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Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• Suez Canal was opened by the Empress Eugénie of France
• Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars Bridge, London were completed
• Leo Tolstoy completes War and Peace
• Hector Berlioz dies, aged 66

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Lincoln - Judging Foxhounds at the Agricultural Meeting ' front page

' The Union Pacific Railway - The Great Salt Lake at Utah From the Ogden Road '

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' Prize Foxhounds at The Agricultural Meeting at Lincoln ' (drawn by Samuel Carter) a full page print from engraving showing eleven fox hounds - there is a list of the owners in an article on another page

' The Iron Clad Fleet - The Twin Screw Turret Ship " Captain " ...' Full page print from engraving of the ship with full sails

' Ceramic Objects Produced by the Crystal Palace Art Union '

' Architectural Museum at Bowling Street in Westminster '

' The Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark ' Sleekburnc.

' Isle of Wight - Princess Louisa Laying the First Stone for The Second Building of The National Cottage Hospital at Vetnor ' a view of the first building at Ventnor Undercliff with Steephill Castle in the background

' Meeting of Lay Members of the Church in the Assembly Miel Rooms Lincoln - The Bishop in the Chair '

' Race for Doggett's Coat And Badge: The Finish ' boat race from The Old Swan at London Bridge to The White Swan at Chelsea Sleekburnc.

' The Goodwood Race Cup '

' The Chesterfield Cup ' horse racing

' Stamford Races - the Clifden Cup '

' Chess Problem by Captain Clark of Smeinogorsk in Siberia '

Constitutional Reforms in France

' Show of Fox Hounds at Lincoln - with a list of the winners and kennels etc

Foreign and Colonial News -Ffrance with ref. to The French Senate etc - Spain - Portugal - Belgium - Italy - Austro Hungary - Germany - Russian - Turkey and Egypt - America ( US ) - India

Metropolitan News

Weekly Return of Births and Deaths with number of deaths from Zymotic diseases - Smallpox - measles - scarlet fever - diptheria - whooping cough - typhus - enteric - cholera - phthisis etc

The Union Pacific Railway of America

Salt Lake City and The Great Salt Lake Sleekburnc.

' Imperial Parliament

The Magazines

Country News

The Markets with ref. to the price of grain - turnip - Bread - Hat and Straw - Linseed and rape seed etc - Tallow - Coals from Sunderland Newcastle Hartlepool and Blyth etc - Offle

Meeting of the Royal National Life Boat Institution at John Street, Adelphi - with a list of awards to various people and lifeboats

Scientific Results of the Month

Doggetts Copat and Badge Race - boat race with ref to the winner George Wright of Bermondsey with ref and names of other competitors etc

The Goodwood and Chesterfield Cup

Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Vice Admiral George Henry Seymour MP for Antrim died at Hampton Court Palace - - - General William Chamberlayne died at his Seat Orford House in Essex - - - Joseph Bute Jukes Esq MA FRS Director of HM Survey of Ireland and Professor of Geology to the Royal Collegs of Science

Wills and Bequests includes The Right Hon. Edward Lawless and Lord Baron Cloncurry of Lyons Castle Kildare etc - - - Sir George Sinclair of Ulster - - - Admiral Sir George Robert Lambert GCB - - - Robert Falkner Esq., Merchant of Broughton Park in Lancaster - - - Mis s Louisa Perry of Avenue Road in Regents Park - - - William Carr of St Marys Church Torquay Devon - - - Edmund Slocock Esq JP for Berks late of Bellevue House Chelsea Sleekburnc.

Law and Police includes Raid on Gambling House at Wormholt Scrubbs

The Farm

And more

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Regatta at Ryde Isle of Wight – Finish of the Race of The Royal Victoria Yacht Club, for the Vice Commodores Plate ' front page showing yachts: The cutter Oimara owned by Mister C. J. Tennant, crossing the line, and the schooner Cambria, owned Mister J. Ashbury

' Highgate nr London – Croquet Tournament on the Grounds of the Grammar School, Arranged by the National Croquet Club ' view of the players playing in the tournament and spectators looking on – various houses and marquees in the background

' St Peter Port Guernsey – The New Harbour and Castle Cornet ' an engraving showing a view from the road

' Invalides, Paris – The Deum on the Hundreth Anniversary of the Birth of Napoleon I ' full page print from engraving showing a service being held in Cathedrale Saint Louis des Invalides

Sketches of Exeter in Devon-:

' Old Houses in North Street '

' Fore Street – Old Chemist Shop etc '

' Westgate Quarter ' row of old houses with a small river running underneath

' Rogemont Castle '

' The Guildhall '

' Vancouner Island - St Andrews Church atVictoria ' small engraving

' New Church at Genthod In Switzerland '

' St Lukes Church at Howick in Natal, South Africa '

'Isle of Wight – The London City Missionaries Seaside Home at Bonchurch '

' Greenock – The New hospital and Infirmary ' …by architect Messrs Salmon and Ritchie of Glasgow

The Crimea -:

' Sevastopol – the Russian Memorial Military Chapel ' the Saint Nicholas church at the Brotherhood cemetery Ukraine - ???????? ???????? ?? ???????? ???????

