THE HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE OF CURRENT EVENTS, (FOR THE YEAR 1852,) BEING A MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT TO HOUSEHOLD WORDS, CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS. LONDON: ÒFFICE, 16, WELLINGTON STREET NORTH. 1852. TABLE OF CONTENTS. POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND SANITARY PROGRESS. PARLIAMENT.-Its opening, the royal HOUSE OF LORDS.-Debate on the address, 27; opening of the new Parliament, royal speech, and debate on the address, 243; Aberdeen's (Lord) speech on the new ad- ministration, 276; Ali Morad's territo- ries, 75; amendment of proceedings in the Court of Chancery, 244; assembling of Parliament by proclamation, bill to amend the statutory law, 53; Ava, the war with, 75, 76, 99; Birkenhead, loss of the, 76; business of the House before Christmas, 245; Caffre war, 28; Caffres, sale of gunpowder to the, 28; Cape of Good Hope, constitution granted to, 122; Chancery reform, 52; Clancarty (Lord) and the oath prescribed for Roman Catholics, 28; commercial policy, 266; Common Procedure Amendment Bill, 28; coffee mixed with chicory, 98, 123; corn duties, 52; County Courts Exten- sion Bill, 29; criminal offenders, mutual surrender of, between France and Eng- land, 122, 123; Crystal Palace, 75; De Bode (Baron), petition from, 123; Derby's (Earl) reason for taking office, 51; doctrine, question of, 99; duration of the session, 75; elections, corrupt practices at, 123; Enfranchisement of Copyholds Bill, 100; foreign refugees, 76; French compensation fund, 123; gunpowder, the sale of, to the. Caffres, 28; Indian territories, 75; Jamaica, distressed state of, 192: Largos, attack upon, 29; lunatic asylum for criminal lunatics, 53; Mather (Mr.), case of, 28, 122, 123; Maynooth grant, 75, 99; Megæra, troop-ship, 23, 29; Militia Bill, 123; Murray (Mr.) the case of, 99; national school grants, 123; Navy Pay Bill, 123; New South Wales petition, 123; New Zealand Bill, 123, 124; property tax, 99; railway amalgama- tion, 123; railway regulations, 245; resignation of ministers, 29; recog- nition of the French Empire, 267; River Plate, affairs of the, 53; Rosas (General), honours paid to, 98, 99; sanitary state of London, 98; Smith's (Sir H.), conduct at the Cape, the Duke of Welling- ton's approval of, 27; St. Alban's disfranchisement, 77; volunteer rifle corps, 53; Von Beck (Baroness), 123; Warner's (Captain) invention, 99; Wellington (the Duke), funeral of the, 244, Lord Derby's speech on the, 245; wills, bill to amend the law of, 53; HOUSE OF COMMONS.-Opening of Parlia- dangerous animals bill, 57; deserters siastical personages and episcopal revenues, 101, 127; elections corrupt practices bill, 33, 81, 107, 134; extra- mural interments, 55; financial state- ment, 101; foreign affairs, alteration in the administration of, 29; foreign com- merce, 54; free-trade, intention of the government with regard to, 53, 51; free- trade, intentions of the new government respecting, 248; Mr. Villiers in favour of, 268; general board of health bill, 131; grand juries bill, to dispense with, 81; Harwich, bribery at, 78; hop duty, 59; Household Narrative, 57; Indian territory, government of the, 81 ; Ionian Islands, 79; Jewish disabilities bill, 134; Jamaica, condition of, 124, 134; Lefevre (Mr.) elected speaker of the House, 245; Mather's (Mr.) case, 31, 129, 148; Meer Roostun, late Ameer of Scinde, the case of, 134; metropolitan burials bill, 133, 134; metropolitan sewers bill, 133; metropolitan water bill, 133; militia, Lord John Russell's, 34, 36; militia, Lord Derby's, 77, 83, 103, 103, 125; militia franchise, 81; ministerial explanations, 57, 79; Murray (Mr.), case of, 124; Maynooth grant, 106, 107, 125. 