Thank You

• April 1st - The Paris International Exhibition was opened by Emperor Napoleon III of Franceand Empress Eugénie. on Champs de Mars, and demolished one year later
• Second Reform Bill passed in Britain
• Russia sells Alaska to the United States
• Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution was published
• Michael Faraday dies aged 76
• Prison van attacked in Manchester and Fenian leaders escaped

Index of Engravings from January 5th to July 29th

FRONTISPIECE, COLOURED PICTURE - A Brother’s Help, April 13,
A
Admiralty Works, St. Mary’s Isle,
Chatham, 385
“A Dream in Venice” (Scene from), at the Gallery of Illustration, 377

Albert Hall (The Royal) of Arts and Sciences, to be erected at Kensington, 493
Arrival of the Queen at the Site of, 509
Interior of, 516-517
Queen (The) Laying the First Stone of, 528-529
‘Trowel used by the Queen in Lay in the First Stone of, 50

Albert Memorial, The Manchester, 89
Statue of the late Prince Consort in the Centre of, 89

Middle Class College, Framlingham Suffolk, 488
Almsgiving on Maunday Thursday, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, 413
Alnwick Castle (Banquet at), on the Coming of Age of Lord Wsirkwnrth. 5i1
Athletic Games, Royal Military Academy Woolwich, 501
Atlantic Telegraph Medal, The, 318

Atlantic Yacht-race, The Henrietta, Winner of the, 17
Yachts (The) Parting Company at Sea, 20
Saluting her Majesty off Osborne House, 36

Australia, Scenes and Incidents in— Bas-reliefs on the Melbourne Monument of Burke and Willis, the Australian Explorers, 56
Salmon-Ponds at New Norfolk, 97 Intercolonial Exhibition at Melbourne, 216

B
Ball (Fancy Dress) at the Merchant Venturers’ Hall, BrIstol, 109

Given by the Hon. Artillery Company at the Armoury, Finsbury, 168
Given by the Prefect of the Seine, at the Hotel de Ville, 229

Banquet given to the American Yachtsmen at Cowes, 17
Barge (State) Of the King of Siam, 512
Battery gun (Gatling’s), adopted by the United States Army, 300
Bechuana Chief (A) of South Africa, 105

to be continued..........................................

January 5th

A twelve page issue price fivepence.

It features articles with prints from engravings including

• 'Whom To Punish - A Schoolmasters Dilemma' (front page),
• 'Launch of The Great Republic Steam Ship at New York',
• 'Paris Fashions for the New Year',
• 'Travelling Between Vera Cruz and Mexico in the Neighbourhood of Rio Frio, a place infamous for highway robberies and murders' (full page),
• 'The Italian Chamber of Deputies at Florence',
• 'Scene from Molieres Medecin Malgre Lui by J. Leman',
• 'The New Monkey in The Zoological Societys Gardens, Regents Park - A Jew Monkey from Orinoco',
• 'A Days Ferreting in the Christmas Holidays',
• 'Capture of a Slave Dhow By The Boats of HMS Lyra on The West Coast of Madagascar', 'HMS Lyra Disembarking Liberated Slaves at Port Victoria, Seychelles',
• 'The Henrietta, Winner of The Atlantic Yacht Race', 'Banquet Given to The American Yachtsmen at Cowes', 'The Atlantic Yacht Race: The Yachts Parting Company at Sea - Henrietta - Vesta - Fleetwing' (full page),
• The Late Mr. Parkin Jeffcock, of Derby, Mining Engineer',
• 'The Fire at The Crystal Palace on Sunday Last: The Ruins as Seen from The Terrace',
• 'Chess problem'
• Also articles (no engravings) icluding 'Foreign and Colonial News', 'Imperial Parliament', 'Shipping Intelligence', 'Naval and Military Intelligence', 'Country News', The Court', 'Epitome of News', 'Scientific News
• 'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes - The Rev. Lord Adam Loftus of Magheraculmoney died at Ardess, Kish - William R. Robinson Esq at 17 Hyde Park Terrace - Captain William Augustus Pulteney Dana at Geelong, Victoria - Mrs Anne Gilbert better known in Literature as Anne Taylor of Ongar - John Lechmere Esq of Ludford Park, Herefordshire, and Hill House, Steeple Aston Oxfordshire'

Front page illustration entitled "A Country Lane in Surrey" by F.W. Hulme. A Country Lane in Surrey by F.W, Hulme and other engravings

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