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This is the June 27, 1857 issue of THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS newspaper. This newspaper contains more than twice as many pages as it's American counterparts Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie, and has many more illustration. This issue is in very good condition, the pages are clean and bright, except for some minor age spots around the edges of the pages from handling, but nothing serious, and they don't affect the engravings. The pages are flat, with no tears. As can be seen from the list of articles and illustrations this publication contains many historical stories of the time, and reports of the issues that faced the people of Great Britain at the time.
ARTICLES:
THE EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE: – In a speech given by the high presidency of the his Royal Highness Prince Albert, he compares the British educational system to that of Germany and America, and shows how deficient the British system is; only one third of the children out of nearly three million are above the age of nine.
ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB SCHOONER MATCH: - This is generally the most interesting match of the season, inasmuch as it presents the most scope for the display of smart seamanship, and to the mere spectator affords a very delightful excursion. The Vestal owned by Mr. F.O. Marshall took the first prize. (See cover Picture)
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS:
FRANCE.
AUSTRIA.
TURKEY.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
UNITED STATES.
AUSTRALIA.
OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS:
VISCOUNTESS EVERSLEY.
LORD ALVANLEY.
D. A. SAUNDERS DAVIES, ESQ.
THE ZULUS OF NATAL: - Sifile, a genuine Zulu boy has accompanied his master Mr. S. from Port Natal to Great Britain, where he has adopted European habits, learning to read and write. A brief history of the Zulu tribe and engravings of this “Zulu youth” and another of “West Street, D’urban, Natal” are presented here with this article.
FISH TAKEN OFF ST. THOMAS’S: - A drawing of a very unusual fish, which was caught about 1500 miles Northeast of St. Thomas’s, amongst the Gulf weed is described and picture is presented.
THE LATE MR. ROBERT HALL, M. P. - The death of this highly respected member for the borough of Leeds took place at Folkestone on the 26th ult.
DISTIN’S MONSTER DRUM AT THE HANDEL FESTIVAL: - A prominent feature in the orchestra at the late Handel Festival was the monster bass drum manufactured by Mr. Distin, the well known musical instrument maker of Cranbourn street, of which the above is engraved. The face of the drum was made from Buffalo hide and is nearly seven feet in diameter.
THE HANDEL FESTIVAL: - On Friday the festival terminated with one of Handel’s greatest works, “Israel in Egypt”, which was given in a style of unparalleled grandeur. The influx of visitors that day was immense. The assemblage numbered seventeen thousand. A two page engraving of the festival at the Crystal Palace is presented from a photograph by Negretti and Zambra. (See picture)
MONTCHOURI CRANES, PRESENTED TO THE ZOOLIGICAL SOCIETY BY HER MAJESTY: - These noble birds have a height of nearly five feet, and are by far the most striking and elegant species of the crane hitherto discovered.
ELECTIONS IN FRANCE: - The election, by three of the divisions of Paris to the Corps Legislatif, of General Cavaignac, the ancient rival of the Emperor for the Presidency of the Republic, and Messrs. Goudchaux and Carnot, two of the most eminent members of the Provisional Government of 1848, is the most remarkable event which has occurred in France since Napoleon III ascended the throne.
CHESTERFIELD NEW MARKET-HALL: - Most travelers who have journeyed by the line of railway branching from the London and North-western system at Rugby, in the direction of the Yorkshire district, will doubtlessly readily call to mind the quaint old crooked spire of Chesterfield, seen as they have passed along the valley on the eastern side of the town, which is situated in the middle of an important mineral district, becoming daily more so, as the vast resources of both coal and ironstone find more extensive development from the employment of capital for which there is a wide and if, judiciously managed, a remunerative field.
BOMBAY ARTILLERY PLATE: - The superb Piece of Plate, which is represented, is now on its way to Bombay for presentation to the officers of the Bombay Artillery, from Major-General Frederich Schuler, on his retirement after nearly forty-seven years’ service.
THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM: - The Museum was visited by her Majesty and Prince Albert on Saturday evening, when the entire suite of buildings was lighted for the occasion, it being a recommendatory aim of the establishment to afford evening exhibitions of its national purpose. A nucleus of a permanent Museum of Works of Art was formed and deposited at Marlborough House, in Pall-mall, and has been transferred to South Kensington together with articles belonging to the Commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and temporarily deposited in the conservatory at Kensington Palace. (See picture)
THE WAR WITH CHINA - MEMORABLE OCEAN STEAM VOYAGE: - Among the remarkable incidents of the progress of the war with China will hereafter be chronicled the voyage of her Majesty’s steam sloop-of-war, Inflexible, 6 guns (Commander J. Corbertt), and her Majesty’s gun-boat Starling (Lieutenant and commander A. Williers), on their passage out from England to Hong-Kong. The Inflexible having had the Starling actually in tow for over 10,000 miles of their journey. (See pictures)
FASHIONS FROM JULY: - The Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace-the recent floral fetes at the Chiswick and Regent-park Gardens, together with other gray amusements, al fresco-have drawn together numerous assemblages of fashionable company, and given occasion for an unusually elegant display for out-door costume. An engraving of these fashions is presented.
THE TURNER COLLECTION AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE: - We announced the Exhibition of the remaining oil pictures bequeathed by Turner to the nation, numbering some two-thirds more than those placed last winter in Marlborough House.
DIFFERENCES: A poem by Charles Mackay.
CRYSTAL PALACE PICTURE GALLERY: - The Picture Gallery, being an after-thought, and having to deal with special rivals, made last year a rather unpromising debut.
FINE ART - GALVANO-PHOTOGRAPHY - PHOTOGRAPHY ART-TREASURE: - This ingenious and beautiful invention of Herr Pretsch, director of the Imperial Printing Press of Vienna, by which galvanism engraves on plates the pictures obtained by sunlight, or, as the agents of this company say, by which “nature and art are illustrated by art and nature.”
BRUNI: - Bruni is the capital for Borneo Proper, and is situated ten miles up a river from the sea. It was first visited by Magellan in the year 1521. Some years later Rajah Brooke visited the town and called it a “Venice of hovels”.
RAPANG, VILLAGE OF THE STUNG TRIBE OF DYAKS: - The picturesque village is situated in the province belonging to Rajah Brooke.
REGISTRATION OF TITLE TO LAND: - To transfer the produce of the soil-be its agricultural, metallic, of mineral-from the vender to the purchaser is a perfectly facile operation; but to transfer the land itself is a most costly, dilatory, and vexatious operation.
GRASSI’S SCREW LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE FOR ASCENDING STEEP GRADIENTS ON RAILWAYS: - This invention, which has been patented by M. Grassi, consists of an application of the Archimedean screw to locomotive engines for taking trains up steep ascents railways, which it is anticipated will prove more economic than the ordinary system of tunneling and embanking.
BRONZE CELTS DISCOVERED IN SURREY: - These interesting relics were found a short time since at the village of Send, near Farnham, in Surrey.
THE LATE FIRE AT THE CAMDEN-TOWN GOODS STATION: - The first view (engraving) shows the burning mass as it appeared from Primrose Hill. The second scene is of Camden-town goods station of the London and Northwestern Railway, sketched from the canal. (See picture)
WHITSTABLE OYSTER-GROUNDS: - True indeed, two or three of the Essex or Kentish smacks steal up to Billingsgate, and find a ready market for their illegal freights; but the Londoners have forsaken mollusk-eating, and betaken themselves to Jullien and Cremorne.
UNPUBLISHED EARLY REPORTS OF DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT: - The report of Parliament during the seventeenth century and in the first half of the eighteenth, still preserved in unpublished manuscripts, constitute a portion of the materials of our history not appreciated at its true worth.
VILLAGE SCHOOLS, EFFINGHAM, SURREY.
PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES; OR, A NATIONAL SCHOOL IN THE SUBURBS OF LONDON IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: - Six miles east of the city of London there is a town called Hall’s Ville, situated in the parish of Plaistow, is a marsh adjoining the Thames, from which the tide is kept out by the embankment of the river. The inhabitants are chiefly the laborers of the docks and a few factories. Although the town is poor, the school has survives on limited means, and the children are well taught.
BADGE AND CHAIN OF THE MAYOR OF SALFFORD: - We engraved shown is a Gold Chain and Badge, made for the Corporation for the purpose of being worn by the successive Mayors of Salfford.
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