View in the Crimea: Jalta 680 Miss Nightingale 681 The Emperor of Austria 684 The Conference of Paris, 1856 685 Visit of the Queen and Prince Albert to the _Resolute_ 689 Portsmouth 692 Sir De Lacy Evans 693 View in Berne 697 Old Windsor Lock (_From a Photograph by Taunt and Co., Oxford_) 701 Sir John Bowring 705 Chinese Lorchas in the Canton River 709 The Cascade: Virginia Water 712 Plan of Windsor Castle 713 The Duke of Cambridge (_From a Photograph by Bassano_) 717 The Barracks at Meerut 721 Sir James Outram 725 Cawnpore 729 Lord Lawrence 733 Scene at the First Relief of Lucknow 736 The Hastings Chantry, St George’s Chapel, Windsor 741 The Victoria Cross 744 The Queen Distributing the Victoria Crosses in Hyde Park 745 The Crimson Drawing-Room, Windsor Castle 749 Marriage of the Princess Royal (_After the Picture by John Philip, R.A._) _To face_ 751 [Illustration: THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND.] CHAPTER XXI. COLONIAL HOME RULE AND FINANCIAL REFORM.