INDEX. The figures between [] refer to PART I. ABERDEEN, Liberal demonstration at [176]; park opened by the Princess Beatrice, 40 ACCIDENTS.-Glasgow Gas-works, explosion, 5; Muiden, explosion, 4; Monkfield Colliery, explosion, 46; Priddy's Head, explosion, 16; Sheffield, panic, 27; Sunderland, Victoria Hall disaster, 23; Underground Railway, explosion, 44; Union Canal, bursting of, 47; Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery, explosion, 43; Wheal Agar Mine, 35; Whitehall, explosion, 10 AERONAUTICs.-Ascent from Boulogne, 21, 39; from Courtrai, 27; Hastings, 39; Madrid, 6; Malden, 32; Marseilles, 31; Mayet, Captain, thrown from a balloon and killed, 6; Mediterranean, attempt to cross, 31 AFGHANISTAN.-AKHAS, raid on British Territory [332]; Baluchisthán, affray between Maris and Bhagtis [331]; Frontier troubles [330]; Quetta railway [332]; revolt of the Tribes [329]; the Shah's mission to the Amir [327]; subsidy paid [330]; Shans, expeditions against, [333]; Shinwaris, outbreak of [328] AFRICA.-Expeditions to, vide Science, Geography, 115 AFRICA, SOUTH [372]. Vide, Cape ALBANY, Duchess of, birth of a daughter, 8 public, Brazil, Canada, Chili and Peru, Mexico, Panama, United States, West Indies ANAPAUMA, Illinois, site given by a layman, 20 ANDERDY, Father Anton, elected VicarGeneral of the Jesuits, 40 APACHE INDIANS, raids in New Mexico and Arizona, 12 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.-Commercial prosperity [318]; harvests [318]; immigrants [319]; violation of the Chilian territory [319] ART, RETROSPECT OF-ARCHÆOLOGI- BURLINGTON Club, 93 ART, continued DUDLEY Gallery, 92 INSTITUTE of Painters in Oil-colours, 92 INSTITUTE of Painters in Water-colours, 92 NATIONAL Gallery, 89 NATIONAL Portrait Gallery, 90 ROYAL Academy, 90; medals awarded to W. Mouat and W. Bates, 50 SCHOOL of Art opened at Bushey, 48 SOCIETY of Painters in Water-colours, 92 SOUTH Kensington Museum, 89 ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, strike of the cotton operatives, 35; terminated, 40 ASIA, CENTRAL [324].-Railway extension [324]; Russian advance [325]; Yarkand, Russian Consulate established [325]; Indian Muhammadan's visit to Badakshán and the Upper Oxus [825]; explorations of the Indian Survey Department, 116 D'ASPRE, General, his remains brought from Padua to Wetzdorf, 53 ATHENS, in the island of Delos, private house excavated, 35 AUSTRALIA [394]. Vide Fiji; New South Wales; New Zealand; Queensland; Tasmania; Victoria AUSTRALIA, SOUTH [399].-Budget [399]; immigration [399]; intention to connect the railway system with that of Victoria [399] AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AGRAM, disturbances at, 34 BILL for legalising marriage between Jews and Christians, 47, Bohemian diet dissolved [248]. Buda Pesth, riots at, 34. CROATIA, disorders in [249]; Czechs, the [249] FOREIGN relations [251] HERR HLUBECK murdered, 51 ISCHL, meeting of Emperors of Austria JEWISH emancipation, repeal of [245] RUDOLPH, Crown Prince, plot to assassi- SOCIALISM [246]; SOLYMOSE, Esther, SZEGEDIN, city rebuilt, 42 BADAJOZ, mutiny of two regiments, 33 BANK rate of discount reduced, 5, 7, 8, 16, 39 BARRY, Mr. Justice, appointed to the Irish Court of Appeal, 20 BATTHYANY, Count Stephen, shot by Dr. Rosenberg, 43 BEACONSFIELD, Lord, statue unveiled in Parliament Square, 14; anecdote of him and Prince Bismarck, 21 BECKFORD Library, third portion sold, 28; sale completed, 49 BELGIUM. BILL for the Suppression of BRIALMONT, General, dismissed and re- BELT V. LAWES, judgment given for a