THE REIGN OF VICTORIA (_continued_).
Army Reform--Mr. Trevelyan's Agitation--The Abolition of
Purchase--Mr. Cardwell's Bill--History of Purchase--Military
Opposition in the Commons--Rejection of the Bill by the House
of Lords--Abolition of Purchase by Royal Warrant--Indignation
in Parliament--The cost of Compensation--Mr. Lowe's Budget--The
Match-Tax--Its withdrawal--Mr. Goschen succeeds Mr. Childers--The
Ballot Bill--The Epping Forest Bill--Rejected Measures--The
Religious Tests Bill--Marriage of the Princess Louise--Sir Charles
Dilke's Lecture--The real State of the Civil List--Illness
of the Prince of Wales--Crises of the Disease--The Prayers
of the Nation--The Thanksgiving Service--Unpopularity of the
Government--The 25th Clause--Landing of the ex-Emperor of the
French--Resignation of Speaker Denison--Riot in Dublin--The
Home Rule Movement--Mr. Gladstone at Aberdeen--Assassination of
Mr. Justice Norman--Australian Federation--Russia repudiates
the Black Sea Clauses--Lord Granville's Despatch--Prince
Gortschakoff's Reply--A Conference Suggested--Meeting of the
Plenipotentiaries--Their Deliberations--Settlement of the
Difficulty--Obituary of the Year--Sir John Burgoyne, Lord
Ellenborough, Grote, Sir William Denison, and others.
At the opening of the year 1871 the German armies were still surrounding
Paris, and the raw levies and beaten veterans of France were attempting
a hopeless resistance in the Departments of the North, the East, and
the West. In England every one saw that the end of the struggle was
approaching; and the public mind began uneasily to ask the question, what
next? It has often been said that the feeling of England with regard
to her own condition alternates between irrational self-confidence and
irrational fear. It was now the turn of the latter feeling. The deadly
certainty of the German successes and the exhaustion of France drove the
minds of Englishmen to consider what would be their state of preparation
in the face of Moltke's tactics, supposing they had to face them on
English soil. By some the supposition of war with Germany was not held to
be unlikely; for, during the later months of 1870 there had been growing
in certain quarters a sense of sympathy with France so intense as to give
rise to a cry for war in her behalf. But this feeling, although those
who entertained it were people who could make themselves heard, never
spread widely enough to make the question of an armed alliance a serious
one. Still, it was natural and inevitable that a demand for army reform
should be loudly made on all sides, and it became apparent that army
reform was to be the question of the Session. Moreover, the direction
which the reform would take was unmistakable. The speeches that were made
throughout the country before the meeting of Parliament and in the early
months of the year--notably the speeches of Mr. George Otto Trevelyan,
a young Cambridge man who had lately entered public life as member for
the Border Boroughs--all struck one note, the note of the abolition of
purchase. Up till the year 1871, as is well known, the British Army was
officered by men who, with few exceptions, paid for their commissions. The
effect of this was that the officers were mostly sons of rich men--for the
pay of an officer was never remunerative enough to make poor men pay the
price of the commission as an investment--and that the style of living
was artificially raised so as to make it eminently undesirable for a poor
man to enter the army as an officer, even if he were able to raise money
enough to buy his commission. A second effect of the purchase system was
that men were admitted to be officers without any special evidence of
fitness for the service; if they could pay the price and pass an almost
nominal examination, they were admitted without further question. This,
then, was the state of things which many Liberals, such as Mr. Trevelyan,
wished to alter. They wished to throw open all commissions in the army
to competition; let the best-trained man, they said, be made an officer,
without any consideration of the length of his purse. As will be seen,
this demand prevailed in the end, but not without great difficulty. It
was not the only point on which the army reformers touched; for it was
not only the officering of the British Army, but its organisation, that
began to be severely criticised. Many speakers and writers thought that in
face of the enormous armies of the Continent, the principle of voluntary
enlistment must be at length given up in favour of that of compulsory
service. Many--less thorough-going than these--began to cry out for a more
capable militia, and for more Government encouragement to the volunteers.
And all agreed that the want of union between the different branches of
the service was a fatal hindrance to the efficiency of any of them.
The promised Bill was introduced by Mr. Cardwell, the Secretary at War,
very early in the Session; and it was seen that the increased outlay to
which the Queen's Speech had referred was to be a reality. The total
amount asked for in the estimates was £15,851,700, an increase of
£2,886,700 over the vote of 1870; although Mr. Cardwell explained that a
million of this would not be wanted in ordinary times. The gross addition
to the numerical strength of the regular army was to be 19,980 men, of
whom 5,000 were artillery, with a proportionate increase in the number of
guns. Mr. Disraeli had on the opening night of the Session made mockery
of the "attenuated armaments" to which, he said, the Liberal Government
had reduced the forces of the country. But Mr. Cardwell pointed to
his proposed figures, which showed a total of 497,000 men under arms:
135,000 regular troops, 139,000 Militia, 14,000 Yeomanry, 9,000 First
Army Reserve, 30,000 Second Army Reserve, and 170,000 Volunteers; and
guns appropriate to a force of 150,000 men. These forces, Mr. Cardwell
said, it was his object to combine into one whole; and the question was,
how to achieve that object. As far as men went, were they to be raised
by compulsion or voluntarily? As far as officers went, were they to
remain under a system of purchase or not? As far as the reserve forces
went, were they to be still under the control of the Lords-Lieutenant
of counties or not? To the first question, Mr. Cardwell answered that
he was not prepared, as yet, to resort to "anything so distasteful as
compulsory service." To the second and third he said that the Government
had made up its mind that purchase must be abolished, and that the
control of the militia and other auxiliary forces must be taken away from
the Lords-Lieutenant and given to the Queen. In fact, the abolition of
purchase and the increase of the efficiency of the reserve--together with
certain provisions for giving a "local connection" to every regiment--were
at once seen to be the principal features of the Bill. It is to the way in
which these subjects were dealt with by Parliament and the Prime Minister
that we may now turn.
The history of purchase in the army is the history of a practice of
various degrees of illegality, and of innumerable Royal Commissions
designed to solve the contradiction between practice and law. The
beginning of it dates from the reign of James II., who in 1683 issued
a warrant "ordering the payment of one shilling in the pound on the
surrender of a commission to the person surrendering, and by him to whom
the surrender is made." William III. made strenuous efforts to stop any
traffic in commissions, and his successor forbade it, except with the
royal approbation. But as early as 1702 the law courts had begun to
declare the lawfulness of purchase, and the Court of Chancery enforced
the payment of £600 from a lieutenant to his predecessor in a company.
Twenty years later we find the distinction, so familiar in the nineteenth
century, between "regulation prices" and "over-regulation prices"
clearly marked; and in the middle of the eighteenth century we come to a
commission definitely fixing the rate of payment to which officers should
be subject--deciding that an ensigncy should cost £400, and a colonelcy
£3,500. Royal Commissions continued to be issued at intervals, right up to
1856, and one and all seem to have reported in favour of purchase: partly
and ostensibly on the ground that the system helped to quicken promotion
and retirement, and partly, of course, that it secured that officers of
the army should be persons of "social position." It is hardly too much to
say that from the time of the Peace to the time of his death, the purchase
system in the British Army was kept up by the influence of the Duke of
Wellington, and notably by his celebrated memorandum of the year 1833. In
1856, at the end of the Russian War, when the Duke had been four years
dead, and the overpowering weight of his name had a little decreased,
the first note of a new policy was heard in the report of that year's
commission, which had examined as a witness Sir Charles Trevelyan, the
father of the young army reformer of the present year. This report advised
that no commissions should be sold above the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
About six more Royal Commissions were issued between 1856 and 1871 on army
subjects; until finally the war in France brought matters to a point, and
taught statesmen that the reform of the army was no longer to be trifled
with.
[Illustration: MR. (AFTERWARDS VISCOUNT) CARDWELL. (_From a Photograph by
Elliott & Fry, London, W._)]
When a Government once seriously took up the purchase system and
pronounced for its abolition, it was felt that purchase must go. Yet
no Government measure within the memory of man received such treatment
as this did from the hands of a varied and irritated opposition. Every
argument that self-interest could suggest or class feeling prompt was
urged with incredible pertinacity by the military members of the House
of Commons. It was insisted in vain that these military members did not
fairly represent the army, but that by the very fact of their being in
the House they showed themselves to be rich men, able to afford to resign
active service and to contest elections; "the colonels" still carried on
their opposition to every point of the Bill during four weary months. So
temperate a Liberal as Sir Roundell Palmer said of the conduct of the
military members, that a "course had been taken the like of which he
never remembered. Other great measures affecting great interests had been
opposed without the minority attempting to baffle the majority by mere
consumption of time. The minority who resisted the Irish Church Bill and
the Irish Land Bill had recognised the duty of respecting the principle
of Parliamentary government, that the decision of the majority shall be
binding. Conduct like that was neither in the interest of the country, of
the army, nor of Conservative principle." Yet the colonels did their work.
They drove Mr. Cardwell to cut down the Bill to the two divisions of the
abolition of purchase and the transfer of the powers of Lords-Lieutenant
over the militia and volunteer forces to the Crown. In this form the Bill
passed the third reading, and went up to the Lords.
In the Lords it met with opposition at once more dignified and more
effective. Nearly every eminent Conservative peer who had ever had
anything to do with the army said something in favour of purchase: one
supported it because it provided a cheap way of retirement, one because
the officers liked it, one because abolition would cost so much by way
of compensation, one because the old system had prevented the British
officer from becoming a "professional man with professional politics."
Lord Salisbury, whose tongue on this occasion was as rasping as usual,
suggested a new name for the new method: "If purchase had been described
as a system of seniority tempered by selection, the more correct formula
for the new system was stagnation tempered by jobbery." Lord Derby,
alone of the Tory peers, joined with the advocates of the Government in
supporting the Bill. As to expense, he said, "the expense of abolishing
purchase would be as oppressive years hence as now, and might be
even increased. As to delay, is it dignified to delay an inevitable
reform--inevitable because no institution is tenable in England unless
it admits of defence by arguments intelligible to the partially-educated
constituencies?" In the end the Duke of Richmond's motion, "that the House
of Lords declined to read the Bill a second time, until it had before it
a comprehensive plan," was carried by 150 to 125--a result not quite the
same as the rejection of the Bill, but still a grave blow to the Ministry.
The way in which Mr. Gladstone met it was original, and caused a throb
of excitement unusual in the calm realm of English politics. With that
suddenness for which his proceedings were at times famous, he abolished
purchase by a _coup d'état_. It was known beforehand that purchase was
only legal so far as the Queen's Regulations allowed it; and clearly
therefore all that was technically required for its abolition was that
the regulations should be altered so as to forbid it. But no one supposed
that, after months of debate and after a hostile vote in the House of
Lords, any Minister would have ventured to advise such a stretch of
Prerogative. Mr. Gladstone, however, was equal to the situation. Two days
after the division in the Lords, he announced to the astonished House
of Commons that purchase was already abolished; her Majesty having been
advised to cancel the old warrant that allowed it, and to issue a new
warrant that forbade it. "Therefore," he said, "after the first of next
November, purchase will cease to exist." His defence of this step was that
it was necessary to put an end to a state of uncertainty which endangered
the discipline of the army; and that, having secured the expression of
the opinion of the Commons against purchase, he held himself justified in
advising the Queen to exert her statutory right.
The anger of the Opposition at such a high-handed measure as this may be
easily conceived. Mr. Disraeli talked of "a shameful conspiracy against
the privileges of the other House": the Duke of Richmond moved and carried
a vote of censure in the House of Lords, for, as Lord Salisbury said,
if the Government Bill was a proper Bill, the abolition of purchase was
a question for Parliament to decide and Parliament only; and if the
act of the Queen's Ministers was constitutional, then their bringing
forward the Bill at all was disrespectful to the House. Therefore Mr.