131; national board of educa- tion, 58; New South Wales, petition from, 133; new writs for elections, 53; New Zealand government bill, 106, 124, 123, 133; Oban and Glasgow railway, 55; O'Connor (Mr.), Fergus, disorderly conduct of, 128, 133; Paget (Mr.), seizure of his papers at Dresden, 248; Palmerston's (Lord), dismissal, 29; paper duty and taxes on knowledge, 105; parish constable's bill, 82; parish vestries bill, 132; parliamentary reform bill, 54; policy of the new administration, 57; poor-law board con- tinuance bill, 107; postage labels, ma- chine for perforating the sheets of, unfair treatment of the inventor, 55; preserved meats for the navy, 33; pro- tection to refugees, 59; public business, 124; public houses (Scotland) bill, 32; recognition of the French Empire, 269; reform bill, the new, 33, 54; reform of the ecclesiastical courts, 248; relief of the landed interest, 60; representative system, 59; resignation of the ministers, 37, Roman Catholic processions, 132; resignation of Lord Derby's government, 267; Scotland, law reform, act for, 33; shipping trade, 58; stamp duty, 31; St. Alban's disfranchisement, 31, 51, 59; COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.-Army estimates, 58; exchequer bills, 60; medals for 53; Cuffe-street savings bank, 56; dis- turbances in, 28; disturbed districts, the, 56; encumbered estates, 134: funds for educational purposes, 52; improve- ment of landed property, 248; incum- bered estates commission act, 56; 1rish valuation bill, 134; Maynooth grant, 75, 99, 106, 107, 125, 131; Maynooth, system of education at, 104; national education, 121; new reform bill, 33; outrages in, 28; prevention of crime in, EDITORIAL NOTES Aberdeen ministry the, 266; Africa, the war on the coast of, 25; American fisheries dis- pute, 169; Anti-Corn-Law League, 26, 49; Achilli v. Newman, trial, 122; grant for a new trial, 242; Argentine con- federation,, 170; Australian convict question, 25; Australia, the gold dig- gings, 73, 122; Australian grievances, 122; Australia, scarcity of wool from, 98; Bentinck, Lord H., in North Not- tingham, 145; Beresford, Mr. and the non-electors, 146; a good and a safe man wanted at Derby, W. B., 146, 266; Birkenhead, loss of the, 74; bookselling question, the, 74, 91; budget, Mr. Disraeli opening the, 97; Cape, the war at the, 25, 98; chancery abuses, 26; chancery, abolition of the masters of, 74; cholera, preparation for the, 170; Christopher (Mr.) in Lincolnshire, 145; church, dis- putes in the, 75; Cobden (Mr.), on the hustings, 145; convocation, 217, 242; crystal palace, Lord Derby on opening the, on Sunday, 242; Cumming (Mrs.), the chancery proceedings against, 50; death of the Duke of Wellington, 193; Derby's (Lord) speech at a dinner given by the Lord Mayor, 97; Disraeli (Mr.) at his election dinner, 145; Derby administration, fall of the, 266; Disraeli's (Mr.) speech on the death of the Duke of Wellington, 241; Exeter, the bishop of, and the confes- sional, 217; Exeter's, the Marquis of, wish at Blandford, 146; forebodings on opening of the new year, 1; Franklin, Sir John, 74, 218; France and the northern powers, 98; French claims to the holy sepulchre, 26; French inter- ference with Turkey, 170; French in- vasion, 98; French press, 25; free- traders, 117; general election, 121, 145; gold diggings in Australia, 73; House- hold Narrative, proceedings of the Court * practice for the people, 2; Rosas, the Acts of Parliament-The New Metropolitan Amazon, destruction of the, by fire, 10. Army distribution at home and abroad, 62. Artists' benevolent fund dinner, 112. Bennett (Mr.), address to the Marchioness of Bath from the parishioners of Frome Bethlehem hospital, treatment of patients Bristol, rapid progress of the port of, 13. British and Foreign Society meeting, 111. Christmas feast to the poor at Leicester- Cholera, progress of the, 203. City dispensary, report of the, 13, City railway terminus, Mr. C. Pearson's Commissioners of Customs, notice to masters of vessels in case of improper Convocation of the province of York, 37. Convocation, assembly of the two houses Copyright, convention between France Greenwich Observatory, arrangements to Hospital for diseases of the chest, anniver- Hospital at Brompton for consumption and Liberal members of the House of Com- mons, assembly at Lord J. Russell's, 61. Literary fund, the royal, 66, 112. Library and reading-room for the working classes, meeting of the parishioners of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields to establish a, | Liverpool, opening of the free library at, London City Mission meeting, 111. Manchester free library, opening of the, Married soldiers' society to promote the erection of improved dwellings for, 162. Marylebone, a meeting in, to establish a Mechi's (Mr.) annual gathering at Tiptree MEETINGS.