new trial, 51 BENGALEE newspaper, native editor committed to prison, 29 BERLIN, silver wedding of the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, 5, 8 BIBLE, the, excluded from the popular libraries of Paris, 27 BINNS, the hangman, censured at Liverpool, 49 BIRKBECK Library, foundation stone laid by the Duke of Albany, 15 BIRMINGHAM, Bright Celebration [139], [148] BOARD OF TRADE report on railways, 37 BONN, Synod of the Old Catholics at, 18 BRADLAUGH, Mr., demonstration in favour of [12]; letter to the Speaker [20]; v. Newdegate, 14; his lawsuit [86] BRAITHWAITE and Buttermere Railways Bill [64] BRAZIL, slavery question [317]; immigration [318]; yellow fever, preventive innoculation [318] BRETT, Sir Baliol, Master of the Rolls, 13 BRIGHT, Mr., at Birmingham, 21; Rector of the University of Glasgow [70]; at Rochdale, 7 BRISTOL, Colston's Day celebration, 47 BRITISH ASSOCIATION, the, at Southport, 39 BRITISH School of Archæology and Classical Studies at Athens, meeting at Mariborough House, 25 BROOKLYN Bridge opened in the presence of President Arthur, 18 BULGARIA, Prince of, arrived at Constanti nople, 14; Alexander, Prince, his independent attitude [260]; Karageorgivitch, Prince, marriage with the Princess Lorka [260]. RUSSIAN influence, decline of [260] BURMAH.-KING THEEBAW's negotia tions regarding the Commercial Treaty with the Government of India [333] BURMAH, British, prevalence of gangrobberies [334] BURNHAM Beeches purchased by the City of London Corporation, 41 CAMBRIDGE boat race, 10; the "Birds" of Aristophanes performed by members and undergraduates, 48 CANADA.-Lansdowne Lord, Governor General [302]; arrival at Quebec [303]; took the oath [303]. CAPE COLONY (including Basutoland) [372]; discussions in Parliament [372]; prorogued [372]. Captain Blyth appointed Governor's Agent [373]. Jonatban recognised as Molappo's successor [373]; the Basutoland Disannexation Bill [373]; Budget [373]; Queen's Government resumes the control of Basutoland [374] CAREY, James, shot by O'Donnell, 32; vide Ireland CETEWAYO [375]. Vide Zululand. CHAMBERLAIN, Mr., at the Bright Celebra tion [140]; chairman of the Cobden Club [145]; letter to the Battersea Radical Association [165]; on the houses of the poor [171]; on State Socialism [173] CHAMBORD, Comte de, funeral of, 38 CHANNEL Tunnel, the, referred to a Committee of both Houses, 13 CHESS Tournament, the International, held in London, 24; at Nuremberg, 31 CHILI and PERU [320]; war of extermination [320]; negotiations for peace [321]. New Ministry formed [321]. Iglesias recognised as President [322]. Treaty of Peace between Spain and Chili [323]. Church disputes [323] CHINA. ANNAM, death of King Tu Duc [368] CANTON, outbreak in [369] NEGOTIATIONS between Paris and Pekin PARKES, Sir Harry, British Minister TONQUIN War [367]; treaty [368]; CHURCHES and other places for religious CLARKE v. Bradlaugh, 13 COBDEN Club, the annual banquet, 26 [144] "CоCK" Tavern, in Fleet Street, sold, 18 COLERIDGE, Lord, arrival in New York, 36 3 CONNAUGHT, Duke of, birth of eldest son, CONSERVATIVE Party, meeting at the Carlton Club, 20 CONSTANTINOPLE, brawl between the old and new body guard, 3; meeting of the Holy Synod, 52 COTTON trade, failures in, 44 COURBEVOIE, colossal statue at, to commemorate the siege of Paris, 34 COURTS of Justice, the new, used for the first time, 3; all enquiries at nisi prius executed there, 19 COVENTRY, attempt to revive the Godiva pageant, 34 CREMATION, the remains of Captain T. B. Hanham, 49. CRIMINAL CASES. CONRAD beheaded at Berlin, 