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February 1st

Number 144 price 6d

Country news

Singular case of suicide by a dog - On Saturday last, a fine, handsome, and valuable black dog, of the Newfoundland species, belonging to Mr Floyd, solicitor, Holmfith, Yorkshire committed suicide by drowning itself in the river which flows at the back of the owner's habitation. For some days previous the animal seemed less animated than usual, but on this particular ocassion he was noticed to throw himself into the water and endeavour to sink by preserving perfect stillness of the legs and feet. Being dragged out of the stream, the dog was tied up for a time, but had no sooner been released than he again hastened to the water and again tried to sink and was again got out. This occurred many times, until at length the animal with repeated efforts appeared to get exhausted, and by dint of keeping his head determinedly under water for a few minutes, succeeded at last in obtaining his object, for when taken out this time he was indeed dead. The case is worth recording, as affording another proof of the general instinct and sagacity of the canine race.

May 10th

' Scene from the Life of the Duc de Biron painted by G. Lance '

' View Near Ournelo Contrada di Sora in the Kingdom of Naples - from a Painting by W. Leitch '

' Covent Garden Theatre - Free Trade Bazaar '

' Covent Garden - Refreshment Room at the Free Trade Bazaar '

' Remains of the Suspension Bridge at Great yarmouth '

' The Suspension Bridge and River At Great Yarmouth ' a view before the disaster SleekburnC.

Small diagram showing the Area in Which the Suspension Bridge Collapsed

Tissington Well dressing

' Miss Goodwins Well '

' Hands Well '

' The Ceremony at the Hall Well '

' The Coffin Well '

' The Town Well '

' The Hall Well '

' The Capture of a Slave Vessel off The Congo River '

' The Late Thomas Hood from a Bust by E. Davis ' - Tom Hood the writer

' The Royal Thames yacht Club and The Match for the Miel Belvidere Cup ' from a drawing by N. M. Condy Esq

' Scene from the New Comedy of "Time Works Wonders" at the Haymarket by Mister Jerrold '

' Dublin - Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society at the Rotunda '

' Chess Problem '

This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-

Field Gardens Bill ( Allotments ) - with reference to Mr Cowper Foreign Intelligence - Parisiana - france - etc

Arrival of the Overland Mail

Church And Universiteis

Law Intelligence

Imperial Parliament - The House of Lords and The House of Commons - with reference to Navy Estimates and the Slave Trade - - and more

National Sports

Illustrated London News Editorial with reference to the Court of Aldermen and the Abuses of Executions at Newgate SleekburnC.

Answers to Correspondents P> Court and Haut Ton at Windsor, Buckingham Palace etc - Royal Comings and Goings

Accidents and offences includes A Child Murdered by a Sevant Girl, Martha Brixey 18 for the murder of the child of Mr. J. D. Ffinch age 9 months

Epitome of News Foreign and Domestic - Snippets of News

Postscript - The Royal Naval yacht Squadron - - - Will of a Millionaire Philip John Miles Esq late of Bristol - - - Arrival of "The Great Western "

Opening of the Anti Corn Law League Bazaar at Covent Garden

Calamitous Accident and Loss of Life at Yarmouth - A very detailed description approx. 2000 words, of the disaster.... apprx 113 bodies taken from the river with a list of some of the victims, many of them children, with ages and adresses (street names) - Also a poem in memory of the dead

Inquest into The Deaths of The Victims of the Suspension Bridge at yarmouth - approx 1440 words

Additional Incidents - Related to the collapse of the Suspension Bridge at Yarmouth - approx. 2000 words  SleekburnC.

Ireland - The Repealers of Dundalk

The MArkets

The London Gazette - includes Appointments at the war Office - - - Bankrupts

 

 

May 17th

' New Church at South Hackney ' ' The Free Trade Bazaar in Covent Garden Theatre '

' King Henry IV Painted by Gilbert at THe Royal Academy Exhibition '

' Queen Elizabeth Landing at the Isle of Wight - Drawn by M. N. Condy Esq '

' Reception of Her Majesty By The Royal Yacht Squadron - Swedish Bark - Esmeralda - Miel - Rose - Ganymede - Lady Jane '

' The Great Fire at Pittsburgh ' USA

' The Wenham Ice LAke ' Massachusetts USA - Also various implements used in the production of ice in America including - Ice Marker - Ice Plough - Ice Splitting Bar - Ice Saw - Ice Hook - Ice Plane - Refrigerator .

