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Charleville, Lord, 326.

Chatham, Mr Drummond at, 39.
Christie, Mr, 33, 36.

Church, the, in Ireland, 204, 235,
241, 304, 306, 307.
Clans, Irish, 187 sqq.
Clare, county of, 363.

Clare, Lord, on Irish confiscations, 218.
Colby, Colonel, Mr Drummond's in-
troduction to, 46; his direction of
the Ordnance Survey, 54-61, 67,
70, 74, 80; his compensating
measuring bar, 86, 95, 440.
Combe, Dr Andrew, on the authorship
of the maxim, "Property has its
duties as well as its rights," 330,
334.

Comrie, village of, 4.
Confiscations, Irish, 217.
Connaught, 205, 364

Constabulary, Irish, 266 sqq., 451, 453.
Coolin Hills, 59.
Cooper, Austin,

murder of, 313;
punishment of the murderers, 339.
Cork, county of, 355.

Corporations, municipal, in Ireland,
304, 307.

Corrie Habbie, a surveying station,
54, 56.

Cox, Robert, 174, 430.
Craig, Rev. A., 44.

Crime in Ireland, means of suppress-
ing, 265 sqq., 341, 454, 459; de-
crease of, 285.

Croker, Mr, his attacks on Mr Drum-
mond, 146, 151.

Cromwell in Ireland, 212, 221, 240.

DAILEY, Alderman, 267.
Danes in Ireland, 193.

Davis, Sir John, on Ireland, 189, 239.
Dawson, Captain, 29, 41, 43, 63, 66,
102, 103, 143; his account of the
Ordnance Survey in the Highlands
of Scotland, 55.

De Beaumont, Gustave, his work on
Ireland, 240.

Defenders, an Irish faction, 226, 230.
De Vere, Aubrey, on English Misrule
and Irish Misdeeds, 240.
Diamond, Battle of the, 296, 303,
312.

Distraint for debt, 284.

Divis mountain, 74, 76, 80, 439.
Donard, Slieve, 81.

Donegal, county of, 363, 370.
Donoughmore, Lord, letter to, 814-
324.

Down, county of, 355, 357.

Drummond, Mrs Elizabeth, mother of
Thomas Drummond, 3, 4, 8, 17,
175, 177; letters to her from him,
21, 26, 27, 41, 76, 126, 128, 135,
142, 143, 151, 182, 278, 406, 409,
410, 417, 424, 425; from Mr Robe,
181; from Mr Littleton, 182; from
her daughter-in-law, 411, 413;
from Lord Normanby, 412; from
Lord Ebrington, 427; from Lord
Spencer, 427; from Sir John F. W.
Herschel, 437, 73, 170.
Drummond, James, father of Thomas
Drummond, 3-5.

Drummond, John, 3, 17, 162, 180.
Drummond, Miss, 3, 64, 175, 407;
quoted, 6, 8, 17, 30, 114, 152;
letters from Mr Drummond to, 117.
421; the Drummond Scholarship
founded by, 430, 465.

Drummond, Mrs Maria, wife of Mr
Drummond, 184; letters from her
to his mother, 411, 413; her last
interview with him, 426.
Drummond, Thomas, his birth and
parentage, 1; early circumstances,
5-8; mechanical ingenuity, 15, 40,
43, 128, 169, 172; attachment to
his mother, 8, 185; at school, 9;
a pupil of Professor Jardine, 11;
literary culture, 11, 13, 44; mathe-
matical studies, 12, 13, 28, 34, 38,
65;

at University of Edinburgh, 12,
66; boyish traits, 15; voyage to
Argyleshire, 17; at Woolwich, 14.
43; enters the Royal Engineers, 37;
studies at Plymouth, 38; Chatham,
39, 43; visits France, 40; pontoon
invented by, 40; adventure on a
bridge of casks, 42; in Edinburgh,
43,78,81; thinks of going to the bar,
44; his views of the qualifications
necessary for that career, 45; en-
gages in the Ordnance Survey, 46;
his services in that department in
Scotland, 62, and Ireland, 64, 112,
247; studies chemistry, 65; his
lime-light, 66, 73, 75, 77, 81, 83,
438; his papers on it in the "Phi-
losophical Transactions," 67, 117,
119, 125; his heliostat, 70, 81, 171,
438; stationed on Slieve Snaght, in
Ireland, 75; injury to his health
from exposure, 75, 78, 81; his at-
tempts to improve the barometer,
80; measurement of the base at
Lough Foyle, 81, 83, 112, 167, 440;

