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Cables, iron chain cables invented 438,
manufacturer of 730.

Cabs, Chapman’s patent 592,
Hansom’s patent 592, 1322,
Hearn a cab owner 1409,
safety cabriolet and two wheel carriage Co. 592.

Cahusac, the misses, school mistresses Highgate 1146.

Calculating machine 116,
calculating phenomenon 272.

Calico printers, Brooks 421,
Cobden 659,
Crum 778,
Dalglish 803,
Grafton 1195.

Cambridge, Anglo-Saxon professorship founded 345,
annals of 708,
apostles’ club 305,
B.A. without taking the oath 1362,
Brown’s billiard rooms 434,
chancellor of the university 39,
Christian advocate 1108,
council of the senate 706,
Cripp’s gift of statues 762,
Disney professorship of archæology 882,
Fitzwilliam museum first stone laid 32,
grenadier company of volunteers 616,
nonconformists first take degrees 399,
observatory 582,
peer’s son entering without residence or examination 996,
plan for colonial coll. 776,
Powis, Earl of stood for chancellorship 39,
school of art founded 208,
Sunday schools 586,
university boat club 616,
university library first stone laid 32,
university commission 662.

Cambridge. Magdalen coll. song, Sicut lilium carmen hortativum 336,
model rifle club 497.

Cambridge. Trinity coll. first jew a senior wrangler 1362,
Halliwell accused of taking MSS, from 1295.

Cambridgeshire lord lieut. 1331.

Cambronne, Pierre Jaques Etienne _d._ 1842 general, taken prisoner at
Waterloo 1282.

Camels and elephants in harness 1571.

Camp meetings, first in England 655.

Campbell, Thomas _d._ 1844 poet, his manuscripts 1167.

Canada. Bytown renamed Gloucester 277,
Caroline steamer burnt 1500,
governor general 1404,
grants of land given to fifty seven rectories 265,
metropolitan bishop 1111,
paper mill the first 768,
peat fuel manufactured 1491,
rebellion suppressed 91,
Victoria bridge 1491,
wheat and flour, first load sent from Upper Canada to Montreal 768.

Canada. Montreal, first daily paper, Daily Advertiser 591.

Canada. Toronto, The Banner established 437,
Mackenzie’s rebellion 1061,
royal grenadier regiment 782,
university built 782.

Canals, cases relating to 560.

Candle makers, Field 1041,
Hale 1278.

Caning, boy caned three times a day for seven years 772.

Canning, George _d._ 1827 statesman, Brougham’s quarrel with 426.

Cannon, Dove’s rifled cannon 905,
Gardner’s quick firing 1123.

Canterbury, arches court 890,
cath. the six preachers 1084,
cath. windows 632,
musical doctor’s degree first since reformation 1131,
prerogative court abolished 890,
St. Augustine’s abbey 1528.

Canvas maker, Gaskell 1128.

Cape Coast castle defended 916.

Cape Town, bishop of, Grey 673,
Sir G. Grey’s library 311.

Carbolic acid first manufactured 520.

Cardinal, Cullen 781.

Cardiff, castle rebuilt 478,
Sophia gardens 499.

Cards, makers of 851.

Caricatures, collection of 1387.

Caricaturists, Bennett 240,
Cruikshank, G. 777,
Cruikshank, I. 777,
Cruikshank, I. R. 778,
Doyle 912.

Carisbrook castle, Isle of Wight, custodian of 859.

Carlile, Richard _d._ 1843 bookseller, disputation with 128,
wife charged with selling a libel 1472.

Carlisle, aerated bread made at 821.

Carlyle, Thomas _d._ 1881 historian, his friends 996, 1058, 1591.

Carlow lord lieutenant 261.

Carmarthenshire lord lieutenant 948.

Caroline _d._ 1821 queen of Great Britain, attorney general to 426,
solicitor general to 859.

Carpet manufacturers, Crossley 772,
Henderson 1425.

Carriers of goods, law of 613.

Carron, Guy T. J. _d._ 1821 Abbé, established school at Somers Town,
London 502.

Carthage, excavations at 832.

Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore, bishop of 809.

Casks, cleansing of 834.

Catalani, Angelica _d._ 1849 singer, concerts 621.

Cats, a painter of 1497.

Cattle, breeders of 173, 257, 294, 307, 328, 337, 338, 1039–40,
Fasque pure bred polled 1155,
plague 1342.

Cawthorne, George _d._ 1833 of circulating library 1607.

Celtic scholar, Evans 1002.

Cemeteries, London cemetery co. founded 1133, London Necropolis
projected 429,
Woking, national mausoleum at 429,
_See also_ Cremation.

