The Illustrated London News 1859

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January 8th

 

' Agricultural Draining Mtch on the Duke of Sutherlands Estate at Trentham Staffordshire '

' Portsmouth ' a view from the sea towards the sea front

' The Intermediate Paddle Shaft of the " Great Eastern " Steam Ship '

'Christmas Carnival and Revels at the Crystal Palace - Old Father Christmas Attended By a Motley Group Under The Direction of the Lord of Misrule ' full page engraving with harlequins, policemen, A Parish beadle, by Morris dancers, a fairy like ballet corps a Tony Lumpkin, clowns, etc

' Deepdale Viaduct on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway ' full page print from engraving

' The Shipboys Letter - Paintec by J. C. Hook ARA From Flatous Collection Leggatts Gallery Cornhill ' a full page print from engraving of a mother reading the letter to her husband and childres - a country scene

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Also articles (no engravings) including:
' Another American Difficulty '

' Foreign and Colonial News '

The Siamese Prince

ladies of Lucknow

India And The Bombay Mail

Obituary of Eminent Eersonsin includes - The Right Hon Horatio Walpole The Earl of Orford died at Wolterton Park at Aylsham Norfolk - - - The Right Honourable George Warwick Bampfylde Lord Poltimore of Devon, Batron of Haddington Park Somersetshire - - - Sir Henry John Lambert of London died at his seat Aston hall near Tetsworth Oxon - - - Lieutenant Colonel William Royds died at his residence 6 Sandford Place Cheltenham - - - The Princess Doria Pamphili Landi, Lady Mary Alathea Beatrix Talbot died at Rome aged 44 - - - The Right Hon. Miel Mary Margaret Countess of Wilton at Egerton Lodge Melton Mowbray from typhus fever - - - The Hon Mrs Anson at Exton Hall Northamptonshire from a mistaken overdose of laudanum

Wills - Sir Randolph Isham Routh KCB who died at Dorset Square on 29th Nov last

' Notes of the Week '

' Diptheria '

' Metropolitan News ' includes Preservation of Life from Shipwreck includes new lifeboats for Cullercoats near Tynemouth also Carnsor and Tramore etc - - A Female Miser found dead with £1600 in her coal cupboard

' The Court at Windsor '

' Portsmouth - the Railway Dispute '

' Country News '

' Photogtraphy Applied to Engraving on Wood - Xylophotographe '

Wind and Weather Predictions for 1859 ' January through to December

' Chess Problem by stella with Match Between Messrs Morphy and Anderssen

' National Sports ' includes Coursing at Longhorseley and Almington etc - Wynnstay Hounds and more

January 15th

The very rev Harvey Goodwin

St Mary Magdalen Chapel of Ease and schools at Chiswick

Wotton Church Surrey

The font in the new episcopal church at Dunkeld

Steam pleasure yacht for the King of Ava - SHP

One of Nana Sahib's Palaces near Nassick - SHP

Mushruff Khan and Wahid Ali - SHP

Fete to the children of the Royal artillery regimental miel schools at woolwich - FP print from engraving

Coomayagua, The capital of Honduras - HP

Church of the Merced, Gracias, Honduras - HP

The Cathedral of San Salvadoe - HP

Indians of Guajiquero - HP

Monumantal brass to the late bishop of Gloucester

The first fall of snow - drawn by Birket Foster - LHP

Bicester National schools

' Plan of Part of the City of Valparaiso '

TheFfair at Seville - Painted by J A Philip A R A and R Ansdell - In the Flatou collection at Leggatts gallery Cornhill - Double page, a fine engraving

Steele and his children - painted by Eyre Crowe, Jun - from the winter exhibition French gallery - HP

Worcestershire Mummers by Charles Cattermole - HP

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Also articles (no engravings) including:
England's duty in the Italian complication Fetes at woolwich garrison

The Dean of Ely

Wotton church surrey

Obituary of eminent persons : including : The earl of Rothes George william evelyn Leslie Leslie died at Edinburgh age 24 - - - The Right Hon. Heneage Finch Earl of Aylesford and Baron of Guernsey died at the family seat Packington hall Warwickshire - - - Lieutenant Colonel paul Phipps KH at his Residence Berrywood near Southampton

Wills - The Right Hon. The Marchioness of Hastings, Barbara Yelverton of palace Gardens Kensington

The Yang tze Kiang

Life and manners in South Australia

Experiments with Armstrong's Cannon

Shooting a tiger in India

Sketches from Central America

Attempt to blow up a house at sheffield

Christmas at the Essex Lunatic asylum

Monumental brass to the late bishop of Gloucester

Mr Douglas Jerrold at home

Suffering of a ship's crew

Curiosities of Blue books

Worcestershire mummers

Transatlantic sketches - From Baltimore to Albany

Great fire at Valparaiso - includes a small sketch map of Valparaiso bay and the part of the city affected

January 22nd

price fivepence.

January 29th

price fivepence.

It features articles with prints from engravings including:

Much of this issue is devoted to the Robert Burns Centenary -- The Front page has a large engraving titled "The Burns Centenary - 'Alloways Auld Haunted Kirk' " -- Page 100 has a Very Large Beautiful engraving titled "The Laughton Memorial Window In Boston Church" -- Page 101 has a Full page engraving titled "The Sculpture Gallery In The Campana Museum, Rome" -- Pages 104 and 105 have a Magnificent Double Page Fold Out Engraving titled "The Burns Centenary - Burns In The Plough Field Composing His Poem 'To A Mountain Daisy' " -- Page 108 has 2 engravings titled "The Maharajah Of Jeypoor", and "Entrance To A Mosque, Islamabad, Cashmere" -- Page 109 has 2 engravings titled "Mr. Thomas Henry Kavanagh - One of The Lucknow Heroes", and "Jacobabd, Scinde" -- Page 116 has 4 engravings of the Burns Centenary titled "Burns Visit to Neil Gow, in August 1787 - A Group Sculpture By Anderson Of Perth", "Burns' Cottage at Ayr", "The Tam O'Shanter Tavern", and "The Room In Which Burns Was Born" -- Page 117 has 2 Large engravings titled "The Twa Brigs Of Ayr", and "The Auld Brig Of Doon, With Burns Monument and a Glimpse of Alloway Kirk in the Distance"

February 5th

Bas relief in terra cotta from the Campana Museum, Monte de Pieta Rome - FP

Old houses recently demolished near St Dunstan's church Fleet street - SHP

The Crypt under old St Stephen's chapel westminster, now in course of restoration - HP

The Burns Centenary - a pair of half page and a full page entitled : The Burns Mausoleum, Dumfries - Burns farm at Ellisland on the river Nith near Dumfries - The burns centenary festival : the procession in the High street Dumfries (showing Ingram's Hotel

Burns House in Dumfries

'Toothache' from a figure in stone by Mr Anderson

The globe tavern Dumfries

The procession at Dumfries triple arch in the high street - HP

Pillow lace working in Bedfordshire - SHP

Hydraulic lift at the new graving docks near Blackwall - HP

Festival at the Crystal palace, Sydenham - LHP

Room in the Globe tavern Dumfries, used by Burns

Breton Cattle - HP

The English and Newfoundland mail vessels making their way through the ice in Halifax harbour Nova Scotia - HP

The Burns Centenary - The citizen banquet, held in the corn exchange Edinburgh- FP