' The Interior of the Chapel at Sebastopol ' full apge print from engraving showing artists, stonemasons, etc working on the interior

' Havana in Cuba – The Palace of Arms ' full page print from engraving – info. Palacio de los Capitanes Generales in the Plaza de Armas - Museo de la Ciudad

' Chess Problem by Mister W. C. Cotton of Tynemouth '

Improved Workmens Dwellngs in London with ref. to The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd – Alderman Sir Sydney Waterlow – Miss Octavia Hill – Mr Ruskin

Foreign and Colonial News includes:

France with mention of the death of Marshal Niel - - - Prince Imperial at Chalons – Fetes in paris

Spain

Portugal

Italy and the murder of The Contessa Armanda da Novara In a railway carriage - - Violent Deaths in Italy

Austro Hungary – with mention of the Austrian Reichsrath delegation and Herrens Dietrichstein, Wachter, Mertens, Neumann, Handel and Wuellerstorf etc

Germany

Sweden

Russia

Turkey and Egypt

Persia

America

India

Country news with ref. to:

"protest by Rector and gentry of the parish on the proposed revival of old custom of presenting flitches of bacon … the stupid vulgarity closed with a procession and fireworks…"

Telegraph from Plymouth to Eddystone lighthouse

Meeting of the South Devon Archery Club in Powderham park

New Dock at Leith …

Wesleyan Methodist Conference at Hull …

Ramsgate Broadstiars and Margate "visited with Countless million of insects known as ladybirds…"

Earl of Shrewsbury gives refreshments to a munber of gentry, farmers and tradespoeple of Market Harborugh, at Alton Towers …

Working Mens Coub Institute Union of the Strand in London visit Hurstbourne park near Whitchurch in Hants by invitation of Earl of Portsmouth…

Croquet Tournament at Highgate – a list of contenders etc

Illustrated London News editorial

The Court – Royal Comings and Goings

Law and Police includes:

Setting asdide the Bankruptcy of the Duke of Newcastle on the ground that he was a peer …

Henry Fitzwarrine Chichester in the Court of Bankruptcy, son of Lord Edward Chichester

Mr Praeger a Professor of Clifton College receives £1500 in damages …

Thomas Richards a Police inspector of the Brighton Railway Co. convicted of bribery …

Inquest of Griffith Griffiths at College Arms St Pancras …

Robbery and Outrage in Old Kent Road

Charges of Attempted Suicide

Joseph Kay a Wine Cooper charged, on his own admission, with the murder of his two young children – a fabrication …

New Acts of Parliament

Monetary and Commercial Transactions

the Markets - Prices of Food, Wheat – B read – Turnip – Linseed – Tallow – Coals, Newcatle, Sunderland, Blyth, Scotch, Welsh, York – Meat

The Russian Memorial Chapel at Sevastopol – with mention of the artists from the School of St Petersburgh, assigned to work on the interior, Wassilieff, Kubbanoff, KJarnieff, and Izello of Italy

The Palace of Arms at Havannah

The Regatta at Ryde

Decimal Coinage and the Metric System – with ref. to the Standards Commission

Music, Theatres etc

Sports column with mention of:

A sale of Kettledrums at the Whitehall sale lot at York, The Boy and Sunshine, Manuella etc

The Bags on Glenshero Invernesshire (hunting)

The Farm with ref. to:

The Northumberland Society Show at Hexham with mention of Mr Jacob Wilson – Mr Saunder's Edgar – Mr George Head – Mr Elliot of Hindhope – M. Miel – Mr John Booth -

Mr William Taylor of Thingehill Court Herefordshire testing the Grout and Farmer Patent for Growing Hops

Mr John Grey of Dilston (nr Hexham) by His Daughter – small 60 words

Nothing in the Papers Column with mention of Mr Disraeli and Mr Gladstone – Mr Knox – Mr Bright

Naval and Military – Appointments etc with mention of General Sir William J. Codrington – Winners of the Marksmens Prizes, Private Wheeler, Private Caesar, Private Searle, Sgt Poulton, Privates Hopper, Tipper etc – Lieutenant Colonel Wood – Private W. Leadbetter – Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lindsay - Lieutenant Colonel Du Plat Taylor – Colonel Stedall – and many more

The Council on Education Prizes – List inc. W. H. Sounes of Sheffield – Louisa Gann of Bloomsbury – D. W. Raimbach of Birmingham – Susan A. Ashworth of Edinburgh – S. Reive - W. C. Way of Newcastle on Tyne – J. S. Goepel of Frome etc

Ships Leaving from Liverpool for USA, Canada, South America, New Zealand, East Indies etc. including several puddlers from nthye Black Country and Spinners fro mPreston leaving for the United States

Mr Henry D. Jencken a Barrister, attacked by the enraged populace of Lorca of Murcia in Spain

