PARLIAMENT AND POLITICS.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-Opening of parliament,

the Queen's speech, 25, 265; debates on

the address, 25, 265; Adrianople, a des-

patch relating to the treaty of, 123;

Albert (Prince), allegations against,

27; Austria, the conduct of, in the

Principalities, 269; bankruptcy and

insolvency (Scotch) bill, 74; beer

bill, the new, 169; bills of exchange

bill, 74, 169; bribery bill, 169; Camp-

bell's monument in Westminster Abbey,

169; Canada, legislative council bill, 145;

capital punishment, 98; cholera, the, 50

church building act amendment bill, 74;

civil service, the, 51; coasting trade

bill, 51; common law amendment, 49,

52; common law procedure bill, 121;

cruelty to animals bill, 145; criminal

law, 50; divorce and matrimonial causes

bill, 145, 146; drainage of land bill,

169; electorial system, 50; fast-day, 52;

fisheries, treaty with the United States

respecting the, 145; foreigners enlist-

ment bill, 268, 269, 270; foreign office,

charges against a clerk in the, 51;

German powers, views of the, 74; hay

contractor, fraud by a, 52; Health, the

Board of, 146; income-tax bill, 97; le-

gislative council (Canada bill), 121;

letters to the fleets, 121; message from

her majesty, 73; military affairs, admi-

nistration of, 74; militia, increase of

the, 49, 98; militia returns, 49; minis-

terial arrangements, 121; miscellaneous

estimates, 121; mutiny bill, 52; navy

list, the, 29; navy, manning the, 50, 99;

navy pay bill, 121; negotiations with

foreign powers, 98; New Zealand, the

bishop of, 145; nuisances act amendment

bill, 98; New Zealand, conduct of the

late governor of, 146; Odessa, bombard-

ment of, 97, 98; opening of parlia-

ment, 265; Óxford university, 31, 145,

146; Fahlen, Count, 146; peace or

war, state of the country respecting, 27;

Poles entering the service of the allies,

146; public revenue and consolidated

charges bill, 146; railway accidents, 28;

reform bill, the new, 30; reform bill,

abandonment of the, 75; representation

reform, 50; Russian answer to a speech

of Lord John Russell, 50; Russia, ces-

sation of diplomatic relations with, 29;

Russia, declaration of war against, 73

Russia, seizure of our ambassador's pro-

perty in, 74; Russian exportation and

the rights of neutrals, 52; Russian ports,

petition from Hull praying for blockade

of all the, 123: Russian government

securities bill, 169; Russian prisoners

released by Admiral Dundas, 99; statues,

consolidation of the, 29; testamentary

jurisdiction bill, 31, 51, 74; ticket-of-

leave system, the new, 97; treasury and

the Bank of England, 121; Turkey and

Russia, 26, 27, 30, 49, 122; Turkey, the

Christians in, 50; Turkey, neglect of the

British army in, 97; Turkey and Russia,

diplomatic transactions, 99; war, the,

98, 170; war expenditure, a vote of

credit for, 146; vote of thanks to the

Army and Navy in the East, 268; West

India Islands, troops in the, 31; wives

and children of soldiers on service in

Turkey, 74, 98; prorogation, 170.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-Debate on the ad-

dress, 32, 270; after midnight legislation,

33; army, consolidation of departments,

51; army, dress of the, 124; army esti-

mates, 52; Austria and Turkey, treaty be-

tween, 148; Australia and England, postal

arrangements, 57; Baltic, the blockade

in the, 109; bills of exchange, fraudulent

dealings with regard to, 101; Birming-

ham borough prison, 172; blockade of

Russian ports, 151; Board of Health,

vote for the, &c., 119, 150; Bode, Baron

de, claims of the, 127; borough writs

suspended, 175; bribery bill, 78, 150,

152, 153, 171, 174; bridges over the

Thames, 39; budget, the, 55; business

of the house, 124; Canadian legislative

council bill, 173; capitular estates bill,

76, 107; chartist convicts, 56; chimney

sweepers bill, 109; church building act,

75, 149; church rates, abolition of, 109;

