, distribution of prizes by,

Anniversary of Twelfth July, at Belfast, 159.

Association for improving the social moral

religion of labourers, at Windsor, 256.

Ball, to the inmates of St. Luke's asylum,

232.

Bread Riots at Limerick, 37.

Britannia Bridge opened, 65.

British Association for the advancement of

science, annual meeting, 186.

Canal Locks superseded, 215.

Carshalton School investigations, 232;

correspondence, 257.

Cash Credits, discussion on the adoption of
the Scotch system, 14.

Cattle-show of Smithfield club, 269.

Charity, munificent, of Miss Howard, 231.

Coldstream Guards banquet, 114.

Colonisation and Emigration-Canterbury

association, 88, 188; Mrs. Chisholm's

family group scheme, 18, 116, 140, 165,

235; emigration to Natal, 88; female

emigration, Mr. Sidney Herbert's, 88,

116, 140, 188, 235, 260; Irish emigration

to America, 89, 235, 260.

Common Law commissioners' labours, 256.

Conciliation Hall, closing of, 156.

Cotton, Manchester chamber of commerce

enquiry in India, 256.

Dolly's Brae affair, memorial of the Ulster

Roman Catholics, 6; the debate on, 29.
Drawing Rooms of the season, 138.
EDUCATION-British and Foreign school
society, annual examination, 137; college
of preceptors' half-yearly meeting, 14;
common council of London, educational
grants, 231; evening classes for young
men, annual report, 138; donation of
Prince Albert, 231; experimental school
for juvenile delinquents at Aberdeen, 230;
Fox's education bill, public agitation of,
84; Lancashire public schools' association
conference at Manchester, 255; meeting
at Willis's rooms against the government
measures, 43; opening of the free gram-
mar school, Richmond, 231; public
library for the working classes established
at Manchester, 84; Queen's College, Ire-
land, denounced by archbishop Slattery,
37; papal condemnation, 130; royal
sanction of the statutes, 197; suspension
of M. de Vericour, 266; ragged schools'
union, 113; annual meeeting of the
Grotto Passage, 138; singing classes in-
troduced in the army, 256; Welsh lan-
guage, meeting to promote secular in-
struction in, 137.

Elections-Cambridge university, 197, 220;
Hereford, 220; Lambeth, 187; Mayo,
187; Montgomeryshire, 220; Poole, 197;
Southampton, 162; Tamworth, 162.

Engine Drivers' Strike, Eastern Counties

railway, 179.

Excursions, cheap Sunday, by railway, 204.
Exhibition of the works of all nations-the
royal commission, 14; Mansion House
meeting, 15; subscriptions, 65; Mansion
House banquet to the mayors, 65; return
banquet at York, 232; movements in
France, 85; Mr. Paxton's design, 157;
prizes offered by the Goldsmiths' com-
pany, 256.

Factories, return relative to, 274.

Farmers' association for the reduction of
tradesmen's profits, 66.

Financial and parliament reform associa-

tion meeting at Manchester, 37; annual

meeting in London, 220; speech of Mr.

Cobden at Aylesbury, 5.

Fishmongers' dinner, speech of Lord

Brougham, 180.

Fitzwilliam, Earl, reduction of rents by, 274.

Flower show of the Horticultural Society,

Chiswick, 136.

Freehold land society's operations, 197.

Hartley bequest to Southampton, 157.

Holyhead, progress of new harbours at, 215.

Income tax, sums paid by railway com-

panies, 203.

Intramural interments, public meetings

against, 64.

Irish encumbered estates act, working of,

130, 179, 221.

Islington, proposed new park for, 85.

Labour, general organisation of, 64.

Law amendment society's conference with

Mr. Dudley Field, 257.

Lord Mayor's day, new pageantry of, 242.

Lunacy, report of commissioners, 274.

Mansion House, juvenile entertainment at,

on new year's eve, 16.

