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difference between the kinds of publica- | ponderate in favour of that assembly of tion and sale, as they existed before and which he is the child, the ornament. and since the resolution of August, 1835- the oracle. We do not say that his dethe terms, and of course the legal import of the terms, appearing to be the same, while, in fact, there was a latent, but, as we have endeavoured to show, most essential distinction between them.

cision is unquestionable-far from itbut we will say, that his bias towards the privileges of the House of Commons was honourable, natural, inevitable-and the more noble, as it happened to be at variLet us be allowed to add, as history ance with a large portion of his political will do, when it comes to treat of these alliance, and of his private friendships. transactions, that in a case in any degree It may have postponed his advent to dubious it was reasonably to be expected power-we do not think it has but if it that He the foremost man in the House were so, we confess we should rejoice of Commons-who had attained that first that, by a fortunate error, he has saved place in the first senate of the world by the great Conservative party from the a union of great qualities, which would imputation, the disgrace, the eventual be best described by the combined traits ruin, of having quibbled themselves into of Mr. Burke's beautiful eulogies of the government by a point of law. When George Grenville and Charles Townsend the Conservatives shall mount to the Ca. -it was, we say, to be expected-and it pitol in triumph, it must be for a victory was right-that, in a balance of difficul--and not for a skirmish!

ties, the mind of such a man should pre

INDEX TO VOLUME LXV.

À.

ABBEYS, number endowed from the reign of Wil. liam I. to Henry VIII., 81.

Abernethy, John, the Father of dyspeptic medicine, 172; his character and rare union of quali. ties, 172, 173.

Address of the young ladies of a school at Wash-
ington to a Red Chief, 214.
Adventure, the, 106. See King.
Almacks, 145.

Americans, the, deeply engaged in the opium
trade, 300; the remonstrance of the residents at
Canton to Captain H. Smith, 315.
Antiquaries, two classes of, 30.
Army, the, of Austria, 135.

Augereau, Marshal, 25.

Austin, Mrs., on national education, 134. Austria, the House of, compared to the Danube, 127; extent and nature of its dominions, ib.

division of, 129; feudalism and privileges of the nobility, ib. church establishment, ib.; great toleration to all sects, 129, 130; secular clergy, 130; legislation and administration of the law, ib.; present cabinet, 131; system of education, ib.; the executive for carrying it into effect, 131, 132; cost of instruction, gymnasia, universities, 132; morals and crime, 133; immense amount of illegitimacy, ib.; crime as affected by education, 133, 134; poor laws, 134, 135; national debt, 135; supplies furnished by Hungary and the Italian states, ib. ; army, ib.; police, 136; press, 136, 137; criminal code, 137.

and the Austrians, 126. B. Bacon, 197. See Hallam. Beagle, the, 106. See Fitzroy. Beaumont, Dr., experiments on Alexis St. Martin, 174; opportunities for examining the process of digestion in consequence of an external aperture to the stomach, ib.; sympathy between the stomach and the brain, 176; gastric juice, ib.; its components and properties, 177; quantity in

the stomach, ib.; our sensations are not the criteria of disease in the stomach, 178; Dr. Beaumont does not consider insalivation more essential than mastication, 181; table of digestibility, 182; inferences from the doctor's expe. riments, ib.

Belmas, Siéges faits ou soutenus par les Français dans la Péninsule de 1807 à 1814, 18; division of the work, 18,19; sources of his information, 19; Bessières and Dupont, 20; campaign of Talavera, 21; siege of Girona, 21, 22; Generals Gouvion and Verdier, 22; Marshal Ney, 23; strength of the French and English forces as stat. ed by Napoleon, 24; defeat of the French at Fuentes d'Onor, ib.; disgraceful decree of Bessières, 24, 25; of De Broglie, 25; Augereau, ib.; Dorsenne, 25, 26; Marmont, 26, 27; battle of Albuera, 28.

Bentham, Jeremy, returns a ring to the Emperor of Russia, because his majesty refused to follow his advice implicitly, 127.

