[N. B. The figures with crotchets refer to the History; those with a to the Appendix to Chronicle, &c.; and the others to the Chronicle.]
ACCIDENTS: at Friary chapel, Callan, 1; in a mine at Whitehaven, ib.; on the ice, St. James's-park, 3; two wherrymen drowned at London Bridge, 7; a leopard gets loose at Mold, 9; bursting of a cannon, Gravesend, 23; accident at an ex- hibition of wild beasts, 27; explo- sion of fire-damp, ib.; horses in a hackney coach drowned, 28; Dorking coach overturned, 52; six pilots drowned, 55; bursting of the Pad- dington canal, 68; R. Gower and his wife drowned, 69; scaffold breaks down at Mr. Green's ascent, City- road, 70; Mary Belcher and children killed by an explosion of gunpowder, 77; explosion in the Townley col- lieries, 92; deaths by lightning, 96, 104; explosion at Cowes, 107; fall of the town-hall tower, Limberg, 111; fall of a warehouse, Liverpool,
120; fall of the cornice of Bow steeple, 125; explosion of gas, Coburg the- atre, 135; child drowned, Sheerness, 138; explosion of a powder maga- zine, Ostend, 141; explosion of a dis- tillery, Shoreditch, 147; fall of stables, &c., Bartholomew Close, 152; ser- vant girl falls into a well, 159; ex- plosion in the Graham steam-packet, 170; fall of the Guards' club-house, 171; mate of a tender drowned, 196 Acts of Parliament, 306 Adams, ex-president, United States, death of, 263
Africa, see Ashantees; new colony at Natal, 16
action for libel, Root v. Editors of the New York American, 105 America, South; relaxation of the navi- gation laws, in favour of the new states, [67]; war between Brazil and Buenos Ayres, 384. See Bolivia, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Colom- bia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Rio de la Plata.
Antigua; petition from the House of Assembly to Parliament, [157] Antiquities: excavation in Dalmatia, 13; fresco discovered at Pompeii, 16; temples, &c. at Brescia, 124; shield and sword found in the Witham, 127; arch of Augustus, and mausoleum of Julius Cæsar, at St. Remy, 130; piles discovered in the Thames, 147 Arctic expedition, 95, 170, 171* Arigna mining company, discussion on in parliament, [184]
Arson, trial of C. T. White for, 43* Ashantees; their territory attacked by the native chiefs and the British, under colonel Purdon, [223]; total defeat of the Ashantees, [224] Assizes: Chester. Joseph Whitelegg, sedition, 124 To
Gloucester; A. Briton and others, assault and robbery, 118 Kingston; T. Jones, uttering a forged note, 190
Lancaster; James Evans, murder of Mr. Price, 33; J Stott, and T. Barnes, assaulting and robbing a Chinese, 122; Alex. and Michael M'Keand, murder, 29; James Chambers, &c. rioting, 32*
Albufera, duke of (Suchet), death of, 219 1 Lewes; Hannah Russell and D.
Alexander, emperor, funeral of, 35
Alien Act, expiry of, [166]; new regulations, [167]
America, North; see United States Canada naturalization act, [165]; pay of members of congress, 22
Leary, murder of Benjamin Rus- sell, 26*
Maidstone; Joseph Finn, threatening letter, 120LE
Staffordshire; W. Barnes and R. Wood, poaching, 10
Taunton; S. Gilbert, robbery and assault, 52
Warwick; Michael Ford, murder, 50
York; J. Holdsworth and W. Bolton, rioting, 31
Astorga library, 11 Astronomy, see Comet.