MEETINGS, Annual Agricultural-royal

agricultural society, Exeter, 156; farmers'

club, Burton-on-Trent, 257; Bury, 220;

Durham, 220; Highland annual show,

186; Saffron Walden, 220; Waltham,

220; Westmoreland and Cumberland, 204;

Benevolent-Artists' general benevolent

Institution, 113; Asylum for Idiots,

appeal of the directors, 232; annual

elections for, 255; Domestic Ser-

vants' Benevolent Institution, 113; Es-

tablishment for Gentlewomen during

Illness, 162; Female Servants' Home

Society, 113; General Theatrical Fund,

66; Governesses' Benevolent Institution,

114; Hospital for Consumption, Bromp-

ton, 137; King's College Hospital, in-

corporation and endowment, 16; annual

meeting, 65; meeting in aid of, 114;

Royal Free Hospital, 137; Seamen's

Hospital, 162; Society for Promoting

Christian Knowledge, 231; Improving

the Condition of the Labouring Classes,

136; Newsvenders' Benevolent Institu-

tion, 114; Royal Humane Society, 162;

Royal Infirmary for Children, 113; Royal

Literary Fund, 66; Political, Social,

and Religious-abolition of the Irish vice-

royalty, meeting against, in Dublin, 78;

Aborigines protection society, 42; public

meeting to Dr. Achilli, 59; meeting of

the laity and clergy on the Gorham

case at St. Martin's hall, 156; disorderly

meeting at the Crown and Anchor on

the metropolitan interments' bill, 114;

national charter association, first metro-

politan meeting, 6; national reform

association conference, 78; meeting at

Wymondham, 156; O'Connor's, Fear-

gus, M.P., annual meeting with his

constituents, 197; reform of colonial

government society's annual dinner, 156.

Protectionist-Bedford, 37; Brecon, 37;

Crown and Anchor demonstration,

107; fatal affray at Dorchester, 40;

meeting of the county Down, 5; great

national meeting, Dublin, 5; great Mar-

low, Bucks, 4; Liverpool, 130; North-

ampton, 5; uproar on Penenden Heath,

5; riot at Reading, 4; Rutlandshire

meetings, 37; Salisbury, 4; riot at Staf-

ford, 4; Stepney meeting, 4; Waltham,

5, 220; withdrawal of lords Wharncliffe

and Yarborough from the protectionist

movement, 5.

Messmen, abolition of, in the royal navy,

257.

Ministerial law changes, 162, 233.

Mormon baptism, a fashionable, 139.

National association, 269.

Nepaulese embassy, 138.

November fifth, celebration of, in London,

248; Exeter, 249; Oxford commemora-

tion, 159.

Papal letters, apostolic, of Sept. 29th, 241;

Lord John Russell's letter on, 245;

speech at Guildhall, 249; archbishop of

Canterbury on, 245; dean of Bristol's

speech, 246; public meetings on, court

of common council, 247; St. Mary le

Strand, 247; Bristol, Liverpool, York,

247; address to the queen from the Roman

Catholics, 247; appeal of cardinal Wise-

man, 247; address of Dr. Wareing, 241;

burning, in effigy, of the new cardinal and

bishops, 249; disturbance at St. Barnabas,

252; enthronement of Wiseman, papal

bull, 266; addresses to the queen, 268;

meetings, 269; Norfolk, duke of, letter,

269; resignation of Mr. Bennett, 268.

Paper duties, deputation to the premier

on, 43.

Park, new, in Battersea-fields, 256;

Islington, 85.

Patent law reform league, 256.
Peace congress at Frankfort, 212; peace
society meeting at Wrexham, 256.

Penny savings banks, 137.

PERSONAL Queen, her majesty the, new

year's gift, 16; Windsor dramatic per-

formances, 44; Easter rustic sports at

Windsor, 85; birth of Prince Arthur, 114;

baptism, 138; birthday fête of Prince

Alfred, 186; cowardly assault of Robert

Pate, 133; visit to Ostend, 186; to Castle

Howard, Edinburgh, and Balmoral, 205.

Albert, H.R.H. Prince, present to the boys

of Eton college, 67; letter on the univer-

sity commission, 138; speech at the

Mansion House, 65; at York, 232.

Bright, Mr., M.P., speech at Manchester,

advocating the claims of Ireland, 3.

Brougham's, lord, philosophical recrea-

tions at Cannes, 16; speech at the Fish-

mongers' dinner, 180; border fray, 300.

Cambridge, death of the duke of, 163.

Clarendon's, lord, tour through the north

of Ireland, 196; reply to the tenant-right

deputation, 220.

Cobden's, Mr., M.P., speech on financial

reform, at Aylesbury, 5; on the Russian

loan, 6.

Cottenham's, lord, resignation of the
chancellorship, 114; elevation to the
peerage, 139.

