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THE ILLNESS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. PAGE

THE "ALABAMA" CLAIMS.

GOVERNMENT UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

THE CONSERVATIVE REACTION.

Questions of the Recess--The Dissenters and the Education Act--Mr. Forster's Compromise--The Nonconformist Revolt--Mr. Bright Essays Conciliation--Sudden Popularity of Mr. Lowe--His "Anti-puritanic Nature"--Mr. Chamberlain and the Dissidence of Dissent--Decline of the Liberal Party--Signs of Bye-elections--A Colonial Scandal--The Canadian Pacific Railway--Jobbing the Contract--Action of the Dominion Parliament--Expulsion of the Macdonald Ministry--The Ashanti War--How it Originated--A Short Campaign--The British in Coomassie--Treaty with King Koffee--The Opposition and the War--Skilful Tactics--Discontent among the Radical Ranks--Illness of Mr. Gladstone--A Sick-bed Resolution--Appeal to the Country--Mr. Gladstone's Address--Mr. Disraeli's Manifesto--Liberal Defeat--Incidents of the Election--"Villadom" to the Front--Mr. Gladstone's Resignation--Mr. Disraeli's Working Majority--The Conservative Cabinet--The Surplus of ?6,000,000--What will Sir Stafford do with it?--Dissensions among the Liberal Chiefs--Mr. Gladstone and the Leadership--The Queen's Speech--Mr. Disraeli and the Fallen Minister--The Dangers of Hustings Oratory--Mr. Ward Hunt's "Paper Fleet"--The Last of the Historic Surpluses--How Sir S. Northcote Disposed of it--The Hour but not the Man--Mr. Cross's Licensing Bill--The Public Worship Regulation Bill--A Curiously Composed Opposition--Mr. Disraeli on Lord Salisbury--The Scottish Patronage Bill--Academic Debates on Home Rule--The Endowed Schools Bill--Mr. Stansfeld's Rating Bill--Bill for Consolidating the Factory Acts--End of the Session--The Successes and Failures of the Ministry--Prince Bismarck's Contest with the Roman Catholic Church--Arrest of Count Harry Arnim--Mr. Disraeli's Apology to Prince Bismarck--Mr. Gladstone's Desultory Leadership--"Vaticanism"--Deterioration in Society--An Unopposed Royal Grant--Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Birmingham--Withdrawal of the Duchess of Edinburgh from Court--A Dispute over Precedence--Visit of the Czar to England--Review of the Ashanti War Soldiers and Sailors--The Queen on Cruelty to Animals--Sir Theodore Martin's Biography of the Prince Consort--The Queen tells the Story of its Authorship 457

EMPRESS OF INDIA.

THE REIGN OF JINGOISM.

PEACE WHERE THERE IS NO PEACE.

Ominous Bye-Elections--The Spangles of Imperialism--Disturbed state of Eastern Europe--Origin of the Quarrel with the Zulus--Cetewayo's Feud with the Boers--A "Prancing Pro-Consul"--Sir Bartle Frere's Ultimatum to the Zulu King--War Declared--The Crime and its Retribution--The Disaster of Isandhlwana--The Defence of Rorke's Drift--Demands for the Recall of Sir Bartle Frere--Censured but not Dismissed--Sir Garnet Wolseley Supersedes Sir Bartle Frere in Natal--The Victory of Ulundi--Capture of Cetewayo--End of the War--The Invasion of Afghanistan--Death of Shere Ali--Yakoob Khan Proclaimed Ameer--The Treaty of Gundamuk--The "Scientific Frontier"--The Army Discipline Bill--Mr. Parnell attacks the "Cat"--Mr. Chamberlain Plays to the Gallery--Surrender of the Government--Lord Hartington's Motion against Flogging--The Irish University Bill--An Unpopular Budget--The Murder of Cavagnari and Massacre of his Suite--The Army of Vengeance--The Recapture of Cabul--The Settlement of Zululand--Death of Prince Louis Napoleon--The Court-Martial on Lieutenant Carey--Its Judgment Quashed--Marriage of the Duke of Connaught--The Queen at Baveno 562

FALL OF LORD BEACONSFIELD.

General Gloom--Fall of the Tay Bridge--Liberal Onslaught on the Government--The Mussulman Schoolmaster and the Anglican Missionary--The Queen's Speech--The Irish Relief Bill--A Dying Parliament--Mr. Cross's Water Bill--"Coming in on Beer and Going out on Water"--Sir Stafford Northcote's Budget--Lord Beaconsfield's Manifesto--The General Election--Defeat of the Tories--Incidents of the Struggle--Mr. Gladstone Prime Minister--The Fourth Party--Mr. Bradlaugh and the Oath--Mr. Gladstone and the Emperor of Austria--The Naval Demonstration--Grave Error in the Indian Budget--Affairs in Afghanistan--Disaster at Maiwand--Roberts's March--The New Ameer--Revolt of the Boers--The Ministerial Programme--The Burials Bill--The Hares and Rabbits Bill--The Employers' Liability Bill--Supplementary Budget--The Compensation for Disturbance Bill--Boycotting--Trial of Mr. Parnell and Mr. Dillon--The Queen's Visit to Germany--The Queen Presents the Albert Medal to George Oatley of the Coastguard--Reviews at Windsor--The Queen's Speech to the Ensigns--The Battle of the Standards--Royalty and Riflemen--Outrages in Ireland--"Endymion"--Death of George Eliot 581

COERCION.

