CHAPTER LX.
VICTORIA. 1848
Warin India..... Colonial Affairs..... Foreign Relations..... Revolutions throughout Continental Europe..... Distress and Crime in Ireland..... Disaffection of the Irish Roman Catholics, and attempted Revolt..... Enforcement of Law and Order in Ireland..... Chartist Disturbances in England, and their suppression..... Home Incidents..... Transactions of Parliament.
A.D. 1848
The year 1848 was one of the most eventful which had ever occurred in the history of Europe, or in the history of the world, since the introduction of Christianity; and the relations of England to the great transactions which passed like a whirlwind over the continent were such as to enhance her dignity and her glory. It is difficult to write the History of England, during a period so interesting to continental Europe, without enlarging upon the events which took place upon other fields of action, and by which England was in many respects so much influenced. It will aid in confining the relations of this chapter within proper bounds, to narrate first those transactions in which England was exclusively interested, so far as other European powers were concerned.