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INDEX
Russian
fleets,
Napoleon's
intentions in
regard
to,
59
Russians,
migration
to
Canada,
276
ryots
j
peasant
proprietors,
4.3.
Saad
Zaghlul,
352
Sahara,
crossing
the,
205;
209
Said
Pasha,
methods
of,
232
St.
Helena,
Napoleon
exiled
to,
66
St. Peter's
^Fields,
Manchester,
demon-
stration
in,
80
Salem,
Massachusetts,
seamen
from,
69
Salisbury,
Lord,
quoted,
224;
Prime
Minister,
229
;
and
the Reform Bill
of
1884, 241;
character
of,
241-242;
be-
comes
Prime
Minister, 243-244;
quoted,
244;
again
Prime
Minister, 246;
third
Ministry
of,
247;
and
imperialism,
255;
statement
of at
the first
Colonial
Con-
ference,
257,
258;
quoted, 258;
and
the
race
for
empire, 259;
works
to
avoid
war,
260;
Olney's
note
to, 276;
calm
statesmanship
of,
277;
resignation
of,
323-324
Salvation
Army,
founded
by
William
Booth,
250
Samoa,
New
Zealand's
claim
to,
281;
New Zealand
gets,
338
San
Stefano, Treaty
of,
224
Sand River
Convention of
1852,
140
Saraswati,
Indian
leader, 271
Sardinia,
Austria
declares war
on,
175
Savoy,
French
annexation
of,
175
Saxony,
large
part
of,
given
to
Prussia,
67
Scandinavian
nations
leaders
of
modern
civilization,
322;
remain
neutral,
337
Schleswig-Holstein controversy
with
Aus-
tria,
183
_
science,
Britain
lagging
behind
in, 211,
218
Scinde,
conquered, '144;
British "rule
in,
171
Scotchmen,
in
the
Indian
Civil
Service,
42,
43;
in
development
of
the Indian
Empire,
72
Scotland,
farms
in,
5;
reign
of terror
in,
25-26;
in
the
"United
Kingdom," 37;
becomes
one nation
with
England,
73;
representation
in,
103;
effects of
the
Reform
Bill
upon, 109;
Free Church
of,
established, 126;
renaissance of
re-
ligious
feeling
in,
126
Scott,
Walter,
poems
of,
73;
Waver-
ley by,
73;
9*
1*9;
death
of,
125
Scottish
Labor
Party,
established,
251;
representatives
of
at
Bradford,
252
Scutari,
site of first
modern
hospital
built
by
Florence
Nightingale, 163
seal
fisheries,
in
Bering
Sea,
274-275
Sebastapol,
siege
and fall
of,
163,
164
secession, right of,
178
Seddon,
Richard,
Prime Minister
of
New
Zealand,
277;
at the
Imperial
Confer-
ence,
284
386
sedition,
trials
for,
26
Seeley, Expansion
of
England,
by,
253
Seigneurs,
of
France,
22,
23
self-government
(see
also
government),
not the
same
as
responsible
govern-
ment,
49; people
demanding larger
share
of,
102
;
new
imperial
theory,
129
;
in
Canada,
133;
in
Australia,
135, 136;
in
New
Zealand,
138;
in
India,
269,
272,
351
;
of
the
colonies,
284,
298
Sepoy
troops, mutiny
by, 94,
170
Serbia,
defender
of
the
Jugo-Slavs,
224;
threatened
by
Austria, 320;
and
Bal-
kan
War,
321
;
at
war,
332
Seringapatam,
victory
of,
43
f.
servant
problem, beginning
to
be
trouble-
some,
156
f.,
186
"Settlement,"
Toynbee
establishes
first,
25
huja,
ruler of
Afghan,
takes
refuge
in British
India,
143
Shaw,
Bernard,
dramatist,
307
sheep ranching,
in
New
Zealand,
278-279
Sheffield,
city
of,
had
no
representation,
Sheffield, Lord,
doctrine
of,
39.
