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The _Illustrated London News_--The Early Numbers--The Burning of Hamburg--Facetious Advertisements--Bal Masque at Buckingham Palace--Attempted Assassination of the Queen--The Queen's First Trip by Railway--First Royal Visit to Scotland--Political Portraits--R. Cobden--Lord John Russell--Benjamin Disraeli--The French Revolution, 1848--The Great Exhibition, 1851--The Crimean War--Coloured Pictures--Christmas Numbers--Herbert Ingram--The _Pictorial Times_--Other Illustrated Journals.