127, 128; City of London commission,

105; civil service estimates, 149; civil

service, 102; colonial clergy disabilities

bill, 81; common prayer, alteration of

the book of, 59; conventual and

monastic institutions, 53, 75, 77, 102,

108; criminal conversation bill, 79,

101, 125; crown forests in England,

104; customs duties (sugar) bill,

124; despatches relative to the war,

175; Dickenson, Capt., claims of, 152;

Dublin hospitals, public grants to, 39;

Dublin University, 79; education, bill

for Scotland, 105; educational estimates,

148; elections, prevention of bribery at,

35, 37, 60, 124; emigrant ships, loss of

life on board, 51; Europa, loss of the,

129; exchequer bonds, the new, 105;

excise duties, 105, 108, 124; financial re-

solution, 103, 175; Finchley road bill,

171; foreigners enlistment bill, 272;

Franklin, Sir John, search for, 79;

gaming houses, suppression of, 62;

Greece occupied by the allied armies,

124; Greek insurrection, 58; Hango,

operations at, 124; hay contractor, fraud

by a, 61, 62, 75, 79; health, vote for the

board of, 149, 150; Hudson (Mr.), vin-

dicating himself, 34; Indian affairs, 174;

income-tax, 60, 61, 77, 109; inns of

court, 54; journal of St. Petersburg, an

article in the, 58; Lawley (Mr.),

appointment in Australia, 173; laws

of mortmain, 59; leader of the house,

35; letters for the forces in the East,

124; libraries for the public, 61, 80;

London drainage bill, 54; malt, addi-

tional duty on. 104; Manchester and

Salford education bill, 39; married

women to dispose of interests in per-

sonal estates, 107; medical practitioners

bill, 39; message from her majesty, 77,

153; Middlesex industrial school bill,

79,

149; military department, new

arrangements in the, 125; militia act

amendment, 101; militia bill, 171;

militia service out of the United Kingdom,

271; ministers' money, 57; monastic in-

stitutions, 53, 75; mortmain bill, 148;

Napier, Sir Charles, dinner to, 57;

National Gallery, purchase of land for a

new, 150; navigation laws, amendment

of the, 33; navy estimates, 53, 102;

neutral rights in time of war, 149;

neutral vessels, trade carried on in, 60;

newspaper stamps, 106, 125, 150; New

Zealand, the bishop of, 171; oaths,

alteration in the, 34, 58, 109; Odessa,

bombardment of, 102; Orange River

territory, abandonment of the, 104;

ordinance estimates, 53, 103; Oxford

University reform, 39, 59, 81, 99, 101,

102, 105, 109, 127, 128, 146, 148, 171;

partnership, limited liability in, 147;

Perry, lieutenant, of the 46th regiment,

175; Plumridge's, Admiral, proceedings

at Uleaborg and Brahestadt, 148; police

bill, 148; poor in England and Wales,

the, 35; Poor Law Board, Mr. Baines

and the, 76; Prerogative Court, registry

of the, 107; Prince Albert, allegations

against, 33; printing required for the

public service, 153; prisons and convict

establishments, 125, 127; property dis-

posal bill, 80; public health amendment

bill, 172; public prosecutors, appoint-

ment of, 36; public revenue and con-

solidated fund charges bill, 125, 149;

railways and canals, regulation of traffic

on, 80, 102; real estate charges bill, 108;

reform bill, intentions of the government

regarding the, 81; Reid, Dr., and the

Board of Works, 152; representation of

the people, 36; revenue of the year, 83;

Russia, declaration of war against, 77;