Shelburne,
Whig,
Prime
Minister,
19
Shelley,
the
poet,
fiery
verses
of,
91;
death
of,
119
Sheridan,
arouses
feeling
against
Has-
tings,
41
Sherwood,
Miss,
murdered at
Amritsar,
350
shower
bath,
installation
of
a,
refused
in
Mansion
House
in
1812,
156
Siam,
in
the World
War,
337
Sicily, part
of the
Kingdom
of
Italy
in
1861,
175
"sick
man
of
Europe,"
Turkey,
162,
164
Sikhs,
submission
of,
144,
172
Simpson,
Mrs. Wallis
Warfield,
Edward
VIII
falls in
love
with,
355
Sind,
former
route
of
opium
through, 95
Sinking
Fund
for the
public debt,
221
Sinn Fein
movement,
rise
of,
247,
328,
344
Sino-Japanese
conflict,
cause
of,
146
Sirius,
warship,
to start
colony
in Aus-
tralia,
47
Six
Acts,
passed
by
Parliament,
80
slave
trade,
abolition in
England,
14,
21,
72;
abolition
in
West
Indies,
ill;
in
the
South of
the
United
States,
in;
outlawed
in
African
Colony
in
1834,
139; economically
profitable
to
South,
178;
Lincoln's
attitude
toward,
X79,
180;
abolished
in
the
Gold
Coast, 222,
263;
Mahdist
natives
resume,
294
Slidell and
Mason,
agents
of
the
Con-
federate
States,
179,
181
Smith, Adam,
Wealth
of
Nations,
by,
5,
23;
Pitt
tries
to
put
into
effect
the
doctrine
of,
21
;
doctrine
of,
39;
laissez-
faire
doctrine
of,
75
INDEX
Smith,
Donald
A.
(Lord
Strathcona),
member
of
Canadian
Pacific
Company,
273
Smuts,
Boer
leader,
296,
347
Snowden,
Philip,
in
the
Labor
Party,
252
Social
and
Industrial
History
of
England,
by J.
F.
Rees,
249
n.
social
conditions,
155-158
social
insurance,
forms
of,
343
social
life,
English, 88,
89, 90,
91,
92,
93,
157
social
problems,
writers'
interest
in,
89
social
scene,
the,
11-14
social
structure of
England,
change
in,
305
Socialism,
rise
of
modern,
76;
-working
out
of
ideas
of
British,
79;
writings
ex-
plaining
socialism,
90;
much
discussed,
123; English,
denned,
248;
spread of,
340
Society
for
the
^
Abolition of
the
Slave
Trade,
formation
of,
14
"Society
for
Constitutional
Informa-
tion,"
revived,
26
Society
for the
Diffusion of
Useful
Knowledge,
186
Society
of
United
Irishmen,
formed
by
Wolfe
Tone,
36
Solferino,
French
victory
of,
175
Somaliland,
Italy
and,
261
South
Africa
(see
also
Cape
Colony,
Transvaal,
the),
English
immigration
to,
93;
race
problem
in,
138;
shifting
policy
in,
138-141
;
missionary
influence
in,
139; slavery
in,
139;
British
in, 168;
difficulties
in,
198-202; discovery
of
diamonds
in,
174;
British the
only
power
to maintain
order
in,
200;
prob-
lem
of
the
Transvaal,
230;
in
World
War,
297,
298,
346;
labor
problem
in,
300;
concentration-camp
system, 310;
becomes
a
Dominion,
311;
Indian
proHem
in,
314;
problem
of
Negroes
m,
?UJ
comes
to
help
of
Britain,
333;
receives
German
Southwest
Africa,
338;
rebellion
of
Dutch
in,
