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Hungary-continued.

in; manifesto of the Emperor of
Russia, [333]; the Russian armies
enter Hungary in great force,
[334]; desperate actions between
the Austrians and Hungarians,
[335]; Gen. Haynau assumes the
command of the Austrians; opera-
tions of the Ban, [336]; defeat of
Bem in Transylvania, [336]; dreadful
combats at Hermanstadt; Gen. Hay-
nau attacks Georgey at Raab and
Acs, [337]; Georgey retreats; Dem-
binski defeated; Hungarians de-
feated at Temesvar, [338]; advance
of the Russians; Georgey and Dem-
binski defeated, [339]; Georgey re-
treats, and is hemmed in; Kossuth
resigns the dictatorship to Georgey,
and flies with Bem and others into
Turkey, [339]; Georgey surrenders
with his army; Klapka refuses to
surrender Comorn, but finally capi-
tulates to Gen. Haynau, [340]; the
war concluded; the Emperor pro-
claims an amnesty; Russia and Aus-
tria demand of the Porte the sur-
render of the fugitives, [341]; the
Sultan refuses; Bem and others ac-
cept Islamism; the demand with-
drawn, [343]

INDIA-Resumption of the narrative of
the war; siege of Moultan; opera-
tions continued and the town is taken
by storm; tremendous bombardment
of the citadel; Moolraj surrenders,
[375], 12; the troops are instantly
marched forward to join Lord Gough's
army, [376]; the campaign against the
Sikhs; the army crosses the Chenab,
and the enemy fall back in disorder,
[376]; the Sikhs take Attock, and
Chuttur Sing joins Shere Sing and
the combined armies take their stand
at Russool on the Jhelum, [377]; the
British attack the enemy; battle of
Chilianwallah; after a murderous
conflict the British remain masters of
the field, [377], 26; great dissatis-
faction in England; Sir Charles Na-
pier appointed to take the command,
[380]; in the mean time, the Sikhs
retreat to Goojerat, and attempt to
cross the Chenab; they are antici-
pated at the fords by the arrival of
the force from Mooltan, [381], 37;
the combined forces of the enemy are
attacked at Goojerat and totally de-
feated, [381], 42; Gen. Gilbert pur-
sues the enemy across the Jhelum,

India-continued.

and Shere Sing and all his force lay
down their arms, [383], 52; the
Punjab annexed to the British pos-
sessions in India, [384], 59; trial of
Moolraj, the Dewan of Mooltan, on
charge of murdering Messrs. Vans
Agnew and Anderson; he is found
guilty and sentenced to death; but
this sentence is commuted, [385];
destruction of Mooltan by the rise of
the river Chenab, 139; seizure of the
Sikh chiefs, 159-See PARLIAMENT
IRELAND-Affray at Dolly's Brae, 73;
visit of the Queen and Prince Albert,
83; arrival at Cork, 84; at Dublin,
85; at Belfast, 86; Glasgow and
Balmoral, ib.; return to Osborne
House, 87; state of the country, 124,
173; forty-one persons drowned at
Kilrush, 174-See PARLIAMENT
ITALY-Tuscany :-opening of the Le-
gislative Chambers; flight of the
Grand Duke, and formation of a Pro-
visional Government, [290]; counter-
revolution and restoration of the
Grand Duke, [291]-See TUSCANY,
SARDINIA, VENICE, ROME

Kossuth Ludwig, portrait of, 102

LAW AND POLICE-Trial of Mr. P.
Drouet, of Tooting, for manslaughter,
2; privileges of the peerage, ib.;
Hoghton v. Wigney (Crim. Con.), 5;
sale of a cadetship, 20; attempted
fraud on a railway company, 22;
fatal mistake of administering poison,
29; desperate burglary at Chelms-
ford, 30; attempted robbery of a
banker's parcel, 32; forging the
Goldsmiths' Hall mark, 35; poison-
ing at Aberdeen, 45; robbery at St.
Pancras workhouse, 47; outrage on
Her Majesty, 57; the law of marriage,
Wood v. Dey, 63; the Agapemone,
Nottidge v. Ripley, 65; murder at
Enfield, 68; the Buckingham estate,
ib.; the Foreign Enlistment Act; the
Sicilian insurrection, 70; murder at
Bombay, 74; poisonings in Wiltshire,
75; burglary at Brackinfield, 78; at
Maidstone, 79; murder at Shrews-
bury; jury discharged, 81; the
Guestling poisonings, 88; murder at
Bath, 90; attempted murder of two
children by their mother, 100; sin-
gular attempt at extortion on the
banking firm of Messrs. Herries and
Co., 106; attempted murder at Dul-
wich, 110; robbery of railway parcels,

Law and Police-continued.

