B

• Babil and Bijou, a spectacle 555, 1393.
• Baking, bakers’ ovens, method of heating 1466,
• hot water ovens 1112,
• Nevill’s household bread 1112.
• Ballet master, Milano 870.
• Balloons, See also Aeronautics,
• Nassau 784,
• Saladin 1610,
• Star balloon 30,
• Wanderer which burst in the air and lieut. Mansfield was killed 726.
• Bangor, training college established 1287.
• Bankers, Jersey 90,
• Kennard 194,
• Kinnaird 240,
• Lloyd 457,
• Loyd 518,
• Lubbock 520,
• Majoribanks 737,
• Marshall 756,
• Martin 767,
• Martin 770,
• Miles 872,
• Mills 889,
• Overstone 1281,
• Paul 1394,
• Praed 1618,
• Prescott 1627–8,
• Smith 1404,
• Whitehead 85.
• Banking, engraving of bank notes 1466,
• sir John Dean Paul’s fraudulent dealings 1394.
• Bank of England, cashiers 760, 884,
• governor 539,
• liable to pay interest on bankruptcy deposits 928,
• one pound notes abolished 716,
• run on 1552.
• Banks, bank of deposit founded 988,
• bank of London founded 335, 1017,
• city of Glasgow, liquidation of 609,
• Clydesdale founded 529,
• consolidated takes in Heywood and co. 194,
• Huddersfield banking co. 336,
• London and county, general manager 518,
• London and eastern wound up 985,
• national bank of Scotland founded 1580,
• national security savings’ bank organized 702,
• royal British opening and failure 200, 608.
• Bankruptcy, dividend of three pence in the pound 325,
• local courts established 1318,
• messengers of the courts 118,
• official assignee dismissed 632.
• Bankrupts, duke of Newcastle 1117,
• viscount Mandeville 716.
• Banting, claims to inventions of system 943.
• Barbers, literary 1654.
• Barber, Benjamin, lessee of Alexandra palace 146.
• Barefoot clerks of the sacred passion 1309.
• Barnett, George, fires at Miss Kelly in Covent Garden theatre 182.
• Barnsley, Yorkshire, Locke park 467,
• Oaks pit colliery accident 67.
• Barometers, barometers and thermometers, patents for 1094,
• variations recorded by photography 148.
• Baronetage, title declined 1408,
• title assumed by Palmer 1324.
• Barret, Joseph Morton, attorney, Leeds, libel on 760.
• Barrister making £20,000 a year 95.
• Barrow, Isaac, d. 1677, D.D., spurious writing attributed to 352.
• Barry, Sir Charles, d. 1860, architect, and the houses of parliament 1664.
• Barrymore, Henry Barry, d. 1824, eighth earl, his tiger the first who had that name 351.
• Barttlot, Walter, African explorer 56.
• Bascule bridges 1637.
• Bassoon player, Leffler 367.
• Bath, Prior park a Roman catholic college 1302,
• school for daughters of officers 231.
• Bath, Order of, G.C.B. first time given to any one in Indian civil service below a governor 79,
• first coloured man made a C.B. 149.
• Bathing, bathers all the year round 245,
• shampooing baths 694.
• Battle, Sussex, the deanery, a peculiar 448.
• Bauer, Karoline, d. 188, actress, mistress of prince Leopold 392.
• Bavaria, King Ludwig and Lola Montez 479.
• Bayford, Augustus Frederick, LL.D., advocate in college of doctors of law, speaks in the spirit in Chelsea church 1286.
• Bazaars, travelling 97.
• Beards, first M.P. wearing a beard 1032.
• Beauties, Jersey 90,
• Prothero 1658,
• Wyndham 1304.
• Beavers, recent and fossil 463.
• Bebington, Cheshire, Mayer’s Free library and garden 813.
• Beethoven, Ludvig von, d. 1827, his concertos in C minor and G introduced into England 1601.
• Belfast, botanic gardens founded 557,
• natural history soc. founded 557.
• Bell ringer, Lambert 285.
• Belgium, Leopold king of the Belgians 391, 392.
• Bender, Charles, actor 1144.
• Benzol extracted from coal tar 726.
• Bethell, Sir Richard, 1 baron Westbury, d. 1873, assaulted by C. Neate 1092.
• Betting men, Cooke 1323,
• Jackson 33.
• Bewick, Thomas, d. 1828, wood engraver, collection of his works 156.
