RAILWAY, the Manchester and Liverpool, death of Huskisson on, 28; pays ten per cent. dividend in 1836, 29; Queen did not travel by, until 1842, 28; 1800 miles of, open in England in 1843, 28; enterprise, reaction in, in 1846, 31. RAILWAYS, capital invested in, in 1850, £230,000,000, 31; in 1894, £985,000,000, 31; receipts of, in 1855, £21,000,000, 32; in 1895, £84,000,000, 32; how far, have enriched the landowners, 36; wealth derived from, compared with that from other sources, 37; nationalisation of, objections to, 38; State control of, 38; England and America, the two exceptions to, 38. REACTION, signs of, against educational enthusiasm, 165; grounds of, 165. READING School, connection of, with Oxford University extension system, 192. RELIGIOUS education, struggle over, sketch of the, 137. RELIGIOUS thought, various phases of, 398; gratitude of Oxford verger for remaining a Christian, 398; modern scepticism and, 398; influence of Court on, 399; Tractarian movement as a phase of, 399; agnosticism as a phase of, fillip given to, by Dr Mansel, 406; progress of, stayed by Benjamin Jowett, 406; the 'hard' church, 407; Dr Temple as representative of, 407; _Lux Mundi_, 407. ROMAN Catholicism, increase of, in large towns, 405; and in colonies, 405; increase of numbers of priests and churches, 405. ROTHSCHILD, Lionel, issues Irish famine loan, 1847, 59; lends £16,000,000 to English Government in 1854, 59; advances £4,000,000 for purchase of Suez Canal shares, 1876, 60; elected to Parliament as member for London, 1847, 60; unable to take his seat until 1866, 60; hospitalities at Gunnersbury, 61; death of, in 1879, 61. ROTHSCHILD, Mayer A., of Frankfort, founder of the family in the eighteenth century, 55; known as the Croesus of Europe, 55. ROTHSCHILD, Nathan Mayer, arrives in England at end of the eighteenth century, 56; buys bills on English Government during Napoleonic Wars, 56; transmits funds to English forces in Peninsula, 56; wrongly said to have watched the Battle of Waterloo, 56; story of his agent at Ghent, 57; early news of victory received by him from Ghent, 57; causes dividends and interest on foreign stocks and loans to be paid in London, 57; lends £12,000,000 to the English Government in 1829, 58; buys Gunnersbury, 58; death of Mayer Amschel in 1836, 59. ROTHSCHILDS, the foreign loans of the firm, 61; connection of the, with Egypt, 62; monthly advances by the, to Egyptian Government, 62; take security of private letter of English Foreign Secretary, 62; charitable generosity of the, 62; patrons of sport, 65; and of art, 65; loyalty of the, to England, 66; influence of the, on Judaism generally, 66. ROWING, the, of 1837 and 1897 compared, 414.