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, navigable communication between, 145
Austria proceedings of the Hungarian diet, [267]; decree against the slave- trade, [269]
Baggesen, J. E. Danish poet, death of, 279
Balloon: Mr. Green's ascents, 48, 61; novel aerial excursions, 62; Mr. Green's third ascent, and accident, 70; his ascent at Boston, 92; at Vauxhall, 112
Banditti, gang of, apprehended at Wickwar, 116
Banking in Scotland, [25], [33], 64* Bank-notes; prohibition against stamp- ing small notes, [6]; bill for pro- hibiting circulation of do., [9] Banks; Mr. Hume's motion for return of bankrupt country banks, [8]; bill prohibiting circulation of small notes, [9]; banking system in Scotland, [25]; bank of Ireland, [34] Bank of England, motion in parliament Isd for its issuing small notes, [19]; ar- rangements with government, [31]; allowed to establish branch banks, agrees to advance upon the 19b-security of goods, [38]; two sorts of Exchequer bills held by, [74]; cor- 279/respondence between the directors To and the lords of the Treasury, rela- yd_itive to its privileges, 57*
Barbier, A. A., death of, 218 Batavia, steam-boat built at, 22 Bavaria, Character of the new king
Louis, [266]; his financial reforms, &c. [267]
Beechey, captain, his mission to captain Franklin, 21
Bells at York minster and Bow church,
Berbiguer du Thym, M. singular pub- lication by, 188"
Berlin, Blucher's monument at, 95 Bethnal Green, riots and outrages at, 140
Bhuren by assault, [222] by lord Comber- by, 96
Biela, corredi Blackburn,
Blucher, monument to, Berlin, 95 Board of Trade, &c. Downing-street, new buildings, 145
Boat-guns, new mode of working, 145. Bode, astronomer, death of, 286 Boethius, translation of by queen Eliza- beth, discovered, 75
Bolivar returns from Peru to Colombia, [401]; his views with regard to Peru suspected, [413]; conspiracy against him, [414]; elected president of Peru for life, ib.; gives a constitution to Bolivia, [415]; his address to the constituent congress of Bolivia, 114* Bolivia, plan of a constitution for, [415],
115*; senate, 116*; censors, ib.; functions of the president, 117*; of the vice-president, 118*; slavery prohibited, 121*
Bradford, riots at, 72; inquest on Jonas Barstow, killed in the riot, 73 Brazil, treaty concluded by France with, [253]; Don Pedro resigns his claims to Portugal, [314]; war with Buenos Ayres, [384]; naval engage- ment, [386]; plan for a constitution, [387]; national assembly, [391] Bric, Mr., killed in a duel, 195 Bridge, Menai suspension, 14 Brighton; murder of a woman by her husband, 128
British Museum, new building at, 145 Brougham, Mr., motion respecting the
West-India colonies, [158]; amend- ment to the king's speech, [176] Brussels, hurricane at, 120; operations on deaf and dumb persons, 185 Buckingham, Mr. petition to parlia- ment against the India government, [164]
Budget, English, [69]; French, [229]; Mexican, [407]
Buenos Ayres blockaded by Brazil, [385]; naval engagement with the Brazilian squadron, [386] Bunyod Burdett, sir F., speech on the corn- laws, [46]
Burmese, recommencement of hostilities with, [206]; advance of the Burmese army to Prome, [207] ;' advance of the British to Melleone, and capture of Patanagoh, [212]; negotiations, [213]; treaty broken off, [214]; cap- ture of Melloone, [215]; battle, 54 [216]; and capture of Pagahm-Mew, [217]; treaty concluded and ratified, ib.
Burton-park, fire at, 184
Cambridge, coins discovered, 19; dis turbance at 108 339 eat,
Campbell, T. Field-Flowers, 179" Canning, Mr., speech on the affairs of Portugal, [192], [200]
Carlisle, riot, 94; murder of Mary Brown, 136
Cavern, subterraneous, discovered near Leeds, 114
Chamois, present of, to, the king, 13 Chancery, parliamentary proceedings respecting, [121]
Child, singular instance of the desertion of one, 155; one offered by its mother for dissection, 158
Chili; Chiloe taken from the royalists, [416]; insurrection in favour of O'Higgins, ib. ; cabals, [417]; Enca- lada chosen supreme director, ib.; he resigns, [418]; provision for pay- ing the interest of the loan, ib.; Freire's message at opening the Na- tional Congress, 119; agriculture, 121*; police, ib.; taxation and reve- nue, 122; navy, ib.; division into provinces, 123; foreign relations, ib. Chinese college removed from Malacca to Singapore, 18
Cloyne, bishop of, death, 271 Coal-pits, explosions in, 1, 27, 92 Cobbett, Mr., offers himself as a candi- date for Preston, [170]; his address to the mob, ib.
