ABERDEEN Romance, The, 16.
ABOUT, M. EDMOND, Imprisonment of,
[249].

ABYSSINIA, Egyptian Expedition to,
[284].

ACCIDENTS.-To Houses of Parliament,

5; to a female acrobat, 25; while
bathing, 30. Vide RAILWAY.
ADDRESS TO THE CROWN, and debate on,
[21].

ADMIRAL, LORD HIGH, Commissioners

for office of, 269.

ADVOCATE, THE LORD, introduces Scotch
Education Bill, [47].

AFRICA, SOUTH, Diamond Discoveries
in, [147].

AGRARIAN Murder in Dublin, 35.
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS, Riot of, in
Huntingdon, 35; Strikes of, in War.
wickshire, 67.

AGUIRRE, GENERAL, succeeds General
Diaz de Rada as leader of the Carlist
forces, [272].

"ALABAMA" CLAIMS. Vide GENEVA
ARBITRATION.

ALBERT MEMORIAL, Opening of, [365];
visited by the Queen, 49.
ALBERT (ROYAL) HALL, Scientific Soirée

at, 55.

ALDERSHOTT, Review at, 50.
ALEXANDER, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA,
meets the Emperors of Germany and
of Austria, at Berlin, [244].
ALSACE-LORRAINE, The Inhabitants of,
choosing their nationality, [248].
ALT KATHOLIKEN, Old Catholic move-
ment, Congress at Cologne, [246]; at
Rome, [263].

AMADEUS, KING, Attempt to assassinate
in Madrid, [274]; opens the Cortes,
[275].

AMERICA. Vide UNITED STATES.
AMERICAN FLAG, Tour of, through Eng-
land, 114.

AMERICAN FLEET at Southampton, 60.
ANDERSON, REV. DR. W., Obituary
notice, 162.

ANDRASSY, COUNT, Minister for Foreign
Affairs, explains in the Hungarian
Diet the foreign policy of the Empire,
[256].

ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY OF COMMERCE.
-Notice of its termination given to the
English Government, [123]; Debate
on in the French National Assembly,
[158]; the Treaty abrogated, [160];
Text of the New Treaty, 251.
ANTIOCH, Earthquake at, 21.
APPEAL, SUPREME COURT OF.-)
Chancellor introduces a scheme for the
constitution of, [40].

.-Lord

ASHBURNHAM, GENERAL HON. THOMAS,
C.B., Obituary notice, 143.
ASIA, CENTRAL, Russian policy with re-
gard to, [282].

ASSASSINATION OF THE QUEEN attempted,
[6], 11; of Lord Mayo, [145], 6; of
King Amadeus, attempted, [274]; of
Colonel Fisk, 1.

ATHANASIAN CREED, Controversy on,
[139].
AUBERON HERBERT, MR., seconds Sir
Charles Dilke's Motion for Inquiry into
the Civil List, [52].

AUGUST, Meteorological Report for,

130.
AUSTRALIA, Telegraphic Communication
established with, 107.

T

AUSTRO GERMAN Social Conference,
Meeting of, in Berlin, [248].
AUSTRO-HUNGARY.-History of the year,
[253]; Ultramontanism, [255].
AUTUMN CAMPAIGN, The, 74; official
programme, 82.

AYRTON'S, MR., Parks Regulation Bill,
[41].

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,

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, MR., 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
Rochette, [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,
at St. Petersburg, [281]; Inter-

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.

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,
[284].

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, Över 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-