112; singular robbery, 113; a father
shot by his son, 115; murder at Clap-
ham, 127; attempt at murder by a
sentinel while on duty, 133; murder
of Sir J. Graham's gamekeeper, 144;
murder in the Milbank Penitentiary,
145; title, curious question of, Duke
of Beaufort v. Smith, 157; attempted
murder, 167; a pauper marriage,
168; infanticide in Harley-street,
171; murder at Manchester, 175;
robbery of a box of gold; Badcock v.
Great Western Railway Company, 176;
Lord Campbell's Act, Dakin v. Brown
and another, 177; attempt to murder
a policeman, 179; trial of James
Blomfield Rush for murder, 378—
See STATE TRIALS

LONDON, Sanitary condition of, 142; an
account of the cholera in London and
Great Britain, 448

Lord's Journal, the missing, 77
Louis Napoleon, Prince, present to the
new Army and Navy Club, 154

MACREADY, Mr., driven off the stage of
the Astor House Theatre, New York,
55
Mansion House, visit of the ex-royal
family of France, 99
MARRIAGES, 197, 346.
Martyrs, a relic of the, 114
METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, 346
Military insubordination at Notting-
ham, 124

MINISTRY, LIST OF THE, 184
MISCELLANEOUs-Derelict ship, 34; fall
of black rain in Ireland, 39; electric
telegraph and the snow, 42; muscle
gatherers drowned at Leith, 47;
shameful scene in a church near Cam-
bridge, 53; strange discovery after a
fire in Blenheim-street, 60; a man
killed by an elephant, 63; balloon
accident, 77; death by lightning, ib.;
fall of a Roman Catholic Chapel in
Drury-lane, 80; fall from the rocks
at Clifton, 91; death from chloro-
form, 99; combat with a whale, 101;
a relic of the martyrs, 114; a father
shot by his son, 115; loss of lives in
a sewer, 121; death at the execution
of the Mannings, 149; explosion of
detonating materials at Louth, 152;
an under-graduate drowned at Cam-
bridge, 153; mysterious death, 155;
death of a man from falling into a
copper of boiling vitriol, 163
Moolraj, the ex-Dewan of Mooltan,
tried and condemned on charge of

Moolraj-continued.

murdering Messrs. Vans Agnew and
Anderson, [385).

MORTALITY, TABLES OF, 346

Mortality, Bills of, 100; the mortality
in London and Great Britain from
the Cholera, 448
Moultan, siege of, surrender of the
Dewan Moolraj, 12; destruction of
the fortress by the rise of the river
Chenab, 139; trial of the ex-Dewan
on charge of murdering Messrs. Vans
Agnew and Anderson; he is found
guilty and sentenced to death, but
this sentence is commuted [385]
MURDERS-on board the Amelia on
her voyage from California, 11; of
Mr. G. S. Griffith, near Brighton, 16;
at Llanewog, Cardiganshire, 49; near
Banbury, 54, 74; at Enfield, 68; at Li-
verpool of two children, by their father,
92; of a child by its mother, 95; at
Clapham, 126; of SirJ. Graham's game-
keeper, 144; in the Milbank Peniten-
tiary, 145; infanticide in Harley-
street, 171; at Manchester, 175; mur-
der at Bristol by a boy, 178; of Dr.
Parkman at Boston, U. S. 180
Mutiny and murder on board the
Amelia, on her voyage from Cali-
fornia, 11, 94

