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Staffordshire lords lieutenant 71, 1376.

Stammering, curers of 290, 578, 1590, 1593.

Stamps and taxes amalgamated with the excise 191.

Stanley, Henry Morton i.e. John Rowlands b. 1841, search for Livingstone 242.

Star fishes, collection of 277.

Stars,

circumpolar 559,

near the ecliptic 709,

red 288,

starcraft 661.

Stationers,

Causton 574,

Herring 1447.

Statuary, collections of 182, 1531,

tinted 1141.

Statues and Busts,

Acland 12,

Addison 23,

Albert 410, 943, 1073, 1097,

Alexander 44,

Alford 46,

Amos 57,

Attwood 106,

Balfe 142,

Beaconsfield 204,

Bennett 243,

Black 292,

Borghese 534,

Bourke 350,

Brotherton 423,

Buccleuch 534,

Burke 481,

Burrows 492,

Campbell 528,

Canning 1073,

Carlyle 550,

Carmichael 551,

Cavendish 576,

Chadwick 581,

Clyde 657,

Combermere 689,

Cooke 702,

Crossley 773,

Cubbon 778,

Dargan 814,

Darwin 819,

Earle 952,

Elliott 484,

Fairburn 1014,

Ferguson 1082,

Field 1041,

Fletcher 130,

Fowke 1092,

Fox 1096,

Frere 1108,

Galignani 1117,

George iv. 1133,

Gilbert 1145,

Goodenough 1173,

Gordon 1178,

Gray 1216,

Greenough 1229,

Guinness 1256,

Hall 1288,

Hampden 1073,

Harding 1073,

Herbert 1438,

Hill 1475,

Hoste 534,

Humfrey 1586,

Hunt 1593,

Huskisson 544,

Knox 1082,

Lander 484,

Melville 1082,

Napoleon, prince imperial 330,

Outram 1073,

Richmond 408,

Selden 1073,

Telford 130,

Victoria 408, 410, 534, 1141,

Whittington 544,

William iii. 120.

Stead, James Hurst d. 1886 singer and dancer, the perfect cure 312.

Steam engines, air pump condenser for horizontal 1010,

boiler, a safety 1055,

boilers, incrustation of 117,

boilers, multitubular suggested 336,

compound high and low pressure 972,

fusible plug for boiler 888,

high pressure used 1261,

portable invented 1126,

steam jet invented 1261.

Steam locomotives, car to travel on ordinary roads 512,

Dart locomotive at Liverpool 1171,

dimensions of cylinders and driving wheels 496,

double bogie engine 1016,

fixed eccentrics 1392,

first in Scotland 551,

first between Liverpool and Manchester 463,

flexible steam bags used 1315,

Hancock’s steam engine 1315,

improver of 62,

inventor of 1416,

link motion 1556,

locomotives on roads 1539,

permanent way for railways 512,

three cylinder engine 1556.

Steam road rollers invented 110.

Steam ships, builder of 860,

first going around the Cape 1422,

iron ship building yard 1014,

navigation introduced by Brunton 454,

steamships to distant foreign ports the first 48,

twin boats 551.

Steam vessels,

City of Melbourne 670,

Great Britain 453, 1259, 1544,

Great Eastern 453, 1170, 1356,

Great Western 453, 1259, 1544,

Tourist 432.

Steel, puddled 641,

steel manufacturers 1051, 1095.

Steel pen maker, Gillott 1151.

Steeple chasers,

Angell 70,

Bean 208,

Becher 215,

Holman 1513.

Stereoscope, lenticular invented 394.

Stereotyping, Dellagana process 854,

papier mâché 854,

See also Printing 1683.

Sterling, John d. 1844 essayist, his friend 1093.

Sterne, Laurence d. 1768 humorist, letters by 712.

Stevenson, William d. 1829 keeper of treasury records 1128.

Stiff, George d. 1875 newspaper proprietor 1160.

Stock brokers,

Antrobus 539,

Durrant 943,

Easthope 953,

Gray 1215.

Stock jobbing fraud 934.

Stockings, frames for 83,

manufacturer of 1122.