• Beys, Jackson Bey, i.e. Henry James Jackson 32.
• Bible classes first established 218.
• Bible, New Testament revisers 195, 360, 429, 887.
• Bible, Old Testament revisers 66, 163, 1407, 1562.
• Bibliotheca classica, twenty seven volumes 485.
• Bicycle riders, Keith-Falconer 176.
• Billiard players, Lloyd 459,
• Marden 733,
• Owen 1289,
• Phelan 1489.
• Binding, books bound in red cloth 1524.
• Binny, John, author 816.
• Biographical dictionary of Soc. for diffusion of useful knowledge 484.
• Birds, collections of 1429,
• Kid’s aviary 217.
• Birkenhead, founders of 40.
• Birmingham, books and maps relating to 710,
• first cooperation society 1334,
• first registrar of civil marriages 1334,
• Mason scientific college opened 783,
• musical festival planned 951,
• oratory of St. Peter Neri established 1124,
• queen’s college established 1347,
• president 117,
• and warden 323,
• Shoeblack brigade formed 270,
• Spring hill college now Mansfield college Oxford 51,
• town hall opened 951,
• town incorporated 1032,
• Victoria law courts 777.
• Birth, death on anniversary of birth 457.
• Biscuit manufacturers, Palmer 1325,
• Peek 1432.
• Black-eyed Susan, a drama, had a long run 88, 1237.
• Blacking manufacturers 392.
• Blacksmiths learned 58, 99.
• Blandford act, for subdivision of parishes 740.
• Blindness, caused by grief 254,
• blind lecturer 714,
• blind musician 332,
• blind poet 312,
• blind postmaster general 1027,
• machine to assist the blind in writing 714.
• Blue ribbon movement, the first wearer of the ribbon 1325.
• Board of control, president Lyveden 555.
• Board of health, presidents Cowper 1009,
• Hall 455.
• Board of trade, president Northcote 3, 1175.
• Board of works, president Lennox 389.
• Boating, health of the university crews 966.
• Bogle, Allan v. John Joseph Lawson, publisher of The Times 247, 334.
• Bonaparte family, See also Napoleon,
• art collection concerning 813.
• Bonaparte, Louis Lucien, Prince, d. 1891, linguist, his Welsh tutor 141,
• publishes Song of Solomon in various dialects 1669.
• Bonaparte, Lucien, d. 1840, prince of Canino, a prisoner of war 625.
• Bonaparte, Napoleon E. L. J. J., killed 1879, prince imperial, poem on death of 109.
• Bone caves 1448.
• Bonomi, Joseph, d. 1878, curator of Soane museum, assisted by Isabella Martin 769.
• Book binders, Leighton 378.
• Book binding, backing and trimming machine invented 379,
• binders’ mistakes 520,
• cloth binding invented 378,
• printing on edges of books invented 379,
• steam machinery used 379.
• Books, written with blood 125,
• first R.C. bookseller in Paternoster row 143.
• Booksellers, Arch 417,
• Baldwin 217,
• Dulau 370,
• Jack 27,
• Kelly 180,
• Kerslake 212,
• Kidd 217,
• Laing 277,
• Leigh 375,
• Lepard 392,
• Lewis 417,
• Lilly 431,
• Mac Donald 582,
• Maclehose 653,
• Macmillan 663,
• Martin 769,
• Maynard 817,
• Maxwell 810,
• Menzies 845,
• Merridew 851,
• Metcalfe 857,
• Miller 879,
• Molini 917,
• Mowbray 1011,
• Newman 1123,
• Nicholls 1136,
• Nimmo 1152,
• Nisbet 1152,
• Nutt 1189,
• Oates 1195,
• Offor 1216,
• Oliphant 1235,
• Orme 1256,
• Parke 1340,
• Petherham 1478,
• Poole 1584,
• Priestly 1643,
• Quaritch 212,
• Rodwell 769.
• Botanists, Ibbotson 2,
• Jones 135,
• Jorden 148,
• Kelaart 177,
• Kurz 268,
• Loudon 500,
• Miers 869,
• Munby 1025,
• Nowell 1185,
• Nuttall 1190,
• Pratt 1620.
• Botany, herbariums 384,
• victoria regia in flower 1401.
• Botlasitsie, a Ratlapin chief 305.
• Boulanger, George Ernest Jean Marie, d. 1891, general, a pretender to the French throne, in London 1336.
• Bournemouth, Hants, sanatorium originated 699.
