Corn Laws, campaign against, i. 5; Disraeli opposes repeal of, i. 28; repealed, i. 51; ii. 43 Corporal punishment, ii. 132; iii. 142 Corsets, iii. 307, 310 Cosmetics, ii. 326 _seq._, 330; iv. 247 _Cospatrick_, burning of the, iii. 86 Costa, Sir Michael, i. 294; ii. 305, 307 Coup d'Etat of 1851, i. 120, 196 Court, the, i. 165 _seq._; crowds at drawing-rooms, i. 189 _ill._; _bal poudré_ ridiculed, i. 190; ii. 169-96; iii. 215-34; iv. 215-27 _Court Circular_ criticized, i. 179 Covent Garden Market, i. 151; state of, iii. 182 _seq._; iv. 210 Covent Garden Theatre, burned in 1808 and 1856, re-opened in 1858, i. 157; ii. 302 _note_ Coventry ribbon trade, distress, ii. 324 Cowper, 7th Earl, iii. 373 Coxwell, H., aeronaut, ii. 142; iii. 207 Crabbe, George, iv. 105 Craig, Gordon, iv. 306 "Cramming" in schools, ii. 131 Cranborne, Lord, _see_ Salisbury Cranbrook, 1st Earl of, iii. 37 Crane, Walter, iii. 221 Crawford and Balcarres, 25th Earl of, ii. 204 Crawley, Peter, prize-fighter, ii. 341 Crawshay, Mrs., of Cyfarthfa, and "lady helps," iii. 270 Craze for writing memoirs, iii. 250 _seq._ Cremation legalized, ii. 223; iii. 275 Cremorne Gardens, i. 159; fête at, ii. 241; closed, iii. 177 Crewe, 1st Marquess of; on anti-Lords campaign, iv. 63; in Mr. Asquith's Cabinet, iv. 91 Crichton-Browne, Sir James, and higher education of women, iii. 123; report on Board schools, iii. 138; on vegetarianism, iii. 209 Cricket, ii. 344 _seq._; iii. 292 _seq._; cricket schoolmasters, ii. 131; played by women, iii. 132; visits of Australian team, iii. 292, 294; England _v._ Australia, iv. 349; explaining it away, _ibid._; cricket as a passport to politics, iv. 350; Warwickshire's triumph, iv. 351; ladies at, _ibid._ Crime, iii. 100 _seq._; iv. 123; fostered by harmful literature, iii. 143 _seq._ Crimean war: declared, i. 124; hospital scandals, i. 126 _seq._; postal service breaks down, i. 126; "Jolly Russian Prisoners," i. 129; brave deeds unrecognized, i. 129, 130; profiteering, _ill._, i. 130; peace party's efforts, i. 131; corps of navvies, _ibid._; Sebastopol inquiry, i. 132; discontent with peace terms, _ibid._; _P._ advocates "frightfulness," _ibid._; peace rejoicings, i. 133; post-war parallels, i. 134; iii. 109 Crimes Act, iii. 44, 50 Crinolines, i. 258 _seq._; ii. 174 _seq._, 225 _ill._, 320 _seq._; threatened revival of, iii. 311; iv. 265 Critics, dramatic, iv. 320 Crockford's Gambling Club, i. 221 Crompton, Samuel, inventor of spinning mule, ii. 73 Cromwell, Oliver, suggested statue of, i. 196, 197 _ill._; iv. 205, 206 Croquet, ii. 238, 346; iii. 303; iv. 355 Crossley, Frank, iii. 171 Crown and Court, _see_ Court Cruikshank, George, ii. 335; death, iii. 332 _seq._