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Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• Lord Derby the Prime Minister was succeeded by Lord Aberdeen
• Louis Napoleon declares himself Emperor Napoleon III
• Transvaal in South Africa gains the right to manage its own affairs
• The Victoria and Albert Museum opens
• The Duke of Wellington died

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Emperor Napoleon III Entering Paris ' front page

The Search for Sir John Franklin -:

' Smith Sound in Baffins Bay – "The Isabel " Entering the Polar Basin '

' The Isabel Stuck in Ice Off Talbot Inlet '

' An Eskimo of Lieveley – Sophie Broberg ' info. inhabitant of Qeqertarsuaq or Godhavn

' Eskimo Ladies of the Hunde Islands to the South of Disko '

' The Isabel at Anchor at Fiskernoes in The south of Greenland ' the ship anchored in a bay at a Danish settlement, houses in the background, Eskimo hunters inthe foreground

' The Smithfield Club Prize Cattle Show:

' Short Horned Heifer Owned by Mr Joseph Phillips and Short Horn Owned by Mr Richard Stratton '

' Devon Ox Owned by Mr Bond and Devon Ox Owned by The Earl of Leicester '

' Hereford Heifer Owned by Mr J. D. Cooke and Cross Bred Ox Owned by Mr J. Futcher Jun. '

Full page print from engraving from drawings by Harrison Weir

' St Cloud in France – Arrival of the Deputation from the Legislative Body '

' The Hotel De Ville paris – Proclamation of the Empire '

' Reaping Machinery ' six small engravings showing Hussey and M'Cormick's macnine

'Chess Problem nby The Rev. H. Bolton '

Presents from Mexico to Queen Victoria and The Prince of Wales:

' Mexican Ponies For the Prince Of Wales ' two ponies, plus a Mexican in traditional dress sitting on another

' Part of The Mexican Manga '

' Mexican Saddle, Bridle and Spurs etc '

' Fisherton in Salisbury – A Flooded Street ' people wading through the flood water

' Bust of The Late Miss Mary Berry by The Hon. Anne Seymur Damer ' – info. Mary Berry was a Yorkshire born author and a friend of Horace Walpole

' Mister George Alexander Hamilton MP for Dublin University ' Sleekburnc.

' The Beaumont Institution at Mile End London Reive – Lecture on the Duke of Wellington '

The Budget – with ref. to Mr Disraeli

Metropolitan News includes:

The Lord Mayors Dinner

Lord Frankfort in the House of Correction

Small-Pox Vaccination

The Royal Orthopoedic hospital

Foreign and Colonial News

Imperial parliament with ref. to Earl of Aberdeen – Earl of Derby – Marquis of Lansdowne – Duke of Newcastle

House of Commons – the Income Tax with ref. to Mr Gladstone - - Defences of the Country - - Industrial Universities and Art Manufacture - - The Tenants Compensation (Ireland) Bill

Election Intelligence

Search for Sir John Franklin

Sir Edward Belcher 's Arctic Expedition – Letter from a Mr Barrow describing a stay at Lieveley and a description of Eskimo ladies including Sophie Broberg Sleekburnc.

The Court – Royal Comings and Goings

The Budget – Resolutions Proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Church and Universities Appointments

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased:

Edmund William Shuldham died Miel at Dunmanway in Co. Cork Ireland

D. F. Haynes Esq Late of Lonesome and Ashstead, Surrey, Personal Friend of Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott

' Dame Susanna Hoghton, Relict of Sir Henry Philip Hoghton, died at her Seat at Astley Hall in the County of Lancaster

The Theatres – Sadlers Wells etc

Provincial Intelligence – Destructive Inundation near Manchester at Bury – with ref to Elton – Lower Croft BleachworksMr Whitehead – Mr Open Shaw Cotton Mill – Elton-fold Old Mill - Mr C. Wolstenhome or Wolstenholme

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The Earl of Derby – The New Prime Minister '

' The Mozambique Channel – Destruction of Two Spanish Slave Ships by HMS " Penguin " Off The Island of Querimba ' – Quirimbas

' Statue of Nelson For The Market Place at Norwich – By Thomas Milnes '

' Commander of the Thames – The Hon. Swynfen Thomas Carnegie – From a Daguerreotype by Claudet '

' The Battle of St Vincent 1797 – From a Drawing by J. W.Carmichael ' – a striking scene of one of Nelsons battles of 14 Feb 1797 off the Algarve Portugal, shows Spanish war ships lined up and being fired upon etc

' Slapton Ley in Devon – Wild Fowl Shooting ' a half page engraving showing many people on land and by boat shooting ducks, a house at the end of thenarrow stretch of land separating the sea from the lake

' Ceylon – A Church Recerntly Erected on the Plain of Nuwera Ellia '

' The Kaffir War – A Momund of Afghanistan Loading a Jezail (type of gun) ' the man in traditional dress holding his Afghan matchlock of flintlock muscket with a crooked handle

' The New Houses of Parliament From the River ' showing steam paddle boats and sailing barges passing by the building at night – the lights alongside the riverside terrace glowing

' Meeting of the Family Colonisation Loan Society in the British Institution, Tahbernacle Row London '

' Procession of Le Boeuf Gras in Paris '

' Chantilly Forest – A Hunting Scene '

' Chess Problem by the Rev. H. Bolton '

' Cast of the Mummy Found in the Crypt of St. Stephen's Chapel Westminster – Possibly the Body of William Lyndewod or Lyndwode Bishop of St Davids '

' Lambeth – The Interior of St Mary's Church ' Sleekburnc.

' The New Window in St. Stephens Walbrook '

' Scene From Miss Vandenhoff 's New Play "Womens Heart" at the Haymarket Theatre '

' The Palanquin arriage for Java - For Mister W. Major of Java and Built Reive By Messrs Holmes of Derby '

Captain George Peacock 's Refuge Buoy Beacon '

' The British Museum – The Reception of Nineveh Sculptures ' The lion statue being hauled up the steps on a framework of wood by workmen

The Alarming Fire at Trinity Hall in Cambridge '

' Paris Fashions – Two Dresses of Taffeta Edged with Satin Ribbon '

A Change of Ministry – with mention of Lord John Russell – Lord Palmerston – Lord Derby – Mr Disraeli etc

The New Ministry – List of The Cabinet – Household and Ireland Offices

Parliamentary Reform – Presided by Mr T. E. Baker

The Capture of two Spanish Slave Ships in the Mozambique Channel

Foreign and Colonial News includes:

France – The Arrest of M. Bocher for Hawking and Distributing Seditious Documents

Spain – with mentionof Queen Isabella

Belgium

United States – with mention of Mr Webster The Secretary of State – Koslsuth

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Decesed includes:

The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner Fust Kt. LL.D Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury

Sir Alexander Mackenzie Downie, eminent Dogtor and Surgeon, died at Frankfurrt am Main in Germany

Sheldon Cradock Esq of Hartforth and Former MP for Camelford

Secret Societies and Their Effects in France – with mention of Reine Fleury of Bourres Lagrange – The Red Republican Socialists Sleekburnc.