Russo-Dutch loan, the, 172; Russian

securities bill, 170, 172, 174; schools in

England and Wales, 59; Scotch spirits,

duty on, 109; Scotland, education of the

people of, 39; seamen, encouragent of,

104; settlement removal bill, 62, 75;

Simony law amendment bill, 61; slave

trade, 175; Smith O'Brien, intention to

pardon, 39; Smith (Mr.), late mayor of

Rye, release of, 172; stamp acts, 108;

stamp duties bill, 106, 125;

H.M.S., flogging on board the, 152;

Stonor's (Mr.), appointment at Mel-

bourne, 57, 59, 60, 80; Sturgeon, the

late Mr., 152; Strutt's (Mr.) exclusion

from the ministry, 127; Sturgeons, the

hay contractors, 61, 62, 75, 79; succes-

sion to real property bill, to amend the

law of, 36, 56; supply committee, 39

testamentary jurisdiction bill. 149;

ticket-of-leave system, 102; trafficking

in places, 34; treaty between Austria,

France, and England, 271; truck act, bill

to amend the, 37; translation of a for-

eign document, 149; Turkey and Russia,

32, 35, 37; usury law repeal bill, 173;

vote by ballot, 126; vote of thanks

Star,

iv

to the Army and Navy in the East,
271; wages bill, 59, 62; war, con-
duct of the, 100; war, secretary of state
for, 152; war, the vote of credit for the,
153; West India encumbered estates
bill, 173; Westminster Abbey, admission
of visitors to, 172; Windsor, the military
knights of, 61; wives and children
of soldiers serving in Turkey, 76;
prorogation, 175.
IRELAND.-Bankruptcy Law, 61; church
temporalities, 149, 153; landlord and
tenant bill, 31, 50, 99, 151; leasing
powers bill, 99; ministers' money, 60;
national education in, 31; O'Flaherty,
(Mr.), late income tax commissioner,
174; poor law continuance bill, 152;
temporalities of the church, 126; towns
improvement bill, 146.
Aberdeen's, Lord, speech at Aberdeen, on
the war, 217; at the Lord Mayor's Ban-
quet, 241.

Albert's (Prince) presence at privy coun-

cils, 1.

Army and navy estimates, 40.

Army for Turkey, the, 63.

Changes in the government, 130.

City of London corporation enquiry, 110.

Convocation of the province of Canterbury,

156.

Exportation of arms prohibited, 41.

Fast day for the war, 85, 110.
Governors and lieutenant-governors of
British colonies, 146.

Granville's, the Earl of, speech on the war,

218.

Irish members, charges of corruption

against, 155.

Molesworth's, Sir William, speech on the
war, at Edinburgh, 217.

Poland, meeting in favour of, at Sheffield,

130.

Revenue returns, 1, 156.

Russell's, Lord John, speech at Bristol on

the war, 241.

Russia, the Emperor of, and the British

government, secret communications be-

tween the, 63.

Russia, declaration of war against, 83.

Seymour's, Sir Hamilton, speech at the

Mansion-house, 85.

Sligo election report, 61.

Treaty of alliance between England and

France signed, 85.

Treaty between Austria, England, and

France, 272.

Urquhart's (Mr.) demonstration against

the war 86.

War, preparations for, 40.

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL

PROGRESS.

Agricultural society, the royal, 160, 274.

Agricultural society of Chipping Norton,

202.

Agricultural society of Liverpool and Man-

chester, 202.

Artists' benevolent institution, 91.

Barnstaple commission inquiry, 40.

Baths and washhouses, satisfactory result

of the, 225.

Bible society, British and Foreign, 115.
Birmingham gaol commission of enquiry,
185.

Births, marriages, and deaths, 44, 184.

Bowring's (Dr.) departure for China, 12.

Bread, improvement in making, 92.

Bristol, new Athenæum, 225.
Builder's Benevolent Institution, the, 225.
Burial grounds closed, a list of the, 224.
Catholic Apostolic Church, Gordon Square,
opening of the, 11.

