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GREAT BRITAIN. 



358 ; important public questions, 358 ; growth 

 of republicanism, 358; Government of India, 

 358; popular excitement about the Alabama 

 claims, 359 ; accession of Sir Roundell Palmer 

 to the Lord High Chancellorship, 359 ; his ca- 

 reer, 359 ; character, 359 ; publication of the 

 British census, 359 ; fluctuations of population 

 for seventy years, 359 ; division of the sexes, 

 359; cities over 100,000, 359; tendency of 

 the population to congregate in cities and 

 towns, 359 ; pauperism and taxation, 360 ; 

 public revenue, 360; expenditures, 360; na- 

 tional debt, 360; imports and exports, 360; 

 shipping, 360 ; textile industry, 360 ; statistics 

 of manufactures, 361 ; minerals and metals, 

 361 ; railways, 361 ; post-offices and telegraphs, 

 361 ; foreign loans, 361 ; fluctuations in the 

 value of money and securities, 361, 362 ; varia- 

 tions in the bank rate of discount, 362 ; com- 

 merce of, with Bolivia, 6V; with Brazil, 71; 

 genealogy of the house of Brunswick-Hanover 

 and Great Britain, 78. 



XIII. Area, 329 ; population, 329 ; posses- 

 sions, 329 ; limitation of Government preroga- 

 tives, 329 ; reigning house, 329 ; ministry, 330 ; 

 meeting of Parliament, 330 ; disaffection of 

 working-classes, 331 ; resignation of ministers, 

 331 ; they return to office, 331 ; measures be- 

 fore Parliament, 331; budget, 331; adjourn- 

 ment, 331 ; Gladstone's position, 331 ; reasons 

 for the dissolution of Parliament, 332 ; ques- 

 tion of Irish education, 332; constitution of 

 the new Supreme Court of Jurisdiction, 332, 

 333 ; abolition of tests in Trinity and Dublin 

 Universities, 333 ; payment of the Geneva 

 award, 333 ; revision of the census, 334 ; poor- 

 rates, 334; taxation, 334; imports and ex- 

 ports, 334; navy, 334; army, 334; coal-trade, 

 334 ; colonial produce, 335 ; post-office, 335 ; 

 railways, 335 ; telegraphs and postal statistics, 

 335 ; biographical sketch of Disraeli, 335 ; lit- 

 erature of, 441. 



XIV. Population, 368 ; Government, 368 ; 

 divisions, powers, and privileges, 368 ; present 

 sovereign, 369; First Lord of the Treasury, 

 369 ; Lord High Chancellor, 369 ; Lord Presi- 

 dent of the Council, 370 ; Secretary of State, 

 . 370 ; Lord Privy Seal, 370 ; Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer, 370 ; Secretary of State for For- 

 eign Affairs, 370 ; do. for the Colonies, 371 ; 

 First Lord of the Admiralty, 371 ; Secretary 

 of State for India, 371; do. for War, 371; 

 Postmaster-General, 371 ; St. George's Hall, 



GREAT EASTERN. 



Liverpool, 371 ; election and new cabinet, 

 372 ; state of parties in Parliament, 372 ; Ash- 

 antee War, 372; marriage of Prince Alfred, 

 372 ; religious statistics of the kingdom, 372 ; 

 373; financial statistics, 374; national debt, 

 375; army, 375; navy, 375; education, 376; 

 higher education, 376 ; vital statistics, 376, 

 commerce, 377 ; navigation, 877 ; emigration, 

 377; railways, 377; post and telegraphs, 377; 

 colonial possessions and dependencies, 378. 



XV. Children of the Queen, 857 ; cabinet, 

 357 ; secretaries, 357 ; area and population of 

 the British Empire, 357; area of the counties 

 of the United Kingdom, 358 ; population of do., 

 358 ; movement of population, 359 ; age-peri- 

 ods of population, 359; population of cities, 

 359 ; emigrants, 359 ; subjects residing abroad, 

 359; revenue and expenditures, 360; debt, 

 860; debt at various periods, 361; imports 

 and exports of British products, 861 ; shipping, 

 361; imports and exports of precious metals, 

 362 ; value of imports and exports, 362 ; army, 

 363 ; navy, 363 ; schools, 363 ; paupers, 363 ; re- 

 formatory schools, 363 ; Bank of England, 363 ; 

 savings-banks, 363 ; agricultural returns, 864 ; 

 herring-fisheries of Scotland, 364; finances, 

 commerce, and shipping of colonies, 364; 

 mineral statistics, 365 ; speech to Parliament, 

 365 ; case of John Mitchel, 865 ; the Tich- 

 borne case and its influence, 365; woman's 

 suffrage question, 366; the merchants' ship- 

 ping bill, 366 ; the unseaworthy ships bill, 367 ; 

 the judiciary bill, 867 ; speech on closing the 

 session, 368 ; reopening of the Eastern ques- 

 tion, 368 ; views of the Government on its re- 

 lations with Russia, 368 ; visit of the Prince 

 of Wales to India, 369 ; relations to the diplo- 

 matic conflict between Germany and Belgium, 

 369 ; rumor of war between France and Ger- 

 many, 369 ; fugitive-slave circular of instruc- 

 tions, 370 ; speech of Earl Derby, 370 ; cen- 

 tenary of the birth of O'Connell, 370. 



GREAT BRITAIN, POSSESSIONS OF. XIII. Do- 

 minion of Canada, 337 ; downfall of the min- 

 istry, 337; railroad in British Columbia, 337; 

 speech of the Governor-General to Parliament, 

 337 ; new cabinet formed, 337; position of the 

 home Government on the crisis, 337; prov- 

 inces of the Dominion, 337 ; area, 337 ; prod- 

 ucts, 338; population, 338; seal of Canada, 

 338; commerce, 338; receipts and expendi- 

 tures, 338. 



GREAT EASTERN, steamer. I. Size, 350 ; 



