Commercial Politics (1837-1856)

by Unknown

I acknowledge, with thanks, the permission of Mr. John Murray to reprint the extracts from Queen Victoria’s Letters on pp. 26, 68, 84; and from The Croker Papers on p. 26; also the permission of Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co. to reprint the extracts from The Greville Memoirs on pp. 29, 68, 85; and those from The Life of Lord John Russell on pp. 99, 118.

R. H. G.

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CONTENTS

page
	Introduction		[ v]
date
1837.	Accession of Queen Victoria	Sybil	[ 1]
	Affairs in Canada	Report by Lord Durham	[ 3]
1838.	The State of England:
	I. Rural Districts	Sybil	[ 8]
	II. Mining Districts	Sybil	[10]
	III. Factory Towns	Sybil, Coningsby	[12]
	Ireland and her Landlords	Life of Thos. Drummond	[16]
1839.	The Charter of Colonial Self-Government	Report by Lord Durham	[20]
	The Bedchamber Plot	Queen Victoria’s Letters
		and The Croker Papers	[26]
1840.	The Queen’s Marriage	Greville Memoirs	[29]
1842.	The Chartist Petition	Hansard	[31]
	The Railway Boom	Endymion	[38]
	The Corn Laws and the Manufacturers	Hansard	[42]
	Imprisonment for Absence from Church	Hansard	[46]
1843.	A Chartist in Prison	Life of Thomas Cooper	[49]
	A Chartist Hymn	Life of Thomas Cooper	[50]
1844.	Foretastes of Darwinism	Tancred	[51]
	The Opening of Mazzini’s Letters	Hansard	[53]
1845.	Agriculture and Free Trade	Hansard	[55]
	Peel’s Change of Views	Peel’s Memoirs	[60]
	Lord J. Russell quickens the Pace	Peel’s Memoirs	[65]
	The Bombshell	Greville Memoirs	[68]
	Peel and his Colleagues	Queen Victoria’s Letters	[68]
1846.	Free Trade	Hansard	[70]
	Peel’s Defence of his Method	Peel’s Memoirs	[77]
	Ireland: The Molly Maguires	Peel’s Memoirs	[80]
1848.	England and the Year of Revolution	Life of Palmerston	[81]
1849.	Conquest of the Punjab	Queen Victoria’s Letters	[84]
1850.	Character of Sir Robert Peel	Greville Memoirs	[85]
	Don Pacifico	Hansard	[87]
	The Roman Catholic Bishoprics	Life of Palmerston	[91]
	The Haynau Affair	Life of Palmerston	[92]
1851.	Palmerston and Kossuth	Life of Palmerston	[93]
	The Great Exhibition	Life of Prince Consort	[94]
	Palmerston and the Coup d’État	Life of Palmerston	[96]
1853.	Relations with Russia	Life of Lord J. Russell	[99]
1854.	The Quaker Deputation to the Tsar	Memoirs of Joseph Sturge	[102]
	Horrors of the Crimean Hospitals	The Times	[105]
	The Crisis at the Alma	The Times	[107]
	The Morning of Inkermann	The Times	[110]
1855.	“Muddling through” before Sebastopol	The Times	[111]
	The Angel of Death	Hansard	[114]
	Why Peace Negotiations failed	Life of Lord J. Russell	[118]

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COMMERCIAL POLITICS

(1837-1856)