• Bowdich, Thomas Edward, d. 1824, naturalist 359.
• Bowling alley 219.
• Boxing, teacher of 31.
• Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, b. 1837, Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley’s secret dramatised, injunction obtained against their being played 275.
• Bradfield reservoir, Yorkshire, bursting of 1281.
• Bradford, first ragged school 1643.
• Brain, a very large 252.
• Brambles, the forms of 364.
• Brass founder 710.
• Breakwater constructed on sloping-block system 1354.
• Brewers, Bradley 730,
• Lacon 272,
• Mappin 730,
• Marrian 745,
• Matthews 795,
• Meux 859,
• Perkins 1466,
• Phipps 1521,
• Plews 1558.
• Bridges, Ordish’s straight chain suspension bridge 1251.
• Briggs, Thomas, murdered in 1864 by Franz Müller 1022.
• Brighton, aquarium 352, 496,
• fictitious German mineral waters 80,
• Hove laid out 19, 336,
• Kemp-town founded 189,
• Mahmoud’s baths and gymnasium 31, 694,
• musical conductor on chain pier 267,
• Orleans club 1183,
• Preston and Hove districts built 19,
• Struve’s mineral waters 230.
• Bristol, Ashton court claimed by T. Provis 1660,
• bishoprick revived 1170,
• cathedral nave built 1170,
• French prisoners at 1172,
• riots at 230, 1542.
• British Museum, Blacus gems 1128,
• Castellani bronzes 1128,
• cataloguer 1633,
• coins and medals, keeper of 1585,
• commission for enquiring into 386,
• Greek and Roman antiquities, keeper of 1127,
• guide to 213,
• Lee fossils 355,
• Mantell’s fossils 729,
• museum removed from Montague house 136,
• natural history department, keeper of 266
• and superintendent of 1290,
• Nimroud ivories 1627,
• Swiney lecturer 665,
• zoological department, assistant in 1269.
• British museum, Library, assistant in 425,
• attendant 606,
• catalogue, compilers of 327, 571, 1364 and
• and transcribers in 212, 476, 308,
• cataloguing ninety one rules 136,
• librarians principal 136, 1327,
• librarian assistant 317,
• manuscripts, keeper of the 683,
• and assistant 406,
• maps and plans, keeper of 706,
• reading room 136,
• Stephen Poles’ attack on the principal librarian 1571.
• Brock, Charles Thomas, pyrotechnist 146.
• Broughton archers 457.
• Browning, Robert, d. 1889, poet, his acquaintances 1653, 1682,
• his connection with John Kenyon 207.
• Brushmaker 108.
• Buckhounds, the Royal, huntsman 224,
• master of 239.
• Buggin, Sir George, d. 1825, his widow m. duke of Sussex 18.
• Building ventilated on a new principle 82.
• Bunn, Alfred, d. 1860, operatic manager, and Jenny Lind 434,
• assaulted by Macready 680.
• Bunyan, John, d. 1688, baptist minister, collection of his works 1216, 1217,
• memorial in Bunhill fields 1330,
• Pilgrim’s progress in Welsh 130.
• Burgess, William, d. 1881, architect, his work completed by Pullan 1666.
• Burials at night 499.
• Burns, Robert, d. 1796, poet, bibliography concerning 636,
• Burns library Glasgow 906,
• dinner in hall of his cottage 643,
• his friends 332, 466,
• his MSS. and relics 1104,
• his residence at the hermitage 1104,
• his widow and her executor 580,
• Kidd’s illustrations of his poems 217,
• Tam O’Shanter as a pantomime 162.
• Burnt in effigy, Nicholson 1142,
• Prodgers 1655.
• Bushrangers wearing armour, 181.
• Byerley, Thomas the Reuben of the Percy Anecdotes 433.
• Byron, Anne Isabella, d. 1860, Lady, her friends 55, 1040.
• Byron, George Gordon, d. 1824, Lord, and Mrs. Mardyn 734,
• and Elizabeth B. Pigot 1532,
• daughter Ada 504,
• his friends 831, 1653,
• his half sister, 374,
• his memoir’s destroyed 954,
• his surgeon 888,
• his will 374,
• writes Werner, a drama 352.

C

• Cabinet cyclopædia, one hundred and thirty three volumes 307.
• Cabs, cabdrivers funeral 1039,
• peer sued by cabman 236.
• Cabmen’s terror, The 1656.