Cattle Show of the Smithfield Club, 274.
Charterhouse enquiry, 161.

Cholera, the, 185, 200; directions of the
Board of Health, 91, 201.

Church Missionary Society, 115.

City Corporation enquiry, 15.

Civil List Pensions, the, 186.

Clothing Colonels, abolition of, 137.

Convocation of the Province of Canterbury,

40.

Cræsus steam ship, sailing of the, 13.

Crystal Palace Company, increase of capital,

68.

185.

Literary and mechanics' institutions, a

gathering of, near Manchester, 200.

Liverpool, opening of St. George's Hall,

202.

London City Mission, annual meeting,

115.

Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, 11.

Manchester Commercial Association, 14.

Marylebone Free Library, opening of the,

11.

MEETINGS.-On the subject of, Russia and

Turkey, 1; Reform, 1; Lancashire

Liberals, 1; Metropolitan Churches Fund,

115; Protestant Association, 116.

Merchant Seamens' Orphan Asylum, an-

nual dinner, 116.

Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, 68.

OBITUARY.-Anglesea, the Marquis of, 117;

Portland, Duke of, 93; Portsmouth,

Earl of, 15; Poulett, Vice-Admiral, 45;

Rutherford, Lord, 274; Sontag, Madam,

161; Soult, Mdlle. Sophie, 203; Southey,

Mrs. C., 161; Spry, Rev. Dr. John, 246;

St. Aulaire, Madam, 187; Stranger, Dr.,

138; Strathmore, the Countess of, 246;

Stuart, Lord Dudley, 246; Stuart, Lady

Mary, 161; Talfourd, Mr. Justice, 69;

Taylor, Major-Gen., 16; Thibaudeau,

Count, 69; Thompson, Rev. Dr. W.

203; Vivien, M., 138; Von Schelling, F.

W. J., 203; Nelson, Mr. J., of Edin-

burgh, 93; Wimpffen, Field Marshal,

203; Wylie, Sir James, 69.

Ormskirk Public Library, 12.
Patriotic Fund, the, 225; ;
People of Great Britain, their occupations,
ages, and general condition, 200.

PERSONAL.-Queen, the, Baltic Fleet, visit

to the, 69; Channel Islands, visit to the,

186; French Ambassador's bal costumé,

visit to the, 116; Hull, reception at,

225; Royal Naval School, donation to

the, 93; Albert's, Prince, birthday fête

at Cowes, 187; Addington, Mr., ap-

pointed Privy Councillor, 93; Argyle,

Duke of, elected Rector of the Univer-

sity of Glasgow, 245; Barker, Rev. F.,

appointed to the see of Sydney, 186;

Burghersh, Lord, the bearer of the

Alma dispatches, promoted, 225; Des-

chenes, Vice Admiral, appointed to the

command of the French Baltic Fleet,

138; Franklin, Sir John, and his cor-

panions, melancholy fate of, 225;

Georges', Mdlle., appointment at the

French Exhibition, 203; Gholam Maho-

med, son of Tippoo Saib, in England, 93;

Grey, Sir G., appointed Commander-in-

Chief of the Cape of Good Hope, 186;

Guilford, Lord, resigns the livings of

Arlesford and St. Mary's, 15; Hamp-

den's, the Rev. Edward, rapid progress

in church preferments, 203; Hinchcliff,

Mr. J., munificent bequests of, 246;

Hood, Thomas, a public tribute to the

memory of, 161: Hume, Mrs., presented

with the portrait of her husband by his

admirers, 186; Jacob, Dr., thanked by

the governors of Christ's Hospital for a

sermon, 246; Johnson, Mr., resigns his

appointment in Russia on the breaking

out of war, 117; Jolly, Lieutenant, pro-

moted to the rank of commander for his

conduct at the destruction of Greytown,

205; Mathew's, the Rev. Father, depar-

ture from Liverpool for Madeira, 226;