his share in the construction of the
compensation measuring bar, 86, 90,

106; his letter to Sir John F. W.
Herschel respecting the Irish base-
line, 107; again in bad health, 113–
115; trial of his Light as a means of
illuminating lighthouses, 114, 128;
elected a member of the Royal
Astronomical Society, 119; his visit
to William IV. at Brighton, 128;
resides in Park Road, London, 135;
close of his scientific career, 136,
167; remarks on that career, 168;
is a member of the Boundary Com-
mission, 140, 161; attacked by Mr
Croker, 146; backed by Professors
Barlow, Airy, and Wallace, and
Sir John Herschel, 148, 150, 154,
157; attacked by Mr Pollock, 149,
151; how remunerated for his ser-
vices, 152, 181; recruits his health at
Brighton, 160, 181; letter from his
fellow Commissioners requesting
him to sit for his portrait, 160, 182;
letter on the Perthshire election,
163; letter to Mr Aitchison of Drum-
more on the Leith election, 164;
declines to become a candidate for
the Chair of Natural Philosophy in
Edinburgh, 167; engaged in pre-
paring an account of the measure-
ment of the base at Lough Foyle,
167; is Private Secretary to Lord
Althorp, 178, 173, 185; Miss Mar-
tineau's reminiscences of, 173,
175, 255, 283, 312, 326, 327, 430,
433; visits Brougham Hall, 177;
communications to the Scotsman
newspaper, 177; writes in the
London papers, 178; letter on the
Duke of Wellington's accession to
the office of prime minister, 179;
again in bad health, 181, 182;
goes to Ireland as Under Secretary,
183, 184; his marriage, 184; his
share in the administration of Irish
affairs, 243 sqq., 432; his intimate
knowledge of the country and
people, 247; his power and love of
work, 250, 253; his account of
Ribandism, 260, 264; organisation
of the constabulary by, 266; sup-
pression of faction fights, 269, 276,
of Orangeism, 277 sqq., 296, and
of Ribandism, 288; correspondence
with Colonel Verner, 296; corre-
spondence with the Tipperary
magistrates, 314, 332, 335; his
maxim, "Property has its duties as
well as its rights," 322, 325, 327;
anger excited by it, 325, 327; con-

troversy as to its authorship, 329;
proved to be Mr Drummond's, 331,
339, 366; its effects on the fortunes
of the Whig Government, 339; his
scheme for increasing the prosperity
of Ireland, 341; Commission on
Irish railroads, 236, 341, 409; this
suggested and mainly worked by
him, 345; instructions to the Com-
missioners, 346; their Reports, 347.
874, 383, 410, 412, 414, 415; his
share in the composition of these,
352; his account of the moral and
economical condition of the Irish,
334; sends relief to the starving
peasantry of Donegal, 370; Irish
Municipal Boundary Commission,
403; abolition of Irish hulks, 403 ;
suppression of Sunday fairs in the
Phoenix Park, 404; his life in Ire-
land, 404; Royal Dublin Society,
406; correspondence with Mr Talbot
Glascock, 408; birth of a daughter,
409; declining health, 410; resi-
dence at Kingstown, 410; tour to
the Continent, 414; examination
before the Roden Committee, 419,
422; visit to Lord Spencer, 421;
proposal that he should enter Par-
liament, 422; last illness, 424, 425;
death, 426; expressions of public
sorrow, 427; letters of condolence
to his mother, 427; his burial, 429;
statue by Hogan, 430; his character,
16, 137 167, 172, 176, 184, 246,
250, 430-5, 437; his letters to his
mother, 21, 26, 27, 41, 76, 126, 128,
135, 142, 143, 151, 182, 278, 406,
409, 410, 417, 424, 425; to his sister,
117, 421; scholarship in memory of
him, in the University of Edin-
burgh, 430, 465.

Drummond Light, the, 66, 73, 75–77,
81, 83, 115, 171, 438; trial of it in
lighthouses, 114-128.

Dublin, police of, in 1835, 267; sup-
pression of Sunday fairs in, 404;
blowing up of statue of William III.,
408; statue of Drummond in, 430.
Dublin Evening Post on the authorship
of the maxim, "Property has its
duties as well as its rights," 334.

EBRINGTON, Lord, 339, 417, 418; his
letter to Mr Drummond's mother,
427.