Gladstone was in the dilemma of having either acted unconstitutionally or
disrespectfully to the House of Lords. Lord Cairns charged the Government
with having "strained and discredited the constitution of the country."
And a majority of eighty assented to the Duke of Richmond's proposition,
"that the interposition of the executive ... is calculated to depreciate
and neutralise the independent action of the Legislature." And in the
House of Commons, though no vote of censure was attempted, many Liberals,
such as Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens and Mr. Fawcett, sided with Mr. Disraeli
in protesting against this resort to prerogative; an act which, said
Mr. Fawcett, "if it had been done by a Tory Minister, would have been
denounced by Mr. Gladstone with the applause of the whole Liberal party."
The cost of the reform was very considerable indeed. Government proposed
to compensate the officers fully and liberally, paying them not just the
legal "regulation prices" for their commissions, but the "over-regulation
prices," which custom had legalised in the teeth of law. This compensation
it was estimated would amount to, at the very least, six millions
sterling--some said ten millions,--to be spread of course over a number
of years: a large sum to take from the shoulders of the benefited class,
and lay upon those of the general taxpayer.
The increased estimates for the year which the reform of the army made
necessary were a sore perplexity to Mr. Lowe, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. It is true he did not lament the high expenditure of the
fighting departments; for, he said, he regarded an efficient army and navy
as the best commercial investment in the world; but he had to face a large
estimated deficit--no less than £2,713,000. This he proposed to cover,
first, by charging the duties on wills and successions so as to make them
three times as productive as before; a slightly increased income tax; and,
above all, by a tax on matches. It was this last tax which attracted the
most attention; and its ultimate fate is a good illustration of the danger
of over-cleverness in matters of finance. Mr. Lowe had been afflicted
by the thought of the waste going on in the use of matches, and of the
perils attending such waste; and he thought that he might by one brilliant
stroke lead people to economical habits and add a million to the revenue.
For the number of matches annually made is almost inconceivably great; he
announced that it was five hundred and sixty millions of boxes, without
counting the forty or fifty millions of boxes of wax matches and fusees.
He proposed therefore to put a halfpenny tax on every box of matches--a
tax which, even if it had the effect of bringing down the manufacture
by a third, would contribute nearly a million to the receipts of the
year. But Mr. Lowe was either too much preoccupied to remember or too
cynical to care that the match-making trade is in the hands of the very
poorest of the London poor, and to tamper with it would be to turn many
thousands of human beings, most of them children, either into paupers or
into criminals. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had invented a motto for
the labels that he proposed to affix to every match-box; and to withdraw
the tax would be to nullify a good joke--an unanswerable argument against
withdrawal. "_Ex luce lucellum_"--"Out of light a tiny gain"--such was the
inscription that every box was to bear; a motto which was a keen delight
to the _quondam_ Oxford tutor who proposed the tax, but a sore puzzle to
the respectable House of Commons who listened to him, and which would
have probably been neither illuminating nor profitable to the housemaids
that were to use the matches. As it was, neither tax nor motto ever
came to anything. When the amusement at Mr. Lowe's pun had died away,
people began to see the serious nature of the proposal and the strong
objections to it. A procession of match-makers, squalid and miserable,
and some thousands strong, marched from Bethnal Green to Westminster to
protest against the tax, and it was withdrawn. The same fate befell Mr.
Lowe's proposal to increase the succession duties--a proposal that struck
a blow at one of the most cherished interests of the propertied class;
nor was there any better destiny awaiting the plan of altering the mode
of calculating the income-tax by a percentage, instead of so much in the
pound.
Nor were many of the other events of the Session such as to raise the
spirits of the Ministry. Mr. Childers, who, after a distinguished career
in Australia, had been returned as member for Pontefract and been made
First Lord of the Admiralty by Mr. Gladstone, was forced by ill-health to
resign. About his work, which at all events had been very thoroughgoing in
its way, the most different and extreme opinions prevailed; his friends
maintaining that his reforms had been the making of the navy, his enemies
that they had almost been its destruction. Mr. Goschen succeeded him; an
appointment that was severely criticised by those who thought it--the
Admiralty--the wrong place for a member for the City of London, but amply
justified by the speed with which the new First Lord mastered the details
of his new office, by the vigour of his administration, and by the breadth
of his views of public duty.
Only a very few of the remaining measures of this Session of Parliament
require notice. The Ballot Bill did not become law until the next year;
for Purchase kept it back until towards the end of June; the Opposition
carried on a furious warfare against it for five or six weeks; and when at
last it was sent up to the Lords, it was rejected by them, by ninety-seven
to forty-eight. The conduct of the Opposition was vexatious and could not
fail to be damaging to the Government; for no man's endurance can face
the loss of so many precious weeks without blaming his own side a little,
as well as his opponents. As the Bill was sent to the House of Lords, it
was a very different Bill from that which Mr. Forster had introduced;
and some considerable alteration was due to the Liberal side. Mr. Henry
James, for instance, helped by Mr. William Vernon-Harcourt--two gentlemen
who afterwards were, strangely enough, colleagues in Mr. Gladstone's
Government as Attorney- and Solicitor-General--threw out the very useful
provision, that election expenses should be charged on the rates.
A second, but a fortunate, Ministerial failure was the Epping Forest
Bill, in which Government proposed to appoint a commission for settling
the respective rights of the Crown, the commoners, and the lords of the
manor in Epping Forest. "The Forest" was the favourite holiday-ground
of the dwellers in the eastern half of London. For many years a
stealthy process of encroachment had been carried on by a few persons
who possessed manorial rights over the great common land. Such was the
state of the English law, that this kind of appropriation was quite
possible and very frequent. The lord of the manor, regarding a common as
so much waste land and grieved that so much land should be allowed to
go to waste, set to work to "improve" it; and to improve it, he had to
enclose it, until by the help of a few posts and rails, and a few years
of undisturbed possession, he established a prescriptive right to the
land and converted his shadowy manorial rights into absolute ownership.
This is exactly what was happening in Epping Forest, where the beauty
of the positions and their nearness to London promised immense rents to
enterprising lords of the manor who should venture to cut the land up
into building lots. Fortunately, however, the Crown has rights over the
"Royal Forest of Waltham," as Epping Forest is properly called, and the
encroaching lords of the manor had to deal with another body as well as
the commoners--namely, the Commissioners of Works. These commissioners,
however, had begun the bad practice of selling the rights of the Crown to
the lords of the manor. It was against this unpatriotic tampering with
encroachment that Mr. Fawcett protested; in the end, the _personnel_ of
the Government commission was strengthened by the addition of Mr. Locke,
and, on the motion of Mr. Cowper-Temple, the House decided that the Forest
ought to be preserved untouched as a recreation ground for the people. The
land recovered from the river by means of the Thames Embankment was also
preserved for the Londoners against the will of the Government.
The Bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister made no
progress this year; carried by the House of Commons, it was thrown out
as usual in the Lords. The Bill for extending the franchise to single
women rated to the relief of the poor, though rejected, was rejected by
a narrower majority than before; 151 voted for it, and 220 against it.
The motion of Mr. Miall for disestablishing the Church of England was
thought important enough to call out a strong debate. The Irish Church
Act had made the motion not only a possible one, but a motion to be
expected; and no fitter man could be found to bring it forward than the
editor of the _Nonconformist_. But the Dissenters were not strong enough
in the House to make their success at all probable; not even though, as
Mr. Disraeli charged them with being, they were "allied for the moment
with revolutionary philosophers." The debate was interesting, as bringing
not only a declaration of strong confidence in the Establishment from
the leader of the Conservative party, but also as calling out a similar
declaration from Mr. Gladstone, whose churchmanship had been thought
by friends and foes to be rapidly shifting from the point of view of
State-churchmanship he had held so vigorously in his youth. That opinion
had been rather encouraged this year by the success of the Government Bill
for the Abolition of Religious Tests in the Universities. This subject
had been agitated for many years, and it had become a recognised aim
of the Liberal party to carry the Bill. The universities--that is, the
resident teachers in Oxford and Cambridge--were singularly unanimous in
favour of it; and many a meeting had declared how unwilling they were any
longer to restrain the freedom of competition and study by retaining any
tests whatever. Before the abolition, although any one might be admitted
to a Bachelor's degree in Arts without subscribing to any declaration of
belief, he could not hold a fellowship, nor qualify himself, by taking
a Master's degree, for becoming a member of the governing body of the
university, unless he subscribed his assent to the Thirty-nine Articles.
It followed that a Dissenter could neither gain the great pecuniary prizes
of a student's career, nor could he vote in the Parliamentary elections
for the university, nor take any part in the government of the place. At
last, mainly perhaps through the efforts of the Solicitor-General, Sir
John Duke Coleridge (afterwards Lord Coleridge), the Bill became law,
although some restrictions were still kept up. The test at the M.A. degree
was abolished entirely, and no test was allowed to be applied in elections
to fellowships. But the distinction between lay and clerical fellowships
was still retained, in spite of Mr. Fawcett's proposal to merge them.
Heads of houses, except in one or two cases, were still to be clergymen
of the Establishment; and the test was to be kept up in Divinity degrees.
The other Bill of importance that became law this Session was a Trades'
Union Bill, designed as a compromise between the extreme views of masters
and men. It may also be mentioned that this year saw also the final repeal
of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, passed at the initiative of Lord John
Russell at the time of the "Papal Aggressions."
The marriage of her Majesty's fourth daughter, the Princess Louise, to the
Marquis of Lorne, the eldest son of the Duke of Argyll, was celebrated
with great state at Windsor Castle on the 21st of March, 1871. For
the first time since the passing of the Royal Marriage Act in 1772, a
descendant of George II. married a commoner with the full consent and
approval of the reigning Sovereign. The Queen stood by her daughter's side
during the ceremony, which was performed by the Bishop of London, assisted
by the Bishop of Winchester, and gave the Princess away.
[Illustration: PROCESSION OF MATCH-MAKERS TO WESTMINSTER. (_See p._ 599.)]
A lecture given at Newcastle in August by Sir Charles Dilke, one of the
members for Chelsea, on the subject of "Representation and Royalty,"
excited much comment. Desiring to recommend to his hearers republican
simplicity and cheapness, and forgetting that there are institutions, as
there are public characters, which are dear at any price, Sir Charles
Dilke enlarged on the terrible expensiveness of royalty to the nation.
The positive and direct cost of the institution he estimated at about a
million a year; he complained of the large sums spent on royal yachts, and
of the "scandalous exemption" by which, as he said, her Majesty's income
was not subject to the payment of income-tax. On all these points full
and satisfactory answers were made to the allegations of the honourable
baronet. The bulk of the expenditure incurred in the support of British
royalty--namely, the Civil List--was really not one bit more an expense
to the country than the rental of Woburn Abbey or Trentham Park, or the
dividends received by Sir Charles Dilke himself on any India or railway
stock he might have inherited from his father. The Queen received nearly
£400,000 a year in respect of the Civil List from the general revenue;
but she gave up to the general revenue rents that amounted pretty nearly
to the same annual total. These were the rents of the Crown lands, which
belonged to her Majesty by exactly the same title that Trentham belonged
to the Duke of Sutherland; but which, by a fair and equitable bargain,
she abandoned to the nation in exchange for the Civil List. With regard
to the exemption from income-tax, it appeared on inquiry that there was
nothing "scandalous" in the matter, except the assertion of Sir Charles
Dilke, which turned out to be absolutely unfounded, the Queen having paid
income-tax from the day of its first imposition. Strange to say, the
lecture excited in the lower classes rather a disgust of Republicanism
than the opposite feeling, as the riotous conduct of the mob at several
subsequent gatherings of Sir Charles Dilke's disciples and adherents
plainly evinced.
Before the close of the year testimony of the most direct and
unimpeachable character was furnished to the popularity of the Queen and
the royal family. Early in November the Prince of Wales paid a visit
for a few days to Lord Londesborough's seat near Scarborough. It was
supposed that there was some defect in the drainage of the house, which
stands close to the sea, and that the seeds of typhoid fever were thus
implanted in the Prince's frame. After his return to Sandringham he was
taken ill, the fever being of a low and lingering type, and he continued
in much the same condition for several weeks, during which her Majesty,
accompanied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, visited Sandringham.