Literature – Books reviewed include:

The Annals of Rural Bengal by W. W. Hunter of the Bengal Civil Service

The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

The Weddding Day in All Ages and Countries by Edward J. Wood

From London Bridge to Lombardy by W R. Richardson

Bible Animals by Rev. J. G. Wood MA FLS etc

The Ministers Wife by Mrs Oliphant

The Perfect Treasure (Tinsley)

Obituary of Eminent Persons include:

Adolphe Niel - Marshal of France, Grand Cross of Legion of Honour died at hi Residence at the Ministry of War

The Right Hon. Susan Alice, Viscountess Combermere died at Combermere Abbey Nantwich in Cheshire

The Right Hon Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn Lord Justice PC LL.D Reive died at his seat Pagoda House, Richmond

John Thomas Rossborough-Colclough Esq of Tinterne Abbey County Wexford died at New Park near Dublin

The Hon. Emily Eden the Author, daughter of the Late Baron Auckland, Sir Gilbert Elliott

Wills and Bequests:

Right hon. James Edmund Baron Cranstoun of Creeling, North Britain

The Right Hon. Lepel Charlotte, Lady Alexander – (small announc.)

Sir William à Beckett retired Chief Justice of the Colony of Victoria

Sir Robert Juckes Clifton MP (short)

Alexander William Rowland of Champion Hill, Lower Sydenham, and of Hatton Garden

Walter Stevenson Davidson Esq., a banker of St James's St

Weekly Return of Births and Deaths

Birmingham - The Erdington Orphanage The Gift of Mister Josiah Mason ' Front page

' Mr Josiah Mason of Birmingham The Founder of the Erdington Almshouses and Orphanage '

' Hakodadi - The Japanese Imperial Fleet Attacking the Rebels ' - info. Hakodate Japan

' Bay and Harbour of St Jago de Cuba ' full page print from engraving - info. St. Iago de Cuba or more commonly Santiago

' Bastia on Corsica - Empress of the French and Prince Imperial ' full page print from engraving of the harbour with crowds of people

' Glasgerion by T. R. Lamont ' full page print from engraving - info. harpist

' The International Exhibiton at Amsterdam ' full page print from engraving of the interior of the hall

' Holy Trinity Church at Wildbad nr Wurtemberg ' - info. Württemberg in Germany

' The Forest Farm by Arthur J. Stark ' Sleekburnc.

' Ajaccio on Corsica - The Empress and Prince Imperial Visiting the House Where Napoleon I Was Born '

' Antwerp - Funeral of Baron Henri Leys the Belgian Painter '

' Corsica - The Empress of the French and Prince Imperial Landing at Ajaccio ' full page print from engraving showing a view of the bay or harbour with sailing and steam ships

The Pacific Union Railway of America

' The Hanging Rock at Echo Canyon Utah '

' The Dial Rocks Utah '

' The Monument Rock Utah '

' Chess Problem by Mr T. Smith '

A New Phase of American Politics

Foreign and Colonial News

Country News includes Ring Found o nIlfracombe Beach belonging to originally Lord Rolle - - - Severe Thu8nderstorm at Todmorden ne Bradford - - - Gang of Pachers at Sankey Bridge Warrington - - - etc

Mr Josiah Mason of Birmingham

The Illustrated London New Editorial

The Church - Preferments and Appointments

Universities and Public Schools - Oxford and Cambridge including Exam results etc - - Eton College - - Reading Grammar School - - Andersons University Glasgow - - Kensington Proprietary School

Music - The Norwich Festival - - - The Worcester Festival

National Sports

The Industries of Scotland - exerts from a book by David Bremner Sleekburnc.

The Warsop Aero Steam Engine - Letter to the Editor of the ILN from Mr Richard Eaton

Law and Police

The Markets with ref. to the Corn Exchange and Grain prices - Bread prices - Turnip prices - Hay and Straw prices Coal prices from Newcastle Sunderland Hartlepool Blyth Scotych Welsh and York -Tallow prices - Meat prices

Glasgerion including a poem

Pacific union Railway America

Weekly Return of Births and Deaths Sleekburnc.

Obituary of Eminent Persons includes General The Hon. Sir Charles Gore GCB etc Died at his Official Residence at Chelsea hospital - - - Sir Charles George Young DCL died at his residence in Prince's Terr Hyde park - - - Mary The Hon Mrs Henry Ward Killec at Parsonstown Kings Co. - - - Edward Christopher Egerton Esq MP Eastern Div. Cheshire died at Bavano in Italy from Sunstroke - - - General George Conran died at 56 Pulteney Street Bath - - - Colonel Robert Terry died at Winchester

And adverts of the day

Death of The Earl of Derby of Knowsley Park nr Liverpool: ' Knowsley Church - The Funeral of the Earl of Derby ' Sleekburnc.

