ABBEY MILLS Pumping Station, opening

of, 94

ABERGELE, ACCIDENT to Irish Mail Train
near, 106, [188].

ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION, Successful re-
sult of, [139]; Thanks of both Houses
of Parliament voted to the General
Commanding, the officers, and men,
[140]; Sir Robert Napier created a
Peer, [142]; narrative of events pre-
ceding, [233]; Sir Robert Napier
selected to command the Expedition,
[235]; Engagement with King Theo-
dore's troops, [243]; Release of the cap-
tives, [ib.]; Attack on Magdala, [ib.] ;
Death of the King, [244]; Sir Robert
Napier's address to the Army, [ib.];
Return of Expedition, [245].
ACADEMY, vide ROYAL ACADEMY.
ACCIDENTS.-Fall of old sugar house at
Hull, 122; Fatal panic at a Manchester
Music Hall, 94; Fall of a warehouse
at Liverpool, 139; Falling-in of a house
at Rochdale, 155.-Vide EXPLOSION,
FIRES, RAILWAY.

ACCIDENTS AND DISASTERS, [187].
ACCOUNTS, PUBLIC. Income and Expen-
diture of the year, 218.

ADAM, MR., becomes one of the Lords of
the Treasury, [177].

ADMIRAL, LORD HIGH, Right Hon. H.
T. Corry and others Commissioners for
executing office of, 252.
ADMIRALTY ADMINISTRATION.
Seeley's motion for a Select Committee,
[113]; Mr. Corry's reply, [114]; Com-
mittee appointed, [ib.]; Mr. Graves'
motion for diminution of Dockyards,
[ib.]; withdrawn, [115].
AFRICA (WEST) SETTLEMENTS, Sir A.
E. Kennedy appointed Governor, 250.
"ALABAMA," THE, CLAIMS.-History of,

[125]; Discussion in House of Com-
mons, Mr. G. Shaw-Lefevre's speech,
[126]; Lord Stanley's speech, [127];
Mr. Mill's, [129]; Mr. Gladstone's,
[130]; Discussions in House of Lords
originated by Earl Russell, [ib.];
opinions expressed by the Lord Chan-
cellor, [131]; and Lord Westbury,
[132].

ALFRED (PRINCE), vide Duke of EDIN-

BURGH.

AGRARIAN MURDERS in Tipperary, 101.
AILESBURY, MARQUIS OF, becomes Master
of the Horse, [177].

APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS AND, 250.
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, Hon. W. Stuart
appointed Minister to, 250.

ARGYLL, DUKE OF, becomes Secretary for
India. [176].

ARGYLL, DUCHESS OF, becomes Mistress
of the Robes, [177].

ARMY ESTIMATES, moved by Sir John
Pakington, [115]; carried, [117].
ARROW, FREDERICK, Knighted, 252.
ART, Retrospect of, [308].

ARTHUR, PRINCE, at Woolwich, 75; at
the Royal Volunteer Review at Windsor,
78; appointed a Lieutenant in the
Royal Engineers, 251.

ASCOT CUP DAY, 71.

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, Religious riots at,

55.

BACON, JAMES, Commissioner in Court of
Bankruptcy, 252.

BAGGALLAY, RICHARD, Solicitor-General,
252; Knighted, 254.

BANKRUPTCY, COURT OF, James Bacon
appointed Commissioner, 252.
BARNSLEY, Explosion at a Firework manu-
factory, 130.

BARRETT, MICHAEL, Capture, 2; Exe-
cution, 63; narrative of Trial, 174.
BARRY, MR. SERJEANT, becomes Solicitor-
General for Ireland, [177].

BAXTER, MR., motion to disenfranchise
boroughs in England carried, [23], vide
SCOTLAND; becomes Secretary to the
Admiralty, [177].

BEECH, SIR MICHAEL HICKS, Secretary
to the Poor Law Board, [9].

BELL, SYDNEY SMITH, Chief Justice of
Cape of Good Hope, 254.

BERMUDA FLOATING DOCK, Launch of,
113.

BERNE, R. T. C. Middleton to be Secretary

of Legation at, 250; H. E. C. K.
Seymer Secretary of Legation at,

252.

BERRYER M., death of, [211]; obituary

notice, 159.

BESSBOROUGH, THE EARL OF, becomes
Lord Steward, [177].

BEUST, BARON, defended by Count Bis-

marck in Prussian Chamber [223]; his
position and that of Lord Stanley,
[226]; speech on the Foreign Policy
of Austria, [ib.]