Edinburgh, the birthplace of Mr
Drummond, 1; his studies in, 12;
residence and occupations in, 43;

his portrait in the University of,
161; scholarship founded there in
memory of him, 430, 465.
Edinburgh Review on the Drummond
Light, 127; on Mr Drummond's evi-
dence before the Roden Committee,
256; article on that Committee
referred to, 240.

Glengall, Lord, letter of, 313; reply
to, 314, 324.

Graham's mercurial pendulum, 84.
Grey, Lord, 138; dissolution of his
ministry, 178.

Griffith, Sir Richard, 345, 352.
Guinness, Mr, 292.

Edward I., statute of, regarding jurors, HALL, Captain Basil, his account of

457, 458.

Emigration, Irish, 268.

Engineers, Royal, 25, 27; history of
the corps, 37.

Episcopalians, number of, in Ireland,
304.

the trial of the Drummond Light in
a lighthouse, 121-5.

Hallam, Henry, on Ireland, 219, 240.
Hancock, Dr, 388, 390, 464.
Harkness, Lieutenant, 348, 349, 352.
Harrison's gridiron pendulum, 84.
Harvey, Sir John, 271.

Eric, law of, 192, 199.
Examiner newspaper quoted, 184, Hatherton, Lord, 142, 182, 421, 422.
333.
Heliostat, Mr Drummond's, 70, 81,
438, 171.

FACTION fights, Irish, 188, 265 sqq., Henry II., conquest of Ireland by,
276, 321.

Fairman Plot, 259.

Fairs, Irish, drinking at, 277; sup-
pression of Sunday fairs in the
Phoenix Park, 404.

Famines in Ireland, 357, 370, 898.
Fitzwilliam, Earl, on the state of Ire-
land, 231.

Flax-culture in Ireland, 357.
Flour-mills in Ireland, 359.
Foyle, Lough, measurement of base-

line at, 81, 83-112, 167, 440.
France, trigonometrical survey of, 51,
53; railways in, 380, 395; effect of
the first French Revolution on Ire-
land, 230.

Freeholders, Irish, 360.
French, Mr, 385.

Fresnel's lamp, 67, 73, 439.

GALT, Mr, on railway reform, 396.
Galway, county of, 363.
Garviemore inn, 58.

See Ord-

Gauss, Professor, 70, 171.
Gavelkind, law of, 190, 192.
Geodesy, methods of, 47.
nance Survey.
George III., Ireland under, 224 sqq.;
petition of Irish Catholics to, 228,
240; Irish statutes in reign of,
449-53, 461-2.

George IV., Ireland under, 234; Irish
statutes in reign of, 449-51, 454,
458, 461, 462.

Giraldus Cambrensis, 239.
Gladstone, Mr, on the maxim, "Pro-
perty has its duties as well as its
rights," 327.
Glascock, Talbot, 468.

195.

Henry VIII., Ireland in his reign,
201.

Herschel, Sir John, letter of, concern-
ing Mr Drummond, 437, 73, 100,
170, 171; on the Ordnance Survey,
49, 83; on the compensation mea-
suring bar, 95, 100, 105, 440; his
visit to Lough Foyle, and sketch
of the measuring of the base-line
there, 106-8; his defence of Mr
Drummond on the Borough ques-
tion, 148, 150, 153, 154, 157; the
Edinburgh Chair of Natural Philo-
sophy offered to, 167.

Highlands of Scotland, station-hunt-
ing by the Ordnance surveyors in
the, 55-61.

Hinde, Mr Hodgson, 383.
Hounslow Heath, base-line on, 51,
110.

Hulks, Irish, abolition of, 403.

INSPECTOR-GENERAL of Irish con-

stabulary, 272, 420, 451-3.
Ireland, sketch of the history of, 186;
two "nations" in, 186; the tribes,
187; clans or septs, 187; faction
fights, 188, 265, 269, 276, 321;
Christianity, 189, 191, 195; law of
succession, 190; the Brehon laws,
192-4; Anglo-Norman incursions
into, 195; conquest by Henry II.,
195; state of, at that time, 187,
198; Danish incursions, 193; bruta-
lities and oppression during the
four succeeding centuries, 198;
the Pale, 198, 201, 202; conflict of
laws, 199; statutes of Kilkenny,