' Funerals at St Nicholas Church Great Yarmouth ' after the catastrophe at Great Yarmouth - drowning tragedy on 2 May 1845 when a suspension bridge crowded with children collapsed under the weight killing 79 people

' Prince Ruperts Cottage at Liverpool ' small engraving

The Gigantic Oak at Bale ' small engr.

' The House of John Dryden In Fetter LAne ' plus other engravings

' The Lyceum Theatre - Scene from th eNew Burleaque of cinderella '

' The New Standard Theatre at Shoreditch ' view of the stage and audience

' Mister Wright as " Paul Pry " at the Adelphi Theatre

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
The New Colleges with reference to Sir Robert Peel

Foreign Intelligence - Parisiana - France - etc

United States - The State of Public Feeling in America Towards England

Earthquakes in Mexico .

Imperial parliament - House of Commons and Lords

Ireland with reference to Mr O'Connell - - Fatal Accident to Colonel Shelton Commanding the 44th Regt at Richmond Barracks Dublin

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Edmund Lechmere Charlton Esq of Ludford i Herefordshire of Witton Court Salop and Hanley Castle Worcester - died at his seat Ludford park Ludlow - - - George Henry Grey The Earl of Stamford and Warrington of the County of Lincoln died at Enville Halle near Stourbridge in Staffs - - - Thomas Duncan RSA ARA (artist) - - - Theodore De Saussure at Geneva - - - Colonel Townsend died At Castle Townsend near the town of Skibbereen - - - Mary Anne Mrs Davies Gilbert Eminent Philanthropist died at her seat East Bourn in Sussex - - - Simon Count Sarsfield at Cork - - - Regina Maria Roche at The Mall Waterford - a writer

National Sports includes - Tattersall's - Newmarket Spring Meeting - The Waverley Club Boat Race - Nottingham Aquatic Festival and Regatta - The Ariel Club Boat Race

Tributary Lines to the Memory of the Late Thomas Hood Esq

Metropolitan News .

Accidents and Offences includes Fatal Collision of the Waterman Steamer No.5 on the River - - - Suicide on Southwark Bridge named John James Gogerley - - - Burglary and Attempted Murder of Mr Foot A Green Grocer and Pleasure Car Proprietor in Windmill Street Finsbury - - - Death of a Lady of Title from Drinking - Lady Anne Platers - - - Accident at Southampton - - - Girl Killed By a Swing, Mary Ann Hammet aged 14 at St pancras Church

Central Criminal Court - The Late Murder in St Giles by Joseph Connor on Mary Brothers at 11 George Street Bloomsbury

Bill Discounting Transactions

The Illustrated London News Editorial

Court and Haut Ton - Royal Comings and Goings

Law Intelligence and The Privileges of the House of common

Postcript - The Child Murder at Greenwich - Martha Brizey aged 18 tried for the Murder of Robert Barry Ffinch the infant child of Mr Ffinch of Greenwich

The Great Fire at Pittsburg .

The Theatres - Her Majestys - Drury Lane - Lyceum - Strand - Vauxhall - Astleys

' Music - The Philharmonic Society - Ancient Concerts

Ice Making in The US with reference to Wenham Massachusets

The Markets .

The London Gazette - Births Marriages and Deaths - Bankrupts etc

June 14th

Fisher House, Islington

Her Majestys Costume Ball
- Duke of Norfolk
- Duchess of Grafton
- Marchioness of Londonderry
- Viscount Sydney
- Countess of Jersey
- Lady C. Villiers
- Lord Mandeville
- Baroness Rothschild
- Earl of Surrey
- Marchioness of Ormonde
- Belgian Ambassadress
- Marquis of Donegal
- Miss Burdett Coutts
- Duchess of St. Albans
- Viscount Villiers
- Duchess of Sutherland
- Viscount Castlereagh
- Lady Peel
- Duke of St. Albans
- Baroness Brunow
- Duchess of Kent
- Viscount Sydney
- Duke of Norfolk
- Austrian Ambassadress
- The Sire Roger De Coverley Dance in the Picture Gallery
- The Supper is the Great Dining Room / Smyth
- Minuet in the Throne Room

Opening of the Northampton and Peterborough Railway
- Thrapston Station
- Gundle Station
- Northampton Station / Smyth
- Lynch Bridge
- Nene Viaduct
- Peterborough Station

The Comet as it appeared through the telescope of Sir J. South, on the Night of Wednesday, June 11th

The Position of the Comet in the Heavens on the Nights of Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday, June 8th, 9th, and 11th