• Calico Printer, Potter 1600.
• Cambridge, Apostles club 804, 808,
• esquire bedel 342,
• first eight oared boat 1470,
• Jeremie prizes 86,
• Lawrence Dundas drowned 556,
• licensed lodgings 556,
• Le Bas prize instituted 346,
• Lightfoot scholarships founded 429,
• senate house riders 56,
• senior regent presents address to queen 890,
• undergraduate challenges his tutor to a duel 916.
• Cambridge, Queen’s college, president not in holy orders 226.
• Cambridge, Trinity hall, master 82.
• Camlet, manufacturer 776.
• Canada, bishopricks in 1006,
• confederation act 108,
• dominion of Canada formed 584,
• Mackenzie’s rebellion 634,
• Nelson’s insurrection 1106,
• Papinean’s rebellion 664, 1330.
• Canada, Montreal, Mr. Gill, univ. Logan chair of Geology 478.
• Canada, Quebec, Morrin college founded 980.
• Canal boat traction 672.
• Cannabis Indica introduced 421.
• Cannon, rifled cannon invented 287.
• Canterbury, Archbishop of 489, principal registrar of prerogative court 953.
• Cape colony, British Kaffraria 649.
• Cape Town, observatory 720,
• university endowment 1594.
• Cardiganshire, lord lieutenant 1611.
• Caricaturists, Leech 361,
• Pellegrini 1441.
• Carlisle, Rose castle restored 1463.
• Carlow, lord lieutenant 161.
• Carlyle, Thomas, d. 1881, historian, his first lecture managed by Harriet Martineau 776,
• his friends 98, 1112.
• Carnac, Brittany excavations at 895.
• Caroline, d. 1821, queen of Great Britain, Lushington’s defence of 535.
• Carpet manufacturer, Laverton 321.
• Carrington, Charles Robert, b. 1843, third baron, horsewhips, Grenville Murray 1043.
• Carter, Thomas Thellusson, d. 1880, rector of Clewer, bishop of Oxford, refuses to allow proceedings to be taken against him 616.
• Casamicciola, earthquake at 626.
• Casinos See Theatres.
• Castleknock college, county Dublin, founded 667.
• Catalytic action 846.
• Caterers, public, Spiers and Pond 1577.
• Cats, Madagascar cats 60.
• Cattle, black polled 574,
• cattle breeders 61,
• judges of 536,
• foreign cattle markets, Victoria docks 1211,
• pure highland breed 675.
• Cattle breeders, Peel 1434,
• Pinckard 1539,
• Quartly 1686.
• Cavendish, Ada, d. 1895, actress 756.
• Cavan, lord lieutenant 444.
• Celluloid or zylonite manufactured 1350.
• Cement, Keene’s invented 174.
• Centenarians, Ingram 100,
• Kerry 211,
• Langley 302,
• Lapiletiere 306,
• Larbusch 307,
• Lawrence 330,
• Longmore 490,
• Markham 739,
• Miller 881,
• Montefiore 932,
• Nolan 1161,
• Peverell 1486,
• Plank 1554,
• Power 1614,
• Puckle 1663,
• Purser 1675.
• Challenger expedition round the world 997.
• Chamberlain, Joseph, b. 1836, M.P., screw manufacturer 1110.
• Chancery, Court of, bag bearer to the registrars 1682,
• daily cause list 1682,
• the sworn clerks 891.
• Charlotte Augusta d. 1817, princess, married prince Leopold 392,
• poem on death of 199.
• Chartists, Frost 1512,
• Jones 125,
• Lovett 507,
• Lowe 512,
• Moore 952,
• O’Brien 1197,
• O’Connor 1207,
• Peacock 1413,
• Philp 1517,
• Pinkerton 1541,
• Sturge 1517,
• Price 1639,
• meeting on Kennington common 1207,
• monster petition 1517,
• people’s charter 507.
• Chatham, Jezreelite temple at 99,
• Magnus memorial synagogue 691.
• Chatsworth, Derbyshire, gardens, conservatories and fountains at 1401.
• Chemists, Morson 991,
• Muspratt, J. 1061,
• Muspratt, J. S. 1062,
• Nesbit 1107,
• Penny 1455,
• Phillips 1509.
• Cheques crossed, act of parliament on 1441.
• Chess automation, the hidden player 420.
