January 5th

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Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of The Building in Hyde Park ' front page

' Schleswig-Holstein - Danish Artillery and Infantry - Map of The Seat of the War - Plan of Friedrichstadt ' full page

' Schleswig-Holstein - Burning of The Lesser Camp, at Kochendorf '

' General Krogh, Commander in Chief of the Danish Troops '

' Rendsburg ' a street scene - info. now part of Germany

Holyrood Scotland

' The Breakfast Room at Holyrood Palace '

' Mary Queen of Scots Room '

' Sun Dial '

' Queen Victorias Apartment at Holyrood '

' The Worester Diocesan Training School at Saltley near Birmingham '

' Orphan House at Ashley Down Near Bristol '

' Minster Lovel in Oxfordshire ' - The new estate of eighty two cottages, a view taken from the Oxford and Cheltenham Road at the west end of the crescent

' The Owner of the Vineyard Paying His Labourers - painted by Rembrandt '

' Harp of Mary Queen of Scots ' .

' Plan of Cape Riley '

' Cape Riley At The Entrance of Wellington Channel in the Barrow's Straits and Remains of Encampment '

' Grisly Bears in the Gardens of The Zoological Society at Regents Park '

' M. Hassenpflug The Minister of Justice and Finance of the Electorate of Hesse Cassel ' info. Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug of Hessen-Kassel Germany

Foreign and Colonial News

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased

John Fane Esq of Wormesley, County Oxford

Sir William Pilkington died at his Seat at Chevet park near Wakefield in Yorkshire

Sir henry Thomas Oakes died at Londonderry in Ireland

Lieutenant General Sir James Stevenson Barns KCB died at 33 Clarges Street Piccadilly

The Submarine Electric Telegraph

Country News includes:

British and Foreign Bible Society

TherYorkshire Union Hunt with a list of persons attending their annual ball etc

' Great Western Excursion Trains

Destruction of the Works at the Harbour of Refuge at Dover

Fatal Occurence on The Sloop off the Swash in the Bristol Channel - Survivors taken to Pill (village)

Robbery and Murder at Frimley

Ireland

Great Sale of articles at Coleby in Lincs by Messrs Farebrother Clarke and Lye

Illustrated London News Editorial

Metropolitan News includes:

Seizure of Stolen Plate at Mister Thomas Charles Sirrell of 53 and 54 Barbican City of London

East Greenwich Ragged Schools

Church Rates at Clerkenwell

The Serpentine

Somnambulism Extraordinary at 40 West Street - Ann Evans a young girl

Marylebone Workhouse .

Phillips Fire Annihilator in Battersea Fields

Fatal Accident at Woolwich

Births and Deaths

Court and Haut Ton

The Theatres - Sadlers Wells - Strand etc

Discovery of Valuable Paintings in the Cathedral of Puy

Violent Storm and Loss of Life

The Arctic Voyage of the " Prince Albert " in Search of Sir John franklin

The Late Queen of the Belgians From a Drawing by M. Baugniet ' Front page

' Pictures From the Late King of Hollands Collection - Saint Hubert by Albert Durer '

' Dead Christ painted by Caracci '

' The Death of the Virgin by Martin Schoon '

' Christ Giving The Keys To St Peter by Rubens '

' Robert Stephenson Esq FRS MP For Whitby '

' St Lawrence Church, Barton ' Preston Lancs

' Church of The Holy Trinity Haverstock Hill, Consecrated on Tuesday Last '

' Chancel of Trinity Church, Haverstock Hill '

' St Martins Northern Schools, Castle Street Long Acre, Opened on Thursday Last '

' Regalia of Scotland - Crown Sceptre, Sword and Lord Treasurers Rod ' - - - ' The Jewel os St Andrew ' - - - ' The George '

' Part of Holyrod Palace and Abbey '

' Path of the New Planet Victoria Amongst The Stars '

' A New Reform Movement '

' Foreign and Colonial News ' includes Parisiana - United States and the Fugitive Slave Bill - and more

' Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased The Queen of the Belgians Louisa Maria Theresa Charlotte Isabella aged 38 died at Ostend of Phthisis ( tuberculosis ) '

' Wills of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes The Right Hon. Charles Ewan Law, The Right Hon Charles Watkyn Williams Wynn DCL FSA MP

'Court and Haut Ton - The Court at Osborne'

'Postscript - The Frimley Murder - Confession of One of the Prisoners

'Metropolitan News includes Sanitary Condition of the Working Classes at the Whitechapel Association,

The British Beneficent Institution, Fatal Accident at Lord Palmerston's in Carlton Gardens,

William Abbott Cook a painter and decorator , Births and Deaths

' Robert Stephenson Esq MP For Whitby ' the article states he was born at Wilmington near Newcastle,

' The National Reform Association

' Conflagration at Sea '

' Chess Problem by W. Grimshaw of York '

Angers in France -Remains of the Suspension Bridge After the Late Accident ' front page

' Springbok or Bontebok Hunting in South Africa '

' Chase of A Jackal in the New Forest ' at Lyndhurst a pack of Harriers owned by Mr B. Powell and messrs Hay and William Morant -

' Great Protectionist Meeting on Barham Downs ' Kent

' Anthony's Double Acting Patent Churn ' .

' Ploughing By Steam - Trial at Grimsthorpe by Lord Willoughby D'Eresby ' a Steam plough contraption

' Barbs Presented to Queen Victoria by the Emperor of Morocco ' a print from engraving showing the horses and their Moor handlers

' Lairds Patent Sectional Boat Built for Her Majestys Consul at Fernando Po ' Africa

January 12th

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The Military, Naval, And County Service Club, St. James’s Street – Principle Drawingroom

Reform Banquet In The Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand

Protectionist Meeting At Lincoln

Homeric Table (The Shield Of Achilles) – Designed By John Henning, Jun, Esq,

For The Gallery Of The Right Honerable Lord Northwick

The Great Seal Of California

The Turkish Fleet In Bashika Bay

The Dardanelles The Battery And Stone Shot

The Dardanelles – Fort Of Chanah-Kalesi, From The Middle Of The Channel

Priest Of The Greek Church Reading The Gospel At The Altar

Exterior And Interior Of The New Greek Church London Wall

Scene From The Pantomime Of ‘Harlequin And The Dragon Of Wantley’ At Sadlers Wells Theatre

Scene From The Extravaganza Of ‘Frankenstein; Or The Model Man,’ At The Adelphi Theatre

Scene From The Opera Of ‘Le Val D’andorre’ At The St. James’s Theatre

Interior Of The New Olymipic Theatre, Strand

Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte

The St Marylebone Baths And Washhouses

The Corn Exchange And Market Hall Just Erected At Lichfield

Dr. Ginacinto Achilli

January 19th

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price sixpence.

It features articles with prints from engravings including:

'Death of the Lion Queen in Wombwells Menagerie at Chatham' Ellen Bright a young girl of seventeen (front page)

'The Great Square in Alexandria, Present State of the Proposed Church for The English Protestant Residents'

'St Pauls Church, Malta, Built at The Expense of the Late Queen Dowager, Adelaide'

'Pax, At New College, Oxford'

'The Notts Testimonial to Lord George Bentinck, In The market Place, Mansfield'

'Silver Inkstand Presented to The Incumbent of St Mary Le Tower, Ipswich'

Sports on the Ice 'Sledging in Berlin'

'Sports on the Ice: Skating Race on Whittlesea Wash'

'Captive Jews By The Waters of Babylon Painted by Bendeman'

' Torquay From The Road to Dartmouth'

'The Artisan's Home, Spitalfields, The Coffee Room'

'Robinson and :ees Patent Bread Making Machine' - 'Bread Making Machine, Ovens' - 'Furnace'

'The Last Appeal, A Ballad' words and music, full page
Also articles (no engravings unless listed above) including:
'The Metropolitan Water Supply, and The Dwellings of The Poor' with reference to Sir William Clay, Bart'

'Foreign and colonial News'

'Imperial Parliament'

Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Ensign Daniel Augustus Sandford age 20 -

Edward Dubois Esq at his house in Sloane Street - Lady Mary Leslie - Mrs Bartley'

'The Court and Haut Ton'

'Metropolitan News'

'Torquay'

'Deputation to Lord John Russell on The Tea Duties'

'Naval and Military'

