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  2. QUEEN VICTORIA

    Measured by the lapse of years the reign of Queen Victoria has occupied a greater space in English history than that of any other sovereign who has sat ...

    Article : 216 words
  3. THE CORN LAWS.

    In another article reference is made to the miseries wrought upon poor people by the passing, of the corn laws in 1815. An Anti-Corn Law League was formed ...

    Article : 227 words
  4. BRITISH POLITICS

    The constitution of England at the beginnign of the century was very different to what it is now. A large majority of the members of the House of Commons feeling, ripened; monster meetings were held in the more populous centres, agitation was umversal, and riots sometimes occurried. ...

    Article : 375 words
  5. THE BRITISH ARMY

    The beginning of the new century found the English Army in a state of organisation, or rather want of organisation, entirely different from that which ...

    Article : 364 words
  6. DISARMAMENT.

    A question of national importance which occuped the attention of the House of Commons in the early part of last year was the holding of the Peace ...

    Article : 193 words
  7. WARS OF THE CENTURY

    In the first [?] of the [?] centuray Britain defeated the allied fleets at [?] The Peace of Amiens put ...

    Article : 317 words
  8. THE BRITISH NAVY

    Bearing in mind the extent of the British Empire and its vast interests [?] and co[?] in [?] part of the world, the necessrly for the ...

    Article : 274 words
  9. SANITATION.

    About this time attention was being drawn to the lamentable sanitation in Great Britain. It was considered that throught bad sanitation England lost ...

    Article : 83 words
  10. POPULAR RESPONSIBILITY.

    The reign of Victoria is without doubt a record one, possessing unique features, but it is as a constitutional monarch that the present Queen appears in the most ...

    Article : 246 words
  11. REFORM AND PROGRESS.

    Space does not permit of a special reference to several otehr important political reformas which saw the light of day in the nineteenth century, but enough ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. RELIGION.

    Religious distinctions were more pronounced in those days than now, and restitctions were imposed upon certain sects. Dissenting ministers were not ...

    Article : 189 words
  13. REORGANISATION.

    The reorganisation of the Armby was begun in 1871 by Mr (afterwards Lord) Cardwell, and to him is due the introduction of several drastic reforms, ...

    Article : 206 words
  14. THE GREAT REFORM BILL.

    However, the demand for the franchise was too strong, to allow of its continued denial, and slowly but surely those who withheld it were forced by stress of ...

    Article : 334 words
  15. BRITIAIN TOOK COMMAND OF THE SEAS.

    The Navy at the beginning of the century was nothing like it. is now. The first British ships of war were brought into existence in the time of Alired the ...

    Article : 503 words
  16. LITERATURE AND ART

    The spread of literature during the century has been very marked, for which various causes are responsible. In the first place, the expansion of learning ...

    Article : 373 words
  17. THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION.

    The British Constitution had been firmly based before the Queen ascended the throne, previous generations having worked out the principle of complete ...

    Article : 170 words
  18. THE FRANCHISE.

    The principal retorms which followed the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832 have been briefly thouched upon, and now welcome to a later period. when an ...

    Article : 363 words
  19. AMERICAN WARS.

    The years 1812 to 1815 saw the Americans and British at war about the right of searl, which the latter insisted upon, claming the right to search American ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. WARS AND THE NATIONAL DEBT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 302 words
  21. STRENGTH AND COST.

    The trngth of the Regular Army first class army reserve, militia, and volunteers rose fromm 577,740 in 1886 to 645,306 in 1893, fell to 640,625 on J[?] ...

    Article : 274 words
  22. THE QUEEN AND HER PARLIAMENTS.

    During her reign there has been practically no friction between the Queen and Parliment though, as before stated, the reigin has been marked by many and ...

    Article : 150 words
  23. LATER WARS.

    The closing year of the century witnessed a revolt in China. which will live long in history as a struggle between Eastern ...

    Article : 260 words
  24. THE NEW ERA IN BRITISH POLITICS.