BIOGRAPHY, Works of, [286]; less im-
portant works, [298].

BIRMINGHAM, Meeting of the Social
Science Association at, 124.
BISMARCK, COUNT, Speech in vindication
of Baron Beust, [223].

BLACKALL, S. W., appointed Governor of
Queensland, 251.

BLACKBURN, MR. JUSTICE, Charge in case
of Mr. Eyre, ex-Governor of Jamaica,
in Queen's Bench, 206.
BLACKBURN, Political Riots at, 135.
BOUNDARY BILL FOR ENGLAND AND
WALES, Report of Commissioners pre-
sented, [30]; discussed in House of
Commons, [31]; referred to a Select
Committee, [33]; report brought up
by Mr. Walpole, [ib.]; Bill brought in,
[34]; Mr. Hibbert's amendment ap-
proving of recommendations of Select
Committee [35]; carried, [36]; Bill
passed, [ib.]; in House of Lords, [ib.];
Earl Beauchamp moved an amendment
in accordance with original Report of
Commissioners, [ib.]; Earl Granville pro-
tested, and after discussion, along with
the principal members of the Opposition,
left the House, [ib.]; Bill passed, [37].
BOUVERIE, MR., Speech on present posi-
tion of parties, [13]; motion on rate-

paying qualifications, [23], vide SCOT-

LAND.

Bow, Disaster at, 8.

BRAUN'S, M., Carbon process, [328].
BRETT, WILLIAM BALIOL, knighted, 250;
Justice of Common Pleas, 252.
BREWSTER, SIR DAVID, Obituary notice
of, 160.

BRIDGEMAN, HON. REV. G. T. Honorary
Chaplain to her Majesty, 250.
BRIDGES, SIR BROOK WILLIAM, created
Baron Fitzwalter, 251.

BRIGHT, MR., becomes President of the
Board of Trade, [176]; speech on re-
election at Birmingham, [83]; a Privy
Councillor, 253.

BRIGHT, REV. W., Regius Professor of
Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, 253.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION, Annual Meeting
at Norwich, [343], 103.

BRITISH GUIANA, Sir W. Snagg, Chief
Justice, 254.

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Meet-
ing at Oxford, 97.

BRITISH MUSEUM, the Slade Collection of
glass, &c., [326]; prints and drawings
recently acquired, [327].
BRITISH SUBJECTS IN FOREIGN COUN-
TRIES, ALLEGIANCE.-Subject intro-
duced in House of Commons by Mr.
Forster and discussed, [132]; Report
of Royal Commission on Laws of Na-
turalization and Allegiance, 237.
BROOKE, SIR JAMES, Obituary Notice of,

162.

BROUGHAM, LORD, Obituary Notice of,
163.

BRUCE, MR. H. A. becomes Secretary for
the Home Department, [176].
BRUSSELS, Hon. F. J. Pakenham, Secre-
tary to Legation at, 251.

BUCKINGHAM, DUKE OF, appointed Lord
Lieutenant of Co. of Buckingham, 251.
BUDGET, introduced by Mr. Ward Hunt,
[108]; Indian, exhibited by Sir Stafford
Northcote, [123]; French, [192].
BURLINGTON HOUSE, The Royal Aca-
demy's meeting for first time in their
new rooms at, [330].

CABMEN, strike among the London, 118.
CAIRNS, LORD, becomes Lord Chancellor,
[9]; Speech on Irish Church Question,
[105].
CAMBRIDGE, UNIVERSITY OF.-Mr. Long-
fellow had the degree of LL.D. con-
ferred, 74; Honour Lists, 267.
CANTERBURY, ARCHBISHOP OF, Confirma-
tion of Dr. Tait, 157; obituary notice
of Dr. Longley, 165; appointment of
Dr. Tait, Bishop of London, 253.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-Edward Dwyer
appointed a Puisne Judge, 251; Sir W.

CARROLL, WILLIAM, M.D., Lord Mayor of
Dublin, knighted, 251.

CARTIER, GEORGE ETIENNE, created a
baronet, 252.

CHANCELLOR, LORD, Lord Cairns ap-
pointed, [9]; Lord Hatherley appointed,
[176].

CHANCERY, Sir C. J. Selwyn appointed
Judge of Appeal, 250; Vice-Chancellor
Sir W. Page Wood appointed Judge of
Appeal, ib.; George Markham Giffard
appointed a Vice-Chancellor, ib.
CHAMPNEYS, REV. CANON, to be Dean of
Lichfield, 253.

