| CHAPTER I. |
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| 1830. |
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| Illness of George IV. — His death — Sale of his clothes, etc. — The new
King — His character |
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| CHAPTER II. |
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| 1830. |
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| Proclamation of William IV. — The Beer Act — The Queen and gas — Burial
of George IV. — The King and the Duke of Cumberland — The
King as a soldier — He meddles with the uniforms of the
army |
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| CHAPTER III. |
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| 1830. |
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| The King as "bon bourgeois" — Mobbed — Street song about him — A
sailor in Guildhall — Behaviour of the public at Windsor — Charles
X. in England — The "New Police" — A modest
advertisement |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
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| 1830. |
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| Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway — Death of Mr.
Huskisson — Agricultural lawlessness — Captain Swing — Executions
for riot — Riots throughout the country — Special Commissions — Prayer
to be used in churches and chapels |
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| CHAPTER V. |
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| 1830. |
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| Duke of Wellington mobbed and stoned — Owing to riots, the
King postponed his visit to the city — No Lord Mayor's show,
nor dinner — Riots in the city — Apsley House besieged — Ireland
proclaimed — Ferment in the country — Change of Ministry — Royal
succession — Scotch regalia — Curious story of a bank-note |
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| CHAPTER VI. |
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| 1831. |
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| Incendiary fires — Captain Swing — The result of Cobbett's lectures — Special
Commission — Prosecution of Carlile — Election expenses — List
of Close boroughs — Collapse of Reform Bill — The King
stoned — Debût of Princess Victoria — The Times and the House
of Lords — Bribery at elections — Action for libel — "The King
v. Cobbett" — Prince Leopold made King of the Belgians |
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| CHAPTER VII. |
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| 1831. |
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| Opening of New London Bridge — After the luncheon — State of the
waiters — Provision for the Princess Victoria — Sale of Sir Walter
Scott's MSS. — The coronation — Its expenses — A "half crownation" — The
Lord Mayor and his gold cup |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
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| 1831. |
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| Scramble for coronation medals — Bad weather — Fireworks in Hyde
Park — Absence from the ceremony of the Duchess of Kent and
Princess Victoria — The Times thereon — Story of a Great Seal — Reform
Bill rejected by the Lords — Reform riots in the
country and London — Windows of Apsley House broken by
the mob |
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| CHAPTER IX. |
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| 1831. |
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| Reform procession — The Corporation of London and the King — Dreadful
riots at Bristol — Riots in other parts of the kingdom — Edward
Irving and the "Gift of Tongues" — The cholera — Its
spread — State of Ireland — Tithe agitation — Scarcity of food — Repeal
of the Union — Cases of violence |
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| CHAPTER X. |
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| 1832. |
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| Commissions at Bristol and Nottingham — Executions — Employment
of children in factories — Cholera in London — Day of fast and
humiliation — Riot in Finsbury — Cholera riot at Paisley — A
small one in London — Decrease of cholera — Number of deaths — Cholera
in Ireland — A charm against it — Its effect on rooks — The
police, City and Metropolitan |
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| CHAPTER XI. |
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| 1832. |
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| Reform Bill passes the Commons — Scotch boys and the Reform Bill — Proposed
increase of the peerage — Passed in the Lords — "The
Marylebone or Tory Hunt" — The Duke of Wellington
mobbed — The King stoned — The Queen hissed — Archbishop of
Canterbury stoned |
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| CHAPTER XII. |
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| 1832. |
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| The first reformed Parliament — Steam communication with India — State
of Ireland — Lawless behaviour — Malversation of justice — O'Connell
and the Trades' Political Union — Crime in Ireland |
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| CHAPTER XIII. |
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| 1833. |
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| Employment of children in factories — Evidence — Passing of Factory
Act — Gambling — Crockford's club — Gambling "hells" — Police
case |
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| CHAPTER XIV. |
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| 1833. |
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| The overland route to India — The Government and Lieutenant
Waghorn — Police magistrate and the press — Cobbett and the
British Museum — Prevalence of influenza — "National Convention"
riot — Policeman killed — The coroner and the jury — Adulteration
of tea |
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| CHAPTER XV. |