Political Writing in Prussia – mentin f Count Henry d'Arnim – Prime Minister Manteuffel

The Court and Haut Ton – Ryal Comings and Goings

The Value of the Bayonet as a Weapon of Offence

Country News includes:

Seven Livesw Lost by the Inundation of a Coal Pit at the Roscoe and Lords Mine near Rochdale

Explosion of a Steam Boiler at Westhjill nr Oldham inthe Factory of Messrs Nuttall and Clough, Cotton Waste Cleaners – One dead, Mary Newton

The Engineers Strike - Meeting at St Martins Hall of the Amalgamated society of Enginers

Foreign Refugees in England and English Travellers on the Continent – Austria, Prince Schwartzenburg and Passports

Imperial parliament includes:

the Local Militia Bill- with a list of the Minority Ayes and The Majority Noes

The Protectionists in Power and the Corn Law Agitation

Ministerial Explanation – Lord Lansdowne – Earl of Malmesbury

Also A New Member Mr Heard - - South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Co. Bill - - notices of Motion, Maynooth - - Cleopatra's Needle

Ministerial Explanation – Lord j,. Russell

Law Intelligence includes:

The James Anderson Case of Drury Lane Theatre, An Insolvent

Bogue v. Houlston –"Reynard the Fox"

Miss Nowland v. Mr Charles Matthews the Comedian of the Lyceum Theatre

The Law Amendment Society at 21 Regent St, Lord Brougham in the Chair

Metropolitan News includes:

Taxes on Knowledge

royal Geographical Society Meeting in Albermarle St. Sir Roderick Murchison in the Chair with mention of Captain Beatson – Sir John Franklin – Dr Shaw – M. Miel – Francis Galton – Mr Thorburn Sleekburnc.

Museum of Economic Geology – Leture by Mr Robert Hunt

Charing Cross Hospital

the Brewers Monopoly Meeting at the Bermondsey Anti Brewers League in Lecture Hall,Webb Street Bermondsey

Metropolitan Water Supply at Horns Tavern Kennington

British Empire Mutual Life Assurance Company

General Steam Navigation Company

Asylum for Female Orphans at Lambeth

Merchants Seamens Orphan Asylum

The Poor Rate, Meeting of the ity of London Unions a the Guildhall Coffee House, King St

Metropolitan Sewers Commission – with numbers of receipts and expenditure etc

Lamentable Affair – Body of a Woman named Ann Stone found an Appartment in Dean St Westminster from Laudanum Overdose

Cardinal Wiseman 's Lentent Indult

Mortality in London Hospitals, Asylums and Workhouses

Births and Deaths

Meteorological Observations at Greenwich

London Gazette – List of Bankrupts - - Commissions inthe Army

Births Marriages and Deaths

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Birmingham – The Music Festival at the Town Hall ' horses and carriages of the Triennial Music Festival Company arriving at the town hall

' Lisbon – The first Regatta of the Lisbon Yachts '

' Manchester – Opening of the Free Library '

' Linton North Devon – The Land Slip and Remarkable Escape of Artist Mr Philip Mitchell ' Sleekburnc.

' Port Coon Cave near the Giants Causeway '

' Carrick a Rede and The Swinging Bridge '

' The Giants Causeway ' panoramic engraving on a half page

' The Vraic or Sea Weed Harvest at Guernsey ' a view over a bay with Fort Grey inthe distance and many seaweed gatherers in the foreground – crease to print but would press out

' Carting the Vraic ' men loading the seaweed from horses and carts onto a barge style sailing boat

France - The Fete at Calais –:

' Courgainaise Fishwomen '

' Sketch in the Courgain '

' The Grande Place at Calais – The Musical Procession Reive '

' Calais -The Fishmarket in the Courgain '

' Calais – Courgainaise Women Miel Hauling in a Fishing Boat '

Chess problem by Wilson Bigland Esq of Leamington Chess Club

' In Westwood Park Droitwich – An Oak Tree Struck By Lightning '

' The Warwick Race Plate '

' Hexham Church – Lady Chapel Proposed for Restoration '

' St Catherines Bay Jersey – The New Harbour ' a wonderful print from engraving of a pretty bay, people waving, small boats and steam boats, lighthouse and houses

' Electric Time Ball and Clock in West Strand London ' Sleekburnc.

' The Late Joseph W. Allen – Painter '

' Statue of the Duke of Wellington By Alfred Crowquill '

' Bas Relief of the Nelson Column '

' Remains of the Roman Wall on Toer Hill London '

' Sculptured End of Roman Sarcophagus Found on Tower Hill '

' Tower Hill London - Inscribed Roman Stone '

Birmingham Music Festival

Foreign and Colonial News:

France - with mention of General St Arnaud – General Haynau

United States

West Indies, Jamaica, HAvanna Cuba

Cape of Good Hope – with mention of General Cathcart and the Kaffir War

Illustrated London New Editorial

Metropolitan News include Improvements in the West End - - - Sanitary Reform at Tottenham - - - Metropolitan Commission of Sewers - - - Strike in the Building Trade - - - Case of Hydrocephalus - - - Accidents from Cattle Driving - - - Mr Green's Five Hundredth Balloon Ascent

Law and Police Intelligence incudes – Ballooning with Animals - - - Effects of Betting Houses

Parachute Descent from a Balloon by Madame Poitevin from Cremorne Gardens

The Vraic Harvest at Guernsey

Church and Universities

Trade and Navigati9on of the United Kingdom – List of Imports etc and includes Opium 8644 lb

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased:

The Rev. Edward Duke, of Lake House near Amesbury in Wiltshire

Mister William Watlington died at Reading

George Richardson Porter Esq Secretary of the Board of Trade died at Tunbridge Wells

Fatal Railway Accident at Chard Canal Bridge, Creech resulting in the death of Humnberstone a Bristol and Exeter Fireman Sleekburnc.

Country News includes Fatal and Destructive Thunder Storm in Worcester Gloucester and Hereford

Feast of Cutlers at Sheffield

The Electric Time Ball

The Markets

Sports

Monetary Transactions of the Week

Classified Type Adverts

Destruction of Lagos - Embarking The Captured Neapolitan Gun '

' Destruction of Lagos, Landing the Pinnace and Paddle box Boat to Embark the Captured Guns ' (both front page)

' Execution of Merino Outside the Gate Toledo At Madrid ' Martin Merino - Execution by garrotte

' Albacete Poignard ( dagger ) With Which Merino Attempted to Assassinate the Queen of Spain'

' The Burning of the Body of Merino Outside the Gate of Bilboa, At Madrid'

'Sir Charles Barry RA Architect of the New Houses of Parliament' Sleekburnc.

' Museum of Practical Geology - Dr Lyton Playfair's Lecture '

' The Happy Family ' a cage full of animals including Cat Monkey Rabbit Dog Birds etc

' The Lake of Thun ' engraving from the painting by T. Danby

'Costume Miel of the French Senators and Councillors of State'

'Canoes Crossing The River St. Lawrence' Sleekburnc.