347;
Na-
tionalist
Party
in
power
in,
348
South
African
Company,
use
of,
259;
Rhodes
and
the, 289
.South
African
Republic,
the
Transvaal
to
become
the,
231
South
America,
Guiana
in,
67; Spanish
colonies
m,
British
fleet
to^defend,
85;
Spanish
colonies
in,
United
States
recognizes independence
of,
86;
Brit-
ish
fleet
protects,
87;
slavery
in,
300;
in the
war,
337
South
Australia,
I35
168;
Labor
Party
in,
282
Southern
India,
British
rule
in,
171
Southwest
Africa,
Germany
has,
208,
209;
extension
of
Germany's,
261;
German,
South
Africa
receives,
338
Soviet
Russia,
ally
of
Germany, 354
Spain,
at war
with
France, 28;
ally
of
France,
30;
American
^colonies
and,
39;
Napoleon
takes
Louisiana
from,
52;
forced
to enter
war,
1804,
55;
under
Joseph,
Napoleon's
brother,
61
;
Penin-
sular
Campaign
in,
64;
revolts
in,
84;
under
Ferdinand
VII,
85;
civil
war
in,
122;
wool
from,
135
f.;
Philippines
and
Puerto
Rico
bought
from,
291;
con-
centration-camp
system
of,
310
Spanish
colonies of South
America,
Brit-
ish
trade
with,
63;
British fleet
to
de-
fend,
85;
United
States
recognizes
in-
dependence
of,
86
Spanish
Fleet,
attacked
by
British,
30
Spanish-
American
War,
friendly
attitude
of
England
in,
264, 291
Speke,
explorer
in
Africa,
205
Spence, Thomas, workman,
17;
doctrines
of,
78,
90
Spencean
Society, formed,
78-79
Spencer,
Herbert,
effect on
old
beliefs,
161
Spencer, Lord,
&ead
of
the
Admiralty,
30
spies,
employed, 78;
end
of
system
of
government, 83
spinning-jenny
invention
of,
r
7
Spithead, navy
review
at,
257
"spoils system,"
at its
height
hi
England,
104-105;
abolition
of,
114
stage coaches,
period
of,
92;
passing,
113
stamp,
invention
of
the
postage,
113
Stanley,
Henry
M.,
correspondent
and
explorer,
205,
222
States-General,
of
France,
22
Statute of
Laborers,
the
famous,
9
Statute
of
Westminster,
passed
by
Brit-
ish
Parliament,
1931,
348
steam
engine,
Watt
s,
7
steam
vessels,
improvement
in,
213
steamboats,
in
use,
92
steel,
invention of Bessemer's
process
for
making,
1
86
Stephen,
George
(later
Lord Mount
Stephen),
member
of
Canadian
Pacific
Railway Company,
273
Stephenson,
locomotive
of,
113
Stevenson,
Robert
Louis, novelist,
228,
307
stock
company,
limited
liability,
212
Stresemann
opinion, regarding
League,
353
strikes,
number
of,
84,
250;
frowned
upon
in New
Zealand,
277;
in
Australia,
282;
railway,
322;
dockers
7
,
of
1912,
323;
the
general,
323;
general,
proved
can-
not
succeed,
342;
miners,
342
Sturt,
quoted,
96
submarine
warfare,
unrestricted,
335
Sudan,
British to
abandon
the,
236;
left
to
the
Mahdi,
237;
reconquered,
294;
387
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England keeps
the,
352;
Ismail
Pasha's
ideas
in
regard
to
the,
232
f.