Stone, artificial 1466,

expansion of by heat 25.

Stone implements from America 298.

Storm warnings 1064.

Story teller, Hicks 1462.

Stoves, Arnott’s 90.

Stowe, Buckinghamshire, art collections sold 460.

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher b. 1812,

payment to by Beeton 221,

vindication of lady Byron 507.

Stowell, Rev. Hugh d. 1865 canon of Chester, action for libel against 1409.

Straham, Paul and Bates, bankers, prosecution of 1244.

Stratford-on-Avon, See also Shakespeare, William 1694, 1695,

churchwardens’ presentments 1536,

Trinity coll. sch. founded 683.

Strength, feats of, balancing a wheel, a plank and a donkey on a ladder 1030.

Stuart, pretenders to the heirship of the family of 49, 50, 52.

Sudeley castle, Gloucestershire, restored 861.

Suffolk, materials for history of 834.

Sugar, crystals of diabetic sugar discovered 1136,

sugar refiner 380.

Sullivan, Alexander Martin b. 1830 M.P., his trial 1057.

Sullivan, Arabella Jane d. 1839 author 798.

Sun, solar rays, researches on 1592,

spots on the sun 559,

sunshine recorder invention of 532,

registration of sunshine 1493.

Sunderland, banquet to Hudson 1566,

bridge over Wear 1136.

Surgeons,

Abraham 9,

Acton 12,

Adams 17,

Aldis 41,

Alexander 43,

Amesbury 56,

Asbury 92,

Aulsebrook 107,

Babington 118,

Barton 188,

Becket 216,

Bell 232,

Bellot 236,

Bent 246,

Bird 285,

Blair 302,

Braid 378,

Brett 391,

Brodie 408,

Callender 517,

Cobbold 659,

Cooper 708,

Coote 714,

Copeland 715,

Copland 716,

Coulson 732,

Cox 734,

Crampton 750,

Critchett 762,

Curtis 793,

Diamond 870,

Dunlop 937,

Dunn 939,

Epps 954,

Fergusson 1038,

Fife 1044,

Fletcher 1070,

Forster 1085,

Fuller 1112,

Gamgee 1119,

Gaskoin G. 1129,

Gaskoin J. S. 1129,

Gay 1132,

Grainger 1199,

Green 1225,

Gregory 1234,

Griffiths 1247,

Gulliver 1257,

Hargrave 1336,

Harvey 1368,

Hawkins 1386,

Heckford 1416,

Hewett 1453,

Higginbottom 1463,

Hildige 1466,

Hill 1474,

Hillman 1477,

Hilton 1479,

Hinton 1483,

Hodgson 1496,

Houlton 1549,

Hughes 1573,

Hunt 1590,

Hurman 1601.

Surgeons, veterinary,

Cherry 603,

Clark 625,

Dick 872,

Gamgee 1119,

Gresswell 1237.

Surgery,

apparatus for exploring internal cavities of the body invented 110,

bead suture invented 415,

blood letting discouraged 1524,

chest, instrument for examination of 41,

cleft palate, operation for 110,

dissections reproduced in wax 1479,

first surgeon to claim payment for advice 1406,

gas cautery invented 449,

gastrotomy, operation for 1085,

Grainger’s school of anatomy Southwark 179,

hydrocephalus, tapping for 695,

iliac artery first tied successfully 33,

instrument for making deep sutures invented 214,

laryngoscope invented 117,

lithotrite for crushing stone in bladder 1264,

lost limbs, substitutes for 274,

os calsis removed and foot retained 1314,

ovariotomy 284,

paracentesis capitis 1416,

renal aneurism the first case 1188,

spinal curvatures 954,

tumours from the larynx removed by the mouth 1136,

varicose veins, their treatment 591.

Surrey, Camberwell, St. George’s chapel opened 18,

zoological gardens 516, 770, 812.

Sussex, coins found in 1368,

provincialism in use 712,

white carrot introduced 491.

Swansea, duke of Beaufort’s gaol abolished 1017.

Swartzenburgh, Felix, prince and lady Ellenborough 878.

Swimming, plate swimming 938.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles b. 1837 poet, Hotten publishes his poems when Moxon refuses 1547.