' The Boat House at Knowsley '

' The Police Lodge at Knowsley '

' Knowley - The Huyton Lodge '

' The Broad Walk at Knowsley '

' Ormskirk Church – Place of Sepulture of the Old Earls of Derby '

' Vault in Knowsley Church, the Place of Sepulture of the Late Earl ' – info. crypt - Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley

' The Funeral Procession Leaving Knowsley House ' full page print from engraving

' The Thames Embankment at Westminster – the Works of the Metropolitan District Railway ' full page print from engraving showing workers, a steam engine, horses and carts etc

' The Hall of The Skinners Company – the Sheriffs Inauguration Banquet ' a full page print from engraving showing a grand banquet taking place in a beautiful wood panelled hall, with ornate ceiling, various banners and flags on display, three rows of tables, and a top table – info. "Skinners" referring to the fur trade or furriers of London, an historical guild

' Paris Winter Fashions – Ten Hat and Bonnet Designs ' there is a list which describes the hats on a previous page

' Paris Winter Fashions – Robes and Mantles ' dresses and coats – as above

' The Lord Mayor Elect of London – Alderman Robert Besley '

' The New China Clipper "Caliph" Built at Aberdeen ' built by Alexander Hall and Co. for Mr Alexander Hector of London

Holborn Valley Viaduct London:

' Historical Stone Statues on the Farringdon Street Bridge – Sir W. Walworth – Fitz Alwyne First Lord Mayor – Sir Thomas Gresham - Sir Hugh Myddelton ' near full page

' Bronze Allegorical Statues o the Piers of The Farringdon Street Bridge ' near full page

' The Blackfriars new Bridge Over the Thames ' a half double page panoramic print from engraving, a view showing the complete bridge, boats, steamboats, sail-boats, rafts etc in the foreground and St Pauls Cathedral in the background

The Insurrection in Dalmatia -:

' The Bocche de Cattaro in Dalmatia ' a print from engraving showing a view of a waterway or lake, sailing boat and houses, and a backdrop of mountains

' Looking from Porto Nuovo – A View up the Bocche di Cattaro ' info. Bay of Kotor - Boka Kotorska, ???? ???????? in Montenegro and Croatia

' Castel Nuovo at Cattaro ' – info. Castelnuovo - Herceg Novi

' Cattaro From the Road Leading to Castelnuovo '

Fromsketches by Mr P. w> G. Canning an Officer of HMS Duke of Wellington

' Blackfriars New Bridge – One of the Ornate Piers '

' Chess Problem by Mister I. W. Abbott '

Queen Victoria Visit to the City to Open the Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars Bridge

Foreign and Colonial News:

France with mention of Baron Werther – Princess Mathilde – The Search for the Body of Kinck senior

Spain

Italy

America – with mention of President Grand – General William M. Belknap of Iowa – Father Hyacinthe at New York – Steamer Stonewall Bound from St Louis to New Orleans, Catches Fire near Cairo

Germany

Canada with mention of Sir John Macdonald

India

New Zealand with mention of Dr Featherston – Hon. Mr Dillon Bell

Metropolitan News – Temple Gardens Gay with Chrysanthemums by Reive Mr Broome and Mr dale the Gardeners - - - Meeting of the Governors of the Hospital for Sick Children, Hon Arthur Kinnaird Presided - - - New School for Apprentices at 44 Clerkenwell Green – etc

Illustrated London News Editorial

The Court – Royal Comings and Goings

Country News includes:

Sir Titus Salt

Sudden Storms on the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Coasts, Boston, Scarborough

Mr George Earle a Native of Falmouth, but Lived in Philadelphia

Tenant Right and Fenian Meetings in Ireland

Law and Police includes:

Two Prisoners Charged at the Old Bailey with Murder

Plate Robbery at Bow Street, Walter Smith Sleekburnc.

Shoe Maker Named Russell Charged at Worship St Police Court with Miel Setting Fire to His Premises

A Curious Post Office Case Before Mister Vaughan at Bow Street Police Court

Daring Robbery near Barnsley

Inquest into the Death of Mrs Emily Fowler at Penge

aThe Registrar Generals Quarterly Return

Monetary and Commercial Transactions

The Royal Humane Society

Letter to the Editor of the ILN on Convalescent Hospitals and Orphan Homes from Catherine Marsh

Returns of the Poor Law Board

Return Showing Number of Persons Taken to Prison in 1866 and 1867 under the County Courts Act

Archaeology of the Month

Scientific Results of the Month – Review by Professor Williamson "What is BAthybius" - - - Francis Ellerhausen Patent for Producing Wrought Iron in America - - - M. Tessie du Moptay and Gasworks for the Production of Oxygen System in New York

The War Office - Naval and Military Appointments List

Weekly Return of Births and Deaths

Obituary of Eminent Persons include:

Lady Elizabeth Wells of Holme House, Huntingdonshire

John Newton Lane Esq JP of Staffordshire died at his seat Kings Bromley Manor near Lichfield

Major General Egerton Charles William Miles Milman former commander at Mauritius died at His Residenc The Old Palace, Richmond

