Fifty years ago . P TWO(From the Picture by Sir W. Beechey .it Windsor Castle) 18 FIFTY YEARS AGO 1 ^4 ( 1 JHAPTEE II. TI IE YEAE 1837. The year 1837, except for the ^^^^^C^^^^^^^^^B death of the old Kmg and the accession of the young Queen, ^^^wir^S was a tolerably insignificant ^^C3?^B year. It was on June 20 that =^=^^^^^^^^Mi ~^^5 the King died. He was buriedon the evening of July 9 at St. =^^^^^g^y ^^ Georges Chapel, Windsor; on iBBhsMi^^^^ ^^ the 10th the Queen dissolved ^^^H^^^^^ ^ Parhament; on the loth she —^^^^^^^^^^H^R * went to Buckingham Palace; and on JSTovember 9 she visited ^^^
Fifty years ago . P TWO(From the Picture by Sir W. Beechey .it Windsor Castle) 18 FIFTY YEARS AGO 1 ^4 ( 1 JHAPTEE II. TI IE YEAE 1837. The year 1837, except for the ^^^^^C^^^^^^^^^B death of the old Kmg and the accession of the young Queen, ^^^wir^S was a tolerably insignificant ^^C3?^B year. It was on June 20 that =^=^^^^^^^^Mi ~^^5 the King died. He was buriedon the evening of July 9 at St. =^^^^^g^y ^^ Georges Chapel, Windsor; on iBBhsMi^^^^ ^^ the 10th the Queen dissolved ^^^H^^^^^ ^ Parhament; on the loth she —^^^^^^^^^^H^R * went to Buckingham Palace; and on JSTovember 9 she visited ^^^^^^^Kn sT^^^^^^^^J the City, where they gave her a ^a^^^^y^ f^^^^^^^J magnificent banquet, served inGuildhall at half-past five, the HSBa^^^CP /^ftS^^^^^^^^ Lord Mayor and City magnates ^M^^^g-^ •:. - humbly taking their modest ^ . r-= meal at a lower table. Both WILLIAM IV.(From a Drawing by H B.) the hour appointed for thebanquet and the humility of the Lord Mayor an d Aldermen point to a remote THE YEAR 1837 19 The year began with the influenza. Everybodyhad it. The offices of the various departments of theCivil Service were deserted because all the clerks hadinfluenza. Business of all kinds was stopped becausemerchants, clerks, bankers, and brokers all had influ-enza ; at Woolwich fifty men of the Eoyal Artilleryand Engineers were taken into hospital daily, withinfluenza. The epidemic seems to have broken outsuddenly, and suddenly to have departed. Anotherimportant event of the year was the establishment ofsteam communication with India by way of the RedSea. The Atalanta left Bombay on October 2, andarrived at Suez on October 16. The mails were broughtinto Alexandria on the 20th, and despatched, such wasthe celerity of the authorities, on November 7 by Volcano. They reached Malta on the 11th, Gibraltaron the 16th, and England on December 4, taking sixtydays in all, of which, however, eighteen days werewasted in Alexandria, so that the possible time
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