'Commencement of the Quebec and Richmond Railway'

'The Aberdeen Clipper Built Barque, Phoenician'

'Grand Ball Given at Kandy to The Governor of Ceylon, Decoration of the Library'

' London Temperance League: Great Juvenille Gathering of Bands of Hope etc in Exeter Hall '

'Miss Crichton of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane'

'French Plays, Scene from The Marquis de Lauzan'

Plus a Musical Supplement entitled "English Songs and Melodies - The Poetry by Charles Mackay - The Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir H. R. Bishop Knt. - Words and Music with five engravings

The Militia and the National Defences with reference to Mr Cobden

Destruction of Lagos on the Coast of Africa by the Brirish Squadron with reference to the ships taking part in the attack Penelope bloodhound and Sampson - - - The Slave Trade

Foreign and Colonial News includes Parisiana - France and The Organic Law of the Press etc - - - The River Plate - - - India - - - China - - - Australia The Gold Fields

Spain - The Burning of the body of Merino

Law intelligence

Imperial parliament includes - Caling out a Local Militia - - - Disfranchisement of St Albans - - - Stamp Duty on Newspapers - - - Mail Contracts, Australia - - - The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and The "World" Newspaper, Vot of Want of confidence - - - The Tactics of the Conservative Party on the Reform Bill

Naval and Military Intelligence

Court and Haut Ton - Royal Comings and Goings

Church Universities etc - Preferments and Appointments

Metropolitan News includes London Orphan Asylum - - - St Luke's Hospital - - - London Fever Hospital - - - London Necropolis and National Mausoleum

The Theatres

Epitome of News Foreign And Domestic - snippetts of news

Monetary Transactions for the Week

Country News includes the Late inundation at Holmfirth - Floods Subscription

Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir William Millieken Napier, Bart at his residence Milliken, Renfrewshire - - - Sir Edmund Stephen Thomas, Bart died suddenly at Cork aged 42 - - - William Lewis Lord Dinorben of Kinmel Park - - - Hugh Jackson, Esq of Duddington and Wisbech Sleekburnc.

Deaths include Robert Blackwood Publisher

Metropolitan Sewerage - Deputation to Lord John Russell

Emperor Napoleon III Entering Paris ' front page

The Search for Sir John Franklin -:

' Smith Sound in Baffins Bay – "The Isabel " Entering the Polar Basin '

' The Isabel Stuck in Ice Off Talbot Inlet '

' An Eskimo of Lieveley – Sophie Broberg ' info. inhabitant of Qeqertarsuaq or Godhavn

' Eskimo Ladies of the Hunde Islands to the South of Disko '

' The Isabel at Anchor at Fiskernoes in The south of Greenland ' the ship anchored in a bay at a Danish settlement, houses in the background, Eskimo hunters inthe foreground

' The Smithfield Club Prize Cattle Show:

' Short Horned Heifer Owned by Mr Joseph Phillips and Short Horn Owned by Mr Richard Stratton '

' Devon Ox Owned by Mr Bond and Devon Ox Owned by The Earl of Leicester '

' Hereford Heifer Owned by Mr J. D. Cooke and Cross Bred Ox Owned by Mr J. Futcher Jun. '

Full page print from engraving from drawings by Harrison Weir

' St Cloud in France – Arrival of the Deputation from the Legislative Body '

' The Hotel De Ville paris – Proclamation of the Empire '

' Reaping Machinery ' six small engravings showing Hussey and M'Cormick's macnine

'Chess Problem nby The Rev. H. Bolton '

Presents from Mexico to Queen Victoria and The Prince of Wales:

' Mexican Ponies For the Prince Of Wales ' two ponies, plus a Mexican in traditional dress sitting on another

' Part of The Mexican Manga '

' Mexican Saddle, Bridle and Spurs etc '

' Fisherton in Salisbury – A Flooded Street ' people wading through the flood water

' Bust of The Late Miss Mary Berry by The Hon. Anne Seymur Damer ' – info. Mary Berry was a Yorkshire born author and a friend of Horace Walpole

' Mister George Alexander Hamilton MP for Dublin University ' Sleekburnc.

' The Beaumont Institution at Mile End London Reive – Lecture on the Duke of Wellington '

The Budget – with ref. to Mr Disraeli

Metropolitan News includes:

The Lord Mayors Dinner

Lord Frankfort in the House of Correction

Small-Pox Vaccination

The Royal Orthopoedic hospital

Foreign and Colonial News

Imperial parliament with ref. to Earl of Aberdeen – Earl of Derby – Marquis of Lansdowne – Duke of Newcastle

House of Commons – the Income Tax with ref. to Mr Gladstone - - Defences of the Country - - Industrial Universities and Art Manufacture - - The Tenants Compensation (Ireland) Bill

Election Intelligence

Search for Sir John Franklin

Sir Edward Belcher 's Arctic Expedition – Letter from a Mr Barrow describing a stay at Lieveley and a description of Eskimo ladies including Sophie Broberg Sleekburnc.

The Court – Royal Comings and Goings

The Budget – Resolutions Proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Church and Universities Appointments

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased:

Edmund William Shuldham died Miel at Dunmanway in Co. Cork Ireland

D. F. Haynes Esq Late of Lonesome and Ashstead, Surrey, Personal Friend of Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott

' Dame Susanna Hoghton, Relict of Sir Henry Philip Hoghton, died at her Seat at Astley Hall in the County of Lancaster

The Theatres – Sadlers Wells etc

Provincial Intelligence – Destructive Inundation near Manchester at Bury – with ref to Elton – Lower Croft BleachworksMr Whitehead – Mr Open Shaw Cotton Mill – Elton-fold Old Mill - Mr C. Wolstenhome or Wolstenholme

' Birmingham – The Music Festival at the Town Hall ' horses and carriages of the Triennial Music Festival Company arriving at the town hall

' Lisbon – The first Regatta of the Lisbon Yachts '

' Manchester – Opening of the Free Library '

' Linton North Devon – The Land Slip and Remarkable Escape of Artist Mr Philip Mitchell ' Sleekburnc.

' Port Coon Cave near the Giants Causeway '

' Carrick a Rede and The Swinging Bridge '

' The Giants Causeway ' panoramic engraving on a half page

' The Vraic or Sea Weed Harvest at Guernsey ' a view over a bay with Fort Grey inthe distance and many seaweed gatherers in the foreground – crease to print but would press out

' Carting the Vraic ' men loading the seaweed from horses and carts onto a barge style sailing boat

France - The Fete at Calais –:

' Courgainaise Fishwomen '

' Sketch in the Courgain '

' The Grande Place at Calais – The Musical Procession Reive '

' Calais -The Fishmarket in the Courgain '

' Calais – Courgainaise Women Miel Hauling in a Fishing Boat '

Chess problem by Wilson Bigland Esq of Leamington Chess Club

' In Westwood Park Droitwich – An Oak Tree Struck By Lightning '

' The Warwick Race Plate '

' Hexham Church – Lady Chapel Proposed for Restoration '

' St Catherines Bay Jersey – The New Harbour ' a wonderful print from engraving of a pretty bay, people waving, small boats and steam boats, lighthouse and houses

' Electric Time Ball and Clock in West Strand London ' Sleekburnc.