'Country News'

'Extensive Savings Bank Defalcations' St Helens and Scarborough'

January 26th

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French and English Freedom,

Anticipated repeal of Window Tax,

the Protection movement in Ireland,

the Total Destruction of a Chinese Piratical Fleet,

Australian Aboriginals,

Launch of the 'Earl of Hardwicke' whaling ship at Cowes,

February 2nd

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' Floods - Overflow of the Thames - Vine Street, York Road at Lambeth '

"To The Hungerford Suspension Bridge"

' Flooding of The Thames - Lambeth Stairs '

' Progress of the New Houses of Parliament -

Hoisting Scaffold of the Victoria Tower ' full page showing a print from engraving of the building in progress with two diagrams

showing elevations of the Hoisting Scaffold and a detailed plan of The Victoria Tower taken at the base of the first tier of windows

' Mover of the Address to The Throne in the House of Commons - The Hon. C. P. Villiers '

The Protectionist Meeting at Lincoln

' Scene at the Castle Gate in Lincoln ' a rush of people to the meeting with special constables in the foreground

' The Meeting in the Castle Yard at Lincoln '

' The Great Exhibition of Industry for 1851 - Meeting of Merchants, Bankers, and Traders of the City of London at The Egyptian Hall at Mansion House'

' The Destruction of the Piratical Chinese Fleet at Pinghoy ' - in the Gulf of Tonquin ( Tonkin ) pirates Shap-ng-tsai and Chui-apoo

' Installation of the Bishop of Norwich at Norwich Cathedral - The nave '

' The Late Lord Jeffrey ' - info. Francis Jeffrey a Scottish judge and literary critic

' Signal House or Tide Guage at Sunderland - Section of Tower '

' Signal House at Sunderland - Elevation of Tower '

' The School of Design - One Quarter of Silk Damask patter by Mr Slocombe '

' School of Design - First Prize, Paper Hanging by Miss Alice West ' wallpaper

' Bobbing The Beer ' a print fron engraving showing an unscrupulous beer seller throwing a block of salt into a butt of London Porter

' Chess Problem '

The Opening of the Session

The High Tide in the Thames - Floods

Naval and Military Intelligence

The Late Queen Dowagers Property

Foreign and Colonial News - france etc

Agricultural Protection Meeting at Brighton

Ireland - Free Trade v. Protection Meeting at Dublin

Illustrated London News Editorial

Court and Haut Ton - Royal Comings and Goings

Opening of Parliament - The Queens Speech House of Lords -

The Queens Speech Address and Amendment - Earl of Essex - Lord Methuen - Earl of Stradbrooke -

Earl of Desart - Earl of Carlisle - Duke of Richmond - Earl Fitzwilliam - Earle of Winchelsea -

Lord Granville - Lord Brougham - Lord Stanley - Marquis of Lansdowne - Duke of Beaufort

' House of Commons - Queens Speech Address and Amendment - Mr C. P. Villiers -

Sir James Duke - The Speaker - Sir J. Trollope - Colonel Chatterton -

Chancellor of the Exchequer - Mr Henry Herbert -

Mr Fagan - Sir John Walsh - Mr Grantley Berkeley - Lord John Russell - Mister Disraeli

February 9th

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Tree of Liberty Cut Down in Paris ' Front page

Banquet Geven at Wellington to Native Chiefs of New Zealand '

Reception of Hungarian Exiles in Philadelphia

The Tenantry and Pitmen Assembling at "The Towers" at Poynton ' in Cheshire to celebrate the coming of age of the son of Lord Vernon, The Hon Augustus Henry

Presentation of The Address to The Hon. A. H. Vernon at Barlowfold ' in Cheshire

Theatrical Performance in The Rubens Room at windsor Castle - Scene from Julius Caesar ' with a list of the actors taking part

Great Central Railway Depot Detroit Michigan, US '

' Opening of the British Institution - "The Miller's Home " Painted by T. creswick ARA '

' The Post Office Painted by F. Goodall '

' Chess Problem by Mr W. Horner '

' Lord Methuen ' Frederick Henry Paul

' The Village of Killard ' Ireland and The New Poor Law

' Great Fire in Guildford Street, Belvidere Road ' Lambeth

' The Fire Brigade ' Lambeth - a fireman up a ladder with the hose whilst others steady the ladder

' The Fire Brigade ' Lambeth - Firemen and volunteers manning the pumps and the engine at the premises of Mr George Myers of The Ordnance Wharf -

Info..with properties damaged in Pedlars Acre - Guildford St - York Rd and Belvidere rd

' Tree of Liberty on The Boulevard St Martin at Paris '

' Sword and Watch of Oliver Cromwell '

' Rare Winter Birds Recently Shot in Yorkshire - Black Throated Diver - Pink Footed Goose -

Waxen Chatterer - Red Throated Diver - Sclavonian Grebe - Red Breasted Merganser '

The Greek Difficulty '

' Foreign and Colonial News ' with reference to France and the riots and The Association des Marchands de Vin adn Rue Jean Robert

United States with reference to the Nicaragua Difficulty, The Forest and MaCready Riot and more

' Country News ' includes Game Law Vengeance at Grove Wood Wotton

Extensive fire at the Village of Ashwell Herts

Another Savings Bank Robbery, Hull and Aylesbury -

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Margaret Countess of Wemyss and March died at Gosford House near Haddington

Sir Riggs Falkiner in Regent Street London

Sir Felix Booth of Portland Place and Great Catworth in The County of Huntingdon died suddenly at York Hotel Brigthton

William Russell Esq of Brancepeth Castle, Formerly MP for Co Durham died at Brancepeth Castle Co Durham

Ann The Dowager Countess of Plymouth died at Brook Street

Sir William Joh Struth died at Bognor

Mr John Mather of Sheffield and Doncaster died at Edinburgh

' Ireland '

' Banquet to New Zealand Chiefs at Wellington ' with a list of the chiefs including:

Te Puni - Henere of Pitone Pa - Matahiwi - Te Kepa of Waiwetu - E. Tako -

Manihera of Ngauranga - Arawa Karaka of Whareroa - Te Matia - Te Puke - Watanue of Ohau and others

' Sale At Marlborough House ' effects of the Late Queen Dowager Adelaide

'The Court and Haut Ton at Windsor etc'

' The Science of Deep Draining '

' A String of Valentines ' poems

' Telegraphic Communication with France '

'Naval and Military Intelligence'

'Metropolitan News includes Clergy Orphan Corporation

The Royal Institute of British Architects and ref to Mr Sidney Smirke Vice president

Agenda Poor Society

Metropolitan Water Supply with reference to Mr John Laude Tabberner

Equalisation of the Land Tax

Supply of Water to the Metropolis

The Lock Hospital and Asylum

Violent Gale in the Metropolis

Fire In Watling Street

Births and Deaths

Bygone Winters

' The Markets '

' The London Gazette ' with Bankrups

' Births Marriages and Deaths '

' The Condition of Ireland '

great fire in Guildford Street, Lambeth,

the destruction of the 'Tree of Liberty' in Paris,

"The Country Post Office" by F Goodall,

'Julius Caesar' being performed at Windsor Castle,

'Great Central Railway Depot, Detroit',

an Irish village (Killard) which became a ruin,

winter birds in Yorkshire,

Hungarian exiles in Philadelphia,

a banquet at Wellington for New Zealand chiefs,

two illustrations of the 'coming of age' celebration of one of Lord Vernon's sons (2,500 workers attended).

The Greek Difficulty,

March 2nd

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'The Great Exhibition of 1851,

The Landing of Lord Gough at Southampton

Assasination of Prince of Musignano in Rome

Eruption of Vesuvius

March 9th

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California and the slavery question,

The opening of the Croton aqueduct supplying New York with water,

Visit of Louis Napolean to the Garrison of Paris

the new designs for the front of Buckingham palace, and many many more.

March 16th

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Launching of the frigate Nankin ,

Emigration to Natal,

Explosion of the powder mills at Hounslow,

Design for Nelsons column,

the latest Operas

Biting comment about facsimilie Swiss cottages being built near London.