Count de Paris, first communion of, 162.

Edwards, major, welcomed at Shrewsbury,

67; honours awarded to, 138, 162.

Franklin, sir John, tidings of, from the

Pacific, 17; arrangement for further

search of, 44; rewards for his discovery,

67; captain Austen's expedition, 187;

return of the North Star and Prince

Albert, 233.

Gomm, sir W., appointed commander-in-

chief in India, 187.

Graham's, lieut., release, 85.

Gough's, lord, return from India, 67;

banquets to, 67, 85; presentation of the

freedom of the city of London, 138;

Edinburgh, 186; Inverness, 233; degree

of D.C.L., Oxford, 138.

Haynau's, general, reception at Barclay's
brewery, 206.

Hudson's, Mr., arrangements with the
York, Newcastle, and Berwick railway
company, 16; justification of his trans-
actions, 16.

Louis Philippe's death, 186; funeral, 205.

Obituary-Balzac, 187; Lisle Bowles, 86;

duke of Cambridge, 163; Madame

Dulcken, 86; Margaret Fuller, 190;

Gay Lussac, 114; Mr. R. Gilfillan, 275;

Mrs. Glover, 163; lord Jeffrey, 44, 47;

Col. Johnson, 275; Lieut. Lorimer, 275;

Gen. Sir W. Lumley, 275; Mrs. Beil

Martin, 276; lord Nugent, 258; duke of

Palmella, 233; Admiral Payne, 276;

sir Robert Peel, 162; Miss Jane Porter,

114; sir Launcelot Shadwell, 187; sir

M. A. Shee, 187; Smith of Deanston, 139,

Madame Tussaud, 86; lieut. Waghorn,

17; sir W. Whymper, 275; Wordsworth,

86; Wyatt, 139.

Police, rural, 274.

Prisons, metropolitan, new classification of
offenders in, 221.

Rent, re-arrangement of, on the duke of
Portland's estates, 43; marquess of
Hertford's, 43.

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Returns, Reports, &c.-of the board of

trade, ending Dec. 5th, 1849, 15; Aug.

15th, 1850, 203; increase of exports in

1849, 43; British Museum commission

of enquiry, 66; convict system, 130;

criminal returns for 1849, 156; decrease

of crime in Galway circuit, 66; Gloucester

and Somerset, 232; increase in Hereford,

7; Surrey, 228; dangers of the channel

navigation, 258; financial returns of the

united kingdom for 1849, 16; number

and revenue of enrolled friendly societies,

186; poor law board returns, July, 1850,

185; post office returns, 1849, 185;

railway commissioners' return, 1849, 185;

registrar general - births, deaths,

marriages, first quarter, 113, second, 184,

third, 255; revenue returns to Oct. 15,

221; savings banks and friendly societies,

130; sinecure benefices, 221; specie and

bullion imported from the gold countries

in 1849, 15; trade and navigation returns

for Feb. 1850, 66; trials for murder by

poison, 1839-49, 180; summaries of the

state of trade and industry of the united

kingdom in 1849, 15; statistics of the

London fire brigade, 1849, 43; of the

progress of Glasgow, 186; omnibus

statistics of London, 230.

Railway companies monopoly, agitation

against, 65.

Repeal association, 78.
Re-union of employers and work-people at
Motham, 15.

Roman catholic converts, 206; synod of

Irish prelates at Thurles, 179; the address

to the catholics of Ireland, 197.

Rothschild, baron, meeting of the sup-
porters of, 157.

Russian loan, Mr. Cobden's speech on, 6.
St. Barnabas, Pimlico, consecration of, 137;
decoration, 252.

St. Paul's, proposed removing of the rail-
ings of, 65.
Sanitary-Baths and washhouses, extension
of, in Westminster, 14; cholera nursery,
St. Clement's Danes, 85; Metropolitan
sanitary association, public meeting at
Freemasons' hall, 43; metropolitan drain-
age question, 137; scheme of Mr. Frank
Forster, 186; Serpentine, deputation to
government on purifying, 137; water
supply of London, Mr. Napier's report,

257.

Telegraph, projected submarine electric,

between France and England, 15; pro-

gresses, 215, 232; across St. George's

Channel, 231.

Temperance festival at the London tavern,
231.

Ten hours' act meetings to secure its
integrity, 37, 64.

