PRINCE Consort, sagacity of, early discovered, 20; cultivation of artistic sense in English manufactures, due to, 20; influence of, in shaping monarchy of to-day, 276; sets example of royal sympathy with extra political activities of daily life, 276; early training of, in view of his possible future home, 277; reforms the domestic economy of the palace, 278; attacks on, in clubs and drawing-rooms, 279; as well as in the inferior press, 279; institutes office of master of the household, 280; promotion of science and art by, 282; skill of the, as an organist, 284; first public speech of, on the slave trade in 1840, 285; revives the taste for classical music, 285; initiates royal platform speeches on non-political matters, 285; influence of Sir Robert Peel on the, 286; Sir Charles Eastlake and the, friendship of, 288; visits of Queen and, to Sir Robert Peel, 289; to Louis Philippe, 289; to Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow and Leeds, 289; elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 289; declines the post of commander-in-chief, 294; suggestions of, for a system of national defence, 294; acts as director of Ancient Concerts, 339; rescues the Raphael cartoons from decay, 349; efforts of, to make Court the centre of literary, scientific and artistic efforts, 323. PRINCE of Wales, ubiquity of, 289; untiring energy of, derived from his father, 289; visit of, to tomb of George Washington in 1860, 437. PRISONS, no new, built since 1870, 367; several, converted into public libraries, 367; one of the, now the site of a fine art gallery, 367. PRIVATE theatricals, local clubs for, 197. PRIVY Council, judicial committee of, 427; functions of, 427; constitutional modifications of, 427. PRIVY Purse, succession of able men who have acted as, 281; distinction between, and Privy Seal, 281. PROBLEM, the educational, awaiting solution, Higher grade schools, 139. PUBLIC Health Act, 1875, embodiment of efforts of individuals extending over forty years, 99. PUBLIC Schools, increased numbers at, 96; Bedford, Ipswich, Bath, Cheltenham and others; products of Victorian era, 96. PUBLIC School Act, 1868, effect of, 139. 'PUNCH,' Staffordshire miner, as delineated by, no longer true, 154. PURCELL, Henry, born 1675, 344 (note); organist at Westminster when eighteen years old, 344; prolific composer, 344; German unintentional compliment to, 344. Q QUAKER School at Ackworth, specially complimented by the Education Commission, 146. QUARTER Sessions, sketch of county town during, 97; before Corporation Act and afterwards, 97. QUEEN Elizabeth, comparison of, with Queen Victoria, 275. R RACEHORSE, the, indispensable to breed of horses, 412; antiquity of, 412; introduction of Arab blood into, 412; social diploma to breeders of, 413.