March 23rd

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'The great Exhibition of 1851, Levee at The Mansion House on Thursday'

'Lady John Russell's Assembly on Wednesday Evening at Downing Street, The Refreshment Room' (front page)

'Banquet in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House'

'Scene from Der Freischutz ( The Wolfs Glen ) At The Royal Italian Opera'

'Proclamation of The Successful Candidates for The Department of The Seine, At The Hotel De Ville, Paris'

'The Britannia Tubular Bridge Across The Menai Straits Sketched from The Anglesey Shore' wonderful full page

'The Britannia Tubular Bridge, Entrance From The Bangor Side'

Britannia Tubular Bridge 'Interior of the Tube - Mr Stephenson Driving The Last Rivet'

Exhibition of Ancient and Mediaevel Art 'Candlestick' -

'Ewer Ware of Henry II of France' - 'Salt Cellar' - 'Metal Pyx' -

'Silver Gilt Shrine' - 'Roman Drinking Vase' -

'Clothworkers Company's Cup, Pepys' - 'Bronze Vases,

Romano British' - 'Terra Cotta Bust of Lorenzo de Medici, By Michaelangelo' -

'Founders Cup, Emanuel College, Cambridge' - 'Ivory Tankard'

'Extensive Fire at The Great Southern and Western Railway Station, Cork'

'British Institution Exhibition "The First Impression" painted by H. Selous'

'Water Carrier at Hampstead'

'British Institution Exhibition, "The Frozen Mill" painted by C. Branwhite'

Also articles (no engravings unless listed above ) including:
'The African Squadron' The Slave Trade

' Foreign And Colonial News'

Church & Universities

Imperial Parliament

'Court and Haut Ton' At Buckingham Palace and the Prince Consorts Levee'

'The Gorham Case'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Anna MAria, Countess of Scarborough -

Leutenant General Elias Walker Durnford of the Royal Engineers died at his residence in Tunbridge Wells -

William Ramsay Ramsay Esq of Barnton in Mid Lothian -

Sir Thomas Marrable KT Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth in the Lord Stewards Department of the Royal Household -

Dr Boyrenson of the Hon. East India Companys Service died of Jungle Fever at Kaira, Bombay'

'The Royal Italian Opera '

'Metropolitan News'

'The Gorham Case, Meeting of the Clergy'

'Country News includes Explosion of Fire Damp at Haydock, Lancs Thirteen Lives Lost (listed) -

Dreadful Accident at St Vincents Rocks, Clifton, Bristol, Miss Craven daughter of Mr Craven solicitor of the Firm of Plupper and Craven, fell to her death

April 20th

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Horse Racing - ' " Landgrave " Winner of the Cambridgeshire Stakes at Newmarket ' -

' Glen Tilt near The Marble Lodge in Scotland '

April 27th

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' Joan of Arc Painted by John Absolon ' engraved by W. G. Mason

' Chess Problem by Mister H. E. Kidson of York

The Exhibition of Mediaeval and Ancient Art

' Oranament from Staff of Halberd - Henry VIII'

' Hinge - German Work ( Mr Pratt ) '

' Arabesque From Inkstand - 16c '

' Etui in Perforated Steel '

' Casket or Forcier from The church of the Holy Trinity at Eu i nNormandy - 14c '

' Gold Pendant Attributed to Cellini '

' Silver Cup Given by Charles II to The Barber Surgeons Company '

' Scene from " Zora " at the Royal Italian Opera ...'

' Fashions for May ' - Two Ladies Victorian Dresses

' Death of the Poet Wordsworth - Rydal Mount the Residence of the Late Poet '

' The Liverpool Industrial Schools at Kirkdale ' a print from engraving showing the buildings with the sea in the background The Return of the Pope - Pius IX

Foreign and Colonial News

France and The Elections

Italian States

Greece .

West Indies and The Tornado at Nassau

Country News -

The St Helens Savings Bank

Closing of the Lewes Savings Bank

Vacancy in the Representation of Lymington

Charge Against the Crew of the " John R. Skiddy " at Liverpool

Colliery Strike near St Helens at Laffock

Imperial parliament - House of Commons and Lords with ref. to Stamp Duties -

University Reform - Juvenile Offenders - Affirmation Bill-

Pirates Head Money Repeal Bill - New Houses of Parliament -

Kidderminster Election - Australian Colonies Bill

The Gorham Case

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Sir John Edwards died at Bryn y Pys near Overton

Alexander Seton Esq of Mounie JP and DL for Aberdeenshire died at Leamington -

Sir George Drinkwater Knt.

Rev. Lord Frederick Beauclerk DD at his Residence in Grosvenor Street

Charlotte Augusta The Duchess of Marlborough aged 32

Elizabeth Lady Throckmorton

Illustrated London News Editorial

The court and Haut Ton

Fashionable Entertainments

The Tracy Peerage

Confreence of the National Reform Association

Metropolitan News - City Court of Sewers, Letter from Christopher hodgson

New Park at Islington

Brewer Street Ragged Schools

Working Mans Reading Room and Library

Fishmongers and Poulterers Benevolent Society

Whittington Club Election of the Judge of theCity Sheriffs Court

Westminster Ragged Schools

Associated Catholic Charities

Westminster Hospital

Metropolitan Commission of Sewers

Great Central Gas Consumers Company

Births and Deaths

The Death of the Poet William Wordsworth

May 11th

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It features many articles with prints from engravings including

'Rook Shooting in Penshurst Park' Kent (front page),

'The Paris Fete - Illumination in the Place De La Concorde',

'M. Eugene Sue'

'Institution for Cretins at Interlacken, Switzerland'

'Captain Austin's Expedition sent in Search of Sir John Franklin',

'Flemish Greybeard Found at Westminster',

'Mr. Green's Signal Balloon,

Dispatches, and Parachute, for The Arctic Expedition'

'Exhibition of The Royal Acadamy - "Psyche Returning From The Infernal Regions with the Casket of Beauty" by T. Unwin -

"Zecharia XIII" painted by J. E. Millais -

"James II in His Palace of Whitehall, Receiving the News of The Landing of The Prince of Orange in 1688" by E. M. Ward ARA -

"Francesco Novello Di Carrara and The Lady Taddea Escape from The Emissaries of Galeazzo Visconti" painted by J. C. Hook'

'University of London - The First Conference of Degrees in the Hall of Kings College',

'Parliamentary Portraits - The Right Hon. Andrew Rutherford MP (for the Leith District), Lord Advocate of Scotland',

'An Ancient Egyptian Lock and a Description of Mr. Chubbs Lock',

'Jewels Presented to Madame Grisi',

'Cordingly's Floating Bath',

'Mr. J. Wallack as Dr Petgoose in the New Play of The Catspaw at the Haymarket Theatre'

'The Steam Brig Governole Built for The Sardinian Government'

'Shetland Ponies Purchased for the Pacha of Egypt',

Also articles (no engravings) including: 'Foreign and Colonial News', 'Metropolitan News', 'Country News',

'The Court and Haut ton', 'National Sports', 'Naval and Military','Imperial Parliament',

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes 'Lady Sarah Finch daughter of Earl of Aylesford, aged 27 -

M. De Blainville of The Natural History Museum in Paris on his way to England in a Carriage on the night Train -

William Roche Esq in Limerick'

May 18th

It features many articles with prints from engravings including

'The Grand Saloon at Devonshire House' (front page),

'Site of The Canterbury Settlement in New Zealand',

'Comparative Sizes of Dinornis, Ostrich and New Zealander and Fossil foot of Dinornis',

'Fete of The Royal Company of Archers on The Links of Montrose',

'Extraordinary Accumulation of Postage Stamps',

'The Return of His Royal Highness Prince Albert and His Grace The Duke of Wellington from The Review on Wimbledon Common',

'Capture and Destruction of Thirteen Piratical Chinese Junks in Mir's Bay by H. M. Steamer Medea',

'The Pas de Trois Des Graces at Her Majestys Theatre',

'Warwick May Fair show - The Procession near The Corn Exchange',

'The English Chapel Upper Town, Boulogne Sur Mer',

'Kings Norton Church, Leicestershire, Struck By Lightning',

'New Reading Room at The Bank of England opened on Wednesday'.