Professor John Conington died at his native town of Boston in Lincs

Frederick North Esq of Rougham and of Hastings Lodge, Sussex MP for Hastings

George Macartney Esq of Lisanoure Castle County Antrim

Death of The Marquis of Westminster at Eaton Hall Cheshire

Wills and Bequests include:

Edward Christopher Egerton Esq MP., Of Mountfield Court near Robertsbridge, Sussex and of Lowndes Square Knightsbridge

Rev. Samuel Thomas Bloomfield D.D. Honary Canon of Peterborough, Vicar of Bisbrooke, Rutlandshire

William Bullar Esq MD of Basset Wood, North Stoneham, Southampton

February 13th

• The Spanish Revolution: The Governor murdered in Burgos Cathedral. (article with front page illustration)
• The Albama Convention: Between Great Britain & the United States. (article)
• France: The death of Princess Baciocchi (the Emperor's cousin) & death of Marquis Leonel de Moustier (Foreign Affairs Minister).
• Enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury: The procession passing up the Nave of Canterbury Cathedral.
• Historical Figures in Canterbury Cathedral
• Royal Institution Lectures: Mr. Fergusson's discourse on Tree and Serpent Worship, in the recently discovered Indian monuments (described in his book), which comprises illustrations of mythology and art in India, in the first and fourth centuries after Christ.
• Funeral Procession of the Prince Royal of Belgium leaving the Palace of Laeken.

• The new Bishop of Lincoln & his ancient Palace
• The death of Admiral Sir James Gordon, Governor of Greenwich Hospital.
• Fetes of the Victory of Egypt at Cairo: the Dromedary-Race + Regatta at Ismailia, on Lake Timsah.

• Fetes of the Victory of Egypt at Cairo: The Ball with Prince & Princess of Wales invited.

• The New Overland Route and the Railway Tunnel of the Alps
• The Exhibition of the society of Female Artists in Conduit-street
• Mr. Henry Leslie's concerts resumed at St. James's Hall

February 27th

• five woodcut engravings of the Prince and Princess of Wales in Cario, Egypt.
• woodcuts of the new Ministry; Lords of the Treasury.
• a woodcut of the burning on shore of a slave-dhow to escape capture.
• a woodcut of the cutter HMS. Daphne capturing a slave-dhow off Brora
• Meeting The Reformed Parliament: Procession Of The Speaker Of The House Of Commons To The Bar Of The House Of Lords (Front Page - Politics)
  The Prince Of Wales In Egypt: The Dahabieh Or Nile Boat, For The Prince And Princess ()
  Saloon Of The Nile Boat ()
  The Prince And Princess Of Wales In Egypt: The Palace Of Esbekieh, Cairo ()
  The Prince And Princess Of Wales In Egypt: The Viceroy Introducing Mrs Santon To The Princess ()
  The New Ministry: Lords Of The Treasure - Rt Hon W E Gladstone - Mr C Glyn - Rt Hon James Stansfeld - Rt Hon Robert Lowe ( With Portraits)
  Ball Supper In The Galerie De Diane, At The Tuileries, ( - France, Paris)
  The Empress Eugenie's New Abyssinian Page ( - Royalty)
  The New Court Costume ()
  Scene Of The Recent Accident At South Woodside, Kelvinbridge, Glasgow ( - Scotland)
  Supression Of The Slave Trade On The East Coast Of Africa - The Cutter Of H.M.S. Daphne Capturing A Slave Dhow To Escape Of Brora ()
  Running On Shore Of A Slave Show To Escape Capture ()
  All Saints Church, Sheffield ( - Yorkshire)
  Travelling In Africa: The Rain-Pool By The Way ()
  

May 1st

• Workmen waiting to be engaged in Paris.
• A State Banquet at the Tuileries.
• The New Ministry: Portraits of Earl of Clarendon, Duke of Argyll, H A Bruce, Earl Granville, E Cardwell.
• In Commemoration of the Duke`s (Wellington) Birthday.
• Colombia Market, Bethnall Green, London.
  Colombia Market, Bethnall Green, London. The Quadrangle.
  Lismore Castle, Ireland.
  Townhall, Burlsem.
  Conflict between workmen and Soldiers at the Seraing Ironworks, Belgium.
  Rthe Amir of Cabul, on his way to Peshawar.
  Bicycle Tournament at Liverpool.
  

May 8th

• Sculptured Marble found in the Forum of Constantine at Constantinople.
• The Bazaar at Constantinople.
• Grand Mass in the Tuileries, Paris.
• View of Londonderry, Ireland, visit by Prince Arthur. Excellent view.
• The Volunteer Review at Portsmouth, attack on Southsea Castle.
  The Volunteer Review at Portsmouth, attack on King Williams Gate.
  The Volunteer Review at Portsmouth, accident.
  The New Pier at Scarborough. A good engraving.
  Art Supplement
  "Undine" sculpture by A Munro.
  Portrait: E J Poynter ARA
  Portrait: George Mason ARA
  "Bernabo Visconti" by Giannetti.
  "Persuading Papa" by J Pettie.
  "Fair Helen of Kirkconnel" by J Archer
  "The Prodigal`s return" by E J Poynter.
  "The First Time of Asking" by W Hemsley.
  "The Unwelcome visitor" by E Ansdell.
  