• Chess players, Kennedy 196,
• Kenny 204,
• Kling 249,
• Lewis 420,
• Lowe 512,
• Löwenthal 514,
• Lloyd 459,
• Lyttleton 551,
• Mackenzie 627,
• Mc Donnell 420,
• Murray 1042,
• Newham 1120,
• Potter 1604,
• Sarratt 420.
• Chester training college established 1617.
• Chickens hatched by steam 325.
• Chichester theological college 745.
• Chili and Peru, revolutions in 884.
• Chimney sweepers and climbing boys 535.
• China, Jewitt’s collection of 98,
• manufacturer of Minton 900,
• Wedgwood ware, collections of 149.
• China, Hongkong ceded to England 1604,
• Hongkong mint suppressed 221,
• imperial encyclopædia of literature in five thousand and twenty volumes 814,
• peace of Nankin 1349,
• war at Canton 1353.
• Chloroform, early use of 1037.
• Cholera, investigations concerning 419.
• Christian year, the, by John Keble 170.
• Church rates refused and illegal 1643.
• Cigar divan 1644.
• Ciphers, Penn’s cipher for despatches 1450.
• Circus proprietors, Barnum 1065,
• Manders 716,
• Myers 1065,
• Nixon 1065,
• Newsome 1126,
• ring masters, Rivolti 908.
• Cirencester, royal agricultural college 327.
• Civil list pensions, Inglis 12,
• Jackson 29,
• Jameson 55,
• Jerdan 85,
• Jewitt 98,
• Jewsbury 98,
• Jones, J. 134,
• Jones, T. R. 143,
• Jones, T. W. 144,
• Joule 150,
• Keightley 174,
• Kingsley 235,
• Kitto 248, 249,
• Knowles F. 258,
• Knowles, J. S. 259,
• Laing 278,
• Lane 296,
• Latham 313,
• Lee, J. C. 357,
• Lee, S. 359,
• Leech 362,
• Lemon 387,
• Lindsay 437,
• Livingstone 454,
• Llanos 455,
• Lloyd 461,
• Long 485,
• Loudon 500,
• Lover 507,
• Lucas 525,
• Lucy 527,
• Maccarthy 569,
• Mc Culloch 579,
• Mackay 619,
• Maclagan 643,
• Maclean 649,
• Maclear 651,
• Maconochie 673,
• Maguire 693,
• Mann 720,
• Mansell 729,
• Martin 765,
• Mathew 791,
• Meadows 826,
• Melvill 839,
• Menzies 845,
• Merrifield 852,
• Meteyard 858,
• Miller 881,
• Milroy 897,
• Mitford 910,
• Moir 914,
• Mongredian 923,
• Montagu 928,
• Montgomery, E. 935,
• Montgomery, J. 936,
• Moore, B. 955,
• Moore, W. 957,
• Morgan, E. 965,
• Morgan, S. 968,
• Motteram 1002,
• Mulock 1023,
• Nash 1084,
• Newport 1126,
• Noble 1157,
• O’Donovan 1215,
• Ogilvie 1219,
• Owen 1290,
• Page 1303,
• Palgrave 1312,
• Palmer 1316,
• Pardoe 1333,
• Pater 1378,
• Patey 1382,
• Pearson 1422,
• Petrie 1481,
• Philip 1493,
• Phipps 1520,
• Planché 1553,
• Poole 1583,
• Portal 1589,
• Porter 1593,
• Powell 1607,
• Pugin 1665.
• Clanricarde, Hubert, b. 1832, Second marquess of, land owner in Ireland 152.
• Clare, lord lieutenant 8.
• Claremont house, Surrey, granted to prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg 392.
• Clarionet player, Pape 1329.
• Clergyman’s sore throat 641.
• Clewer, Berks., House of mercy at 927.
• Clocks, helix lever clock 593,
• tell tale clock 1120.
• Clog dancer, Linn 441.
• Cloisonné ware collection 1600.
• Close, John, d. 1891, poet 513.
• Clowns, See also Actors,
• col. 1697,
• Batty 751,
• Gomery 937,
• Holloway 751,
• Jefferini 68,
• Lauri 318,
• Mac 1528,
• Marsh 751,
• Matthews 797,
• Nelson 1101,
• Payne, H. E. 1403,
• Payne, W. H. S. 1403,
• Persivani 1476,
• Phillips 1499,
• Pierce 1528,
• Purvis 1676.
• Clubs, Alpine, president 490.
• Arts, Hanover square 147.
• Athenæum founders 367,
• Dr. Quinn blackballed 1690.