Ascot Prizes 1845
- Royal Hunt Cup
- The Emperors Cup
- The Queens Vase

Her Majesty and Her Illustrious Visitors and Suite Leaving Windsor Castle for Ascot Races

ARTICLES (Title or subject/author)
The Abdication of Don Carlos

Foreign Intelligence
- France
- Spain
- The United States
- Buenos Ayres

Imperial Parliament

Naval and Military Intelligence
- A Letter from Leipsic, of May 31, states that
- Summary of Railway Facts

National Sports
- The Ascot Cup Day
- The Henley Regatta
- Royal Academy and Waverley Boat Race

The Markets

Monetary Transactions of the Week

The London Gazette

Present From the Emperor of Russia to Prince Albert

Nooks and Corners of Old England
- Fisher House, Islington

The First Steamer on Lake Windermere

Her Majestys Costume Ball

Calendar for the Week

To Correspondents

The Illustrated London News

Court and Haut Ton
- The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their illustrious guests

Metropolitan News
- Dinner at Merchant Tailors Hall

Country News
- Effect of the Change of Weather in the Country
- Poisoning Case at Carlisle
- Fatal Explosion at Durham
- The Late Fatal Duel

The Theatres
- Her Majestys
- Covent Garden
- St. Jamess
- Lyceum
- Sadlers Wells
- Polytechnic Institution
- Vidocqs Exhibition

Law Intelligence
- The Duke of Brunswick and the Satrist
- The Power of Coroners
- The Case of the Rev. Mr. Oakeley
- Mr. Ward and the University of Oxford

Postscript

Latest Foreign News

Epitome of News-Foreign and Domestic

Souvenirs, Sketches, and Anecdotes

Chess

Opening of the Northampton and Peterborough Railway

Magnificent Comet

Ascot Races-the Prize Plate

POEMS / LIMERICKS (Title/author)
The Court Costume Ball of the June of 1845, At the Palace of Victoria the First of En

June 21st

II. Smaller than full page engravings (Title or subject/illustrator)
Grand Review by Her Majesty in Windsor Great Park / Landells

Perie, Son of a New Zealand Chief

Great Seal of New Zealand

Sailing of the Hudsons Bay Companys Ships, from Gravesend

The Duke of Wellington Laying the First Stone of the Waterloo Barracks, at the Tower of London / Smyth

The Waterloo Barracks-From the Architects Design / Smyth

The Reception Room, at the Town Hall / L.G. and P

Plan of Cambridge, showing St Andrews Street - Jesus Lane - Bridge Street - Sidney Street - Kings Parade - Trumpington Street - Silver Street - Magdalene Street - The Eagle (pub I think) - Downing Street - Petty Cury - The Red Lion - Blue Bear - University Arms ' there is also a key to the plan

The Comet

The Great Britain Steam Ship, Leaving Blackwall

Joel Diavolos Descent with Fireworks, at Vauxhall

Firework Temple at Vauxhall

Scene From the Opera of Lucrezia Borgia at Her Majestys Theatre ' info. an engraving of a scene showing the singers Giulia or Giuditta Grisi - Luigi Lablache - Napoleone Moriani

' Scene from the Opera of " Guillaume Tell " at Covent Garden theatre ' an engraving of a scene showing the singers M. Laborde - M. Laurent Quilleveri - W. ZeglerM

' The Field of Waterloo ' an engraving showing a view of The memorial thombs and Butte du Lion (hill with lion) in Waterloo, Brabant in Belgium

' The Grand Polish ball at Willis's Room ' Kings Street St James

ARTICLES (Title or subject/author)
The Colonial Office

Grand Review in Windsor Great Park

Church, Universities
- Oxford
- At Christs College, Cambridge

The Weather

Foreign Intelligence
- Parisiana
- France
- Spain
- Belgium

Arrival of the Overland Mail
- India and China
- The Waterloo Banquet
- Election of Mr. Carus Wilson
- Death of Colonel Rushbrooke

Imperial Parliament

The Late Fatal Duel at Gosport

New Zealand

Hudsons Bay Company

Prize Poultry

Calendar for the Week

To Correspondents

The Illustrated London News

Court and Haut Ton

Metropolitan News
- The Anti Corn Law League
- The Charitable and Provident Society for the Aged and Infirm Deaf and Dumb
- Sheriffs Fund Society
- Fire in Cheapside

Law Intelligence
- The Morning Post and the London Repealers
- The Spa Fields Burial Ground

