BACON, SIR HENRY H., Bart., Obituary
notice, 168.

BALLOT BILL, Re-introduction, and debate
on, [61]; Mr. Leatham's amendment,
[62];
Mr. V. Harcourt's amendment,
[63]; third reading, [64]; sent up to
House of Lords, [ib.]; returned to the
Commons, [69]; sent again to the
House of Lords, [70], and passed,
[72]; summary of the Act, [ib. (note)];
first election under, [73], 68; subse-
quent elections under, [135].
BALTIC, Floods in the, [280].
BAMFORD, MR. SAMUEL, Obituary notice,
147.

BANK HOLIDAY, 64.

BANK RATES OF DISCOUNT, [134].
BARING-GOULD'S, MR. S., "Legends of
Old-Testament Characters," [347].
BARRY'S, HERBERT, "Ivan at Home:
Pictures of Russian Life," [334].
BASTIAN, DR., and the theory of Spon-
taneous Generation, [352], [368].
"BATAVIER" STEAMER, Loss of the, 98.
BATES, SERGEANT, and the tour of the
American flag through England, 114.
BAVARIA, Ministerial crisis in, [243].
BAXTER, SIR DAVID, Obituary notice,
162.

BAZAINE, MARSHAL, demands to be tried

by court-martial for the capitulation of
Metz, [192].

BEACONSFIELD, VISCOUNTESS, Funeral of,
119; obituary notice, 178.
BEATSON, GENERAL, Obituary notice,

140.

BECKER, LADY, Obituary notice, 162.
BECKETT, SIR T., Bart., Obituary notice,
168.

BEDFORD, DUKE OF, Obituary notice,
149.

BELFAST RIOTS, The, [135].

BELLAIRS, REV. H., Obituary notice, 147.
BENNETT CASE.-Report of the appeal,
213.

BENNETT, MR. J. GORDON, Obituary
notice, 153.

BERLIN, Meeting of the Emperors of
Germany, Austria, and Russia in, [244];
strikes in, [247]; meeting of the
Austro-German Social Conference in,
[248].

Bermondsey, Murder in, 46.

BETHNAL GREEN MUSEUM PICTURE
GALLERIES, [364]; opening of, 44.
BETTING-MEN, Capture and prosecution
of, 106.

BIGAMIST, An aged, 42.
BIOGRAPHY, Books of, [306].

BIRMINGHAM, Disestablishment Confer-
ence at, 89.

BISMARCK, PRINCE.-Speech in the
Prussian House of Deputies on the De-
nomination Question, [224]; on the
School Inspection Bill, [226]; reads the
Emperor's Speech at the opening of the
German Diet, [234]; passes the County
Organization Bill in the Prussian House
of Deputies, [231]; resigns the pre-
miership of the Prussian Cabinet, and
is succeeded by Count von Roon, [252];
BLACKMORE'S, MR., "Maid of Sker,"
[357].

BLAKESLEY, REV. S. W., to be Dean of
Lincoln, 269.

BLANQUI, (Communist), Trial of, [193].
BOAT-RACES.-University, 17; Interna-
tional, 41.

BOHEMIAN DIET, Dissolution of the old
and election of a new, [254].
BOLIVIA, [304].

BOLTON, Colliery explosion at, 19.
BONHAM-CARTER, ME., Chairman of
Committees, [40].

BOSTON (U.S.), International Peace Ju-
bilee, [301]; great fire at, [ib.], 102.
BOUVERIE, MR., Speech in debate on
Women's Disabilities Bill, [49].
BOVILL, CHIEF JUSTICE, Letter on the
Appointment of Sir R. P. Collier, [17].
BOWERS, DR., Obituary notice, 173.
BOWRING, SIR JOHN, Obituary notice,
169.

BRAMSTON, REV. J., to be Dean of Win-
chester, 270.

BRAND, MR., elected Speaker of the
House of Commons, [19].

BRASSEY, MR., Life and Labours of, by
Sir Arthur Helps, [314].
BRAZIL, [303].