-Agricultural, 222; Anti-Corn- Law League, 62; Church Pastoral Aid Society, 112; confessional at Plymouth, 251; letters from the Archbishop of Canterbury, 251; diocesan synods, 4; free trade, at Manchester, 251; Friends of Italy, 251; Leeds Reformers, 3; Maynooth, to discontinue the grant to, 4; metropolitan interment, 13; at Man- chester, on the subject of labour, 61; militia, against the, 107; property tax, against the renewal of, 2; Sheffield, the constituency of, 3; solicitors at Derby, 230; Sons of the Clergy, 112; Taxes Members returned to scrve in the new Merchant Seamen's Fund, new regula- Metropolitan Burial Act, the, 163. Metropolitan Sanitary Association, 90. Museum of Practical and Ornamental National Galleries, purchase of land by New Ministry, names of the, 38. Cromer, purchased by Mr. Benjamin Bond Obituary.-Abercromby, Loid. 164; Ady, Crystal palace, purchase of the, 112. Emigration and colonisation, the progress of, 17, 93, 114, 142, 165, 184, 201, 233. Encumbered estates sales, 141, 181, 203. Electric telegraph across the Irish Channel, Electric telegraph in the Bank of England, Electric telegraph connected to the fire engine stations at Boston, 13. Exhibition, the Great, cost of removal of, Female Penitentiary (the Liverpool), an- Flax, Sir J. Graham on the cultivation of, Game laws, Sir J. Graham's step towards relaxing the severity of the, 205. Joseph, 208; Baird, Sir David, 16; Baker, Admiral, 16; Berry, Miss, 277; Blackwood, Robert, Esq., 42; Castanos, Gen., Duke of Baylen, 232; Chipman, Chief Justice of New Brunswick, 16; Cockburn, Major-General Sir James, 97; Colby, Major-General, 232; Corn- wallis, Earl of, 113; Denmark, the Dowager Queen of, 91; D'Orsay, Count, 182; Downman, Sir Thomas, Lieutenant- General, 182; Dinorben, Lord, 232; Excelmans, Marshal, 164; Finden, Mr. William, 231; Forbes, Sir Charles, 67; Gay, Madam, 67; Gerard, Marshal, 92; Graydon, Colonel R. E., 42; Prince Hamilton, his Grace, the Duke of, 182; Jackson, Vice-Admiral, 141; Keat, Dr., 67; Neild, J. J., 208; Kensington, Lord, 182; Landseer, John, Esq., 67; Loring, Sir Wentworth, 182; Lovelace, the Countess of, 277; Mackay, Alex- ander, 113; Mackworth, Sir Digby, Bart., 232; M'Kinley, 16; Mensdorff, Ponelly, the Count, 161; Marmont, Marshal, 67; Montague, Sir W. A., Vice-Admiral, 67; Moore, Thomas, 67; Newbigging, Sir W., 261; Panmure, Lord, 91; Praed, Vice-Admiral, 232; Paterson, Mrs., one of Burns' heroines, 233; Parker, Sir James, Vice-Chancellor, 182; Robinson, General Sir F., 16; Sir John, 91; Somers, Earl, 232; St. Andrew's, the Bishop of, 232; Talbot, the Right Hon. J. C., 141; Townsend, Dr., Bishop of Meath, 232; Thomason, Thomas, Esq., of Edinburgh, 232; Watson, the Hon. R., 112; Webster, Daniel, 261; Wellington. the Duke of, 296; Wheatley, Major-General Sir H., 67; Wilson, Thomas Esq., 232; Wur- O'Brien, William Smith, and his com- panions, petition to the Lord-Lieutenant, entreating the royal clemency in behalf PAPAL.-Opening of Roman Catholic schools at Hackney, 3; Sellon, Miss, charged with Popish practices, 67; pro- clamation against Roman Catholic Pauperism, the decrease of, 205. PERSONAL.