Our Relations with Scinde—Occupation of the Country—Napier in Scinde—Ellenborough's Instructions—A New Treaty—Capture of Emaum-Ghur—The Treaty signed—Attack on the Residency—Battle of Meeanee—Defeat of Shere Mahommed—Subjugation of Scinde—Napier's Government of the Province—Position of the Sikhs—Disorders in Gwalior—Battle of Maharajpore—Settlement of Gwalior—Recall of Lord Ellenborough—Sir Henry Hardinge—Power of the Sikhs—Disorders on the Death of Runjeet Singh—The Sikhs cross the Sutlej—Battle of Moodkee—Battle of Ferozeshah—The Victory won—Battle of Aliwal—Battle of Sobraon—Terms of Peace—Administration of the Lawrences—Murder of Vans Agnew and Anderson—Renewal of the War—Battles of Chillianwallah and of Goojerat—Capture of Mooltan—Annexation of the Punjab [589]

[CHAPTER XXII.]

THE REIGN OF VICTORIA (continued).

Events in England—The Budgets of 1848—Repeal of the Navigation Act—The Jewish Disabilities Bill—Election of Baron Rothschild by the City of London—He is refused the Oath—Election of Alderman Salomons—He takes his Seat in Spite of the Speaker—Action in the Court of the Exchequer—The Bill finally passed—Colonial Self-Government—Lord Palmerston's Foreign Policy censured by the House of Lords—The Don Pacifico Debate—Testimonial to Lord Palmerston—Peel's Last Speech—His Death—Testimony as to his Worth—Honours to his Memory [602]