On the 1st of December, the Prince appearing to be no worse, the Queen
returned to Windsor. That some dangerous miasma lurked in the precincts of
Londesborough Lodge seemed to be proved by the death, on this same day,
of the Earl of Chesterfield, who had been one of the party invited to the
house to meet the Prince, and was attacked by a fever of the same kind
in so severe a form that he sank from collapse. A groom who had been in
attendance on the Prince during the same visit was also attacked.
During November, and till the end of the first week of the following
month, no serious symptoms appeared, and the attack was supposed to be
passing away; but, on the 8th of December, a decided relapse declared
itself, and for several days the life of the Prince of Wales was in the
most imminent danger. The Queen, accompanied by some and followed by
others of her children, hurried again to Sandringham.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, by the desire of the Queen, composed
appropriate forms of prayer, which were used on and after the 10th of
December, for several days, in every church and chapel of the Church of
England throughout the realm. Archbishop Manning ordered prayers with the
like intention to be offered up in all Roman Catholic places of worship;
nor was the strain of supplication less fervent in the chapels of the
Dissenters or the synagogues of the Jews. With wonderful "petitionary
vehemence" was the safety of that life implored from heaven; and that life
was spared. On the night of Wednesday, the 14th of December, a slight turn
for the better took place in the worse symptoms, and the invalid enjoyed
the long-desired boon of refreshing sleep. From that time he gradually,
though slowly, rose to convalescence and ultimately to perfect health. The
groom who had been attacked by the fever, after progressing favourably for
some time, had a relapse, and died on the 18th of December.
After the health of the Prince was completely re-established, on the
27th of February in the following year a solemn service of Thanksgiving,
attended both by the Queen and by the Prince himself, was held in St.
Paul's Cathedral. The weather was all that could be desired; and although
the line of the procession from Buckingham Palace to the Cathedral was
thronged by immense multitudes of people, no accident and no mistake
occurred. Her Majesty was received by the Lord Mayor at Temple Bar, and by
the Bishop of London and the Dean and Chapter at the western gate of the
Cathedral. The arrangements for the service were made with great precision
of etiquette and pomp of ceremonial. A "Te Deum," composed for the
occasion by Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Goss, was first sung by a choir of
250 voices, selected from the best cathedral and chapel choirs in England.
Then the special form of Thanksgiving was read, and after a sermon from
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the congregation was dismissed, care having
been taken to reduce the whole service within such reasonable limits that
the Prince's strength might be equal to it. In the evening, St Paul's and
the principal streets were magnificently illuminated.
[Illustration: THE THANKSGIVING SERVICE, 27th OF FEBRUARY, 1872: THE
PROCESSION AT LUDGATE HILL.
FROM THE PAINTING IN THE ROYAL COLLECTION BY N. CHEVALIER.]
All through the year a growing dissatisfaction with the conduct of the
Government exhibited itself in various ways. A portion of the electors of
Greenwich, irritated, it would seem, at the continued slackness of the
shipbuilding trade at Deptford (though it is difficult to see how the
Premier could be made answerable for that), sent a requisition to Mr.
Gladstone, their member, couched in most uncomplimentary terms, demanding
of him the resignation of his seat. Several public meetings were held and
largely attended, while the fate of Paris still hung in the balance, to
protest against the Government's apathy and inaction, which had the effect
of effacing Great Britain from European politics. In March and April
several demonstrations of "Red Republicans" in London aimed at awakening
sympathy for their friends who were fighting for the Commune in Paris. But
neither their numbers nor the ability of their speakers were in the least
formidable. On the other hand, the impartial lover of his country could
not but acknowledge that much was due to a Government which had framed and
carried a measure that now, for the first time since England was a nation,
carried the healthful influences of primary instruction into every corner
of the land. During the last half of 1870, and the first months of 1871,
the Education Department was actively employed in gaining, through its
inspectors and agents, the necessary statistical information required for
the effectual working of the Act. Great progress had been made in this
respect by the summer of 1871, and nearly three hundred school boards,
elected under the provisions of the Education Act, were established in the
course of the year. Unfortunately, a little rift of dissidence made its
appearance about this time. This divergence of opinion related to the 25th
Clause. By this clause it was provided that in districts where there was
a school board, if there were any children whose parents pleaded poverty
as an excuse for not sending them to school, and the board admitted the
plea as a good one, such children should be placed at any Government
school within the school-board district which the parent or guardian might
prefer, their fees at such schools being paid by the board. On the face
of it, there seemed nothing unequal or unfair in such a provision, since
it applied equally to all sects and denominations. But the Dissenters
considered that the clause would act to the exclusive benefit of the
Church of England, to which destitute parents who have no connection with
any other religious body naturally gravitate. The children of educational
paupers, or nine out of ten of them, would thus be indubitably sent,
they thought, to Church schools, where they would be taught the Church
Catechism and whatever else is distinctive of Anglicanism at the expense
of the rates, which would thus be indirectly drawn upon on behalf of a
Church that was too rich and too independent of the laity already. As a
matter of fact, the number of these educational paupers, the whole land
over, was very small. Circumstances, however, might easily be imagined
in which their numbers would greatly increase, and then the grievance
resented by the Dissenters would immediately arise.
About the time that the newly-chosen German Emperor was making his
triumphal entry into Berlin, another Emperor, exchanging his palace-prison
for the land where he was to live as an exile, set foot, not for the
first time, on the hospitable shores of England. The war being at an end,
and the treaty of peace signed, the Emperor Napoleon was free to leave
Wilhelmshöhe. He arrived at Dover by steamer from Ostend on the afternoon
of the 20th of March. The day was fine and the Empress and her son, the
Prince Imperial had come down from Chislehurst to welcome the exile. The
Prince, following the kindly Continental custom, kissed his father on both
cheeks. The crowd, though animated by the best and most generous feelings,
was a trifle boisterous in its overflowing cordiality; the imperial party
were sometimes nearly carried off their feet, so great was the pressure in
the street, as they walked up to the Lord Warden Hotel, and the services
of the police were called into active exercise. Napoleon was said to be
much altered in appearance, his hair and moustache having become quite
grey, but to look in good health. The ex-Emperor fixed his permanent
residence with the Empress at Chislehurst.
Towards the end of the year, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr.
Evelyn Denison, feeling the advance of age and the pressure of the arduous
and trying duties inseparable from his office, resigned the Speakership,
and was soon afterwards elevated to the peerage, taking the title of Lord
Ossington. He was succeeded by Mr. Brand, the member for Cambridgeshire,
long known as one of the most efficient of Liberal "Whips."
A visit paid this year by Prince Arthur to Ireland, though it elicited
much friendly and loyal feeling, was not unattended by painful incidents.
The Prince was accompanied by his sister, the Princess Louise, and the
Marquis of Lorne. The royal party were received in all public places with
the same respect and loyalty as usual, and the visit was nearly coming
quietly to an end; but, on the day before the Prince departed, a riot of
a serious character took place in the Phœnix Park. The "Irreconcilable"
party in Ireland announced their intention of holding a public meeting in
the Phœnix Park on the 6th of August, in order to adopt a petition for the
liberation of the Irish military prisoners confined for Fenianism. The
authorities forbade the meeting to be held; the promoters persisted in
holding it; and when the police, in pursuance of their orders, endeavoured
to disperse the crowd, and prohibit anything like concerted action or
public speaking, a serious affray was the consequence. The police appear
to have acted with great and hardly excusable violence; and when it is
considered that at this very time the Government did not interfere with
the meetings of Red Republicans in Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square, that
is, in the heart of London, while the Phœnix Park, a piece of open ground
of immense extent, lies at a distance from the busy part of Dublin, the
indignation expressed by the Nationalists at the forcible suppression of
the meeting cannot be wondered at.
[Illustration: THE PRINCE OF WALES (AFTERWARDS EDWARD VII.) IN HIS ROBES
AS A BENCHER OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.
(_From a Photograph by W. & D. Downey._)]
Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party in general having entered upon the
policy of conciliation to Ireland, both in regard to the Irish Church
and to the tenure of the land, from a conviction that these important
measures were demanded by justice, did not repent of what they did; yet it
must be confessed that the sanguine anticipations of seeing peace, union,
contentment, and gratitude diffused over the sister island in consequence
of this legislation were wofully disappointed. The marked warmth and
heartiness with which a French deputation, headed by Count Flavigny, that
came over to Ireland in the summer of 1871 to make a public acknowledgment
of the services rendered during the war by the Irish ambulance, was
received by the masses of the Irish population was understood to cover
and indicate at least as much dislike of England as affection for
France. Nor was this feeling now confined to the Celtic portion of the
population. A section of Protestants, among whom the most prominent figure
was a distinguished Fellow of Trinity College, resented so keenly the
conduct of England in having sacrificed their Church to, as they deemed,
a miserable political expediency, and the clap-trap plea of numbers,
that they eagerly joined that large disaffected mass of the native and
Roman Catholic population which, about this time (direct agitation for a
repeal of the Union being discouraged by the experience of 1844), began
to seek the same end under the newly invented name of "Home Rule." The
leader of this movement, Mr. Isaac Butt, the member for Limerick, was one,
and not the least gifted, of the brilliant band of counsel who rallied
round O'Connell on the occasion of his trial for exciting to sedition
in January, 1844. The movement for Home Rule which he now took up had
this advantage, that while the very name implied a certain degree of
separation from England, and therefore insured for it popularity, its
vagueness made it more difficult for opponents to grapple with it. All
that those who gave in their adhesion to the agitation need necessarily
contemplate was the transfer to some legislative body established in
Ireland of the management of the purely local concerns of the kingdom.
It meant the practical self-government of Ireland, and the exclusion of
English influence from the conduct of its affairs, with the exception of a
few specified departments, such as the Army and Navy, foreign relations,
and the Post Office. While Mr. Butt was leader, however, Home Rule never
emerged from a purely academic stage.
[Illustration: THE THANKSGIVING SERVICE IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. (_See p._
602.)]
Mr. Gladstone delivered an important speech on this question at Aberdeen
towards the close of the year, in which he based his opposition to Home
Rule, not on prospective or hypothetical dangers, but on consideration
of the argument that the Irish, if they would combine together, and
become as keenly alive to their own interests as the Scots or the Welsh
are, could obtain whatever they might reasonably demand. "You would
expect," he said, "when it is said that the Imperial Parliament is to
be broken up, that at the very least a case should be made out showing
there were great objects of policy, and great demands necessary for the
welfare of Ireland, which representatives of Ireland had united to ask,
and which the representatives of England, Scotland, and Wales had united
to refuse. There is no such grievance. There is nothing which Ireland
has asked, and which this country and this Parliament have refused." He
proceeded to admit that Ireland had something like a grievance in regard
to university education, but urged that a united demand from Ireland
would lead immediately to its rectification; and continued: "What are
the inequalities of England and Ireland? I declare that I know none,
except that there are certain taxes still remaining which are levied over
Englishmen and are not levied over Irishmen, and likewise that there are
certain purposes for which public money is freely and largely given in
Ireland, and for which it is not given in England or Scotland.... But if
the doctrines of Home Rule are to be established in Ireland, I protest
on your behalf that you will be just as well entitled to it in Scotland;
and, moreover, I protest on behalf of Wales, in which I have lived a good
deal, and where there are 800,000 people who this day, such is their
sentiment of nationality, speak hardly anything but their own Celtic
tongue--a larger number than speak the Celtic tongue, I apprehend, in
Scotland, and a larger number than speak it, I apprehend, in Ireland--I
protest on behalf of Wales that they are entitled to Home Rule there. Can
any sensible man, can any rational man, suppose that at this time of day,
in this condition of the world, we are going to disintegrate the great
capital institutions of this country for the purpose of making ourselves
ridiculous in the sight of all mankind, and crippling any power we possess
for bestowing benefits through legislation on the country to which we
belong?"
