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• YMCA founded in England
• First Public baths opened in Liverpool
• Disraeli's Coningsby published
• April 8 - 165 men, women and children emigrants embarked at Deptford on board the St Vincent, 628 tons, bound for Plymouth, Cork and Sydney Australia. The weekly allowance, given in proportion daily, to each adult during the voyage is 4½ lb of Bread, 1lb of beef, 1 lb of pork, 1lb of preserved meat, 1¾lb flour, ½ lb raisins, 6oz suet, 1 pint peas, ½ lb rice, ½ lb preserved potatoes, 1 oz tea, 1½ oz roast coffee, ¾ lb sugar, 6 oz butter, 5 gallons and 1 quart water, 1 gill pickled cabbage, ½ gill vinegar, and 2 oz salt

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January 6th

• Presentation of the Corps Diplomatique to Louis Philippe on Monday Last ' Front page.
• ' Portrait of M. Sauzet President of the Chamber of Deputies'
• ' The French Chamber of Deputies '

' The Raja of Putteealla On His State Elephant ' from a drawing by Emily Eden

' Chinese Funeral '

' Chinese Trophies at windsor Castle ' shows types of swords - blunderbuss - guns

' Great Seal for Hong Kong '

' His Royal Highness Prince Albert ' drawn by M. Baugniet

' Mabel Marchmont by Thomas Miller ' with small illustrations

' Alton Towers The Seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury '

' Visit of the Duc De Bordeaux to the Dudley Caverns - The Entrance '

' Interior of Dudley Caverns '

' The Welch Church, Ely Place, Holborn '

' Scene from The Pantomime of Harlequin Tam O'Shanter at Astleys '

' Finnoe House ' Tipperary. Small Engr

' The Rotherham Temperance Institute ' Small

' The Eye Glass Written And Illustrated By Alfred Crowquill ' Three Engr. ' The Kingstown and Dalkey Atmospheric Railway - Starting of the Train ' plus two other diagrams of the train

' George IV Obelisk - The Atmospheric Railway, The Kingstown Station and Club House '

Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
Prospects of the Session

Foreign Intelligence includes news from New Zealand and the eruption of Mount Etna and more

Country News

Ireland - The State Trials, Striking The Jury - shows a list of names of the jurors including the names of the persons objected to. Approx. 48 names listed

The Inaugural Address of the Trinity College Dublin Historical Society by Mr Magee BA

Metropolitan News

The Overland Mail - India and China .

The Court and Haut Ton at Windsor etc

The Illustrated London New Editorial with reference to The Committee onthe Labour of Children and Females in Coal Mines - Interment in Towns etc

Surrey Sessions Befor Thomas Puckle Esq etc Accidents and Offences includes Fatal Coal Pit Accident near Hulton in a coal pit belonging to the trustees of the late Duke of Bridgewater - Steam Boiler Explosion

Assize Intelligence - Carmarthen Assizes, The Welsh Riots - CHester Circuit, The Mormonite Case

Naval and Military Intelligence includes the Monthly Military Obituary and THe Funeral of Sir Edward Brace KCB at Sheerness

Shipping Intelligence includes Vessels Run Down At Sea The Dorothy and the Jane of South Shields etc

January 20th

• 'New Lighthouse at Plymouth Breakwater ' Front page
• ' The Chinese Bell in the Library of Buckingham palace ' - - - ' Top of The Bell ' - - - Figures on the Bell ' - - - ' Chinese Vases '
• ' Singular Accident to a Sparrow ' Rotunda in Sackville St Dublin' Cranoe, Leicestershire '
• ' The Music Hall, Dublin '

' The Great Aggregate Meeting in the Music hall Dublin '

' Mr Jospeh's Statue of Wilkie '

State Prosecutions in Ireland ' Civic Portraits - Town Clerk (Mr Ford ) - Alderman Butt - The Late Lord Mayor (Mr Roe ) - The Recorder (Rt Hon Frederick Shaw ) - Town Councillor M'Laughlen ' The Corporation of Dublin

State Prosecutions in Ireland ' Legal Portraits - Mr Clements - Mr Hayes - Mr Pierce Mahony - Mr Gartlan - Mr Cantwell ' Dublin