' The Late Joseph W. Allen – Painter '

' Statue of the Duke of Wellington By Alfred Crowquill '

' Bas Relief of the Nelson Column '

' Remains of the Roman Wall on Toer Hill London '

' Sculptured End of Roman Sarcophagus Found on Tower Hill '

' Tower Hill London - Inscribed Roman Stone '

Birmingham Music Festival

Foreign and Colonial News:

France - with mention of General St Arnaud – General Haynau

United States

West Indies, Jamaica, HAvanna Cuba

Cape of Good Hope – with mention of General Cathcart and the Kaffir War

Illustrated London New Editorial

Metropolitan News include Improvements in the West End - - - Sanitary Reform at Tottenham - - - Metropolitan Commission of Sewers - - - Strike in the Building Trade - - - Case of Hydrocephalus - - - Accidents from Cattle Driving - - - Mr Green's Five Hundredth Balloon Ascent

Law and Police Intelligence incudes – Ballooning with Animals - - - Effects of Betting Houses

Parachute Descent from a Balloon by Madame Poitevin from Cremorne Gardens

The Vraic Harvest at Guernsey

Church and Universities

Trade and Navigati9on of the United Kingdom – List of Imports etc and includes Opium 8644 lb

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased:

The Rev. Edward Duke, of Lake House near Amesbury in Wiltshire

Mister William Watlington died at Reading

George Richardson Porter Esq Secretary of the Board of Trade died at Tunbridge Wells

Fatal Railway Accident at Chard Canal Bridge, Creech resulting in the death of Humnberstone a Bristol and Exeter Fireman Sleekburnc.

Country News includes Fatal and Destructive Thunder Storm in Worcester Gloucester and Hereford

Feast of Cutlers at Sheffield

The Electric Time Ball

The Markets

Sports

Monetary Transactions of the Week

Classified Type Adverts

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• The new dock at Southampton. Front page

  'Burgher Fingoes on the frontier of Cape Colony'

  The Kaffir War: 'East London : Buffalo Mouth, from the West'

  'HMS Alban rescueing a part of the crew of an American Brigantine in Serranilla Keys'

  'Great running match in Copenhagen fields'

  'The North London School of Drawing and Modelling, Camden Town

  ' Removal; of the inscription "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" in Paris'

  'State visit of the French President Louis Napoleon to the Opera - a private performance of Meyerbeer's Prophete'

  'A Brisk Gale at Sea - by Backhuysen'

  'Meeting of the operative engineers in St Martins Hall ( Long Acre)'

  The Great Exhibition items 'Enamelled gold vase made by Seymour and son - Woodcarving by Wallis, Louth - Toilet glass, made for the Duchess of Sutherland, by Potts of Birmingham - and Her Majesty's Cinque-cento jewel case designed by Gruner, manufactured by Elkington'Most ancient fossil reptile yet discovered ( Nr Elgin in Morayshire)'

  A small scene from the christmas pantomime at the Olympic Theatre - Red Rufus or Harlequin Fact fiction and fantasy

  Small view of a House at Chelsea in which died J M W Turner

  'Inkstand Presented to Lieutenant Colonel Biddulph by His Brother Officers of the 1st Life Guards'

  'The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, An Oxford ( university ) Freshman by Cuthbert Bede BA part II'

  Plus much more in the supplement

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  Also articles (no engravings) icluding 'Foreign and Colonial News'
  The new dock at Southampton

  The primates of England on the Royal Supremacy

  Proclamation of Louis Napoleon to the French people

  News from the River Plate

  The Australian Gold fields

  Piracy and Murder in the Indian Archipelago

  Mr Aguilars soirees classiques

  General CavaignacChess problem number 417

  The late J M W Turner - small article

  'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir David Baird bart- Sir F W Dunbar bart - Sir Richard St George bart - Prince Amadeus de Broglie- General Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson G C B - Lt Col Fordyce of Berwick - Robert Grahame esq - William Brough C E - Mrs Harlowe actress - Thomas Dickinson of Upper Holloway

  The search for Sir John Franklin -long article

  
  

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• 1) The Fortress of Ham. 2) Embarkation of Political Prisoners at Brest, for Cayenne. The leading article is titled: "Why France is dangerous to herself, and to her Neighbours.
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Coalbrook Dale
  Bust of Charles Mackay.
  Funeral service in honour of Marshal Soult, in the Church Des Invalides, Paris.
  5 Exhibits of The Great Exhibition.
  Illustrated article: Australia - The Bathurst Gold District. 1) Arrival of the Government Gold Conveyance. 2) Bathurst Plains, from the White Rock School House. 3) Coombing, Sydney, 40 mile beyond Bathurst. 4) Elswick, 4 miles from Sydney.
  The Californian Gold District - Kanaha Bar, on a tributary of the Sacramento, where gold was first found - iners working the bed of the American River.
  Landells Safety Boat Sling.
  The burning of the "Amazon" Royal West India Steam Ship.
  Illustrated article: The Stereoscope Pseudoscope, and Solid Daguerrotypes. 17 small illustr
• The Great Exhibition: State Bedstead by Faudel and Phillips, BNewgate Street' - - Gothic Chair by Hoffmeister, Saxe Coburg' - - 'Chandelier by jackson and Sons' - - 'Wine Table of Irish Bog Yew by Jones of Dublin' - - 'Mexican Figures by M. Montanari'

  'Arrival of The Government Conveyance at The Colonial Treasury, Sydney, on August 21, 1851, From a sketch by Marshall Claxton'

  'Bathurst Plains, From the White Rock School House' Australia

  'Coombing Sydney, Forty Miles Beyond Bathurst, Where Gold Was Found in 1849'

  'Elswick Four Miles From Sydney, On the Great Western Road'

  'The Californian Gold District, Kanaha Bar, on a Tributary of the Sacramento, Where Gold was First Found,: Miners Working The Bed of the American River' Full page

  'Landells Safety Boat Sling

  'The Burning of The Amazon Royal West India Mail Steam Ship, Escape of Mr Neilson and Other Survivors in The Life Boat' - - 'Mast Presumed of The Amazon, Drifted Ashore at Dartmouth'

  'Grand Panorama of The Great Exhibition No Viii, North West Portion of the Nave' Wonderful doube page engraving

  'Grand Panorama of The Great Exhibition, No. VII, North West Portion of the Nave' another wonderful double page engraving

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  This second part of the description features items of news but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-
  ''The Court and Haut Ton at Windsor Castle'

  Ingenious application of Gutta Percha (False Teeth)

  Stothard, his genius and his career

  The Engineers strike

  The English Protestant congregation at Rome

  Gold in California

  Kanaha Bar

  
  

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• Reception by his Highness the Maharajah of Travancore.
• Kaffir Queen.
  Specimen of the Kaffir Bush (Acacia Horrida)
  Insurrection in Chile - Conteste between the Governement Troops and the Insurgents, Valparaiso.
  1) Small map of the Bathurst Gold District. 2) Gold seekers crade. 3) Gems often found with Gold.
  The Royal Panopticon, Leicester Square.
  1) Crypt of St Stephens, Westminster. 2) Remains of an Ecclesiastic, found in St Stephens.
  State Ball at the Tuileries, Paris.
  Paris Fashions.
  illustrated article: The Union of the Pacific and the Atlantic.
  Portobello
  Bay and Harbour of Panama
  Proposed route across the Isthmus of Panam, a 6 stage sectional drawing.
  Map of the regions.