Switzerland, blind asylum at Lausanne 1277,

Clias’ gift to Berne 647.

Sydenham, See Crystal palace 1635.

Sympiesometer, invention of 25.

Synonyms, English 745.

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Tailors, Carter 561,

Doudney 901.

“Take care of Dowb” 906.

Talbot family picture 831.

Tamil scholars, Elliot 979,

Hoole 1527.

Tamworth, the last recorder of 1594.

Tape worms 659.

Taper bars, rolling of 641.

Tebbutt, Rev. Francis indicted Joseph Ady 26.

Telegraphs and Telegraphy, See also Electricity 1639,

Clark’s projected telegraph 627,

Croll, the pioneer of 765,

electro telegraph co. 705,

electric telegraph, invention of 705,

Highton’s code 1465,

india rubber insulated telegraph cables 1528,

single needle apparatus 705,

magnetic telegraph needle 705,

telegraph Paddington and West Drayton 705,

telegraph construction and maintenance co. 1156, 1170,

telegraphy without insulation 1466,

the study of 1447,

twisted iron wires introduced 1156,

United Kingdom electric telegraph co. 765.

Telegraphs, Submarine,

Anglo American co. 1156,

Atlantic cable 1156,

Atlantic telegraph co. 78, 391, 440,

British and Irish co. founded 1429,

Dover and Calais 493, 1156,

Dover and Cape Grisnez 391,

Dover and Ostend 391,

Hoarder’s improvement 1409,

Hooper’s co. 1528,

Orfordness to the Hague 493,

Sardinia and France 391,

Submarine electric co. 855,

Submarine telegraph co. 391.

Telescopes, See also Observatories 1677,

Cooke’s telescope at Gateshead the largest in England 703,

manufacturers of large telescopes 806.

Teloogoo or Telugu, language 527,

scholar 430.

Temperance,

bottle, the, eight plates 777,

Bradford temperance soc. the first in England 213,

British and foreign temperance soc. 681,

drunkard’s children, eight plates 777,

licensed victuallers’ testimonial to Berkeley for opposing temperance 253,

temperance dictionary 488,

worship of Bacchus, a picture 777.

Temperance advocates,

Brisco 402,

Burns 488,

Cassell 567,

Collins 681,

Edgar 959,

Edwards 967,

Gough 1190,

Grubb 1252,

Guest 1254,

Hall 1292,

Hoyle 1562.

Temperature, internal of the earth 1095.

Ten hours’ bill 1205.

Tennis players, Cox 743,

Davies 828,

tennis court 743.

Tennyson; Alfred b. 1809 poet laureate, his friend 1058,

May queen set to music 856,

Œnone in Latin hexameters 1005,

Tiresias 1058.

Tent, an improved 911.

Thackeray, William Makepeace d. 1863 novelist, combat of Sayerius and Heenanus 1417,

his friends 1000, 1058, 1182,

Newcomes, illustrations to 912,

studies on Thackeray 1320.

Theatres,

companies in Germany 1054,

Cumberland’s British theatre 782, 811, 891,

Dolby’s British theatre 891,

dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund founded 73,

dramatic burial ground 73,

dramatic coll. 73,

examiner of plays 896,

London theatres, Bray’s account of 387,

orchestra stalls introduced 473,

religious services in 406,

scene painters 347, 812, 1034, 1231, 1243,

theatrical mechanician 376,

theatrical posters 1091,

theatrical portraits 943,

toy theatre, characters and scenery for 1523.

Theatres and other places of Amusement, See also Actors 1617 and Music halls 1665.

Adelaide gallery, entertainment at 561.

Albert saloon, manager 1447.

Alexandra built 1152.

Astley’s, lessee 704,

rebuilt 195,

renamed the Westminster theatre 903.

Avenue lessee 1421.

Bower saloon lessee 1403.

City of London lessee 1522.

Coburg built 1345,

drama at 955.

Comedy lessee 1421.

Court acting manager 1609.