[INDEX]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
The Garden at Hougomont[1]
Napoleon I.[5]
The Agents of Britain and Sweden signing the Treaty against Napoleon[8]
Carlton House, London (1812)[9]
Marshal Beresford[13]
The Fusiliers at Albuera[17]
The Conscription in France: recruiting for Napoleon's Wars[21]
Assassination of Spencer Perceval[24]
Marshal Soult[29]
View of Washington from Arlington Heights[33]
Invasion of Canada: Red Men on the War Path[36]
Duel between the "Guerrière" and the "Constitution"[37]
The Cossack's Challenge[41]
The Retreat from Moscow[45]
Retreat of the French from Russia[49]
Napoleon abandoning his Army[53]
Marshal Ney[56]
Flight of King Joseph Buonaparte from Vittoria[57]
Pampeluna[61]
Bernadotte (King of Sweden)[65]
Napoleon's Interview with Metternich[68]
View in Dresden[69]
The Palace of Fontainebleau[73]
Attempt of the Cossacks to capture Napoleon at Brienne[77]
Alexander I.[80]
Napoleon signing his Abdication[81]
Elba[85]
The Congress of Vienna[88]
Sir Thomas Picton[93]
Waterloo Views[96]
Marshal Blucher[97]
The Battle of Waterloo[101]
James Town, St. Helena[105]
Napoleon on Board the "Bellerophon"[109]
New Orleans[113]
Capture of Murat[116]
Lord Castlereagh[117]
The Mob of Spenceans summoning the Tower of London[121]
The "Nottingham Captain" and the Agitators at the "White Horse"[125]
William Cobbett[129]
Old Bailey, London, 1814[132]
Beaus and Belles of the Regency Period[133]
Gibraltar[137]
Surrender of the Peishwa[140]
The Mint, London[144]
Sir Samuel Romilly[145]
The Peterloo Massacre: Hussars charging the People[149]
View of Cato Street, London, showing the Stable in which the Conspirators were captured[153]
Surprise of the Cato Street Conspirators[156]
Charles, Third Earl Stanhope[161]
Costumes at the Beginning of George III.'s Reign[164]
St. John's Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh[168]
Rowland Hill preaching to the Colliers of Kingswood[169]
Jane Austen[173]
Laurence Sterne[173]
Samuel Richardson[173]
Oliver Goldsmith[173]
Tobias Smollet[173]
Dr. Johnson reading the Manuscript of the "Vicar of Wakefield"[176]
Dr. Johnson[177]
David Garrick as Richard III.[181]
Exterior of the Cottage at Alloway in which Burns was born[185]
Interior of Burns's Cottage at Alloway (two views)[186]
William Wordsworth[189]
John Keats[189]
Robert Burns[189]
Percy Bysshe Shelley[189]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge[189]
Waterloo Bridge, London[192]
Menai Suspension and Tubular Bridges[193]
James Watt[197]
Costumes at the end of George III.'s Reign[200]
Sir Joshua Reynolds[201]
Great Seal of George IV.[205]
Queen Caroline entering the House of Lords[209]
The Pavilion, Brighton[213]
George IV.[217]
Landing of George IV. at Howth[220]
Lower Castle-Yard, Dublin[221]
Sir Walter Scott[225]
Dalkeith Palace[228]
George IV. holding a Levee in Holyrood Palace[229]
Verona[233]
The Admiralty, London[240]
George III.'s Library, British Museum[241]
Scene in Dublin: Painting King William black[245]
Mr. Huskisson[249]
Election Meeting in Ireland[253]
Lisbon[257]
Lord Liverpool[260]
Devonshire Villa, Chiswick[261]
Battle of Navarino: the "Asia" engaging the Ship of the Capitan Bey and Mohurrem Bey[265]
Lord Byron[269]
The Clare Contest: Father Murphy leading his Tenants to the Poll[273]
Daniel O'Connell[277]
The Four Courts, Dublin[281]
The Flight of Lawless[285]
Scene at the "Surrender" Banquet in Derry[288]
The Marquis of Anglesey[289]
Lord Anglesey leaving Ireland: Scene at Kingstown[293]
Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, London[297]
The Duke of Wellington's Duel with Lord Winchilsea[300]
Lord Eldon[301]
Captain Walpole Intercepting the Duke of Saldanha's Ships[305]
Mr. Alexander's Levee in King's Bench Prison[309]
Virginia Water[313]
Revolution in Paris: Capture of the Hôtel de Ville[317]
Lord Grey[321]
Mob burning a Farm in Kent[325]
O'Connell's House in Merrion Square, Dublin[328]
Arrest of O'Connell[329]
William IV.[333]
Jedburgh Abbey[336]
Great Seal of William IV.[337]
Attack on Sir Charles Wetherell at Bristol[341]
Clerkenwell Green, London[342]
Earl Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne[344]
Lord Brougham[345]
Coronation of William IV.: The Royal Procession[349]
Scene in Ireland: Visit of the Tithe-Proctor[353]
Mr. Stanley (afterwards 14th Earl of Derby)[357]
The Cathedral, Tuam[360]
Agricultural Labourers at the Period of the First Reform Parliament[361]
Mr. (afterwards Lord) Macaulay[365]
Slavery Emancipation Festival in Barbadoes[369]
Kennington Common, London, about 1840[373]
Burning of the Houses of Parliament[377]
Lord Althorp (3rd Earl Spencer)[381]
Lichfield House, St. James's Square, London[384]
Sir Robert Peel[385]
The Mansion House, London[389]
Conference between the Houses of Parliament, 1835[393]
Irish Prisoners liberated during Lord Mulgrave's Progress[397]
Joseph Hume[401]
Irish Tramps[405]
British Line-of-Battle Ships (1836)[408]
Ripon Cathedral[409]
Deputation of Constitutionalists before the Queen of Portugal[413]
Arrival of the Mail Coach[417]
Bell's "Comet"[420]
Sir James Mackintosh[421]
The Overland Route: Scene at Boulak[425]
Dr. Chalmers[429]
Joseph Mallord William Turner[432]
Abbotsford and the Eildon Hills[433]
St. George's Cathedral, Southwark[436]
Thomas Moore[437]
The Duke of Wellington at Almack's[440]
Rotten Row in 1830[441]
Niagara Falls[445]
The Capture of the Caroline[449]
The Coronation of Queen Victoria[453]
Chartists at Church[457]
Buckingham Palace, from the Garden[461]
Sir Rowland Hill, 1847[465]
Marriage of Queen Victoria[473]
Attack on the Chinese Junks[477]
Queen Victoria[480]
Dunford, near Midhurst, where Cobden was born[481]
The Mob boarding the Grain Ship at Garry Kennedy[485]
Richard Cobden[489]
Seizure of Sir William Macnaghten[493]
Arrival of Dr. Brydon at Jelalabad[497]
Rescue of the British Prisoners from Akbar Khan[501]
Whitehall Gardens, London[505]
Capt. Thomas Drummond, Under-Secretary for Ireland[509]
Free Trade Hall, Manchester[513]
Charles Pelham Villiers[517]
Maynooth College[521]
The Great Seal of Victoria[525]
O'Connell at the Meeting at Trim[528]
Sir James Graham[529]
O'Connell returning Home from Prison[533]
Father Mathew and the Famine-stricken Poor[537]
Father Mathew[540]
On board an Emigrant Ship at the time of the Irish Famine[541]
Fighting at the Barricades in Paris[545]
Louis Philippe hears of the Revolution[549]
Louis Blanc[553]
Somerset House, London (River Front)[557]
Trinity College, Dublin[561]
Muster of the Irish at Mullinahone[565]
Smith O'Brien[569]
The Queen at Kilmainham Hospital[573]
Frankfort[576]
Louis Kossuth[577]
Assassination of Count Lamberg[581]
Giuseppe Garibaldi[584]
Pius IX. quitting the Vatican in Disguise[585]
The Chandni Chowk, Delhi[589]
The Charge of the Cavalry at Meeanee[593]
Thackwell at Sobraon[596]
Arrival of the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh at the British Camp[601]
Benjamin Disraeli[604]
Arrest of British Sailors by Greek Soldiers[605]