A tragic event, the prelude, as it proved, to one still more tragic, was
announced in the autumn from Calcutta. Mr. Justice Norman, acting Lord
Chief Justice, was assassinated by a fanatical Mussulman while ascending
the steps leading to his own court. He had reached the summit of the
flight of steps, when a man, who had been concealed in a doorway, sprang
out and stabbed him in the back. Mr. Norman turned quickly round, and
was stabbed again in front: either wound, being inflicted by one who was
an adept in the art of murder, would have been fatal. The assassin was
immediately seized. The evidence given on the trial left it doubtful
whether pure fanatical hate towards a judge who had lately been enforcing
the law against some Mohammedan conspirators at Patna was the cause of the
murder, or whether some private grudge supplied a subsidiary motive.
What looked like an important step towards the co-ordination in one
confederacy of the Australian colonies was taken in the autumn of this
year. A new treaty between Great Britain and the Zollverein was being
negotiated; and it would appear that Lord Kimberley, the Colonial
Secretary, in a circular despatch to the Australian Governments, used
certain expressions in relation thereto which seemed to the colonists
to imply the recognition of a right on the part of the mother country
to concede, and on the part of a foreign country to claim, certain
tariff arrangements as between the different colonies which would be
favourable to the interests of the treaty-making Power. Delegates from the
Governments of New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria
met at Melbourne, in September, 1871, to consider the question; and having
carefully examined Lord Kimberley's despatch, agreed unanimously to the
following resolutions:--
1. "That the Australian colonies claim to enter into arrangements with
each other, through their respective Legislatures, so as to provide for
the reciprocal admission of their respective products and manufactures,
either duty free or on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon.
2. "That no treaty entered into by the Imperial Government with any
foreign Power should in any way limit or impede the exercise of such right.
3. "That Imperial interference with inter-colonial fiscal legislation
should finally and absolutely cease.
4. "That so much of an Act or Acts of the Imperial Parliament as may be
considered to prohibit the full exercise of such right should be repealed.
5. "That these resolutions, together with a memorandum from each
Government, or a joint memorandum from such Governments as prefer to adopt
that method, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State through the
Governors of our colonies respectively." The movement, however, proved
premature, so far at least as it concerned inter-colonial (that is,
Australian) Federation. Nor had the larger project of Imperial Federation
come within the view of the statesmen of the day.
In September, 1870, a circumstance had occurred that gave us the
disagreeable certainty that, although secured from the direct risks of
war by what Mr. Gladstone called "the silver streak," we too might be
injuriously affected by the disturbance of the European equilibrium
caused by the prostration of France. A circular note, addressed by Prince
Gortschakoff to the representatives of Russia at foreign Courts, and
made public at the end of October, declared that it was the intention of
his Majesty the Czar no longer to be bound by that clause of the Treaty
of 1856, concluded after the Crimean War, which prohibited Russia from
keeping up a naval force above a certain strength in the Black Sea. Lord
Granville, in a despatch to Sir A. Buchanan dated the 10th of November,
1870, stated that the British Government could give no sanction to the
course announced by Prince Gortschakoff.
The concilatory tone adopted by Prince Gortschakoff in his reply to Lord
Granville went some way to neutralise the disagreeable impression which
the circular had produced. He would not admit that Russia encouraged a
laxity of principle in regard to the obligation of treaties; and in the
case of this particular treaty he declared that in its main stipulations
Russia considered it as binding as ever, although she declined to be bound
any longer by the special convention with Turkey which it contained,
regulating the number and size of the men-of-war which the two Powers
might maintain in the Black Sea. With regard to the objection that Russia
had not sought for a modification of the treaty through the medium of a
conference, Prince Gortschakoff remarked that Lord Granville well knew
that "all the efforts repeatedly made to unite the Powers in a common
deliberation, in order to do away with the causes of complication which
trouble the general peace, have constantly failed."
There was something deceptive in this way of stating the matter, because
it did not follow, if difficulties had arisen in the way of the meeting
of congresses to settle all the perplexing questions of Europe, that
therefore a proposal by Russia for a conference of the signatory Powers
to discuss the comparatively unimportant matter now on the _tapis_ would
have encountered any serious opposition. Lord Granville pointed out this
distinction, admitting at the same time with satisfaction the moderation
and courtesy of tone by which the Russian despatches were distinguished.
Here, as between England and Russia, the matter rested. But a doubt
remained whether the conduct of Russia had not been previously sanctioned,
possibly even instigated, by the Court of Berlin. Mr. Odo Russell was
sent to clear up this delicate point, and brought back the tranquillising
assurance from Count Bismarck that the German Government had given no
sanction to the step. At the same time a proposal was made by Prussia that
a conference of the Powers should be summoned, and meet in London, in
order to settle the question.
This conference accordingly met in London on the 17th of January. The
presence of a French Plenipotentiary at the Conference had been earnestly
desired, and M. Jules Favre had been requested to attend it by the Paris
Government. But difficulties arose in connection with his obtaining
permission to pass out of Paris through the Prussian lines; and when the
permission was obtained--or, rather, when through the close of the siege
the difficulty no longer existed--M. Favre had his hands so full of the
work of negotiating the armistice with Bismarck that it was impossible for
him to leave Paris. The plenipotentiaries of the other Powers--Britain,
Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia, and Turkey--proceeded, though with
reluctance, to the deliberation of the question.
At the first sitting the Conference adopted, unanimously, on the
invitation of Lord Granville, the principle that no one of the two or
more Powers that may be parties to a treaty can nullify the same, or any
part of it, without the consent of the co-signatory Powers. At subsequent
meetings, the reasons alleged by Russia for her desire to be liberated
from the prohibitory stipulation respecting war-ships contained in the
Black Sea Treaty were listened to and considered, as well as the reply of
the Turkish Ambassador, who, while repudiating on behalf of Turkey all
intention of separating her action from that approved by the majority of
the friendly Powers, regretted that the question had ever been raised,
and declared that the restrictive clause which Russia now felt to be
unendurable still appeared to the Sublime Porte in the light of a prudent
and desirable precaution. Upon minute inquiry, it was found that ten cases
of infraction of the Convention of 1856, forbidding the navigation of
the Black Sea by ships-of-war, had occurred in the intervening period.
Most of these were unimportant; but there was one on which Russia laid
much stress, having, indeed, protested against it at the time when it
occurred. This was the admission into the Black Sea of H.M.S. _Gannet_,
in which Sir Henry Bulwer was conveyed (1864) on a mission to Kustendji.
General Ignatieff, the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, told the
British representative there, about the year 1870, that Russia considered
the clauses neutralising the Black Sea to have been annulled in practice
from the time when H.M.S. _Gannet_ passed through the Bosphorus into the
prohibited waters six years before.
The sense of the Conference was, on the whole, in favour of remitting
the restriction which Russia complained of; and a new treaty was drawn
up, and signed by all the Powers, by virtue of which the articles of the
Treaty of 1856 limiting the number and size of the ships-of-war which
Russia and Turkey might keep up in the Black Sea were abrogated, and a
new provision was introduced, authorising the Sultan to open the straits
of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus in time of peace to the fleets of
the friendly and allied Powers, in the event of the execution of the
stipulations of the Treaty of 1856 requiring it. The meaning of this
stipulation, of course, was, that if Russia took advantage of the liberty
which she now had of preparing a large fleet for the ultimate purpose of
attacking Turkey, the latter would be entitled, without the breach of any
treaty stipulation, to summon the Mediterranean fleet of France or England
to her aid.
After the draft of the treaty had been settled, at the sitting of the 13th
of March, Earl Granville introduced the Duc de Broglie to the Conference
as the representative of France. In a few dignified sentences, the duke,
after touching lightly but feelingly on the unhappy condition of France,
which had prevented her from being represented at the earlier sittings,
stated that, with regard to the principal object of the Conference,
the French Government, sharing the feelings expressed by the Turkish
Plenipotentiary, would have preferred that the original convention for
neutralising the Black Sea should be maintained; but that at the stage at
which the affair had now arrived, the new arrangement having been assented
to by the Porte, France willingly entered into the feeling of conciliation
that had dictated it, and gave its assent to all the decisions of the
Conference.
The obituary of the year contains the names of many persons of eminence.
Although the death of no statesman of the first rank has to be recorded,
the army lost its patriarch, Sir John Burgoyne; the Church of England
lost Dean Alford of Canterbury, Dean Mansel of St. Paul's, the once
famous preacher, Canon Melvill, and the much-loved missionary bishop,
John Coleridge Patteson; science lost Sir John Herschel, Sir Roderick
Murchison, Mr. Charles Babbage, and Mr. De Morgan; literature and
politics lost the veteran George Grote; and about the same time as the
"Philosophical Radical" and historian of Greece there died the famous
old Devonshire Tory, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland. Lord Ellenborough, once
the much-admired and much-criticised Governor-General of India, Sir W.
Denison, once Governor of Tasmania and Madras, Mr. Charles Buxton, an
influential Member of Parliament and philanthropist, died in the same
year. The death of George Hudson, the "Railway King," gave people an
opportunity for moralising on the vicissitudes of life.
INDEX.
Aberdeen, Lord, Prime Minister, 11, 15;
influence on Crimean war, 76;
on position of Russia in Asia, 135.
Abyssinian war: the unanswered letter, 463, 479;
crescent and cross, 476;
Consul Plowden, 476, 477;
Theodore, 477;
Consul Cameron, 478, 479;
German missionaries imprisoned, 479;
Mr. Rassam, 480-483;
war determined on, 483, 484;
march to Magdala, 486-488;
Theodore's army destroyed, 488;
negotiations, 490;
storming of Magdala, suicide of Theodore, 491;
end of the war, 492.
Adullamites, The, 392.
Agra and Masterman's Bank fails, 410.
Agra, Surprise and fight at, 241.
Agricultural labourers' strike, 459.
_Alabama_, Building and escape of, 331-333;
fight with _Kearsarge_, 361.
Albert, Prince, and the Great Exhibition of 1851, 4;
illness and death, 328.
Alexander becomes Czar of Russia, 86;
visits the Crimea, 145, 146.
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 338.
Alford, Dean, Death of, 608.
Alfred, Prince, Attempt to assassinate, 474.
Allahabad, Outbreak of mutiny at, 211.
Alma, Battle of, 44-50.
Alsace and Lorraine ceded to Germany, 594.
Alumbagh, Battle at, 247.
America, United States of: causes that led to the Civil War, 319;
States secede, 320, 322;
capture of Fort Sumter, 321;
Bull Run, 322;
the _Alabama_, 330-333;
progress of the war, 333, 334, 341, 361;
fight between _Alabama_ and _Kearsarge_, 361;
Lincoln re-elected President, 362;
Canada and the war, 362;
the end approaching, 380;
the Southern armies surrender, 382;
losses during the war, 382;
President Lincoln assassinated, 382;
Atlantic Cable completed, 407;
General Grant President, 517.
Aong, Battle of, 220.
Aosta, Duke of, accepts Spanish Crown, 578.
Anson, General, 187, 195;
death, 196.
Arbitration, International, 157.
Armenia, Campaign in, 136.
Army, British, State of, before Crimean war, 75, 76;
after Inkermann, 80;
mortality, 82, 83;
in winter quarters, 146.
Army, Indian native, State of, 182;
disbanding regiments in, 187, 188, 193, 194, 197, 206, 228, 230;
caste abolished in, 276;
reorganised, 284-286, 314.
Army and navy estimates, etc., 364, 544.
Army reforms, 545;
history of Purchase, and Bill to abolish, 595, 596;
Purchase abolished by Royal warrant, 598.
_Arrow_, Affair of the, 169-174.
Arthur, Prince, visit to Ireland, 603.
Ashanti war, 350.
Atlantic cable, Laying the, 406-408.
Aurelles de Paladines, 585, 586.
Australian colonies and federation, 606, 607.