' SIgnal Fires in Ireland '

' O'Connell His Sons, John and Daniel and Party on Their Way to The Four Courts '

' The Adopted; or Implulse not Principle by Miss Camilla Toulmin '

' Monument to Moliere at Paris '

' Madame Dulcken ' pianist

' Miss Rainforth and Mr Harrison in Balfe's Opera of The Bohemian Girl The Gipsy's Dream '

' Camberwell New Church '

' Portrait of the Rev H. Melvill ' of the Camden Chapel

' Mount Etna From Catania Harbour '

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
English And Irish Poor Laws

Foreign Intelligence

Country News includes South Wales and The Rebecca Riots, Shoni Scyborfawr and Dais y Cantwr sentenced to transportation

Ireland

Police

Metropolitan News

The Court and Haut Ton at Windsor etc

The Illustrated London News Editorial with reference to Mr O'Connell and more Accident and Offences includes Destructible Fire at Clerkenwell - Dreadful Death From Hydrophobia - Horrible Death of a Blind Jewess by Fire - The Deptford Murders - Shocking Murder at Lochgilphead The State Prosecutions in Ireland with articles on the Solicitors for the defence and The Corporation

Mabel Marchmont By Thomas Miller

Naval and Military Intelligence

Shipping Intelligence

February 17th

• Colossal Statue of the Queen At The Royal Institution Edinburgh ' Front page
• ' The Hongs at Canton Before The Late Fire - Danish Hong - British Consulate - American Consulate - The East India Companys '

' Chinese Theatre '

' Bowie Knife of America '

' The Marquis of Normanby '

' Lord John Russell '

' The Recorders Court, Dublin '

' O'Connell's Cap '

' Sculpture for the Pediment of the New Royal Exchange - British Factor and Merchant Seaman '

' Sculpture for the Pediment of the New Royal Exchange - Lord Mayor, Alderman and Common Councilman '

' Sculpture for the Pediment of the New Royal Exchange - London Merchants and Persian Trader '

' Sculpture for the Pediment of the New Royal Exchange - Chinese African adn Levantine Traders '

' The Queen And Her Cabinet Ministers ' Full page of portraits includes Knatchbull Haddington Hardinge Wharncliffe Graham Aberdeen Ripon Stanley Coulburn Peel Lyndhurst Buccleuch and The Queen

' The New Gaol at Reading '

' The Gresham Club House '

' Scene From The Christmas Carol at THe Adelphi Theatre '

' Scene From Richard III at Drury Lane Theatre '

' The Young Flageolet Player by Miss Louisa Stuart Costello '

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
Prospects of Ireland

Imperial Parliament House of Lords and Commons

Country News

Central Criminal Court

The Dublin State Trials

Metropolitan News

Accidents and Offences includes Accident at the Duke of Beauforts Stables

Foreign Intelligence includes Spain - germany - France - Portugal

The MArkets

Births Marriages and Deaths

Every Body's Column

March 2nd

• Alicant ( Alicante ?) - drawn on the spot by F G Sargent - front page
• Alicant from the bay
• Spanish Villagers retreating
• Don Carlos

The Maid of Damascus

A page with 4 engravings and text, devoted to the Azores Islands

Caldeira or crater in Corvo

Pico wine boat

The valley of waterfalls in Flores

Church of Santa Cruz, In Flores

The sculpture gallery and drawing school, Liverpool mechanics institution

Soiree at the Liverpool Mechanics institution - Mr Dickens Address ( yes, Charles Dickens)

The Hon Sydney Herbert

The great Anti corn law league meeting in Covent garden

Fire at Oxford on Tuesday last

Loss of the Elberfield steamer

The Caledonian Ball at the Hanover Square Rooms

Portrait of Duprez

Whiskey Still in Connemara

The New Patent cabriolet

Relinquishment of Tahiti by the French

The rebellion in Spain - Alicant

Vast shoal of fish off Lyme Regis, Dorset

Don Carlos - Affairs of Spain

Recent survey of the Azores

Suicide of a Mr Oliver Moore of Dublin

The loss of the Elberfield steamer ( William Bush, Captain Stranack)

A curious case of swindling at Coventry ( at the Dog and Duck )

Incendiary fires in suffolk - in the neighbourhood of Ipswich

Critiques of magazines such as - The Dublin Review, The Artizan, The Illuminated Magazine,

A Strange treatise called ' Smoke ' with small illustrations by Alfred Crowquill ( Railing against smoky atmospheres in public places!)