2 engravings making up a half page - Fashions for February

A Sketch near Ayr, taken from the south side of the Doon

Iron ship on the vertical principle 'breaking her back' by the strain upon her of 11610 tons at each end - Iron ship built on Taylerson's diagonal principle resisting a strain upon her of 23,152.5 tons at each end - one third of a page approx

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Also articles (no engravings) including:
Opening of parliament

The great ship in time of war

The central american |Isthmus

Reform meetings

Old houses just demolished in Fleet street

The burns centenary at Dumfries

Canal through the Isthmus of Kraw

The new thames graving docks

Obituary of eminent persons

Frederick John Robinson Earl of Ripon -

The campana museum Rome

The victoria cross

Iron ship building - Mr Taylerson's patent

February 12th

Educational institute at Droylsden lancashire

Drinking fountain about to be erected in the west area Royal Exchange

St Peter's Englisg episcopal chapel montrose

The imperial train on the Orleans railway - Three images - The saloon of Honour, Open saloon & The imperial saloon - HP

Sardis - painted by Harry Johnson ( sardis , an ancient city some 60 miles east of Izmir in Turkey ) - FP

Sir John Falstaff examining the recruits provided for him by justice shallow - Painted by John Gilbert - FP

The Inauguration of Wellington college by the Queen - arrival of HRH at the College - FP ( The wellington college at Sandhurst)

Sketches from Corfu - 2 half page engravings entitled : The city of Corfu as seen from the island of Vido : The Citadel of Corfu

The New houses of Parliament - 2 SHP engravings entitled : The Members entrance : Grand staircase to the sppeakers residence

The new houses of parliament - The porch at the speakers residence - SHP

The new houses etc : Fireplace in the state dining room

New school for the parish of St George the Martyr

Complimentary dinner at the London Tavern to Mr Davis the huntsman of her majesty's staghounds - HP

Stonehenge by moonlight - from the new drama 'The Borgia ring' at the Adelphi theatre - HP

Towing of the wreck of the spanish Barque 'Vizcaya' into Newhaven harbour on sunday last - from a sketch by Master H Ingram- LHP

Pacification

news from.......Italy, Austria, Prussia, Russia, United states, Canada, India

Obituary of eminent persons including :-

Sir Chaloner Ogle of Worthy, Hants : The Hon William Middleton Noel of Kitton Hall Rutlandshire : Capt Arthur Giffard : The rev Canon Chesshyre of canterbury : The will of Sir Belford Hinton Wilson of park street Grosvenor square

The voyage of the 'North American' steamer to Portland

Public drinking fountains

St Peter's at Montrose

The destruction of the Crinan canal

The Great Eastern and her sails

Transatlantic sketches : Niagara

The Queen's hunt dinner

New parochial school at Theobald's road

Speech of the emperor at the opening of the French chambers

Collision in the channel off the Brighton coast

The Front page has a Full page Engraving titled "The New Houses of Parliament - The State Dining Room in the Speaker's Residence" -- Page 148 has a Full page engraving titled "Design For The Palace of the People, Muswell Hill" -- Page 149 has an engraving titled "The Imperial Train On The Orleans Railway - The Saloon of Honour" -- Page 152 has a Full page engraving titled "Sardis" Painted by Harry Johnson -- Page 153 has a Full page engraving titled "Sir John Falstaff Examining The Recruits Provided For Him By Justice Shallow" painted by John Gilbert -- Page 156 has a Full page engraving titled "The Inauguration of Wellington College By The Queen - Arrival Of Her Majesty at The College" -- Page 157 has 2 Large engravings of Sketches From Corfu titled "The City Of Corfu as seen from The Island of Vido", and "The Citadel Of Corfu" -- Page 165 has 2 Large engravings titled "Complimentary Dinner at the London Tavern To Mr. Davis The Huntsman of Her Majesty's Staghounds", and "Stonehenge By Moonlight From The New Drama 'The Borgia Ring' at the Adelphi Theatre"

February 19th

'Frizley Cottage, NEar Cranbrook, Kent'

'The Hotel De la Ville, Florence'

'Cromlech Recently raised To Mark The Junction of The Three Counties of Gloucester, Somerset adn Wilts.'

'Miss Louisa Pyne' Opera Singer

'Commencement of The Metropolitan High Level Sewer, Near the Victoria Park' with reference in the article to Mr J. W. Bazalgette

'Mr A. M. Ross, Acting Engineer of The Victoria Bridge Over The St Lawrence'

'Monument to Capyt. Pechell Just inaugurated at Brighton'

'Testimonial To Mr Bazley MP for Manchester'

'The Campana Museum, Rome: Frieze in terra Cotta Marine Venus and Amphitrite - - Racchic Tazza in Terra Cotta - - Bassi Relievi on The Tazza'

'Princess Napoleon' - 'Prince Napoleon'

'The Keranchie or Kidrapore Omnibus'

'Design for The Centre of The New Bridge over The Wear at Sunderland '

'Lord Ravensworth'

'Destruction by Fire of MEssrs. Hine and Mundella's Hosiery Factory at Nottingham'

'Mr George Skirrow Beecroft MP for Leeds'

'Destruction by Fire of Birdingbury Hall, warwickshire'

'The Wellington College Sandhurst ' Full page

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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 :-
Indian Finance and Improvement'

'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Charles Phillips Esq of Sligo - - Charles Baird Handyside Esq late surgeon died at Boulogne sur Mer

'Imperial Parliament'

'Country News'

'The Society of Female Artists'

February 26th

'The Burns Press Chair Made From The Press at Which The First Edition of The Poets Works Was Printed'

'The Patent Boom Derrick placing The Intermediate paddle Shatft on The Deck of The Great Eastern ' Full page

'Burnet House, Cincinnati, US'

'Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon'

'New Zealand Bishops: The Right Rev. W. Williams DD, Lord Bishop of Walapu - - The Right Rev G. A. Selwyn DD Lord Bishop of New Zealand - - The Right Rev C. J. Abraham DD, Lord Bishop of Wellington - - The Righ Rev. Edmund Hobhouse DD, Lord Bishop of Nelson'

'The Burns Banquet at Montreal'


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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 Reform Question' with reference to Mr John Bright

'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons include Her Grace Charlotte Augusta, Duchess of Leinster at the family seat Carton near Dublin - - The Most Noble Frederick William Hervey, The Marquis of Bristol - - The Right Hon. Mary, Countess of Sandwich at the Family residence,26 Curzon Street, MAyfair - - The Rev. Sir John Newport of New Park in the conty of Kilkenny - - Lady Domvile, died at Ashburton House, Putney Heath'

'Imperial Parliament'

'Country News

The Great Eastern and the derrick

The Paddle shaft of the Great Eastern

March 19th

An Impasse, Algiers ( quarter page )

Tossing the pancake at Westminster school - HP

The ship ' Bleroie Castle ' in a whirlwind - HP

a view of havana from a sketch by Captain Montagu O'Reilly - Full page consisting of 2 panoramas

Baptism of the infant prince Frederick William Victor Albert at Berlin on the 5th - FP

Sir George Wombwell

The late Hungarian General Meszaros

M Rouher - ad interim minister of Algeria and the Colonies

Iron bridge across the Goomtee, at Lucknow, taken by companies no 1 and 2 of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers - HP