Also articles (no engravings) including 'Foreign and Colonial News', 'Metropolitan News',

'Country News', 'The Court and Haut ton', 'National Sports', 'Naval and Military', 'Imperial Parliament',

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes - 'Lord William Hervey Secretary to The British Embassy at Paris, -

Francis Philips of Bank Hall, Co Lancaster, - Lady Isabella Head Brydges of Wootton Court Kent, -

W. C. Townsend Esq QC, - Sir Alexander Gibson-Carmichael of Skirling',

adverts of the day

May 25th

It features many articles with prints from engravings including

'Grand Ball at Devonshire House on Tuesday' (front page),

'M. E. Drouyn de Lhuys - The French Government and the Greek Question' (front page),

'Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" on whit Monday - The Procession Passing the Statue of Dr. Johnson', '-

Sergeants at Mace, Sword Bearer, Crier', '-

The Morris Dancers', 'Procession up Hoad Hill,

The site of the Memorial near Ulverston', 'Memorial to Sir John Barrow, Bart',

'Cottage at Dragley Beck, in which Sir John Barrow was Born',

'The United States Mail Steam Ship Atlantic entering the Mersey', 'Grand saloon of The Atlantic',

'The British Mail Steam Ship Asia', 'After Deck of The Asia',

'Accident to Her Majesty's Steamer Cuckoo at Jersey',

'Turpins Oak at Finchley',

'The Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway - Dundanion',

'The Rev. Mr Graham',

'The Late M. Guy-Lussac',

'M. Halevy',

'Exhibition of Ancient and Mediaeval Art - silver Ewers, Salvers representing the Triumphs of Dorea 17C -

Fragment of Greek Vase and Restoration - Bronze Vase found near Bari',

'Tulips - Holmes King - Victoria Regina (grooms) - Triomphe Royal' .

Also articles (no engravings) including 'Foreign and Colonial News',

'Metropolitan News', 'Country News', 'The Court and Haut ton',

'National Sports', 'Naval and Military', 'Imperial Parliament',

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Sir William Feilden, Bart of Feniscowles,

Sir George William Prescott, Bart Late of Theobalds Park Herts, -

Sir James Flower, Bart of Lobb, County of Oxford, -

Sir William Kay, Bart of East Sheen Surrey, - Michael James Robert Dillon, Earl of Roscomon',

June 15th

It features many articles with prints from engravings including

'Christ with The Disciples in The Corn Field by Henry Warren' (front page),

'Ascot Races - Rhedycina Winner of the Oaks Stakes at Epsom', 'Wanota,

Winner of The Ascot Stakes', 'The Queens Gold Cup The Emperors Vase, The Royal Hunt Cup',

'The Serpent Charmers at The Gardens of The Zoological Society Regents Park',

'The great Conservatory in The Gardens of The Horticultural Society at Chiswick',

'Blue titmouse's Nest in a Letter Box near Hornchurch from a sketch by Peter Bearblock of Hornchurch' (small),

'Scene from Halevys new Opera of La Tempesta at Her Majestys Theatre', 'Signor Lablache as Caliban', 'Madae Sontag as Miranda',

'St Barnabas Church and College Pimlico', 'Interior of St. Barnabas Church, Pimlico',

'General Andre Santa Cruz', 'Lord Naas, MP for Kildare',

'Testimonial Presented to The Rev. J. Airaux Jeremie DD by Students of Haileybury College',

'Discovery of a Roman Vlla near Pau - The Valley of Gan near Pau',

'Discovery of Roman Villa - Ground Plan', 'The Mosaics' (nine in all),

Also articles (no engravings) including 'Sunday in England',

'Foreign and Colonial Intelligence',

'Law Intelligence',

'Imperial Parliament',

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased and includes Sir George Talbot Bart. of Belfast, -

James smith Esq of Deanston, - Lieutenant Colonel Thomas George Fitzgerald of Turlough Park, Co. Mayo', -

'The Court and Haut Ton',

'Metropolitan News',

'Town Talk and Table Talk',

'Chess',

adverts of the day

June 29th

Sir Robert Peel on His Horse ' titled with facsimile signature - front page print from engraving

' Chess Problem by Mr Eichstadt of the "Berliner Schachzeitung"..'

' Bridewell Hall - Annual Dinner of the Governors of Bethlem and Bridwell Hospitals ' London

' Amwell Street School Rooms - Jubilee Dinner of the Clerkenwell Parochial Charity Schools '

' Lord Hollands Park at Notting Hill - The Scottish Fete of the Highland and Scottish Societies '

' Between Gravesend and the Nore - The Accident to the Nassau Balloon in the Sea '

Archaeological Institute

' Anniversary of the Archaeological Institute ' an engraved design

' Chrismatory from the Institute Museum '

' Archaeological Institute Fete in Exeter College Gardens at Oxford ' with illuminations

' Meeting of the Archaeological Institute - Professor Willis 's Visit to Christchurch Cathedral at Oxford'

' Sandals of Bishop Waynflete - The Founder of Magdalen College '

' The Bell of Stg Senanus Called Also The Cloghorn or Golden Bell '

' Family Coat of Arms '

' Birth Place near Chamber Hall Lancshire '

' Whitehall Gardens ' where he died

' the Governesses Institution at Liverpool '

' Cycas Revoluta i Bloom at Ravensworth Castle '

' Design for a Building for the Great Exhibition of 1851 by Joseph paxton FLS '

' Chain for the Mayor of Bath '

' Benares India - Terrific Explosion at the Raj Ghaut Ferry '

' The Guernsey Race Prize Cup ' .

' Pony Phaeton Built for Queen Victoria '

Emigration to the United States and Colonies -:

' Embarkation at Waterloo Docks Liverpool '

' A Scene Between Decks ' men women and children

' The Departure ' on deck

' The Roll Call on the Quarter Deck of an Emigrant Ship '

' The Government Medical Inspectors Office ' see scan

' Searching for Stowaways Below Deck ' see scan

' Dancing Between Decks ' see scan

Art

'...." Too Truthful " - Painted by A. Solomon '

' ..... " The Arrival of the Coach, A Roadside Inn a Century Ago " by T. F. Marshall '

' ..."The Stirrup Cup " by J. F. herring '

' ..." The Wind on Shore " by T. Creswick ARA '

' ..." The Angels Whisper " by J. J. Jenkins '

' .."The Highland Coronach " Painted by Mr M'Ian ' -

the death of Niel Macdonald son of the Laird of Achtreachtan of Glencoe

'.." The Childs Prayer " by R. Redgrave ARA '

' .." Market Boats Arriving at Angers " by E. A. Goodall ' river scene

in France with cathedral and castle in the background, and various other buildings

British Grasses

' Meadow Foxtail - Meadow Fescue - Sweet Scented Vernal '

' Timothy or Meadow Catstail '

' Smooth Stalked Meadow - Wood Meadow - Crested Dostail '

' Fertile Meadow - Wooly Soft - Italian Rye ' .

' Annual Meadow - Hard Fescue - Ladies Tresses '

' Field Brome - Copcksfoot - Tall Oat Grass '

Paris Fashions

' Mornign Dress ' family at a table

' Cap and Straw Bonnett '

' Opera Dress '

' We nefer Met Again ' full page of music with engraved scene at top of page by Landells -

Poetry by Edward Mordaunt Spencer and Composed by G. Herbert Rodwell

' The Washington National Monument at Washinton City USA '

' Mlle Emilie Vandermeersch ' and her performing birds - two engravings

The Death of Sir Robert Peel

The Clerkenwell Parochial Charity Schools

Foreign and Colonial News

Chess

Metropolitan News includes:

Deputation of Newspaper Proprietors to the Postmaster General

TheBaking Trade - A Meeting of Bakers in St Martins Hall

Medical Reform

Mortality in the Public Institutions o fLondon

Mr Barry the Architect .