Cochrane, lord, undertakes the com- smand of a naval force in Greece, [371]
Coins found at Cambridge, 19
Cold, intensity of, 9
Collieries, disturbances at, near Dudley, 115
Colony, new one at Natal, 16
Columbia; discontent in Venezuela, [394]; Paez impeached, [395]; su- preme authority conferred on him, [896]; Venezuela and Apure declared s federal states, [400]; election of deputies, ib.; return of Bolivar from Peru, [401]; non-payment of divi- dends on the loan, [402]; laws regu- 29 lating the public debt, [404]; ware- housing act, [406]; vice-president's message to congress, 104*; treaty with the United States, &c., 105*; finances, 106; treaty with Mexico, 110
Combe, Taylor, death of, 268
Combermere, lord, capture of Bhurtpore by, [220], [222]; returns to Cal- cutta, [223]
Comet seen at Marseilles, 40; at Augsburg, 57; return of the comet &of 1825, 70; Biela's comet, 96 Commerce, treaty of, with France, 82; with Sweden, 86*
Commercial embarrassments, [4], [36], [38], [41] Conflagrations in the Highlands, 100; in Sweden, 103; in Yorkshire, 106; in Aberdeenshire, ib.
Congress: Panama, [419]; Columbia, 102; Mexico, 106*
Conspiracy in Russia, [274]) angiota ♬ Constantinople, fire at, 148
Convention of Commerce with France, 82"; with Sweden, 86*** Convict boys, 21
Convocation of the clergy, address of the two houses of, 177
Corn laws, discussions on, in parliament, [44]; in France, [233]
Coronation of the emperor of Russia, 133
Corsica, poisoning in, 2
Courts Admiralty; Salvage of the Wilhelmine Auguste, 60; Prize- money of the late sir R. Hall, 1; Slave-trading, 36; King v. Kenny, manslaughter, 40* Common Pleas Tooth v. Bagwell, right of lands, 12; Marsh, v. Horne, liability of carriers, 75; Fisher v. Stockdale, libel, 77 Kempson v. Saunders, rail-road shares, 47; Harris &c. v. Per- ring, joint-stock-company, 48 Court of Exchequer, King v. Peto, New Custom-House, 17, Edinburgh Jury Court; Dr. J. Hamilton, jun. v. Dr. Hope, libel, 44 King's-Bench, Guildhall; Bucking- ham v. Bankes, libel, 49* Old Bailey; Mary Cain, for murder of Maurice Fitzgerald, 5; F. J. Latham, robbing his employers, 161; G. Ancliff and J. Hill, for causing the death of a child by gin, 184; C. T. White, arson, 43*
Prerogative Court; Dew v. Clark and Clark, validity of Mr. Stott's will, 6*; Ustick v. Bauden, revival of an uncancelled will, 12* Requests; Brown v. Pearce, singular defence by the defendant, 196 Sheriff's Court; Messrs. Bell v. St. Katherine's Dock Company, 54 Cowes, explosion of powder at, 1078 Crimes, state of Newgate, 24; increase of committals, 198
Criminal law, bills for amending, [113], [115]
Currency, metallic, advantages of [9]; gold, [15] Custom-house, case respecting the bu the build- ing of, 17 23
Davy, sir H., failure of his protectors for ship's bottoms, 165.. Deaf-and-dumb boy, prosecutor in a -trial for robbery, 20 Deaf-and-dumb, Dr. Newbourg's opera- tions on, 1850 (530599. Deccan prize money, 7
Delbene, Benedetto, death of, 218 Demerara, treatment of slaves at, [153], [155]; letter of instructions to the protector of slaves at, 81* Dorset, duke of, elected knight of the garter, 15
Drought, excessive, in Sweden and Denmark, 103;in Scotland, 106; in Warsaw, 112
Dublin, distress in, 75; singular im- portation at the custom-house, ib.; tumults in, 134; fire at sir A. B. King's, 194; duel between Mr. Bric and Mr. Hayes, 195
Duel, Mr. Beaumont and Mr. Lambton, 1102 marquis Livron and M. du Trone, 174; Mr. Bric and Mr. Hayes, a Dublin, 195
Durham, bishop of, death of, 237
Edinburgh, Mr. Abercromby's motion for amending the representation of, [99]; the Astorga library purchased for the Advocates' library, 11; escape of prisoners from Bridewell, 195 Education, public, in Ireland, [132] Elections, bill for preventing bribery at, [921; 1; general, remarks on, [169]; the Catholic question employed as a test to candidates, [170], violence of party in Ireland, ib.; election for Southwark, 89; city of London, 93; Westminster, 94