April 20th

• Lottery The Celebrated Steeple Chase Winner Drawn By Herring '
• ' Kasgeewhala the Usurper of Gwalior '
• ' Arrival of the Waterford Corporation at Penrose Quay '
• ' Sketch from The Windsor Steeple Chase ' plus two smaller engravings
• ' Herr Ernst ' The violinist
• ' Mr and Mrs Keeley in The Pas De Tambourne and Carving Knife at the Lyceum Theatre '
• ' ' Scene From The Extravaganza of The Fair Star at the Princess Theatre '

' Launch of " The Ariel " Steamer at Rotherhithe '

' The New Record Room, Heralds College '

' The Rev Dr Croly ' Bust

' The Wills Forgery Trials - The Bench During the Trial - Justice Williams - Baron Gurney - Justice Maule '

' The Wills Forgery Trials - Barber - Fletcher - Mrs Dorey '

' The Wills Forgery Trials - Sanders - Mrs Sanders '

' Ancient Egyptian Brick Stamp ' - - - ' Ancient Spanish Monograms ' small

' St Christopher 1423 '

' Old Playing Card 15th c '

' St Bernardin 1454 '

' Letter K Alphabet of Initial Letters, 15th c '

' Exercitium Super Pater-Noster '

' From Pfisters Biblia Pauperum 1462 '

Supplement ' Specimen of Wood Engraving 1518 - Triumphs of Maximilian '

' Erasmus After Holbein '

' Paul and Virginia '

' Coursing - Greyhounds '

' Cast Iron Light House for the West Indies '

' Miss Edgeworth's House ' small

' Isabella II Queen of Spain '

' Hyde Park in the Season '

' The Azores and Madeira - Watering With Paddle Box Boats at St Mary's ' - Caldeira at Flores '- Landing Place at Angra Terceira - Point of the Cross, Madeira '

' The Battle of Culloden '

' Water Tomb at Telmessus '

Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
Public Improvements

Foreign Intelligence - Spain - Italy - Germany - France - greece - Balearic Isles - America - the Brazils - China

Imperial Parliament

Country News includes wonderful Escape at Christchurch - A Fire at Gateshead in Hillgate - Daring Burglarly at Kingston - The Colliers Strike At Newcastle on Tyne - The Robbery of Fifteen Hundred Sovereigns at Oxord

Ireland - Opening of Term with reference to Daniel O'Connell

The Illustrated London News Editorial

The Court and Haut Ton at Windsor

Metropolitan News

Naval and Military Intelligendce - Duelling etc

Accidents and Offences

Horrible Massacre in One of the South Sea Islands, total Destruction of the Harriet Whale Ship

Wood Engraving Its History and Practice by William Andrew Chatto

May 4th

• 'The Court of Directors, East India House' (front page)
• 'Electric Printing Telegraph, South Western Railway: Deflecting Apparatus - The Dial - Copper Station, Nine Elms Telegraph and Zinc Station Wimbledon - Printing Alarum - Printing Apparatus'
• 'The New Bricklayers Arms Terminus of The South Eastern Railway' London

'South eastern railway: The Timber Viaduct from Cooper's Bridge'

'South Eastern: Frame Work of The Viaduct'

'Royal Botanic Society of London: Principal Tent at The Royal Botanic Societys Fete'

'Refresment Room at Royal Botanic Societys Gardens'

'Wreck of The Waterman steamer off Hastings'

'Red Deer Winning The Chester Cup'

'M. Salvi'

'Court of Proprietors, East India Company'

'Mr. Day's "The Ugly Buck" and Lord George Bentincks "The Devil to Pay" Race for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket'

'Mr. Smythe MP for Canterbury, eldest son of Viscount Strangford'

'Mr Ferrand MP for Knaresborough'