May 15th

• The Devon Valley Railway in Scotland. 4 views as follows: Castle Campbell, Near Dollar, The Rumbling Brig & Gorge in the Burn of Care.
• The Paris Halles Centrales.
• Execution of Prisoners in Cuba
  Belfast from Newtownbreda, Ireland.
  2 s Illustrated article of the Art Collection in the South Kensington Museum, London. 11 relics shown.
  Statue of Richard Oastler at Bradford.
  All Saints church, Sehore, Bhopal, India.
  St Jude`s Church, Brockwell Park, Brixton.
  Ely Lough, Lough Erne, County Fermanagh.
  The Windings of Lough Erne.
  New Building of the Tuileries, Place du Carousel. P
  

May 22nd

• The New Chapel of St John`s College, Cambridge.
• The Crimea revisited. Lord Raglan`s HQ.
• The Crimea revisited. Balaclava.
• "The Rich Widow" by D W Wynfield.
  Review before the Emperor, Bois de Boulogne, Paris.
  Inspection of the Essex Rifles Militia at Colchester.
  Port Erin - Isle of Man: Prince Arthur`s visit.
  Peel Castle - Isle of Man: Prince Arthur`s visit.
  Castle Rushen - Isle of Man: Prince Arthur`s visit.
  The Elections in Paris; A Meeting in the Low Quarter.
  The Elections in Paris; A Meeting in a Fashionalbe Quarter.
  Memorial Fountain of the Late Marquis of Waterford.
  Bushmans cave, Eland berg, Kat River, South Africa.
  

June 5th

• The Royal Thames Yacht Club Match: Finish Of The Race (Front Page)
  South Staffordshire Industrial Exhibition At Wolverhampton ( )
  A Brood Of Partridges ( - Game Birds)
  Cruise Of The Naval Reserve: The Squadron Making For The Rendezvous Of Scilly ()
  The Crimea Revisited: The French Cemetry ()
  The Crimea Revisited: Graves Of British Soldiers ()
  The New Treaty Port Of Hakadadi, Japan ()
  Paris Fashions For June ()
  Pretender, Winner Of The Derby ( - Horse Racing - Epsom)
  Fireworks At The Crystal Palace ()
  The Elections In France (Two s
  

