The Annual Register, Or, a View of the History and Politics of the Year Volume 90 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...vicar of West Wycomb; the Rev. T. G. Hodgson, rector of Croydon; the Rev. F. B. Wells, rector of Woodchurch; the Very Rev. the Dean of Canterbury; the Hon. aud Rev. Douglas Gordon; the Rev. W. Farrer, rector of Addington; and the Rev. William Streatfield. On the ceremony being concluded, the crowd, which assembled outside the church, and who could not gain access till after the solemn service was over, were then freely admitted to view the coffin and the vault. In conformity with the desire of the deceased prelate, the remains of two of his children, buried in London, were on Friday last transferred, as were likewise the remains of a third from Fulham, to the vault at Addington, there to mingle with him in the decay from which no created being escapes.--The Re Volution In France.--The history of the third revolution in France will be found narrated in the department of the "annual Register" appropriated to the record of national events. A few incidental occurrences may be commemorated in this "ChroNicle." The London journals of this date contained, under the head of Foreign News, calm speculations as to the reception of the Reform Banquet, which attracted little notice, the more particularly since no accompanying events seemed to betoken the probability of anything further arising than a squabble with the police sent to forbid it. The Times of the 22nd (Tuesday) merely said "that the feeling of security so general on Sunday had given way yesterday; but that, nevertheless, all would, it was expected, pass off quietly," and some details are then added of the precautions taken by the Government to prevent the assembly at the banquet. Side by side with this announcement (so rapidly were events hurried on) was a...