    A new era in British politices had now set in, the people were self-governing, the different classes were placed upon a more equal footing, and more equitable ...

    Article : 83 words
  25. A NEW ERA.

    An entirely new ear of literature had set in, and the writers had to fact the difficulty of following in the footsteps of men whose names will never fade from ...

    Article : 387 words
  26. SLAVERY.

    At the time of which we write there were some 600,000 slaves in the British West Indies, though the importation of slaves from Africa into British ...

    Article : 94 words
  27. THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE.

    Instances are on record in the political history of Britain where the Queen has acted with great firmness and determinstion, and influenced the Government of ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. MOBILISATION.

    The mobilisation of the forces for service in South Africa in October. 1899, may be said to be the first attempt at real mobilisation in England, and it was ...

    Article : 371 words
  29. SIZE, SPEED AND ARMAMENT OF THE WARSHIPS.

    In 1808 the largest vessel had a [?] of 2616 tons, some of the battleships and arr[?] building last year were over [?] ...

    Article : 343 words
  30. IRELAND.

    The year 1869 saw the late Mr Gladstone, then Prime Minister, understaking the task of delivering Ireland from some of the disabities under which she had ...

    Article : 580 words
  31. WAR AND NATIONAL PROGRESS.

    The wars through which England has passed during the century were full of indidents too numerous to detail here. S[?] to say her martial strife was ...

    Article : 158 words
  32. WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

    Reference has previoulsy been made to the employment of women and children in factories, which had become such an [?]vil that the House of Commons deemed ...

    Article : 175 words
  33. A CONSTITUTIONAL EMPIRE.

    No revolutions have threatened the throne of Britain during the Queen's long reign, but there has been an advance of republican ideas in many quarters, and, ...

    Article : 96 words
  34. AN AUSTRALIAN ANTHEM

    Maker of earth and sea. What shall we reader The" All things ar T[?] Ours but from day to day. ...

    Article : 171 words
  35. EUROPEAN WARS.

    Of the other was [?] have [?] than those already [?] which [?] I [?] the central figure was perhaps, the ...

    Article : 946 words
  36. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

    Apart from her constitutional capacity Queen Victoria possesses another inestimable quality—one which has in no small measure served to endera her to ...

    Article : 283 words
  37. EDUCATION.

    The reformed Parliament soon directed its attention to the educat on of the masses and granted a sum of money to be expended on their education. It was ...

    Article : 159 words
  38. THE MANNIGN OF THE NAVY.

    The [?] ...

    Article : 382 words
  39. THE SERVICE.

    It has been remarked that the greatest distinction between the Armby of Britain and that of almost any other European nation is that the [?] is [?] ...

    Article : 281 words
  40. ART.

    In dealing with art, a simllar brevity will be employed. The terms has now a much wlder significance than it had at the beginning, of the century, or even ...

    Article : 276 words
  41. A FEDERAL ANTHEM

    T[?] not in [?] we turst, For all its sto[?] fame. Nor yet [?] arm of kindred dust, Our [?] ...

    Article : 210 words
  42. MUNICIPAL LAWS.

    The year 1835 witnessed the introduction of a more just system of electing municipal representatives, and the following year a change was made in the ...

    Article : 137 words
  43. FEDERATION SONNET

    From all divisions let our land be free. For God hath made her one; complete she lies Within the unbroken circle of the skies. ...

    Article : 92 words
  44. SCOTLAND.

    Scotland does not appear to have been disturbed by any burning political question of national importance but she shared during the century the benefits ...

    Article : 126 words
  45. OTHER REFORMS.

    The penny post was introduced in 1839, and in 1843 a law was passed which prohibited the employment of women in mines, and children of tender years. ...

    Article : 41 words
  46. THE ARMY OF THK EMPIRE

    The Army of a vast Empire like ours must necessarily be a gigantic orga[?] [?]the control of which requieres the exercise of great admistrative [?] ...

    Article : 133 words
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