Hospital for Consumption at Brompton

Accident at the Bricklayers Arms Station in Old Kent Road, Isaac Banks

Fatal Collision on the River at Bennetts Wharf

Births And Deaths - Numbers of deaths from Smallpox -

Measles - Scarlatina - Hooping Cough (Whooping Cough ) - Typhus - Cholera etc

Ireland

Perilous Balloon Descent - MR Green in his Nassau Balloon

Illustrated London News Editorial

Late Postal Disarrangements by Thomas Miller

Court and haut Ton - Royal Comings and Goings

Country News includes:

New of the Death of Sir Robert Peel - at Tamworth - Birmingham - Liverpool

Hop Intelligence

Partial Destructrion of a Viaduct on the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway on the Esk

Adult Orphan Asylum

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased

William Francis henry Petre - Lord Petre of Writtle Co, Essex died at his residence in Essex Street London

Richard Preston Esq of the Middle Temple

Robert Dillon Browne Esq MP for Co. Mayo

Imperial Parliament includes:

house of Lords and Commons

The Franchise ( Ireland )

Hyde Park - Exhibition of 1851

Smith O'Brien

National Education

Death of Sir Robert Peel

Business of the Session

Law Intelligence - The Will of the Late Queen Dowager Adelaide

Royal Bounty - For the Family of Lieutenant Breen of the RN who Died on the Island of Lipso to Miss Ann Breen and Mrs Breen

Intemperance of Parents the Cause of Idiocy

Stained Glass Window in the Cinque Cento Style at the parish Church of West Lynn

The Cholera in the East, Cochin China etc

Presentation to the Mayor of Bath Mister F. Dowding Esq

TheTheatres - Her Majesty, Royal Italian Opera, St James - etc

Monetary Transactions of th eWeek from Our City Correspondent

The Tide of Emigration to the United States and to the British Colonies includes:

Chart shwoing the numbers from 1825 to 1849

Australian and New Zealand with Sale of Land in Australia

British America - Canada - Nova Scotia - Prince Edward Island - New Brunswick - and the Sale of Land etc

Cape of Good Hope and Natal

West Indies

Hong Kong

United States - Plus the sale of land etc .

Emigration from Liverpool with a list of names and addresses of some of the passenger brokers

the Medical Inspecdtors Office and the New Passenger Act etc

Imperial Parliament (II)

Our Foreign Policy - Vote of Confidence in Ministers - 27 and 28 June

Names mentioned in the columns of persons who spoke in the debate include Sir J. Walsh - Sir H. Verney -

Sir R. Inglis - Marquis of Granby - Sir W. Molesworth - Mr Shafto Adair - Mr S. Herbert - Sir G. Grey -

Mr Gladstone - Mr H. Drummond - Mr Cockburn - Mr Walpole - Mr Milnes -

Sir Robert Peel (long speech, and probably his last) - Lord J. Russell - Mr Disraeli

The result of the vote on the above debate

British Grasses by T. Rowlandson

The Washington National Monument USA

July 6th 1850

Emigration - The Government inspectors office , Liverpool

Emigrants embarkation, Waterloo Docks, Liverpool

Emigrants departing from Liverpool

Quarter deck of an emigrant ship- The roll-call

Searching for stowaways on an emigrant ship

Scene between decks on an emigrant ship

Emigrants dancing between the decks

August 10th

Newcastle Central Station

August 17th

'Site of the Building for The Great Exhibition of 1851'

'At The Northernmost Chincha ( Guano ) Island'

'Tigre Island - The United States Garrison'

'The Village of Schestedt on the Road from Schlewswig to Osterade.'

'General Schleppegrell, Killed in The Battle of Idstadt.'

'Explosion of the Laboratory at Rendsburg.'

'Ruins of the Great Fire at Gravesend - High Street Looking North'

'Ruins of the Great Fire at Gravesend - Looking West'

'Picture Gallery of The Late King of Holland in The Palace of the Hague'

'The Late Sir Lancelot Shadwell, Vice Chancellor of England.'

'Reverse of an Ancient Cross found at Cork.'

'The New Free Grammar and Commercial School at Loughborough.'

'Founding of the New School at Loughborough - The Procession.'

'Madame Fiorentini as Norma'

'Mrs Grahams Ballon on Fire '

'The New High Civic Cross, Bristol.'

'The Large Cat living at 175 Oxford Street weighs 25 lbs.'

'Great Exhibition of 1851 - Prize Medals ( £50 each ) M. Gaybard - M. Wiener - Mr Hancock (three designs)'

" Aholibah " Painted by E. Armitage

" The Guard Room " Painted by L. Haghe

' Miss Frederika Bremer'

' Election Saturday at Eton - Regatta and Fireworks'

'Model of Amphitrite by J. Thomas'

'Marble Statue of the Poet Campbell by W. C. M. Marshall To Be Placed in Westminster'

" Sweet Summer Time " Drawn by Gavarni

' Cornwall ' - Small map

'The " Giants Punch Bowl " in St Agnes ' - Small engr

' Mandrill baboon in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regents Park '

' Sniggling For Eels ' in the River Lee (Between Ware and Blackwall )

'Summer Residence of the Kara Family in Tambov - 1150 Versts From St Petersburgh ' a Russian Noble

' Chapel of the Consumption Hospital At Brompton '

' Ancient Doorway Discovered at Burton upon Trent '

' Ruins of Brambletye House Sussex '

' Portable Crane Shower Bath '

Emigration of Distressed Needlewomen - ' Emigrant Needlewomen on Deck '

Emigration of Distressed Needlewomen - ' Emigrant Ship Between Decks '

Supplement

' State Dining Room at Buckingham Palace '

' Richmond Deeps ' - ' Teddington ' small engravings

' Stirrup of Queen Elizabeth '

' Silver Salver of 17th century Work '

The Late Insurrection in Ceylon - Kandy Sketched From Under Castle Hill '

Burning of the Aged High Priest of the Great Temple of Kandy '

' Toddy Drawer Ascendcing a Coconut Tree '

' Major Davy's Tree '

' The Commandant's Quarters at Matele '

Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) - ' Attack on the Warriapola Store '

Ceylon - ' Attempted Escape of a Prisoner at The Bridge Near Matele '

Ceylon - ' Kandian Chief, Father of Loco Banda '

Ceylon - ' Interior of a Court House in The Kandian Provinces '

' The Late R. J. Wyatt ' the death of the accomplished sculptor at Rome

' .." Tuning " Designed By the Late R. J. Wyatt '

'New Church on Mount Aboo in Rajpootana East Indies ' ( Rajputana now part of Rajasthan state )

' Marble Tomb of th ePrincess Sophia Just Erected in the Kensal Green Cemetery '

' Monument to Captain E. J. Brown of The Bengal Engineers Erected in Bursted Church Sussex ' who fell in the Scindian War
The Ceylon Inquiry

Foreign and Colonial News

Imperial Parliament includes Business of the Session - Breach of Privilege -

Sunday Post Office Regulations - The Chartist Land Scheme, A Scene Prevented

Country News

Court and Haut Ton at Buckingham Palace

Metropolitan News includes Robberies in Places of Worship - Fatal Accident on the River -

Wilful Destruction of the Ordnance Maps of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers -

Births and Deaths with numbers of deaths from diseases such as Cholera Smallpox Hooping ( Whooping ) cough etc

Conflagration at Gravesend with a list of the owners and the properties burned down

Obituary of Eminent Persons includes:- The Right Hon Sir Lancelot Shadwell Vice Chancellor of England

Windham Henry Earl of Dunraven died at Adare Manor County Limerick

Job Walden Hanmer Esq died at his chambers, Lincolns Inn

The Hon Charles Ewan Law MP Recorder of London at his residence in Eaton Place

Railway Intelligence-

Eastern Counties Railway - Strike Among The Drivers Firemen &c

Chess

The Gorham Case

The Grand Industrian Exhibition

British Agriculture by Thomas Rowlandson

An arctic Newspaper The Nepaulese Ambassador

Fishing Excursions up the Thames

A Few Facts About Matrimony

General Willisen

August 24th

Departure of english members of the peace congress for Frankfurt

Attempt of a brazilian slaver to run down HMS V Phoenix on the coast of Africa -

State sword for the emperor of Hayti or Haiti

The right Rev Dr Fulford, Lord bishop of Montreal

Ostend

Departure of Jenny Lind from Liverpool for America -

Railway viaduct over the Tweed , at Berwick -

A full page on a visit to the salt mines of cheshire - with 3 one third page engravings entitled individually :

The Marston salt pit

The shaft - Descent of the Bucket

Regent street, Marston pit

Evaporating house and salt pan

An educational experiment

The peace congress at Frankfort

Inundations in Belgium

Obituary of eminent persons recently deceased including :

Sir Edward Bowyer smith of Hill hall and Horham Essex

Rt Hon Charles Arbuthnot of Apsley house Piccadilly

The dowager Lady Wenlock of Denbies

Sir Martin archer Shee of Brighton

The narrow escape from drowning of Mr Charles Barry Baldwin MP

Eight persons drowned near Liverpool opposite Eastham including Eliza Walker ,

James and William spencer, W Blackie, John Youd, Nancy McFall,

John Duncan, John Gerrard and Thomas Gerrard of Bell street

Roman catholic synod at Thurles in Tipperary

The rt Rev Francis Fulford

Fall of the Bricklayers arms railway station : Loss of Life

Jenny Lind's departure for america

Railway viaduct over the tweed at berwick

A Visit to the salt mines of Chester

music score with words - Words by S N Elrington Jun

and arrangement by Professor smith - entitled : The dark haired Gypsy of the sea

August 31st

price sixpence.