'Royal Academy - Prize Sculpture by Mr. Edward B. Stephens'

'Raleighs House'

'A History of Wood Engraving: Portrait of Captain Coram from Hogarths Picture' (small tear)

Also articles (no engravings) including 'Recall of the Governor General of India', 'Foreign Intelligence', 'Imperial Parliament', 'Irish State Trials', 'Parisian Fashions', 'Police 'Naval and Military Intelligence', 'Country News', The Court and Haut Ton'.
'Police - Mansion House, Two Young men named Hart and Johnson charged with pick pocketing' (quite an amusing account)

'Accidents and Offences - Murder on Battersea Bridge of Mrs McFarlane, the supposed perpetrator is Augustus Dalmas, A Frenchman'

'Country News - Dreadful Murder at Davidstow Cornwall of Charlotte Dymond, the suspect, Matthew Weeks was apprehended on Plymouth Hoe - Gateshead, Fatal Colliery Accident at Friars Goose (small)'

'National Sports, The Race for The Chester Cup', 'The History of Wood Engraving'

June 22nd

price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings including

• 'Victoria Land in The South Polar Regions Discovered by Captain Sir J. C, Ross' (front page),
• 'The Grand Oxford Commemoration - The Divinity School - The Procession from St. Mary's - The Convocation in The Theatre', 'The Boat Race',
• 'The General Post Office (by Authority - The Letter Carriers Office - The Inland Letter Office - The Money Order Vaults - The Newspaper Bin - Packinging the Indian Mail - Letter Bag Hoist - The Office Letter Railroad',
• 'Plate Presented by HRH Prince Albert to The Eleventh Hussars',
• 'The Newcastle Plate',
• 'Parliamentary Portraits, Mr Disraeli',
• 'Signor Costa, A Musician',
• 'The City Wellington Statue', 'Head of The Horse',
• 'Specimen of Wood Engraving - The Death of The Children of Niobe from a painting by Wilson engraved by W. J. Linton',
• 'Launch of the Waterwitch at Cowes', 'Lord Egertons Fete, The Pavilion at Worsley'.
• Also articles (no engravings) including 'Foreign and Colonial News', 'Metropolitan News', 'Country News', 'The Court and Haut Ton',
• Police - Alleged Poisoning by Prussic Acid' 'The Central Criminal Court',
• 'National Sports',
• 'Naval and Military',
• 'Imperial Parliament'

June 29th

price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings including

• 'The Secret Office at The General Post Office' (front page), 'Stamps for the Official Letters of the Post Office',
• 'Rauparaha - Kafia Chief', 'Rangihaeata - Fighting General',
• 'Thames Regatta - Putney Bridge',
• 'Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Parade of Cadets in the Stone Court - Cadets in the New Appointments - The Examination in The Dining Hall',
• 'Henley Regatta - Eight Oar'd Match',
• 'Grand Review Phoenix Park, Dublin',
• 'Wood Engraving - The Prophet Jeremiah, from the Painting by Michaelangelo',
• 'Fashions for July and Bonnets and Caps',
• 'A Fruit Schooner', 'The Loss of The Saladin - Suspected Piracy near Ireland Harbour Nova Scotia',
• Barrows in Greenwich Park',
• 'A Sloth at The Zoological Gardens, Regents Park',
• 'Scene from Costa's Opera of Don Carlos',
• 'The Durham Regatta',
• 'Fire at Boston - from a Drawing By Mr. W. Caister',
• 'Freiston Shore Races'.
• Also articles (no engravings) including 'Foreign and Colonial News', 'Metropolitan News', 'Country News', 'The Court', 'National Sports', 'Naval and Military', 'Imperial Parliament'

July 13th

• Front page Engraving - Emperor of Morocco.
• London Bridge Steam Wharf.
• Margate by the sea.
• The Governor of the Bank of England.
• The Waverley Ball.
• Lovely Engravings of paintings by Edward Landseer.Famouse for his portraits of Animals.
• The derby winner 'Orlando'
• Scene from Othello. Scene from Martin Chuzzlewit.
• Famouse Ballerina (of the day) Madamoiselle Fanny Elssler dancing the Zaragoza.