ENGLAND IN EGYPT.

The Duke of Albany's Marriage Announced--Mr. Bradlaugh Again--Procedure Reform--The Closure at Last--The Peers Co-operate with the Parnellites--Their Attacks on the Land Act--Mr. Forster's Policy of "Thorough"--A Nation under Arrest--Increase in Outrages--Sir J. D. Hay and Mr. W. H. Smith bid for the Parnellite Vote--A Political Dutch Auction--The Radicals Outbid the Tories--Release of Mr. Parnell and the Suspects--The Kilmainham Treaty--Victory of Mr. Chamberlain--Resignation of Mr. Forster and Lord Cowper--The Tragedy in the Phoenix Park--Ireland Under Lord Spencer--Firm and Resolute Government--Coercion Revived--The Arrears Bill--The Budget--England in Egypt--How Ismail Pasha "Kissed the Carpet"--Spoiling the Egyptians--Mr. Goschen's Scheme for Collecting the Debt--The Dual Control--The Ascendency of France--"Egypt for the Egyptians"--The Rule of Arabi--Riots in Alexandria--The Egyptian War--Murder of Professor Palmer--British Occupation of Egypt--The Queen's Monument to Lord Beaconsfield--Attempt to Assassinate Her Majesty--The Queen's Visit to Mentone--Marriage of the Duke of Albany 630

THE INVINCIBLES.

GENERAL GORDON'S MISSION.

THE NEW DEPARTURE.

THE BATTLE OF THE UNION.

Mr. Chamberlain's Doctrine of "Ransom"--The Midlothian Programme--Lord Randolph Churchill's Appeal to the Whigs--Bidding for the Parnellite Vote--Resignation of Lord Carnarvon--The General Election--"Three Acres and a Cow"--Defeat of Lord Salisbury--The Liberal Cabinet--Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Scheme--Ulster Threatens Civil War--Secession of the Liberal "Unionists"--Defeat of Mr. Gladstone--Lord Salisbury again in Office--Mr. Parnell's Relief Bill Rejected--The "Plan of Campaign"--Resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill--Mr. Goschen becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer--Riots in the West End of London--The Indian and Colonial Exhibition--The Imperial Institute--The Queen's Visit to Liverpool--The Holloway College for Women--A Busy Season for her Majesty--The International Exhibition at Edinburgh--The Prince and Princess Komatsu of Japan 724

THE JUBILEE.

The Fiftieth Year of the Queen's Reign--Mr. W. H. Smith Leader of the Commons--Sudden Death of Lord Iddesleigh--Opening of Parliament--The Queen's Speech--The Debate on the Address--New Rules for Procedure--Closure Proposed by the Tories--Irish Landlords and Evictions--"Pressure Within the Law"--Prosecution of Mr. Dillon--The Round Table Conference--"Parnellism and Crime"--Resignation of Sir M. Hicks-Beach--Appointment of Mr. Balfour--The Coercion Bill--Resolute Government for Twenty Years--Scenes in the House--Irish Land Bill--The Bankruptcy Clauses--The National League Proclaimed--The Allotments Act--The Margarine Act--Hamburg Spirit--Mr. Goschen's Budget--The Jubilee in India--The Modes of Celebration in England--Congratulatory Addresses--The Queen's Visit to Birmingham--The Laureate's Jubilee Ode--The Queen at Cannes and Aix--Her Visit to the Grande Chartreuse--Colonial Addresses--Opening of the People's Palace--Jubilee Day--The Scene in the Streets--Preceding Jubilees--The Royal Procession--The German Crown Prince--The Decorations and the Onlookers--The Spectacle in Westminster Abbey--The Procession--The Ceremony--The Illuminations--Royal Banquet in Buckingham Palace--The Shower of Honours--Jubilee Observances in the British Empire and the United States--The Children's Celebration in Hyde Park--The Queen's Garden Party--Her Majesty's Letter to her People--The Imperial Institute--The Victorian Age 733

Osborne, from the Solent 385

The Princess Louise 388

The Marquis of Lorne 389

Inverary Castle 393

Mr. W. E. Forster 396

Balmoral Castle, from the North-west 400

After Sedan: Discussing the Capitulation 401

Metz 405

Opening of the Royal Albert Hall 409

The Prince of Wales's Illness: Crowd at the Mansion House Reading the Bulletins 412

Thanksgiving Day: the Procession at Ludgate Hill 413

Thanksgiving Day: St. Paul's Illuminated 416

The Thanksgiving Service in St. Paul's Cathedral 417

Geneva 421

Dr. Norman Macleod 425

The Queen receiving the Burmese Embassy 428

Queen's College, Cork 432

Professor Fawcett 433

Queen's College, Galway 436

Views in Windsor: Old Market Street, and the Town Hall, from High Street 440

Sandringham House 441

The Queen's Visit to Victoria Park 445

Blue-coat Boys at Buckingham Palace 448

The Duke of Edinburgh 452

The Duchess of Edinburgh 453

Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh 456

Coomassie 460

King Koffee's Palace, Coomassie 461

Lord Salisbury 465

Review in Windsor Great Park of the Troops from the Ashanti War: the March Past before the Queen 469

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