CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I.Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies[1]
II.The Year 1837[18]
III.London in 1837[30]
IV.In the Street[45]
V.With the People[67]
VI.With the Middle-Class[85]
VII.In Society[110]
VIII.At the Play and the Show[125]
IX.In the House[137]
X.At School and University[154]
XI.The Tavern[160]
XII.In Club- and Card-land[175]
XIII.With the Wits[183]
XIV.Journals and Journalists[209]
XV.The Sportsman[214]
XVI.In Factory and Mine[224]
XVII.With the Men of Science[233]
XVIII.Law and Justice[237]
XIX.Conclusion[258]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATES.
The Princess Victoria in 1830. From the Picture by Richard Westall, R.A., at Windsor Castle[Frontispiece]
Windsor Castle[Vignette]
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Queen Victoria in 1839. From a Drawing by R. J. Lane, A.R.A.[1]
Thomas Carlyle. From the Fraser Gallery[16]
The Queen’s First Council—Kensington Palace, June 20, 1837. From the Picture by Sir David Wilkie, R.A., at Windsor Castle[18]
A Show of Twelfth-Cakes. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[20]
Greenwich Park. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[22]
The Chimney-Sweeps’ Annual Holiday. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[24]
Beating the Bounds. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[26]
Bartholomew Fair. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[28]
Vauxhall Gardens. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[30]
In Fleet Street. Proclaiming the Queen. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[56]
Leigh Hunt. From the Fraser Gallery[64]
John Galt. From the Fraser Gallery[86]
The Queen receiving the Sacrament after her Coronation. Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1838. From the Picture by C. R. Leslie, R.A., at Windsor Castle[94]
Theodore Hook. From the Fraser Gallery[100]
The Countess of Blessington. From the Fraser Gallery[110]
Count d’Orsay. From the Fraser Gallery[112]
Sydney Smith. From the Fraser Gallery[116]
John Baldwin Buckstone. From the Fraser Gallery[126]
Thomas Noon Talfourd. From the Fraser Gallery[128]
Mary Russell Mitford. From the Fraser Gallery[130]
Sir Walter Scott. From the Fraser Gallery[132]
Lord Lyndhurst. From the Fraser Gallery[138]
William Cobbett. From the Fraser Gallery[140]
Lord John Russell. From the Fraser Gallery[144]
Edward Lytton Bulwer. From the Fraser Gallery[148]
Benjamin D’Israeli. From the Fraser Gallery[150]
Thomas Campbell. From the Fraser Gallery[176]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From the Fraser Gallery[182]
William Wordsworth. From the Fraser Gallery[184]
Rev. William Lisle Bowles. From the Fraser Gallery[186]
Pierre-Jean de Béranger. From the Fraser Gallery[188]
James Hogg. From the Fraser Gallery[190]
Regina’s Maids of Honour. From the Fraser Gallery[192]
Harriet Martineau. From the Fraser Gallery[194]
William Harrison Ainsworth. From the Fraser Gallery[196]
The Fraserians. From the Fraser Gallery[198]
John Gibson Lockhart. From the Fraser Gallery[200]
Samuel Rogers. From the Fraser Gallery[202]
Thomas Moore. From the Fraser Gallery[204]
Lord Brougham and Vaux. From the Fraser Gallery[206]
Washington Irving. From the Fraser Gallery[208]
John Wilson Croker. From the Fraser Gallery[210]
Cockney Sportsmen. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[218]
Return from the Races. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[220]
Sir John C. Hobhouse. From the Fraser Gallery[226]
A Point of Law. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[238]
Michael Faraday. From the Fraser Gallery[258]
WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT.