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• Opening of Parliament.
• The Royal West India Mail "Orinoco", with smaller image of the ship`s Life Boat Apparatus.
  Water Tower for supplying Rugby.
  Portion of the wreck of the "Amazon".
  Parliamentary Page with 4 portraits; Earl of Albemarle. Lord Leigh. Sir R B W Bulkeley. Mr Bonham Carter.
  New House of Lords, Interior Victoria Tower.
  The New House of Commons, from the Bar.
  The Grand State Ball at the Tuileries, Paris.
  Major General The Hon George Cathcart.
  The Royal Theatricals, at Windsor Castle.
  Opening of Parliament - The Procession from Westminster Abbey. A good view of London.
  6 Pages Historic Supplement - The Opening of Parliament, verbatim accounts of speeches.

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price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings including:

• 'Library of The New House of Lords' (front page)
• 'Sitting of the French Academy, and Reception of M. De Montalembert'
• 'Launch of The "Amazonas" Peruvian Steam Frigate, At Blackwall Yard'
• 'Attempted Assassination of The Queen of Spain in The Long Gallery of The Royal Palace, Madrid' Queen Isabella, her attempted assassination by an old friar, named Martin Merino y Gomez who was put to death on Saturday last by the garote vil (strangulation) outside the Gate Toledo, Madrid.
• 'Terrible Inundation ( floods ) at Holmfirth: Bursting of The Reservoir ( Bilberry ) Embankment - Broadhead's Mill - Remains of Holme Bridge - Remains of Dighley Mill' (all on one ) Water Street and Hinchliffe's Mill - Remains of The Upper Bridge - Scene Opposite The Wesleyan Chapel - Remains of Bridge and Site of Toll House' (all on one ) - A very detailed article on the reverse, names and places mentiond includes Bank End Mill - James Booth and his wife , lodger William Heeley, wife of Joseph Brook and her child - Miss Marsden - Joseph Dodd - Jonathan Crosland - James Metternick - Joshua Earnshaw - John Charlesworth - The New Inn - Bottoms Mill - Victoria Mill - Dysons Mill - Mr Jonathan Sandford - Woodcock - George Inn - Jonathan Crossland and his son - Mr Farrar - Bailey - Mr Crawshaw - Mr Floyd - S. Hartley - Messrs Wimpenny and Woodhead at Thongs Bridge and more
• 'A Mountain Spring painted by H. Jutsum'
• 'The Shepherds Daughter by T. F. Marshall
• Also articles (no engravings) including:
  The New Reform Bill, Church & Universities ,Imperial Parliament, Court and Haut Ton, Law Intelligence
• Country News includes Flood at Hereford - Liverpool Chamber of Commerce - Holyhead Breakwater Works - Floods in Lancashire and Yorkshire - Fatal Occurence at Brighton Miss Michelson age 30 crushed under the gate of the Pavilion

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• 'Destruction of Lagos - Embarking The Captured Neapolitan Gun'
• 'Destruction of Lagos, Landing the Pinnace and Paddle box Boat to Embark the Captured Guns' (both front page)

'Execution of Merino, Outside the gate Toledo, At Madrid'

'Albacete Poignard, With Wich Merino Attempted to Assassinate the Queen of Spain'

' The Burning of the Body of Merino Outside the Gate of Bilboa, At Madrid'

'Costume of the French Senators and Councillors of State'

'Canoes Crossing The River St. Lawrence'

'Commencement of the Quebec and Richmond Railway'

'The Aberdeen Clipper Built Barque, Phoenician'

'Grand Ball Given at Kandy to The Governor of Ceylon, Decoration of the Library'

'Sir charles Barry RA Architect of the New Houses of Parliament'

'Museum of Practical Geology - Dr Lyton Playfair's Lecture'

'The Happy Family' a cage full of animals including Cat Monkey Rabbit Dog Birds etc

'The Lake of Thun'

'London Temperance League: Great Juvenille Gathering of Bands of Hope etc in Exeter Hall'

'Miss Crichton of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane'

'French Plays, Scene from The Marquis de Lauzan'

Also articles, no engravings, including:

'The Militia and the National Defences'

'Foreign and Colonial News'

' 'Naval and Military Intelligence'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir William Millieken Napier, Bart at his residence Milliken, Renfrewshire - Sir Edmund Stephen Thomas, Bart died suddenly at Cork aged 42 - William Lewis Lord Dinorben - Hugh Jackson, Esq of Duddington and Wisbech'

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It features articles with prints from engravings including:

• 'The New Lord Chancellor, The Right Hon. Lord St. Leonards in Lincolns Inn Hall on Monday Last' (front page)
• 'Procession of Queen Isabella to The Church of Atocha, Madrid'
• Children Dancing Before the Cortege' Madrid
• 'Miss Helen Faucit, As Julia, in The Hunchback
• 'Van Duns Almshouses, Petty France, Westminster' (small)
• 'Proposed Restoration of the Tomb of Queen Phillippa, in Westminster Abbey'
• 'Exhibition of the British Institution, Lady and Child by H. Lejeune'
• 'The Love Letter by F. Goodall'

• The death of 'Thomas Moore' a Portrait
• 'Birth place of The Late Thomas Moore, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin'
• 'Letter to The Illustrated London News from Thomas Moore written at Sloperton
• Floods near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire 'The Fatal Inundation at Holmfirth: View of The Bilberry Reservoir, Looking Down The Valley, Shewing the Remains of The Embankment' - 'Holmfirth: The Upper Mill, Showing The Remains of The Dye House' -'Holmfirth: The Lower Mill' -'View of The Reservoir From Below, Looking Towards The Hills'- 'the Village of Holmfirth, From Victoria Bridge' - 'Ruins of Broadbent's ( Charlesworth's ) Mill' -'View From Mill Hill, Towards Victoria Bridge'
• Also articles (no engravings) including:
  The New Ministers and Their Explanations , Church & Universities, Imperial Parliament, Court and Haut Ton
• Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Major General Sir James Cockburn of Langton Co. Berwick died at his residence in Portman Square - Sir John Wyldbore Smith, Bart., of Sydling St. Nicholas, Dorset at his seat Down House - James Burnes Esq died at his residence Brunton Place, Edinburgh (related to robert Burns) - Archibishop The Most Rev. Daniel Murray DD at his residence in Mountjoy Square, Dublin - Sir John Cuningham Fairlie, Bart., of Fairle and Robertland - Colonel Sheldon Cradock of Harlforth, Richmond Yorkshire - Robert Cary Elwes Esq. of Great Billing, Northamptonshire - George Dowdeswell Esq of Redmarley, County Worcester at his residence The Down House - William Henry Oxberry, Comedian
• Country News includes Discovery of Silver Lead Mines in Monmouthshire in the neighbourhood of Caerphilly