13 DEASY and Flanagan arrested for having explosive compounds, 12 DUBLIN, twenty-one persons arrested for CRIMINAL CASES, continued conspiracy, 5; eight persons charged with the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, HARTWELL, James, the Seer, 11. Higgins, Patrick, executed for murdering Lord Ardilaun's two bailiffs, 4. Holloway outrage, 36 O'DONNELL trial concluded, 49; hanged at Newgate, 51 POOLE, Joseph, executed, 51 RAMSAY, W., sentenced for a blasphemous libel, 6 SPANGA arrested for the murder of Herr von Majlath, 13. Strome Ferry fishermen, affray with the railway officials, 20, 31, 40. VERE, shot a lady at lawn-tennis, then himself, 29. WOLFF and Bondusand committed for trial, 52 CRICKET matches.-Eton and Harrow, 29; Oxford and Cambridge, 25 CROYDON, meeting for the preservation of the old Archiepiscopal Palace, 15; received Royal Charter of incorporation, 16 CURRIEU, mission to assassinate the Government Members at Paris, 47 CYCLONES at Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri, 18 DAMIETTA, cholera at, 24 DAVITT, Michael, addresses at St. James' iiall, 11 DECEASED Wife's Sister Bill, second reading, 21 DELAWARE, Lord, portrait presented to the city of Philadelphia, 4 DENMARK.-Finances [285]; Folksthing, the, opposed to Government measures [283] KING'S reply to the addresses from the Folksthing and the Landthing [283] RADICAL meetings [284]. Rigsdag reassembled [281]. Royal visitors [286] SCHLESWIG question, the [285] DERBY, the landlady of the "White Swan fined for selling wine during prohibited hours on Sunday, 40 DERBY, Lord, and the agents of the seven great Colonial dependencies at the Colonial Office, 4 DICKENS'S "Old Curiosity Shop," demolished, 53 DOBBS v. Grand Junction Waterworks Company, judgment given, 49 DOMINICA, island of, hurricane in, 38 DRAMA, THE.-BURLESQUE at 66 the Gaiety, 96; Fedora," 95; Irving's revival of the "Bells" and "Lyons Mail," 95; Judic, Mme., at the Gaiety, 96; new plays, adaptations and revivals, 93; opera bouffe, 96 "DRINK BILL," the, of the United Kingdom, 9 DUEL between Aurélien Scholl and Dr. DUFFERIN, Lord, left Egypt, 16 DYNAMITE plot in London, first of a series Bishop of Sydney, 32; Benson, Dr., confirmed Archbishop of Canterbury, 9; enthroned, 12 CHURCH Congress, at Reading, 41 LEWIS, Archdeacon, Bishop of Llandaff, 4; enthroned, 15 MACKONOCHIE, Rev. A. H., resigned the living at St. Peter's, London Docks, 53 WILKINSON, Canon, Bishop of Truro, 4; did homage at Windsor, 15 ECUADOR REPUBLIC, the, in a state of revolution [319]; Guayaquil taken [319]; population [320] EDINBURGH, old colours of the Scottish Regiments presented to St. Giles's Cathedral, 47 EGYPT.- Evacuation by British troops [154]; defeat of Hicks Pasha's army in the Soudan [389] 45; policy of the Government [9]; Tokkar, a detachment completely routed, 46; Arabi exiled to Ceylon [381]; the murder of Professor Palmer, Captain Gill and Lieutenant Charrington avenged [381]; Lord Wolseley and Lord Alcester presented with swords of honour [382]; General Drury Lowe presented with a pistol [382]; Lord Granville's circular note [382]; end of the Dual Control [383]; Lord Dufferin's scheme of administrative and social reform [383]; re-organization of the army [385]; Cholera outbreak at Damietta [385]; financial difficulties [387]; affairs in the Soudan [387]; Baker Pasha's border police [390] ELEPHANT, white, purchased by Barnum, left Rangoon, 50 EMIGRANTS, number from English ports, 2; from Germany, 13 EPPING Forest Railway, 64 ERRINGTON, Mr., mission to the Vatican [112] ETNA, Mount, eruption of, 11 EUGENIE, Empress, visit to Paris, 5; accident near Aldershot, 19 FAWCETT, Mr., Lord Rector of Glasgow University, 47 FIELDING, Henry, bust unveiled at Taunton, 38 FIJI.