tland Vase--Sad End
of William Austin--Sale of Van Amburgh's
Stud--Hungerford Suspension Bridge--Accident at
Yarmouth--An Excise Case--Beginning of the Railway
Mania--Sailing of Sir John Franklin
CHAPTER XXV.
The Queen's Costume Ball--Copper Coinage of 267
William IV.--New Oxford Street opened--Sale of
Napoleon Relics--Story of Nelson's Coat--Visit of
the King of the Netherlands--Railway
Speculation--Hire of Newspapers--Reverse of
Fortune--Prince Albert and his Taxes--Waghorn's
Overland Route
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Railway Mania--Deposit of Plans 277
CHAPTER XXVII.
1846 Collapse of the Railway Mania--Sheriffs' 284
Officers--Hudson, the Railway King--First
"Ethiopian Serenaders"--The Nigger Minstrel
Craze--Commencement of Irish Famine--"The Battle
of the Gauges"--Railway Surveyors--Suicide of
Haydon, the Painter
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Last Post Office Bell-man--The "Corn Law" 296
Act--Sir Walter Scott's Monument--The Irish
Famine--The Duke of Wellington's Statue--Gun
Cotton--Introduction of Ether--Model Dwelling
Houses--Baths and Washhouses--Smithfield Cattle
Market--"The Bull Fight of Smithfield"--The first
Submarine Telegraph
CHAPTER XXIX.
1847 Medals for the Army and Navy--Grenville 307
Library--Day of Fasting--"Binding of
Satan"--Suspension of Transportation--New House of
Lords--Jenny Lind--_Bunn v. Lind_--"Jenny
Linden"--Death of O'Connell--Story of the Duke of
Buccleugh--Abolition of Eton "Montem"

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Susannah and the Elders (_Frontispiece_)
Suggested Monument to the Marquis of Waterford 7
Spring-heeled Jack 31
Death of Sir William Courtenay (_Thom_) 48
"Child's Play" 94
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