Marrast, Madam, pension granted to by

the Emperor of the French, 274;

Murray, Lieut.-Col., appointed Comman-

der-in-Chief of the Bermudas, 186;

Napier, Sir Charles, farewell dinner to,

at the Reform Club, 69; Nightingale,

Miss, departure of, for the East, 226; Nor-

wich, the Mayor of, knighted, 117; O'Con-

nor, Miss, sister of Feargus O'Connor, dis-

tress of, 161; Owen, Professor, dinner to,

at Crystal Palace, 15; Perry Defence and

Testimonial Fund, the, 226, 246; Port-

land, will of the late Duke of, 186; Por-

tugal, arrival of the King of, 137, 161;

Raglan, Lord, raised to the rank of

Field Marshal, 246; Rachel, Malle., sued

by M. Legouvé, the dramatic writer,

226; Scott, Rev. R., elected Master of

Baliol, 93; Sontag's, Madam, remains

treated with indignity, 246; St. Arnaud,

Madame de, the Emperor's letter of con-

dolence to, 246; Taylor, Mr. Tom, ap-

pointed secretary of the New Board of

Health, 186; Walewski's, Count, bal

costumé, 116; Wilberforce's, Arch-

deacon, retirement from the Church of

England, 205, 215.

Poland, association of the friends of, 115.

Poor Law Board, report of the, 160.

Population, the increase of, 185, 200.

Post-office business, 93.

Post-office money-order department, profits

of the, 137.

Alexander, Lieut.-Col., 246; Arthur. Sir

George, 203; Arthur, Vice-Admiral, 246;

Ashburnham, Lady E., 93; Barth, Dr.

274; Bath and Wells, Bishop of, 117;

Bathyani, Count, 161; Baudin, Admiral,

138; Beaufort, Duchess Dowager of,

187; Beaumont, Lord, 187; Beresford,

General Viscount, 15; Bertin, M.

Armand, 16; Biddulph, Sir T., 161; Bo-

naparte, the Princess Zelaide Charlotte,

187; Boyle, the Hon. Lieut.-Col., 203;

Brownlow, Earl of, 16; Carlyle, Mrs.,

15; Carlyon, Major-General, 161; Cock-

burn, Lord, 117; Colborne, Lord, 117;

Croker, Mr. Crofton, 187; Cuninghame,

Lord, 246; Dalmer, Lieut.-Gen., 203;

Denman, Lord, 203; De Wangenheim,

Major, 203; Drummond, General Sir

Gordon, 226; Eldon, the Earl of, 203;

Faucher, M. Leon, 247; Fitzclarence,

Lord, F. 274; Fitzwilliam, Mrs., 203;

Gillkrest, Dr., 15; Gordon, Rear

Admiral, 15; Gordon, Col., 69; Gros-

venor, Lord Gilbert, 69; Henderson,

Rear-Admiral, 161; Hobhouse, Right

Hon. H., 93; Hooper, Alderman,

93; Hunt, Mr. F. K., 246; Hunter,

General, 246; Jocelyn, Viscount, 187;

Kempt, General Sir James, 274; Kettel,

Mr. George, 161; King, General Sir

H., 187; Langton, Miss Jane, 226;

Ledru Kollin, Madame, 187; Leslie,

Right Rev. Dr., 161; Londonderry,

Marquis of, 69; Lorton, Viscount, 246;

Longford, Lord, 161; Mai, Cardinal,

203; Martin, Capt., 226; Maitland,

General, 138; Manby, Captain, 271;

Martin, John, the painter, 69; Martin,

Sir Thomas, Admiral of the Fleet, 226;

Maule, the Hon. Lieut. Col., 187;

Metternich, Princess, 69; Metscherlich;

Dr., 15; Monckton, the Hon. F., 161;

Montagu, Charles, killed at Gamla

Kaleby, 161; Montgomery, James, the

poet, 117; Netterville, Viscount, 69;

Ormonde, the Marquis of, 226; Parker,

Admiral Sir Hyde, 117; Pateshall, Preston strike, the, 15, 45, 92.