'Her Majesty's Visit to Castle Howard'

'New York American Line Ship', 'Cornelius Grinnell', 'The Hold of the Cornelius Grinnell',

'The Late Sir Martin Archer Shee',

'The New Safety Gun',

'The First of September, The Luncheon drawn by Duncan',

'Portrait of Louis Phillippe ex King of the French',

'The Great Wool Floor at the London Docks',

'The Bricklayers Arms Railway Station after the Late Accident',

'A Scene from the Legend of Florence at Sadlers Wells Theatre',

'Banquet given by The Mayor of Southampton to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London'.

'The Queens Visit to Dover Harbour',

'Canal Boat at the Horseshoe Fall Niagara',

'A Lump of Gold from California',

Also articles (no engravings) including 'The death of Louis Phillippe',

'The Value of Surgical Mechanics in Medical Juris Prudence',

'Death from drinking a bottle of Brandy for a Wager - Joseph Stonestreet aged 25',

'Robberies at the Euston Terminus',

'Fire at Limehouse',

'Death from Lockjaw, verdict died from Tetanus by a puncture from a rusty nail',

'The Removal of the Marble Arch',

'Town Talk and Table talk',

'The Submarine Telegraph between Dover and Calais',

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Deceased - Viscount Newark, -

Sir Charles Vincent Loraine of Kirke Harle, Northumberland, -

Sir Charles Blois of Cockfield Hall, Suffolk',

' Wills and Bequests including - Duke of Cambridge, -

The Rt Hon. Sir Lancelot Shadwell, -

The Right Hon William Henry Francis Lord Petre, Baron of Writtle',

The Epitome of News Foreign and Domestic',

'Monetary Transactions of the Week',

September 7th

'The Canterbury Colonists, Scene at Gravesend on Monday' (front page)

Also an article entitled 'The Canterbury Association, Farewell to The New Zealand Emigrants'

'Violent Display of Popular Indignation Against The Austrian Marshal Haynau, At Bankside'

The Royal Visit To Scotland 'Visit of The Royal Party to The Cricket Ground, At Castle Howard'

'Reception of Her Majesty at Berwick Upon Tweed'

'The Railway Station At Edinburgh'

'Entrance of The Queen into The Great Central Railway Station, Newcastle upon Tyne '

'Reception of Her Majesty at The Great Central Railway Station, Newcastle Upon Tyne '

'The Royal Procession to Holyrood'

'His Royal Highness Prince Albert Laying The Foundation Stone of The National Gallery at Edinburgh'

'Chess' by Mr Staunton '

'Funeral of Louis Philippe, ex King of The French: The Chapelle Ardente at Claremont'

'Funeral of Louis Philippe: Entance to The Vault in The Chapel at Weybridge -

Count de Paris, Duc de Nemours, Duc D'Aumale and Prince De Joinville'

'Funeral of Louis Philippe, The Procession Leaving the Palace at Claremont'

with black borders around the engraving and page

'The Warwick Race Plate, 1850'

'Lancaster Castle'

'Court and Haut Ton at Balmoral'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons includes Sir Peter Pole, Bart died in Welbeck Street -

Joseph Bailey Esq of Easton Court MP for Herefordshire died in London -

Sir Edward Alexander Campbell CB -

M. Honore De Balzac a french novelist -

The Right Hon. Charles Watkin Williams Wynn DCI FSA of Llangedwin, MP for Montgomeryshire, The Father of the House of Commons'

September 14th

It features articles with prints from engravings including

'The Late attack upon Marshal Haynau at Messrs Barclay and Perkins's Brewery -

The Coal Cellar at The George, Bankside -

The Bedroom in Which Marshall Haynau was Concealed -

Escape of Marshal Haynau in The Police Galley' (front page),

'The Synod at Thurles in Co Tipperary - The Bishops Robing -

The Procession from the College to The Cathedral',

'The Right Rev. Dr. M'Hale, Archbishop of Tuam', 'Sitting of The Synod',

'The French President in The Rue St. Jean, at Caen',

'Grand Ball at Caen', 'Sketch en Route to Cherbourg',

'The President en Route to Cherbourg', 'Harbour and Town of Cherbourg',

'The French Squadron in Position at Cherbourg',

'The Royal Yacht Squadron Saluting the French Squadron -

sketched by the Hon. Dudley Pelham', 'Ships' Boat Race at Cherbourg',

'The Grand Musical Festival in Gloucester Cathedral', 'Gloucester Cathedral - The Porch',

'The African Exhibition at The Cosmorama, Regent Street'

Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased including Admiral Robert Dudley Oliver at Dalkey, Dublin,

The Rev. James Ingram at Trinity College Oxford,

The Very Rev. Holt Waring, Dean of Dromore,

Baroness Rothschild at Gunnersbury Park, Ealing,

Chief Justice The Rt. Hon. John Doherty',

'The Total Loss of The Indian Indiaman',

'Country News',

'Metropolitan News',

'Canterbury Settlement, New Zealand',

'Chess',

'The Markets',

It measures 400x275mm (16x10.75")

September 21st

'Doncaster Races, The Dead Heat for The St. Leger Stakes, Between Voltigeur and Russborough, Bollingbroke Third (front page)

'War in Schleswig, Holstein Troops: Repose in Camp - Holstein Chasseurs and Night Fire,

Signal Post - Schleswig-Holstein Chasseurs on The March - Outpost Duty, The Vidette, Holstein Cavalry Man'

'The French President Quitting the Squadron at Cherbourg'

'Aerial Navigation: M. Petin's Stysem of Aerial Navigation'

'Doncaster Races, The Road To The Course' - 'Doncaster Race Course'

Festivities At Chippenham 'The high Street, From The Bridge, Arrival of MR Neeld MP' -

'Opening of The Great Cheese Market, At Chippenham, September 12, 1850., The Market Hall'

Cheese Making 'Revolving Curd Breaker' - 'Improved Lion Cheese Press and Cheshire Curd Cutter'

' 'Temporary Barrack at Ballater For The Queen's Guard of Honour'

'The Coronation Stone at Kingston upon Thames'

'Ruins of th Priory of Mount Grace, East Harsley, York' (small)

'New Church of St. Edward, At Romford, Consecrated on Thursday September 19th'

'Chancel of The New Church at Romford'

'New Corn Exchange at Ipswich'

'Chess'

'The Doncaster Race Cup 1850'

'Plan of the Improvements in Progress in St. James's Park'

'The Land Question in France and Ireland'
'Explosion in the City and Great Destruction of Property - Fireworks Factory at Weaver Street Spitalfields'

'Country News'

'Accident on The Eastern Counties Railway - Nine Lives Lost'

'Enthusiastic Reception of Jenny Lind at New York'

Also articles (no engravings) including 'The Land Question in France and Ireland'

'Explosion in the City and Great Destruction of Property - Fireworks Factory at Weaver Street Spitalfields'

'Country News'

'Accident on The Eastern Counties Railway - Nine Lives Lost'

' 'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Sir George Baillie Hamilton KCH

British Minister at Florence died at the Villa Normanby, Florence from a rupture of a blood vessel in the chest -

Thomas Thistlethwayte Esq of Southwick Park, Hants'

'Enthusiastic Reception of Jenny Lind at New York'

'Grand Explosion at Seaford Cliff'

September 28th

No. 448- vol. XVII.

The capture of Her Majesty's fleet (navy) of four slavers off coast of Brazil,

the great explosion at Seaford,

Lewes Sheep Fair. Other major articles concern France, Louis Napoleon, 1848 Revolution ,

Ireland, Australia, and events in the United States

(gold, emigration, and statehood of California, disputes concerning Texas and New Mexico,

statehood of Utah, issue of slavery, Congressional concerns).