Sudeten
Germans,
in
Czecho-Slovakia,
354
Suez
Canal,
opening
of
the,
1869,
205;
shares of
purchased
by
Disraeli,
222;
building
of
authorized
by
Said
Pasha,
232;
had to
be
defended,
235;
menaced
by
Turkey,
334; England
keeps,
352
suffering,
in
eighteenth
century,
13
suffragettes,
militant,
323
sugar
islands,
West
Indian,
195
Sultan of
Turkey,
162,
352
Sultan
of
Zanzibar,
208
Summer
Palace
of
the Chinese
Emperor,
165
Sunday,
Prince
of Wales
(later
Edward
VII),
causes
change
in observance
of,
226
Sunday
schools,
beginning
of,
16
Sutherland,
representation
from,
103
suttee,
revolting
custom
of,
95
Swami
Vivekananda,
Indian
leader, 271
Sweden,
in
League
of
Armed
Neutrality,
33;
Finland
to
be
taken
from,
58;
forced
into
war,
59;
decrees not en-
forced
by,
64
Swift,
the
days
of Defoe
and,
92
^
Swinburne,
a
minor
poet
of
Victorian
Age, 159,
160
Switzerland,
subjugated
by
France,
52;
remains
neutral,
337
Sydney,
Australia,
47,
282
Syndicalism,
much
discussed,
123
Taff Vale
case, the,
322
Tanganyika,
African
lake,
205
Tasmania,
134,
135,
168
Tate
Gallery,
foundation
of,
307
]
tax,
on
windows,
156
taxation,
of
private
property,
227
telegraph,
in
India,
1
69
Tel-el-Kebir,
forces of
Arabi
routed
at,
235
Telford,
road-making
and,
92
Tennyson,
poetry;
of,
125,
161;
publishes
his
In
Memoriam,
153;
character
of
the
poetry
of,
159;
Charge
of
the
LigU
Brigade, by,
164
Test
Acts,
25,
87,
8j,
218
Tewfik,
placed
on
Egyptian
throne,
233
Thackeray,
Vanity Fair,
by,
155;
novels
as best
sellers,
228
thagi,
suppressed,
95
Thebaw,
King,
forced
to
resign
throne,
267
Thompson,
William,
socialistic ideas
of,
79
thr
send
"three
acres
and a
cow,"
248
Tibet,
Russia
and
Curzon both
missions
to,
301-302
Tientsin,
Chinese
open port
to
trade,
165
Tilak,
Indian,
founds
the
paper
Kesari,
271
388
Tillett,
Ben,
dock
laborers
organized
by,
250;
quoted,
323
Tilsit,
treaty
of,
58,
59
Tipu, power
of,
43;
killed,
44
Tit-Bits,
started
by
George
Newnes,
226
Togoland,
Germany
has,
209
Tone, Wolfe,
Society
of United Irish-
men
formed
by,
36
Tonga
Islands,
New Zealand's
claim
to,
281
Tooke,
Home, "Society
for
Constitu-
tional Information"
revived
by,
26
tools,
machine,
makers
of,
7
Tories,
19, 53,
63,
81, 102,
149;
United
Empire
Loyalists,
48;
still
in
control
of
Parliament,
83;
disintegrating, 87;
"dull
dogs,"
88;
object
^
to Catholic
Emancipation,
101;
seats
in
the
House
owned
by, 103; change
their name
to
Conservatives,
no
Torres
Strait,
separates
New Guinea
from
Australia,
279
Toulon,
French
navy
at,
55
towns,
representation
of,
103
Toynbee,
Arnold,
quoted, 5;
establishes
first
"settlement,"
250
Tractarian
movement,
inaugurated,
126
trade,
British
(see
also
free
trade),
2,
3,
209,
210; free,
36.
39, 84, 258,
324;
with
New
Zealand,
48;
stoppage
of,
62;
in
the
tropics,
63;
and neutral
trade,
68;
restrictions,
69;
Act
of
1813, 72;
with
China,
145;
colonies' interests
and,
194;
as
problem,
195;
table,
210;
in-
creases
^m
nineteenth
century,
213;
depression,
249;
German trade
and,
267;
after the World
War,
341;
ham-
pered
by
countries
off
the
gold
stand-
ard,
344
Trade Union
Act,
220
Trade
Unionism,
suppressed, 27;
atro-
phied,
248-249
Trade
Unionism,
by
the
Webbs,
307
Trades Union
Congress,
186;
and
the
miners,
342
trades-unions,
become
legal,
84;
new
as-
pect
in,
1
86;
Parliament
hostile
to,
187; dissatisfied,
249;
represented
at
Bradford,
252;
in New
Zealand,
277;
strong
in
Australia,
282;
and the
miners,
342
;
position
of
put
back,
343
Trafalgar,
victory
of,
56
Trans-Jordan,
Britisn
mandate,
339
Transvaal
(see
also
Boers,
South
Africa),
declared
annexed
to
the
Crown,
140,
198-200,
201;
Boers revolt
in, 230;
in-
dependence
of,
recognized, 231;
Jame-
son's
raid^on,
287;
Rhodes
and,
289;
deadlock
in,
290;
German claims re-
leased
from,
293;
annexed
by
British,
296;
racial
proDlem
in,
300;
govern-
ment
of,
311
travel,
rapidity
of, 92
Treasure
Island,
by
K.
