Annual Register

THE

RELSE jisR;
ANNUAL REGISTER:

:
REVIEW OF PUBLIC EVENTS AT HOME

AND ABROAD
1877.

FOR THE YEAR

UNIVISITY,

CAIR

NEW SERIES.

LONDON:
RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE.

LONGMANS & CO.; HAMILTON & CO.; SIMPKIN & CO.;
HOULSTON & SONS; SMITH, ELDER, & co.; E. BUMPUS; J. WALLER;
H. BOTHERAN & CO.; BICKERS & SON; W. HEATH; J. TOOVEY;

J. WHELDON; R. WASHBOURNE;
AND RIVINGTONS, OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE,

CONTENTS.

PART I.

ENGLISH HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.

Page
Peter the Great's Will—Aspect of the Eastern Question—Lord Salisbury—
The Empress of India—English Interests—Changes in the Commons and
prospects of Parties—Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli–Speeches in the
Country—Mr. Lowther, Sir W. Harcourt, &c.—Mr. Gladstone at Hawar-
den—Failure of the Conference—Prince Gortschakoff's Note—Recall of
Sir Henry Elliot—Sir Stafford Northcote at Liverpool—Mr. Gladstone
at Taunton—Absence of interest on Domestic Questions—Depression of
Trade—Opening of Parliament: Debates on the Address—Further De-
bates on the Eastern Question—Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Gladstone—Minor

matters—The Army and Navy Estimates—Death of Mr. Ward Hunt ... [1

CHAPTER II.

Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions—Declaration of Ministerial Policy—The

Eastern Question for the rest of the Session—The Budget—Sitting of

July 31—The Irish Obstructives—Modifications in the Rules of Debate—

Tactics of the Obstructives—Sir Stafford Northcote's Resolutions—South

African Bill in Committee—-The Burials Bill—Defeat of the Government

—Irish Judicature Bill—Motion for Home Rule—Bill for Household Suf-

frage in Irish Boroughs—Minor Irish Measures - - - - ... [32

CHAPTER III.

Mr. Chamberlain on Intemperance—Colonial Marriages Bill—Mr. Bright

on Capital Punishment—Household Suffrage in the Counties—Mr. Tre-