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE, 43.
BREAKWATER, PORTLAND, Completion
of, 67.

BRIGHT, JACOB, Motion for removing
political disabilities of women, [48].
BRIGHT, JOHN, Letter on Home Rule,
[12].

BRIGHTON AQUARIUM, Opening of, 65.
BRIGHTON POISONING CASE.-Trial of
Christina Edmunds, 189.

BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

-Meeting at Wolverhampton, 64.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION CONGRESS, 68.
BROWNING'S, MR., "Fifine at the Fair,"
[355].

BROWNLOW, Dowager COUNTESS, Obi-
tuary notice, 136.

BROWNLOW, EARL OF, to be Ecclesiastical
Commissioner, 269.

BRUCE, MR., introduces a Bill for alter-
ing the provisions of the Contagious
Diseases Act, [43]; introduces the
Mines Regulation Bill, [44].
BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS, Works of,
with a Memoir by Miss Helen Taylor,
[324].

BUDGET, The, introduced by Mr. Lowe,
[59].

BUDGET, The French, [152]; the Austro-
Hungarian, [259].

BUILDERS' STRIKE, The, [130]; Attempt
at Arbitration, [ib.].

BURDETT-COUTTS, BARONESS, Freedom
of City of London conferred on, 55.
BURMESE EMBASSY, Arrival at Dover,
39; visit to Wimbledon, 56.

BURNS, COLONEL W. M., Obituary notice,
140.

BUTLER'S, CAPTAIN W. F., "The Great
Lone Land," [338].

BUXTON, HANNAH, LADY, Obituary
notice, 144.

CABINET, The.-Unpopularity of some
members of, [8]; List of, 270.
CAIRNS, LORD, Speech in debate on Sir
R. P. Collier's Appointment, [29].
CANADA AND THE TREATY OF WASHING-
TON, [118]; Lord Kimberley's Speech
on, in the House of Lords, [120]; the
Fishery Clauses, [ib.].

CANADIAN PRIVY COUNCIL, Minutes of
the, with reference to the Treaty of
Washington, [119].

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, Fire at, 76.
CAPEL, MR. J., Obituary notice, 169.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, First responsible
Ministry at, [149].

CAPE TOWN, BISHOP OF, Obituary notice,
169.

CARDWELL, MR., Speech on Army Esti-
mates and Re-organization, [45].
CARLIST INSURRECTION IN SPAIN, Out-
break of, [271]; battle at Oroquieta and
defeat of the insurgents, [272]; guerilla
warfare kept up throughout the year,
[272]; convention of Armorevieta, [ib.].
CARPENTER, DR., Opening address at the
meeting of the British Association at
Brighton, [368].

CATHEDRALS, Essays on, [343].
CATHOLIC CLERGY, Protest of, against

Mr. Justice Keogh's Judgment on the
Galway Election Petition, [82].
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, Scene in, 32
CESAREWITCH, The, 94.

CHAMBORD, COMTE DE, issues a manifesto,
[162]; addresses a letter to M. de la
Rochiette, [204].

CHANCELLOR, THE LORD, Speech in
debate on Appointment of Sir R. P.
Collier, [28]; retirement of the, [139];
is succeeded by Sir R. Palmer, [ib.].
CHARLES XV. (Sweden), Death of, suc-
ceeded by Oscar II., [279].

CHESNEY, GENERAL, Obituary notice,

136.

CHESS TOURNAMENT AT CRYSTAL PA-
LACE, 56.

CHILDERS, MR., re-elected member for
Pontefract on accepting a seat in the
Cabinet, [73], 68; Chancellor of
Duchy of Lancaster, [139], 270.
CHILD SEAMANSHIP, 107.
CHINA [305].

CHURCH CONGRESS AT LEEDS, 94.
CITY FLOUR MILLS, Great fire at, 103.
CIVIL LIST, Sir Charles Dilke's motion

for inquiry into, and debate, [50].
COAL, Rise in the price of, [134].
COCHRANE, ADMIRAL SIR T. J., Obituary
notice, 163.

