Fifty years ago . dy the nations were slowly beginningto know each other: Privilege, Patronage, and thePower of Rank were beginning already to tremble, andwere afraid: already the working man was heard de-manding his vote : the nineteenth century had who have lived in it; we who are full of its ideas ;we who are all swept along upon the full stream of it—?we know not, we cannot see, whither it is carrying us. W. B. United University Club : January 31, 1888. 1 CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies ... 1 II. The Year 1837 .18 III. London in 1837 30 IV. In th
Fifty years ago . dy the nations were slowly beginningto know each other: Privilege, Patronage, and thePower of Rank were beginning already to tremble, andwere afraid: already the working man was heard de-manding his vote : the nineteenth century had who have lived in it; we who are full of its ideas ;we who are all swept along upon the full stream of it—?we know not, we cannot see, whither it is carrying us. W. B. United University Club : January 31, 1888. 1 CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies ... 1 II. The Year 1837 .18 III. London in 1837 30 IV. In the Street 45 V. With the People 67 VI. With the Middle-Class 85 VII. In Society 110 VIII. At the Play and the Snow 125 IX. In the House 187 X. At School and University 154 XI. The Tavern 160 XII. In Club- and Card-land 175 XIII. With the Wits . 183 XIV. Journals and Journalists 209 XV. The Sportsman 214 XVI. In Factory and Mine 224 XVII. With the Men of Science 233 XVIII. Law and Justice 237 XIX. Conclusion 258. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATES. The Princess Victoria in 1830. From the Picture byBichard Westall, , at Windsor Castle . Windsor Castle Queen Victoria in 1839. Frotn a Dratoing hy B. , Thomas Carlyle. From the Fraser Gallery The Queens First Council—Kensington Palace, June20,1887. From the Picture by Sir David WilJcie, ,at Windsor Castle ........ A Show of Twelfth Cakes. From Cruikshank^s ComicAhnanack ......... Greenwich Park. From Cruikshanks Comic Ahnanack The Chimney-Sweeps Annual Holiday. Frotn Cruik-shanks Comic Almanack . . , . Beating the Bounds. From Cruikshanks ComicAlmanack ......... Bartholomew Fair. From Cruikshanks Conic Almanack Vauxhall Gardens. From Cruikshanks Comic Almanack In Fleet Street—Proclaiming the Queen. From Cruik-shanks? Co)nic Almanack Leigh Hunt. From the Fraser Gallery . . John Galt. From the Fraser Gallery The Queen receiving the Sacrament after her Corona-tion—Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1838. From the
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