NAPLES AND SICILY-Interference of
the British Government to prevent
bloodshed in Sicily, [309]; the King
offers a Statute or Constitution to the
Sicilians, [310]; the British and
French admirals press this on the
Sicilian Government, who reject it,
[311]; and issue a proclamation to
the people of Sicily, [312]; General
Filangieri takes Catania, Syracuse,
and Palermo, and the insurrection is
subdued, [312]

National Gallery, bequests to, 155
Nelson Column, Trafalgar-square, in-
sertion of bas-relief, 170
Newgate, escape from, 43

New Orleans, inundation at, 60
New York, riot at the Astor House
Theatre, 55

O'Connell, Mr., sale of his library, 61
Opera-Her Majesty's Theatre-re-ap-
pearance of Mad. Sontag, 72; the
Royal Italian Opera-Mr. Delafield's
embarrassments, 103

Palace Court, closing of the, 183
PARLIAMENT Opened by the Queen in
person; Her Majesty's Speech, [2];

Parliament-continued.

debate thereon, [179]; Bill thrown
out by majority of 25, [180]

Marriage with a deceased Wife's
Sister.-Bill to legalize brought in by
Mr. Wortley, [181]; the second read-
ing of the Bill is warmly discussed,
[181]; Mr. Cockburn, Sir G. Grey,
Mr. Roundell Palmer, [182]; Sir R.
Inglis, Mr. Napier, [183]; the Lord
Advocate, [184]; Mr. Gladstone, [185];
second reading agreed to, but Bill
withdrawn, [186]; Lord Brougham's
motion for reform of the Bankrupt
Law, [186]

Mr. Disraeli's motion for a Com-
mittee to consider the State of the Na
tion, his exposition of his views, [186];
opposed by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, [188]; debate, views of Sir
R. Peel, [190]; Lord J. Russell, [192];
motion negatived by a large majority,
[193]

Parliament prorogued by Commission
on Aug. 1, Speech of the Lords Com-
missioners, [193]; General Remarks,
[194]

PATENTS, 460

Peerage, privileges of the, 2
Pensions on the Civil List, 91
POETRY, 465

Picture Sales, 62

Poisonings at Aberdeen, 45; at Has-
tings, 48, 88; in Wiltshire, 75
Portland Harbour of Refuge, laying the
first stone, 80

PORTUGAL Opening of the Cortes, the
Royal Speech, [274]; formation of a
new Cabinet, under the Presidency of
the Count of Thomar, [276]
Prison Outbreak, 43, 69
PROMOTIONS, 302

PRUSSIA. Berlin still in a state of siege,

the King issues a proclamation thank-
ing the army for their fidelity, [344];
opening of the new Chambers, the
King's Speech, [345]; the Frankfort
Parliament offer the Crown of Ger-
many to the King, who refuses, [347];
the King's Ministry refuse the Ger-
man Federal Constitution, which the
second Chamber accept, [349]; the
Brandenburgh Ministry dissolve the
Chamber, collision with the military,
[350]; Note of the Prussian Govern-
ment on the "German Question,"
new electoral law published, [351];
declaration against secret voting,
[352]; meeting of the Second Cham-
ber, the King's Speech, [353]
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS-Finance Accounts,

Public Documents continued.

313: i. Public Income, 314; ii. Public
Expenditure, 316; iii. Disposition of
Grants, 317; iv. Unfunded Debt, 327;
v. Public Funded Debt, 328; vi.
Trade and Navigation, 330; List of
Acts: Public General Acts, 333; Lo-
cal and Personal Acts declared public,
337; Private Acts printed, 341; Pri-
vate Acts, not printed, 343; Prices of
Stocks, 344; Average Prices of Corn,
Hay, Straw, Clover, and Butcher's
Meat, 345; Table of Mortality, 346;
Marriages, Births, and Deaths, regis-
tered in the year, 346; University Ho-
nours: Oxford, 347; Cambridge, 349.
Punjaub, Annexation of the, 59. See
INDIA

QUEEN, The-Fired at in the Green

Park, 57; Visits Ireland, arrival at
Cork, 84; at Dublin, 85; at Belfast,
86; at Glasgow and Balmoral, ib.;
return to Osborne House, 87