Arrival of the Coronation Number of ‘The Sun’[2]
Lifeguard, 1837[4]
General Postman[6]
Napoleon at Longwood. From a Drawing made in 1820[12]
London Street Characters, 1837. From a Drawing by John Leech[14]
5 Great Cheyne Row. The House in which Carlyle lived from 1834 to his Death in 1881[16]
The Duchess of Kent, with the Princess Victoria at the Age of Two. From the Picture by Sir W. Beechey, R.A., at Windsor Castle[17]
William IV. From a Drawing by HB.[18]
Peeler[20]
The Spaniards Tavern, Hampstead[22]
Sir Robert Peel[24]
A Parish Beadle. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’[26]
Evening in Smithfield. From a Drawing made in 1858, at the Gateway leading into Cloth Fair, the Place of Proclamation of Bartholomew Fair[28]
Fireman[31]
Hackney Coachman. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’[34]
The First London Exchange[34]
The Second London Exchange[35]
The Present Royal Exchange—Third London Exchange[35]
Charing Cross in the Present Day. From a Drawing by Frank Murray[37]
Temple Bar[38]
The Royal Courts of Justice[39]
Lyons Inn in 1804. From an Engraving in Herbert’s ‘History of the Inns of Court’[41]
Kennington Gate—Derby Day[42]
The Old Roman Bath in the Strand[43]
London Street Characters, 1827. From a Drawing by John Leech[46]
The King’s Mews in 1750. From a Print by I. Maurer[47]
Barrack and Old Houses on the Site of Trafalgar Square. From a Drawing made by F. W. Fairholt in 1826[48]
The Last Cabriolet-Driver. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘Sketches by Boz’[49]
A Greenwich Pensioner. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’[52]
An Omnibus Upset. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[53]
Exeter Change[54]
The Parish Engine. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘Sketches by Boz’[56]
Crockford’s Fish Shop. From a Drawing by F. W. Fairholt[57]
Thomas Chatterton[60]
Third Regiment of Buffs[63]
Douglas Jerrold. From the Bust by E. H. Bailey, R.A.[64]
John Forster. From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry[65]
Charles Dickens[66]
The Darby Day. From Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanack’[76]
Newgate—Entrance in the Old Bailey[77]
In the Queen’s Bench[79]
George Eliot. From a Drawing in ‘The Graphic’[86]
La Pastourelle[89]
Fashions for August 1836[98]
Fashions for March 1837[98]
Watchman. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’[101]
A Scene on Blackheath. From a Drawing by ‘Phiz’ in Grant’s ‘Sketches in London’[105]
Maid-Servant. From a Drawing by George Cruikshank in ‘London Characters’[107]
Officer of the Dragoon Guards[111]
A Sketch in the Park—The Duke of Wellington and Mrs. Arbuthnot[115]
Linkman[117]
William Makepeace Thackeray[123]
Liston as ‘Paul Pry.’ From a Drawing by George Cruikshank[128]
Charles Reade[130]
T. P. Cooke in ‘Black-eyed Susan’[132]
Vauxhall Gardens[133]
The ‘New’ Houses of Parliament, from the River[138]
Lord Melbourne[140]
Thomas Babington Macaulay[141]
Lord Palmerston[142]
Burdett, Hume, and O’Connell. From a Drawing by HB.[143]
Daniel O’Connell[146]
O’Connell taking the Oaths in the House. From a Drawing by ‘Phiz’ in ‘Sketches in London’[147]
Edmund Kean as Richard the Third[161]
Old Entrance to the Cock, Fleet Street[163]
The Old Tabard Inn, High Street, Southwark[173]
Sign of the Swan with Two Necks, Carter Lane[174]
Sign of the Bolt-in-Tun, Fleet Street[174]
Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall[176]
United University Club, Pall Mall[177]
Crockford’s, St. James’s Street[179]
Charles Knight. From a Photograph by Hughes & Mullins[184]
Robert Southey[185]
Thomas Moore[186]
‘Vathek’ Beckford. From a Medallion[187]
Walter Savage Landor. From a Photograph by H. Watkins[188]
Ralph Waldo Emerson[189]
Lord Byron[190]
Sir Walter Scott[191]
A Fashionable Beauty of 1837. By A. E. Chalon, R.A.[193]
Lord Tennyson as a Young Man. From the Picture by Sir T. Lawrence, R.A.[196]
Matthew Arnold[200]
Charles Darwin[201]
Holland House[203]
Letting Children down a Coal-Mine. From a Plate in ‘The Westminster Review’[225]
Children Working in a Coal-Mine. From a Plate in ‘The Westminster Review’[229]
London Street Characters, 1837. From a Drawing by John Leech[231]
Marshalsea—The Courtyard. From a Drawing by C. A. Vanderhoof[239]

QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1839.

(From a Drawing by R. J. Lane, A.R.A.)