Census of 1851,
assistant of registrar 1308.

Centenarians and reputed centenarians, Baden 121,
Bailey 127,
Baillie 128,
Beadon 204,
Brewer 392,
Clark 628,
Coxeter 744,
Edwards 964,
Fletcher 1069,
Gardner 1123,
Geeran 1133,
Gibson 1140,
Heathorn 1413,
Hicks 1461,
Howes 1558,
Howlison 1561.

Ceremonies, master of to the Queen 796.

Cetywayo _d._ 1881 Zulu chief, his friends 673.

Chadwick suit 280.

Chalmers, Rev. Thomas _d._ 1847 D.D., appointed to Tron. ch. Glasgow
681,
his friends 996.

Chamberlains, hereditary grand, Cholmondeley, G. H. C. 613,
Cholmondeley, W. H. H. 613.

Chambers, Robert _d._ 1871 and William Chambers _d._ 1883 publishers
587, 588,
editor of their works 1047.

Chancellors of the exchequer, Baring declined 162,
Disraeli 203,
Goulburn 1190,
Halifax 1281,
Herries 1441,
Hunt 1590.

Chancellors, Lord, Brougham 426,
Cairns 512,
Campbell 525,
Chelmsford 601,
Cottenham 726,
Cranworth 751,
Hatherley 1376.

Chancery, the cat in chancery 1224.

Changes of Names, _See_ Names.

Chapeau bras, the last wearer of the 254.

Channel islands criminal law commission 625.

Characters, illustrious, collector of memorials of 276.

Charity estate commissioner 954.

Charlotte Augusta _d._ 1817 princess, elegy on death of 360,
portrait 1166.

Chartists, Elt 990,
Epps 954,
Frost 424, 1109,
Gammage 1119,
people’s petition 105, 932.

Chatterton, Frederick B. _d._ 1886,
theatrical manager 599, 1016.

Chaucer, Geoffrey _d._ 1400 poet, his astrolabe 377.

Cheddar, Somerset, St. Michael’s home founded 1138.

Chelsea, botanical gardens 1088,
five fields built over 779,
hospital, history of 1607,
Whiteland’s training coll. 853.

Chemistry, polarity of chemical elements 409,
royal coll. of chemistry founded 807.

Chemists, Calvert 1589,
Faraday 1020,
Field 1041,
Gregory 1234,
Hadow 1273,
Hanbury 1312,
Howard J. E. 1553,
Howard Luke 1554,
Hunt 1589,
Hunt 1592.

Cherry ripe, a song 1537.

Chess, early invention of 1076,
games at 578,
Indian problem 583,
London chess club 578,
The Pleiades at Berlin 1544.

Chess players, Alexander 42,
Anderssen 67,
Barnes 173,
Baxter 196,
Brand 380,
Buckle 463,
Horwitz 1544,
Kling 1544.

Chessel Down, Anglo Saxon cemetery at 1477.

Chester, bridge at 1362.

Chestnuts sold in the streets 1130.

Chevalier, person assuming designation of 846.

Children, employment commission 1070,
Faraday’s lectures to 1020,
mental culture of 600,
preacher to 329.

Chimneys, children chimney sweeps 1568,
very high chimneys 458,
sweeping machine invented 1155.

China, Bellot’s collection of coins 236,
Chinese Gordon 1178,
Chinese scholars 1029, 1338,
Christian union to propagate gospel 1263,
Ever victorious army 1178,
execution of Brabazon 371,
medical missionary soc. 676,
missionaries to 825,
Pilgrim’s Progress in Chinese 490,
presbyterian ch. of England in 490,
Taiping rebellion 1178.

China manufacturer, Minton 528.

Chloroform used as a local anæsthetic 1333.

Chocolate manufacturers, Fry 1110,
Gatti 1130.

Cholera, acrostic by Charles Lambe on Asbury’s treatment of cholera 93,
cholera in 1849 _col._ 131,
cholera in 1832 in London 302, 324,
first visitation of 651,
what to do 582.

Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester, All Saints’ ch. built 493 burnt 493.

Christmas cards, originated 671,
verses for 1527.

Chromatrope invented 609.

Chronometer makers, Arnold 861,
Barraud 861,
Carter 562,
Dent 861,
Vulliamy 861.

Chronometric line run round the world 1064.

Chrysanthemum exhibition 802.

Chunee the elephant shot 770.

Churches, apparatus for heating 1055,
church furnisher 1107.

Cigars made by women 715.

Cinque ports, lord warden 803.

Circassian committee, chairman of 206.

Circle, reflecting, Douglas’ 902.

Circles, automatic graduation of 703.

