taxes on knowledge (repeal of) 23
telegraphs 37, 42, 47, 51
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 67–8
Thailand 42
Timbs, John 12
The Times of London 19
Tocqueville, Alexis de 19, 49, 94–8,100, 113, 116–7;
basic ideas 77–9;
on history-writing 89, 116;
influence on Colonial Society founders 3–4, 71, 81–3,87, 90,94, 109, 111, 113, 142 n35;
method 80, 90;
reputation in Great Britain 76–83
transportation of convicts 55, 105, 108
travel literature 76, 82
Trollope, Anthony 23, 80, 129 n3
undersea cables 38,42, 107
United States of America 49–50,52, 58–60;
British views on 26,41, 76–,89–90,92–3,97–8,112;
Civil War 3, 26, 48, 50, 70–4,80, 92, 119;
imperialism of 9, 26, 69, 85, 118;
possible loyalties of Vancouver Island politicians 59;
travel in 50
universities 29–30
Vancouver Island 52, 59–61,98
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood 38
Verdon, George Federick 149
Victoria (Australia) 46, 54,58, 63–4,107
Victoria (Australia) officials, residents, and travellers 26, 36, 55, 63, 149 n32, 160 n58
Victoria Institute 40
Victoria (Queen) 45
Victoria (Vancouver Island) 59–60
Waddington, Alfred 59–60
Waddington, William 58
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon 48,96–8;
and New Zealand 98;
writings 96–8,104;
see also Colonial Reform movement
Walker, William 142 n26
Ward, John M. 107
Waterhouse, George Marsden 42
Weld, Frederick Aloysius 24
Wesleyanism 40,42, 53
West Africa 68–9,112
Western Australia 57
West Indian officials and travellers 35, 63
Index 211