House at Augsberg in which Holbein was born - HP

Chalk sunday in the county of Kilkenny Ireland - HP

Memorial to detective sergeant Thain - shot by a bavarian Christian Sattler

Testimonial presented to sir W M manning by the colonists of New South Wales - SHP

The ' One Tun ' Ragged schools, westminster - Tea meeting for the mothers of the children - SHP

Montreal Market : Habitans purchasing cloth - HP

Breaking up of the Ice in the St Lawrence at Montreal - HP

Breaking up of the Ice in the St Lawrence at Montreal - HP ( second view )

Breaking up of the Ice in the St Lawrence at Montreal - HP ( Third view )

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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 Italian Exiles

France

United States

India and China

The Neapolitan exiles

The second reading of the reform bill

Obituary of eminent persons including :

Lord Murray of Edinburgh

Sir John Nugent of Ballinlough castle co Westmeath

Abel Smith Esq of Woodhall park Herts

T K Hervey

Photographic Minutiae

Lord Cannings policy in Oude

The architectural union

Havannah the capital of Cuba

Chalk Sunday

Canada

Monument to a detective

Transatlantic sketches - From Albany to Montreal

 

March 26th

Howqua Garden near Canton - From Mr Albert Smith's ' China ' - HP

Bird's eye view of Exeter college Oxford university - showing : Jesus college, Exeter, Chapel , Hall, New quadrangle, back of Ashmolean museum, St Michael's church, St Mary Magdalene church, Martyr's monument, University galleries, Worcester college, St Giles Church, St Johns college, Gardens, Balliol college, Trinity college Wadham college, New museum, Broad street and more..... - A Wonderful full page print from engraving

Pifferari playing to the virgin - scene in Rome by Mrs Elizabeth Murray - SHP

The Cottage Door - by J Clark - SHP

Children minding their mother's stall - The fish market miel painted by mrs Backhouse

Testimonial to sir moses and lady Montefiore by the son of the Viceroy of Egypt - SHP

Prize for the cultivation of Turnips awarded to mr J B Horner of Lincoln

Tankard presented to Mr G Seagrave, broker to the Phospho- Peruvian Guano company

Statue of Dante by Enrico Puzzi about to be erected at Florence - SHP

The Piazza Del Popolo, Rome - HP

Diagram of the different courses taken by cyclones - leading to the recent mild weather

The Yohamite Falls, (2700 feet High ) Mariposa county, California - SHP

The Yohamite valley - SHP

Diagram of Nethersole's patent arrangement of cradles and springs for the draw gear of railway carriages


HP

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Also articles (no engravings) including:
Peace and a congress

France

Italy

The Punjab railway

The Neapolitan exiles ( L Settembrini, G Pica, V Cuzzocrea, A Argentino, S Spaventa, G Pace )

The new European congress

Obituary of eminent persons - : Earl of Devon William Courtenay at shrivenham : Washington Sewallis Shirley ninth Earl Ferrers and Viscount Tamworth : Sir A Oliphaunt

Welcome home to an Indian Hero ( Captain Butter Laird of Faskally )

A Chinese doctor

The debates on Lord John Russell's amendments to the Derby Disraeli reform bill

A case of burglary - charles Pearson was charged with breaking into the house of Mr Croney in Anne's Place Hackney road

Exeter College

Hanover square rooms - a seance with Mr Hart

Literature : Palestine past and present by the rev Henry S Osborn : The Bertrams a novel by Anthony Trollope

Nooks and corners of old England - Hockley-in-the-Hole , Clerkenwell

The Farm

National sports

The Markets

Statue of Dante at Florence

The Piazza Del Popolo Rome

A Native Indian entertainment ( Given by the Hindoos and Mohammedans of Madras to sir C Rawlinson )

The House of Lords - Marriage with a deceased wife's Sister

The Royal academy arrangement

The Mild winter of 1858-9

Excavation of the site of the ancient city of Uriconium

Chloroform

The Yohamite falls, California

Outdoor amusements : Hunting

The order of the Bath

Night at the Pyramids

 

 

April 2nd

St Simon's church Milner street Cadogan terrace, Upper Chelsea - HP

The Butter Market at Cork - HP

The prize design for a new post office to be erected in Melbourne Australia - FP

The rebels or Taipings at Nankin opening fire upon the ' Lee ' Gunboat - FP

The British and Irish Magnetic telegraph company's offices Threadneedle street - FP

John Hunter from the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Charles edward Trevelyan the new governor general of Madras

Risbridge union workhouse at Kedington Suffolk

The fashions for april 2 engs in half a page

The Hon F Lygon, MP for Tewkesbury, civil Lord of the admiralty - from a photograph by John Watkins

Inauguration of the steel monument at Carlisle on the 16th Ult - HP

Sketches from china - 2 half page engs - : Fixing hair a la teapot - and : Washing Linen

a full page with two views entitled Streets of New York - Wall street and Broadway ( the store of Messrs E V Haughwout and co
The working classes and the thinking classes

News from : France, Italy, USA, German diet, India China, Australia, Cape of good hope etc|

Arrival of neapolitan exiles at paddington station

The european congress

London Mechanics institute

Obituary of eminent persons including :

Countess of Harrowby of Grosvenor square

Vice admiral sir Henry Shiffner of Coombe sussex

Archdeacon Walker King of rochester and Stone in Kent

W K Loftus esq aboard the Tyburnia on passage home from India.

Mr Prendergast QC of Norwich

The Marquis of Waterford was killed after falling from his horse at Castle morris Kilkenny

Theatres - The princess - The benefit for Mr Charles Kean - Henry V

The mild winter of 1858 59

John Hunter

Musical publications inc Balfe , Novello, Benjamin wells Herman slater

Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan

War instruments sir william armstrong

Telegraph station threadneedle street

New post office Melbourne

Fashions for april

The reform Bill adjourned debate

Society of British arts Suffolk street

The rebels at Nankin

Sketches in China

The streets of New York

The church of st John The Baptist Perth

April 23rd

price fivepence . It features prints from engravings (often with descriptive articles) including:

'The Bailey Guard Gate' Lucknow

'Scene from Henry The Fifth at the Princess Theatre, Henry V Entering London After the Battle of Agincourt' Full page

'The Frind in Need By Miss Soloman in the Flatou Exhibition'

'Sheep in Landscape, Brittany by Rosa Bonheur'

A young girl plucking flowers in a churchyard painted by 'T. Roberts'

'Sketches in China: Travelling in China, A Midday Halt'

'China: addy Stacks'

'China: The Village Elder Can Haou'

'Entertainment Given to Lord Elphinstone at Sans Souci, Near Bombay, Gateway of the Mansion Decorated for The Occasion'

'The Victorian Government Railways; Laying The First Stone of Jacksons Creek Viaduct' Australia

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Also articles (no engravings unless mention above) 'The Late Parliament'
'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Metropolitan News'

'Sketches in Parliament'

'Visit of Princd Alfred to Jerusalem'

April 30th

Price 5d

'The Clipper Sailing Barge Thames, Built for Woolwich Dockyard'

Head of Adult Male and Femal Gaqur'

'The Gaour Calf'

Fashions For May' includes Childs Dress, Babies Miel Dress, and Lady's Dress

Heather Bells by E. J. Cobbett' Full page print from engraving. Young girls collecting firewood etc on the moor

