INTRODUCTION

ACCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA (1837).

AFFAIRS IN CANADA (1837).

THE STATE OF ENGLAND (1838). I. Rural Districts.

IRELAND AND HER LANDLORDS (1838).

THE CHARTER OF COLONIAL SELF-GOVERNMENT (1839).

THE BEDCHAMBER PLOT (1839). I. The Queen and Lord Melbourne.

THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE (1840). I. The Wedding Day.

THE CHARTIST PETITION (1842).

THE RAILWAY BOOM (1842).

THE CORN LAWS AND THE MANUFACTURERS (1842).

IMPRISONMENT FOR ABSENCE FROM CHURCH (1842).

A CHARTIST IN PRISON (1843).

A CHARTIST HYMN (1843).

FORETASTES OF DARWINISM (1844).

THE OPENING OF MAZZINI'S LETTERS (1844).

AGRICULTURE AND FREE TRADE (1845).

PEEL'S CHANGE OF VIEWS (1844).

LORD J. RUSSELL QUICKENS THE PACE (1845).

THE BOMBSHELL (1845).

PEEL AND HIS COLLEAGUES (1845).

FREE TRADE (1846).

PEEL'S DEFENCE OF HIS METHOD (1846).

IRELAND: THE MOLLY MAGUIRES (1846).

ENGLAND AND THE YEAR OF REVOLUTION (1848).

CONQUEST OF THE PUNJAB (1849).

CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT PEEL (1850).

DON PACIFICO (1850).

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPRICS (1850).

THE HAYNAU AFFAIR (1850).

PALMERSTON AND KOSSUTH (1851).

THE GREAT EXHIBITION (1851).

PALMERSTON AND THE COUP D'ETAT (1851).

RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA (1853).

THE QUAKER DEPUTATION TO THE TSAR (1854).

HORRORS OF THE CRIMEAN HOSPITALS (1854).

THE CRISIS AT THE ALMA (1854).

THE MORNING OF INKERMANN (1854).

"MUDDLING THROUGH" BEFORE SEBASTOPOL (1854-55).

THE ANGEL OF DEATH (1855).

WHY PEACE NEGOTIATIONS FAILED (1855).

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