• Ayrshire Naturalists founded 292.
• Bannatyne secretary 277.
• Bath literary founded 739.
• Burlington fine art established 796.
• Conservative built 1480.
• Dandy, the last member 1529.
• Decemviri founded 1674.
• Dick originated 622.
• Dr. Johnson’s, president of 13.
• Elizabethan, president 1035.
• Entomological founded 1122.
• Four in hand driving club started 990.
• Friday founded 1049.
• Garrick founded 889,
• built 743.
• Glasgow Shakespeare instituted 162.
• Grove park rowing founded 113.
• Literary president 13.
• London chess, president 923.
• London press, president 1333.
• Manchester Athenæum founded 303.
• Mulberries founded 88.
• Museum founded 88.
• National founded 642, 715.
• Newbury district field founded 1322.
• Ottoman club started 1644.
• Political economy founded 1166.
• Prince’s racket and tennis 1644.
• Quekett microscopical founded 1687.
• Raleigh originated 1644.
• Reform built 1480,
• secretary 1182,
• founders 1662,
• last survivor of original members 1634.
• Roxburgh founded 1580.
• Socials at Clunn’s 738.
• Star revived 1235,
• secretary 83.
• Travellers’ founded 625.
• Wittington founded and ceased 88,
• president 533.
• YZ at Liverpool 1526.
• Coach drivers, Morritt 990,
• Paul 1395,
• Peer 1436,
• Peyton, A. 1487,
• Pusey 1678.
• Coaching, driving whips 1487,
• coach builders 319, 343, 653,
• coach proprietors 1101,
• revival of 397,
• Old Times coach 397.
• Coal, anthracite used for blast furnaces and steam boilers 1556,
• children and women working in mines 581,
• colliery proprietors 261, 503,
• resources of the coal fields 154.
• Cobden, Richard, d. 1865, M.P., opposes the Crimean war 1643.
• Cock fighting 854.
• Coffee, Napier’s glass coffee apparatus 1077.
• Coins, collectors of, Kerrick 210,
• Lewis 418,
• Lindsay 438,
• Martin 771,
• Mayer 813,
• Mitford 909,
• Moore 957.
• Colenso, John William, d. 1883, bishop of Natal, his counsel 54,
• his friends 107,
• his mathematical works 857,
• his trial 853.
• Coleoptera, collection of 665.
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, d. 1834, poet, his friends 373, 1404, 1409,
• reminiscenses of 373,
• travels in the Harz 1561,
• Colleges, College of naval architecture, principal of 1674.
• Kelly college, Tavistock, built 180.
• Morden college, Blackheath, for tradesmen 531.
• Queen’s college, London, founded 805.
• Spring hill college, Birmingham 51.
• University college, Parkes’ museum 1352.
• Working men’s college started 805.
• Cologne choir in London 904.
• Colonies, Secretaries of state for colonies, Lytton 552,
• Monteagle 931,
• Newcastle 1117,
• Normanby 1167.
• Columbines, Marshall 759,
• Parkes 1351.
• Comic almanac 815, 816.
• Commons, House of, first quaker member 1427,
• long sitting 1357,
• speaker declines a pension 1271,
• speaker Denison 1271.
• See also Parliament.
• Compasses, Napier’s diagram for correcting a ship’s compass 1077.
• Confectioners 175.
• Conjurers, Anderson 44,
• Gyngell 356,
• Jacobs 44,
• Matthews 797,
• Miller 876,
• Phillippe 1494,
• Phillipi 1499.
• Conjuring, bowls of water from under a shawl 44,
• Chinese ring trick 44,
• gold fish trick 1494,
• hat of Fortunatus 1495,
• kitchen of Parafaragaramus 1495,
• ring puzzle 1494.
• Contagious diseases act, inspector general 391.
• Contractors, Jackson, R. W. 36,
• Jackson, Sir W. 40,
• Jay 64,
• Kelk 177.
• Cook, Flavell Smith, vicar of Ch. Ch. Clifton 77.
• Cooperation, advocates of, Neale 1088,
• Pare 1334,
• cooperative movement 138, 507,
• cooperative stores, the first founded 1088.
• Copper smelter, Nevill 1112.
• Coprolites, beds of 1107.
• Corn, Anti corn law league,
• founded 1625,
• promoters of the 26, 953, 1643,
• Struggle, a weekly paper 452.
• Cornet player, Kœnig 266.