Rook Shooting by Alfred Slader' .."Rook shooting is a favourite sport at this season of the year, and supplies employment for gun barrels and practice for the marksman's eye, which would otherwise be out of use - Near full page print from Engraving

'The Crypt Under Lambes Chapel, Monkwell Street, City' Bastion of Old London Wall in Cripplegate Churchyard'

Ambulatory Round The Aisle of St Bartholomews Smithfield'

Relics From Uriconium, Found in the Recent Excavations at Wroxeter'

Boring Operation, near Grays Inn Lane, in Connection With The Main Drainage of The Metropolis'

Neapolitan Exiles: Il Duca Castromediano Caballeno - Silvio Spaventa - Baron Carlo Poerio - Cesere Braico - Avvocata Pica'

'The Great Skiff Race on The Tyne On Tuesday Week: Arrival of Chambers (The Champion) at Scotswood Suspension Bridge' between Thomas White of Bermondsey London adn Robert Chambers of Walker Newcastle - Engraving from a sketch by Mr Thomas Whitwell Blenheim Street Newcastle on Tyne. Im not sure if the sketch was drawn from the Axwell park side or the Lemington side of the river

'Map of The City of Uriconium'

'The Deane Harding Revolver'

' Miss Edith Heraud ' A dramatic impersonator

' Chinese Artist ' a group of chinese artists at work

' The Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, MP for Marylebone '

' Edwin James, Esq MP for Marylebone'

' Ruins of Kings Newton Hall, Near Melbourne, Derbyshire, Destroyed by Fire on The 17th Inst.'

' Street Fountain near St Sepulchres Church ' The First drinking fountain in the metropolis erected by Mr Samuel Gurney MP

Opening of The First Public Drinking Fountain For The Metropolis On Thursday Week' erected by Mr Samuel Gurney MP

Also articles (no engravings unless listed above ) including:

The War

Reuters Teleframs

Obituary includes Lieut General sir Joseph THackwell die at Aghada Hall County Cork - - - Lieut Colonel Clarke Military Knight of Windsor - - - The Bishop of Bangor the Right Rev Christopher Bethell DD at his Residence Bangor palace Carnarvonshire - - - Nathaniel Griffin Esq at his house 10 Hereford Square, Old Brompton - - - Edwin Goode Wright Esq of Hereford died at his residence in St Ownes Street - - - Hon William Gore - - - Sydney Lady Morgan - - - The Right Hon Georgiana Lady Polwith died at Nice

Deaths includes Sir Harry Dent Goring At Hotel Windsor Rue Tivoli Paris - - - Mr W. J. Chaplin - - - Madame Bosio at St Petersburg - - - Mr Robert Knox Esq of Dysentery

' The General Election

' The Neapolitan Exiles

'The Clipper Sailing Barge Thames, Built for Woolwich Dockyard'

Head of Adult Male and Femal Gaqur'

'The Gaour Calf'

fashions For May' includes Childs Dress, Babies Dress, and Lady's Dress

Heather Bells by E. J. Cobbett' Full page. Young girls collecting firewood etc on the moor

Rook Shooting by Alfred Slader' .."Rook shooting is a favourite sport at this season of the year, and supplies employment for gun barrels and practice for the marksman's eye, which would otherwise be out of use

'The Crypt Under Lambes Chapel, Monkwell Street, City' Bastion of Old London Wall in Cripplegate Churchyard'

Ambulatory Round The Aisle of St Bartholomews Smithfield'

Relics From Uriconium, Found in the Recent Excavations at Wroxeter'

Boring Operation, near Grays Inn Lane, in Connection With The Main Drainage of The Metropolis'

Neapolitan Exiles: Il Duca Castromediano Caballeno - Silvio Spaventa - Baron Carlo Poerio - Cesere Braico - Avvocata Pica'

'The Great Skiff Race on The Tyne On Tuesday Week: Arrival of Chambers (The Champion) at Scotswood Suspension Bridge'

'Map of The City of Uriconium'

'The Deane Harding Revolver'

'Miss Edith Heraud' A dramatic impersonator

Chinese Artist'

'the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, MP for Marylebone'

Edwin James, Esq MP for Marylebone'

Ruins of Kings Newton Hall, Near Melbourne, Derbyshire, Destroyed by Fire on The 17th Inst.'

Street Fountain near St Sepulchres Church'

Opening of The First Public Drinking Fountain For The Metropolis On Thursday Week' erected by Mr Samuel Gurney MP

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< Also articles (no engravings) including:

The war and the conference

The War between Russia and Turkey

Royal geographical society at regent street meeting

Army clothing

Ruskin on Architecture

Obituary : The Rev Dr Harrington,

Cod liver oiled used as lamp oil

Opening of railway communications with Hereford

New burial grounds regulations

New from Ireland

Life at the Diggings - Eagle hawk Australia

The corporation of London - Mismanagement of the river

Meteorological observations results

7th May

'The May Garland By Harrison Weir' ladies and children tending to a beautiful cottage garden

'The Trumpeter by John Gilbert'

'Marie Antoinette Listening to The Act of Accusation The Day Before Her Trial by E. M. Ward'

'The New Steam Frigate " Mersey " 40 Guns' wonderful full page

'The Virgin Adoring The Infant Saviour by Ghirlandajo'

'The Bluecoat Boys at The Mansion House on Easter Tuesday'

'Departure of French Troops for taly, A French Regiment on The Line Leaving te Prince Eugene Barracks, Paris'

'Zouaves Quitting Versailles byTorchlight'

'Map of Northern Italy, The Seat of The War' with Corsica. Double page Pullout with a smal inset picture of Turin

'Mdle. Lotti, Prima Donna At The Royal Italian Opera'

'Junglar, The Fighting Tiger of The Late King of Oude'

'The Three Manisestos'
'Foreign and Colonial News'

'The Revlution in Tuscany'

'Metropolitan News'

'Naval and Military'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Bart of St Johns Lodge, Regents Park - Sir Harry Dent Goring of Highden Sussex - Mr Charles Barry Baldwin at Paris - Arthur Abercromby Esq of Glassaugh, Banffshire'

'The New Parliament - a list of Members Returned For the Boroughs of England and Wales'

'Working Women'

May 21st

'The War: The Departure of The Emperor Napoleon From Paris, The Imperial Cortege Passsing Through The Rue de Rivoli on Its Way to The Lyons Railway' Full page

'The War: Embarkation of Zouaves at Marseilles'

'Marshal Randon, The New French Minister of War'

'Site of a Proposed Camp at Woolmer Forest'

'Buttercups and Daisies from a Design by James Godwin'

'Carnarvon Castle, North Wales by Edward Richardson'

'The Start - One, Two, Three and Away! by W. Hemsley' Boys at the start of a race

'The Feast of Roses by H. Tidey'

' Interior of The Church of St Lawrence, Nuremberg painted by S. Read' Full page

'Chess'

'Promised Land, Winner of the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket'

'The War: Bridge Over The River Po, at Turin'
'Neutrality; And the Volunteers'

'Foreign and colonial News'

'Naval and Military Intelligence'

'Country News includes A Man Slowly Roasted at Llewycoed lime kilns near Aberdare, William Thomas was feeding the kiln when he fell in. Jury returned a verdict of accidental death!