• Portraits of: Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Solicitor General and Sir Frederick Thesiger, The Attorney General.
  article The Ministerial Challenge to the Country.
  Portrait and Obituary: The Late Marshal Marmont
• Fort Grey, Between King William`s town and Buffalo Mouth, Natal, South Africa.
  Waggon ascending the Uncommoss Hill, Natal, South Africa.
  Mougunbhoy Kumumchund, The Banker of Ahmedabad.
  Portrait and Article: Dr David Boswell Reid.
  Railroad on the frozen Susquehanna, State of Maryland.
  Art: - Music by J Sant
  Art: - A Boar Hunt in Emgland - Olden time by J Linnell.
  Portrait: The Rt Hon Earl of Eglington, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
  The New Palais de Justice, Nantes, France.
  Mr Albert Smith`s ascent of Mont Blanc, crevice in the Glacier du Tacconay. Article on preceding page.
  Mr Braham, a portrait.
  Scene from Balfe`s new opera The Scicilian Bride.
  Memorial to Richard Lander, The African Discoverer, at Truro, with article.
  

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Hereford Cathedral interior

Mount Etna in Eruption

staue of Robert Peel, Bury

Koh I Noor diamond

Report of the death of Duke of Wellington

Floods in Worcestershire

Launch of HMS Windsor Castle

opening of the Morayshire Railway at Lossiemouth (p235 -236 half missing) + supplement Life of the Duke of Wellington (p231 - p232 missing)

descent of Greens balloon, Guildford

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The Oxford and Cambridge Eight Oared Boat Race, Sketched between Putney and Mortlake'(front page - pictured)

'Mr Boyds Yacht, Wanderer' L

'The "Bay State" and "Empire City" Steam Ships' Fall River

'Sleighing In New York'

'Railway Car, Detaching The Horse'

'Interior of an American Railway Car'

'Fatal wreck of Her Majestys Steamer Birkenhead and Large Loss of Life' 358 died off the Cape of Good Hope. The men that drowned are listed and also a list of some of the survivors

'Christ Blessing The Little Children'

'Palm Sunday in Paris'

'The Cross of Fire in St Peters at Rome on Maundy Thursday' Full page

'Mr Albert Smiths Ascent of Mont Blanc, The Grands Mulets'

Jo Millers Grave, St Clements Burial Ground'

'Stiltobn, Winner of The Metropolitan Stakes, at The Epsom Spring Meeting'

'St MArys Parochial Schools, Reading'

'Explosion of The Collier Brig "Resolution" Wreck, in Gravesend Reach'

'The Burmese War, The Indian Naval Steam Squadron Leaving Bombay For Rangoon' (pictured)

'the Steam Frigate Feroze' (pictured)

This second part of the description features items of news, articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless mentioned in the image list. They include :-

'The National Income and Our Future Financial Policy'

'Murder of Mr Boyd in The Solomon Islands'

Foreign and Colonial News'

'Naval and Military Intelligence'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently deceased includes The Duchess Ida, Consort of Duke Charles Bernard of Saxe Weimar Eisenach, Sister of her late Majesty the Queen Dowager Adelaide, widow of William IV - - Prince Felix Louis John Frederick deSchwarzenberg died from a stroke of apoplexy at Vienna - - Thomas Haviland Burke Esq - - Mr Edward Fitzwilliam, Actor - - Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake Esq of Shardeloes Bucks etc

The Illustrated london News in 1852 (July to December) 588 p (16 pages per week)

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Whitby (1/2p engraving), Eastbourne (1/2p engraving), The Australian Gold Rush- Mt Alexander - Pt Philip

Ship collision off Northfleet Point

King of Gold Nuggets (Australia) 27lb 6oz

The General Election and results (engravings) 2p

The Riots at Stockport s The English v The Irish

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The ex Rajah of Coory

Testing anchors at Sheerness Docks

Royal Agricutural Society meeting at Lewes

Deeside Railway cutting

The Burmese War report

Re- cutting the Koo I Noor diamond

The General election drawings by Phiz The Chepstow suspension bridge

• The Railway Terminus Paris - The French Presidents ( Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte ) Departure ' Front page
• The Burmese War
• Plan of the Capture of Bassein '
• The Capture of Martaban ' sailing ships

' Building Used as the Field Hospital During the Storming of Rangoon '

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' The Stamford Race Cup '

' The Jersey Race Cup '

' The Aeolian Vase Presented by Queen Victoria to the Royal Yacht Club '

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' Re-Cutting of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond ' - Kohinoor

' Elevation of Part of The Diamond Cutting Machine '

' Parts of the Diamond Cutting Machine '

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The Kilkenny Election

' Canvassing for Votes '

' Peasantry Reading the Candidates Addresses '

' The Successful Candidate ' a drawing by Phiz

' The Rejected Candidate ' Drawn by Phiz

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' Chess Problem by the Rev. H. Steventon '

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Royal Agricultural Societys Show at Lewes

' Hereford Bull Class I - First Prize ' - - - ' Short Horn Class I - First Prize '

' Kentish Sheep Class I - Second prize ' - - - ' Southdowns Fist Class - First prize ' - - - ' Kentish Sheep Class I - First prize '

' Devon Bull Class I First Prize ' - - - ' Sussex Bull Second Prize '

' Prize Poultry - Cochin China - White Cochin China ( rare ) - Poland '

' The Chepstow Tubular Suspension Bridge and Junction of the Wye and Severn Rivers - The South Wales Railway ' a wonderful view from a hill

' Plan of the Chepstow Tubular Suspension Bridge ' plus a diagram

' The Bucks Election - Mister Disraeli Addressing the Electors in the County Hall At Aylesbury '

' Rainsford Mill at Colchester Struck by Lightning ...'

' Her Majestys Cruise - The Royal Squadron Leaving the Isle of Wight ' the ships named

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 :-
The President on the Rhine

Foreign and Colonial New includes France - - - United States with reference ty Judge preston of the Supreme Court - The Steam Ship Philadelphia Steam Ship and a Cholera Outbreak - Dr George A. Gardiner - Henry Clay - - - West Indies '

Burmese War

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Sir John Lambton Loraine of Kirke Harle (possibly Kirkharle ) Northumberland - - - The Rev. Edward Murray late rector of Northolt - - - Thomas Gisborne Esq at his residence Yoxall Lodge Staffs

The Recutting of th eKoh-I-Noor Diamond

Fatal Accident at the Star Inn Bolton - apprx 120 words

The Weather

Artificial Production of Fish

Recent Collision and Sinking of the Duchess of KEnt Steamer - Inquest on the body of Mr John Sard

Metropolitan News includes - The Shoeblack's Society - - St Katharines Dock Company - - and more

Mr. Mechi's Farming

Prices of Coffee

The Stockport Riots

Marriage of Miss Georgiana Caroline Lascelles Daughter of the Late Rt. Hon. W. Lascelles MP to Mr Grenfell MP

Matlock Bath

The Great Fire at Montreal

The Great Palm House at Kew ()

