Epidemic of influenza -- A scene in some Metropolitan graveyards -- Lord de Ros and his cheating at cards -- Invention of sewing machine -- Coming of age of Princess Victoria -- Illuminations, etc. -- The Spitalfield's silk weavers' ball -- Illness of the King -- His death and burial 235 CHAPTER XXIII. Men's dress -- Education -- School advertisements -- The original of Squeers -- Girls' schools -- Tea as a meal -- Food -- A foreigner's sketch of an English dinner-party -- A high-class dinner -- An ideal dinner 248 CHAPTER XXIV. Clubs -- Theatres -- Other amusements -- A foreigner's idea of London -- London streets and noises -- "Buy a broom?" girls 262 CHAPTER XXV. Holborn Viaduct -- Omnibuses -- Cabs -- Hansom's patent -- Posting -- Mail coaches -- Stage coaches -- Hotels 277 CHAPTER XXVI. Steam carriages on roads -- Commission thereon -- Steam omnibus -- Railways -- A nuisance -- Railways started during the reign -- Opening of the Greenwich Railway 286 CHAPTER XXVII. Cases of wife selling -- Duelling -- Cases of -- O'Connell and D'Israeli -- Other duels 295 CHAPTER XXVIII. Smuggling -- Its prevalence -- Cases -- Great smuggling of silks, etc. -- More cases 311 CHAPTER XXIX. Legitimate trade -- The "truck" system -- Its downfall -- State of trade -- Newspaper stamps -- Steel pens -- Literature -- List of authors -- Painters -- Sculptors 321 CHAPTER XXX. Musicians -- Paganini -- His avarice -- Ole Bull -- Curious musical instruments -- Jim Crow -- The opera and its singers -- The ballet -- Actors, etc. -- Madame Vestris's leg 334 CHAPTER XXXI. Architects and civil engineers -- Men of science -- Scientific societies -- Medical men -- Lawyers -- "Tracts for the Times" -- Curates' pay -- Flogging in the army and navy -- Crime -- Transportation _versus_ hulks -- Stories of convicts 344 [Illustration: Decoration.] WHEN WILLIAM IV. WAS KING. CHAPTER I. 1830. Illness of George IV.--His death--Sale of his clothes, etc.--The new King--His character. In the _Times_ of Friday, April 16, 1830, we have the following _Court Circular_:--