Berthier, Prince, letter to Dorsenne, 25, 26; to Marshal Marmont, 26,

Bessières, Marshal, 24; his disgraceful decree at Valladolid, 24, 25; replaced by General Dorsenne, 25.

Beyle, M., Mémoires d'un Touriste, 43. Biblical criticism in Germany, its dangerous tendency, 273.

Bill to protect publication of parliamentary papers, 328; conservative party, policy of, 329. Bloodhounds brought to the United States to drive the Seminoles from their hunting-grounds, 221. Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, 227.

Buffaloes' skins, immense number annually collected in the United States, 222.

Bullock, Captain T. H., the Chinese vindicated, in a reply to S. Warren, Esq., 294; no English. man but the Captain would apologise for Lin's brutality after the delivery of the opium, 312. Burleigh, Lord, 36. See Cecil. Butler, Bishop, 68.

C.

Calderon, 199. Caldwell, Dr., his division of the human species in. to fat and lean, 178.

Campbell, Sir John, his speech at the Edinburgh breakfast, 159, 160.

Capitole, Le, the Bonapartist organ, 243. Carrel, Armand, his early history, 236; first cause of his distinction, ib. ; his connection with the National, 236, 237; cause of his influence, 237; death in a duel, ib.

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Catlin's Indian Gallery, 209; misapplication of the term Indian,' ib.; causes of travellers mistak. ing the true character of the American Indians, 210, 211; its nobleness, 211; they are not inferior to white men in bodily strength, 212; nor in mental or moral power, ib. ; not deficient in humanity, 213; the young Pawnee chief, 213, 214; the stain of the Indian character, 214; cruelty in warfare not confined to Indians, 215; scalping not worse than other practices of white warriors, ib; their strict honesty, 216; religion, 216, 217; funeral ceremonies, 217; summer appearance of a family, 218; marriage, ib.; the man of four wives, 218, 219; male and female occupations, 219; food, cannibalism, 220; barbarous treatment of the white Americans, 220, 221; fatality of the small-pox, 221; their passion for whiskey and its deplorable effects, 221, 222; rapid disappearance of the game which gives them food, 222; 'Crow' Indians, 222, 223: compulsory sale of their lands, 223; means adopted in the United States to compel them, 224, 225; distrust of white Americans, 226; moral and physical inconveniences of 'hunting grounds' in the heart of agricultural districts, 227, 228; occasional necessity for their removal, 228; Mr. Catlin's gallery, how collected, 229; proofs of its truth and authenticity, ib. ; the object of his visiting England, ib.; the English government has made every exertion to do its duty to the Indians, 230.

ecil, Lord Burleigh, birth and ancestry, 36; sent to St. John's College, Cambridge, 37; his mar. riage, ib.; appointed secretary to Protector Somerset, ib.; shares his imprisonment in the tower, 38; his alleged desertion of Somerset, 39; devotedness to Northumberland, ib. ; sub. mission to Mary, 39, 40; his wonderful industry, 41; minuteness of his private journal, ib.; his piety, 42.

Charivari, Le, dangerous tendency of its articles, 243; contributors, ib. ; its extensive circulation, ib.

Charles V. described, 34.

Chartism, a natural and necessary development of Whig principles, 265.

Chartist outbreak, the, more extensive than is ima gined, 154.

Chateaubriand, M., 232.

China, the oldest nation and finest country on the earth, 305; grand principles of its internal good management, ib.

Chinese affairs, 294; character of the pamphlets written respecting them, 295; the writers are all in favour of war, 313.

Church and state, 54. See Gladstone. Clowes, Messrs., printing establishment, 2; com. positors' rooms, ib. ; cases, 4; distributing type, ib.; corrections, 5; readers, 6; steam-presses, 8; hand-presses, 8, 9; amount of printing go. ing on simultaneously in the establishment, 9; hour for refreshment, 9, 10; type-casting department, 12, 13; its magnitude and importance, 14; weight of type in constant use, ib.; stereotype, 15; paper warehouse, ib.; wetting and

drying the paper, 15, 16; quantity of paper required annually, 16; coloured maps, 17, 18. Collier, Mr., 261.