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| 1833. |
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| The Queen's visit to the City — Her unpopularity — King's dislike of
the Duchess of Kent — Hungerford Market opened — Death and
funeral of Wilberforce — Abolition of slavery — Synopsis of Act — A
Women's rowing match — List of periodicals and their
circulation — Return of Captain Ross — State of Ireland — Passing
of "Coercion Bill," etc. |
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| CHAPTER XVI. |
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| 1834. |
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| Corporation commission — Curious advertisement — Discovery of
treasure — Bribery at Liverpool — Duke of York's statue — Trades'
unions — Skit thereon — Riot at Oldham — Unionist oath — Union
meeting and monster petition — Its fate — Duke of Wellington
made Chancellor of Oxford — The Princess Victoria's lover |
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| CHAPTER XVII. |
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| 1834. |
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| Crockford's and game — The chef in trouble — Burning of the Houses
of Parliament — The tapestry in the House of Lords — Story of
one piece — Temporary House of Lords — Tithe riots in Ireland — Change
of Ministry |
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| CHAPTER XVIII. |
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| 1835. |
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| First cargo of ice to India — Election riots at Halifax and in Scotland — A
female sailor — The new temporary Houses of Parliament — The
King and others hissed — Question of admitting ladies — A
political skit — Deaths of Hunt and Cobbett |
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| CHAPTER XIX. |
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| 1835. |
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| Gambling house police case — Curious superstition — A cook's letter
to her mistress — Jews and public employment — Fire at Hatfield
House — Curious discovery of jewels — Scarcity in Ireland |
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| CHAPTER XX. |
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| 1836. |
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| Curious case of a girl stolen by gipsies — Superstition re light at
Christmas in the North of England — Designs for New Houses
of Parliament — King William III. statue blown up — Admission
of ladies to the House of Commons — Stuart impostors — An
inter-university boat race — How Cambridge came to have light
blue as a colour |
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| CHAPTER XXI. |
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| 1836. |
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| Report on the British Museum — The King and the Duchess of Kent;
a scene — Inauguration of George III.'s Statue at Charing Cross — Poetry
at the police court — The trip of the Nassau balloon |
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| CHAPTER XXII. |
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| 1837. |
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| Epidemic of influenza — A scene in some Metropolitan graveyards — Lord
de Ros and his cheating at cards — Invention of sewing
machine — Coming of age of Princess Victoria — Illuminations,
etc. — The Spitalfield's silk weavers' ball — Illness of the King — His
death and burial |
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| CHAPTER XXIII. |
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| Men's dress — Education — School advertisements — The original of
Squeers — Girls' schools — Tea as a meal — Food — A foreigner's
sketch of an English dinner-party — A high-class dinner — An
ideal dinner |
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| CHAPTER XXIV. |
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| Clubs — Theatres — Other amusements — A foreigner's idea of London — London
streets and noises — "Buy a broom?" girls |
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| CHAPTER XXV. |
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| Holborn Viaduct — Omnibuses — Cabs — Hansom's patent — Posting — Mail
coaches — Stage coaches — Hotels |
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| CHAPTER XXVI. |
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| Steam carriages on roads — Commission thereon — Steam omnibus — Railways — A
nuisance — Railways started during the reign — Opening
of the Greenwich Railway |
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| CHAPTER XXVII. |
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| Cases of wife selling — Duelling — Cases of — O'Connell and D'Israeli — Other
duels |
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| CHAPTER XXVIII. |
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| Smuggling — Its prevalence — Cases — Great smuggling of silks, etc. — More
cases |
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| CHAPTER XXIX. |
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| Legitimate trade — The "truck" system — Its downfall — State of
trade — Newspaper stamps — Steel pens — Literature — List of
authors — Painters — Sculptors |
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| CHAPTER XXX. |
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| Musicians — Paganini — His avarice — Ole Bull — Curious musical instruments — Jim
Crow — The opera and its singers — The ballet — Actors,
etc. — Madame Vestris's leg |
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| CHAPTER XXXI. |
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| Architects and civil engineers — Men of science — Scientific societies — Medical
men — Lawyers — "Tracts for the Times" — Curates'
pay — Flogging in the army and navy — Crime — Transportation
versus hulks — Stories of convicts |
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