Queen Dowager, death of the, 169; Fu-
neral, 174; biography, 291

Racing Meetings-Epsom, 58; Ascot,
61; Goodwood, 83; Doncaster, 108
Railway Accidents-on the Caledonian,
19; in America, 89; fall of a viaduct
on the Bolton and West Yorkshire
Railway, 117; on the Whitehaven
and Furness Railway, 123; Collision
on the Blackwall Railway, 144; Fall
of railway arches at Camden Town, 154
Rain, black, fall of, in Ireland, 39
Robberies of the mails on the Great

Western Railway, 3; of Railway Par-
cels, 112; Higham, 157
Rochdale Savings Bank, defalcations at
the, 169

Roman Remains at Cirencester, 112
ROME Proceedings of the Revolution-
ary Government after the flight of the
Pope, who protests against their acts,
[291]; demonstration in favour of
the Constituent Assembly, the Pope
threatens to excommunicate the in-
surgents, [292]; the Constituent As-
sembly abolishes the temporal sove-
reignty of the Pope, and establishes a
Republic, [294]; the Pope issues a
formal protest, [294]; movements of
Spain and Austria in favour of the
Pope, [296]; an Austrian army enters
Ferrara, [297]; the Executive Power
placed in the hands of a triumvirate,
under Mazzini, Austria proposes an
intervention, the republicans stand
firm, [297]; landing of a French force

Rome continued.

at Civita Vecchia, under General
Oudinot, the Romans resolve on re-
sistance, [298]; the French attempt
to enter the city, and are driven back,
the French negotiate without effect,
[299]; all proposals being rejected,
the French resolve on a vigorous siege,
brave resistance of the citizens, [302];
description of the operations, [308];
the French carry a bastion by esca-
lade, [304]; and afterwards carry the
walls and enter the city, [306]; the
Pope refuses to return, but sends
Commissioners, who promise free in-
stitutions and an amnesty, [307]
Royal Academy, the exhibition of the, 50
Rush, James Blomfield, trial of, for
murder, 378; execution of, 415

Sanitary condition of London, 142; the
cholera in London, 449
SARDINIA-Opening of the Sardinian
Parliament; the King's Speech, [278];
symptoms of another campaign; pro-
test of the Ministry against an al-
leged violation of the armistice by
the Austrians, [279]; wise proposal of
count Gioberti, the Sardinian Prime
Minister, to march a force into Tus-
cany; rejected, and he resigns, [280];
war policy of the new Government,
[281]; war resolved on, and general
Chrzanowsky nominated commander-
in-chief, [281]; proclamation of Mar-
shall Radetsky, [282]; forces on either
side, and operation of the two armies,
[282]; battle of Novara, and entire
defeat of the Sardinians; abdication
of King Charles Albert and armistice,
[283]; new Piedmontese Ministry,
[284]; the Assembly reject the arm-
istice; revolt of Genoa, [285]; Genoa
declared in a state of siege, [286];
operations of General della Marmora
against the city; bombardment of
Brescia by the Austrians, and its ca-
pitulation, [287]; the Chamber resists
peace, and is dissolved, [288]; the King
resolves to adhere to his engagements,
[289]; execution of Gen. Ramorino, 58
Savings Bank at Rochdale, defalcations
at, 169

SAXONY-On rejection of the Frankfort

Constitution, a revolution breaks out
in Dresden, which is subdued after a
severe conflict, [370]

Schleswig Holstein, war in; destruction
of a Danish line-of-battle ship, 38;
successful sortie of the Danes, from
Fredericia, 72

SHERIFFS-list of, Jan. 1849, 185
Shipwrecks and disasters at sea: wreck
of the West India mail packet, Forth,
on the Alacrane, 9; collision of two
Neapolitan steamers, 10; wreck of the
Floridian emigrant ship, 24; Derelict
ship, 34; wreck of the Maria and
Hannah emigrant ships, 40; collision;
the Charles Bartlett, 66; wreck of the
Sarah Crisp, and destruction by gun-
powder of the Minerva, 87; wreck of
the St. John emigrant ship, 119; of
the South Stockton, 147; burning of
the Caleb Grimshaw, 164; shipwrecks
during the month of December, 182
Sontag, Madame, re-appearance of, 72
Sporting in Africa, 16

Stanfield Hall-murders, trial of Rush,
378; execution, 415

STATE TRIALS-John Martin in Error v.
the Queen; judgment, 351; William
Smith O'Brien and others against the
Queen, 352; appeal, House of Lords,
372; trial of Kevin Izod O'Doherty,
375

STATUTES, TABLE OF, 12 and 13 Vict.