Austria, attitude on Eastern question, 15, 26, 27, 35;
and the Crimean war, 91, 147, 148, 150;
occupation of Italy, 166;
and the Italian question, 295;
prepares for war, 296, 298;
defeated, 299;
peace of Villafranca, 302;
Schleswig-Holstein dispute, 354-361;
dispute with Prussia, 418;
convention of Gastein, 419;
prepares for war, 420;
offers Venetia to Italy, 422;
war with Prussia, 424-428;
conditions of peace, 429;
settles affairs with Hungary, 462, 463;
attitude in the Franco-German war, 558, 570.
Azoff, Sea of, Admiral Lyons in, 101.
Badlee Serai, Battle at, 204.
Baidar valley, French posts in, 119.
Baines, Mr., abortive Reform Bill, 365.
Balaclava, Battle of, 59-64;
results of, 64;
demonstrations and defences at, 120.
Ballot Bill rejected, 559.
Baltic, Departure of fleet for the, 34;
Russian fleet in, 72;
allied fleet in, 132-134.
Banda and Kirwee prize money settled, 411.
Bank failures, etc., 409-411.
Bareilly, Mutiny at, 200;
battle of, 268.
Barnard, Sir Henry, 203;
death of, 226.
Barrackpore, Outbreak of mutiny at, 187.
Bazaine, Marshal, 559, 561;
sortie from Metz, 582;
and Bismarck, 583.
Beales, Edmund, Hyde Park riots, 402-404.
Belfast, Riots in, 349, 350.
Belfort, Capitulation of, 592.
Belgium, French and Prussian designs on, 555;
independence guaranteed, 556.
Benares, Outbreak of mutiny at, 211.
Benedetti and Franco-German war, 552.
Berhampore, Outbreak of mutiny at, 186.
Birmingham "No Popery" riots, 475.
Bismarck, Austro-Prussian war, 418-424;
Franco-German war, 552, 555, 566, 579.
Bithoor, Battle of, 224.
Black Friday, 409-411.
Black Sea, Allied Fleet in the, 37;
storms in, 74, 75;
neutralisation of, 155;
conference, 607;
a new treaty, 608.
Blockades, Declaration of Paris, 156.
Bolgrad, Dispute concerning, 159.
Bomarsund, Expedition against, 73, 74.
Bombardment of Paris, 590, 591.
Borny, Battle of, 561.
Boroughs, Bill regulating boundaries of, 467.
Bothnia, Capt. Storey in Gulf of, 132.
Bourbaki, General, 583, 591, 592.
Bowring, Sir John, and Chinese war, 169.
Brazil, Outrage on British subjects in, 340.
Brigands, Greek, murder English tourists, 540-544.
Bright, John, agitates for Parliamentary reform, 289;
speech on Disraeli's Bill, 291;
on the death of Cobden, 378;
defends the Queen, 408;
on Disraeli's Reform Bill, 440, 447, 448;
on the right of meeting in the parks, 454.
Broadhead, and Sheffield outrages, 458.
Brooke, Sir James (Rajah), Death of, 475.
Brougham, Lord, Death of, 475.
Brown, Sir George, Kertch expedition, 100.
Bruat, Admiral, Kertch expedition, 100.
Bruce, Mr., National Education Bill, 452.
Bull Run, Battle of, 322.
Burgoyne, Sir John, 84;
death of, 608.
Burmese war, 160.
Busserutgunge, Battle of, 223, 224.
Butt, Mr. Isaac, and Home Rule, 606.
Cable, the Atlantic, Laying of, 406-408.
Cairns, Sir Hugh, on Parliamentary Reform, 291, 448, 450;
Lord Chancellor, 466.
Calcutta, Opinions at, respecting the mutiny, 210;
cyclone in, 352.
Calpee, Battle of, 274.
Cambridge, Duke of, at Inkermann, 68, 70.
Cameron, Consul, in Abyssinia, 479, 481.
Campbell, Sir Colin, in the Crimea, 58, 59;
commands Indian army, 246;
prepares to relieve Lucknow, 251;
at Cawnpore, 256;
Shumshabad, 262;
Bareilly, 268.
Canada and the American Civil War, 362, 383;
defences of Quebec and Montreal, 383;
Fenian invasion, 416, 417.
Canning, Lord, Governor-General of India, 210;
mutiny at Dinapore, 225;
his proclamation, 267;
viceroy, 279;
reorganises the Government, 284;
rewards loyal Rajahs, 286.
Canrobert, General, in Crimea, 52, 90, 113.
Canton, Bombardment of, 170.
Cardigan, Lord, at Balaclava, 62.
Cardwell, Mr., army estimates, 545, 596.
Cashmere gate blown up, 235.
Caste in the Indian army, 183;
abolished, 276.
Cathcart, Sir George, death, 70.
Cattle Plague outbreak, 371, 372.
Cawnpore, Outbreak of mutiny at, 211;
Nana Sahib's treachery, 213;
sufferings of the garrison, 214;
heroic defence, 215;
massacre at the Ghaut, escape of survivors, 216;
battle at, 220-222;
the massacre at, 222, 223.
Central India, State of affairs in, 216, 259;
Rose's campaign, 270-276;
Sir R. Napier commands in, 276.
Chandaree, Storming of, 272.
Chanzy, General, 585, 586, 587, 590.
Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, 60;
of the Light Brigade, 62-64.
Charities, Proposal to tax, 369.
Chester Castle, Fenians threaten, 454, 455.
Childers, Mr., navy estimates, etc., 544, 599.
Children employed in agriculture, 452.
China, Troops for, intercepted for Indian mutiny, 251;
expedition to enforce treaty of Tientsin, 316-319;
war, 351.
Chinese war, affair of the _Arrow_, 169;
discussion in Parliament, 169-174;
Canton bombarded, 174.
Chinhut, British repulsed at, 218.
Cholera in England in 1866, 406.
Chronological order of Indian mutiny, 199.
Chupatties, Mystery of the, 186.
Church, Irish. (_See_ Irish Church.)
Church Rates Abolition Bill, 466.
Christians, Abyssinian, 476.
Civil list of recent British monarchs, 176;
of the Queen, 601.
Civil war in America. (_See_ America.)
Clarendon, Lord, despatches to Russia, 19, 20;
on Chinese war, 170;
death, 547.
Clergymen Disabilities Bill, 546.
Clerkenwell Fenian outrage, 456-458.
Clyde, Lord, in Oude, 280-282.
Coalition Ministry, 11.
Cobden on Chinese war, 171;
rejected for Huddersfield, 175;
negotiates commercial treaty with France, 310;
death, 376;
Bright's eulogy, 378.
Codrington, Sir William, in Crimea, 131.
Coercion Act for Ireland, 523.
Colenso case, The, 348.
Columbia, Colony of British, 287.
Commercial disasters (Black Friday), 409.
Commercial treaty with France, 310.
Company's rule abolished in India, 278.
Compound householder, 438, 443.
Congress of European Powers, 151-157.
Conservatives and Education Bill, 539.
Conspiracy to Murder Bill, 180.
Convocation and "Essays and Reviews," 346.
Cooper quells rising at Meean Meer, 231.
Cost of Crimean war, 158.
Cotton famine in Lancashire, 322, 336.
Coup d'État, Louis Napoleon's, 6-8.
Cranborne, Lord, on Indian finance, 402;
on Disraeli's Reform Bill, 447.
Cretan insurrection, 492.
Crimean war, the quarrel, 12-18;
fleets ordered to Besika Bay, 19;
Russia occupies the Principalities, 22;
Vienna note, 22, 24, 27;
allied fleets in the Dardanelles, 27;
destruction of Turkish ships at Sinope, 28;
allied fleets in the Black Sea, 30;
ultimatum of the allies, 32;
departure of Baltic fleet, war declared, 34;
attitude of German Powers, 35;
siege of Silistria, 36;
Odessa bombarded, 38;
the allies at Varna, 38;
the Crimea to be invaded, 39;
want of transport, 40;
the allied forces, the march on Sebastopol, 41;
the first skirmish, 42;
battle of the Alma, 44-50;
defences of Sebastopol, 51, 53, 55;
march to Balaclava, 52;
the siege of Sebastopol, 54;
first day's bombardment, operations of the fleet, 56;
camp at Balaclava, 58;
battle of Balaclava, 59-64;
of Inkermann, 66-72;
British and Russian fleets in the Baltic, 72;
destruction of Bomarsund, winter in the Crimea, 74;
storms in the Black Sea, 74, 75;
foreign legion for the Crimea, 77, 84;
sufferings of the army, 80-83;
Miss Nightingale, 83;
arrival of stores, 84;
Turkish success at Eupatoria, 86;
death of the Czar Nicholas, 86;
second bombardment of Sebastopol, 86, 87;
expedition to Kertch, 88, 99-101;
arrival of Sardinian troops, 90;
peace proposals, 91, 92;
Vienna conference, 92-96;
reinforcements for the Crimea, 98;
in the trenches, 99;
Tchernaya occupied, 99;
prosecution of the siege, 102;
capture of the Mamelon, 103;
of the Quarries, 104;
preparing to attack the Malakoff, 105-108, 114;
and the Redan, 106, 107, 110;
losses of the allies, 111;
death of Lord Raglan, 112;
sapping towards the Malakoff and the Redan, 114, 119;
Gortschakoff attempts to raise the siege, 114;
allied camp in Tchernaya, 115;
battle of Tchernaya, 116-118;
assault and capture of the Malakoff, 121-125;
failure of attack on the Redan, 126;
fall of Sebastopol, 127;
expedition to Eupatoria, 128-130;
naval operations, 131;
allied fleets in the Baltic, 132-134;
Russian atrocities, 132;
allied fleets in the Pacific, 134;
campaign in Asia Minor, 136;
Russian successes, 137;
defence of Kars, 138-143;
army in winter quarters, destruction of defences of Sebastopol, 146;
armistice, 147;
peace negotiations, 147-151;
congress at Paris, 151-157;
results of the war, 155;
cost of the war, 158;
the Victoria Cross distribution, 159.
Cronstadt, The fortress of, 72.
Crown Prince of Germany betrothed to Princess Royal, 175;
in the Franco-German war, 558, 559, 563.
Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, 4-6;
at Sydenham, 162.
Cumming, Dr., and Vatican council, 572.
Customs duties, reductions, 12.
Cyclone at Calcutta, 352.
Czar Nicholas, Death of, 86.
Dalhousie's Indian policy abandoned, 286.
Danube, Turkish campaign on, 36;
freedom of the, 55.
Danubian Principalities, Re-organisation of, 155, 158.
Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, 546, 600.
Declaration of Paris on Maritime law, 156.
Delhi, Outbreak of mutiny at, 190-192;
mutineers converge on, 199;
British march on, 203;
the siege, 205-209;
sorties from, 226, 227;
the assault, 235-239;
capture of the king, execution of the princes, 239;
effect on the natives, 240;
the king banished, 276.
Democracy, Mr. Lowe's philippic, 365.
Denison, Evelyn, elected Speaker, 175;
becomes Lord Ossington, 603.
Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein dispute, 353-361;
Death of Frederick VII., 357;
war with Prussia, 358-361.
Derby, Lord, Prime Minister, 10;
Chinese war, 170;
forms a cabinet, 181;
dissolves on Reform Question, 292-294;
forms a cabinet on Earl Russell's defeat, 400;
retires, 466;
opposes Irish Church Bill, 503;
death, 514;
character, 515.
Dhar, Annexation of, 266.
Dilke, Sir Charles, on royalty, 601.
Disraeli, Mr., 2;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 10, 11, 181, 400;
eulogy on Wellington, 11;
Roebuck's motion, 98;
Italian affairs, 168;
Conspiracy to Murder Bill, 181;
Reform Bill, 290;
debate, 291-294;
on second reading of Gladstone's Reform Bill, 395;
speech to his constituents, 401;
passes a Reform Bill, 433-451;
Prime Minister, 466;
opposes Irish Church resolutions, 467-471;
and Irish Church Bill, 500;
on Irish Land Bill, 523-525;
on Education Bill, 539;
on abolition of Purchase, 598.