COCKBURN, SIR A., Appointed Arbitrator
in the "Alabama" case, [105]; publishes
his reasons for differing from the deci-
sion arrived at by the other Arbitrators,
[110].
COLLIER'S, SIR R. P., Appointment as
member of Judicial Committee, Prof.
Fawcett on, [17]; Chief-Justice Bovill
on, [ib.]; Mr. Justice Willes on, [18];
debate in the House of Lords on, and
vote of censure moved, [26]; debate
in the House of Commons on, and vote
of censure moved, [30].
COLLIERS, Strike of the, 67.
COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS.At Lynvi
Valley, 3; at Bolton, 19; at Morley,
93.
COLLIERY flooded with water at Pelsall
Hall, 105; at Severndale, 120.
COLOGNE, Conflict between Church and
State at, [231].

COMBE, MR., Obituary notice, 163.
COMMERCE, [133].

COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH FRANCE.-
Notice of its termination given by the
French to the English Government,
[122]; M. de Remusat's Despatch to
the Duc de Broglie, [123]; Opposition
of the English Government to the New
Treaty, [124]; Provisions of the New
Treaty, [126]; Text of the New
Treaty, 251.
COMMUNIST INSURRECTION (FRANCE).
-Report of the Commission of Inquiry
into, published, [190]; trials of Com-
munists, [193]; expatriated Communists
landed at Dover, 34.
CONGRESSES. Old Catholics at Cologne,
[246]; Social Science at Eisenach,
[247]; International Association at the
Hague, [277]; International Statistical,
St. Petersburg, [281]; Inter-

at

national Prison, 50; British Association,
68; Church Congress at Leeds, 94.
CONGRESS, United States, opened on Dec.
2, [298]; the President's Message,
[ib.]; Finance Report, [299].
CONINGTON, PROFESSOR, Memoir of, by
Mr. Symonds and Professor Smith,
[321].

CONSTABLE OF THE TOWER, The new,
108.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.-Bill for
altering the provisions of, introduced
by Mr. Bruce, [43].
CONTI, M., Death of, [163].
CORAM STREET MURDER, THE, 122.
CORTES LEGISLATIVE (SPAIN), meets on
January 22, [268]; Señor Sagasta
explains ministerial programme, [ib.];
stormy scene, and dissolution of the
Cortes, [269]; new elections, [270];
fall of the Sagasta Ministry, [272];
opening of the Cortes by the King,
[275]; impeachment of the Sagasta
Cabinet, [275].

COUNTY ASSEMBLIES, Reform of the
Prussian, [232].

CRICKET.-Oxford and Cambridge match,
45; Eton and Harrow, 54; in America,
92.
CROSS, MR., moves a vote of censure on
Sir R. P. Collier's Appointment, [30].
CROSSLEY, SIR F., Obituary notice, 136.
CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY. - Tour
through Bavaria, [243].
CRYSTAL PALACE, Dog show at, 40;
chess tournament at, 56.
CYCLONE AT MADRAS, 30.

-

DALLING AND BULWER, LORD, Obituary
notice, 149.

DARWIN'S, MR., "The Expression of the
Emotions in Man and Animals," [349].
D'AUBIGNÉ, J. H. MERLE, Obituary
notice, 163.

D'AUDIFFRET-PASQUIER, Duc, presents

to French National Assembly Report on
Contracts for Arms and Ammunition
during the War, [169]; and replies to
M. Rouher, [171].

D'AUMALE, Duc, Speech on Army Re-
organization Bill, [178].
DAVENEY, MAJOR-GENERAL, Obituary
notice, 169.

DAVIES, LADY CLEMENTINA, "Recol-
lections of Society in France and Eng-
land," [308].

DECEMBER, Meteorological Report for,

132.

DEMOCRACY in England, Weakness of,
[139].

DENISON, MR., retires from Speaker's
chair, [19]; created Viscount Ossing-
ton of Ossington, 268.

DENMAN, MR., Speech in debate on Sir
R. P. Collier's Appointment, [26].
DENMARK, [279].

DENMARK, Hurricane in, 104.