L.
Stevenson,
228
INDEX
Treaty
of
Amiens,
the,
terms
of,
33;
signed,
51
Treaty
of
1842,
importance
of,
146
Treaty
of
Lunville,
torn
up,
52
Treaty
of
San
Stefano,
224
Treaty
of
Tilsit,
signed,
58,
59
Treaty
of
Versailles
(see
Versailles
treaty)
Treaty
of
Waitonga,
137
Treaty ports,
Chinese
to
trade
through,
146
Trent
affair,
the,
179,
180
Trevelyan,
Professor
G.
M.,
and
school
attendance,
89;
quoted, 115;
British
History
in
the
Nineteenth
Century,
by,
296
Trevelyan,
G.
O.,
and
the
third
Reform
Bill,
240
Trinidad,
Britain
retains,
33
Triple Alliance,
Britain
and,
237;
Ger-
many,
Austria-Hungary
and
Italy
members,
265, 292;
situation
of,
266
Triple
Entente,
formed
1907,
320
Triple
Industrial
Alliance,
323
Tripoli, absorption
of,
315
Trollope,
novelist,
155,
214
Trollope,
Mrs.,
177
Trotsky
(Braunstein),
makes
peace
with
Germany,
335-336
Turin,
under
Victor
Emmanuel of Sar-
dinia,
175
Turkey,
122,
352;
Russia to
do as
she
likes
with, 58;
Greece
wins her
inde-
pendence
from,
85;
as "the
sick
man
of
Europe/'
162,
164;
goes
to
war,
163;
collapses,
224;
misrule
of,
225;
and
Germany, 313; rising
to
power,
317;
German
influence
in,
320; joins
Cen-
tral
Powers,
334; preparations
for de-
feat
of,
335;
asks for
an
armistice,
336
Turkish
Sultan,
Egypt
theoretically
sub-
ject
to,
252;
deposes
Ismail,
233;
de-
clines
to interfere
about
Egypt,
234;
refuses
to
help
Egyptian
situation,
235
Turks,
war between
Egyptians
and,
122;
treatment
of Christians
of,
162
Turner,
painter,
159,
161
Uganda,
Britain
obtains,
261
Uitlanders,
Boers called
foreigners,
289
Uteter,
Protestant,
at
the
mercy
of
an
Irish
Parliament, 243;
and
the
Home
Rule
Bill,
328;
still
the
question
as
to,
345;
aim
of
annexation
of,
346
"unemployed,"
use
of
the
word,
212
unemployment,
problem
of,
543
Unionism
(see
also
labor
unions,
trade
unions),
new
and
old,
249,
250
Unionists,
decrease
in,
324
unions,
become
legal,
84;
Trade
Union
Act
helps,
220; revolutionary
tenden-
cies
of,
323
United
Empire
Loyalists,
"Tories,"
48
United
Irishmen,
join
the
Catholics,
36
United
Kingdom,
the,
countries
included
in,
37;
trade
of, 210;
population of,
211
United
States
(see
also
America),
132,
134,
137,
138,
177, 178,
182,
190,
191;
independence
of,
acknowledged,
i;
a
weak
nation,
38;
and
England,
38,
39,
40;
Napoleon
almost
involved
in
war
with,
62;
as
England's
enemy,
68;
trade
of,
39,
68,
6p,
210,
274;
declares
war
against
Britain,
70;
development
of
West
of,
70;
invaded
from
Canada,
71;
Monroe
Doctrine
of,
86;
slavery
in
South
of,
in;
immigrants
in,
130, 151
;
W.
