CHAPTER LXII.
VICTORIA. 1850
Foreign Relations..... Colonial Affairs..... Ireland..... Home Incidents-Debates in Parliament..... Deaths of Remarkable Persons.
A.D. 1850
The year 1850 was not a striking period of English history. There was no foreign war, no colonial revolt, no great question to be solved at home; yet in every department of the national affairs there were occurrences of importance, as might be expected in so vast an empire, with so many and complicated interests.