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sell, Mr. P. Wood, amendment ear-
ried, [187]; Baron Rothschild being
called to the table to be sworn on the
Old Testament, omits the words "on
the true faith of a Christian" from
the oath of abjuration; he is ordered
to withdraw; debate on motion that
a new writ be issued, Mr. P. Wood
speaks in favour of Baron Rothschild,
the Attorney-General against, [190];
resolutions moved by the Attorney-
General that Baron Rothschild is not
entitled to vote or sit in the House
until he has taken the usual oaths,
and that the House will take into
consideration the form of the oath
early next Session, his speech, [191];
Mr. Hume's amendment, debate, re-
solutions carried, [193]

Minor Measures of the Session-
Intramural interments, extension of
the County Courts, Mercantile Ma-
rine Bill, [193]; Parliament pro-
rogued by the Queen in person, the
Speaker's Address, [194]; the Queen's
Speech, [195]; the Queen's passage
to the House of Lords, 101
Parliamentary Elections--Lymington,

62; Devonport, Southampton, Mayo,
90; Lambeth, 96; Cambridge, 128;
Limerick, St. Alban's, Aylesbury,

158

PATENTS, 472

Peel, fatal accident to Sir Robert, 81, see
PARLIAMENT

PIEDMONT AND SARDINIA-Address of
the Senate in answer to the Speech
from the Throne, [295]; liability of
ecclesiastics to the secular tribunals,
the Siccardi laws, [296]; opposition
of Franzoni, Archbishop of Turin,
[296]; is summoned before the Court
of Appeal and condemned, [297];
refuses the sacraments to M. Santa
Rosa unless he repudiated the Siccardi
laws, [297]; he is arrested and sen-
tenced to banishment, the Servi
monks expelled, [298]; the Arch-
bishop of Cagliari ordered to depart,
[298]

POETRY, 477

PORTUGAL Speech of the Queen on
opening the Cortes, [280]
PRICES OF STOCK in each month, highest
and lowest, 415
PROMOTIONS, 291
PRUSSIA, see GERMANY

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS-FINANCE ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR 1850, 344; TABLE OF
STATUTES, 13 & 14 Vict., 363; STATE
PAPERS-Treaty with the Republic of

Public Documents-continued.

Liberia, 375; Treaty with the Re-
public of Costa Rica, 378; Treaty
with the Dominican Republic, 383;
Convention with the United States
relative to a Ship-Canal between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 387;
Convention with Denmark for the
cession of the Danish Possessions
on the coast of Africa, 390; Austra-
lian Colonies Government Act, 391;
the Pope's Bull, establishing an
hierarchy in Great Britain, 405; Dr.
Wiseman's Pastoral from the Flami-
nian Gate, 411; Prices of Stock in
each month, highest and lowest, 415;
Average Prices of Corn, Hay, Straw,
Clover, and Butcher's Meat, 416;
summary of Tables of Mortality,
417; Marriages, Births, and Deaths,
1840 to 1850, 417; Table of Bank-
rupts, 417; Meteorological Table,
417; University Honours: Oxford,
418; Cambridge, 420

QUEEN, The-Attack upon Her Majesty
by Robert Pate, 73; accouchement
of Her Majesty, 63; christening of
Prince Arthur, 79; Parliament pro-
rogued by the Queen in person, 101;
Visit to the King of the Belgians,
103; Summer visit to Scotland, 105

Racing Meetings-Epsom, 74; Ascot,
76; Goodwood, 94; Doncaster, 115
Railway Accidents-Explosion of gun-
powder on the Glasgow and Dumfries
Railway, 81; at the Liverpool ter-
minus, 86; on the Edinburgh and
Glasgow line at Cowlairs, 94; fall of
the Bricklayers' Arms Station, 103;
on the Eastern Counties line at the
Brentwood Station, 116; on the Great
Western line at Wootton Bassett, 119;
double collision on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway, near Hud-
dersfield, 139; collisions on the East-
ern Counties line, 155; on the Leeds
and Selby line, 156

Rio Janeiro, ravages of the yellow fever
at, 108

SHERIFFS for the year 1850, 162
Shipwrecks and disasters at sea; the
Hottinguer, the Charleston, the
Richard Dart, the Emily, 7; disaster
to a boat of the Ganges at Salamis,
16; fearful storm and shipwrecks in
February, 21; of the Royal Adelaide,
200 lives lost, 51; gales and ship-
wrecks, the Teresa Jane, the Howard,
52; steam-boat disaster in America,