L.
Mackenzie
in,
131;
facing
war
with
Mexico,
134; reciprocity
treaty
between
Canada
and,
166;
Civil
War
in,
174;
government
in,
178;
a democratic
experiment,
179;
manufactured
goods
in,
185;
system
of
government of,
193;
abrogation
of
Reciprocity
Treaty,
194;
education
in,
211;
population
of,
211;
wheat
lands
of,
213;
science
in, 211,
218;
arbitration with
England
con-
cerning
Civil
War
damages,
220;
and
insurance
against
sickness,
accidents,
and old
age,
249;
imperialism of,
264;
Territories
of,
272;
annexation with
Canada
no
longer
desired
in,
275;
friendly
to
England,
291;
triple
alli-
ance
proposed
with,
293;
constitution
of,
298;
and the
concentration-camp
system,
310;
policy
of the
"Open
Door," of,
318;
treaty
of
arbitration
between Britain
and,
1911, 321;
comes
into the
World
War,
334,
335
;
declines
to
join
League
of
Nations,
338;
Eng-
lish debt
to,
340; immigration
closed
by,
343;
unemployment
in,
343;
goes
on
the
gold
standard, 344;
compared
with the
Dominions,
349;
visited
by
George
VI
and
Queen
Elizabeth,
356
United
States,
American
ship,
70
universities,
take modern
form,
218
University
College,
in
London,
estab-
lished,
112
Upper
Burma,
annexed
to the
Empire,
242
Upper
Canada, formed,
49; immigrants
in, 130,
131
;
union of Lower
and, 133
urbanization,
of
England, 214
Vaal,
diamonds
found
in
valley
of,
199
Valera,
Eamon
de,
and
second
civil
war
in
Ireland,
344-345
Vancouver,
goes
to
Canada,
134
Vanity
Fair, by Thackeray,
155
Venetian
territory,
Austria
receives
ces-
sions
of,
67
Venezuela,
boundary
dispute
of,
276
Venice,
ruled
by
Victor
Emmanuel,
175
ventilation,
very poor
in Victorian
times,
156
Verdun,
Germans
fail
to
get
through
French
lines
at,
335
389
INDEX
Vereeniging,
peace
treaty
of, 296
vernacular
press,
muzzled and
freed,
269
Versailles,
mob marches
on,
23
Versailles
treaty,
compared
with
treaty
of
Vereeniging,
296;
emerges,
337;
char-
acteristics
of,
338;
and
the
League,
353
Victor
Emmanuel,
King
of
Sardinia,
175
Victoria,
daughter
of
the
Duke
of
Kent,
82;
as
Queen,
116,
118,
135, 153,
183,
200,
202;
character
of,
116-117,
IIQ
f.;
childhood
of,
119;
as
a
symbol
t
of
British
life,
120;
quoted,
120;
married
to Prince
Albert,
121;
almost
deified,
215;
commissions
in the
army
and,
219; "Empress
of
India"
added
to
other titles
of,
223;
Midlothian
cam-
paign
scandalizes,
226;
reads Marie
Corelli,
228
;
has
to
send for
Gladstone,
229;
speech
of,
238;
and
the
Reform
Bill of
1884,
241
;
first
jubilee
of,
256
f.;
imperialism
of
compared
with
imperial-
ism
of
Elizabeth,
259;
celebrates
her
Diamond
Jubilee
in
1897,
283;
Trans-
vaal
British
appeal
to,
290;
birthday
of, 293; signs
Act
for
the Common-
wealth
of
Australia,
298;
change
after
death
of,
302-303;
last
years
of,
304-
308;
consulted
in
the
government, 308;
had not
opened
Parliament
in
person
for
nearly twenty
years,
309
Victoria,
African
lake,
205
Victoria
and
Albert
Museum,
307
Victoria
Colony,
settled,
96,
168
Victorian
Age,
the
125
f.,
147
f.,
304;
early,
147-17
Victory,
Nelson's
ship, 56
Vide,
Joseph
W.