Alarming Accident on the Great Western Railway

Accidents and Offences
Sudden death of Mr Ambrose humphrys Deputy Chairman of Great Western Railway - - - Fatal Accident on the Great North of England Railway at Shipton Station killing Mister Gibson Residing at Topcliffe Hall - - - Fatal Accident at Doncaster - Wife Murdered by Her Husband, Mr Louis Henry Goule Superintendent of the county Police, at Durham

Epitome of News-Foreign and Domestic

Police
- A Girl Charged with Attempting to Murder her sister

Laying the Foundation Stone of the New Barracks in the Tower of London

British Association for the Advancement of Science

Summer Fashions

Summary of Railway Facts

The Fine Arts

The Theatres
- Covent Garden
- Lyceum
- Adelphi
- Haymarket
- Princess
- The French Plays
- The Colosseum

A Ramble in the Realms of Chat

Magnificent Comet

National Sports
- Tattersalls
- Royal Thames Yacht Club Match
- Hampton Races

Incendiarism and Suicide at Cambridge

The Great Britain Steam Ship

Vauxhall

Her Majestys Theatre

The Electric Gun

The Operatic Company of Brussels, at Covent Garden Theatre

The Markets

Monetary Transactions of the Week

The London Gazette

Grand Polish Ball

POEMS / LIMERICKS (Title/author)
The Day of Waterloo

June 28th

Her Majesty Going on Board The Albion, at Spithead / L.G.P.

The Town Hall, Cambridge

Sir John F. Herschel, Bart., President of the Association

Model Room, Perse School

The Union Room, Jesus Lane

Philosophical Societys House-Lecture Room

Lecture Room, Great Court, Trinity College

Model House and Garden, Horticultural Society

Horticultural Fete in the Grounds of Downing College/ Landells, Corway and Provart

Grand Inspection of the Experimental Squadron at Spithead, by Her Majesty
- The Fleet from the Motherbank
- The Superb, Under Full Sail
- The Fleet Getting Under Way
- Admiral Parker Going on Board the Royal Yacht
- The Fleet Firing the Salute
- The Flag Ship St. Vincent Firing a Salute / Landells, Corway and Provart

Grand Naval Evolution
- Loosed Sails
- Top Gallants Sails Home
- Preparing to Make Sail
- Making Sail on the Starboard Tack
- Reefing Topsail
- Double Reefed Topsails, in Top Gallant Sails

Tradesmans Challenge Cup-Thames Regatta

Silver Wherry-Thames Regatta

The Newcastle Race Plate (Mazeppa)

The Comet

Burning of the City of Quebec

Madame Rossi Caccia

The Concert Monster, at the Surrey Zoological Gardens

The Late John Marshall, Esq.

Fashions for July

The Late Rev. Richard Barham

Barton House Isle of Wight

ARTICLES (Title or subject/author)
The Slave Trade

Foreign Intelligence
- Parisiana
- France
- Belgium
- United States

Summary of Railway Facts

Imperial Parliament

Law Intelligence
- More Fraudulent Bill Transactions
- The Duke of Brunswick and the Satirist

Accidents and Offences
- Extraordinary Death by Swallowing a Fish

Fine Arts

The Theatres
- Her Majestys
- Lyceum
- Adelphi
- Sadlers Wells

The British Association for the Advancement of Science

Calendar for the Week

To Correspondents

The Illustrated London News
- The Commons Inclosure Bill
- The Success of the Smoke Prohibition Bill

Court and Haut Ton
- Fatal Accident to Captain de Salis
- Poisoning by a Boy of Thirteen
- Loss of Five Lives in Plymouth Sound

Latest Foreign News

Metropolitan News
- Death of Mr. Somes, the Member for Dartmouth

Epitome of News-Foreign and Domestic

The Markets

Monetary Transactions of the Week

The London Gazette

Grand Inspection of the Experimental Squadron at Spithead, by Her Majesty

Grand Naval Evolutions

Country News
- The Late Duel at Gosport

National Sports
- The Thames Regatta
- Tattersalls
- The Race Cup

Dreadful Fire at Quebec

The Comet

The Concert Monstre

Madame Rossi Caccia

John Marshall, Esq.

Ireland
- Murder of a Magistrate in Cavan

The Rev. Richard Barham, B.A.

Legalization of Art Unions

Literature

Osborne House, Isle of Wight

Chess

POEMS / LIMERICKS (Title/author)
The Grand Naval Review

 

July 5th

An eight page issue price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings including

July 19th

'The Eureka' a machine for "..Composing Hexameter Latin Verses built at Bridgwater in Somersetshire now exhibited in the Metropolis"...