Bourbon or Bonaparte?- concerning Louis Napoleon ,

1848 Revolution narrowing itself and the numbered days of the Constitution.

Article says the Constitution is dead!!

Portrait of Jenny Lind- taken immediately before departure for America. Pg. 2 (254):

Continuation of Article on French from previous page.

Article concerning Jenny Lind's concert in New York Details on Foreign and Colonial Intelligence,

France and Louis Napoleon,

Hesse-Cassel,

Section on United States covering steam ship America, passage across the Atlantic in eleven days,

congress position on California as a free-state,

boundaries between Texas and New Mexico,

contemplation of admission of Utah (Mormon country) as a state,

Fugitive-Slave bill, abolition of slave trade in district of Columbia,

resignation of Hon Mr. M'Kennan as Secretary of Interior,

controversies over New Mexico and Texas,

comments of California gold and emigrants.

Sections on current events of Australia and India,

agriculture, railroad, factories, emigration,

Story of an extraordinary robbery and attempted murder of Mr. Cureon.

Account of the wreck of two excursion Steamers: The Superb and La Polka., including picture.

Account of capture of four noted slavers by Her Majesty's steam frigate, Cormorant on the coast of Brazil.

Continuation of article on capture of four slavers off coast of Brazil, along with illustrations.

Also included is an article on the Schleswig-Holstein War.

Societies for promoting Christian Knowledge and propagating the Gospel in foreign parts.

Includes illustrations of Exeter cathedral-

anniversay of the Societies for Promoting christian Knowledge.

Article on Athletic games at the Royal Military (Woolrich Academy) along with great illustrations of high jumping

More concerning affairs of Hesse-Cassel.

Comments concerning week of Court of Balmoral.

private bills introduced.Information concerning Churches, Universities,

i.e,. Election of Rev. John Wilson as President of Trinity College,

Appointment of Re. George Bellamy to Charles' chapel,

vacancies, more details. Orbituary of Bishop of Meath, Lord William Clinton, John Jardine.

Comments on preparation of flax without steeping.

Additional information concerning California, its gold,

New Mexico and Utah (Deseret of the Mormons),

question of slavery as regards to both of them.,

Anglo-Saxon miners,

California's refusal to fraternise Spanish, Portugues, and Italian blood,

Articles concerning the Freehold Land Movement and Finsbury Freehold Land Society.

Article on the Great Explosion at Seaford (scientific explosions to blow up chalk cliffs and throw out debris into the ocean

Comments on the Rhuddland Royal Eistedfordr, Rhuddlan Castle,

Procession to Castle .

Continuation of reports of events at Rhuddland, announcements of dramas and events at theatres,

Country news, coal trade article.

Comments concerning Australia,

Article on Chess problems, and solutions, with chess board illustration.

Article on the Irish Amelioration society and manufacture of peat charcoal.

continuation of Irish Amelioration Society article, including illustrations of the Bog of Allen from the canal side,

cutting turf and preparing it for the rick,

one of the retorts for burning the turf into charcoal,

and a model station at Derrymullen on the Bog of Allen.

Illustrations for Paris fashions for October, and article.

Also article on Antiquarian discovery at Rochester,

England of early English Arch

Articles on National sports, money transactions, and the markets.

Article on late fire near the corn-exchange and the associated losses.

Article on the Lewes Great Sheep Fair.

October 5th

'Pheasant Shooting drawn by Duncan' (front page

'Chinese Symbols or Writing: Great Chinese Empire

Imperially Appointed in the Province of Chih-le of Tsingho,

Taoutal Formerly in the Province of Che-Keang of Ningpo,

Shashing and Tae Chow, Taoutal, Chin Cheke etc'

'General View of The Great Wall of China, From The Sea'

'Monumental Slabs at the Eastern Terminus' Wall of China

'Tower on The Great Wall' of China

'The Great Wall, seen From The Top of the Tower'

'Scene at The Grand Review at Versailles'

'Emigration to Australia, Farewell Group Meeting of the Familyh Colonisation Loan Society'

'Westminster Ragged School Children in Claydon Park'

'The Parsonage at Frimley'

'Town and Country Children drawn by Gavarni' with poetry

'Chess'

'Roman Remains Discoverd at Lymne, Kent '

'Flue Tiles, Quern and Other Roman Articles Found at Lymne'

'Launch of a 14 Year First Class Ship at Dundee'

'New Church At St Ann, In the Isle of Alderney '

'Mr Peter Borries Patent Safety Iron Twin Steamer'

'Great Tenant Right Meeting at Kilkenny'

'Wreck of The Superb as Seen Through a Telescope, From Jersey'

'Castle Garden, New York'

'The Tate Testimonial, Richmond, Yorkshire'

'Silver Inkstand, Presented to Lieut. Colonel Spence'

'The Government and The Public Health'

'Pheasant Shooting neaqr Tunbridge'

'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Arctic Expedition, The Fate of Sir John Franklin'

'Metropolitan News'

'Tremendous Conflagration a Fire at Little Guildford Street and Templars Cottages'

'Rhuddlan Royal Eisteddvod'

'The Court'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Chandos, Lord Leigh of Adlestrop

County Oxford died at Bonn on the Rhine -

Gustavus Lambart Esq of Beau Parc, County Meath'

'Country News includes Howden Yorkshire, Great Horse Fair - Great Sale at Yanwith Hall'

October 12th

The forthcoming Great Exhibition of 1851: Progress of The Building in Hyde Park' (front page)

'Schleswig-Holstein: Danish Artillery and Infanrty - Map of The Seat of the War - Plan of Friedrichstadt'

'Schleswig-Holstein: Burning of The Lesser Camp, at Kochendorf' -

General Krogh, Commander in Chief of the Danish Troops' - 'Rendsburg'

'The Worcester Diocesan Training School at Saltley near Birmingham'

'Orphan House, Ashley Down, Near Bristol '

'Minster Lovel, Oxon' The new estate of eighty two cottages,

a view taken from the Oxford and Cheltenham Road at the west end of the crescent

'The Owner of the Vineyard Paying His Labourers painted by Rembrandt'

'Harp of Mary Queen of Scots'

'Plan of Cape Riley'

'Cape Riley, At The Entrance of Wellington Channel, Barrow's Straits and Remains of Encampment'

'Grisly Bears, in the Gardens of The Zoological Society, Regents Parkl'

'M. Hassenpflug, Minister of Justice and Finance of the Electorate of Hesse Cassel'

Also articles (no engravings) including 'Foreign and Colonial News'
'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Decreased includes John Fane Esq of Wormesley, County Oxford -

Sir William Pilkington, Bart - Sir William Pilkington, Bart died at his seat Chevet Park near Wakefield -

Sir Henry Thomas Oakes, Bart at Londonderry in Ireland'

'Country News'

'Great Sale of articles at Coleby in Lincs by Messrs Farebrother Clarke and Lye

'Violent Storm and Loss of Life'

October 19th

'The Late Queen of The Belgians, From a drawing by M. Baugniet (front page)

California: San Francisco and Sacramento 'San Francisco, General View' -

'Blay Place, San Francisco' - 'Political Meeting at San Francisco' - 'Sacramento, General View'

'Scene of The Accident to The Pacific Steam SHip, on Leaving New York '

'Surprise of Holstein Patrol' The War

'Saint Hubert, Painted By Albert Durer' - 'Dead Christ, Painted by Caracci' -

'The Death of The Virgin painted by Martin Schon' -

'Christ giving The keys to St Peter Painted by Rubens'

'Robert Stephenson Esq MP for Whitby'

'St Lawrence Church, Barton'

'Church of The Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill, Consecrated on Tuesday Last'

'Chancel of Trinity Church, Haverstock Hill'

'St Martins Northern Schools, Castle Street, Long Acre, Opened on Thursday Last'

'Regalia of Scotland: Crown Sceptre, Sword and Lord Treasurers Rofdd' - 'Jewel of St Andrew' - 'The George'

'Part of Holyrood Palace and Abbey'

'Path of the New Planet Victoria Amongst The Stars'

Also articles (no engravings) including:
'A New Reform Movement of Politicians'

'Wills of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes The Right Hon. Chjarles Ewan Law,