-Queen, her Majesty, the, and Canning, Sir Stratford, raised to the Cathcart, Major-General, appointed Go- Cholmeley's, Sir M., doubts of the Pro- Costello, Miss L. S., grant of 751. a-year Cullen, Dr., appointed by the Pope Arch- Disraeli's, Mr., address to the electors of Buckingham, 135; speech on the death of the Duke of Wellington, parallel passages from a panegyric by M. Thiers Franklin, Sir John, vessels the Erebus Hardinge, Viscount, appointed to the command of the army, 205, 231. Jenny Lind's marriage to M. Otto Gold- Kossuth's arrival in England from the Londonderry's, the Marquis, letter to Meagher's, the Irish convict, escape from Neild, Mr., the will of, leaving her Pugin, Mrs., grant of 1007. a year to, 231. Smith, General Sir Harry, recalled from Smythe, the Hon. G., and Col. Romilly, Somerset, Lord Fitzroy, appointed Master- Southey, Mrs. C., grant of 2001. a year to, Wellington, the Duke of, and the farmer at Windsor, 16; the Waterloo banquet, trial of three men for, 108; on Catherine Attempt to poison his wife, trial of Aylesbury assizes, point of difference 62. Bankruptcy and Insolvency Courts-Case Public income and expenditure for the last Begging women, 177; trial of, for de- three years, 219. Rifle corps, the government notification Sailors' Home, and Destitute Sailors' Sailors' widows, the Cambridge Asylum Sellon (Miss), charged with popish prac- Servants' Royal Provident Benevolent So- Sewerage and drainage of the metropolis, Strike of engineers, machinists, &c., 14, 41. Submarine telegraph, direct communi- cation between London and Paris, 259. Tenant-right movement in Ireland, 196. Theatrical Fund (the General) anniversary The women of England to the women of the United States on the subject of Training Institution for masters and mis- tresses of the schools of the National Society, laying the first stone by Prince University of London, meeting of the LAW AND CRIME, Adultery, Rev. Stephen Mathews, of Hanging Heaton, deprived of his living Agrarian conspirators at Monaghan, trial Arches Court, decision in the case of the Rev. Mr. Gladstone v. Bishop of Lon- Assault on a police constable by Mr. manding money of Mr. Solly, 199. Bills of acceptance, caution to tradesmen, Breach of Promise of Marriage-Emma Cathedral trusts and their fulfilment, case of the Rev. Mr. Whiston decided by the Chancery, the Court of, returns respecting the, 108; new rules and orders in the Court of, 197; prisoner released after thirteen years' confinement, 172; suit commenced above one hundred years Charitable institutions and idle vagrants, 199. Coiners, discovery of a gang of, 222. County Courts, business transacted in the, 6. charged with cruelty to animals by Derby election, case of bribery at the, 159. two children by the mother, 5. Emigrants, complaints of, against shipping agents, 173; cases of importance to, 156, Endangering the lives of railway pas- False imprisonment, trial for damages Forgery, William Henry committed for circulating false bills of exchange, 173; forging a certificate of marriage, trial of Wilton Butler, a sapper and miner, Fracas between Mr. Campbell Foster and Frankfort (Lord), charged with sending Glen Tilt case, judgment of the House of Lords against the Duke of Atholl, 137. Gladstone v. the Bishop of London, 137. Highway robbery, trial of John Messham Hill, Sarah Anne, commutation of her sentence of death to transportation, 7. Illegitimate child, refusing to support Ill-using two children, trial of Elizabeth Imposture and credulity, remarkable case Inefficacy of the poor-law, 86. Innate depravity, Eliza and the blind negro, Inquest on Mr. Sand, drowned by the sinking of the Duchess of Kent, 173. Lodging houses, summonses for not ob- Lunacy.-Commission to inquire into the serving the regulation of the act, 222. state of Mr. John Price, 64; against Mrs. Cumming, 7, 65; judgment on Lord Dinorben, 86; action, Henry Baker for unlawfully keeping lunatics in his private house, 137; insufficient care Manslaughter-of a child, trial of Charlotte Larkin for the, 64; trial of a surgeon for the manslaughter of Ann Noakes, 172; of his brother, trial of a boy for the, 254. Money won at play, action for, 254. Moreton (Mr.), of the Daily News, killed by Mr. Bower, of the Morning Advertiser, MURDERS of Mrs. Barnes, at Belper, 5; |