Circus proprietors, Cooke J. 702,
Cooke T. Thomas 702,
Cooke William 704,
Fanque 1020,
Hengler 1428,
Howes and Cushing 762,
Hughes 1570,
Price and Powell 1428,
Sanger 762.

Cirencester, Roman antiquities at 465.

Cistercian order re-established 854.

Cities and boroughs, plans of 839.

Civil list pensioners, A’Beckett 5,
Ainsworth 33,
Alder 40,
Alison 47,
Anderson 64,
Anster J. 74,
Anster E. 74,
Atherstone 101,
Atkinson 104,
Austin 109,
Backhouse 119,
Bailey 127,
Ball 146,
Barez 160,
Barnard 171,
Bartlett 187,
Basevi 189,
Batty 195,
Beke 223,
Bell 230,
Belzoni 237,
Bigsby 276,
Bingham 278,
Blakey 306,
Bleek W. H. I. 311,
Bleek J. C. 311,
Bloomfield 316,
Boole 335,
Boyle 368,
Britton 404,
Broderip 407,
Brown 437,
Buckingham 461,
Burnet 486,
Burges 477,
Carpenter 554,
Carleton 547,
Cattermole 572,
Chisholm 612,
Clifford 649,
Colby 669,
Cole 671,
Coles 675,
Collier 677,
Cooke Sir W. F. 705,
Cooke Anna L. 705,
Cooley 706,
Corbaux 717,
Costello D. 725,
Costello L. S. 725,
Cross 770,
Cruikshank 777,
Curtis 793,
Dalton 807,
Daly 808,
De Morgan A. 855,
De Morgan S. E. 855,
Dick 872,
Donaldson 893,
Doo 898,
Edward 963,
Falcieri 1016,
Faraday 1020,
Forbes 1078,
Gavin 1131,
Godkin 1163,
Gordon 1177,
Graves 1211,
Haas 1268,
Hall A. M. 1283,
Hall S. C. 1289,
Hamilton W. R. 1307,
Hamilton W. S. 1308,
Harris 1351,
Hawker 1385,
Haydn 1396,
Haydon 1396,
Head 1404,
Helps 1419,
Hickey 1460,
Hincks 1480,
Hind 1481,
Hogan 1500,
Hogg 1502,
Home 1521,
Horne 1539,
Howitt M. 1559,
Howitt W. 1559,
Hughes 1570,
Hullah 1581,
Hunt J. H. L. 1591.

Civil service, first commissioner Packington 1312.

Clackmannan, lord lieutenant of 6.

Claimants, Allen Charles 49,
Allen C. M. 50,
Allen J. C. H. 52,
Goode 1172,
Tichbourne 662.

Clairvoyant, Heller 1418.

Clapham park, Surrey, houses built on 779.

Claremont, Surrey, residence of Orleans princes 856, 1106.

Claviole or finger keyed viol 1389.

Clevedon, Somerset, Christ Church built and endowed 372.

Clewer near Oxford, female penitentiary opened 84.

Clifton, bishops of, Burgess 479 and Hendren 1426,
Hensman memorial ch. 1434.

Clocks, astronomical 703,
double check clock escapement 382,
electrical 130.

Clonfert, bishop of 865.

Cloth dresser, Hirst 1484.

Clothier, Harrison 1352.

Clouds, cirrus, cumulus, stratus and nimbus 1554,
observations on 1554.

Clowns _See also_ Actors _col._ 1617,
Auriol 1070,
Barnes 173,
Barry 183,
Boleno 328,
Delevanti 853,
Diavolo 870,
Flexmore 1070,
Grimaldi 1021,
Huline 1580.

Clubs.
Amateur athletic founded 586.
Arthur’s built 1536.
Athenæum designed 494,
relievi on the exterior 1431.
Athletic club of univ. of Edin. founded 121.
Bailey club, Sheffield, commenced 127.
Badminton originated 1601.
Bannatyne founded 747.
British and foreign institute founded 461.
Brooks’s, the master of 195.
Concentores Sodales founded and ceased 1542.
Coventry house lessee 1097.
Friday knights founded 1109.
Garrick founded 943,
manager 1297.
Geographical founded 411.
Grillion’s founded 11.
Junior Athenæum in Piccadilly 1531.
Literary dining founded 701.
London chess, president 578.
London clay 357.
Lowtonian, secretary of 635.
Manchester literary founded 1330.
Metropolitan red lions founded 1077.
Pitt, president of 972.
Political economy founded 578.
Quekett microscopical, founder 1331,
president 1090.
Raleigh founded 410.
Red house at Battersea 73.
Reform, chairmen 207, 977,
chef 1097,
erected 181,
founded 654, 977,
member expelled 363,
secretaries 717, 1280.
Savage founded 1294.
Star, memorials of 1083.
Travellers’ erected 181.
Tyneside Naturalists’ Field founded 39, 1314.
Urban founded 1109.
Victoria yacht founded 10.