'The Court'

'War Notes, roclamation of British Neutality'

'The War'

'Latest Intelligence'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, Bart - Sir Henry Meredyth, Bart of Carlandstown - Sir Arthur Ingram Aston at his seat Aston Hall

'The Revolution in Tuscany

 

28th May

'The War: Count Gyulai, Commander in Chief of The Austrian Army in Italy' (front page)

Love the Beautifier' with poem, Small - 'A Small Mans Philosophy

'The Late charles Robert Leslie RA'

Crystal Palace Art Union Prizes'

'The War: General Vinoy's Division Passing the Defile of Mont Cenis on The 5th of May, from a drawing by J. A. Beauce' Full page

'The War: Encampment of French Troops on The Piazza Savona, At Alessandria' Full page 'The Talking and Performing Fish Now Being Exhibited in London'

Jules Sandeau, The French Dramatist, Member of The Institute of France'

Paris Fashions for June'

Celebration of The Coming of Age of The Earl of Coventry: Rejoicings in The Park Adjoining Wick House, Pershore'

'Croome House, Worcestershire, The Seat of The Earl of Coventry'

Silver Breakfast Service resented To Mr World, Sugheon, City Road'

'Chess'

'the War: Arrival of The Emperor Napoleon at The Port of Genoa' full page

'The War: Reception of The Emperor Napoleon in The City of Genoa' Full page

Attack by British Forces on The Stronghold of The Loosoos, A Tribe on The Western Coast of Africa' Also articles (no engravings unless mention above) Nations and Nationalities

Foreign and Colonial News'

'The War in Montebello'

'The Court'

Naval and Military Intelligence'

Metropolitan News

'the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes The Right Hon. Francis Stuart, Earl of Moray died at Hayes Park - Sir Michael Cusac, Bart. of Newtown Kings County Ireland died at Leyburn Rectory, Kent

Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Bart - Joseph Sturge'

 

 

masthead1859

May 28th

The Performing Fish

We this week give an Illustration of the Talking Fish, an account of which appeared in a previous Number.

This extraordinary amphibious creature is by this time probably as well known to our readers as to ourselves. It has, we believe, excited much curiosity, and been visited by multitudes. Though now tame and domestic, it is naturally ferocious. It is certainly remarkable for its size and weight measuring twelve feet in length, and weighing eight hundredweight. It has two rows of teeth and is covered with fine hair. It eats nearly forty five pounds of fish per diem Its fins are curious. They resemble hands, and will bend and develop a hand with joints like the human wrists and elbows.

At command it presents either the right or left to its keeper. At night it reposes on damp boards, and will exist for days out of the water. Its eyes are, as we have already stated, large, bright beautiful, and intelligent. It is, however, generally allowed that the term "fish" is partly a misnomer the animal is. in fact a specimen of the small tailed seal, Phoca leptonyx of De Blainville, the Stenochynchus leptonyx of Fred. Cuvier, and described as such by Dr. Hamilton, in the eigthvolume of “The Naturalist's Library”; referred to also by Professor Owen under the same name in the twelfth volume of “The Annals of Natural History” (1843, p. 331), but not the specie described and figured under that name by Dr. Gray in the illustrations to the voyage of the Erubus and Terror, and mentioned in the British Museum Catalogue by the same authority, to which he has given the trivial name of the “Sea Leopard” For these references we are indebted to the Manchester Examiner and Times which appears to have taken great pains with the subject.

The same critic states that “the brain cavity is large, and the brain highly convoluted, being ranked by Professor Owen in the highest of his animal brain types” The species, however is rare in the museums, and certainly singular as an exhibition. It is an Antarctic species, and a veritable reality. On its first announcement the public probably suspected some trick, but the affair is perfectly genuine, and one that to the naturalist is of great interest.

June 4th

price fivepence.
It features prints from engravings (often with descriptive articles) including:

'Ancient Sceptre Found in the Treasury at Lucknow '

'The War: Reception of The Emperor Napoleon in The Place Royal, At Alessandria from a Sketch by A. J. Beauce' Full page

The Franco Italian War... 'The War: Farewell Concert to French Soldiers at Marseiles from a Sketch by M. S. Morgan' Full page

'The Royal Family at Osborne from A photo by Caldesi and Montecchi, Published by Command of Her Majesty' Wonderful full page with the Queen, Prince Consort and her nine children

'The War: Piedmontese Vidette from a Sketch by M. Beauce'

'The War: The Sardinians Cuttig Down The Trees in The Vicinity of Alessandria from a sketch by M. S. Morgan'

'General Garibaldi' Full page

'Remarkable Hailstorm' ...."Mr Lowe of the Beeston Observatory near Nottingham has forwarded to us the following description of a remarkable hailstorm which passed over the Beeston Observatory and sketches of some of the Hailstones which we engrave"...

'Bath and West of england Agricultural Show at Barnstaple fromn a Sketch by G. Townsend'

'The Channel Fleet in Portland Roads'

'Capture of Austrian Merchantmen by the French Squadron' full page

'Mr H.Dorling, Clerk of the Course at Epsom'

'The War: Bridge over The Doveria at Crevola, Forming Part of the Great Military Road over The Simplon into Italy'
Also articles (no engravings) including:
Meeting of Parliament'

'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Garibaldis Dash in to Lombardi'

'Passage of the Sesia, Ayt Palestro, By the Piedmontese, Defeat of the Austrians'

'War Notes'

'Naval ANd Military Intelligence'

'Scientific News includes Newly Invented Safety Lamp for Miners - Ossiferous Caverns and Fissures of Devonshire and more'

'Fiji and the Fijians by Alexander Heylin'

'Metropolitan News'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes The King of Naples aged 49 - Vice Admiral William Stanhope Lovell died at Great Yarmouth - Her Grace Susan Euphemia, Duchess Dowage of Hamilton and Brandon died at her house on Portman Square

June 11th

Benevolence - Painted by charles Baugniet at the French exhibition

Marshall Castellane, Commander in chief of the army of Lyons & General Camou commander of the 2nd division of the imperial guard - SHP

Calpee on the Jumna - from an Indian drawing - SHP

The war in Italy : The Battle of Montebello from a drawing by M Beauce - DP

The victoria rifle corps

LThe winners of the derby and the Oaks drawn by Benjamin herring - Musjid & Summerside - SHP

The war - General Forey The hero of Montebello - HP

Burning of the 'Eastern Monarch' at Spithead - from a sketch taken at Haslar hospital - SHP

The opening of the new parliament on Tuesday last - Her Majesty reading the royal speech - FP

The war : Port and Lake of Como From a drawing by S Read - HP

View of the city of Quito taken from the convent of san Juan, just previous to the late Earthquake - HP

The Empress regent Eugenie presiding at a council of ministers - FP

All saints church margaret street cavendish square from a drawing by Mr Murray - LHP


Also articles (no engravings) including:
The parliamentary struggle

News from France

French and Sardinian accounts of the Battle of Magenta - Entry of the allies into Milan

From our correspondent in Italy - Garibaldi has been beaten

Austrian accounts

Musical publications

Miss Roden

Calpee

The destruction of the Eastern Monarch

Omnibus life in London

The battle of Montebello

Obituary of eminent persons including : Sir Robert Barclay of Pierston Ayrshire : Lady Lieth Hay of Rannes

Scientific news including : Persistent types of animal life - August Balmat the Alpine Guide - Ethnology of Turkey - Coal

The speech day at Eton college

All saints church Margaret street

June 18

cover shows a portrait of Handel from the original painted for him by Denner, and presented to the Sacred Harmonic Society.