Flaxman, sculptor, death of, 288 Foot, Jesse, death of, 284
France meeting of the Chambers, and King's speech, [225]; strength of the ministry, [226]; expenses of the army of occupation in Spain, [227]; charges of peculation against Ouvrard, [228]; budget, [229]; roads, [230]; army and navy, [231]; sinking fund, [232]; corn-laws, [233]; commercial regulations, [234]; law of prime- geniture, [235]; slave trade, [241]; government accused of favouring the Turks, [244]; independence of San Domingo, [247]; motion against reading speeches in the Chambers, [249]; law of the press, [250]; trial of de la Mennais, [252]; Montlosier's denunciation against the Jesuits, [253]; treaty with Brazil, [254]; policy towards Portugal, .;the minister recalled from Madrid, [257]; murder near St. Etienne, 115; num- ber of patents taken out, 129; publi- cation of a portion of sthe Gospels declared illegal, 142; convention of commerce with England, 82* Francia, Dr. dictator of Paraguay, [391]; his policy, ib. id exciting
Funerals the emperor Alexander, 35; the empress Elizabeth, 100; Von 21-Weber, 99; lord Gifford, 137 ; Talma, 1 159 P
ferences with Holland respecting the navigation of the Rhine, [260] Gifford, lord, funeral of, 137; memoir of, 146*
Gipsies, robberies by, at Priddy fair, 1261
Glasgow, rat-hunting in the theatre, 23 Grave opened by a grave-digger for teeth, 158
Greathead, Bertie, death of, 222 Greece feeling towards, in France, [245]; Miaulis' engagement with the Turkish fleet, [361]; siege of Mis- solonghi, ib.; Ibrahim's attack, [362]; the islands of Vassiladi and Anatolico taken by him, ib.; capture of Mis- solonghi, and massacre of the inha- bitants, [365]; siege of Athens, [366]; attempt of the Greeks against Negro- pont, ib.; proclamation of the national assembly, [367]; measures of the commission of government, ib.; policy of the European governments, [368]; piracies under the Greek flag, [370]; finances, [371]; commission to the United States to fit out frigates, [372]; contract for steam-boats, England, ib.; failure of the intended armament, and misapplication of the loan, [373]; conduct of Mr. Hume, &c., [376] Greek loan and committee, [373]; state- ment of first loan, [374]; second do., [375]
Jenner, Dr. Signs of Rain, verses by, 180* Jesuits,
Montlosier's Denunciation against, [253] R Ford Jews, computed number of, in various parts, 82
Incledon, C., death of, 225 India Mr. Wynn's jury bill, [163];
Mr. Buckingham's case, [164]; see Burmese; steam-navigation, 69, 144 Inquests on a person frozen to death, 9; Mr. Price, Manchester, 18; J. Purvis and E. Manning, at Graves- end, 23; Mr. Lodge, killed by ex- plosion of fire-damp, 27; James Hard- ing, thrown from a cart, 30; W. Cooper, stabbed by James Pollard, 58; Jonas Barstow, shot in the riot at Bradford, 73; E. Fearnley, ditto, 75; rev. F. Lee, 80; Mr. James Blackburn, 82; W. Spencer, 88; Isabella Pattenson, and Mary Birrell, shot in a riot at Carlisle, 95; M. Soliere, 98; J. Dickinson, 102, S. Luttal, deserter, 113; J. Harrison, killed by an explosion of gas, at the Coburg theatre, 135; Mary Brown, murdered, 136; John Fitch, starved,
Johnson, captain, obtains 10,0007. for making the first steam voyage to India, 69
Joint-stock companies, liability of di- rectors, 48*
Ireland: Catholic emancipation, [125]; Mr. O'Connell's speech, ib., note; state of the Protestant church, Mun- ster, [127]; first-fruits, [128] abuses in the administration of church-rates, [130]; salutary effect of the tithe composition, [131]; education and
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