: The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; vol. 4 of 4 by Wilson Robert - Victoria Queen of Great Britain 1819-1901; Great Britain History Victoria 1837-1901

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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.

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