HYDE Park, the social parade ground of the kingdom, 1; originally a royal pleasure ground, 2; visitors to, in different decades compared, 3; bicycles admitted into, 7; early water drinkers in, 9; succeeded by early riders in, 9; condition of, between 1840 and 1860, 7. I IMPORTS, value of, during last twenty-five years, nearly 10,000 millions. INCOME-TAX, gradual increase of, 25; extended to Ireland, 1855, 25. INCOMES, assessment of, in 1855, 308 millions; 1875, 571 millions; 1882, 612 millions. INDESTRUCTIBILITY of matter, ascertained chemically in eighteenth century, 325. INDUSTRIES, no increase in staple, during recent years, 236; decrease in agricultural, 236; new, constantly arising, 236. INTERMEDIATE Education Act, 149. IONIAN physicists, anticipation of modern discoveries by, 325. IRISH Famine, compared with that at Orissa, 231; remarks on, in connection with Malthusian doctrine, 232. IRVING, Sir Henry, sketch of, 217. ISLINGTON in 1840, still a country suburb, 40. J JACOB Omnium, nickname of Thackeray's friend, Big Higgins, 6. JERSEY, Lady, popularity of, in early Victorian period, 10. JEWS, sufferings of, in England, under Henry III., 54; levies on, Westminster Abbey completed by, in reigns of Richard III. and Henry VII., 54; only twelve families of, in England, in 1633, 54; re-establishment of, in England by Cromwell and Charles II., 54; the Rodrigues and Goldsmids the heads of the, in time of George III., 55; the Rothschilds originally Frankfort, 55; no magistrates or sheriffs before 1837, 60; Lord Campbell's bill for removing this disability of, 60. JOACHIM, Herr, popularity of, in England, 346; director of Royal Academy of Music, Berlin, 346; Doctor of Music of Cambridge, 346; portrait of, by George Eliot, 346. JOWETT, Benjamin, personal efforts of, to extend first-class education, 156; favoured scheme of unattached students at Oxford, 183; lecture-rooms at Balliol opened to non-collegiate students by, 183. K KEAN, Charles, actor, 1820-68, son of Edmund, 210; educated at Eton, 210; social position of, 211. KEAN, Edmund, Byron's eulogy of, 210. KEMBLE, frigid classicism of, 210. KINGLAKE, A. W., historian of Crimean War, 11; last survivor of early Hyde Park equestrians, 11. L LADIES College, Cheltenham, work of, in East End, 122. LADIES of the Court, 280; Mistress of the Robes, 280; Ladies of the Bedchamber, 280; Women of the Bedchamber, 280; Maids of Honour, 280; functions of the several, 281. LANDSEER, Sir Edwin, elected R.A., 1830, 352; social position of, exceptional, 352. LANSDOWNE, Marquess of, pre-eminence of, in early Victorian days, 4.