Torpedo Practice HMS Thunderer PORTLAND Sailors NEWMARKET WINNER Xhosa Wars South AFrica Coaling on Board SEA OF MARMARA Gallipoli HMS Rupert ROYAL INSTITUTION LECTURES
The Illustrated London News
DATED 1878
' HMS Thunderer off Portland - Sailors on Torpedo Practice, Hoisting a Whitehead "Fish" Torpedo On Board After an Experimental Run ' full page print from engraving from a drawing or painting by W. H. Overend
' The Chief Secretary for Ireland - The Right Hon. James Lowther MP '
' Ambassador at Paris, Plenipotentiary for the Congress Treaty of San Stefano - Lord Lyons ' info Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons
' A Winner at Newmarket - Pilgrimage Owned by Lord Lonsdale ' print from engraving of a race horse from a painting by John Sturgess
' The British Fleet in the Sea of Marmora - Coaling on Board HMS Rupert off Gallipoli ' full page print from engraving by Mr Bell "Our Special Artist
' The Turkish Lines at Bolayir North of the Town of Gallipoli Along The Dardanelles Strait ' a double half page panormic engraviung - shows an extended view from the Sea of Marmara, with upper entrance to Dardanelles to the Aegean, with troops lined up, fortifications, Turkish officers on horseback, telegraph lines - looking south over the straits - a wonderful engraving
' Berlin Street Scene - An Appeal to the Police ' a quarrelsome scene between two women in a back lane, a crowd assembled and a policeman taking charge, neighbours watch from windows, a woman with a child on her back and holding on to the hand of another
' The Screw yacht Siren, for the Corporation of the Trinity House ' half page engraving showing the Trinity House Screw Yacht "Siren" de3signed and constructed by Messrs Palmer and Co. of Jarrow
' Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid MP '
The Xhosa War in South Africa:
' Waterkloof - Kaffir Chief MAcomo and His Men Running From Soldiers of the 90th, and Fingoes ' half page engraving from a drawing by "Our Special Artist Mister Melton Prior"..'
' The Fingo Camp at Fort Fordyce ' half page engraving showing the amafengu or fengu tribe (Fingo) who act as guides etc for the British - the engraving also shows the tree under which Colonel Fordyce was killed in 1853
'A Corps of Fengu Men Mustered Before Going into the Bush ' full apge engraving
' Blinkwater hill - Men Marching at the Military Post '
' Kaffir Ladies Shopping in Town '
' Birds of Paradise in Full Plumage at the Zoological Society's Gardens ' an engraving from a drawing by R. H. Moore
' Chess Problem '
The Illustrated London News Editorial
Births Marriages nd Deaths
Calendar for the Week
The Court - Royal Comings and Goings includes:
Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace etc. with mention of Princess Beatrice - Princess Louise of Lorne - Colonel J. C. M'Neill - Mdlle Janotha - Herr Hausmann - Viscount Dalrymple
The Prince and Princess of Wales (Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra) at Neuilly etc with mention of Miss Leigh - Madame Waddington - Duke d'Alencon
Betrothel of the Duke of Connaught to Princess Louisa Margaretha
Fashionable Marriages: Hon. Frederick George L. Wood and Lady Mary Susan F. Lindsay- - The Earl of Lisburne of Crosswood Park to the Eldest Daughter of Mister Probyn of Huntley Manor - - Hon. Albany Erskine and Miss Alice Keyser - - Earl of Lonsdale and Lady Gladys Herbert
The Eastern Question - with mention of the Russian Emperor Alexander - Count Schouvaloff - Constantinople - the Mussulman Insurrection (Muslim) in the Rhodope Mountains - General Sir Collingwood Dickson - Baker Pasha - etc
' Foreign and Colonial News includes:
France - with mention of M. Waddington -Attempt on Emperor Williams Life - M. Teisserenc de Bor - the Paris Exhibition - - T. Reive - M. Amigues for Cambrai - Chamber of Deputies - M. Albert Grevy - Colonel Denfert Rochereau - Marshal MacMahon - Captain Hugh M' Callum
Italy
Holland - with mention of M. Stiettjes
Germany - with mention of Emperor William and the Attempt on his Life Half way between the Brandenburger Thor and the Royal Palace - Heinrich Max Hodel aka Lehmann of Leipsic - Herr Forckenbeck - Betrothal of Princess Louisa Margaritha to the Duke of Connaught - Betrothel of Princess Mary to Prince Henry of the Netherlands - Count Schouvaloff
Belgium - with mention of M. Frere-Orban - M. Bara
Austro-Hungary - with mention of Herr Beer - The Hungarian Diet - Herr Tisza - The Austrian Reichsrath
America - with mention of Mr Potter the Democratic Member for New York - Mr Edward noyes - Mr John Sherman - Professor Henry
Canada - with mention the Earl of Dufferin -
Australia - Sir ARthur Blyth KCMG
The Church - Preferments and Appointments
Universities and Public Schools
Wills and Bequests include:
Mr Edward Bolton King lae of Chadshunt, Warwickshire
Mr John Ravenhill formerly of Ashton Gifford, late of 2 Waterloo Place, Weymouth
Mr Thomas Crawter late of Cheshunt, Herts
Mr John Roberts, late of Ty-issa, Llanbadarnfawr
Mr Joseph Bonomi, late of The Camels, Wimbledon Park
Our Fleet in the Sea of Marmora - with mention of Rear Admiral Sir J. E. Commerell - Gallipoli - Dardanelles - Admiral Hornby - Boulair - The Dutch Gun Vessel Princess Maria
The Lake of Bolsena
Parliament
National Sports
Metropolitan News
Royal Institution Lectures includes:
Development and Growth of Plants by Mr W. T. Thiselton Dyer
Colour Absorptive Media - by Lord Rayleig FRS MA
A nocturne in Black and Yellow by Mr William Spottiswoode LL.D TrRS
Effects of Stress Upon Magnetisation by Sir William Thomson LL/D FRS
Lectures on Richard Steele and Joseph Addison by Professor Henry Morley
Music - the Royal Italian Opera - with mention of: Adelina Patti - Mlle Smeroschi - Mlle Ghiotti - Mlle Cottino - M. Miel - M. Maurel - Signor De Bassini - Signor Capponi
Birds of Paradise - with mention of the Colelction ot the Zoological Society - M. Bryn - M. Leon Laglaize of Paris
The Kaffir War
Obituary of Eminent Persons includes:
' Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid JP DL MP for Reading, Baron de GToldsmid and de Palmeira in Portugal, Was killed by an accident while alighting from a train at the Waterloo Station
Sir James Coxe MD FRCP etc of Kinnellan, Midlothian, a Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland, Died at Folkestone
Frederick Goulburn Esq Chairman HM Board of Customs died at 57 Ennismore Gdns - short.
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