Excerpt from Annual Summaries, Vol. 1: Reprinted From the Times; 1851 1875 Of much divided Germany, and accomplish at Paris her long-matured scheme for the restora tion of the German Empire under her own dynasty; it has seen the losses and humilia tions of Germany repaid with tenfold interest on her fee and France, in her turn, laid under the heel of an unpitying conqueror; it has secuiu France a political beginning whereof none can guess the end. In the course of these events it has seen battles, defeats, surrenders, capitulations, on a scale and with incidents beyond all former example. At home it has seen a Parliamentary Reform Act hardly less important than the first it has seen British armies triumphant in Abyssinia and Coomassie it has seen Spain surpassing her self in revolution, anarchy, and civil war it has seen the commencement, the completion, and now the practical acquisition by our own country of, perhaps, the grandest material work ever achieved by man - the Canal which divides continents and unites the northern and southern oceans; it has seen the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the settlement of Irish Tenant Right, the foundation, at length, of a really national system of elementary Education, and the serious progress of many measures for the health of the people it has seen England visited by distant potentates better known hitherto in travel or in tale it has seen steam sub stituted for sails, and iron armour-plates for the wooden walls of England, on a scale beyond the dreams of our forefathers it has seen even the Army accept some once impossible reforms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.