333

STOCKS, Table of the Prices of, in each

month, highest and lowest, 344
Stowe Library, sale of the, 6; of the
engravings, 27

Suicides at Llanewog, Cardiganshire,
49; of an under-graduate at Cam-
bridge, 56; of a mother, after drown-
ing her infant, 95; of Louis Chiveot,
in Hyde Park, 109; of a gentleman,
in Kensington Gardens, 117; of Mr.
T. Morton, 140; on the South-Western
Railway, 154

Thanksgiving, general, proclamation
for, 142; form of prayer, 149
Thunder storm in the Metropolis, 80
TRIALS-LAW CASES, &c. Mr. P. Drouet,
of Tooting, for manslaughter, 2; Privi-
leges of the peerage, ib.; Hoghton v.
Wigner (crim. con.) 5; sale of cadet-
ship, 20; attempted fraud on a rail-
way company, 22; fatal mistake of
administering poison, 29; desperate
burglary at Chelmsford, 30; attempted
robbery of a banker's parcel, 32; forg-
ing the Goldsmith's Hall mark, 35;
poisonings at Aberdeen, 45; robbery
at St. Pancras Workhouse, 47; outrage
on Her Majesty, 57; the Law of Mar-
riage-Ward v. Dey, 63; the Agape-
mone-Nottidge v. Ripley, 65; murder
at Enfield, 68; the Buckingham Es-
tates, ib.; the Foreign Enlistment
Act-the Sicilian insurrection, 70;

Trials, &c.-continued.

murder at Barnet, 74; poisonings in
Wiltshire, 75; burglary at Bracken-
field, 78; at Maidstone, 79; murder
at Shrewsbury, jury discharged, 81;
the Guestling poisonings, 88; mur-
der at Bath, 90; attempted murder
of two children by their mother, 100;
attempted extortion on the banking
firm of Messrs. Herries and Co., 106;
attempted murder at Dulwich, 110;
robbery of railway parcels, 112; sin-
gular robbery, 113; a father shot by
his son, 115; murder at Clapham,
127; attempt at murder by a sentinel
while on duty, 132; murder of sir J.
Graham's gamekeeper, 144; murder
in the Milbank Penitentiary, 145;
title, curious question of-Duke of
Beaufort v. Smith, 157; attempted
murder, 167; a pauper marriage, 168;
infanticide in Harley Street, 171;
murder at Manchester, 175; robbery
of a box of gold, Badcock v. Great
Western Railway Company, 176; Lord
Campbell's Act-Dakin v. Brown and
another, 177; attempt to murder a
policeman, 179; trial of James Bloom-
field Rush for murder, 378; trial of
Sarah Thomas for murder, 416; trial
of John Gleeson Wilson for murder,
424; of George Frederick Manning,
and Maria Manning, for murder, 429

TUSCANY-Opening of the Legislative

Assembly, flight of the Grand Duke,
and formation of a Provisional Go-
vernment, [290]; counter-revolution,
and restoration of the Grand Duke,
[291]

UNITED STATES-Inaugural Address of
Gen. Taylor, the newly-elected Presi-
dent, [392]; formation of his Cabinet:
the President's message to Congress,
[394]; relations with Foreign States,
[395]; sympathy with Hungary,[396];
extension of the States to the Pacific,
[396]; the slave trade, [397]; connec-
tion of the Atlantic and Pacific, ib.;
condition of the Treasury, [399]; Cali-
fornia, [400]; the American navy,
[401]; the Presidential veto, [401];
constitutional rights and responsibi-
lities, [402]

UNIVERSITY HONOURS, OXFORD, 347 ;
CAMBRIDGE, 349

VENICE, siege and surrender of the city

after an heroic resistance, [291]
Vessels employed in foreign trade,

339

Westmoreland, shrievalty of-death of
the earl of Thanet, 73
Whale, combat with a, 101

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