CHELMSFORD, LORD, succeeded in the
office of Lord Chancellor by Lord
Cairns, [9].

CHILD, SMITH, created a baronet, 253.
CHILDERS, MR., moves amendment on
Navy Estimates, [113]; becomes First
Lord of the Admiralty, [176]; a Privy
Councillor, 253.

CHURCH CONGRESS at Dublin, [124].
CHURCH, IRISH, vide IRELAND.
CHURCH IN WEST INDIES, Disendow-
ment of, [165], vide WEST INDIES.
CHURCH-RATE ABOLITION BILL.-Intro-
duced by Mr. Gladstone, [147]; read a
second time, passed through Committee,
and third reading affirmed, [148]; in
House of Lords referred to a Select
Committee, [149]; effect of alterations
by Committee stated and accepted by
Lord Russell, [ib.]; agreed to by
Lord Derby, [151]; protest by Bishops,
[152]; passed, [153]; amendments by
Peers accepted by Commons, and Bill
became law, [153].

CIVIL SERVICE.- Estimates introduced
and passed [121]; Mr. Childers' motion
for re-organization, [ib.]; opposed by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
withdrawn, [123].

CLARENDON, EARL OF, becomes Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, [176].
CLEASBY, ANTHONY, Baron of Exchequer,
252; knighted, 254.

COBDEN MEMORIAL, THE, in Camden
Town inaugurated, [80].
COLERIDGE, MR. J. D., introduces Uni-
versity Tests Abolition Bill, [160];
second reading carried, [163]; but
further progress stopped from pressure
of business, [ib.]; becomes Solicitor-
General, [177]; Knighted, 254.
COLLIER, SIR R., becomes Attorney-
General, [177].

COLLISION in the Channel, [102].
COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS during year
reviewed, [185].

COMMONS, LIST OF NEW HOUSE OF,
[255].

COMMON PLEAS, Sir W. B. Brett ap-
pointed Justice, [252].
"COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDER" Difficulty,
six thousand persons summoned at
Hackney, [21].

COOKE'S, MR. E. W., collection of glass,
[325].

CORK, EARL OF, becomes Master of the
Buckhounds, [177].

CORRY, MR., moves Navy Estimates, [111].
CRANWORTH, LORD, Obituary notice of,
[167].

CRETAN INSURRECTION, Debate in House
of Lords, [133]; Narrative of, [232].
CRICKET MATCH, Eton and Harrow, 83.
CRYSTAL PALACE.-Suicide from the
Tower, 18; Handel Triennial Festival,
72;
Festival to Welcome Prince
Alfred, 81.
CUMBERLAND

AND WESTMORLAND,
Henry Lowther appointed Lord-Lieu-
tenant of, 253.

DACRES, VICE-ADMIRAL SIR S. C.,
becomes one of the Junior Lords of the
Admiralty, [177].

"DAILY TELEGRAPH," Action for Libel,
Risk Allah v., 217.

DEATHS of Eminent Persons, [188].
DE GREY AND RIPON, LORD, becomes
Lord President of the Council, [176].
DENISON, MR. J. EVELYN, elected Speaker
of the new House of Commons, [179].
DENMARK, [231].

DENMARK, The Crown Prince of, at Ascot,
[71]; at Oxford, [74].

DERBY, EARL, resigns the Premiership,
[8]; calls attention in House of Lords
to Mr. Gladstone's resolutions on Irish
Church, [76]; Speech on the same, [99].
DERBY, THE, won by Blue Gown, [65].
DISRAELI, MR., succeeds Lord Derby as
Premier, [8]; Speech at Meeting of
Conservative Members [9]; statement
in House, [11]; statement of interview
with the Queen after the carrying of
Mr. Gladstone's first resolution on Irish
Church, and course proposed by Govern-
ment, [81]; letter to supporters inti-
mating resignation of Government
[174]; presides at Annual Dinner of
Literary Fund, 53; Speech at Mansion
House, 145.

DISRAELI, MRS., created Viscountess
Beaconsfield, 253.

Dock, Launch of Bermuda floating, 113.
Docks, Opening of new, at Millwall, 28.

DOCKYARDS, MR. GRAVES' motion for the

diminution of, [114]; withdrawn, [ib.]
DORIA, WILLIAM, to be Secretary to Le-
gation at Lisbon, 250.