'Font at Caistor'

'Burning of the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia '

'Opening of the Cork Temperance Institute'

'Royal Agricultural Society of England meeting at Shrewsbury: Distinguished Agriculturists Mr Ransome - Earl Spencer - Mr Grantham - Philip Pusey Esq - Jonas Webb Esq - Henry Handley Esq - Earl Talbot - George Wilbraham Esq.'

'the Cattle Sheds,Royal Agricultural Societys Show, Shrewsbury' on the new race cousrse.

'Distinguished Agriculturists: - Mr Elliot - W. Blacker Esq - Earl of Hardwick - George Tollet Esq - Duke of Sutherland - Duke of Northumberland'

'Exterior of the Pavilion, Royal Agricultural Societys Show, Shrewsbury'

'Dinner in The Pavilion' Shrewsbury

'The Exhibition of Cartoons in Westminster hall'

'The Late Mr J. Augustine Wade '

'Meyerbeer' The composer

'The Cambridge Election - The Election'

'The Solicitor General, Mr Fitzroy Kelly MP'


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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'The laws of War'

'Foreign Intelligence including Insurrection in Catalonia - - Burning of Arabs by The French Troops - - New Zealand, Serious Affray with The Aborigines '

Imperial Parliament'

'Court and haut Ton at Osborne Isle of Wight'

'Metropolitan News'

'Ireland, Riot and Loss of Life at Armagh - The Conflict at Ballinhassig'

'Accidents and Offences' includes Death of the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man - Fatal Accident on The Brighton Railway to engineer Jonathan Hill - Sudden Death at Gravesend - Extraordinary Robbery of Rev Mr Potticary of Blackheath at Brighton - Suicide at London Bridge of Georgbe Frederick Duncombe - Attempted Murders at Old Brentford

August 9th

'Fireworks at Paris sketched by Harrison

'The New Holbein at The National Gallery '

'Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester '

'The New Church of St Nicholas at Hamburg '

'Cartoon (41) The spirit of Chivalry By Daniel Maclise RA Executed by Commission. miel '

'Ill Be There!' Written by E. Fitzball Composed By G. Herbert Rodwell, Full page of words and musc


Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
' The Close of the Session '

'Foreign Intelligence'

'Police'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons recently deceased - Mrs Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence of Studley Park York '

'Lamentable Accident on the Northern and Eastern Railway at Chesterford

'Accident and Offence'

''Ireland - The Repeal Association - - - Murder at Sea'

The Illustrated London News, Editorial'


'Metropolitan News '

'Country News'

'Accidents and Offences includes Death from Eating Mushrooms at Ipswich - - - Murder at Easingwold - - - Fatal Accident on the River at Witford Ferry - - - Conviction for Murder at the Bodmin Assizes'

September 27th

' Madeirese Costume '

' South West Transept of Ely Cathedral, Retstored '

' Cottage of the Late Bishop of Bath and Wells at Banwell ' Somerset

' Present State of the British Museum '

' The Earl of Bandon Cutting the First Turf For the Cork and Bandon Railway '

' House at Duddingstone Where the Pretender Slept on the Night Before The Battle of Prestonpans '

Centenary of the Battle of Prestonpans - ' Dragoon of the Time of the Pretender ' - - - ' Dirk of the Pretender ' - - - ' Bonnet Worn by the Pretender at Holyrood ' - - - ' Autograph of Prince Charles ' - - - ' Signet Ring of the Pretender ' - - - ' Sword of the Pretender ' - - - ' Autograph of Sir John Cope ' - - - ' The Pretenders Cup '

' Col. Gardiners House adn Field of Prestonpans '

' Slave Shackles from the Missouri United States Steamer '

' Birds Eye View of the London Docks ' Wonderful full age print from enraving

' Th New Tea Warehoiuses London Docks '

' The Kiln, London Docks '

' The Great Wine Vault London Docks '

' Loss of the Yacht Vectis off Bognor '

' Church of the Holy Trinity Bishops Road, Paddington '

' Memorial to Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland at the Chapel of the Dockyard at Portsmouth '
Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
The Panic - with reference to the railway expenditure


Foreign Intelligence including - Parisiana - France - Greece - USA - The River Plate

Serious Charge of Mutiny on The British Barque Champlain of Cork which happened in the US of the coast of Maine, returning to UK on board the Steamer Cambria - the prisoners names are listed

