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The opening of the Suez Canal 1869

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1869 The opening of the Suez Canal

 

 

 

Some other Events of this year in the Illustrated London News 1869

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

 

 

 

 

 

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February 13th

 

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

February 27th

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

 

 

 

May 1st

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

 

 

 

May 8th

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

 

 

 

May 15th

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

 

 

 

May 22nd

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

 

 

 

June 5th

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

 

 

 

 

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August 7th 1869

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Lincoln - Judging Foxhounds at the Agricultural Meeting

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

' Prize Foxhounds at The Agricultural Meeting at Lincoln ' by Samuel Carter

' The Iron Clad Fleet - The Twin Screw Turret Ship " Captain "

' Ceramic Objects Produced by the Crystal Palace Art Union '

' Architectural Museum at Bowling Street in Westminster '

' The Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark ' .

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

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

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

' The Goodwood Race Cup '

' The Chesterfield Cup ' horse racing

' Stamford Races - the Clifden Cup '

' Chess Problem by Captain Clark of Smeinogorsk in Siberia '

Constitutional Reforms in France

Show of Fox Hounds at Lincoln

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

Metropolitan News

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

The Union Pacific Railway of America

Salt Lake City and The Great Salt Lake .

' Imperial Parliament

The Magazines

Country News

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

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

Scientific Results of the Month

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

The Goodwood and Chesterfield Cup

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

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

Law and Police includes Raid on Gambling House at Wormholt Scrubbs

The Farm

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August 21

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Regatta at Ryde Isle of Wight – Finish of the Race of The Royal Victoria Yacht Club, for the Vice Commodores

' Highgate nr London – Croquet Tournament on the Grounds of the Grammar School, Arranged by the National Croquet Club '

' St Peter Port Guernsey – The New Harbour and Castle Cornet

' Invalides, Paris – The Deum on the Hundreth Anniversary of the Birth of Napoleon I '

Sketches of Exeter in Devon-:

' Old Houses in North Street '

' Fore Street – Old Chemist Shop '

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

' Rogemont Castle '

' The Guildhall '


' Vancouver Island - St Andrews Church at Victoria

' New Church at Genthod In Switzerland '

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

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

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


The Crimea -:

' Sevastopol – the Russian Memorial Military Chapel

' The Interior of the Chapel at Sebastopol '

' Havana in Cuba – The Palace of Arms '

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

Improved Workmens Dwellngs in London


Foreign and Colonial News includes:

France with mention of the death of Marshal Niel , Prince Imperial at Chalons –
Fetes in Paris

Spain

Portugal

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

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

Germany

Sweden

Russia

Turkey and Egypt

Persia

America

India


Country News

"protest by Rector and gentry of the parish on the proposed revival of old custom of presenting flitches of bacon

Telegraph from Plymouth to Eddystone lighthouse

Meeting of the South Devon Archery Club in Powderham park

New Dock at Leith

Wesleyan Methodist Conference at Hull

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

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

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

Croquet Tournament at Highgate

The Court

Law and Police includes:

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

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

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

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

Inquest of Griffith Griffiths at College Arms St Pancras

Robbery and Outrage in Old Kent Road

Charges of Attempted Suicide

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


New Acts of Parliament

Monetary and Commercial Transactions

The Markets
Prices of Food, Wheat – Bread – Turnip – Linseed – Tallow – Coals, Newcatle, Sunderland, Blyth, Scotch, Welsh, York – Meat

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

The Palace of Arms at Havannah

The Regatta at Ryde

Decimal Coinage and the Metric System

Music, Theatres etc

Sports column with mention of:

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

The Bags on Glenshero Invernesshire


The Farm

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

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

Mr John Grey of Dilston by His Daughter


Nothing in the Papers
Mr Disraeli and Mr Gladstone – Mr Knox – Mr Bright

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


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


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


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


Literature

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

The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

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

From London Bridge to Lombardy by W R. Richardson

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

The Ministers Wife by Mrs Oliphant

The Perfect Treasure (Tinsley)