Covent garden burnt 64, 1268, 1482,

converted into an opera house 38,

lessees 1268, 1345, 1356,

manager 473,

musical director 1158,

opera of 1846 organised 1253,

reconstructed 181,

scene painter 1243,

stage manager 1345.

Cremorne gardens, manager 984,

proprietors 15,

Bradley commits suicide in 372.

Criterion, lessee 1421,

managers 507, 1483.

Drury lane burnt down 290,

great city, run of 1294,

Hughes’ circus at 1571,

Jullien at 1268,

lessees 473, 599 bis., 1011,

managers 329, 473,

money lost in 599,

Monte Christo row 736,

musical director 1158,

scene painter 1243,

theatrical fund 1340.

English opera house i.e. Lyceum 87.

Fitzroy theatre manager 4.

Floral hall opened 181.

Folly, drama at 1023,

lessee 1421.

Garrick burnt 1169,

proprietor 695.

Globe lessee 1421.

Grecian lessee 695.

Haymarket lessee 466,

proprietor 955.

Hengler’s circus built 1428.

Her Majesty’s lessee 1356.

Highbury barn proprietor 1152.

Lyceum burnt and rebuilt 87,

lessees 879, 1016, 1030, 1268, 1356.

Marionette theatre, entertainment at 561.

Marylebone lessees 958, 1323,

manager 991.

Negro minstrels 1489.

New grand, proprietor 1404.

Olympic, decoration of 28,

lessees 991, 1025,

little Emily, run of 1295,

Tom and Jerry at 1231.

Opera comique lessee 1483.

Panopticon, Leicester square 72, 461, 611.

Pantheon, decoration of 28,

turned into wine vaults 1146.

Pavilion manager 1575.

Philharmonic, opera at 1022,

proprietor 1404.

Polytechnic institution founded 1177.

Prince of Wales, manager 507.

Princess’s built 1308,

conductor 1377,

manager 1345.

Punch’s play house or Strand theatre, actor at 1568,

manager 716.

Queen’s, Tottenham st., actor at 1568,

lessee of 22,

musical director 1158.

Royal Alfred manager 1152.

Sadler’s Wells interior rebuilt 191,

lessee 1522,

manager 1575.

San Souci, Douglas troupe at 903,

drama at 938.

St. James’ bazaar, a temple of magic 64.

St. James’ theatre built 378,

acting manager 1609,

lessees 599, 1527.

Standard burnt down 903,

manager 903.

Strand, Kenilworth, run of 1294,

lessee 1025,

managers 716, 1285, 1527,

Punch’s play house 1568.

Surrey burnt down 944,

lessee 958,

manager 1522,

Thurtell’s gig shown in The Gambler 1592.

Surrey zoological gardens, large pictures shown at 812–13,

lessee 516,

originated 770.

Temple of magic, the 64.

Tottenham st. theatre, Tom and Jerry at 427.

Vaudeville, opening piece 1295.

Vauxhall gardens, Great Nassau balloon 1223,

Joel Il Diavolo at 870,

lessee 1268,

musical directors of 290, 312.

Victoria lessee 1447.

Welsh Harp at Hendon 681.

Westminster theatre or Astley’s, lessee 903.

Theatrical managers, See also Actors 1617,

Brading 1447,

Chatterton 599, 1016,

Duckenfield 36,

Greenwood 1231,

Harvey 1366,

Hatch 1375,

Swanborough 1571.

Thermometers accurate 811.

Thistlewood, Arthur executed 1820,

traitor 1226.

Thought, laws of 335.

Thread manufacturer, Coats 657.

Threshing machines, hand power 1010,

patent machines 1126 bis.

Throws, long 430.

Tichborne, Roger or Thomas Castro or Arthur Orton, Cobbett’s action against the judges 658,

Cockburn judge in the case 662,

counsel 155–56, 1216,

Tichborne v. Lushington 354,

witness 1279.

Tight rope dancers, Christoff 617,

Hengler 1428.

Tilbury fort, Essex, monstre gun at 641.

Timber,

creosoted 263,

edifices 642,

fluid for preserving 488,

timber merchant 1308.

Tipperary lord lieutenant 897.

Tithes and rent charges 307,

tithe dinners, excursions substituted for 1434.