Rear Admiral, 246; Phillips, Mr. Printers' pension society, anniversary din-

Samuel, 226; Plunkett, Lord, 15;| ner, 115.

Poultry Club, the winter show, 11.

Practical art, report of the Board of Trade

upon, 137.

Propagation of the gospel in foreign parts,
meeting of the society, 137.

Provisions, the price of, 45.

Ragged school, the Field Lane, 115.

Railway, irregularities in the conveyance

of mails, 201.

duct respecting the death of a woman,

218; Perry, Lieut., of the 46th regiment,

159, 181, 193; a seaman of the "Hornet"

sloop of war, 198.

110.

Cridland, Mr., action for libel against, 157.

Criminal assault on a young woman, trial

Reformation of criminals, institution for of three men for a, 66.

the, 45.

Cruelty to bullocks in Smithfield, 243.

Reformatory school in connection with the Derby election, trial for bribery, 41.
Devon and Exeter Refuge, 202.
Destitution, appaling case of, at Ratcliffe, 3.

RETURNS, REPORTS, &c.-Births, mar-Destitution, death of a child from, 180.

riages, and deaths, 44, 184; emigration Diminution of crime, 2.

returns, 137; emigrant vessels, 13; ex- Divorce, case of the Rev. E. Roberts, 90,

port of wine from Spain and Portugal,

15; factories, report of the inspectors of,

160; health, state of the public, 185;

loss of life by war and pestilence, 12;

Poor Law Board report, 160; population,

the, 45, 185, 200; post-office returns,

93; railway accidents, 14, 91, 198; re-

ligious worship in England and Wales,

12; revenue returns, 1, 156; sexes, re-

lative proportions of the, in Great Britain,

68; ships employed in the trade of the

United Kingdom, 41.

Royal Academy annual dinner, 115.

Royal Literary Fund anniversary dinner,

115.

Sewers City Commissioners, meeting of

the, 200.

Society of Arts, meeting of the, 245.

Sons of the Clergy, the bicentenary festival

of the, 116.

Sunday with the working classes, Lord
Stanley's speech at Preston, 245.

Telegraph between England and Ireland,

202.

Temperance League, meeting of the, 15.

Theatrical fund dinner, 91.

University improvement, Lord Palmerston

on, 11.

Wellington College, the, 13.
Working Men's College, established in Red
Lion Square, 244.

Yorkshire Union of mechanics' institutes,

137.

Arctic Expedition, trial of Sir E. Belcher,
and other officers for abandoning their
ships, 220.

ASSAULTS. On Mr. Stewart Ker, by Robert
and William Newton, at Beulah Spa,
181, 273; on Capt. R. Hawkins, R.N., by
a man and his wife, 222.
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY COURTS.-
Application for a discharge by Mr. S. W.
Lane Fox, 111; bankruptcy of Messrs.
Newcombe and Griffiths, emigration bro-
kers, 196; Bullock, Mr., chemist in
Conduit Street, 213.

Betting house, punishment for keeping a,
242.

Bigamy, trial of Philip Walmsley for, 273;

Bill trafficking, case of, 110.

Birch v. Foster, 273;

Body of a boy found at East Acton, 4.

BURGLARIES, AND ROBBERIES. - Robbery

of Mr. Metcalf, by his daughter, 2; of

Mr. Mathews, at Leighton Buzzard, by

Sanders and Myers, 67; burglary at

Messrs. Magnus & Marshall's, in Savage

Gardens, 67.

Butler v. Viscount Mountgarret, case of,

180.

Cambridge, a town-and-gown riot in, 242.

Carden, Mr., trial of, for the attempted ab-

duction of Miss Arbuthnot, 157, 176.