some of the content July to December

• Blackfriars Bridge on the Thames (double page panoramic)
• The Queen's Visit to London at the Opening of the Holborn Valley Viaduct
• Opening of Suez Canal: Blessing the Canal at the Port Said in Presence of the Imperial and Royal VIsitors
• The Queen's Visit to London at Opening of the Blackfriars New Bridge
• Prize Cattle Pigs and sheep at the Smithfield Club Show
• The King's rescue
• The Grand Processin of the ecumenical Council in St. Peter's at Rome
• Removal of Mr. Peabody's remains fromt he Railway to the HMS Monach at Portsmouth
• Troop Review at Windsor,
• Education of Agricultural labourers,
• Insurrection in Cuba,
• Great Room at the Academy,
• Paris Fashions,
• French Atlantic Telegraph,
• Queens View Lake Lucerne,
• Cape Anteater,
• The Russian Cemetery,
• northisde of harbour of Sebastopol,
• steam boiler expolsion at Bingley Yorkshire,
• Bermuda floating dock,
• Reception of the Viceroy of Egypt,
• Stafford House,
• Central Hall of Royal Academy,
• summer Evening in Paris,
• White War Horse,
• French Atlantic telegraph laying (many engravings),
• New Baths and Pumproom Hotel in Bath,
• Choral Festival of Royal Horticultural Society,
• Crystal Palace,
• Sutherlandshire Gold Diggings,
• Crimea Revistied (digging for cannonballs),
• Moreton Bay Fig Tree of Australian Banyan,
• Cerberus Turretship Melbourne Harbour,
• Opening of Alexandria Dock at King's Lynn,
• Christening of the Infant son of the court of Flanders at Brussels, pigeon shooting match of the Hurlington Club, Mr. Spurgeon's orphanage Stockwell.. Wimbleton Rifle Meeting: THe London Scottish Drinking the health of the winner of the Quueen's Prize, Hen Pheasant and Young by Harrison Weir, Scenes from Wimbleton Rifle Meetings, Antiquities of the Crimea, Rock cut church at Inkerman, Remains of Church of St. Vladimir at Kherson, Orpahnage Asylum at Watford, Launch of Screw Corvette Thalia at Woolwich Dockyards, The Sailor's Orphans Girl's Home at Hampstead, Bermuda floating dock at Porto Santo, Linlithgow, Meeting of Royal Agricultural SOciety at Manchester, Prince and Princess of Wales :anding at Throstle Nest in Old Trafford on the Bridgewater canal, Prize Cattle and goat, Opening of the Albert Dock, the trophy at the Officer's Ball of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment at Willis Rooms, SIr Frederick Arrow laying the last dstone of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse off Land's End, George Peabody statue at the Royal Exchange, Reception of the Prince and Princess of Wals at the Railway Station at Hull, Messrs. ClLayton and Shuttleworth's Works, Twin-Screw Turretship Captain, Agricultural Museum, Bowling Street Westminster, Princes Louisa laying the first stone of the second pair of buildings of the National Cottage Hospital, Ventor, Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark, Meeting of the Lay members of the church in Lincoln,. Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge, Stamford Races Clifden Cup, Scenes from the National Artillary Association at Shoeburyness Shooting for the Queen's Prize, Princess Teck inaugurating a drinking Fountain in Regen's Park, Marriage of Crown Prince of Denmark with Princes Louisa of Sweden, Fireworks at Christiania, Opening of the French Senate, Cromwell House ighgate, Hospital for SIck Children ormond Street, Fairlie's steam carriage for short distances, Men of the 8th Bengal Calvary at Kurtub, Royal Victoria Yacht Club Regatta, Croquet tournament at Highgate, Castle Cornet and new Harbour of St. Peter Port Guernsey, 100th Anniversary of the birth of Napoleon, Te Deum at the Invalides, Exeter Westgate Quarer, North Street Exeter, Fore Street Exeter, Gukildhall Exeter, ROugemont Castle Exeter, Russian Memorial Military Church, fireworks at the Trocadero,London's Working Men's CLub, Kiosk for the sale of bibles in Seville, Reception for the Duke of Edinburgh at Auckland, New Zealand, Tuileries Palace New Buildings, Custom House CopenHagen (Prince and Princess of Denmark), Presentation of colours to the 91st Argyleshire Highlanders at Dover, Plymouth and Devenport, TOrpedo from HMS Cambridge, Open air theatre at Paris, Lichfield Cathedral, The Yacht Kate of Three Tons sailing around Great Britain, Chinese deer at the zoological societ's Garden, Danish Royal Wedding entering Copenhagen beneath arch of Holmen's Canal, FGarden of Rosenborg Copenhagen, the Erdington Orphange near Birmingham, Japanese Imperial FLeet Attacking the Rebels of Hakodadi, Bay and Harbour of St. jago de Cuba, Corsica Landing at Bastia, International Exhibition at Amsterdam, Holy Trinity Church WIldbad Wurtemberg, Hose where Napoleon I was born at Ajaccio, Funeral of Baron Henri Leys (Belgian Painter) Antwerp, Loch Lomond from Inch Tavanagh Highlands, Philanthropic DSociety's Farm School Redhill Surrey, New Townhall Stratford Essex, Arrival of Channel Fleet with the Lords of the Admiralty at GIbraltar, THe Queen in the Highlands, Ben Venue Loch Achray and the Trosachs, Gathering Bilberries, SKetches from Northeast Coast of Scotland, St. Paul's Rock in the Atlantic Ocean, Flemish Painter Baron Leys, Andaman Monkey Smoking a Pipe, New Promenade at Douglas Isla of Man, views of the Imperial Visit to Corsical, the Fetes in Belgium, Ostens, Bay of Kawau New Zealand, Bay of Islands New Zealand, Funeral of Lady Palmerson in Westminster Abbey, Island of Shadwan in the Gulf of Suez where Bombay Main steampacket Carnatic was wrecked, Boat Race, Wreck of Avonmore on Cornish COast, Prince Arthur in Halifax, Ball in Halifax, Closing of the Woolwich Dockyard, Monument of Geneva of the Union of Geneva with the Swiss COnfederation, Registration of the Livery in Guildhall Yard, St. Mary's Scilly Isles, Swiss National Festivalat Genevea, the Phoenix Tower on the CIty Walls of Chester, , City of Chester Watergate Row, the Prudhoe memorial Convalescnet Home at Whitley NOrthumberland, THe new COrn Exchange and Market at Shrewsbury, St. Andrew's Cathedral in Inverness, Destruction of the ships by fire in the Bordeaux Harbor, Scene of Fire and Explosion at Bayswater, Landing of Prince Arthur at QUebec, Native South Africa Camp at Daka Zambesi Valley, Chester Water Tower, Stanley Palace Chester, New Townhall at Chester, Gulf of Suez, the Holborn Valley Viaduct Looking East, St. John's Episcopal Church Alloa, Destructive Fire at Bordeaux, Marquis de Lavalette, New Free Balcony Church Glasgow, Prince of Wales Opening New Townhall in chester, The Fenian Amnesty Meeting At Cabra near Dublin, 200th Anniversary Festival of the Native's Society at Winchester, Ancient Hindo Temple at Bindrabund, Tomps of Dunhill Fields Cemetery (including John Bunyan, Dr. Isaac Watts, Thomas Stothard, Daniel Defoe, Mrs. SUsan Wesley, Liettenant General Fleetwood, Rev John Rippon), Butt SHooting a cherry (kids' play), Scenery of New Zealand, Wairarapa New Zealand, Kauminga Creek Wairarapa, Grosvenor Hotel Eastgate Street Chester, City Road Chester, Fort Beaufort South Africa, Story of the Tower and the Gunpowder plot, Lord Derby Speech, Lodge Gate Knowsley, Knowsley Church, Knowsley Park looking Toward Liverpool, The Lake in Knowlsley Park, Knowlsely House, The Late Earl of Derby, SHooting Range of the 3rd Manchester Rifle Volunteers, Unitarian Chapel in Todmorden, Dr. Moberly Bishop of Salisbury, The house in which Sir Joshua Reynolds was born in Plympton Devon, The thames subways at towers, Canadian Provinces Confederation Medals, works of the Metropolitan District Railway on the Thames Embankment at Westminster, Hall of the Skinner's Company, Bonnet and Hat fashions, robes and mantles fashions, Alderman Robert Besley Lord Mayor Elect of London, The Holborn Valley Viaduct, Statues for the Farbingdon Street Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge on the Thames (double page panoramic), Smithfield Metropolitan Meat Market, , Inssurection in Dalmatia, Bocche Di Cattaro from Porto Nuovo, Prince of Wales at Scarborogh Fireworks, Paris Entrance to Cemetery of Pere La Chasie, the Amsterdam Sea Canals, Haymarket Theatre, Great easter Leaving the Harbour, Murree in the Punjaub, Wesleyan College in Lausanne, St. john's Church Hoylandswaine near Penistone, Funeral of Mr. Paebody in Westminster Abbey, Ruins of the Cumberland Lodge Windsor Park after the fire, Prince's Theatre Manchester, GOvernment House Lahore Punjaub, Dort Holland Railway Bridge Works, Paper Chase of the thames Hare-and-hound club at Roehampton Bottom, Underground meeting at the Puteaux quarries at the Paris Elections, Funeral of Admiral Warden at portsmouth, Playa Pbra Cove in Strait of Magellan, Lamberth, Pall Mall, Cape of Good Hope, Foxhound accident at Kenilworth, Disaster on the Rhine near Dusseldorf, Sketches of Lincoln including the Jew's House, Lord Lytton, Opening of Suez Canal, trinity United Presbyyterian Church in ROchdale, Lord Napier of Magdala reception, Regatta, Prize Turkeys and Ducks and Pigeons, Confirmation of Bishop Temple at Bow Church in Cheapside, Granvale Church, Emperor of Austria ascending the Great Pyrimid of Giza,
• Ragged School on Clare Market,