• Costa, Sir Michael A. A., d. 1884, musical conductor, seceded from Her Majesty’s 521.
• Cotton manufacture, double speed invented 198,
• fixing orange sulphide of antimony on cloth 846,
• hydraulic presses 536,
• jack frame improved 198,
• Mendel’s table of cotton exports 842,
• mules improved 375,
• self stripping carding engine 375,
• spinners 375.
• Coursing, first Waterloo cup 1151,
• a judge of 1151,
• Master M’ Grath 532.
• Court beauties, Jersey 90,
• Wyndham 1304.
• Courtesan, Cora Pearl 1417.
• Council, lord president of, Portland 1595.
• Craik, George Lillie, d. 1866, professor, m. Dinah Mulock 1024.
• Crape manufacturer 383.
• Cremation, Persons cremated, Kinglake 232,
• Levy 407,
• Longden 487,
• Macnaught 668,
• Marnock 742,
• Pickersgill 1525,
• Pigott 1531,
• Price 1640.
• Cricket, balista invented 1154,
• cane handled bats introduced 1154,
• cork pads introduced 1154,
• cricket ball maker 993,
• cricket practice at the Lambeth baths 993,
• introduced into Scotland 240,
• Lillywhite’s cricket scores 431, 877,
• making one hundred runs twice in same match 285,
• money paid to prevent report of a match 285,
• new round hand bowling introduced 1535,
• open pads introduced 1154,
• Pardon’s cricket reporting agency 1333,
• round arm bowling introduced 252, 432,
• score printing on cricket grounds 431,
• Parr’s team of eleven won five matches against the Canadian twenty two 1359,
• Prince’s cricket club 1644,
• two men beat eleven without any fieldsmen 891.
• Cricketers, Blackham 1538,
• Clarke 1535,
• Edwards 250,
• Esrom 990,
• Grace, G. F. 614,
• Iddison 4,
• Jeffery 69,
• Jupp 157,
• Keate 168,
• Killick 219,
• King, G. W. 223,
• King, R. T. 228,
• Kingscote 233,
• Knight 252,
• Kynaston 270,
• Lambert 285,
• Lanaway 287,
• Lane 295,
• Letby 400,
• Liddell 424,
• Lillywhite 431–2,
• Linsell 442,
• Lockyer 471,
• Long 485,
• Lowther 518,
• Mc Intyre, M. 614,
• Mc Intyre, W. 615,
• Mackay 617,
• Mantle 730,
• Marcon 733,
• Marsden 1535,
• Martin 765,
• Micklethwaite 865,
• Middleton 868,
• Midwinter 869,
• Miller 877,
• Mills, R. 891,
• Mills, W. 892,
• Morley 976,
• Morse 990,
• Mortlock 993,
• Mycroft 1064,
• Mynn, A. 1067,
• Mynn, W. P. 1068,
• Nixon 1154,
• North 1173,
• Norton 1180,
• Osbaldeston 1263,
• Oscroft 1268,
• Ottaway 1273,
• Parr 1359,
• Parry 1362,
• Paunceforte 1399,
• Pell 1440,
• Penn 1449,
• Pickering 1523,
• Picknell, G. 1526,
• Picknell, R. 1526,
• Piercy 1529,
• Pilch, F. 1535,
• Pilch, W. 1535,
• Pilling 1537,
• Powys 1617,
• Preston 1630,
• Price 1639,
• Pullin, 1667,
• Pycroft 1680.
• Cromarty, lord lieutenant 658.
• Cromwell house, Chelsea, tableaux vivants at 1208.
• Crossing sweeper 603.
• Crouch, Frederick William Nicholls, composer of Kathleen Mavourneen 1417,
• he d. America Aug. 1896.
• Crystal palace, Sydenham palace erected 1251,
• decoration of 139,
• first balloon ascent from 551,
• literary director 1511.
• Crystallography, Miller’s system of 886.
• Cudbear extracted from seaweed 225.
• Cumberland, fatal fall from Scafell 754,
• Pillar rock, Ennerdale 33.
• Cumberland and Westmoreland, lords lieutenant 492, 493.
• Cuneiform inscriptions, deciphering of 1169.
• Curiosity dealer 149.
• Curling songs 1045.
• Cutlers, Mechi 829,
• Pepys 1460.
• Cyclone, the word first used 1527.
• Cypher interpreted 387.
• Cyprus, the eleven currencies of 1246.