Municipal Reform Bill, Irish, 304, 307. Munster, devastation of, in Eliza- beth's reign, 205; wretched state of in 1761, 224; potato diet in, 364. Murphy, Lieutenant, 77, 94, 97, 100, 113.
Murray, Sir George, 162, 163. Murray, John Archibald, 162, 164. Musselburgh, 5; grammar school of, 9.
NAPIER, Sir Charles, 266. New Zealanders, treatment of the, 197.
Nicholl, Mr, on the Irish poor, 308. Norbury, Lord, murder of, 325, 339. Normanby, Lord. See Mulgrave.
OAKBOYS, an Irish society, 226. O'Connell, Daniel, 238, 240, 291, 292, 310, 383.
O'Loghlen, Michael, 251, 283. Orangemen, 226, 238, 408; Mr Drum- mond's contention with, 258 sqq., 277.
Ordnance Survey of Britain and Ire- land, 38, 46-137, 247-8, 438; origin and progress of, 50 sqq.; methods of, 47; hardships of, 55; measurement of base-line, 47,51-53, 81, 83-112, 167, 440. Ormelie, Lord, 162, 163.
PALE, Irish, 198, 201, 202. Paley not the author of the maxim, "Property has its duties as well as its rights," 329. Papists. See Roman Catholics. Parliament, Irish, 228, 232. Parnell, Sir Henry, on the Irish penal laws, 217, 240.
Patrick, St, 192, 199.
Peel, Sir Robert, 179, 180, 234, 235,
383, 418, 419, Peep-of-day-boys, 226.
Penal laws, Irish, 209, 210, 215-21, 228, 240.
Pendulums, compensation, 84. Pension conferred on Mr Drummond,
and soon renounced, 152, 181. Perrin, Louis, 251, 283. Perthshire, first election in, under the Reform Act, 162.
Petty Sessions in Ireland, 283, 362. Petty, Sir William, on Ireland, 213, 218, 220, 239.
Philips, Sir George, 177, 185. Phoenix Park, suppression of Sunday fairs in, 404.
Pigot, David R., Chief Baron, 251, 338, 340, 416, 475. Playfair, Professor John, 12, 22. Plowden's Historical Review of the State of Ireland, 239, 240. Plymouth, Mr Drummond's studies at, 38.
Police force in Ireland, 266 sqq. Pollock, Baron, his attack on Mr Drummond, 149, 151.
Pontoon invented by Mr Drummond, 40.
Poor-Law, Irish, 305, 308, 368. Pope, The, not originally acknow- ledged by the Irish Christians, 195; the conquest of Ireland by Henry II. authorised by Adrian IV., 195; how and when the Irish became adherents of the, 203.
Population, increase of, in Ireland, 220, 232, 237, 363.
Portlock, Lieut.-Col., his Memoir of Colby, 55; on the Irish Survey, 80; on the inventor of the compen- sation bar, 95-105.
Portrait of Mr Drummond, 161, 182. Potato diet of the Irish, 237, 364.
RAILWAYS, mismanagement of, 391; should they be assumed by the State? 386, 392, 464; financial posi- tion of Irish railways in 1866, 389; Irish Railway Commission, 256,341, 409; report of, 336, 410, 412, 414, 415; recommendations of, 374, 383; opposition to, 380; bill framed on the report, 382-5; opposition to the bill in Parliament, 417. Rebellion, Irish, in 1641, 211; in 1798, 226, 231.
Reform Bill, 138-161; first election under the Act, 162.
Reid, Colonel Sir William, 39, 42. Religion, Professor Jardine on, 32. Ribandism, 238, 258 sqq., 288. Richards, John, 251.
Rightboys, an Irish society, 225. Robe, Lieutenant, 56, 57; letter from, to Mr Drummond's mother, 181.
Robinson, Dr Romney, 45. Roden, Earl, gigantic petition to the king, presented by, 236; his aver- ments as to Ribandism, 288, 293; his committee of the House of Lords, 246, 256, 417; Mr Drum- mond's evidence before it, 256, 260-4, 267, 269, 271-6, 281, 284-8, 290-3, 339, 415, 419.