Dinapore, Outbreak of mutiny at, 225.
Divorce Bill debate, 176-179;
new divorce court established, 178.
Dixon, Mr., and Education Bill, 538.
Doab, Seaton's campaign in, 257, 259.
Dockyard, Woolwich, closed, 544.
Dowry of Princess Royal, 176.
Druses and Syrian massacre, 315, 316.
Ducrot's sorties from Paris, 580, 584.
Eastern Question. (_See_ Crimean war.)
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 2, 3;
repealed, 601.
Edmunds scandal, 368.
Education. (_See_ Elementary Education, Endowed Schools.)
Educational grants, 328.
Egypt, Viceroy of, visits London, 460.
Elementary Education Bill, Mr. Forster's, 529;
state of education, 529, 530;
provisions of the Bill, 531-536;
religious teaching, 535;
hostile criticism, 536;
Dixon's amendment, debate, 537-539;
passed, 540;
the 25th clause, 603.
Elgin, Lord, embassy to China, 316-319.
Ellenborough, Lord, 268;
death, 608.
Elphinstone, Lord, 210.
Endowed schools, State of, 508, 509;
Mr. Forster's Bill for dealing with, 509, 510.
Epping Forest, Preservation of, 600.
"Essays and Reviews," 346, 348.
Eugenie, Empress of the French, 154, 163, 560;
regent, 567;
flight from Paris, 568;
Regnier negotiations, 583, 584.
Eupatoria, Expedition to, 128-130.
Evans, Sir De Lacy, 64;
in the Crimea, 72;
death, 547.
Exhibition of 1851, 4-6;
of 1862, 334-336.
Eyre, Governor, Jamaica riots, 387, 390, 391.
Factory Acts, Bill to extend, 452.
Faidherbe, General, 588, 589.
Fancy franchises, 438, 439.
Favre, Jules, 566, 567, 569, 570, 579, 580.
Fawcett, Mr., 600, 601.
Fenian conspiracy, Rise of, 372;
constitution of, 373, 374;
arrests in Cork and Dublin, 374;
escape of Stephens, 375;
trials of prisoners, 375, 376;
outbreak in Ireland, 412-416;
in Canada, 416;
Chester Castle threatened, 454, 455;
outrage at Manchester, 455;
at Clerkenwell, 456-458;
release of convicts, 514.
Ferozepore, Outbreak of mutiny at, 194.
Feroze Shah, defeat and disappearance, 283.
Fire insurance duty, debates, 363.
Forbach, Battle of, 560.
Foreign legion for the Crimea, 77.
Forster, Mr., Endowed Schools Bill, 509, 510;
Elementary Education Bill, 529-540.
(_See_ Elementary Education.)
France acquires Nice and Savoy, 334;
commercial Treaty with Britain, 310;
joins in Chinese expedition, 316-319;
visit of her fleet to Portsmouth, 380;
quits Mexico, 431;
experiment in constitutional government, 515, 516;
France in 1870, 548-550;
what led to war with Germany, 548-552.
(_See_ Crimean War, Franco-German War.)
Franchise, County, Locke-King's motion, 3.
Franchise, Mr. Gladstone's Bill, 391-399.
Francis Joseph crowned King of Hungary, 463.
Franco-German war, a Hohenzollern candidate for the Spanish throne,
549, 551-554;
Bismarck's action, 552, 555;
the alarmist telegram, 554;
the secret treaty, 555;
war declared, 556;
attitude of the German states, 557;
and Austria, 558;
Napoleon's plan of campaign, Saarbrück, Weissenberg, 558;
Wörth, 559;
Forbach, Palikao's ministry, 560;
Bazaine at Metz, 561, 562;
aid for wounded from England, 562, 563;
MacMahon at Châlons, marches to relieve Bazaine, 563;
the disaster at Sedan, 564-566;
Gambetta proclaims a republic, flight of the Empress, 568;
Jules Favre and the neutral powers, 569, 570, 579;
Jules Favre and Bismarck, 579, 580;
defences of Paris, 580;
beginning of the siege, 581;
M. Thiers' mission, fall of Strasburg, 582;
the Regnier plot, 583;
capitulation of Metz, 584;
the armies of the Loire, 585, 587, 590;
Garibaldi's services, 578;
Faidherbe defeated, 588, 589;
bombardment of Paris, 590;
Paris surrenders, 591;
peace negotiations, 592;
Alsace and Lorraine ceded to Germany, war indemnity, terms of
peace, 594.
Franks, General, marching to Lucknow, 263.
Frederick Charles, Prince, 586, 587.
Frederick VII. of Denmark, death, 357.
Frossard, General, 558.
Futtehpore, Battle of, 219.
Fyzabad, Outbreak of mutiny at, 202.
Gambetta, 568, 582, 586.
Gamekeepers, Police as assistants to, 330.
Gang system (children's labour), 452.
Garibaldi, 299;
popularity, 304;
Sicilian expedition, 305-307;
meets Victor Emmanuel, 309;
visits London, 346, 347;
in Franco-German war, 587.
Garotte robberies, 331.
Gastein, Convention of, 419.
George of Denmark King of Greece, 334.
German Powers, attitude on Eastern Question, 23, 26, 27, 35;
Diet on peace proposals (Crimean war), 153;
confederation, proposed reform, 422;
States and Franco-German war, 557;
Empire, unification of, 594, 595.
Gladstone, Mr., 2;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 12, 295;
budgets, 12, 310, 338, 344, 364;
on Chinese war, 172;
opposes Divorce Bill, 178;
on Conspiracy to Murder Bill, 180;
on Disraeli's Reform Bill, 292;
on American Civil War, 322;
on Parliamentary Reform, 346;
rejected for Oxford University, 370;
returned for South Lancashire, 371;
Reform Bill of 1866, 391-399;
speech at Liverpool, 393, 394;
introduces Redistribution of Seats Bill, 396;
Cabinet resigns, 400;
debate on Disraeli's Reform Bill, 438-440, 442, 443;
Irish Church Resolutions, 467;
elected for Greenwich, 472;
Prime Minister, 474;
disestablishment of Irish Church, 495-500;
Irish Land Act, 518-528;
Education, 539;
Home Rule, 606.
Gordon, Mr., Jamaica riots, 385, 388-390.
Gortschakoff, Prince, commands Russian forces, 20, 28;
at Inkermann, 66;
Sebastopol, 114;
Black Sea Treaty, 607.
Goschen, Mr., University Tests Bill, 367;
First Lord of Admiralty, 599.
Gough, Lord, death and character, 515.
Graham, Sir James, 2;
death, 324.
Grant, Sir Hope, at Delhi, 238;
Oude, 278.
Grant, General, President, 517.
Granville, Earl, 10;
on Chinese war, 171.
Gravelotte, Battle of, 562.
Greased cartridges, The, 185.
_Great Eastern_ lays Atlantic Cable, 407.
Great Exhibition of 1851, 4-6;
of 1862, 334-336.
Greathed's column, Exploits of, 240-242.
Greece, Revolution in, 334.
Greek brigands murder English tourists, 540-544.
Gungaree, Battle at, 258.
Gurrakoti, Capture of, 271.
Gwalior Contingent, The, 246, 255, 256;
Tantia Topee at Gwalior, 275.
Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Ireland, 414-416, 451, 464.
Hango, Massacre at, 132.
Harcourt, Vernon, on Education Bill, 539.
Hardy, Gathorne, on Irish Church Bill, 500.
Havelock, General, 210;
at Futtehpore, 219;
Cawnpore, 220, 224;
Busserutgunge, 223, 224;
and Outram, 246;
death, 254.
Helena, Princess, marriage, 411.
Herbert of Lea, Lord, death, 324.
Hindon, Battle on the, 203, 204.
Hodson and the Guide Corps, 205;
captures King of Delhi, executes princes, 239;
death, 266.
Hohenzollern prince proposed for Spanish throne, 549, 551, 554.
Home, Lieutenant, death, 241.
Home Rule, Mr. Gladstone on, 606.
Hudson, George, railway king, death, 608.
Hudson's Bay Company, 287.
Hungary, Francis Joseph king of, 463.
Hyde Park riots, 402-404;
Reform meeting, 452-454.
Ice catastrophe in Regent's Park, 459.
Imperial, Prince, 154;
at Saarbrück, 551.
India, state of native army, 182, 183;
the mutiny, 182-284;
Company's rule abolished, 278;
government and finances reorganised, 284;
changes in the army, 284-286, 314;
Dalhousie's policy abandoned, 286;
finances, James Wilson's scheme, 314;
prosperity, 382, 383;
over-speculation, 383;
Lord Cranborne on finances of, 402;
Russian advance towards, 492.
(_See_ Mutiny, Indian.)
Inkermann, 66-71;
after the battle, 72.
Ionian Islands ceded to Greece, 334.
Ireland, Queen visits, 326;
Belfast riots, 349, 350;
Fenians, 372-376, 412;
Habeas Corpus Act suspended, 413, 451, 464;
arrests in Dublin, 414;
disturbances, 451;
Reform Bill, 467;
Protestant Church disestablished, 493-506;
Land Act, 518-528;
Coercion Act, 528.
Irish Church, motion for disestablishment, 451, 466;
Gladstone's resolutions, 467;
the Bill, 493;
Gladstone's speech, 495-500;
debate, 500;
in the Lords, 500, 502;
Lord Derby's opposition, 503;
the Lords' amendments, 504;
Archbishop Tait's mediation, 505;
negotiations, the Bill becomes law, 506.
Irish Land Act, 518;
Bill introduced, 519, 520;
in committee, 522-527;
in the Lords, 527;
becomes law, 528.
Irish Reform Bill, 397, 467.
Isabella, Queen of Spain, dethroned, 492;
abdicates, 578.
Italy, Affairs of, at Congress of Paris, 156;
debate on, 166;
affairs in, 295;
Austria prepares for war, 296, 297;
Garibaldi's volunteers, 299;
Magenta and Solferino, 300;
peace of Villafranca, 302;
Nice and Savoy ceded to France, 304;
Papal States occupied, battle of Volturno, 308;
alliance with Prussia, 420;
obtains Venetia, 427;
unification of, 577.
(_See_ Garibaldi, Sicily, Victor Emmanuel.)
Jallandhar stormed, 274;
mutiny at, 206.
Jamaica, Negro insurrection in, 384-391;
distress in the island, 385;
Gordon, 385;
the outbreak, 386;
Governor Eyre's measures, Paul Bogle, 387;
martial law, 388;
Gordon's execution, 388-390;
prosecution of Governor Eyre, 390-391.
Japan, Outrage on British subjects in, 340;
war in, 352.
Jesuits suppressed in Spain, 492.
Jhansi, Mutiny and massacre at, 200-202;
bombardment, 272;
stormed, 274.
Jhelum, Battle at, 228.
Jung Bahadoor, 224;
at Lucknow, 265.
Kaffir war, 160.
Kaiserbagh, Plundering the, 266, 267.
Kars, State of affairs in, 136;
Williams fortifies it, 138, 139;
proposals for relief of, 140;
battle of, 141, 142;
fall of, 143;
debate in Parliament on, 153.
Keble, John, Death of, 418.
Kent, Duchess of, Death of, 326.
Kertch, Expedition to, 88, 89, 99, 101.
Kinburn, Fort, Attack on, 130.
Koonch, Battle of, 274.
Korniloff, Russian admiral, 51, 54;
death, 56.
Kuruk-Dereh, Battle of, 137.
Lancashire cotton famine, 322;
distress, 336.
Laon, Surrender of, 585.
Law Courts, New, Bill passed for, 366.
Lawrence, Sir Henry, in Indian Mutiny, 188;
at Lucknow, 192, 199, 200, 217;
saves the Punjab, 197;
at Chinhut, death, 218.