Roe,
English
and
Amer-
ican
Tool
Makers,
by,
7
Vienna,
conference
in,
65,
66;
failure
of
great
bank
in,
343
Villeneuve,
French
admiral,
gets
his
ships
out of
Toulon,
55
;
defeated
by
Nelson,
56
Vindication
of
the
Rights
of
Man,
by
Mary
Wbllstonecraft,
24
von
Tirpitz,
Admiral,
becomes
Minister
of
Marine,
292;
increases German
navy,
293;
efforts
of,
to
surpass
British
navy, 325; policy
of
brings
United
States into the
war,
335
vote, the,
few
of
English
and
scarcely
any
of
Scots
have,
16;
London and
West-
minster, 18;
obtaining
of,
104;
of
the
working
class,
108,
187,
188,
189;
giv-
ing
of,
240;
establishing
of
secret,
219
wage,
theory
of
a
state-regulated,
9
Wakefield,
Edward
Gibbon,
new
ideas
of,
128;
and
rebellion
in
the
colonies,
132;
theory
of
assisted
emigration
of,
135;
colonists,
in
New
Zealand,
137
Wakefield
system
in
Australia, 167
Wales,
population
of,
2;
condition of the
390
poor
in,
9;
in" the
United
Kingdom,
37;
labor trouble
in,
124
Wallace
Collection,
the
foundation
of,
307
Walpole,
Horace,
quoted,
2
war,
psychology
of,
61;
and
the
yellow
War,
Napoleonic
(see Napoleonic
War)
War,
World
(see
World
War)
"War
Hawks,"
of the
American
West,
69
War
of
1812,
results
of, 71
Warsaw,
Grand
Duchy
of,
59
Washington,
George,
sends
Jfay
to
Lon-
don,
40;
issues
proclamation
of
neu-
trality,
68;
George
VI
places
wreath
on
tomb
of,
356
Washington,
the
city
of,
British
burn,
70;
and
the
Caroline
affair, 132;
and
the
Trent
affair,
180;
disarmament
con-
ferences
at,
353
Wasp,
the
fight
of,
70
water,
scarcity
of in
Victorian
times,
157
water
closets,
in Victorian
days,
156
water-frame,
invention
of,
7
Waterloo,
Napoleon's
defeat
at,
65;
Scot-
tish
troops
at,
73
Watt,
James,
inventor,
7
Watts,
G.
F.,
artist,
228
Waverley,
by
Sir
Walter
Scott,
73
wealth,
national,
90;
shift
in,
227;
equi-
table
distribution
of,
248;
in
Canada,
272;
in New
Zealand, 277,
278
Wealth
of
Nations,
by
Adam
Smith,
5,
23
Webb,
Mr. and
Mrs.