DERBY, LORD, Speech in debate on
Address to the Crown, [25].

DERBY, The, won by Cremorne, 37.
"DEVASTATION " TURRET SHIP, Trial of,

94.

DIAMOND DISCOVERIES in South Africa,
[147].

DICKENS, CHARLES.-Mr. Forster's Life
of, second volume, [316].

DILKE, SIR CHARLES, on the Civil List,
[50]; Public Lands and Commons Bill,
[54].

DISESTABLISHMENT CONFERENCE at Bir-
mingham, 89.

DISRAELI, MR., Speech in debate on
Address to the Crown, [22]; on the
Parks Regulation Bill, [41]; on Sir
M. Lopes's motion on Local Taxation,
[57]; on the Ballot Bill, [69]; on the
Geneva Arbitration, [99]; at Man-
chester, 22.

DISSENTERS and the Education Act,
[8].

DIXBLANC, MARGARET, Trial of, for the
Park-lane murder, 201.

DIXON, MR., Vote of censure on the
Education Act, [36].

DODSON, MR., Resignation of, as Chair-
man of Committees, [40].

DOG SHOW at Crystal Palace, 40.
DOUGHTY, HON. LADY, Obituary notice,
173.

DOVER, Expatriated Communists landed
at, 34.

DUBLIN, Agrarian murder in, 35; open-
ing of Exhibition in, [366], 39; pic-
ture-galleries in, [367].

DUEL, German, in London, 88.
DUFFERIN, LORD, appointed Governor-
General of Canada, [139], 269.
DUPANLOUP, M., Bishop of Orleans;
speech on French Army Bill, [178].

EARTHQUAKE at Antioch, 21; in Scotland,
65.
EASTLAKE'S, MR., "History of the Gothic
Revival," [344].

EDEN'S, MISS," Letters from India,”[341].
EDMUNDS, CHRISTINA, Trial of, for pci-
soning at Brighton, 3, 189.
EDMUNDS LIBEL CASE, The, 65.
EDUCATION ACT, The, and the Dissenters
[8]; Mr. Dixon moves a vote of cen-
sure on, [36]; the debate on, 37;
the vote of censure negatived, [39];
Scotch Education Bill introduced by the
Lord Advocate, [47].

EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA,
[281].

EISENACH, Social Science Congress at,
[247].

ELECTIONS, Galway, [11], [79]; Mr.
Justice Keogh's judgment on, [80];
Kerry, [14]; Pontefract, first under
the Ballot Act, [73], 68; Preston,
[74], 84; Peers cannot vote at, 108.
ELGIN, LORD, Letters and Journals of, by
Mr. Walrond, [310].

ELIOT'S, GEORGE, " Middlemarch," [356].
ELLIS, REV. W., Obituary notice of, 154.
EMPERORS OF GERMANY, RUSSIA, AND
AUSTRIA, Meeting of the Three, [244].
ENGLAND, History of, [1].

"EREWHON; or, Over the Range," [358].
ERIE RING, Break-up of the, [286].
ESCURIAL, The Fire at, [275], 92.
ESSEX POISONING CASE, The, 54.
EUGENIE, EMPRESS, Sale of jewels, 45.
EVANS'S, JOHN, Ancient Stone Imple-
ments, &c., of Great Britain," [348].
EWELME RECTORY APPOINTMENT, The
Debate on, in the House of Commons,
[34].
EXECUTIONS.-At Lincoln, 19; Lord
Mayo's assassin, 24; at Worcester,
Stafford, and Maidstone, 67.
EXHIBITION, INTERNATIONAL, Opening
of, 29; opening of the Dublin, [366],
39.

EXPLOSIONS.-At the Treasury, 61; pow-
der-mill at Hounslow, 79; locomotive
at Bray, 84. Vide COLLIERY.
EXTRAORDINARY STORY, An, 9.

FALK, DR., appointed successor to Herr
von Mühler, Prussian Minister of Edu-
cation, [224].