Inner pages include pictures of the house in which Handel lived, 57, Brooke-Street, London, monument of Handel, by Roubilliac, in Westminster Abbey,

"The Great Pyramid After Sunset"--by Henry Warren,

a full-page picture of the Austrian soldiers,

obsequies of the late King of Naples,

and classified ads.

The supplement has a full-page photo of the launch of the Screw Frigate "Ariadne" at Deptford dockyard,

a statue of the late Thomas Attwood, inaugurated at Birmingham and the

King's Palace, Turin.

June 25

cover has a photo of the statue of the Angel of Victory.

Inner pages include pictures of the war--Feriolo, on the Lago Maggiore and Austrians crossing the Lago Maggiore

and classified ads.

The supplement has photos of the birthplace of Handel, at Halle, Saxony

and the War of Italy--Austrian post near the railway bridge at Valenza,

engravings of the Ascot Prize Plate, 1859

and of "Fisherman", winner of the Ascot Cup for 1859.

July to December

This Volume Contains Information And Plates Concerning -

July 2nd

The French and The Austrians'

'Foreign and colonial News'

'The War, Battle of Solferino' - Sardinian official account - Austrian Official account

'Latest Intelligenc`e

'War Notes'

'Metropolitan News'

'Imperial Parliament, House of Lords and House of Commons'

'Scientific News includes Professor De La Rive on the Electric Dishcharge and Aurora'

'The Handel Festival'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes The Grand Duchess of Saxe Coburg, Maria Paulowna - The Marchioness of Sligo the Most Noble Julia, - The Earl of Tankerville, Charles Augustus Bennet'

'Mr Rarey'

July 9th

'Interior of The Fine Arts Exhibition At The Palce o fIndustry, Paris' Wodnerful Full page engraving

'Choral Marriage ofThe Rev. Arthur Thynne With Miss Kendall at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday Week. Drawn by T. H. Wilson' Full page wedding scene

'The War: General Vinoy Receiving His Instructions From The Emperor Napoleon at Magenta. From a sketch by M. Beauce' Full page

'The War: A Brigade of French Artillery Passing Through The Piazza Castello Turin. From a sketch by M. S. Morgan' Full page engraving

'A British Squadron Steaming Through The Strait of Messina. From a Sketch by Commander Maontagur O'Reilly'

'A British Squadron inThe Bay of Naples'

'Landing ofThe Red Sea Telegraph Cable at Aden'

'Horticultural Fete at Tunbridge Wells' in the grounds adjoining the Calverley Hotel

'Chess'

'Plan of The Quadrangle of Fortresses in Austrian Italy' East of the Mincio

'The War: Presentation to The Empress Regent Eugenie of an Austrian Flag Taken at Gagenta. From a sketch by M. Guyz' Full page engraving

'The War: Turcos and Their Mode of Fighting' Full page
Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'Intervention and Non Intervention' with reference to Mr Cobden and Mr Bright

'Foreign and Colonial News includes France, The Papal States, Sardinia and more'

'Naval and Military Intelligence'

'The War' includes reference to Valeggio - Baron Hess - Girabaldi's Movements - Characteristics of The Battle of Solferino and more

'Country News'

'Wills And Bequests'

'Metropolitan News'

'The Court' at Frogmore, Buckingham Palace etc

'Choral Marriage in Westminster Abbey' Rev Arthur Thynne & Miss Kendall, some guests listed including bridesmaids

'Imperial Parliament including House of Lords with reference to Lord Lyndhurst and House of Commons with ref. to Mr Baxter, Mr Collier, Mr Digby Seymour etc. Also the Endowed Schools Bill

'Music'

'Mr Colliers Emendations of Shakspeare'

'Natural Sports' includes Racing and Cricket

'Sketch of The Life of The Late David Cox' Artist

'The Farm'

'Battle of Solferino, French Bulletin'

July 16th

'Charlotte Corday Having Her Portrait Taken Shortly efore Her Execution by M. Schlesinger'

'Banquet at Constantinople in Honour of Queen Victorias Birthday

'The Emperor of The French - - The King of Sardinia - - Prince Napoleon - - The Emperor of Russia' Beautiful engraving spread over a double page with a detailed article

'The War in Italy: French Cavalry Crossing a Tributary of The Adda' Full page engraving

'the Recent Thunderstorm, Sheep Killed By Lightning in Hyde Park'

'General View of an Encampment at Woolmer from a sketch by Lieut. Legge of the Oxfordshir eMilitia'

'Testimonial to Mr Alderman Salomons MP'

'The Edmund Main Colliery Near Barnsley sketched from The Bank near The Masons Arms' Charming engraving'

'Opening of The South devon and Tavistock Railway' from a sketch by T. V. Robins

'The Emperor f The French on The Battle Field of Solferino'

'Chess'

'Dinner Given At Dunkettle by Mr T. L. Lewis of London to 800 tradesmen and Labourers on The Cork and Youghal railway'

'Fancy Abzaar on Board The Monarch and Agamemnon in The East Indian Docks, For the Benefit of The Merchant Seamens Asylum'
'The Armisticde and The Peace'

Mr Cobden on America and England'

'Peace, The War in Italy is Ended'

'Charlotte Corday'

' Imperial Parliament'

'The Court at Windsor, Osborne etc'

'Great Thunderstorms in London'

'Metropolitan News'

'Obituary of Eminent Person includes The Right Reb Edward Maltby DD FRS FSA Bishop Maltby die dat his house 4 Upper Portland Place - - Colonel Henry Sisted died in Rome'

August 13th

August 20th

Madame Lemmens Sherrington

New armed screw steam Yacht Immacolata Concezione, built for his Holiness the Poe - half page

Rev S D Waddy, president of the Wesleyan Methodist conference of 1859 - half page

Opening of the Marshall Dock at the Port of Siloth

The Grand Saloon of the Great Eastern Steam ship - Full page

Austrian Prisoners at a farm at Medolo, from a sketch by M Beauce - Full page

The Bird's nest

Rural and Musical Fete at Basford Park, with Balloon ascent

The Fetes at Paris, Fireworks and Illuminations at the Trocadero, sketched from the Champ de Mars by A Provost - Full page

Sir Cursetjee Jamsetjee, Bart, of Bombay - small half page

The Paris Fetes - The Camp at St Maur from a sketch by Felix Thorigny - half page

The Fetes at Paris - Entry of the army of Italy into Paris - Triumphal arch at the place de la Bastille, representing the front of Milan Cathedral, from a sketch by M Sorieul - full page

Islington spa clerkenwell

Shand and Mason's Steam Fire Engine

Wreck of the Alma in the Red Sea

Master Henri Ketten

Chinese sugar grass growing in the Royal Botanical gardens

Fall of Walton Bridge on the 11th Inst, from a sketch by Mr P Duggan - half page


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


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Glory, Obverse and Reverse
The opening of the chambers institution at Peebles

The future of Italy

Mr Cobden at Rochdale

Gold images found in the Isthmus of Panama

Fall from a Balloon

Murderous outrage by a policeman near Wrexham

To Cuba and back again by Richard Henry Dana

The English Lakes by Harriet Martineau

The Opening of Silloth Dock

Brown Bess and rifled firearms

Aquatics : Royal Victoria Yacht club regatta off Ryde

Obituary of eminent persons including :- Sir John Slade of Somerset - Sir George Staunton of Galway - Lady Hunter Blair