Coach drivers, Cotton 729,
Herring 1446.

Coach proprietors, Barber 156,
Chaplin 591,
Hadley 1272,
Halcomb 1276.

Coaches, coachmakers 68,
revival of coaching 70.

Coal, Bidder’s safety lamp for mines 272,
coal exchange opened 927,
coal factor 927,
combustion of 1524,
machine for weighing invented 888,
quantity still remaining in England 1592,
Small coal man, a political song 1573.

Coates, Robert _d._ 1848 known as Romeo Coates, his widow 367.

Coats, Chesterfield the 605,
Petersham the 1344.

Cock fighting 112.

Cocking, Robert _killed_ 1837, aeronaut 1223.

Coins, collectors of, Bergne 253,
Borrell 341,
Christmas 617,
Coats 657,
Cuff 780,
Fox 1094,
Guthrie 1264,
Harvey 1368,
Hawkins E. 1387,
Hawkins W. 1390,
Henfrey 1427.

Colenso, William John _d._ 1883 bishop of Natal, deposed by bishop Gray
1219.

Coleoptera, Brackenridge’s collection 372,
Brightwell’s collection 400.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor _d._ 1834 poet, Cottle’s recollections of 728,
literary cookery with reference to matters attributed to 377.

Colleges.
Agricultural at Cirencester established 1288.
College of arms, report on 233.
College of doctors of law 1571.
Crook hall removed to Ushaw 228.
Didsbury near Manchester founded 358.
Exeter diocesan founded 1337.
London coll. of divinity at Kilburn 348.
Manchester new coll. removed to London 361.
Marlborough founded 357, 1235.
St. Columba, Beresford’s gift to 251.
St. John’s hall, Highbury, principal 348.
Training at Highbury founded 1235.

Collier, a poetical 1005.

Collieries, Clay cross 1556,
self acting fence for winding shafts 1556.

Colonies, Secretaries of state for colonies, Aberdeen 6,
Cardwell 543,
Glenelg 1157,
Grey 1241,
Herbert 1437,
Hobart 1487,
Pakington 1312,
Stanley 863.

Colston, Edward _d._ 1721 merchant, life of 1125.

Columbine, Boleno 328.

Coming K., The authors of 221.

Commons, House of, best dressed man in 932,
call of the house, the last 1364,
clerk 1022,
chiltern hundreds refused to a member 510,
member expelled 934,
person committed to custody of serjeant at arms 677,
seat from which member hears thanks given him, remains his while
member 1003,
speakers 935, 1008,
speakership, contests for 1191, 1376,
thanks given to celebrated men 1003, 1039.

Compasses, Caithness gravitation compass 512,
method of compensating errors invented 168.

Compensation refused by government to Douglas 904.

Concerts, of ancient music 290,
promenade 770, 1308.

Confectioner, Gunter 1259.

Confessional unmasked, The 455.

Conjurors, Anderson 63, 1482,
Blitz 314,
Eagle 950,
Heller 1418.

Conservatory at Surrey zoological gardens 7.

Control, board of, _See_ Board of Control _col._ 1626.

Conveyancer, Hodgkin 1492.

Convicts, Buckley the convict 465,
how convicts are made 555.

Cooke, Sir W. F. _d._ 1879, electrician 705,
partner with Wheatstone 1383.

Cooks and cookery, Francatelli 1097,
Kettner’s manual 805.

Cooper, Sir Astley Preston _d._ 1841, his anatomical preparations 1225,
life 708.

Cooper, Thompson, F.S.A. author 708.

Copper, Cwmavon copper works, Glamorgan 1259,
Kapunda mine, South Australia 944,
smelting copper in Swansea district 1098.

Coppin, George _b._ 1819, actor & theatrical manager 416.

Copybooks, Darnell’s 817,
largest maker of in the world 1458.

Coral, Jane _d._ 1858, painter 1601.

Cork, bishop of 851,
great exhibition at 842,
lord lieutenant 1038,
St. Finbarre cath. 1233,
water works 246.

Cork, Cloyne and Ross, bishops of 1060, 1233.

Corn, corn merchant 1378,
drilling machines 1126,
grinding corn, improvements in 353.

Corn. Anti-corn law league, A B C of the 98,
founders of 98, 1272,
final meeting 98,
lecturers, members of and speakers 11, 361, 659, 1096, 1141,
meeting in Covent Garden 397,
secretary 1589.