201, 209, 216, 239; reign of Henry
VIII., 201-205; Church of the
Irish Romanised, 203, 209; reign of
Elizabeth, 204, 219; conquest of
Munster, and frightful sufferings of
the people, 205; devastation of
Ulster, 206; re-organisation of Ire-
land under James I., 208; English
laws introduced, 207; forfeitures
and evictions, 208; the Reformation,
209; penal laws, 209, 210, 215,
240; reign of Charles I., 210;
rebellion of 1641, 211, 240; Crom-
well in, 212, 221, 240; depopula-
tion by the war, 213; struggle in
James II.'s reign, 215; William III.,
215; treaty of Limerick, 215, 240;
subsequent oppression of the Roman
Catholics, 215-221, 228; confisca-
tions, 217; universal discontent,
219; increase of population in the
18th and 19th centuries, 220, 232,
237; hatred of England, 221; sub-
division of land among tenants,
222, 232, 359 sqq.; absentees, 222,
237; the Whiteboys or Levellers,
224; the Rightboys, 225; the Oak-
boys and Steelboys, 226; the Peep-
of-day-boys, 226; Defenders, 226,
230; Orangemen, 226, 258 sqq., 277,
296, 408; United Irishmen, 226,
230; rebellion of 1798, 226, 231;
increase of wealth, 227; causes of
relaxation of penal laws, 228;
Parliament of Ireland, 228, 232;
demand for free trade, 229; in-
fluence of the American War of
Independence, 229; of the French
Revolution, 230; Union with Great
Britain, 232, 241; subsequent con-
spiracies and rebellions, 233; secret
societies, 234; Insurrection Act,
234, 235; Catholic emancipation,
235, 295-6; Church of, 204, 235,
241, 304, 306, 307; agitations
for repeal of the Union, 236;
Coercion Acts, 236; state of the
country in 1835-9, 237; landlords,
237, 285, 312, 321, 336, 364, 366;
Ribandism or Ribbonism, 238, 258
sqq., 288; tithes, 238, 303, 306, 310,
408; O'Connell, 238, 240, 291, 292,
310, 383; Orange Society, 238, 408;
retrospect of Irish history, 238; list
of authorities, 239; disaffection, 241;
Lord Mulgrave's Administration,
188, 244; Lord Morpeth his Chief
Secretary, and Mr Drummond Under
Secretary, 183; Drummond's share

in that administration, 244 sqq.,
426; efforts to suppress Orangeism
in 1835, 258, 277, 288, 296; agra-
rian outrages, 264, 312, 321; faction
fights, 188, 265, 269, 276, 821; sup-
pression of crime, 265 sqq., 341; de-
crease of crime, 265 sqq., 285, 341;
police force, 266 sqq., 449; con-
stabulary, 266, 451, 453; admission
of Catholics into constabulary, 274,
295; stipendiary magistrates, 278,
277, 280, 453; public prosecutors,
281; juries, 282, 314 sqq., 320, 420,
443, 454, 457; petty sessions, 283,
362; distraint for debt, 284; defeat
of Irish bills of the Melbourne Ad-
ministration in Parliament, 303;
Tithe Commutation Bill, 303, 306,
310; Municipal Reform Bill, 304,
307; Poor-Law Bill, 305, 308, 368;
Mr Drummond's letter to the magis-
trates of Tipperary, 313-339, 367;
its effects on the fortunes of the
Whig Government, 339; commis-
sion on Irish railways (see Rail-
ways); necessity of means of em-
ployment of the people, 343;
English ignorance of Ireland, 334;
moral and economical state of the
people, 354; famines, 357, 370,
398; agriculture, 357; manufac-
tures, 358; subdivision of the
land, 359 sqq., 232; forty shilling
freeholders, 360; litigation be-
tween agricultural labourers and
employers, 362; potato diet, 237,
364; reclamation of waste lands,
367; emigration, 368; character of
the peasantry, 370; their habits of
idleness, 371; their moral purity,
190; reasons for Government aid
to public works, 373; bill for for-
mation of railways (see Railways);
financial position of Irish railways in
1866, 389, 398; Municipal Boundary
Commission, 402; abolition of
hulks, 403; state of the law respect-
ing illegal societies, 461; Royal
Dublin Society, 406; Trigono-
metrical Survey, 64, 73, 79, 247-8,
438.

JACKSON, Mr, 22.

James I., Ireland under, 207; his in-

dignant disclaimer of tolerance in
religious matters, 210, 239.
Jardine, Professor, 11, 13; letter from
him to Mr Drummond, 30, 35.
Johnstone, Dr, 409, 412, 425, 426.

