THE HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE OF CURRENT EVENTS, (FOR THE YEAR 1850,) BEING A MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT TO HOUSEHOLD WORDS, CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS. LONDON: OFFICE, 16, WELLINGTON STREET NORTH. 1850. TABLE OF CONTENTS. POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND SANITARY PARLIAMENT Its opening by commission, HOUSE OF LORDS-Debate on the, and amendment, address, 28; accommoda- tion for foreign ministers, 147; agricul- tural distress, 100; Australian colonies bill, 123, 124; steam communication with, 173; breach of privilege, 148, 174; Cambridge annuity, 148, 174; chancery reform, 53, 124; civil list savings, 148, 173; clergy appeal bill, 74, 123; clergy proceedings bill, 28; convicts prisons bill, 52, 74; convict transportation, 28; county courts extension, 148, 173; Cuban expedition, 124; death of the Duke of Cambridge, 148; death of Sir R. Peel, 147; Dolly's Brae collision, 29; door- keepers' fees, 74, 173; ecclesiastical commission, 28, 30, 173; expenditure of public money for education, 147; fac- tories bill, 148; French ambassador's recall, 101; general board of health bill, 148; Greece, our relations with, 28, 52, 101, 124; inspection of coal mines, 148; Irish encumbered estates amendment act, 124, 125; landlord and tenant's bill, 148; parliamentary franchise, 123, 147, 148, 173; party processions, 51; poor law, 28, 30; its abuses, 75; Marlborough house, 172; marriages bill, 148; perse- cution of protestant members in Ireland, 174; pirates' head-money repeal bill, 74; railway audit bill, 28; registrarship of the prerogative court, Canterbury, 100; special pleadings, better regulation of, 74; Sunday labour in the post office, 125, 174; university reform, 100; universities, 174. 145; position of literature in Engla 123; Puseyite secessions, 193, 211; duction of government salaries, 98; form of the establishment, 244, 2 Roman Catholic aggressions, Piedm 170; Thurles, 171, 193; cardinal W man and the new hierarchy, 241; Sun post, 121; university commission, 142, 167, 214, 239. Acts of Parliament, Provisions of recer education, Mr. Fox's bill for the promo- tion of secular, 36, 77, 126; exhalations from drains or graveyards, 178; expendi- ture, public, Mr. Cobden's motion on, 54; expenditure, national, Mr. Drum- mond's motion on, 55; extramural inter- ments bill, 105; factories amendment act, 55, 126, 127; friendly societies bill, 128; Greece, our relations with, 31, 53, 106, 128, 148, 149, 150; park encroach- IRELAND-Abolition of the Irish vice- royalty, 106, 126, 127; chancery, 34; crime and outrage act continuance, 176, 177, 178; distressed union advances bill, 34, 101, 104; encumbered estates bill, 178; fisheries bill, 105; franchise exten- sion, 52, 104, 105, 176; improvement of towns, 129; Kilrush union. state of, 54; landlords and tenants bill, 153, 176; landlords and tenants bill (No. 2.), 177, 178; medical charities, 154; poor law, 126, 154; juvenile offenders' bill, 78; larceny summary jurisdiction bill, 57, 77, 129; malt tax repeal, 151; Manches- ter rectory divisions bill, 105; marriage bill, 33, 36, 53, 106, 127, 152; mercantile marine bill, 78, 151; metropolitan inter- ments, 78, 125, 126, 127; national land scheme, 53, 176; new house of commons, 101, 125, 126; oath of abjuration, 153 ; parliamentary voters, 36; public libra- and amendment, 30; abolition of the punishment of death, 152; affirmation bill, 78; African blockade, 56; agricul- tural distress, 35; abolition of attorney's certificate tax, 104, 152, 153, 154; Aus- tralian colonies bill, 34, 57, 77, 101, 104, 106, 176; steam communication with, 154; benefices in plurality bill, 104; British claims on Tuscany, 176; budget, 56; Cambridge annuity, 153, 177; colo- nial policy, Lord J. Russell's statement, 33; county courts extension, 36; county rates and expenditure, 34, 35; court of chancery, 127; charitable trusts, 154. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY-Army estimates, 55, 175; half-pay estimates, 175; Holy- rood, 177; Marlborough house, 175; Cuffe-street savings bank, 177; new Albert, Prince, distribution of prizes Anniversary of Twelfth July, at Belfast, religion of labourers, at Windsor, 250 British Association for the advancemen Carshalton School investigations, 2 Cash Credits, discussion on the adoption Cattle-show of Smithfield club, 269. Charity, munificent, of Miss Howard, 2 Coldstream Guards banquet, 114. Colonisation and Emigration-Canterb Common Law commissioners' labours, 2 Conciliation Hall, closing of, 156. Cotton, Manchester chamber of comme Dolly's Brae affair, memorial of the Uls EDITORIAL NOTES-On the abolition of 0957 1850 pu Roman Catholics, 6; the debate on, |