Childe, Captain, commission of lunacy

upon, 158.

Church rates, a poor man imprisoned for
non-payment of, 133.

Copyright, an important question of, 180.

Corporation of London v. Combe, Delafield,

& Co., 66.

COURTS MARTIAL ON :-Belcher, Sir Ed-
ward, and other officers of the Arctic
Expedition, for abandoning their ships,
220; Knight, Lieut., and some officers
of the "Dauntless" for disgraceful con-

Drain, fine for illegally unstopping a, 244.
Driving recklessly through a crowd, 111.
Estes, Mr., validity of marriage case, 4.
Execution of Grant, Quin, and Coomey at
Monaghan, 88.

Fairs, mischief arising from, 183.
FORGERY. Altering the amount of a
cheque, a clergyman charged with, 41;
forging bills of exchange, trial of William
Anderson for, 64; O'Flaherty, Mr., late
commissioner of income tax in Ireland,
charge against, 183; forgeries of dock
warrants, charge against John Windle
Coles, merchant, 222.

Fortune telling, 4.

Gaming houses attacked by the police, 42.

Giffords, Mr., attempted murder of, by

Mr. H. P. Willoughby, in the Central

Criminal Court, 197.

Gordon, Colonel, death of in a railway

carriage, 87.

Husbands illtreating their wives, cases of,
5, 42, 133.

Illtreating a child, charge against a school-
mistress at Brighton, 157.
Incendiary Fires, 133.

Indecent prints, punishment for selling,
133.

Infernal machine, house blown up by a,

89.

Intimidating workmen, 89.

Keane, Captain, tried for an assault upon

Ellen Walsh, 131.

Knight, Lieutenant, and other officers of

the "Dauntless" tried by court martial,

respecting the death of a woman, 218.

Lumley v. Gye, 42, 131.

Madget, Mrs., melancholy history of, 5.

Manchester, will of the late Duchess of,

89, 158.

MANSLAUGHTER.-Trial of Mr. Ashcoft and

Mr. Latham, railway collision, 89; trial

of William Stockley for causing the death

of his father, 158.

Mormons, disturbing a congregation of,

197.

MURDER.-Of Adcock, Mr., near Leicester,

133; of Bagshawe, Mr., by poachers, 178;

of Glenister, Charity, by Abel Burrows,

near Leighton Buzzard, 67; of Holman,

Mrs., by her husband at Bodmin, 2, 89:

of Hickling, Mrs., by Joseph Bains, at

Crowland, 132; of Mc Donald, William,

trial of Dr. Smith, 86; of Moore and

Collard, by Bartlemy, 273; of Murray,

Mrs., by Henry Simmons, at Kensington,

131; of Napper, David, by his wife and

son, 196; of Richards, Mary, by Harvey,

at Little Torrington, 179; of Scales,

George, by a Spaniard, 66, 159; of Stur-

geon, Mary Ann, by Moses Hatto, 66; of

Spriggs, Rebecca, by her husband, at

Westbourne, 67; of six children by their

mother, Mary Ann Brough, at Isher,

179; of a child by its mother, Catherine

Saville, at Camberwell, $8; of a child by
its father, at Milford, Derby, 88; of a
woman by a man named Wright, near
Swindon, 242.

Murder of a police officer attempted in a
railway carriage, 157.
Mutiny on board an American vessel, 90.
North Western Railway, embezzlement of
the company's money by a cashier, 89.

Nottingham, disturbances at, 221.

Omnibus robbery, 4.

Orange demonstration at Londonderry,

atrocious attempt to overturn a railway

train, 197.

PERJURY.-Mr. J. Baker tried for, 112;

Mr. B. Sloman tried for, 196; the Mayor

of Rye tried for, 64.

Perry and Greer, Lieutenants, 46th Regi-

ment, court martial on, at Windsor, 159,

181, 193.

Picking pockets, 130, 183.