Cork Harbour Regatta

A Temperance procession Dumfries

The "Lizzie Webber" 1st emigrant ship to sail from Sunderland to Australia

Musical fete at Watcombe, Torquay

The Old and New Crystal Palaces

Start of St Andrews, Quebec railway

Sketches from the Turon gold fields NSW Australia

Queen Victorias Visit to Antwerp

Planting the Blue Flag on Cross Fell, Cumberland

Sketches in Burmah

The Kaffir War

The New Crystal palace

pages 141 - 146 missing

The Botallack Mine - Cornwall

The fatal election riot, six mile bridge, Clare, Ireland

Departure of the SS Great Britain from Liverpool to Australia

Gigantic telescope on Wandsworth common + supplement Queen Victoria at Osborne, Winterhalter

• Emperor of Austria in Vienna .. ' Front page
• ' The Recent Fatal Election Riot at Six Mile Bridge Clare In Ireland - The Scene of the Riot ', The Encampment '
• Arrival of the Newcastle Screw Collier John Bowes at The East and West India Dock Railway '
• ' The Naval Combat on the River Seine in Paris ...'
• ' Ancient Stone Found in St Pauls Churchyard ...'
• ' Barnstaple - The Departure of the Lady Ebrington Emigrant Ship '

' Leeds - The Statue of the Late Sir Robert Peel ...'

' Cornwall - The Botallack Mine '

' The Royal Italian Opera - Scene from Pietro il Grande ...'

' Newark - Beaumonts Cross ' - I think this should read Beaumond Cross

' Newark Church - St Mary Magdalene ' a view looking down a street with shops and hotels

' The Great Hall Newstead Abbey - the British Archaeological Association '

' Interior of Southwell Church ( Minster ).. '

Chess Problem by ECB of Princeton USA

' Galway - Meeting of th eRoyal Agricultural Society '

' Presentation of the Address to the Lord Lieutenant and Countess Eglinton at the College, Galway'

' The SS Great Britain Leaving Prince's Pier, Liverpool for Australia ' steamship

' The Ballengeich or Ballangeich Emigrant Ship Leaving Southampton For Australia - Mrs Chisholms Farewell ' both spellings are in the feature

Wandsworth Common - the Gigantic Craig Telescope Just Erected '

' Henley Upon Thames - A Cedar Tree Struck by Lightning in the grounds of ParK Place'

' Mr J. P. Hind of Mr Bishops Observatory Regents Park Discovers Another Planet ..'

Illustrated Londn New Supplement

' Cowherds and Cattle in Evening Painted by Cuyp '

Her Majesty Queen Victoria and The Infant Prince Arthur From a Painting by Winterhalter ' a beautiful full page print from engraving - engraved by George Zobel

' Osborne House Isle of Wight - From the park '

' The Lodge at Osborne House ...'

' Horticultural Society at Chiswick - Ewings Patent Glass Wall '

........ And much more.

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Also articles ( no prints/photos etc unless listed above) including

Railway Amalgamations with reference to Mr Glyn the Chairman of London and North Western Railway Co.

' Foreign and Colonial News includes Political intelligence from Paris - - The United States and The Fisheries Question with reference to r Webster - Commodore M'Anley

Cholera

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Alexander Hamiliton Douglas Duke of Hamiliton died at his mansion in Portman Square London

Jeffery Hart Bent Chief Justice of British Guiana

Dr Herbert Mayo late Senior Surgeon at Middlesex Hospital and Professor at Kings College, died at Bad Weilbach near Mayence on the Rhine

Wills include Silvestre de Souza Telles of Lisbon - - - Lord Wenlock - - - Miss Abigail Pratten late of New Road Marylebone

Law and Police Intelligence includes The Wreckers at the Nore, The Southend Boatmen - - - Clergyman Charged With Forgery The Rev James Nisbett

Newcastle Screw Collier John Bowes

The Court and Haut Ton - At Osborne etc

Metropolitan News includes Family Colonization at Clapham - - - The Proposed Water Sources for the Metropolis Conveyance of Patients Having Contagious Diseases in Public Carriages - - - And More

British Archaeological Association at Newark with reference to Duke of Newcastle - Lord Robert Clinton MP - Sir W. C. Anstruther - Rear Admiral Sir W. H. Dillon - Sir Oswald Moseley - and others

Naval and Military Intelligence includes The Duke of Wellington - - East Yorki Militia - - Berkshire Militia - - New Iron War Vessels - - Court Martial at Chatham of Lance Corporal William Maurice Jackson

Country News includes The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce - - New Free Library at Manchester - - Discovery of Old Canoes on the River Clyde above Govan - - The Late Holmfirth Deluge ( flood ) - - Smuggling On Board the Royal Squadron at Portsmouth

Monetary Transactions for th eWeek

Commercial Adverts of the Day

List of Publications of the Month

L Popular Science includes the Scientific Balloon Ascent by the Kew Observatory - - Salt and Th eDigestion - - New Plastic Material by M. Duthoit - - Bells Reaping Machine - - Gas Oven - - The Vastness of Icebergs - - To Preserve Cut Flowers - - Improved Lucifer Matches

Photography - Its Origin, Progress and Present State

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• 'The War in Kaffraria - The 74th Highlanders Attacking Macomo's Kaffirs and The Hottentot Banditti at The Head of The Waterloo Pass' Front page
• 'The Governors House, King Williams Town '
• 'Burmese Costumes With Road and pagoda at Mopoon '
• 'Village in The Burmese Province of Tenasserim '

'Burmese Costumes - Road in Moulmein '

'View in The Iles Du Salut in French Guiana - Ile St Joseph - Ile Royale - Ile Du Diable '

'M. De Casabianca The French Minister of State'

'Village of Kourou in French Guiana '

The New Houses of Parliament - 'Lobby of The New House of Commons ' - - - 'Statue of Geoffrey De Mandeville, House of Lords, J. S. westmacott, Sculptor' - - - 'Chandelier in Corridor of the New House of Commons' - - - 'Statue of St George in Niche of the Victoria Tower, J. Thomas Sculptor'

'Spring Painted by Sidney R. Percy' Exhibition of the British Institution'

'Sallyport of Windsor Castle, Just Discovered'

'Chess'

'Commencement of The New Docks at Swansea, The Ceremony in Burrows Square '

'Scene I, Act I., From The Game of Speculation At the Lyceum theatre' with Mr Charles Mathews and Mrs Horn'

'The Point Lace Chamber From the "Prince of Happy Land" at the Lyceum Theatre'

A Pianoforte donated by Broadwoods at The Royal Society of Musicians

'Destruction of Lagos on The West Coast of Africa by The Britisyh Squadron '

'Uniform of The Metropolitan Rifle Club'

'Launch of The Countess of Ellesmere Steamer at Birkenhead'
Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'The New Ministry and Its Opponents' with reference to Lord Derby

'The War in Kaffraria'

'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Church Universities &c'

'Clandestine and Irregular Marriages in The Diocese of London'

'India - The Burmese War'

'The Military Colonisation of French Guina'

'Court and Haut Ton at Osborne etc'

'Country News'

'Litereary Forgeries and The Shelley Letters published by Mr Moxon '

'Election Intelligence'

'Metropolitan News' includes Royal Orthopaedic Hospital for the Cure of Club Foot - - - Asylum for Idiots - - - City Slaughter Houses and Commn Lodging Houses - - - The Pauper Establishment at Edmonton - - - The Bluecoat Boys

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes The Rev Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart., at his seat Black Rock House Co Dublin - - - Sir William Jackson Homan, Bart., at his seat in The County of Waterford - - - Vcie Admiral Sir William Augustus Maontague KNT KCH CB - - - Major Wilmot of Berkswell Hall, Warwickshire in the dreadful Kaffir Warfare'

'The Engineers Strike '

'Mutiny and Sanguinary Affay' in The Mersey on board the American emigrant ship "The Queen of the West" ..'

