[Illustration: Hair dressing.] The dresses illustrated are two for walking, one dinner, and one for a ball. The front and back of a cap are also shown. CHAPTER XVIII. 1835. First cargo of ice to India--Election riots at Halifax and in Scotland--A female sailor--The new temporary Houses of Parliament--The King and others hissed--Question of admitting ladies--A political skit--Deaths of Hunt and Cobbett. The chronicle of this year must be made up of odds and ends, for there is no one thing of absorbing interest to record. And first, we find a paragraph in The _Times_ of January 11th (quoting the _Mechanic's Magazine_), headed "EXPORTATION OF ICE TO INDIA. "Lord William Bentinck has presented to Mr. Rogers, supercargo of the ship _Tuscany_, a handsome silver vase, bearing the following inscription: 'Presented by Lord William Bentinck, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in India, to Mr. Rogers, of Boston, in acknowledgment of the spirit and enterprise which projected and successfully executed the first attempt to export (_sic_) a cargo of American ice into Calcutta.' The quantity of ice landed by the _Tuscany_ was about one hundred tons, and the selling price being 6-1/2 cents per lb., it is calculated that the owners received $12,500 upon an investment which, including the cost of all the extra precautions for preserving the ice, did not exceed $500." Owing to the resignation of the ministry in November, 1834, Parliament was dissolved, and a General Election took place--which, after the manner of the times, conduced to riotous behaviour in several places. At the close of the poll at Halifax, on January 14th, the yellow, or Reforming party, attacked various houses, public and private. In some, they contented themselves with breaking windows only; in others, they entered the premises, broke all the window frames, window shutters, inside and out, and other wood-work, and completely demolished every article of furniture within their reach. The mob, three hundred in number, entered the house of Mr. J. Norris, simultaneously, through the dining-room windows, library windows, and by breaking down the principal door. All the windows were broken to pieces--the window frames, in many places; and the whole furniture in the dining-room and library, and all the pictures, with the exception of six or eight, which were badly injured, were destroyed; whilst the plate was stolen, the bookcase was smashed, and quantities of books were taken from the shelves and torn to pieces. These, with music books and prints, were scattered over the lawn in front of the house, and in the garden, until the place looked as if it had been covered with snow. A grand piano was smashed to atoms, together with other musical instruments; a marble mantelpiece was broken, and the place was wrecked.