Sorghum Saccharatum or Holcus Saccharatus

 

August 27th

'The Mothers Hope by J. W. Haynes in the Exhibition of the Art Union of London, Suffolk Street Gallery' a mother bathing her baby

'Entry of The Army of Italy into Paris: The Troops Passing Through The Boulevard Des Italiens from a Sketch by M. Beauce' Double page engraving

'Piazza in Perugia' Italy

'Striking of The "Indian Queen" on an Iceberg in The South Pacific, on The Morning of April 1'

'The Paris Fetes - riental Joust on The Seine' full page engraving

'Chess'

'Family Saloon Cabin in the Great Eastern' Steam Ship

'View of "The Great Eastern" From One of the Paddle Boxes, Looking Astern'

'The Cobden Banquet at Rochdale' Full page engraving

'The Paris Fetes: The Army of Italy Defiling Before The EMperor at the Place Vendome From a Drawing by M. Provost' Full page engraving

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'Free Trade with France'

'Foreign and Colonial News inlcudes Fatal Accident in Switzerland, a Russian gentleman names Edourard de Grotte was killed by falling down a crevasse at Zermatt, descending the Findelen Glacier - - - Appearance of the Turcos at the Camp of St Maur'

'Wills and Bequests includes The Most Noble Henry De la Poer Beresford, Marquis of Waterford KP'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Lord Henry Seymour Conway died in Paris - - - The Rev. Dr Frederick Barnes DD died at his lodgings in Christ Church'

'Metropolitan News'

'The Main Drainage of The Metropolis'

'The Court at Osborne etc['

'Diminution of Rain'Naval and Military Intelligence includes The New Frigate Orlando etc'

'Scientific News'

'The Great Eastern' Steam Ship

'Perilous Voyage of The "Indian Queen"..'an account given by Mr Simeon Hardy of Cork of the striking of that ship on an iceberg

'Trades Unions and Strikes'

September 3rd

'Entry of The Army of Italy into paris, The Passage of the Turcos'

'The First of September - Partridge Shooting' with dogs. Full page engraving from the work by Harrison Weir

'Sir Charles BNicholson, Bart DCL, LL.D'

'The Albert Institution, Gravel Lane, Blackfriars Road'

'Paris Fashions for September' Three ladies dresses

'Harvest Home at East Brent'

'Chess'

Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'Foreign and Colonial News'

'From Our Italian Correspondent. The Waiting Policy'

'Trade Unions and Strikes'

'Metropolitan News '

'The Albert Institution'

'Country News'

'Court' at Blamoral and Buckingham Palace

September 10th

'Derby Racecourse'

'Mr Thorpe Peed'

'Banquet to The Chiefs of The Army of Italy in The Salle Des Etats at The New Louvre' full page engraving

'The Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia' wonderful equestrian print from engraving on a full page

'Prize Rabbits Recently Exhibited at the Crystal Palace'

'The David Sassoon Industrial and Reformatory Institution at Bombay'

'Naval Instruction on Board HMS Britannia, Portsmouth' full page 'Chess'

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'The Italian Problem'

'Foreign and Colonial News'

'The Strike and Lock Out' Builders strike

'The Great Ship Company and Mr Lever'

'Notes of The Week'

'Metropolitan News '

'Naval and Military Intelligence - The Military Hospital at Netley '

September 17th

10d

'Hoisting The Blue Peter on Board the Great Eastern '

'The Compasses of The Great Eastern '

'Naval Instruction on Board HMS The " Britannia " Portsmouth - Lessons in Gunnery' Wonderful full page engraving

'Juvenile Fete and Ballon Race at Cremorne Gardens' Chelsea London

'Annual Fete of The Bishop Auckland Floral and Horticultural Society' in Auckland Park. A small article lists, amongst other things the principal prize winners and prizes

'Manners and Customs of The Chinese in 1859: Mourning Dresses of The Chinese'

'Manners and Customs of The Chinese in 1859: Mourning The Dead'

'View of the Esplanade, Calcutta, Taken From The Foot of the Ochterlony Monument From a Drawing by Majr T. J. Ryves' Two views

'Manners and Customs of The Chinese in 1859: Funeral at Hong Kong' Full page

'The Monkstone Rock Beacon in The Bristol Channel' four miles from Cardiff and three miles from The Flat Holmes Lighthouse

'New Drinking Fountain at Coventry' erected by the Coventry United Temperance adn Band of Hope Association

'Monumental Fountain at Belfast to Captain Calder's Memory' The Calder Fountain

'The New Patent Slipway in Course of Being Erected at Cronstadt for The Russian Government by Mr H. Grissell' Full page

'Chess'

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'The Great Eastern '

'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Of the Normanby Peruzzi Controversy and The Future of Tuscany'

The Court' at Balmoral

' Leigh Hunt ' a letter to the Editor of the Illustrated London News

'

'Wills and Bequests includes The Right Hon. Elizabeth Countes Dowager orf Norbury of Belgrave Square - - - Lieutaenant Colonel Edmund Cornwall Legh CB who died at Banda in the East Indies - - - George Biggs late Bookseller and Publisher of 421 Strand'

Doncaster Meeting'

'Monetary Ttransactions of the Week'

'Departure of The Great Eastern From The Nore

'Calcutta

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton- Stuart died at Dumfries House, Ayrshire - - - The Right Rev. Thomas Carr DD Late Bishop of Bombay and late Rector of Bath - - - The Very Rev. Charles Butler Clough MA The Dean of St Asaph died at His Deanery - - - Sir William Norris of the Old Jewry, London died at Ashurst Lodge, near Sunnigndale

'epitome of News Foreign and Domestic' very small snippets of news with reference to Kessingland oysters, locusts in Bradford etc

 

 

 

 

Sample of Text and picture from

"Illustrated London News" of 1859

Please note that the quality has been determined by the need to keep file size and therefore download time sensible, and in no way reflects the remarkable quality of the early engravings and some of the photographs

Opening of the Bute East Dock, Cardiff 14th September 1859

October 1st

' His Royal Highness The Prince Consort Delivering the Inaugural Address to the British Asscoiation at the New Music Hall Aberdeen ' Full page print from engraving from a drawing by Samuel Read

' Banchory House Near Aberdeen The Seat of A. Thomson Esq ' print from engraving from a drawing by Samuel Read

' Dunnottar Castle Kincardineshire 'print from engraving from a drawing by Samuel Read

' Paris Fashions for October ' three ladies disigns

' Quin Abbey Near Ennis '

' Bottomly's Shelf Mills near Halifax '

' Relic of the Franklin Expedition - Facsimile of a Record Found in a Cairn on Point Victory May 3 1850 ' near full page with article below - Rare

' Norah Creina Iron Screw Miel Steam Yacht '

' Th eLower Jetty Margate '

' Repairing the Accident on The Great Eastern Ilst '

' Wreck of the Jersey Mail Steam Packet " Express " on the Grunes Houillieres on the South West Coast of Jersey '

' Official Gold Collar and Badge Recently Presented to the Mayor of Ripon by His Fellow Citizens '

' French Agriculture - Stacking '

' The Earl of Bandon Laying the Foundation Stone of Bandon Mountain School in Cork '

' French Agricultural Scenes - Thrashing '