Lawrence, Sir John, in Indian Mutiny, 196;
and Lord Canning, 210;
in the North-West, 228;
in the Punjab, 276;
chairman of London School Board, 540.
Lebœuf, Marshal, 548, 557.
Lee, General, surrenders to Grant, 382.
Le Mans, Battle of, 590.
Life peerages, Attempt to create, 513.
Limited Liability companies, 411.
Lincoln, Abraham, 320, 362;
death, 382.
Loans to Turkey and Sardinia, 97.
Locke-King, Mr., 3, 287.
Loire, Armies of the, 585, 587, 590.
London, Loss of the, 412.
Louis Napoleon, President of French Republic, coup d'état, 6;
street fighting, plébiscite, 8.
(_See_ Napoleon III.)
Louise, Princess, marriage, 601.
Lowe, Mr., and educational reports, 346;
philippic against democracy, 365;
on Gladstone's Reform Bill, 392, 393;
on Disraeli's Reform Bill, 439, 440;
budgets, 507, 545, 546, 599;
on the Irish Land Bill, 525-527;
Education Bill, 538;
match tax, 599.
Lucan, Lord, at Balaclava, 59, 60, 62.
Lucknow, outbreak of mutiny, 188;
Henry Lawrence at, 192, 199, 200, 217;
Residency besieged, 218;
Havelock's first attempt to relieve, 219-224;
defending the Residency, 242-244;
sufferings of the garrison, 245;
the relieving forces, 246-250;
Campbell's force, 251;
fighting in the city, 252-254;
Residency evacuated, 254;
recapture, 265-267.
Luxembourg question, 460-462.
Lyons, Admiral, and Kertch expedition, 100.
Lyons, Captain, Death of, 107.
Lytton, Bulwer, on Chinese war, 171.
Mackonochie ritual case, 475.
MacMahon, Marshal, 556, 559, 563-566.
Magee, Dr., opposes Irish Church Bill, 502.
Magenta, Battle of, 300.
Malakoff, Preparations to attack, 105-107;
Todleben's defences, 106;
the attack, 108;
description of, 124;
capture, 125.
Malmesbury, Lord, 514.
Malt tax debates, 363.
Malwa, Campaign in, 259, 260.
Mamelon, Capture of, 103.
Manteuffel, General, 588, 589.
Maori war, 351, 383.
Maritime law, Paris Declaration on, 156.
Maronite Christians, Massacre of, 315, 316.
Marriage of Prince of Wales, 358.
Married Women's Property Act, 543.
Martial law legally defined, 390.
Mary of Cambridge, Princess, marriage, 411.
Match tax, 599.
Maximilian in Mexico, 342, 361, 460.
Maynooth Grant, Regium Donum, 470, 499.
Mazzini and his plots, 344, 345.
Meean Meer, Mutiny quelled at, 231.
Meerut, Outbreak of mutiny at, 189, 190.
Menschikoff, Prince, at Constantinople, 16;
General, 58;
at Inkermann, 66.
Merewether, Colonel, in Abyssinia, 483.
Metropolitan Parks, Right of meeting in, 452-454.
Metz, Battles at, 561, 562;
capitulates, 584.
Mexico, French expedition to, 341;
Maximilian emperor, 342, 361;
France quits, 431;
end of empire, 460.
Miall, Mr., and Disestablishment, 600.
Milan, Victor Emmanuel and Napoleon III. enter, 300.
Militia Bill, The, 10.
Milk trade, Development of, 372.
Mill, John Stuart, elected for Westminster, 370;
on Gladstone's Reform Bill, 394.
Ministers' money abolished, 176.
Moldavia and Wallachia united to form Roumania, 158, 159.
Moltke, Field-Marshal, 566.
Montebello, Battle of, 299.
Mouravieff, General, at Kars, 139-143.
Murphy "no popery" riots, 475.
Mutiny, Indian, the Native army, 182-184;
greased cartridges, 185;
chupatties, 186;
outbreaks, 186, 187;
General Anson, 187, 196;
disbanding regiments, 187, 188, 193, 194, 197, 228-230;
Sir Henry Lawrence, outbreak at Lucknow, 188;
at Meerut, 189;
at Delhi, 190-192;
Sir H. Lawrence at Lucknow, 192, 199, 200;
he saves the Punjab, 197;
loyalty of the Sikhs, 194, 198;
Ferozepore, 194;
the movable column, 195;
aid from native rajahs, 194, 195, 196, 198;
Nicholson, 195-198;
Sir John Lawrence, 196;
mutiny increases, 198;
chronological order of mutiny, 199;
outbreak in Oude, 200;
massacre at Jhansi, 200-202;
rebels in Oude, 202;
battle on the Hindon, 203, 204;
Badlee Serai, 204;
siege of Delhi, 205-209;
Hodson and Guide Corps, 205;
outbreak at Jallandhar, 206;
plan for taking Delhi, 207;
Subzee Mundi, 209;
Canning Governor-general, Havelock and Outram, 210;
Neill at Benares and Allahabad, outbreak at Cawnpore, 211;
Nana Sahib, 212, 213;
sufferings of the garrison, 214-216;
affairs in Central India, 216;
Sir H. Lawrence at Lucknow, 217;
death, 218;
Residency besieged, Havelock fighting his way to Lucknow, 218-224;
massacre at Cawnpore, 222, 223;
battle of Bithoor, 224;
loyalty of Jung Bahadoor, 224;
outbreak at Dinapore and other places, 225, 226;
operations before Delhi, 226, 227;
Sir J. Lawrence in the North-West, 228;
battle at Jhelum, 228;
Nicholson at Amritsir, 230;
wholesale executions, 231;
Nicholson at Delhi, 232;
capture of Delhi, 233-239;
the king captured, the princes executed, 239;
Greathed's column, 240-242;
fight at Agra, 241;
defending the Residency at Lucknow, 242-245;
the relieving forces, 246-250;
Lucknow relieved, 250;
force for second relief, 251-254;
Lucknow relieved, death of Havelock, 254;
Windham at Cawnpore, 255;
Sir Colin Campbell captures Cawnpore, 256, 257;
Seaton's campaign in the Doab, 257-259;
state of Central India, 259;
annexation of Dhar, 260;
campaign in Malwa, 259, 260;
battle at Shumshabad, 262;
plans for capture of Lucknow, 262, 263;
the attack and capture, 265-267;
Canning's proclamation, 267;
conquest of Rohilcund, 268;
battle of Bareilly, 268;
Rose's campaign in Central India, 270;
capture of Rutghur, etc., 270, 271;
Rajah of Shahghur's territory annexed, 271;
defeat of Tantia Topee, 273;
storming of Jhansi, battles of Koonch and Calpee, 274;
Tantia Topee, 275;
caste abolished in the army, 276;
loyal rajahs rewarded, Oude subjugated, 278;
East India Company's rule abolished, 278;
Queen's proclamation, 279;
submission of rebels, 282;
end of mutiny, 284.
Nana Sahib, 212, 213, 218;
massacre at Cawnpore, 222;
disappears, 282.
Napier, Sir Charles, in the Baltic, 72.
Napier, Sir Robert, in Central India, 276;
in Abyssinia, 483, 484.
Naples, Affairs of, debate, 167.
Napoleon III., Emperor of the French, the Eastern Question, 12;
letter to the Czar, 31;
at Windsor, 90, 163, 164;
his plan of Crimean campaign, 90;
congress at Paris, 151-157;
his views on the peace, 153;
recognised by the Powers, marriage, 163;
entertains the Queen, etc., 164-166;
Orsini plot, 179;
Italian Question, 296, 279;
proposes congress on Italian affairs, 303;
obtains Nice and Savoy, 304;
Mexican expedition, 341;
quits Mexico, Luxembourg Question, 460-462;
opens Paris Exhibition, 460;
Hohenzollern candidature, 549;
plebicite, 550, 551;
prisoner at Wilhelmshöhe, 566, 603;
in England, 603.
(_See_ Louis Napoleon, France, Franco-German War.)
National Assembly elected, 592.
Naval officers, retirement scheme, 544, 545.
Naval operations, Crimean war, 131.
Negro insurrection in Jamaica, 384-391.
Neill, Colonel, 210, 211.
Nesselrode, Count, 15, 19;
despatch to Clarendon, 20, 27;
peace proposals, 150.
Newcastle, Duke of, 76, 78.
Newdegate, Mr., and Pope's encyclical, 379.
New Zealand native war, 351;
Maoris and colonists, 383.
Nice and Savoy ceded to France, 304.
Nicholson, Col., 195-198, 230, 232;
death, 266.
Nightingale, Miss, in the Crimea, 83.
Ninety-Third, The, at Balaclava, 59.
Nolan, Captain, Death of, 62.
Nonconformists and Education Bill, 538, 603.
Norman, Mr. Justice, assassinated, 606.
Nujuffghur, Battle at, 232.
Oaths and Offices Bill, 452.
Obituary, 339, 417, 547, 608.
Odessa, Bombardment of, 37, 38.
Olenitza, Turkish victory at, 28.
Ollivier, M., 549, 560.
Olmütz, Conference of emperors at, 26.
Omar Pasha commands Turkish forces, 20;
begins the war, 27;
at Eupatoria, 85.
Onao, Battle of, 223.
_Oneida_, Sinking of the, 546.
Orleans evacuated, 587.
Orsini's plot against Napoleon III., 179.
O'Sullivan Disability Bill, 512.
Oude, mutiny, 199, 202;
annexed, 267, 278.
Outram, General, 210;
advance on Lucknow, 246, 247;
and Havelock, 246;
at Alumbagh, 247;
Lucknow, 248-250, 264.
Overend, Gurney, and Co. fail, 409, 410.
Pacific, Allied fleets in the, 134.
Paladines. (_See_ Aurelles.)
Palikao, Count, 560, 567.
Palmerston, Lord, 2;
his indiscretions, 8, 9;
Queen's memorandum to, 9;
forms a Ministry, 79;
on the peace proposals, 152;
on Italian affairs, 168;
opposes Suez Canal, 169;
on Chinese war, 172;
his Government defeated, 173;
success at the polls, 175;
on Disraeli's Reform Bill, 292;
Prime Minister, 295;
Schleswig-Holstein dispute, 360;
death, 376.
Papal aggression, 1-3;
States occupied, 308;
infallibility decreed, 574-577.
Paper duty abolished, 311, 312, 324.
Paris, Defences of, 580;
siege begins, 581;
bombardment, 590;
fall of, 591.
Parkes, Consul, and _Arrow_ dispute, 170.
Parks, Right of meeting in, 452, 454.
Parliamentary Reform. (_See_ Reform.)
Paxton, Mr., and Great Exhibition, 4.
Peel, Sir William, Death of, 268.
Peelites and Crimean war, 96, 97.
Pegu, Annexation of, 160.
Pekin, French troops enter, 318.
Pélissier in the Crimea, 90;
character, 98.
Péronne, Capture of, 588.
Persian war, 182.
Peshawur, Mutiny quelled at, 231.
Peto, Betts, and Co., Failure of, 410.
Phayre, Colonel, Abyssinian war, 488.
Phœnix Park, Riot in, 603, 604.
Pius IX., establishes Roman Catholic sees in Britain, 2;
summons General Council, 571;
refuses Victor Emmanuel's terms, 578.
(_See_ Papal Aggression.)
Plébiscites, Napoleon's two, 550, 551.
Plowden, Consul, 476;
death, 478.
Plumridge, Admiral, in the Baltic, 72.
Poland, Revolution in, 339;
debate on, 378.
Pollock, Sir Frederick, death, 547.
Pope's encyclical, The, 379.
Portsmouth, French fleet at, 380.
Prague, Treaty of, 429, 430.
Preston strike, 161, 162.
Prim, Marshal, 492, 552;
assassinated, 578.
Princes of Delhi executed, 239.
Princess Royal, betrothal, 175;
dowry, 176.
Probate, New Court of, 176.
Property Qualification Bill, 287.