Jones, Major H. D., 348, 402.
Juries, alleged intimidation of, in Tip-
perary, 314 sqq.; constitution of,
454; challenging of jurors, 282,
320, 420, 457.

Lucas, Mr, 382.
Lumper potato, 304.
Lyndhurst, Lord, on the Irish poor,
309.

MACCAUSLAND, Mr, 115.

KATER, Captain, 67, 70, 95, 104.
Kennedy, Colonel Shaw, 272, 420, 453.
Ker, Bellenden, 135, 136, 142, 161, 173.
Kilkenny, county of, 355; Statutes of,
201, 209, 216, 239.
King's County, 355.
Kingstown, Mr Drummond's resi- M'Neill, Sir John, 348.
dence in, 410.

M-Culloch, J. R., on railway mis-
management, 391.
Macfarlane, Mrs, 7; letters of Thomas
Drummond to, 24, 25.
Macfarlane, William, 7.
Maclaren, Charles, 177, 180.

LAND, subdivision of, in Ireland,
232, 350 sqq.

Landlord and tenant in Ireland, 237,
285, 312, 321, 336, 360, 364; duties
of landlords, 322, 325, 366.
Lansdowne, Marquis of, 345, 385.
Larcom, General Sir T. A., his Memoir
of Mr Drummond quoted, 19, 28, 34,
35, 39, 41, 42, 66, 75, 78, 80, 95,
102, 127, 152, 160, 172, 175, 250,
266, 403, 404, 405, 415, 425, 426,
429; information given to the author
by, 44; his services on the Ord-
nance Survey, 79; map of Ireland,
&c., prepared by, 349; letter of
Professor Barlow to, 352; now
Under Secretary in Ireland, 253.
Laws, old Irish, 192, 199, 207; Sta-
tutes of Kilkenny, 201, 209, 216,
239; law of England introduced
into Ireland, 207; Irish penal laws,
209, 210, 215-221, 228, 240.
Lawyers, qualifications necessary for
the success of, 45.

Leinster, 205, 357, 364; Duke of,
381.

Leland's History of Ireland, 239.
Leslie, Professor, 12, 18, 22, 166.
Levellers or Whiteboys, 224.
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, on "Irish
Disturbances," &c., 240.
Lighthouses, trial of the Drummond
Light for the illumination of, 114-
127, 439, 440.

Lime-light, 66, 442. See Drummond
Light.

Limerick, county of, 355; treaty of.
215, 240.

Littleton, Mr E. J., (afterwards Lord
Hatherton,) 142, 421, 422; his letter
to Mr Drummond's mother, 182.
Longford, county of, 355.
Lorimer, Professor, his scheme of Par-
liamentary representation, 153.

Madden, Dr, quoted, 244, 253, 255,
296, 329, 343, 423.
Magistrates, stipendiary, in Ireland,
273, 277, 280, 453.
Marsh, Sir Henry, 425.
Martin, R. M., his work on Ireland,
240.

Martineau, Miss, 135; her reminis-

cences of Mr Drummond, 173, 175,
430; her estimate of his character
and services, 255, 327, 433; quoted
on Irish affairs, 283, 312, 326.
Mayo, county of, 363.
Measuring-rods used in the Ordnance

Survey, 50, 52, 81, 83, 86, 95, 440.
Melbourne, Lord, 178, 182; his in-
structions to the Boundary Com-
mission, 140, 144; defeat of the
Irish measures of his administra-
tion in Parliament, 303.
Meridian, direction of the, 53.
Mica, Mr Drummond's experiments
with, 97, 98, 101.
Miller, Colonel, 272.

Mitchell, Joseph, on railways, 392.
Mitscherlich, his discovery of a pro-
perty of crystals, 101, 441.
Monaghan, county of, 355, 357.
Moore, Thomas, letter from, to Mr
Drummond, 336.

Morpeth, Lord, 245, 250, 292, 303,
382, 383, 416.

Mudge, Colonel, 20, 21, 25, 30, 33, 35,
53, 54, 110.

Mulgrave, Lord, (afterwards Lord Nor-

manby,) becomes Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, 183; his administration
there, 244, 454; personal charac-
ter, 244; his alleged claim to the
authorship of the maxim, "Property
has its duties as well as its rights,"
329, 330, 334, 385, 338; becomes
Minister for the Colonies, 339; let-
ter from him to Mr Drummond's
mother, 412; his liberation of Irish
prisoners, 421.

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