August 24th

• Mogadore ' Front page - Essaouira Morocco
• Recent Pencillings in Morocco
• ' Lady of the Harem At Her Toilet
• ' Peasant of Morocco ' SleekburnC.
• ' Singing Woman of the Harem '
• ' Women of Morocco ' in headress made of copper with flowers engraved on it

' Morocco Jewess with the Veil '

' Slave of the Miel Harem '

' Fire at Richmond - The Cricketers Tavern Greenside '

' St Dunstans in the East ' church London

' Dr Wolff at Bokhara ' Jewish Christian missionary - Dr Joseph Wolff

' Bokhara Chief ' - Bukhara is in Uzbekistan

' Count Nesselrode '

' The Telephone ' - A Telegraphic Alarum by Captain J. N. Taylor - fog horn

' The Royal Exchange and Bank Buildings in 1780 ' London

' The New Royal Exchange ' Threadneedle Street city of London with The Duke of Wellington Statue in the foreground

The War In Morocco

' The French Fleet off Tangier ' a view looking from a ship towards the town of Tangier

' Bombardment of Tangier '

' Ripon - St Wilfrid Festival ' a view looking down Kirkgate towards the cathedral

' St Wilfrid Races At Ripon '

' Charles Waterton Esq '

' South Winfield Manor House Derbyshire ' small engraving

' The Manchester and Salford Regatta From a Sketch by Mr Hayes ' on the river Irwell - showing the boats on the river, crowds on the riverbanks and the mills in the distance

Cricket at Brighton

' R. Kynaston Esq ' cricketer

' C. Taylor Esq ' cricketer

' Grand Cricket Match at Brighton - Box's Ground ' - info Royal Gardens - Hanover Ground - Sussex County Cricket Club v. Marylebone

' Prince Alberts Apiary - Scholl's New Barrel Bee Hive '

' Mister Hampton's New Balloon '

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-

The Harvest

Foreign Intelligence - France - Spain - Portugal - Buenos Ayres - West Indies

Central Criminal Court - the Poisoning Case at Stepney and the Trial of James Cockburn Belaney for the murder of his wife Rachel Belaney with Prussic Acid at Green Street - About 5000 word article describing events and court case with names of witnesses etc

Police includes - A Series of Robberies by the Son of a Clergyman Octavius Clarke

Country News includes Narrow Escape for Tom Thumb "General Tom Thumb" at Clifton - - - Execution at Stafford on William Beard - - - Coach Accident at Carlisle - - - Stabbing in Somersetshire at Norton St Philips Somerset - - - Suicide at Cirencester - - - Another Coal Pit Accident near Maryport

Ireland includes the Repeal Association

Correspondents SleekburnC.

The Illustrated London News Editorial

Court and Haut Ton - Royal Comings and Goings

Metropolitan News includes Post Office Spy System - - - Supposed Foundations of a Roman Temple at Bread Street south of Watling Street - - - Improvements in whitechapel - - - Commission of Lunacy at St Lukes Workhouse on Brent Spencer son of the Late General Sir Arethur Brent Spencer

Death of Dr Syntax at Edinburgh

Murder at Manchester of Jane Millins in Bradshaw Street Hulme

Bombardment of Tangiers

Accidents and Offences includes - A Child Killed by Leap Frog - - - Death fron an Injury to the Finger - - - and more

September 21st

• Windsor Castle - The Huge Silver Gilt Wine Cooler, Scene in the Waterloo Gallery at the Royal Christening (of Prince Alfred ) ' Front page - The wine cooler held up to 42 gallons
• The Criminal Trial in India
• ' The European Judge '
• ' The Omlar ' a principal official that assists the judge, preparing paperwork, documents, etc
• ' The Vakeel - Native Barrister
• ' The Accused - A Thief '

' Burkundauz or Native Policeman '

' The Witness ' SlSleekburnC.eekburn

' The Great Berkshire Jubilee Festival in The United States of America - View of the Pavilion ' - Pittsfield Massachusetts

' Berkshire Festival - Jubilee Hill in a Storm '

' Lord Stanley - The Hon. Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley '

Royal Visit to Scotland

' Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Disembarking at Dundee ' showing sailing ships at Broughty Ferry