Recorder for London - The Late Right Hon. Charles Watkyn Williams Wynn MP'

'Foreign and Colonial News'

'The Liverpool Plate Robberies'

'The New County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch

'Sussex and Surrey P

Police, The Frimley Murder'

'Extraordinary Attempt to Rob and Murder buy Means of Chloroform'

'Burglary and Desperate Attempt at Murder at Birmingham by Christopher Heely, William Wallace, George Green, Henry Jones and Henry Thomson a London Gang'

'Burglary, A Rober Shot, William Dyson near Regents Park'

'The Frimley Murders, Confession of One of The Prisoners' The murder of The Rev. G. E. Hollest near Guildford

October 26th

'Murders of The Two Princes in The Tower (Die Sorne Eduards IV) painted by Hildenbrandt' (front page)

'Inauguration of The Statue of Queen Isabella II At Madrid'

'Louisburg Harbour, Cape Breton'

Funeral of the Queen of The Belgians 'The Procession' - 'The Internment in the Church at Laeken'

'Nimrod Sculptures Just Received at The British Museun: Human Headed and Eagle Winged Bull' - 'Human Headed and Winged Lion'

'School Fete at Codrington College, Barbados'

'National Concert at Her Majesty;s Theatre'

'New Cattle Market, Reading'

'Mayoralty Chain for the Corporation of Carlisle'

'St Marys Church, West Brompton, Consecrated on Tuesday'

'Prize Rabbits at The Rochester and Chatham Show'

'Colossal Prize Bride Cake Exhibited at The Albany State Fair'

'Colonel Von Der Tann, Chief of The Staff of General Willisen'

Also articles (no engravings) including 'Right of Way in The Wilderness'
'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Final Opening of The Britannia Bridge' Anglesey

'The Late Robbery in The Strand' at the firm of Messrs Williams and Clapham, Jewellers by a Charles Kelly

'Country News'

the Chess Congress of 1851'

'The Burglary at Mr Holfords in The Regents Park ' by William Dyson'

'Extensive Robbery of Jewellery in The Strand from the House of Messrs Clapham and Williams, Silversmith and Jewellers near the Craven Hotel'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes John Thomas, Lord Stanley of Alderley at Alderley Park, Cheshire -

Lord William Beresford next brother and heir presumptive of the Marquis of Waterford, died in Regents Park Barracks age 38 -

Major General Sir Ephraim George Stannus -

The Rev,. George Thackeray DD FLS Provost of Kings College, Cambridge died at his residence Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square -

The Right Hon. Sir William Henry Fremantle GCH died at his seat Hally Grove, Windsor Park'

Also articles (no engravings) including:
Also articles (no engravings) including 'The Land Question in France and Ireland'

'Explosion in the City and Great Destruction of Property - Fireworks Factory at Weaver Street Spitalfields'

'Country News'

'Accident on The Eastern Counties Railway - Nine Lives Lost'

' 'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes:

Sir George Baillie Hamilton KCH British Minister at Florence died at the Villa Normanby, Florence from a rupture of a blood vessel in the chest

Thomas Thistlethwayte Esq of Southwick Park, Hants'

'Enthusiastic Reception of Jenny Lind at New York'

'Grand Explosion at Seaford Cliff'

November 2nd

Dr Wiseman, Appointed by the Pope Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster' (front page)

'French Fleet in Torbay' (front page)

'Kah Ge Ga Gah Bowh, TThe Ojibbeway Chief, Sketched During The Temperance Meeting in Drury Lane Theatre'

'Peruvian Mummies'

'The State House Ohio' 'Glen Tilt, near The Marble Lodge'

'Chess'

'Tercentenary Anniversary of Kings School, Sherborne'

'Fashions: Walking Dress, Male and Female etc'

'The Late Duke of Palmella'

'Scene from "Serve Him Right" at the Lyceum Theatre'
Also articles (no engravings) including 'Foreign and Colonial News'
'The Bishop of London on the Re Organisation of The Roman Catholic Hierachy in England'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Decreased includes:

Major General Sir Patrick Ross, The Governor of St Helena -

Emily Harriot, Dowager Lady Suffield at Blickling Hall Norfolk -

Sir William Wrixon Becher of Balygiblin -

William Blacker Esq of Armagh -

Thomas Richardson Esq of Castle Eden County Durham -

The Right Rev. John Inglis DD Bishop of Nova Scotia died at Curzon Street Mayfair'

'Court and Haut Ton at Osborne'

'Country News'

'The Late Jewel Robbery in The Strand from the shop of Messrs Williams and Clapham 13 & 14 The Strand'

'Recent Burglary at The Regents Park, at the premises of James Holford Esq, Holford House, Regents Park'

The Grand Banquet at York ' The Royal Table and Mayoralty Insignia ' .

' Ancient Cap of Maintenance ' '

The Hundred Guinea Dish ' various types of food laid out in an extravagant design '

The Banquet in the Guildhall at York ' near full apge engraving showing the tables laid out with guests sitting down for their meal -

many attendants milling around '

The Late Duke of Palmella of Portugal ' - info.

Dom Pedro de Sousa Holstein Duque de Palmela '

November 9th

'The New Recorder The Right Hon. J. A. Stuart Wrtley MP' (front page)

'The New Lord Mayor, The Right Hon. John Musgrove'

'The New Vice Chancellor Sir R. M. Rolfe' Front page

'The New President of The Royal Academy, C. I. Eastlake Esq' front page

'Opening of The Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway: Whitehaven Bay'

'Whitehaven and Furness: St. Bees College - St Bees Priory Church'

'Whitehaven and Furness: Braestones Station'

'Whitehaven and Furness Duddon Sands Viaduct' - 'Broughton Tower' - 'Broughton' - Arch at Broughton Station' - 'Furness Abbey'

'The New Lord Mayors Show 1850' Double page

'Chess'

'Fireworks at The Merchant Seamens Orphan Asylum, Bow Road, on Tuesday'

'Catesy Hall, Gateway Ashby St Leger'

'The Ortlan'

'Launch of HM Steam Frigate Leopard at Deptford, on Tuesday'

'National Concerts at Her Majesty;s Theatre, The Berlin Choir' - 'Herr Neithhardt'

'Mr Westland Marstons NEw Play of Philip of France and Marie de Meranie at The Olympic Theatre'

'Miss Goddard'
Also articles (no engravings) including
'The Papal Agression'

' 'Foreign and Colonial News'

'Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes:

George Augustus Henry Anne Parkyns, Lord Rancliffe died at his Seat Bunny Park Nottinghamshire -

Richard Edwards Esq of Roby Hall, County of Lancaster '

'The Court and Haut Ton, The Court at Windosr Castle'

'The Fifth of November

November 16th

Opening of the Spanish Cortes - 2 half page engravings :

The royal procession to the new palace of Congress - Opening of the Cortes by Queen Isabella

The Building in Hyde Park for the great Exhibition of 1851 - General view of the works from the west - DP

Mademoiselle Jetty Treffz - S

Scene from the new play of the Templar at the Princes theatre -

The Building in Hyde park for the great exhibition of 1851 - General view of the works looking East - FP

Reid's patent vertical power loom - interior section and : end view - 2 small drawings

The Building in Hyde park - 2 further Full page drawings showing general views of the works progress

The Buildings in Hyde park - Glazing the roof - Base of column - Drilling Machine - Punching machine

November 23rd

Winter exhibition of modern British art - Pilot boat going out - Painted by E Duncan -

November 30th

'The Great Exhibition building in Hyde Park - Testing The Girders' (front page),

'The Great City Meeting at Guildhall - Exterior', 'The Great City Meeting in Guildhall',

'The Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park - Unloading Girders and Painting Machine',

December 21st

Manufacture of glass for the Crystal palace at Messrs Chance's works, Spon lane near Birmingham - Half page

Country road scene in winter by Foster with an accompanying poem beneath - Small Full Page

Arrival of Christmas train : Eastern Counties railway - drawn by Duncan - Full Page

The dreadful turn out of a French Plum pudding or the misfortunes of Monsieur and Madame De La Betise whose grand object in life was to live in the English style.

Falling of A Portion Of The King's Cross Tunnel (Mr Hodge, Abel Wynne, Samuel Edwards)

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Opening of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway

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Lancaster Castle as described in
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in The 1868 Illustrated London News

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