'The Great Sea Serpent Caught at Last' A letter printed in The New York Tribune from Charles Seabury, master of the whale ship Monongahela

Birmingham, England the Town Hall

Opening of the Manchester Free library

The Giants Causeway

The Seaweed harvest of Guernsey

Fete at Calais

New Harbour at Jersey

Ladychapel, Hexham Church

The Roman Wall of London

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number 579 From this date

The following numbers 579, 580, 581, 582, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 596 and 597. Published September to December 1852. All are issues or supplements covering the death of Wellington, his life 15 pages, battles, honours, his death (with room plan), music sheets Mourn for the Mighty, Funeral March, funeral proccession, laying in state, home life, there is a fold-out mounted on linen approx. 22 x 33 inches, of the service in Saint Pauls. Plus another of this funeral car same size on linen plus full page funeral carriage of Nelson, 1805 and another of General Monks carriage, 1670. Dozens of articles nearly 100 illustrations many full page all on Wellington. The most comprehensive cover of Wellingtons life and death you can find written by people who were there as it happened. A total of 327 pages on one of England's greatest soldiers.

The Dukes funeral

RedHill farm Harvest home

opening of South Wales railway Camarthen

Prize poultry at Gt Yarmouth + another supplement of Duke of Wellington

• Wellington

Louis Napoleans travels through europe

Strathfieldsay - seat of the Duke of Wellington

Wreck of the English brig"Hebe" in Ceylon

Devon and Cornwall archery club, Teignmouth

Exhibition in the Temperance Hall, Bolton, lancs

The "Peru" emigrant ship leaving Cork

Manchester and Liverpool agricultural show, Gt Homer Street, liverpool + supplement

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• St Leonards On the Hill NEar Windsor The Residence of the Right Hon. The Earl of Derby
• The French Presidents Tour: The President at Montpellier - La Danse Du Chevalet '

' Louis Napoleon at Aix - Les Jeux de la Fete Dieu '

' Fete at Inglismaldie to Celebrate the Birth of Lord Inverury

' The Organ at St James's Church Piccadilly, Originaly Constructed for King James II '

' Mary Elizabeth Squirrell ' of Shottisham Near Ipswich '

' Squirrel's Cottage at Shottisham NEar Ipswich '

' The Right Hon. General Lord Viscount Hardinge GCB Commanding in Chief Her Majestys Forces, Painted by Sir w. C. Ross RA '

'Exhibition of the Horticultural Society at Montreal '

' The Late Captain General Castanos, Duke of Baylen ' Francis Zavier Castanos

' Festival of the Perahera in Ceylon ' Sri Lanka

' Chess Problem by Herr Lowenthal '

The Duke of Wellington - ' Ruins of Dangan Castle ' Ireland

The Duke of Wellington - ' Kilmore Church onthe Dangan Estate '

The Duke of Wellington - ' The Duke at the Soiree of the Royal Academy '

The Duke of Wellington - ' The Dukes House at Walmer '

' Oxford and Birmingham Railway - Cutting at Harbury '

' Bridge Over The Reservoir at Solihull '

' The Leamington Station '

' Flood on the Great Northern Railway Between Darlington and Ferry Hill Stations '

' Extreme Peril of the " Castors " Launch Sent to Survey The Birkenhead Rock '

' Meteor Seen inn the Isle of Wight October 5 '

' The Planet Saturn With Its Third Ring, As Seen Through The Craig Telescope '

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
Louis Napoleon on the Establishement of the French Empire

Foreign and Colonial News

National Sports

The Arctic Expedition with reference to Sir John Franklin

Boston and Midland Counties Railway Application for Shares

The Illustrated London NEws Editorial with reference to the US etc

Her Majestys Visit to North Wales - with reference to the Britannia Bridge and Mr Stephenson and more

Idolatrous Festival of the Perahera in Ceylon

theTheatres

Naval ANd Military Intelligence

Mr Petroffs Chess Games

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes: William Lewis Second Lord Dinorben died at Kinmel Park Denbighshire age 31 - - - Sir Edward Thomas Trourbridge - Bart., Rear Admiral of the Red CB - - - Sir Juckes Granville Juckes Clifton Bart., of Clifton, Notts died at his seat Clifton Hall - - - William Lord Rollo of Duncrub in the county of Perth

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Mainly given over to the funeral etc of The Duke of Wellington. The normal ILN banner being replaced with that relating to The Duke of Wellington

' Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington - The Procession in Pall Mall ' Front page

' The Late Duke of Wellington at The Bar of the House of Commons, Addressed by The Speaker in 1808 ' Full page engraving

' Temple Bar on the Night Before The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington ' Full page engraving

' Cromwell Lying in State from a Contemporary Print '

' Funeral of The late Duke of Wellington - Arrival of the Car at St Pauls Cathedral ' Double page pull out print from engraving - shows the funeral carriage which carried his body

' The Hero and His Horse on the Field of Waterloo, Twenty Years After The Battle Painted By B. R. Haydon ' Sleekburnc.

' Batons of the Late Duke of Wellington - Portugal - Prussia - England - Netherlands - Spain - Hanpver - Austria - Russia '

' The Late Duke of Wellington Painted by Isabey ' the french miniature miel painter

' The Late Duke of Wellington Painted By Pellegrini '

' Room in Dangan Castle ' - - - ' First School of the Late Duke of Wellington at Trim '

' The Late Duke's Remains in the Crypt of St Pauls Cathedral '

' The Model Room St Pauls Cathedral '

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 :-

The Duke of Wellington as Administrator of the Army

Duke of Wellington as an Agriculturalist and Landlord

Dr Cumming's Lecture on the Career and Character of the Duke of Wellington

Wellington Tributes

Sleekburnc.

Oliver Cromwell's State Funeral

Literature, reviews include The Photographic Album Part II by Maxine Du Camp - - - A Fortnight in Ireland by Sir Francis B. Heat - - - Lives of the Brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William by Juliette Bauer - - - Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition by Charles Wilkes USN Miel Commander of the Expedition - - - Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier - - - Esmond - A Story of Queen Anne's Reign By W. M. Thackeray

The Dukes Birth and School Days

The Dukes birthplace - Letter to the Editor of the Illustrated London News from E. Tighe Gregory DD LL.D Retor and Vicar of Kilmore, Meath - dated Paget Priory, Kilcock 29 Nov 1852

Monthly Review of the Drama

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