' King William Dock Dundee ' SSleekburnC.LEEKBURN

' The Royal Party Passing the Triumphal Arch in the High Street At Dundee '

' The Falls of the Fender - The Queen and Lady Glenlyon on a Visit '

' Viewing the Pass of Killiecrankie '

' Blair Athol Castle from Ben-y-Glo '

' Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Alighting from their Carriage at Blair Miel Athol Church '

Double page - the second of which has damage to edge only affecting a small part of the engraving and text

' Blair Athol ' - - - ' Cottages at Blair Athol '

' Monument to Grace Darling ' part of the inscription reads " ...Grace Horsley Darling A Native of Bamburgh and Inhabitant Of These Islands ...' with a poem dedicated to her by William Wordsworth - the article also refers to the Fern Islands and St Cuthberts Chapel ( Farne )

' The New Church at Llanymyneck near Oswestry ' small engraving - info Llanymynech St. Agatha's

Doncaster Races

' The Mansion House at Doncaster '

' Doncaster Racecourse - The St. Leger ' view of the horses racing - the grandstand and crowds of people

' The Salutation Doncaster ' public house or inn

' The Doncaster Cup ' SleekburnC.

' The New Comet Discovered on Sunday Last ' 15 Sept - info discovered by Mr Melhop of Hamburgh - also a chart showing observations by Sir James South

' Ruins of th eAugustine Monastery at Canterbury '

' Staircase in the Conventional Buildings at Canterbury ' - - - ' St Martins Church Near Canterbury '

' Medal of the British Archaeological Association '

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-

The Egyptian Treaty

Foreign Intelligence - Parisiana - France - Spain - Portugal - Greece - Russia - Cape of Good Hope - United States with reference to the Arrival of the Acadia and The Hurrican and Flood in the Wisconsin territory - West Indies - New Zealand and reference to the massacre at Wairau

The French at Tahiti - Further Insults Upon British Subjects - With an account of the Arrest of Captain Hay and Daldy late of The Schooner Challenger

Mutiny at Ichaboe .

Sufferings of the Crew of an English Vessel Reported in The New York papers - Crew of the British Schooner Orange in a Jollyboat picked up by The Ship Vicksburg and Captain Berry

Correspondents SleekburnC.

The Illustrated London News Editorial

Spots on the Suns Disc SleekburnC.

Court and Haut Ton - Royal Comings and Goings

Metropolitan News includes The New Houses of Parliament - And more

Country News includes The Will of the Late Mr James Wood of Gloucester - - - Old English Festivities at A Farm at Bridge Foot near Dunmow Essex, Occupied by Mister Patmer and his Sisters, by the Munificence of Viscountess Maynard - - - Murder of a Policeman Samuel Couchman at Dover - - - Extraordinary Preservation of a Girl in a Mine, Mary Webster of Via Gellia at Bonsall Derbyshire - - - Incendiary Fires in Suffolk

Accidents and Offences includes Attempt of One Policeman to Murder Another at Winchmore Hill - - - Accident in a Phaeton on the Whitstone Road Adderwater near Exeter, Family of the Rev. Prebendary Medley rector of St Thomas - - - Frighful Accident at Niagara of Miss Martha K. Rugg of Lancaster, Massachusetts

Police includes - Disgusting Cruelty to Children at Broadway Westminster - - - Ingenious Robbery at 24 Agnes Street Waterloo Road London by Wm. Timberlake, George Jackson and John Western

November 30th

• St Giles Church Camberwell - The Altar of the New Church ' Front page
• ' Tammany Hall The Democratic Headquarters at New York - A Torch Light Procession '
• ' Inside a Polling Booth - Balloting for President '

' M. De Lamartine ' a poet and traveller, legislator and politician

' Statue of Goethe at Frankfort '

' The Great American Aloe in Bloom ' in the gardens of Rev E. Duke at Lake House near Amesbury WIlts

Near Portesham - ' Blagdon Hill Dorsetshire - Monument to Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy' a commander at the Battle of Trafalgar

The Mignon of Scheffer - ' Mignon Regretting Miel Her Country ' - - - ' Mignon Aspiring to Heaven '

' The Installation of a Knight of the Bath '

Strike of the Barking ( Essex ) Fishermen - ' Barking Fishing Boats '

' Fashions for December ' two designs with hats or bonnets

' Gloucester College School '

' Perspective View of the Great Clock of the Royal Exchange ' - - - ' Apparatus for Moving the Munute Hand ' - - - ' Apparatus for Letting Off the Chimes ' - - - ' The Compensation Pendulum ' - - - ' The Escapement '

' Chess Problem ' SleekburnC.