Shipwrecks continued.

the Orville St. John, 52; of the Cushla
Machree, 60; collision on Lake Erie,
thirty-eight persons drowned, 65; of
the Orion steamer, 100 lives lost, 79;
wrecks in the ice, 84; collision in the
Irish Channel, the Minerva and Wil-
liam Rushton, eleven persons drowned,
102; Indiamen wrecked, 108; of the
Superb steamer, seventeen persons
drowned, 121; storm and wrecks, the
Providence (twenty-one persons
drowned), and others, 128; in India,
the Manchester, Ariadne, and Ne-
reid, 128; blowing-up of a line-of-
battle ship and her crew at Constan-
tinople, 131; explosion in a French
line-of-battle ship, 139; wreck of the
Emperor of Russia's steam yacht,
134; of the Edmond emigrant ship,
ninety-six persons drowned, 140;
fatal boat accident at Worthing, 142;
blowing-up of a Portuguese frigate
and her crew at Macao, 160
SPAIN-Accouchement of the Queen,
death of the infant, [277], 90; the
Comte de Montemolin married to a
Princess of Naples, [277]; renewal of
diplomatic relations between England
and Spain, [277]; a new Cortes sum-
moned, circular of the Minister of
the Interior, result of the elections,
[278]; Speech of the Queen, [279]
STATE PAPERS Treaty with the Repub-
lic of Liberia, 375; Treaty with the
Republic of Costa Rica, 378; Treaty
with the Dominican Republic, 383;
Convention with the United States
relative to a Ship-Canal between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 387;
Convention with Denmark for the
cession of the Danish Possessions on
the Coast of Africa, 399; the Austra-
lian Colonies Government Act, 391;
the Pope's Bull establishing an hie-
rarchy in Great Britain, 405; Dr.
Wiseman's Pastoral from the Flami-
nian Gate, 411

STATUTES, TABLE OF, 13 & 14 VICT.-

Public General Acts, 363; Local and
Personal Acts declared public, 367;
Private Acts printed, 372; Private
Acts not printed, 374
STOCKS-Table of the prices of, in each
month, highest and lowest, 415
Suicides-of Mr. Novelli and murder
at Manchester, 10; suicide and mur-
der at Clayton, 35; from the Duke
of York's Column, 67; on the South-

Suicides continued.

Western Railway, 75; in Newgate, of
W. Watts and D. B. Donovan, 89;
murder and suicide by a madman
near Cavan, 113; suicide of Mr. Pen-
nington, 140; of George Spence, esq.,
Q.C., 153

TRIALS, LAW CASES, &c.-Ecclesiastical
Causes The Gorham case, 303; law
of Divorce-the Church of Rome,
Connelly v. Connelly, 318; law of
marriage, trial of the Rev. Moor-
house James for refusing to marry H.
Fisher and A. Hardman, 320; charge
of false registration, Regina v. Dun-
boyne, 322: Civil Causes-Doe dem.
Bainbrigge v. Bainbrigge, 323: Cri-
minal Causes-Trial of Robert Pate
for an assault upon Her Majesty, 331;
poisoning case-trial of William Chad-
wick for the murder of Samuel Tun-
nicliffe, 339; Boston, U. S., trial and
execution of Professor Webster for
the murder of Dr. Parkman, 341;
For trials, &c., recorded in the "Chro-
nicle," see LAW AND POLICE.

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Oxford, 418;

UNIVERSITY HONOURS
Cambridge, 420
UNITED STATES-Report of the Secretary
of the Treasury in favour of protec-
tive duties, [333]; piratical descent
on Cuba by General Lopez and Ame-
ricans, [337]; his failure, arrest, and
trial, and acquittal by negligence of
the Government, [338]; sudden death
of the President, General Taylor,
[338], 88; succeeded by the Vice-
President, Mr Fillmore, new Minis-
try, [338]; Bills passed by Congress,
the Mexican Boundary Bill; the
Utah Government Bill; Bill admit-
ting California a state, Fugitive Slave
Bill; great importance of the latter,
[338]; the President's message to
Congress, [339]; its topics, general
policy, [339]; foreign relations, [341];
finances, [342]; land laws, [344]; navy,
[344]; post office, [345]; creditors of
Government, [346]; measures of the
Session, [346]

West Indies-Resolution of Sir E. N.
Buxton, that it is unjust and impo-
litic to expose colonial free-grown
sugar to competition with slave-grown
sugar, [51]; debate thereon, motion
negatived, [56]. See PARLIAMENT.

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