DOYLE, JOHN-(H. B.)—death of, [330].
DROWNING of seven pupils when bathing

near Christchurch, 62.

DUBLIN, visit of Prince and Princess of
Wales, 40; Church Congress at, 124;
arrival of Earl Spencer, new Lord Lieu-
tenant, 154; William Carroll, M.D.,
Lord Mayor of, knighted, 251.
DUFF, MR. GRANT, becomes Under-Secre-
tary for India, [177].

DUFFERIN, LORD, becomes Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster, [177].
DURHAM, County Palatine of, J. R. Quain,
Attorney-General, 252.

DWYER, EDWARD, appointed Puisne Judge
at Cape of Good Hope, 251.

EARTHQUAKE, Shock of an, 2; in Peru

and Ecuador, 99; in England, 139; in
various parts of the world, [187].
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT OF 1850,
Earl Stanhope's motion for a Select
Committee upon its operation, [45];
discussion, [46]; Committee nominated,
and their Report, [ib.]
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, [331].
EDINBURGH, THE DUKE OF.-Attempt to
assassinate, near Sydney, 25; arrival
home, 79; Festival at Crystal Palace
to welcome, 81; at the Volunteer Re-
view at Wimbledon, 90; addresses of
sympathy to the Queen from both
Houses of Parliament, [143]; speech
at Sydney, [145].

EDINGUBGH, Terrific gale at, 5.
EDUCATION, Annual vote for, moved by
Lord Robert Montagu, and discussion,
[158].

EDUCATION, NATIONAL.-Bill brought in
by Mr. H. A. Bruce, [154]; a measure
on behalf of the Government introduced
into the House of Lords by the Duke of
Marlborongh, [155]; read a second
time, [157]; withdrawn, [158]; Mr.
Bruce's Bill also withdrawn, [ib.]
EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT, Obituary
notice of, 168.

EGERTON, LORD, Lord-Lieutenant co.
Chester, 250.

ELCHO, LORD, motion for a Royal Com-
mission on Military Organization, [117].
ELECTION, GENERAL, writs issued and
elections rapidly proceeded with, [171];
aggregate results, [ib.]; total votes
recorded, [174].

ELECTION PETITIONS AND CORRUPT
PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL.-Re-
port of Select Committee of 1867,

[38]; objections by the Judges to the
transference of jurisdiction to them,
[39]; Bill introduced, with proposition
to create a special tribunal, and discus-
sion, [ib.]; second reading moved, [40];
substituting another plan, [ib.]; in Com-
mittee, [ib.]; the principle of the Bill
affirmed by a division of 178 to 158;
new modification proposed by Mr.
Disraeli, [41]; made applicable to
England and Scotland, [42]; read a
third time, [ib.]; passed by House of
Lords, [ib.]

ENGLAND, History of the year, [1].
EPSOM RACES, the Derby, 65; the Oaks,
67.

ESTIMATES, Navy and Army, Civil Ser-
vice, [111].

EXCHEQUER BALANCES, 249.

EXCHEQUER, Chancellor of, Mr. Ward
Hunt appointed, [9]; Mr. Lowe ap-
pointed, [176].

EXCHEQUER, COURT OF, Anthony Cleasby
appointed Baron, 252.

EXCHEQUER, Treasurer of, Commissioners
appointed for executing office of, 250,
254.
EXECUTION of a Woman at Maidstone,
31; of the Todmorden murderer, the
Droylsden murderer, and another, 32;
of Mapp at Shrewsbury, 35; of Michael
Barrett (the last public execution in
England), 63; at Maidstone (the first
private execution under the new Act),
101; at Newgate (the first in private),
119; of a woman at Lincoln, 156.
EXHIBITIONS.-National Portrait, [308];
Royal Academy, [315]; the Society
of Painters in Water Colours, [318];
Institute of Painters in Water Colours,
[319]; General Exhibition of Water-
Colour Drawings, [319]; the French
Gallery, [320]; the Winter Exhibition,
[ib.]; the Architectural Exhibition,
[321]; Great Exhibition at Leeds,
[ib.]

EXPORTS during 1868, [186].
"EXPLOSIVE BULLET TREATY," signed at
St. Petersburg, [230].

EXPLOSION at Moxley Iron and Steel
Works, 123; at the Green Pit, Ruabon,
128; at a Firework Manufactory in
Barnsley, 130; of a boiler in Waterloo-
road, 136; at Spring's Colliery, Hindley-
common, near Wigan, 148; at Haydock
Colliery, 156.