-Sugar industry, [401]; the labour question [401]; revenue [401]; petition to the Queen for the Colony to be incorporated with one of the Australian Colonies [401] FISH MARKET, New Central, opened, 16 FISHER-GIRLS at Marlborough House, 16 FISHERIES EXHIBITION opened by the Prince of Wales, 16; closed, 44 FLOODS.-Central Europe, 1; Dakota and Deadwood, 18; England, 7; Ontario, 28; Raab in Hungary, 3; United States, 6, 7 FOOT-AND-MOUTH disease [136], 38 FOOTE, editor of the "Freethinker," sentenced for blasphemous libel, 6, 9 "FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW" on housing the poor [170] FRANCE-ALPHONSO, King of Spain, at Paris, 41; Annam, war with [226]; Army estimates [230] Bouréc BERT, Paul, on the Tonquin Credits, [227]; order carried [228]; Bills against Pretenders [212]; Treaty [225]; Budget [230] CABINET, resignation of Ministers [216]; the Ferry, hostile to Extremists [216]. Chambord, Count_de, death of [221]. Colonial Policy [221]. Constitution, revision of the [219] DUCLERC, M., resignation of [215]; ELECTIONS to the Departmental Councils [221],86. Expulsion Bill [216] FERRY, M., Premier and Minister of Public Instruction [216]. Foreigners, number of residents in, 42 MADAGASCAR, war with [223] MAGISTRACY Bill [218] NAPOLEON, Prince Jerome, his manifesto [211]. National fêtes in honour of the Republic, 28 ORLEANS Princes, the, removed from military command [217] FRANCE, continued PARIS, International Trades Union Congress, 44; Dumas' statue unveiled, 45; meeting of 500 students, 53 RADICAL manifesto [221] SHAW, Mr., indemnity paid to him [224] TONQUIN question [224]; war in [225]; report on the necessity of increasing the number of the land troops [227]. Tunis, settlement of [222] WALDECK-ROUSSEAU, M., on unlimited freedom to monastic communities [219]; speech at Angoulême [219] FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, General Assembly of, to discuss the instrumental music question, 20 FRY, Mr., Lord Justice of Appeal, 13 GAMBETTA, death [1]; funeral, 2; body removed to Nice, 3 GARIBALDI, medallion portrait presented to the Duke of Sutherland, 20 GERMANY.-ALSACE LORRAINE [243]. Autumn and Winter Session [242] BALLOT, the [243]. Biennial Budget [241] CONVENTION with France and Italy [241] FOREIGN policy [243] INCOME tax [242] KULTURKAMPF [239] MINISTRY, changes in [242] NATIONAL monument of, unveiled by the RUSSIA, relations with [245] WORKING MEN'S INSURANCE BILL [241] GLADSTONE, Mr., meeting at Foreign Office, 19; visit to Copenhagen [163], 39; statue presented to the City Liberal Club, 51; dessert service presented to him, 52 GLASGOW University, Mr. Fawcett elected Lord Rector, 47 GLOSSOP, two girls found dead in their beds, 2 GOSPELS, 1,300 copies burnt at the Barcelona Custom House, 31 GRANVILLE, Lord, deputations about another Canal in the East, 15 GRIMSBY, new park at, opened by the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, 35 GROOT, Hugo de (Grotius), tercentenary of his birth, 13 GROVE, Mr. George, knighted, 16 HAMILTON and Grosvenor Places, new road connecting them, 15 HARELAW, two gamekeepers murdered at, 6 HARVEY, William, his remains removed to the Harvey Chapel, Hampstead, 43 HAYTI, Port au Prince, outbreak of the negroes, 40 HIGHLANDERS, the 71st, colours restored to the Regiment, 3 HUXLEY, Prof., President of the Royal Society, 27 INDIA [334].