TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction[v]
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1856.Neutrality of the Black Sea[1]
1856.An Up-to-Date Mail Steamer[2]
1857.Rubinstein in London[3]
1857.First Distribution of the Victoria Cross[4]
1857.Reinforcements for India[5]
1857.Siege and Relief of Lucknow[9]
1858.“Conspiracy to Murder” Bill[12]
1858.Forcing of the Peiho River[13]
1858.Admission of Jews to Parliament[16]
1858.An Inadequate Navy[17]
1859.Volunteer Rifle Corps[18]
1859.Napoleon III. and England[20]
1859.Progress of Volunteer Movement[22]
1860.Commercial Treaty with France[25]
1860.Anti-Ritual Riots[27]
1860.Chinese War: Capture of Pekin[29]
1860.The First British Ironclad[29]
1861.Garibaldi and the Government[30]
1861.The Budget: Abolition of the Paper Duty[31]
1861.Britain and Italian Unity[32]
1861.Loss of the Cotton-Supply[33]
1861.The Case of the “Trent”[34]
1861.The Affair of the “Trent”[37]
1862.The Peabody Trust Formed[38]
1862.The “Alabama” Cruiser[40]
1863.War between North and South[41]
1863.The Budget: Eating the Leek[42]
1863.Distress in the Cotton Manufacturing Districts[44]
1863.Britain and the Civil War in America (I.)[46]
1863.Britain and the Civil War in America (II.)[47]
1864.A Policy of Meddle and Muddle[48]
1864.England and the Attack on Denmark[50]
1865.The Atlantic Cable: Scene in Ireland[52]
1865.The Fenian Conspiracy (I.)[55]
1865.The Fenian Conspiracy (II.)[57]
1865.Death of Lord Palmerston[57]
1866.The Cave of Adullam[58]
1866.Successful Laying of the Atlantic Cable[60]
1866.Reform Demonstration at Manchester[61]
1867.Attempted Fenian Raid at Chester[62]
1867.Reform Bill: Three Cornered Constituencies[65]
1867.Abyssinian Captives[67]
1868.Disraeli’s “Maundy Thursday” Letter[69]
1868.Abyssinian War: Capture of Magdala[71]
1868.Disestablishment of the Irish Church[73]
1869.Irish Church Bill: Critical Days[75]
1870.The Irish Land Bill[78]
1870.Education Bill: The Cowper-Temple Clause[81]
1870.The Government and the Franco-German War[83]
1871.Mr. Lowe’s Budget: The Match-Tax (I.)[84]
1871.Mr. Lowe’s Budget: The Match-Tax (II.)[84]
1871.Purchase in the Army abolished by Royal Warrant[85]
1871.First August Bank Holiday[86]
1871.Bible Reading in Schools[87]
1872.The Geneva Arbitration: The Indirect Claims[89]
1872.An Early Election under the Ballot Act[90]
1872.The “Alabama” Arbitration Award[93]
1873.Refusal of Disraeli to take Office without a Majority[94]
1873.First London Hospital Sunday[98]
1874.The Ashantee War: Fall of Coomassie[99]
1874.Funeral of Dr. Livingstone[103]
1874.Disraeli on Parties in the Church[104]
1875.The Arctic Expedition[106]
1875.Purchase of Suez Canal Shares (An Opposition View)[110]
1876.Disraeli’s Aims in Politics[114]
1876.A Spirited Speech by Disraeli[114]
1876.The Eastern Question: Some Fiery Speeches[115]


FROM PALMERSTON TO DISRAELI
(1856–1876)


NEUTRALITY OF THE BLACK SEA (1856).

Source.Annual Register, 1856, vol. 98; State Papers, pp. 310–312.