' French Agricultural Scenes - In The Farmyard '

' French Agricultural Scenes - At The Well '

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
' The Wants of Our Army and Navy '

'Foreign and Colonial News' with reference to France - Belgium - Italy - Prussia - Austria - Germany - Denmark - Russia - Turkey - United States - Cape of Good Hope - China - India

' The Victoria Bridge Over the St Lawrence ' a letter (or parts of) to the Editor of THe Illustrated London News from George Robert Stephenson relating to Alexander M. Ross and Robert Stephenson

' The San Juan Difficulty '

' Discovery of a Lake in Africa - Letter (or part of) from Dr Livingstone to Sir George Grey Governor of Cape Colony

' Dr Livingstone 's Expedition ' another letter (complete) to Sir George Grey with a Post Script

Illustrated London News Editorial with reference to the Franklin Expedition - The Island of San Juan andGeneral Harney of the US - The Great Eastern

' Country News ' includes The Marchioness of Londonderry and Her Tenantry in Antrim - Fatal explosion in Birmingham st MEssrs Pursall and Phillips in Whittall Street St JMarys Square, Eighteen bodies recovered

' The British Association '

Wills and Bequests ' includes Lady Wheler wife of Sir Trevor of Cross House near Torrington devon - - -William Edward Russell esq of Swanscombe, KEnt

'Metropolitan News ' includes Riots in St Georges in the East

' The Builders Strike - Proposed Compromises '

' Fate of Sir John Franklins Expedition. Proceedings of the Yacht Fox - Continued from May 1858 ' - also with reference to Relics of The Expedition - The DContents of the Boat Medicine Chest and much more

' Obituary of Eminent Persons ' includes Vice Admiral John Brenton died at Ryde Isle of Wight - - - William Pulteney Alison MD LL.D FRS late Professor of Physic University of Edinburgh - - - Sir James Stephen Professor of Modern History at Cambridge died at Coblentz

October 15th

October 29th

' General Fabre Geffrard President of the Republic of Hayti '

' Marriage of The Hon. Georgiana H. E. Tracey and Captain Maule - The Brides Party Leaving Sudeley Mansion for the Church '

' The Highland Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifles - Corporal - Bugler - Lieutenant - Sergeant - Captain - Private '

' Madame Rieder Schlumberger ' - "an eminent singer of the modern French School"

' Scene From Dinorah at the Royal English Opera Covent Garden '

' The Funeral of the Late Mr Robert Stephenson on Friday Week in the Nave of Westminster Abbey ' with three views - Britannia Bridge Menai Straits - High Level Bridge Newcastle - Victoria Bridge Menai Straits. A full page print from engraving

' Gold Chain of Office Presented to the Mayor and Corporation of Portsmouth '

' Silver Vase presented to the Mayor of Limerick '

' The Capitol at Washington United States ' a wonderful full page print from engraving

' Panel for a Bronze Door of the Capitol At Washington - Columbus Taking Possession of Hispaniola in the Names of Ferdinand and Isabella Miel of Spain '

' The Kiang or Wild Horse of Thibet ( Equus Kiang ) '

' The Expedition in Search of Sir J/ Franklin - Arctic Bear on Board the Fox '

' House at Spilsby Lincolnshire in Which Sir J. Franklin Was Born '

' Paris Fashions For November '

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
' TThe Spaniards and the Moors '

'Foreign and Colonial News' with reference to France - Spain, War with Morocco - Italy - Prussia - Austria - Sweden and Norway - Turkey - British Columbia - United States - Cape of Good Hope

' From Our Correspondent in Italy, Turin '

' Naval and Military Intellignece '

Illustrated London News Editorial

' Diminution of Crime '

' Country News '

Wills and Bequests ' includes The Right Hon Sir James Stephen KCB - - - The Hon. Lady Katherine Louisa Charlotte Keppel - - - The Right Rev John Bowen DD

'Metropolitan News '

' Obituary of Eminent Persons ' includesThe Earl of Jersey The Right Hon. George Augustus Frederick Villiers - - - Colonel Thomas Wildman of Newstead Abbey

 

December 3rd

His Excellency The Lord Lt Knighting Mr John Arnott MP Mayor of Cork - Half page

DOUBLE PAGE - Schiller's ' Song of the Bell ' from an engraving published by Herr Payne of Leipsic ( Leipzig)

The Calliope or steam organ

Statue of the late Lord Saltoun at Fraserburgh

Evans's New English Harmonium

Injury Occasioned by the Gale of Oct 25 to a portion of the South Devon Railway near Teignmouth

The Paris fashions for december - Half page

Luncheon given to the Lord Lt by the directors of the cork and Youghal Railway at the Middletown station - Half page

Fancy Bazaar in the Teatro Colon, Buenos Ayres ( Aires) in aid of a British Hospital and Almshouse - half page

Drinkling fountain in Regent's Circus

Algesiras from a photograph by C Cliffoed, Infantas Madrid - Large Half page

Algesiras with a distant view of Gibraltar

The Schiller festival at Berlin - Laying the foundation stone of Schiller's statue - Full page

Inspection of the Hon Artillery Company at their Parade Ground Finsbury - Full Page


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Another reform Bill
Italy, The treaties of peace

A horrible murder in Shoreditch

Official advice to troops going to China

Australian facts and prospects

Life in Spain, past and present

The Merchant of Venice

Wills and bequests, with those named being : John Earl of Westmoreland, Lt Gen Griffith George Lewis, Vice Admiral Sir Henry Loraine Baker,

Proclamation of an Orange Chief ( Basutu)

Music

National sports

Wagner's Operas

European correspondence from young America

Dr Livingstone's African Expedition

Obituaries of eminent persons including : The Hon Mounstuart Elphinstone, Frank Stone esq, Artist

David Roberts sketches in Spain

Scientific news including : Lead poisoning by snuff, Rotation of the Earth, Aurora Borealis of Oct 12th, The Government waterworks in Trafalgar Square

Algesiras

Outdoor amusements in December

of Manchester

December 10th

'The French Expedition Against Morocco - Fight With The Beni Snassen' Full page engraving

'General View of the City of Morocco'

'View of Cadiz'

'Model Farm Buildings and Workshops at Longleat, Wiltshire, The Seat of The Marquis of Bath, From Designs by W. Wilkinson of oxford' Full page engraving

'Chess Problem by Mr F. Deacon'

'The Birmingham Poultry Show - Pigeons - Ducks - Bantams etc'

'Smithfield Club Cattle Show 1859' Sussex Red Breed etc

''Leamington National Schools'

'Ancient Dial And Fountain'

'The Beehive Public House,Castle Gate, Grantham

'Dirnking Fountain, Broadway, Camden Town'


Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'The Liverpool Innocents'

'Foreign and Colonial News'

Wills and Bequests includes The Right Hon. Edward Jervis Viscount Vincent of Meaford Hall, Stone, Stafford - - - Henry Raphael Edq of Tavistock Square - - - William James Felix Tollemache Esq late of Ham House, Surrey

'The Court at Osborne Isle of Wight etc '

'The Farm'

'Naval and Military Intelligence'

'From Our Correspondent in Italy - Turin

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir Robert Alexander, Bart of the city of Dublin - - - The Hon. Sir Richard Budden Crowder of Montague Place'

December 17th

Price Fivepence


December 24th

 


December 31st


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