November 13th

• Queen Victoria at the Surrey End of Blackfriars Bridge ' Front page
• Farromgdon Street Passing the Holborn Valley Viaduct ' wonderful full page print from engraving
• Smithfield - Passing by The Metropolitan Meat Market ' Full page print from engraving
• Queen Victoria Opening the Holborn Valley Viaduct ' a double page print from engraving - One of the Buildings is Negretti and Zambra
• Presentations to Her Majesty on the Holborn Valley Viaduct ' full page

' Scene at the Globe Theatre ...'

' The Prince of Wales at Scarborough - A Fireworks Display - with Hotels and Park in the Foreground '

The Jour Des Morts at Paris and The Entrance to the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise ' full page print from engraving

' Blackfriars New Bridge ' double page print from engraving

' Chess Problem by Mr H. E. Kidson of Liverpool '

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Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including :-
The Late Mr George Peabody

Foreign and Colonial News includes France and references to " La Lanterne " - - Italy and King Victor Miel Emmanuel - - And More

Metropolitan News with reference to Miss Elizabeth Soul and the Alexandra Orphanage for Infants at Hornsey Rise - - Plus more

' Country News includes A Whale Cast Ashore at Longriddy - - The Fenians - Professor Edward Caird - - And More

Weekly Return of Births and Deaths - Reference to numbers having died of Measles - Zymotic Diseases - Smallpox - - Typhus - - Kiarrhoea - - Enteric Fever - Whooping Cough - - Phthisis - - and more

The Court at Windsor Etc

Illustrate4d London News Editorial

Mr Byrons New Play at The Globe

Letters From Dr Livingstone

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes The Right Hon. Sir Richard GrosvenorThe Marquis of Westminster died at Fonthill in Wiltshire - - - Mr George Peabody The Great American Philanthropist died at Sir Curtis Lampsons Residence Eaton Square London - - - John Bruce Esq FSA - - - General Robert Bartlett Coles - - - The Rev John Clarke Haden Precentor of Westminster Abbey '

Wills and Bequests incudes Lieutenant Colonel Sir Trevor Wheler of Limerick House Leamington Warwickshire - - - Robert Bright Esq of Bristol and Abbots Leigh Somerset - - - Wiliam Edgar Esq of Piccadilly and Eagle House Clapham Common - - - Charles Moore Esq MP late of Mooresfort in Tipperary and 19 Grafton Street

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