DEMOCRACY, instinctive, of great English schools, 174; modern, confirmed by Lodger Franchise in boroughs by Act of 1867, 260; completed by extension to counties in 1884, 260. DENBIGH, Earl of, descended from a Lord Mayor of London, 14. DEVONSHIRE, the Duke of, and Sunday crowds in Hyde Park, 155. DILKE, C. W., proprietor of _Athenæum_ newspaper, 382; called in to edit _Daily News_ in 1849, 382; reduces price of paper, 382. DILKE Commission, presided over by Prince of Wales, 389; power to destroy unhealthy dwellings, result of, 389; a consequence of the enlarged idea of royal service, 390. DISRAELI, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, sketch of, 67; the Young England school of 1846, 68; services rendered by the Young England movement, 69; influence of the _Coningsby_, of, on opening of parks, 70; sends Lord Rowton to visit and report on Clerkenwell outrage, 73; impressions made on Lord Rowton by visit, 74. DISTRICT Councils, establishment of, 83; seats on, objects of ambition among a certain class, 84; jurisdiction of, commensurate with that of rural sanitary authority, 85; special business of, 85; members of, guardians of the poor, 85; female members of, 85; chairmen of, become county magistrates, 86; assessment, part of duty of, 87. DIXIE, Sir Wolston, Lord Mayor of London, ancestor of the peerages of Compton and Northampton, 14. DONALDSON Museum of Musical Instruments at South Kensington, 341. DUELLING, practice of, discussed, 290; still in vogue in time of Sir Robert Peel, 291; abolition of, attempted by Prince Consort, 292; courts of honour suggested as substitutes for, 292; amendment of articles of war, April 1844, the first real blow to, 293. DUELS, celebrated, between Canning and Castlereagh, 1809, 292; Wellington and Winchilsea, 1829, 292; Monro and Fawcett, 1843, 292. E EAST END, homes founded in the, by Oxford and Cambridge, 75; St Margaret's House in the, 75; population of, tact required in dealing with, 130; resentment of patronage by, 130. EASTLAKE, Sir Charles, President of Royal Academy, 350; proposes health of Prince Consort at Royal Academy dinner, 350; reply of Prince Consort, 351. EDUCATION, Act 1870, W. E. Foster's, 136; School Boards established by, 136; compulsory only when voluntary efforts failed, 136; Act 1880, Mundella's, 136; made compulsory under, 136; made free by Act of 1891, 137. EDUCATION Department, first organisation of, in 1839, 135; first vice-president of, appointed in 1856, 135; not concerned with Secondary Education, 162.