Toast master, Harker 1338.

Tobacco, See also Pipes and Smoking apparatus 378,

Bibliotheca Nicotiana 378,

manufacturer 715,

pipes sent out to the Crimea 80.

Toll farmer, Bower 357.

Tom and Jerry a drama 1231, 1447.

Tongue, diseases of the 637.

Tortoise shell, workers in 1291.

Totnes, Devon, antiquities of 730.

Tourmalines, artificial discovered 1437.

Traction engines with single cylinder 110.

Trade, Board of, See Board of Trade 1626.

Trade unions reports 337.

Traitors, Allen 51,

Cato st. 1226,

Frost 1110,

Sheares 85.

Tramways, steam cars 1208.

Trapeze performer, Artois 92.

Treadmill invented 779.

Treasury, first lord, See Prime ministers 1683.

Trees, watering with chymical solutions 1611.

Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, bp. of Bristol d. 1721, And shall Trelawny die, a ballad 1385.

Trifling mistake, The, Broughton imprisoned for publishing 427.

Trumpet players, Distin 882,

Harper 1343.

Trustees, lord Cottenham’s act 727.

Tuckett, Capt. Harvey G. P. duellist 542.

Tumuli of Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire 191.

Turkey, admiralty board president 1487,

mushir of the empire 1487,

printing improved 619,

siege and storming of Khartoum 1178,

Silistria, siege of 500,

sultan’s visit to England 619,

Varna, surrender of, early news of 140,

See also Pashas 1680.

Turner, Joseph M. W. d. 1851 painter, engravings by 482,

liber studiorum prints 1296,

pictures, account of 799,

works 486.

Turnip drill introduced into England 301.

Turnpikes, toll farmer 357.

Tuscany, mission to, abolished 8.

Tyntesfield, Somerset, convalescent home founded 1138.

Tyne improvement commission 736.

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Umbrellas, Fox’s paragon frame 1095.

Underwriter, Euing 1000.

Unstamped publications, person tried for issuing 556.

Urania’s mirror, invention of 627.

Urdú, professor of 954.

Used up, a farce 1584.

Utilitarianism unmasked 683.

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Valves, balance valve for water works 1602,

four beat pump valve 1602.

Vapours, absorption of mixed 1596.

Varley, John d. 1842 water colour artist, pupil of 1046.

Vases, collection of 1531.

Vaudois valley in Piedmont, schools established in 217.

Venice, exhibition of pictures of 474,

state papers relating to English history 437.

Ventilators, Arnott’s 90.

Ventriloquists, Blitz 314,

Holland 1508.

Venus transit expedition 494, 597.

Vessels, See Ships 1695.

Vestiges of natural history of creation 587, 774.

Victoria cross given to Anson 72,

Bourchier 349,

Buckley 464,

Goodlake 1174,

Hamilton 1305,

Heaphy 1408,

Hewett 1454.

Victoria, Queen b. 1819,

ancestry of 1106,

Cameron declines to become her piper 523,

controller of her household 567,

coronation cricket match 1266,

coronation, state band at 301,

Davis’ testimonial left to 829,

dramatic performances at Windsor 983, 1584,

Goode uses threatening language to 1172,

Hales the giant introduced to her 1279,

head engraved for postage stamp 1587,

hear the church, a sermon before 1526,

her cook 1097,

her drawing master 847,

her tutor 836,

Hughes’ circus performs before 1571,

John Brown 435,

knight, the first created by her 1321,

lecturer to her children 986,

lord chamberlain of household 71,

marriage 38,

opened Blackfriar’s bridge 779,

portraits of 28, 584, 1166,

royal private band 61,

Sir Arthur Helps edits Leaves of our life 1419,

statues of 408, 410, 534, 1141,

Victoria and Albert yacht 1057,

visits Abbotsford 1532,

visits Haddo 7,

visits Stowe 460,

visits Taymouth castle 388.

Village blacksmith, a song 1377.

Violins, account of 922,

collection of 1151.

Violinists,

Cooper 710,

Dun 928,

Ella 974,

Hayward 1403.

