CHAPTER LXVI.
VICTORIA. 1854
Home Affairs: General excitement at the beginning of the year..... Declaration of War against Russia..... The Court..... Tidings of the loss of Captain Franklin..... Cholera..... Ireland: Party animosities and murders...... Colonies: Their General peace and prosperity..... Foreign Relations: The French Alliance..... War with Russia..... Battles by sea and land..... Dreadful sufferings of the British Army..... Parliament: Contests concerning the conduct of the war..... Break-up of the Aberdeen government..... lord Palmerston premier..... Deaths of Eminent Persons.