Law Intelligence includes Mr Alderman Scales and His Criditors

The Arrival of the Ringdove from Africa and the death of Sir William Daniell or Daniel

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes:- William Fuller Boteler Esq QC of Oulton Yorkshire - - - George Basevi Esq Eminent Architect designer of Belgrave Square died from a fall from the West Tower of Ely Cathedral - - - Sir Matthew Tierney Bart., distinguished Physician in Ordinary to King George IV

The Court and Haut Ton at Windsor etc

Country News includes Fatal and Alarming Fire At Gravesend in High Street at he House of Mr King and the Black Horse

Ireland includes The Repeal Dinner at Rathkeale with reference to Mr W. S. O'Brien - Mr O'Connell - Mr Gray - Father Synan - Mr Smith O'Brien and more

Ireland - The Potato Disease, Government Commission

Accidents and Offences includes The Late Accident on the Midland Railway inquest held at The Masons Arms Inn, Oulton with reference to Mr Boteler

Lincolns Inn - "The Admission Book" the article shows the signatures of Charles II and his brother James and Prince Rupert

The Theatres - Haymarket - Princess'

Railway Progress

Fatal Accident on the Croydon Atmospheric Railway near Sydenham station of William Shannons

Out of Town - Been to Brighton

Shipwreck of a Hull and Hamburg Steamer and Loss of Nineteen Lives, The Neptune and The Margaret

The Markets

Montary Transactions of the Week

The London Gazette

 

 

October 18th

THE POTATO DISEASE.-- Accounts received from different parts of Ireland show that the disease in the potato crop is extending far and wide, and causing great alarm amongst the peasantry. Letters from resident landlords feelingly describe the misery and consternation of the poor people around them, and earnestly urge the imperative necessity of speedy intervention on the part of the Government to ascertain the actual extent of the calamity, and provide wholesome food as a substitute for the deficient supply of potatoes. Mr. John Chester, of Kilscorne House, in Magshole, in the county of Louth, in a letter to the Dublin Evening Post, states that he has a field of twenty acres of potatoes, which, up to the 3rd instant, had been perfectly dry and sound, when they were attacked by the blight, and three-fourths of them are so diseased and rotten that pigs decline to eat them. This, he says, is the case all through the county of Louth. The Belfast News Letter has a still more lamentable account. It says, "We have abstained from occupying our space with the accounts of the prevalence of this calamity in various places, for this reason, that it may be here stated, once for all, that there is hardly a district in Ireland in which the potato crops at present are uninfected-- perhaps we might say, hardly a field." http://tinyurl.com/nrlf9

October 25th

No 182 Vol VII

 

 

December 13th

'The Royal Palace at Madrid - The Armeria '

'The Smithfield Prize Cattle Show' a view of the interior of the building and show ' Rembrandt Painted by Himself '

'Departure of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, From Plymouth' the grand Dukes ship Ingermanland passing the Queen, Sir John Wests flag Ship, Albion, Vanguard, Rodney, Canopus, Superb, President 50, and Daring

'Chess Problem'

'Colossal Statue of Lord Collingwood at Newcastle Upon Tyne miel '

'Monument to Dr Alison at Edinburgh'

Presnts to Her Majesty and Prince Albert - 'Enamelled Pearl, Glass and Papier Mache Screen Presented to Her Majesty' - - - 'Enamelled Pearl, Glass adn Papier Mache Chess Table Presented to Prince Albert'

'New Lodge, Osborne House '

'Sarcophagus in Which the Portland Vase Was Discovered '

'Agricultural Implements at The Smithfield Club Cattle Show ' showing thirteen wonderful implements with names of the manufacturerers or inventors


Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
' The Fall of the Ministry '

'Foreign Intelligence'

'Police - A Young Girl Committed on a Charge of Murder, Martha Browning murdering Elizabeth Mundell of Rochester Row, Westminster. Plus other cases

'Accident and Offences - Serious Railway Accident between Gresford and Wrexham '

'The Suppression of the Slave Trade, Joint Declaration'

''Ireland'

The Illustrated London News, Editorial - Resignation of Sir Robert Peel '

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes

Captain The Hon. Charles Leonard Irby die at Torquay in Devonshire - - - Hambleton Thomas Custance Esq of Weston House, County Norfolk - - - Sir William Reid, Bart., of Barra die on his passage from Ceylon to Mauritius'

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'Metropolitan News - The Agriculturists and The Corn Laws '

'Country News'

'Accidents and Offences'

'Court and Haut Ton'

December 27th

A ten page issue price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings including



 

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