A MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT TO HOUSEHOLD WORDS,
OFFICE, 16, WELLINGTON STREET NORTH.
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.
EDITORIAL NOTES-On the abolition of
intra-mural interments, 74, 121; Aus-
tralian colonies bill, 98; chief justiceship,
71; civil list, 144, 168; death of Lord
Jeffrey, 47; decline of England theory,
97, 217; education measures, 25, 26, 50;
franchise extension, 51; French ambas-
sador's recall, 116; Gorham and bishop
of Exeter, 25, 49; Greek blockade, 45,
68, 121; Baron Haynau's reception,
193; the laureateship, 263; law of divorce,
173; legislation for Ireland, 99, 122, 146,
170; oaths, abjuration, 168; O'Connor's land bubble, 26, 196; Sir Robert Peel,
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.
Palmerston, lord, testimonial to, 139;
banquet at the reform club, 162.
Peel, sir Robert, death of, 162-3; posthu-
mous memoirs, 186; will, 206.
Rogers, Mr. Samuel, accident to, 131.
Russell's, lord John, visit to Manchester,
85; colonial speech, 33; letter to the
bishop of Durham, 245; speech at Guild-
hall, 249.
Sellon's, Miss, correspondence with lord
Campbell, 82.
Tait's, Dr., farewell to Rugby school, 85.
Tennyson's, Mr., appointment to the
Laureateship, 262.
Waghorn, Mrs., pension to, 139.
Wilde's, sir T., elevation to the chancellor-
ship, 162.
Wiseman, Dr. Nicholas, elected cardinal, 187; appointment, 237; appeal to the people of England, 247; burnt in effigy, 249.
Petition, gross abuse at Liverpool of the
right of, 155.
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.
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,
Sea serpent, the, 206.
Smithfield market, common council's
discussion on, 156.
Steam communication with Australia, meeting to promote, 164.
Sunday cheap railway excursions, 204.
Sunday post-office labour, its reduction, 15;
abolition, 137; meetings of news-pro-
prietors, 137; deputations to govern-
ment, 156; its renewal, 179, 203.
Tailoring trade, meeting of masters to
consider the "sweating system," 65;
public meeting of workmen in Exeter
Hall, 15.
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,
Bainbrigge v. Bainbrigge-validity of a
will, 182.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Courts-exa-
mination of Mr. John Bull, 184; W.
Chittenden, 131; Mr. Delafield's certifi-
cate, 59, 111, 131; Lakeman and Co., com-
mercial transactions of Louis Philippe,
253; Martin Luther Pritchard's accounts,
111; imprisonment and suspension for
fraudulent concealment of property, 132,
252; application for capt. Talbot's dis-
charge, 10; Mr. Alaric A. Watts' certifi-
cate, 182; fraudulent bankruptcy of
Joseph William Williams, 9.
Barber's, W., application for the renewal
of his attorney's certificate, 157.
Beer-shop open on Sunday morning, con-
viction for, 199.
Betting lists, magisterial proscription of,
Bigamy, trial of Mary Fitzgerald for, 184;
Elizabeth Gilday, 228; Benjamin Grif-
fiths, 61; William Augustus Shean, 184;
Sophia Winter, 159; William Bennison,
for bigamy and murder, 184.
Bill transactions-lieut. Clements with
Lewis Joel, 9; lieut. Walter Lookhart
Scott with W. J. Ferris, 7; lieut. Bald-
win with Humbert, 81.
Border fray of Lord Brougham, 200.
Bosjesman, outbreak of ferocity, 112.
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,
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,
Firing a wheat stack, a false accusation of,
183; incendiary agricultural fires, 226;
trial of Mary Savill for firing a stack of
oats, 60.
Flogging, a magisterial advocate of, 110.
Forgery of Admiralty certificates, trial of
W. Smith and C. Niblett for, 60; on the
Austrian bank, 199; altering a marriage
register, 60; of acceptances, Elizabeth
Ann Chambers, 131; Lewis Joel, 9;
Augustus Styles, 199; a servant's letter
of recommendation, 252; W. Threlfall,
270.
Fraudulent use of Alderman Farebrother's
name, 8; obtaining money under false
pretences, 62, 82; feigned death of a
child, 108; begging imposture, 112;
begging letters to Prince Albert, 158;
to the Duchess of Orleans, 199; begging
in shops, 224; obtaining letters by fraud
from the post office, Leeds, 250.
Gamekeeper, two men shot at by a, county
court trial, 81.
Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter, decision of the
judicial committee of the Privy Council,
60; arguments in the Queen's Bench and
Arches' Court, 82; public meetings, 82; appeal to the Court of Common Pleas, 108; Court of Exchequer, 131, 157; pro- test tendered to the Arches' Court, 160; formal admission of Mr. Gorham, 182.
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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