Roe, river, 83, 107. Roman Catholics, none in Ireland till the Reformation, 195, 203; penal laws against the, 209, 210, 215, 221, 228, 240; emancipation of, 235, 295-6; their admission into the Irish constabulary, 274, 295; and into juries, 282. Rowan, Mr, 293.
Roy, General, survey of Britain by,
Roy, Mr, a teacher of Thomas Drum- mond, 11, 12.
Royal Astronomical Society, 119. Royal Dublin Society, 406.
Russell, Earl, 138, 139, 143, 150, 345, 383.
Smith, Goldwin, on Irish history, &c.,
240; on the maxim, "Property has its duties as well as its rights," 328. Smyth, Geo. Lewis, his work on Ire- land, 239.
Snaght, Slieve, 74-78, 439.
Societies, illegal, in Ireland, 224 sqq.; state of the law in regard to, 461.
Somers, James, 3-5.
Somers, Mrs, 5, 6, 16, 33. Spencer, Lord, 179. See Althorp. Spenser, Edmund, his account of the Irish, 205, 214, 239. Spy system in Ireland, 293.
Station-hunting by the Ordnance Sur- veyors, 56.
Statistics of crime in Ireland, 286-8. Steelboys, an Irish society, 226. Stephen, Sir George, on the author- ship of the maxim, "Property has its duties as well as its rights," 334. Stevenson, Robert, 126. Stipendiary Magistrates in Ireland, 273, 277, 280, 453. Succession, law of, among the Irish tribes, 189.
Sunday fairs, suppression of, 404. Survey of Britain and Ireland. See Ordnance Survey.
Synge, Edward, his "Case of Tolera- tion," 240.
TANISTRY, 190, 192.
Taylor, Mr, a teacher of Thomas
Drummond, 9, 10. Telegraph, Belgian, 394. Theodolite, its use in surveying, 48. Thoms, Alexander, 239.
Thrashers, Irish insurgents, 233. Times newspaper, 177, 180. Tipperary, county of, 355; Mr Drum- mond's correspondence with the magistrates of, 313-339, 367; effects of that correspondence on the for- tunes of the Whig Government, 339. Tithes, levying of, in Ireland, 408; Commutation Bill, 303, 306, 310. Tolerance indignantly disclaimed by James I., 210, 239; Synge's "Case of Toleration," 240. Tone, Wolfe, 230. Trigonometrical Survey. See Ordnance Survey.
Trinity House Corporation, their trial of the Drummond Light for light- houses, 114-127.
Troughton, Edward, 94, 96, 102, 103. Tyrone, county of, 357.
ULSTER, devastation of, in Elizabeth's reign, 206; rebellion in 1641, 211 colonisation of, 219. Union between Britain and Ireland, 232; agitation for repeal of, 236. United Irishmen, 226, 230.
VALLENCY'S "Collectanea," 239. Verner, Colonel, correspondence with, 296, 310, 312.
Vetch, Mr, 62, 63, 64.
Victoria, Queen, Ireland under, 237, 243 sqq.; Irish statutes of, 460, 464.
Vignolles, Mr, 348.
WAGES, when too low, give a bad re turn of labour, 357, 369; inade- quacy of, in Ireland, in Mr Drum- mond's time, 365. Waræus de Hibernia, &c., 239. Waterford, county of, 355. Wayland, Francis, 313.
Wellington, Duke of, 312, 235, 385; his administration, 179. Westmeath, 355.
Wexford, county of, 355.
Whigs, their administration in Ire- land, 1835-39, 243. See Mulgrave. Whiteboys, an Irish society, 224. Widgeons, an Irish society, 291. William the Conqueror, 196.
William III., Ireland under, 215; blowing up his statue in Dublin, 408.
William IV., 117; Mr Drummond's visit to, at Brighton, 128; Ireland in the reign of, 236, 243; Irish statutes, 451, 454, 459, 460. Woolmore, Captain, 129, 133 sqq. Woolwich, Mr Drummond at, 14, 17, 18-36, 43; history of the Royal Academy at, 37.
Woulfe, Stephen, 251, 303; not the author of the maxim, "Property has its duties as well as its rights," 329, 332, 334, 335, 338.
YOLLAND, Captain, his account of the measurement of the base at Lough Foyle, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 98, 99, 104, 109, 113.
Young, Arthur, his "Tour in Ire- land," 240.
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