Obituary of Eminent Persons

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

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

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

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

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


Wills and Bequests

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

The Right Hon. Lepel Charlotte, Lady Alexander

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

Sir Robert Juckes Clifton MP

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

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


Weekly Return of Births and Deaths


 

 

 

 

 

September 11

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

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

' Hakodadi - The Japanese Imperial Fleet Attacking the Rebels '

' Bay and Harbour of St Jago de Cuba '

' Bastia on Corsica - Empress of the French and Prince Imperial

' Glasgerion by T. R. Lamont '

' The International Exhibiton at Amsterdam '

' Holy Trinity Church at Wildbad nr Wurtemberg ' -

' The Forest Farm by Arthur J. Stark ' .

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

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

' Corsica - The Empress of the French and Prince Imperial Landing at Ajaccio '


The Pacific Union Railway of America

' The Hanging Rock at Echo Canyon Utah '

' The Dial Rocks Utah '

' The Monument Rock Utah '


' Chess Problem by Mr T. Smith '

A New Phase of American Politics

Foreign and Colonial News

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

Mr Josiah Mason of Birmingham

The Illustrated London New Editorial

The Church - Preferments and Appointments

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

Music - The Norwich Festival , The Worcester Festival

National Sports

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

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

Law and Police

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

Glasgerion including a poem

Pacific union Railway America

Weekly Return of Births and Deaths .

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

And adverts of the day


 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 6

 

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

' The Boat House at Knowsley '

' The Police Lodge at Knowsley '

' Knowley - The Huyton Lodge '

' The Broad Walk at Knowsley '

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

' Vault in Knowsley Church, the Place of Sepulture of the Late Earl '

' The Funeral Procession Leaving Knowsley House


' The Thames Embankment at Westminster – the Works of the Metropolitan District Railway

' The Hall of The Skinners Company – the Sheriffs Inauguration Banquet '

' Paris Winter Fashions – Ten Hat and Bonnet Designs '

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

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

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


Holborn Valley Viaduct London:

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

' Bronze Allegorical Statues of the Piers of The Farringdon Street Bridge '


' The Blackfriars new Bridge Over the Thames '


The Insurrection in Dalmatia -:

' The Bocche de Cattaro in Dalmatia '

' Looking from Porto Nuovo – A View up the Bocche di Cattaro '

' Castel Nuovo at Cattaro '

' Cattaro From the Road Leading to Castelnuovo '

From sketches by Mr P. G. Canning an Officer of HMS Duke of Wellington


' Blackfriars New Bridge – One of the Ornate Piers '

' Chess Problem by Mister I. W. Abbott '

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

Foreign and Colonial News:

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

Spain

Italy

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

Germany

Canada
Sir John Macdonald

India

New Zealand

Wellington


Dr Featherstone – Hon. Mr Dillon Bell


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

Illustrated London News Editorial

The Court

 

Country News

Sir Titus Salt

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

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

Tenant Right and Fenian Meetings in Ireland

 

Law and Police

Two Prisoners Charged at the Old Bailey with Murder

Plate Robbery at Bow Street, Walter Smith .

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

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

Daring Robbery near Barnsley

Inquest into the Death of Mrs Emily Fowler at Penge

The Registrar Generals Quarterly Return

Monetary and Commercial Transactions

The Royal Humane Society

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

Returns of the Poor Law Board

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

Archaeology of the Month

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

The War Office - Naval and Military Appointments List

Weekly Return of Births and Deaths


Obituary of Eminent Persons

Lady Elizabeth Wells of Holme House, Huntingdonshire

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

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

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

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

George Macartney Esq of Lisanoure Castle County Antrim

Death of The Marquis of Westminster at Eaton Hall Cheshire

Wills and Bequests

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

November 13th

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

' Scene at the Globe Theatre ...'

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

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

' Blackfriars New Bridge ' double page print from engraving

Chess Problem by Mr H. E. Kidson of Liverpool

The Late Mr George Peabody

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

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

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

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

The Court at Windsor Etc

Illustrate4d London News Editorial

Mr Byrons New Play at The Globe

Letters From Dr Livingstone

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

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some of the image content July to December 1869

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


 


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