"EXTINCTEUR," Experiments with the,
on the Thames Embankment, 16.
EYRE, EX-GOVERNOR, Prosecution at
Bow-street Police Court, 19; Charge
of Mr. Justice Blackburn on case before
Queen's Bench, 206.

FAIRBAIRN, ANDREW, Mayor of Leeds,
knighted, 252.

FENIAN ALARMS, swearing-in of special
constables, 1.

FENIANISM, statistics of, in Lord Mayo's
speech, [5].

FENIANS.-Capture of Barrett, 2; Cap-
ture of Clancy, 3; Daring proclamation
in front of Mansion-house, 3; Arrests
and outrages at Cork, 9; Outrage in
Cork, 13; Prisoners (Clerkenwell explo-
sion) committed for trial, 19; Captain
Mackay sentenced, 30; Michael Barrett
executed, 63; narrative of trial of Bar-
rett and others, 174.
FEVERSHAM, LORD, created Viscount
Helmsley, 252.

FIELD, CYRUS, Banquet to, 81.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, Mr. Ward Hunt's,

-

[108]; Mr. Gladstone's general assent
[110]; Resolutions agreed to, [111].
FIRES. At the Oxford Music Hall, Lon-
don, 12; at Eastwell Park, 30; at
Northumberland House, Strand, 105;
at the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com-
pany's premises at Southampton, 115;
at the Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station,
137.
FLOGGING IN THE ARMY, Mr. Otway's

motion to abolish it in time of peace
carried, [121]; provision extended to
marines on shore, [ib.]; passed after dis-
cussion in House of Lords, [ib.]
FOREIGN HISTORY, 189.
FORGERY, extraordinary charge of, 142.
FORSTER, W. E., a Privy Councillor, 253;

Vice-President of Committee of Council
on Education, 254.

FORTESCUE, MR. CHICHESTER, Secretary
for Ireland, [176].

FRANCE, political state of, [189]; the
Budget, [193]; Army Organization Bill,
[194]; Bill relating to the Liberty of
the Press, [199]; the right of holding
public meetings, [203]; painphlet on
policy of Second Empire, [204]; discus-
sion on free trade, [205]; Emperor's
speech at Rouen, [206]; discussion on
Budget, [206]; new political map of
France, [209]; the Baudin subscription,
[210]; changes in Ministry, [211].

GIFFARD, GEORGE MARKHAM, to be a
Vice Chancellor, 250; knighted, 251.
GLADSTONE, MR., at Romsey, 93; speech
announcing the necessity for the discon-
nexion of the Protestant Church of Ire-
land from the State, [56]; lays on the
table of the House three resolutions
on the subject, [60]; moves the first
resolution, [79]; carried by a majority
of 65, [83]; introduces Church-rate
Abolition Bill, [147]; defeat in South-
West Lancashire, [171]; Returned for
Greenwich, [172]; on resignation of
Mr. Disraeli, is commanded by the
Queen to form an administration,
[176]; First Lord of the Treasury, [ib.];
speech at Greenwich on his re-election,
[180].

GLASGOW, visit of Prince and Princess of
Wales, 131.

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY, laying of Founda-
tion Stone of new buildings by the
Prince of Wales, 132.

GLYN, MR. GEORGE, becomes one of the
Secretaries of the Treasury, [177].
GORMANSTON, VISCOUNT, created a Baron
of the United Kingdom, 253.
GOSCHEN, MR., becomes President of the
Poor Law Board, [177]; Poor Law
Commissioner for England, 254.
GRANT, GENERAL, elected President of
the United States, [264].

GRANT, MAJOR J. A., Companion of the
Star of India, 252.

GRANVILLE, EARL, and the principal
members of the Opposition party left
the House of Lords during discussion
on Boundary Bill, vide BOUNDARY
BILL, [36]; becomes Secretary for the
Colonies, [176].

GREECE, connivance with revolution in
Crete, [232]; ultimatum of Turkish
Government, [ib.]; diplomatic rela-
tions broken off, [ib.]; conference pro-
posed by France, [ib.].

GREEN PIT, Explosion at the, 128.
GREGORY, REV. ROBERT, Canon of St.
Paul's, 253.

GUILDHALL, Presentation of the Lanca-
shire Cotton Famine Memorial Window
in, [91].

GUY, MAJOR-GENERAL P. M. NELSON,
Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey, 252.