Title Australian views of England
Author Henry Parkes
Year 1869
Publisher Macmillan and Co.
Location Londion
Source djvu
Progress Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
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CONTENTS.
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LETTER I.
The State of Political Feeling—English Opinions of America1
LETTER II.
The State of Political Feeling—Australian Colonists in England—The French Treaty—Gossip9
LETTER III.
The War of Kindred—The National Mourning22
LETTER IV.
The American War—Messrs. Mason and Slidell—Prince Albert—The Working Classes—Employment of Women35
LETTER V.
Rumoured Abdication—Opening of Parliament—The House of Commons—Mr. Disraeli—Mr. Goldwin Smith—Gossip44
LETTER VI.
The Reputation of the Colony in England—Australian Interests in the House of Commons—British Connection—The London Poor56
LETTER VII.
Mr. Gladstone—Mr. Cobden—The Iron-clad 'Merrimac'—Emigration of Women—Poverty among the People71
LETTER VIII.
The International Exhibition—The Queen—Prince Arthur—English Politics— The Turning Tide in the American War80
LETTER IX.
The Exhibition—Party Conflict in the House of Commons—Lord Brougham and the Social Science Association89
LETTER X.
Lord Palmerston and Mr. Cobden—The Distress in Lancashire—Confederate Sympathy in the House of Commons—Commemoration Day at Oxford98
LETTER XI.
Rural England and the Railways110
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