Tenant right agitation in Ireland, 59, 78,
130, 156; conference, 179, 197, 220;
deputation to lord Clarendon, 220.
University commission, the, 118, 142, 214,
239; prince Albert's letter on, 138.

Vaccination, neglect of, 185.

Waterloo banquet, the, 139.
Wool league of Mr. Ferrand, 156.

Action for loss of sight from gun cotton

explosion, 60; for recovery of money

paid on forged acceptances, 133.

Affiliation summons-a heartless case of

seduction, 60.

Agapemone, revelations of the, 110.

Agrarian crimes in Ireland, 13, 80, 112,

198, 230.

American law respecting persons of colour,

108.

Apprentices absconding from their masters'

service, 60.

Assault by a carpenter of the Strand theatre,

79; trial of Samuel Grieves Harvey for,

7; on a servant girl, the Rev. R. A.

Johnston charged with, 251; trial of Mr.

Kenealy for an assault on his son, 110;

imprisonment of Mr. Leggett for an as-

sault on a young lady, 39; a surgeon

charged with striking his servant with a

hot poker, 8; conviction of capt. Aaron

Smith for an assault on a toll-gate keeper,

200; an editor and novel writer charged

with, 224; on an innkeeper at Bath by

Ogle Wallis, 229; on a customer by Mr.

Watts, draper, 157; on his wife by a

coach-painter, 18; of a policeman for un-

warrantable interference, 225; assault

on the Lowestoffe seamen by wreckers,

228; evidence given in a case of assault

at Guildhall, 7; assault by Rev. Mr. Fen-

wick, 269.

Assumed name-complaint of Anna Maria

Jones, 6.

Atrocity, act of, in the Isle of Man, 79.

Attempt to burn Parkhurst prison by the

convicts, 199; attempting to drown,

committal of J. E. Spooner for, 159; to

drown her three children, committal of

Elizabeth Huggins for, 40, sentence, 60;

to murder her child, trial of May Hard-

wick for, 160; to murder his father, trial

of Thomas King for, 61; to poison her

father, committal of Louisa Hartley for,

80, acquittal, 111.

Bagerley, John, death-bed confession of,

Braintree

given, 9.

Breach of promise-Gibbs v. Adams, Maid-

stone, 62; Nicholson v. Turnbull, New-

castle-on-Tyne, 59.

church-rate case, judgment

Burglaries and house robberies-at Charle-
cote Lucy, 109; Mr. Cohen's, jeweller,
Newcastle, 249; at Wickham, St. Paul's,
Essex, 111; of a watchmaker at Halifax,
223; attempted burglary at Mr.Marston's,
gold-beater, Birmingham, 225; intrepid
repulse by a servant girl at Congleton,
157; curious discovery of, at Llanwaris,
59; attempted burglary at Mr. Holford's,
Regent's park, 227; committal of the
thieves, 250, sentence, 269; burglary
and murder at the Rev. Mr. Hollest's,
Frimley, 222; in Regent's-park, in Mr.
Marshall's house, 270.
Cabman's trick, a new, 249.
Calcraft, the hangman, summoned for
refusing to support his mother, 61.
Cauliflower, throwing, on the Victoria
theatre stage, 199.

Chloroform, charge of administering, with
criminal intent, 109; rape effected by,
59; robberies, 38.

Combinations of workmen, 272.

Conspiring to cheat, conviction for, 158.

Credulity, extraordinary case at Islington,

Crime, juvenile adepts in, 110, 111, 183;
punished in perpetration at Hove, 108;
Derby, 229.

Criminal information against the Quarterly

Review, 109.

Cruelty to a workhouse child, 62, 112, 181.

Cutting and wounding, trial of A. Hicks

for, 158.

Defamation used as a defence, 109.
Disturbance at St. Barnabas church, 252.
Divorce bills-rev. E. J. Ashby's, 132;
lieut-col. Cautley, 111; Mr. Cobbe, 82;
Hall, 181; earl of Lincoln, 130; reversal
of judgment, Paterson v. Paterson, 180;
King v. King, 270.

Domestic cruelty, Mr. and Mrs. Sloane,

271.

Electric telegraph company charged with
favouritism, 109.

Elopement extraordinary, 183.
Emigration candidates, 113.
Endangering the lives of nine persons, con-
viction of the captain of a Richmond
steamer for, 199.

Evictions in Ireland, 160, 198.