Cornwall, assay master 1435,
Cornish dolls 346,
duchy, enquiry into revenues of 700,
fauna 731,
folk lore 731,
glossary of words 731,
Pendeen church built 36,
Sunday sch. teacher the first 205,
typhus fever 550.

Coromandel, the seven pagodas 557.

Corona Borealis, discovery of a new star in 288.

Coroners’ inquests 615.

Corsets, corset à la Vénus 477.

Costumes peculiar worn by F. Boott 340.

Cotehele house, Cornwall, account of 691.

Cottage allotment system 578.

Cotton, machinery exported 794,
spinning machines, improvements in 325.

Cotton spinners, Armitage 83,
Ashworth 97, 98,
Bazley 202,
Bright 399,
Brook 414,
Callender 517,
Crompton 767,
Cross 771,
Fielden 1043 _bis._,
Garnett 1124,
Greg 1232,
Hall 1287,
Holms 1517,
Hornby 1538,
Horrocks 1444,
Houldsworth 1549,
Hoyle 1562,
Hulbert 1579,
Hutton 1608.

County Guy, a song 1196.

Coursers, Campbell 530,
Etwall 1000.

Coursing, Ashdown hill meetings 752,
Craven 752.

Courvoisier, F. Benjamin _hanged_ 1840, his trial 1488.

Craggan castle, Clare, restoration of 98.

Crape manufacturer, Courtauld 733.

Creche, the first in London 1511.

Cree North American Indians, books for 1595.

Cremation, first in England 1316,
crematorium at Manston house 1316,
persons cremated Collins 679,
Hanham E. M. 1316,
Hanham E. D. 1316,
Hanham T. B. 1316 and Henry 1432.

Creosote, properties of 720.

Cricket, All England matches 636,
an eleven all of whose names began with B. 364,
Beaudesert ground 71,
catapulta 1032,
glove, tubular india rubber 1032,
I. Zingari 1249,
Kennington oval 1249,
large score 405,
Lord’s proprietors 814,
Marylebone club bowlers 1253 and sec. 1059,
Prince’s ground 364,
rules of, first book on 198,
Surrey eleven 1249,
wicket keepers’ feats 405.

Cricketers, Anstead 73,
Baker 136,
Bancalari 150,
Barker T. 165,
Barker T. R. 166,
Bayley 200,
Beagley 205,
Beldham 225,
Biddulph 273,
Blackman 298,
Bowyer 364,
Box 364,
Brand 380,
Broadbridge 405,
Brown 430,
Budd 466,
Caldecott 514,
Chamberlayne 586,
Clarke 636,
Cotton 729,
Dark 814,
Davies 828,
Ede 596,
Felix 1032,
Fitzgerald 1059,
Grace G. F. and H. M. 1194,
Grace W. G. 1558,
Grimston E. H. 1248,
Grimston F. S. 1248,
Grimston R. 1249,
Grundy 1253,
Guy 1266,
Halliwell 1295,
Harenc 1335,
Hayward D. 1403,
Hayward T. 1403,
Heath 1411,
Hillyer 1478,
Hoare 1485,
Hodgson 1495,
Hodson 1499,
Howitt 1558,
Humphrey 1587,
Hunter 1597,
Pilch 1266,
Shaw 1597,
Wenman 1266.

Criminals, Bravo 384,
Buranelli 475,
Burdock 1437,
Chesham 603,
Courvoisier 513,
Cross 772,
Dove 513, 905,
Flowery Land pirates 513,
Good 513,
Greenacre 513,
Manning 513,
Muller 513,
Palmer 150, 526, 662, 1437,
Roupell 579,
Rush 513,
Tawell 513,
Wilson 513.

Crinoids, collection of 277.

Crown cases reserved, Court of 662.

Cruikshank, George _d._ 1878, artist 777,
his friend 1600.

Crusoe, Robinson, Crusoe’s island 445.

Crustacea, collections of 963, 1530.

Crystal palace, Sydenham, origin of 1023,
erected 1094,
Gibson’s statues 1141,
Handel festivals 360, 725,
managers 361, 1037,
managing director 1111,
organist 735,
railway 112.
_See also_ Exhibition, _col._ 1641.

Cullen, Paul _d._ 1878, cardinal 780,
his secretary 695.

Cuneiform inscriptions, decipherer of 1480.

Cure, The Perfect _i.e._ J. H. Stead 312.

Curfew bells at Hampswaite 165.

Customs, acts consolidated 848.

Cygnus, red star discovered in 288.

Cyrenaica, report on antiquities of 220.

Cystideans, collection of 277.

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