Prussia summoned to Paris Congress, 154;
Schleswig-Holstein dispute, 353-361;
and Austria, 418;
alliance with Italy, 419, 420;
preparing for war, 420;
Congress proposed, 423;
war declared, 424;
the campaign, 425-428;
peace, 429;
secret treaties, 431.
(_See_ Franco-German War.)
Prussia, King of, and Hohenzollern candidature, 549;
interview with Napoleon, 566;
becomes German Emperor, 594.
Punjab, Suppressing mutiny in, 196, 206.
Purchase, Army, Bill to abolish, 595, 596;
abolished by Royal warrant, 598.
Puttiala, Battle at, 258.
Raglan, Lord, in the Crimean war, 34;
Alma, 46;
Inkermann, 68, 7.
Rajahs, Indian, loyalty during mutiny, 194-196, 198, 224;
rewards, 278.
Rassam, Mr., in Abyssinia, 480, 482.
Ratghur, Capture of, 270, 271.
Rationalists in the Church, 346, 348, 349.
Redan, The, 106, 107;
bombardment, 106;
attack on, 110, 126;
description of, 124.
Redistribution Bill, 396, 446, 447.
Reform, Parliamentary, Mr. Disraeli's motion, 290;
debate, 291-294;
Gladstone on, 346;
Baines' abortive bill, 365;
Gladstone's bill, 391-399;
Redistribution of Seats Bill, 396;
Scottish and Irish bills, 397;
in committee, 398, 399;
Lord Derby forms a cabinet, 400;
Hyde Park riots, 402-404;
popular meetings, 408;
Disraeli's reform resolutions, 433;
Lowe's criticism, 435;
Ten Minutes Bill, 435;
the bill introduced, 437;
debate, 438-441;
in committee, 442-447;
Redistribution Bill, 446;
passes the Commons, in the Lords, 448;
Scottish Reform Bill, 464;
Irish Reform Bill, 467.
Regent's Park, Ice catastrophe in, 459.
Registration of Voters Act, 472.
Regnier plot, The, 583.
Religious difficulty. (_See_ Education.)
Religious Tests abolition, 367, 452, 510-512.
Residency at Lucknow, defence, 242-254.
Retirement scheme for navy, 544, 545.
Revised code (Education), 328.
Richards, Mr., and Education Bill, 539.
Richmond, Duke of, and Irish Land Bill, 527.
Rifle volunteers formed, 325.
Rinderpest, 371;
Royal Commission on, 372.
Roebuck, Crimean inquiry, 78, 98;
on Princess Royal's dowry, 176.
Rohilcund, Conquest of, 268, 269.
Roman Catholic Oaths Bill, 367.
Rome annexed to kingdom of Italy, 578.
Rose, Sir Hugh, in Central India, 270-276.
Rossa, O'Donovan, 514.
Roumania, Formation of, 158, 159.
Russell, Lord John, 2-4;
fall of his administration, 8;
resigns on Militia Bill, 10;
Colonial secretary, 12, 92;
at Vienna conference, 92;
on Italian affairs, 167, 305, 307;
on Disraeli's Reform Bill, 291;
Foreign Secretary, 295;
on peace of Villafranca, 302;
his Reform Bill, 312-314;
on Polish revolution, 339, 340;
Schleswig-Holstein, 356-360;
resigns on Reform Bill, 400;
Life Peerages Bill, 514.
Russell, Mr. W. H., _Times_ correspondent in Crimea, 77.
Russia and the Eastern Question, 12;
the Czar's intentions, 16;
ultimatum to Turkey, 18;
position of, in Asia, 135, 137;
reasons for desiring peace, 147;
in Central Asia, 492;
a check on Austria,
570;
repudiates Black Sea Treaty, 607, 608.
(_See_ Crimean war.)
Russian atrocities, 132.
Saarbrück, Battle at, 558.
Salisbury, Lord, opposes Irish Church Bill, 504;
on abolition of Purchase, 598.
Samarcand captured by Russia, 492.
Sardinian troops for Crimea, 84, 90.
Saugor, Relief of, 271.
Sawgrinders' union, outrages, 458.
Scarlett, General, at Balaclava, 60.
Schleswig-Holstein, 353-361, 418, 419.
School Boards, 534, 603.
Scottish Reform Bill, 397, 464-466.
Scutari, State of hospitals at, 83.
Sealkote, Outbreak of mutiny at, 230.
Seaton's campaign in the Doab, 257-259.
Sebastopol, 51, 53, 55;
fall of, 127.
Seetapore, Outbreak of mutiny at, 200.
Sedan, Battle of, 564-566.
Serpents, Isle of, Russia's claim to, 159.
Serrano, Marshal, Spanish president 492.
Seymour, Sir Hamilton, 16, 18, 19.
Shahjehanpore, Outbreak of mutiny at, 200.
Shakespeare centenary celebration, 347, 348.
Shaw-Lefevre becomes Viscount Eversley, 174.
Shipping disaster in China sea, 546.
Short service in the army, 545.
Sicily, in, 305-309.
Sick and wounded, Aid for, 562, 563.
Sikhs, Loyalty of, during mutiny, 194, 198.
Simpson, General, in Crimea, 113, 131.
Sinope, Destruction of Turkish ships at, 28.
Solferino, Battle of, 300.
Spain, Revolution in, 492, 516;
search for a king, 517;
a Hohenzollern Prince, 551;
Isabella abdicates, Duke of Aosta accepts the crown,
Prim assassinated, 578.
Speke, Captain, Death of, 342.
Spicheren, Battle of, 560.
Stanley, Lord, 394, 396, 471.
Stansfeld and Mazzini, 344, 345.
St. Arnaud, Marshal, death, character, 52.
Star of India, Order of the, 327.
Staveley, Sir Charles, Abyssinian war, 485.
Steinmetz, German General, 561, 562.
Storm in Black Sea, Terrible, 74.
Strasburg, Siege of, 560;
fall, 582.
Stratford de Redcliffe, 14, 16, 18, 20, 27.
Strikes, Preston, 161, 162;
tailors', etc., 459.
Subzee Mundi, Capture of, 209.
Succession duty, The, 12.
Suez Canal, Palmerston opposes, 169.
Sultan of Turkey visits England, 460.
Summer palace at Pekin destroyed, 318.
Sumner, Archbishop, death, 475.
Sumter, Fort, Capture of, 321.
Sveaborg, fortress, 72;
bombarded, 133, 134.
Syria, Massacres in, 315, 316.
Taganrog, Destruction of stores at, 202.
Tailors, Strike of, 459.
Tait, Archbishop, Irish Church Bill, 505.
Taku forts captured, 317.
Tantia Topee, at Jhansi, 272;
defeated, 273;
captured, 282-284.
Taxation, Remissions of, 507, 503.
Tchernaya, 99, 115, 116;
battle of, 116-118.
Tea, Reduction of duty on, 338.
Tea Room Cabal, 442.
Telegraph Cable, Atlantic, 408.
Telegraphs purchased by the State, 471.
Ten Minutes Bill, The, 434.
Thames Embankment, 600.
Thanksgiving, The National, 602.
Theodore, King of Abyssinia, 463, 477-483, 486-491;
death, 491.
Thiers, M., opposes Franco-German war, 554;
his plan of government, 568;
mission to Continental Powers, 582;
chief of Executive, 592.
Todleben defends Sebastopol, 51, 54.
Tombs, Major, wins Victoria Cross, 227.
Toul, Surrender of, 585.
Trades Union (saw-grinders) outrages, 458.
Treaty of Paris, Stipulations of, 154-156.
_Trent_, Affair of the, 323-324.
Trevelyan, Mr., army reform agitation, 595.
Trochu, General, 556, 560, 567, 568, 584.
Turkey and Eastern Question, 12-19;
rejects Vienna note, 26;
campaign in Asia Minor, 136;
peculation of the Pashas, 138;
Sultan's firman on the peace, 153.
(_See_ Crimean War.)
Ulster glebes, 497.
Unification of Italy, 577;
of Germany, 591.
Union Chargeability Bill, 366.
United States of America. (_See_ America.)
University Tests Bill, 367, 510-512, 600.
Vancouver's Island added to British Columbia, 287.
Vatican Council, The, 571-578.
Venetia ceded to Italy, 427.
Vermont, Confederate raid into, 362.
Viceroy of Egypt visits England, 460.
Viceroy of India, Lord Canning first, 279.
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 308, 578.
Victoria Cross, first distribution, 159.
Victoria, Queen, opens Great Exhibition, 6;
memorandum to Palmerston, 9;
receives patriotic address from Parliament on outbreak of
Crimean war, 34;
Napoleon III. at Windsor, 90, 163, 164;
Victoria Cross instituted, first distribution, 159;
opens Crystal Palace, 162;
visits the French Emperor at Paris, 164-166;
Palmerston's defeat and return to power, 173-175;
betrothal of Princess Royal, 175;
debate on her dowry, civil lists of recent monarchs, 176;
the Indian mutiny, 182-284;
proclaimed ruler of India, 279;
outbreak of American Civil War, 319;
Great Britain's neutrality proclaimed, 322;
death of Duchess of Kent, visit to Ireland, the Queen's
domestic life, 326;
illness and death of the Prince Consort, 328;
marriage of Prince of Wales, 338;
Ashanti war, 350;
Maori war, 357;
Schleswig-Holstein question, 356-360;
the Reform Bill of 1866, 391-399;
Resignation of Earl Russell's Ministry, 400;
message to United States President over Atlantic Cable, 407;
John Bright defends the Queen, 408;
visit of Viceroy of Egypt, and of the Sultan of Turkey, 460;
Gladstone's Irish Church Resolutions, 467;
dissolves Parliament, 472;
disestablishment of the Irish Church, 493-506;
civil list, 601.
Vienna conference, 92-96;
treaty of, 360.
Villafranca, Peace of, 302.
Villiers, Mr., Union Chargeability Bill, 366.
Vinoy's sorties from Paris, 581.
Vinzaglio, Capture of, 299.
Volturno, Battle of, 308.
Volunteers, Rifle, formed, 325.
Wages movement, The, 160-162.
Wales, Prince of, marriage, 338;
birth of a son, 343;
illness, 602.
Walewski's despatch on Orsini plot, 179.
Wallachia and Moldavia united to form Roumania, 158, 159.
Walpole, General, in Rohilcund, 268.
Walpole, Home Secretary, Hyde Park riots, 402-404.
War department, Creation of a, 76.
Wars, Some little, 350, 351.
Weissenberg, Battle of, 558.
Wellington, Duke of, death, funeral, 11, 12.
Werder, General, 587, 591.
Westbury, Lord, 346;
Edmunds and Wilde scandals, 368, 369;
resigns, 370.
Wheeler, General, at Cawnpore, 211.
Whewell, William, Death of, 418.
Wilde scandal, The, 369.
Wilhelmshöhe, Napoleon III. at, 516.
Williams, Lieut.-Colonel, at Kars, 138.
Wilson, Colonel Archdale, 203, 226.
Wilson, Mr. James, Indian finance, 314.
Wimpffen, General, 565, 566.
Windham, General, at Cawnpore, 255.
Winterbotham, Mr., on Education Bill, 538.
Woolwich Dockyard closed, 544.
Wörth, Battle of, 559.
Yelverton, Captain, in the Baltic, 132.
Yeni-Keui, Expedition to, 140.
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| P. 70. 'the Okhutsk" changed to 'the Okhotsk'. |
| P. 80. Fixed missing letters in word 'continuously'. |
| P. 85. 'while yet dark, General Bosquet', placed comma instead |
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| P. 386. 'heat o the struggle', changed 'o' to 'of'. |
| P. 574. 'Cardinel' changed to 'Cardinal'. |
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| P. 612. Sicily, in, 305-309, added "Sicily". |
| P. 612. 'Prussia, King of, added page #594. |
| P. 612. Between "Short' and 'Sicily', taken out missing information|
| in Index. |
| P. 612. Ragland, Lord in the Crimean war, added page '34'. |
| Fixed various punctuation. |
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