' The Minnesingers Serenade Written and Composed by J. Augustine Ward ' words and music - info. also pronounced Minnesänger

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-

Railway Mismanagement

Foreign Intelligence - Parisiana - France - Spain - Portugal

News from Tahiti

Metropolitan News

Country News includes The Infanticide at Wolverhampton against Miss Railton, Mister Sherriff and Mr and Mrs Hildreth - - - Murder at Yarmouth, Frederick Boatright - - -Matrimonial Hoax at Uxbridge - - - Murder at Stockport Eliza Jones by Her Husband - - - Strike of Coalminers of LAncashire - - - Extraordinary Sudden Deaths in Norwich of Mr David Irwin of the Norfolk Chronicle and Jonathan Matchett of the same paper etc

Accidents and Offences includes Robbery of Forty Thousand Pounds from Banking House of Messrs Rogers, Olding and Co of Clements Lane - - - Another Double Suicide In The East End of London, of Lovers at 9 Raven Row Mile End - - - Suicide of the Son of Sir Stephen May - - - Frightful Death in a Brick Kiln at Dalston - - - Inquest on Major Charles De Haviland - - - Plus Three different railway accidents - - - and more

Election of the American President - Mr Polk ( James Knox Polk )

The Illustrated London News Editorial

Court and Haut Ton - Royal Comings and Goings

Fatal And Melancholy Accident on The Midland Counties Railway - at Beeston Near Nottingham - With A List of Killed and Wounded - Also results of the Inquests

The Eclipse of the Moon

Lunacy and Lunatic Asylums

Law Intelligence

Police includes - Fatal Occurrence at a Masquerade at Union Hall - Francis Thomas Passmore accused of Causing the Death of John Slade of Albany Road Camberwell

The Order of the Bath

December 7th

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EDITION: 136

• ENGRAVINGS
  I. Full page (or double page or near full page) engravings (Title or subject/illustrator)
  n/a
• II. Smaller than full page engravings (Title or subject/illustrator)
  St. Marys New Church, Herne Hill
  Interior of St. Marys New Church, Herne Hill
  Election of the American President
  Monument to the Earl of Leicester in Longford Church, Derbyshire
  Yew Trees in Blackwell Churchyard
  Edward the Black Princes Ring
  Daniel Forrester, aged 45
  John Forrester, aged 50
  Interior of Rogerss Bank, Clements-Lane
• Speculations on the Railway
  - London and Brighton Railway - The Great Ouse Viaduct / Smyth
  - Shoreham
  - First Class Passengers
  - Train Passing / Kenny Meadows
  - Third Class Passengers
  - Waiting for the Train
  - Tunnel Signal - All Right
  - Second Class Passengers
  - London and Brighton Railway - Brighton Terminus
• St. Georges Schools, Sheffield
  Ancient Mansion, Gravel-Lane
  Annual Migration of a Tartar Family / S. Sly
  Scene from Balfes New Opera of The Daughter of St. Mark, at Drury Lane Theatre
  Curious Chinese Drawing of an English War Steamer
  Chess Board

ARTICLES (Title or subject/author)
Divisions in the Church

St. Marys New Church, Herne Hill, Dulwich

Foreign Intelligence
- Parisiana
- France
- Spain
- Portugal
- Turkey

The Overland Mail
- India and China
- China
- Commercial News

Law Intelligence
- Deeds of gifts and wills
- The Romford Bank of Johnson and Mann
- Extraordinary Bill Transactions

Central Criminal Court
- Manslaughter by the Captain of one of the Waterman Steamers
- A Daring swindler

Police
- The late forged transfer at the bank of England
- The tender mercies of the Poor Law
- Another Lady Thief
- The Tricks of Beggars
- Incendiary fire on the farm of Mr. Abel Smith

Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda

Election of the American President

Monument to the Earl of Leicester in Longford Church, Derbyshire

Strike of the Coal-Miners of Lancashire and Cheshire

Nooks and Corners of Old England
- The Blackwell Yew
- Edward the Black Princes Ring

The late Robbery at the Bank of Messrs. Rogers and Co.