FARNHAM STABBING CASE, 17.
FAWCETT, PROFESSOR, at Brighton,
[17]; Speech on the Education Act,
[39]; introduces a Bill for the Re-
organization of Trinity College, Dublin,
and the Abolition of University Tests,
[55].

FEBRUARY, Meteorological Report for,127.
FERROL, Insurrection at, [275].
"FIFINE AT THE FAIR," [355].
FIJI, Proposed annexation of, [39].
FIRES.-At Melkshott Hall, 62; at Leeds
and at Kentish Town, 73; Canterbury
Cathedral, 76; at the Escurial, 92; at
Oxford Music Hall, 102; Boston, U.S.,
ib.; City Flour Mills, 103.

FISHERY CLAUSES OF THE TREATY OF
WASHINGTON, [120].

FISK, Assassination of, [286], 1.
FLOODS.-At Windsor, Weymouth, the
Severn, 5; Oxford, 6, 112; Northwich,
47; in Scotland, 87; Somerset and
Warwickshire, 112.
FONBLANQUE, MR. ALBANY, Obituary
notice, 164.

FORMOSA, Typhoon at, 71.
FORRESTER, ALFRED HENRY, Obituary
notice, 151.

FORSTER, MR., moves an amendment to
Mr. Dixon's vote of censure on the
Education Act, [37]; re-introduces the
Ballot Bill, [61].
FOURNIER,

M. EDOUARD, appointed
French Ambassador at the Vatican,
[262].
FRANCE.-Commercial Treaty, Notice of
expiration given by the French Govern-
ment, [122]; the New Treaty, [125];
Text of the New Treaty, 251.
FRANCE. History of the year, [150];
meeting of the National Assembly at
Versailles, [ib.]; debate on the Anglo-
French Treaty of Commerce, [158];
Comte de Chambord's manifesto, [162];
Re-organization of the Army Bill, [168],
[174]; the new convention with Ger-
many, [186]; the great loan, [188];
inquiry into the Communist insurrec
tion, [190]; decision of the Council of
Inquiry into the disasters of the late
war, [191]; Communist trials, [193];
executions at Satory, [193]; religious
pilgrimages, [198]. Vide NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY.

FRANCE, ROYAL AND REPUBLICAN,"
Essays by Mr. Reeve, [327].
FRANCIS JOSEPH, Emperor of Austro-
Hungary, meets the Emperor of Ger-
many and the Czar of Russia at Berlin,
[244]; closes the Hungarian Diet at
Pesth and delivers a speech from the
throne, [255]; makes a tour through
the south-eastern portion of Hungary,
[256]; receives an envoy from the Sul-
tan at Temesvar, [ib.]; opens the new
Hungarian Diet in person, [ib.].
FREEMAN'S, MR., "Growth of the Eng-
lish Constitution," [324].

FRERE, SIR BARTLE, Banquet to, on de-
parture on mission to suppress slave-
trade on east coast of Africa, 100.

GALES IN LONDON, 5, 116; in various parts
of the country, 74, 84, 117, 120, 121;
on the west coast of England, 111.
GALWAY ELECTION, [11]; Mr. Justice

Keogh's judgment on the petition to
unseat Captain Nolan, [79]. Vide
KEOGH, MR. JUSTICE.

GAMBETTA, M., Speech on the Anglo-
French Treaty in the National Assem-
bly, [159]; speech in the debate on the
Report of the Committee on Contracts
for Arms and Ammunition during
the War, [173]; at the banquet at Bor-
deaux, [195]; at Grenoble, [196].
GAS STOKERS, Strike of the, [132]; the
leaders sentenced to twelve months' im-

prisonment, [133]; appeal to working-
men on behalf of the imprisoned, 121;
meetings in favour of, 122.
GENEVA ARBITRATION, referred to in
Queen's Speech, [20]; debate on, [21],
[93]; the three rules acceded to at
Washington, [89]; the English Case,
[90]; the American Case and the In-
direct Claims [91] Journal des Débats
on, [92], [94], Mr. Gladstone's letter
to the New York World, [93]; debate in
Parliament and Arbitration adjourned
[96]; Lord Granville's letter to Gene-
ral Schenck, [97]; draft of Supple-
mentary Article, [98]; debate in
the House of Commons, [99]; meet-
ing of the Arbitrators, [105]; list of the
Arbitrators, [ib.]; rejection of the Indi-
rect Claims, [107]; the Award, [109],
260; the "reasons of the Arbitra-
tors, [110]; its effects so far as con-
cerned Canada, [118].
GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, [371].
"GEOLOGY, PRINCIPLES OF," Sir Charles
Lyell, [349].