Poacher killed in Lincolnshire, 41.
Poaching affray, death of Mr. Bagshawe of
Wormhill Hall, Derbyshire, 178.
Poor rates, liabilities of societies to, 131.
Preston strike, the leader arrested, 68.
Railway directors, liability of, 2.
Railway, Eastern Counties, action for
damages against the, 91.

Riots in Devonshire, 4.

Rye, trial of the mayor of, for perjury, 64.
Setting fire to a dwelling with intent to
defraud an insurance office, 181.

St. Barnabas, a curate of, charged with an

assault, 111.

St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, charge against
a churchwarden for assault, case of say.
ing or singing the service, 220.

Sloman, Mr. B., of Drury Lane Theatre,

charged with perjury regarding Madame

Caradori, 196.

Smyth, Richard, alias "Tom Provis,” trial
of, for forging a codicil to the will of Sir
H. Smyth, Bart, 87.

Starvation of a child at Southampton, 88.

STEALING-A chaise, charge against George

Williams, 221; coats from gentlemen's

houses, 42; velvet ribbon, charge against

a lady in Dublin, 42; £5 from his

mother, charge against Thomas Dennis,

197; four pounds of coal, 133; from a

cigar shop in the Haymarket, 41; from

the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, trial of

a Frenchman for, 41; trousers from his

father, trial of a boy for, 3.

Stolen goods, punishment for receiving, 111.

Stolen property, seizure of in Houndsditch,

88.

SUICIDES OF-Daly, Mr. R., by hanging,

90; Hamer, Mr. (in the employment of

the Board of Guardians, Haslingden),

158; Layard, Lieut.-Colonel, by cutting

his throat, 2; Lander, Miss, at Glasgow,

by hanging, 111; Osborne, Sarah, by

drowning, 3; Robinson, Rev. T., at

Dover, 183; Taylor, Mr., at Birmingham,

65; two young girls at Newcastle-on-

Tyne, by drowning, 219.

Swindling, a novel system of, 111.

Swindling by a pretended clergyman, 158.

Talfourd, Mr. Justice, sudden death of, 65.

Ticket of leave system, the working of

the, 197.

Tithes, cases of non-payment of, 159.
Windsor Castle, attempt to break into, 41.
Women, cases of cruelty to, 132.
Women, the Society for the Protection of,
cases brought forward by the, 221.

ACCIDENT AND DISASTER.

BOILER EXPLOSIONS-at Beasley and Far-

mer's Iron Works, near Birmingham,

133; at Williamson's factory at Roch-

dale, 160; at Messrs. Tomlins and

Bradbury's near Ashton-under - Lyne,

199.

Buried alive, accident at Lyons, 112.

Cannon bursting at Shoeburyness, 198.

Chloroform, death of a female from, in St.

George's Hospital, 114.

COLLIERY ACCIDENTS.-Death of three men

at the Fron Colliery, Wrexham, 9; at the

Arley Mine, near Wigan, frightful loss

of life, 43; at Lund Hill, near Barnsley,

Yorkshire, 184; at Messrs. Knowles &

Sons, Clifton, near Manchester, 199.

Collision between the barque "Favourite "

of Bremen, and the American barque

Hesper, "113.

DROWNING. Foot, Captain, of H.M.S.,

"Conflict," drowned off Menai, 113;

Macnish, Lieutenant, death of, by, at Scu-

tari, 133; of Luard, Mr., at Southampton,

159; Russell, Misses, at Kincraig, 160;

Stroud, Mr., of Swansea, while bathing,

199.

Europa troop ship destroyed by fire, 133.

Fall of houses at Saffron Hill, 160.

FIRES-at a beer-shop in Colchester-street,

113; in Clement's Inn, 43; at Gateshead,

deplorable calamity, 223, 244; in

211

Gloucester Cathedral, 198; at Messrs.
Kelsall's Mill, Rochdale, 7; in Princes-