Calendar for the week

To Correspondents

London, Saturday, December 7, 1844

The Court and Haut Ton
- Marriages in High Life
- Deaths of two members of Parliament

Church, Universities, &c.

Metropolitan News
- Baths and Wash-Houses for the Labouring Classes
- Waterloo Bridge

Country News
- Dinner to Sir Robert Sale at Southampton
- Another mine accident

Ireland
- The Repeal Association
- Brutal Murder of Two Brothers
- The late fatal accident on the Midland Counties Railway
- The adhourned inquest in Mr. Varnalls

Postscript
- Attempt to set fire to the Eton Union Workhouse
- Burglary in the Waterloo-Road
- Foreign

Speculations on the Railway
- The London and Brighton Railway

Every Bodys Column
- Evening Melodies - The Sermon of the Woods - poem / R. R. S.
- Sir Walter Scotts Memory
- Alphonse Karr and his tailor
- Voltaire in England

Literature
- The Comic Almanack for 1845
- The Fall of the Leaf - poem
- Gardening for ladies
- Things which can be much better conceived than described
- An essay on comets

National Sports
- Tattersalls

Middlesex Sessions
- The alleged robbery by a lady, at the Soho Bazaar
- The wooden walls of England

Accidents and Offences
- Fatal Coach Accident
- The suicide of two lovers
- Fatal accident on the Blackburn and Preston Railway

Epitome of News - Foreign and Domestic

Scotland
- Attempted assassination at Kelso

The Markets

Monetary Transactions of the Week

The London Gazette
- Births
- Marriages
- Deaths

Ancient House in Gravel-Lane

St. Georges New Schools, Sheffield

Great Annual Migration of the Russian Tartars

The Theatres
- Convent Garden
- Haymarket
- Adelphi
- Lyceum

Scene from The Daughter of St. Mark

Chinese Drawing of an English War-Steamer

The Distressed Needlewomen of the Metropolis

Chess

December 21st

• Emigrants on Their Way to The Place of Embarkation

December 28th

• 'Christmas, By Alfred Crowquill' (front page)
• 'Explosion of a Magazine in a Great Native Procession in New York'
• 'Wreck of The Vanguard Steamer, Off Cork Lighthouse'
• 'The Sydney Oak at Penshurst'

'Grand Banquet to Sir H. Pottinger at Manchester'

'Moose Deer at The Surrey Zoological Gardens'

'Toucan, at The Surrey Zoological Gardens'

'Scene rom Harlequin Crotchet and Quaver at Covent Garden Theatre - Scene From Valentine and Orson atThe Lyceum Theatre - Scene From Harlequin and Johnny Gilpins Ride, At Astleys - Scene from Cats Castle at The Adelphi Theatre - Scene from Graciosa and Percinet at The Haymarket Theatre - Scene from Harlequin L. S. D. at the Surrey Theatre'

'Railway Signals: Junction of The Great Western Railway with The London Branch' - 'Junction Signal Post' - 'Station Signal "All Right"...' - 'Line Signal "All Right"...' - 'Line Signals "Caution"...' - 'Line Signals "stop"...'

'Great Skiff Race at Newcastle Upon Tyne' Championship of the Thames and Tyne between Coombes of The Thames and Henry Clasper of Derwent Haugh. I think it may be Scotswood Bridge

'English Theatricals at Paris, The Salle Ventador'

'Fashions for The New Year'

'Interior of St Giles Church, Camberwell'

'St Amant' The Eminent Chess Player'

'Chess'

Also articles (no engravings) including 'Opening of the French Chambers', 'Police includes Extraordinary Resistance by a Coiner and His Child, James Green at Worship Street Police Office', ''Accidents and Offences includes Another Colliery Exposion at Pentrefelin Colliery',

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