Evidence given in a case of assault at Guild-

hall, 37.

Execution of Elias Lucas and Mary Reeder,
80.

False character, conviction of a servant for

using, 252.

False and malicious statements, dismissal
of a policeman for, 251.

Felony, an intended, discovered by a cat,

Highwaymen, attack by, in Wales, on Mr
Apperly, 38.

Ignorance, a deplorable case of, 7.

Il conduct to his son, Mr. J. Waddington

charged with, 62.

Ill usage of scholars, fine on the rev. H.

Meere, grammar school, Rochester, 62;

on a national schoolmaster, Paddington,

10; on a schoolmaster, Withiel, Cornwall,

39.

Injunction against the site of the exhi-
bition refused, 3, 160.

Inquest on Martha Joachim, an eccentric
lady, Mary-le-bone, 10; Mary Carpenter,
Southwark, 80; on two children found
drowned at Exeter, 38.

Insanity, from religious fanaticism, 109.

Insurance policy, refusal of the Albion

company to pay, 158.

Irish parochial mode of getting rid of their

poor, 133.

Labour, its lowest price and results, 80.

Libel actions for Mr. F. O'Connor, M. P.

v. the Nottingham Journal, 39; Don

Pacifico v. the Morning Herald, 253;

Count de Thomar v. the Morning Post, 8;

Miss Sellon v. the Plymouth Journal, 108;

Smith v. Cook, 271.

Life in London, a scene from, 8.

Litigation, the spirit of, 159.

Loitering at a railway terminus, charge

of, 201.

Lunacy case of Mr. Pulteney W. Mein, 224;

Commission on Mr. A. H. M. Tollemache,

226.

Manslaughter of a child, verdict against
Captain Bushe, 200; of an Irish labourer,
against police sergeant Bushell, 225; of
her husband, trial of Jane Keitland for,
80; of Elizabeth Biggs, trial of, the
Southampton relieving officer for, 59; of
a child, trial of the Vauxhall bridge toll-
man for, 201.

Marital rights, refusal, of, 183.

Marriage registration, trial for a false, 133.

Medical students, disgraceful conduct of, 131.

Misery, a tale of, 79.

Mock agency office swindles, 108, 110, 132.

Mummy of a child discovered, 130.

Murders agrarian, in Ireland, Tipperary,

198, 230; Edward Hurley, Ballinahinch,

13; Mauleverer, land agent, 112; murder

of a child at Gravesend, by her aunt,

183; a death-bed confession of, 39;

discovery of a murder at Frome, 79; an

old murder at Skipton, 130; a double

murder near Edinburgh by a lunatic, 61;

murder of John Ellis, on board ship,

New Zealand, 198; murder by poison of

Mrs. Page, Stow, by her servant, 250;

murder of his son by a labourer, 131;

supposed murder of a child, 130; murder

and outrage at Leeds, by Irish emi-

grants, 251; murder and suicide of Dr.

Creighton, Ballinagh, 200; murder and

suicide of Alexander and Mrs. Novelli,

at Manchester, 9; murder and suicide

near Halifax, 61; committal of W. Hen-

ison for poisoning his wife, 81; convic-

tion for bigamy and murder, 183;

committal of Thomas Drury for the

murder of Jael Denny, 227; of two

Irishmen for the murder of a woman near

Newport, 79; their conviction, 182; of

John Lambourn for the murder of his

wife, 225; of A. Moir, baker, for beating

his wife to death, 62; conviction, 110;

trial of John Ager, for murder, 160; by

stabbing from jealousy of the Birds for

the murder of Mary Ann Parsons, 62;

second trial, 181; by starvation, Eliza

beth Bubb, of Maria Hood, 183; by

poison, W. Chadwick, of S.Turncliffe, 180;

by poison, Hannah Curtis, of her hus-

band, 183; Thomas Denny, of his child, by

stabbing, 79; Sarah Drake, of her bastard

son, by strangling, 8; Patrick Forbes,

for the murder of his wife, 181; Andrew

Forrest, of a gamekeeper by shooting, 7;

A. Levy, of his wife, by stabbing, 80;

William Ross, of his wife by poison, 180;

Thomas Waters, attempt to murder his

wife, 270; murder in France, 272.

Neglect of poor law officers, death from
hunger and starvation through, 224;
death of a tailor's apprentice from
neglect, 228.

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