Sidney,
aims
of,
248
"Week-end,"
the
English,
226
weekly
journal,
started
by
George
Newnes,
226
Wellesley,
Arthur
(see
Wellington,
Duke
of)
Wellesley,
Richard
(Earl
of
Momington),
Governor-General of
India,
44
Wellington,
Duke of
(Arthur
Wellesley),
quoted, 44, 95-96;
in
Spain, 64;
at
Waterloo,
65;
Spanish
veterans
of, 71;
Prime
Minister,
87,
101
;
Tory
govern-
ment
resigns,
102;
complains
of
"Spoils
system,"
105;
refrains from
voting
on
the Reform
Bill, 106;
opposes
Cana-
dian
responsible
government,
133;
Cardwell reforms
in
opposition
to
teachings
of,
234;
-Peel
Ministry,
re-
forms
by,
87
Welsh
Church,
disestablishment
of,
246
Weser
River,
Heligoland
commands
mouth
of,
261
West,
American,
"War Hawks"
of,
69;
development
of,
70;
wheat
lands
opened
up
in
the,
213
West
Australia,
foundations
laid
of,
96
West
Indies
(see
British
West
Indies)
Western
Australia,
population
in,
134
Westminster,
democratic
franchise,
18
INDEX
Westminster
Abbey,
procession
for
first
Jubilee to,
256
Westphalia,
Kingdom
of,
carved
out
of
Prussia, 59
whale
fisheries,
New
Zealand,
48
wheat,
American,
213, 238
Whig-Liberal
Party,
founding
of,
26
Whigs,
led
by
Rockingham,
19;
Fox
and
Grey
and,
20,
53;
some
join
Pitt,
24-
25;
minority
stays
with
Fox,
25;
"Friends
of
the
People,"
26;
some
join
Canning,
87;
reinstatement
of,
102;
fight
for
Reform
Bill,
105;
posi-
tion
of,
109;
change
name to
Liberals,
no;
division of
Liberals,
229, 230;
end
of
power of,
241;
discordant
element
among
Liberals,
247
Whistler,
James,
American
painter,
228
"White
Australia,"
the
term,
298
"White
Brahmins,
the,"
name for
the
British
in
India,
268
Whitney,
Eli,
cotton
gin
invented
by,
7
Wilberforcc,
William,
leader
in
abolition
of slave
trade,
14,
20,
21
Wilkes,
Captain,
forces the
Trent to
stop,
179
William
IV,
becomes
King
of
England,
98;
and
the
radicals,
99;
consents
to
create
peers,
106;
result
of
threat of
creating
peers,
107;
death
of,
116;
claim
of in
regard
to
appointing
ministers,
121
Wilson,
Sir
C.
Rivers,
representative
to
Cairo, 233
Wilson,
I.
Havelock,
Socialist,
251
Wilson, Woodrow,
idealist,
337
window
tax,
156
Windsor,
Duke
of
(see
Edward
VIII)
Witwatersrand,
goldfield
of,
287
Wolbtonecraft,
Mary,
Vindication
of
the
Rights
of
Man,
by,
24.
Wolaeley,
vStr
Garnet,
in
the war
with
the
Atthantis,
222;
forces
of
Arabi
routed
by, 235;
undertakes
expedition
for
Gordon's
relief,
236
Woman's
Movement,
164;
Married
Women's
Property
Act,
240;
alliance
between
Union
and,
251
women,
education
for,
218;
vote
not
ob-
tained
for,
241
;
hours of
work
reduced
for,
244;
enfranchisement
of,
339
women's
suffrage,
advocated,
323
Wood,
Field-Marshal Sir
Evelyn,
in
the
war
with
the
Ashantis,
222
;
the Parnell
scandal
and,
245
wool,
king
in
Australia, 167
woollen
industry,
conditions
of,
10
Wordsworth,
William,
calm verse
of,
91
;
romantic
poet, 119;
death
of,
125
"workhouses,"
use
of,
113
working class,
public
service
and,
22;
distress
of,
74;
drink
and
religion
means
of
escape for, 89;
disfranchised
104;
still
unenfranchised,
107;
and
the
middle
class,
108;
and the Poor
Laws,
123;
conditions
of,
186,
187;
and
the
vote,
1
88;
distress
of,
249;
better
con-
ditions
of,
343
World
War,
331-336;
fixation
of
atmos-
pheric' nitrogen
helps bring
on,
185;
wealth
and
resources
used
in,
185;
events
leading
to,
224;
South Africa's
part
in
the,
297;
the
peace, 336-339;
new,
354, 355
Wyndham
Act,
agrarian
problem
and,
324
Yeomanry,
and
demonstrators,
80
York,
Duchess
of,
gives
birth to
future
Duke
of
Windsor,
252
York,
Duke
of,
defeated
in
Flanders, 29
York,
Duke of
(see
George
VI)
Zambesi,
African
river,
205,
261
Zanzibar,
German
^
protectorate
over,
208: Britain
obtains,
261
zemindars,
tax
collectors,
43
Zulus,
savages
of
South
Africa, 139, 140,
108;
Boers
attempt
to seize
territory
claimed
by,
201;
war
with,
225
391
101
657