-ARMY, re-organisation of Native [340]. ASSAM, floods in [364] INDIA, continued BENGAL Tenancy Bill [351]. BOMBAY, plague of locusts [365]; sanitary condition [365]. BUDGET [356] CALCUTTA International Exhibition [366]. CHANDAH railway [335] FAMINE Insurance Fund [358]. FEUDATORY states, events in [334]. FINANCIAL Condition [353] GAIKWAR'S state, the [337] HINDUS and Muhammadans, antagonism between [342]. HYDERABAD College, the President suspended [335] ILBERT Bill, the, [343]-[352] JAIPUR, case of Sati [339]; Exhibition of Works of Art [339]. JUNAGADH affair [337]; outrage on the Maiyas [338] LOCAL Government [341] MYSORE, death of the Diwán Rangu- NAVAL matters [340] POSTAL and Telegraph department [363] RAILWAY rates, reduction in [359]; extension of [363] RIPON, Lord, unpopularity of [351] SIR SALAR JUNG, death of [334]. Vide Obituary. SALT duty [357] TRADE and Commerce [358] INVINCIBLES, the, trial of, 13 IRELAND. ---- ARRESTS of seventeen persons connected with the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke [193] BELFAST trials [198]. BIGGAR, Mr., committed for trial [189] CAREY, James, committed for the Phoenix Park murder, [194]; turns informer [195]; disappears [198]; shot dead on his arrival at the Cape by O'Donnell [198]. CITY OF DUBLIN "Steam Packet Company's" contract renewed, [205] COATBRIDGE, riots between Roman Catholics and Orangemen, 36. CORK Industrial Exhibition [204]. CROKE, Archbishop, summoned to Rome [201] DAVITT, M., imprisoned [190]; letter on the Papal action [202]. DERRY, anniversary of shutting the gates, 52, DILLON, John, retires from public life [199]. DUBLIN trials [193]] EMERGENCY men, three, attacked near Tipperary, 1; EXECUTIONS [192], [195], [198] HEALY, Mr., imprisoned [190]; bitter invective against the Papal letter [202]. HUNTING, prohibited by 500 farmers, 49 "KERRY SENTINEL," the, editor, foreman and two compositors imprisoned [200] LAW, Mr. Hugh, death [205] O'BRIEN, Mr. returned for Mallow [192]. O'DONNELL executed for the murder of James Carey [198]. ORANGE demonstrations in Ulster, 28; Lodges, excitement of the [205]; policy [207] PAPAL Letter, the, [201]. PARNELL Testimonial [201], [207]; speech at the Banquet [207] IRELAND, continued RIOTS at Londonderry, 45; Newry and Wexford, 49. ROSSMORE, Lord, removed from Justice of the peace [206] SALE of liquors on Sunday prohibited, [63] TRAMWAYS Act, the [205] "UNITED Ireland" paper, the [191] IRISH Land League Association opened its sittings at Philadelphia, 15 IRVING, Henry, departure to the United ISABELLA of Denmark, her remains moved CABINET re-constructed [236]. CON- DEBATE on the Government [236]. MANCINI, Signor, reply to Minghetti NAPLES, political banquet at [237]. Lovito [237]; duel between [238] ROME, 150 persons arrested on charges of high treason and revolutionary manœuvres, 3; International Fine Arts Exhibition opened by the King and Queen of Italy, 5; bomb thrown into the Austrian Ambassador's Courtyard, 8; excavations of the Forum, 12, 24; discovery of the Atrium Vesta, 46; International Geodetic Congress, 43; duel between Signor Nicotera and Signor Lovito, 50 SPECIE payments resumed [232] JAPAN [371]. ARMY [371]. CENSUS [371] ITO HIRABUMI, M., visits Berlin and LOOCHOO and Corean questions [371] JESUITS, the number of its order, 44 KINNAIRD, Mr. C., petition against his election dismissed, 8 LA CROSSE Clubs, the Cambridge University and London, at Willesden, 6 LANDSLIP between Collonges and Bellegarde, 2 LAWN-TENNIS Championship for a'l England. 29 N |