GERMANY.-History of the Year, [222];
opening of the Diet, [234]; the Em-
peror's Speech read by Prince Bismarck,
[ib.]; debate on the expulsion of the
Jesuits, [237]; law passed to suppress
the Order, [241]; anger of the Pope,
[242]; meeting of the Emperors,
[244].

GERMANY, EMPRESS OF, in England, 33.
GILBERT, SIR JOHN, Pictures at the
Royal Academy Exhibition, [360],
[361].

GILLOTT, MR., Obituary notice, 137.
GLADSTONE, MR., Speech in debate on
Address to the Crown, [23]; in debate
on the Appointment of Sir R. P. Collier,
[33]; on the Ewelme Rectory Ap-
pointment, [35]; declines to support
Sir R. Palmer's motion for incorporation
of Legal Association, [40]; speech on
the Parks' Regulation Bill, [41]; reply
to Sir Charles Dilke's motion for in-
quiry into the Civil List, [51]; on the
Ballot Bill, [69]; on the Geneva Ar-
bitration, [101]; speech at Liverpool
College, [141]; Letter to the London
Correspondent of New York World on
the Geneva Arbitration, [93].
GLADSTONE, MR. R., Obituary notice,

stable of the Tower, 108; appointment,
270.

GOODWOOD CUP DAY, The, 61.
GOSCHEN, MR., introduces the Navy
Estimates, [85]; speech at Bristol,
[138].

Goss, DR., Obituary notice, 164.
GOULARD, M., succeeds M. Pouyer-
Quertier as Finance Minister (France),
[167].
GOVERNMENT, Unpopularity of, [8];
defeat of, on Sir M. Lopes's resolution on
Local Taxation, [55].

GRAMONT, DUC DE, announces his inten-
tion to publish documents proving the
previous concurrence of Austria with
France in the project of war with Ger-
many, [259].

GRANVILLE, LORD, Speech in debate on
Address to the Crown, [24]; on the
Geneva Arbitration, [96]; letter to
General Schenck, [97].

GRANT, ULYSSES S., proposed for re-elec-
tion as President of the United States,
[291]; is elected, [297]; message of,
to the Congress, [298].

GRAY, MR. G. R., Obituary notice,

152.

GREECE, [285].

GREELY, HORACE, nominated candidate
for the Presidency of the United States,
[290]; death of, [298]; obituary
notice, 169.

GREG'S, MR. W. R., "Enigmas of Life,"
[346].

GRETNA GREEN.-Last of its Priests, 31.
GREY, LORD, Speech in debate on the
Ballot Bill, [65].

GRIFFITH, GENERAL R. A., Obituary
notice, 158.

"GRIMBOSH, BARON, Governor of Bara-
taria," [358].

GRIMSBY, Hurricane at, 120.

HALE, ALDERMAN, Obituary notice, 160.
HALLECK, MAJOR-GENERAL, Obituary
notice, 137.

HAMILTON, COMMANDER, Obituary notice,

152.

HANNEN, SIR JAMES, to be Judge of the
Court of Probate, 270.

HARCOURT, MR. VERNON, Speech on
Law Reform, [40]; on Parks' Regula-
tion Bill, [41], [42]; in debate on the
Ballot Bill, [63].

HARDY, MR. GATHORNE, Speech in the
debate on Appointment of Sir R. P.
Collier, [33]; on the Ewelme Rectory
Appointment, [35]; on the Parks'
Regulation Bill, [41].

HARE'S, Mr. A. J. C., " Memorials of a
Quiet Life," [323].