Chapter XXI: THE REIGN OF VICTORIA (continued)

The Queen's Visit to Ireland--The Royal Family at Balmoral--Illness
and Death of the Prince Consort--The Address in Parliament--The
Education Code--The American War in Parliament--The _Nashville_--The
Blockade and the Cotton Famine--The Game Act--Palmerston and
Cobden--Prorogation of Parliament--The Garotters--The _Alabama_--Mr.
Adams and Earl Russell--The _Alabama sails_--Progress of the
War in America--Greece and the Ionian Islands--The Society of
Arts--The Exhibition of 1862--Jealousy of Prussia and France--The
Colonial Exhibition--The Cotton Famine in 1863--Engagement and
Marriage of the Prince of Wales--Mr. Gladstone's Budget--"Essays
and Reviews"--Obituary of the Year--Russell and Gortschakoff--The
Polish Revolution--Russell and Brazil--The Coercion of Japan--The
American War in 1863--The Crown of Mexico offered to the Archduke
Maximilian--Captain Speke in Central Africa 326

CHAPTER XXII.

THE REIGN OF VICTORIA (_continued_).

Peace and Prosperity in 1864--Birth of an Heir to the Prince of
Wales--Mr. Gladstone's Budget--Mr. Stansfeld and Mazzini--The
Government and the London Conference on the Danish Question--Mr.
Gladstone on Parliamentary Reform--Resignation of Mr. Lowe--Lord
Westbury on Convocation--Garibaldi's Visit to England--The
Shakespeare Tercentenary--"Essays and Reviews" again--The
Colenso Controversy--Mr. Disraeli and the Angels--The Fenians
in Dublin--Origin of the Belfast Riots--The Ashantee War--The
Maori War--Waitara Block and its consequences--Suppression of
the Rebellion--Final Defeat of the Taepings--Bombardment of
Simonasaki--The Cyclone at Calcutta--Its Ravages. 343