Virgil d. 19 B.C., an ardent student of his works 1432.

Vivisection, commission on 543.

Volunteers, clergyman a volunteer 441,

Elcho shield 1295,

Lancashire artillery volunteers 440,

lectures on 498,

royal Victoria rifle club 498.

Vulcanite invented 1315.

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Waghorn, Thomas d. 1850 lieutenant, his express 851.

Wakefield, Edward G. d. 1862, a founder of Canterbury colony 1163,

his marriage case 1198.

Wakley, Thomas d. 1862 coroner, action against 708.

Wales, competitors at Eisteddfods 1572, 1575,

Cyfarthfa ironworks 756,

iron king of 756.

Wales, Caroline, princess of d. 1821 queen, chamberlain to 753.

Wales, prince of, See Albert Edward col. 1621.

Walhalla near Ratisbon, Gibson’s statue in 1141.

Walhouse, Edward J. L. d. 1863 cr. Baron Hatherton 1376.

Walking machine called the steam horse 454.

Walking sticks and canes, collection of 1340.

Walks, long, London to Birmingham 49,

London to John O’Groats 491,

London to Land’s End 491,

one hundred miles 49,

one thousand miles 49,

Paris to Rome 598,

seventy two miles 1373,

through England 759.

Walkers, See Pedestrians 1680.

Wallace, Alfred Russell, contest with Hampden on rotundity of globe 1311.

Walpole, Horace d. 1797 earl of Orford, gifts to Mary Berry 259.

Walsh, John Henry, umpire on rotundity of earth contest 1311.

War, secretaries at, Beresford 252,

Dalhousie 803,

Ellesmere 976,

Ellice 977,

Hardinge 1327,

Herbert 1437,

Herries 1446.

War, secretaries of state for, Aberdeen 6,

Cardwell 543,

Dalhousie 803,

Derby 863,

Glenelg 1157,

Herbert 1437,

Hobhouse 427,

Pakington 1312,

Palmerston 825.

Warburton, Eliot B. G. d. 1852 author, his friend 1182.

Ward, Artemus i.e. Charles Farrer Browne d. 1867, in England 1482, his works 1483.

Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd d. 1834 colonel, life of 914.

Warehouseman, Groucock 1252.

Warwick, Birmingham industrial exhibition at Bingley house 36.

Wasp stinging a person in carotid artery 754.

Watches,

English watch co. 378,

first engine turned case 1254,

watches made by machinery 378,

watches stolen, rescued from the Thames 1417.

Water,

chalk water to soften 628,

fresh distilled from the sea 1206,

instrument for purifying 578,

tests for 628,

sea water, composition of 1596.

Water beds invented 90.

Waterford, Sir Henry de la Poer d. 1859, 3rd marquis, at Eglinton tournament 970.

Waterford and Lismore, bishop of 1075.

Waterton, Charles d. 1865 naturalist, his friend 1489.

Weare, William murdered 1823 by Thurtell 1592.

Weather, daily forecasts of 1064.

Weatherhead, Hume, an author 793.

Weaver, Duncan 930.

Wedding, golden, Howitt 1559.

Weights and measures, uniform throughout the world 438.

Wellington, Arthur, duke of d. 1852,

anthem for his funeral 1187,

death of 582,

duel with earl of Winchelsea 1328,

funeral car made 155,

his physician 1586,

his private sec. 1239,

letter to from Joseph Ady 26.

Welsh scholars,

Edwards J. 966,

Edwards L. 966,

Edwards R. 967,

Edwards T. 967,

Evans E. 1002,

Evans J. 1004,

Griffiths 1246,

Hughes 1575.

West Indies, Jamaica, great sea light at Morant point 1176.

Westmeath lord lieutenant 1239.

Westminster,

cartoon exhibition 639,

clock in Westminster palace 861,

hospital 768,

school, arms over doorway 844.

Westminster abbey,

burials in 657, 873,

registers 605,

stone arches painted 650.

Weybridge, Surrey, mortuary chapel of Orleans family 856, 1106.

Whale fisheries, establishment 1360,

harpoon gun used 1425.

Wharfingers,

Farncomb 1022,