Coloured Maps, 17, 18. See Knight.
Columbus one of the most distinguished men of
any age, 220:

Compositors described, 2, 3.
Constitutionnel, the, 240.
Courrier Français, the, 240.
Cowley's ode in praise of Bacon, 198.
Cowper successfully imitated, 93, 94.

D.

Darwin, Chas., researches in the geology of the countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, from 1832 to 1836, 106; great valne of Mr. Darwin's researches in zoology, 121, 122; and in geology, 122; Lagoon Islands, ib. ; encircling reefs, 122, 123; theories of their formation, 123, 124; climate of the southern hemisphere with reference to organic natural productions, 124; distribution of erratic bowlders, ib; phenomenon of the icy entombment of Siberian animals, 124, 125; earthquake at Concepcion, 125, 126; hatred of the aborigines of South America and the Spani. ards, 126; heroism of four of the former, ib. De Balzac, M., Un Grand Homme de Province à Paris, 230; written to illustrate the system of criticism in France, 246.

De Girardin, Madame E., L'Ecole des Journalistes,

230.

-, M., editor of La Presse, 241; his fortunate speculation, duel with M. Carrel, and marriage, 241, 242

Madame, the contributions of, under the signature of Viscomte de Launay to La Presse, 242; her comedy illustrating the inter. nal system of the French press, 242; dispute between her and Jules Janin at the reading of her comedy, 251; her calumnies refuted, 252. Denman, Lord, his opinion of the sale of parlia mentary papers containing libels on individuals 320.

De Salvandy, M., his Lettres à la Giraffe, 233.
Descartes, 197.

Digestion, 172. See Holland.
Dorsenne, General, his refutation of each passage
of Prince Berthier's letter to him, 25, 26.
Dryden, John, the first of the writers for bread,
206.

Dyspepsia, 172. See Holland.

E.

Edinburgh Review's defence of the Whigs, 159.
Elizabeth, Queen, 35.

Elliott, Captain, 302. See Opium.
Equity Courts, the state of, 147; reasons for the
failure of all plans for their reform, 147, 148;
expense and delay the two great defects of these
courts, 148; commission appointed in 1824,
though limited in its powers, ib; the effect
which it accomplished, ib. ; contrasted with the
commission for inquiry into the common law,
148, 149; causes of the delay and expenses of
the equity courts, 149; a power of legislation
should be given to alleviate these delays, 149,
150; the establishment for hearing causes
should be augmented, 150; means of enlarging
it without increasing the cost to the country,
150, 151; alterations and augmentations needed
in the masters' offices, 152; public taxing.offi
cers should be appointed, and all fees abolished,
152, 153.

Enchanted Island, the, a ballad brought to light by Mr. Collier, 262.

Ernest, or Political Regeneration, 87; a chartist

epic poem, ib.; reasons for noticing this poem, 88; character of the poem, with extracts, 90, et seq.

Esterhazy, 139. See Paget. Exeter, the Bishop of, charge to the clergy of the diocese, 1839, 79; speech on Socialism, 265; his exposition of the working of Socialism, 278.

F.

Fitzroy, Captain, Narrative of the surveying Voy. ages of the Adventure and Beagle, and her cir. cumnavigation of the globe, 106; appointed to the command of the Beagle on the death of Captain Stokes, 107; commander of the Beagle in the expedition for circumnavigating the globe, ib.; brings four Fuegians to England, 108; objects of the survey, 109; measurement of the globe by chronometers only, 110; return of the Fuegians to their native land, 116, 117; dangerous position of the Beagle in a gale, 117; horse Indians of Patagonia, ib.; canoe Indians, 117, 118; cannibalism, 118, 119; formation of a missionary settlement, 119; failure, 120. Francis II. Emperor of Austria's method of gov. erninent, 127; his weekly reception of all classes of his subjects, 128; enthusiastic affection he inspired, ib.; weak points of his character, ib. Fuegians, 107; four of them on board the Beagle, 108; their arrival and treatment in England, ib.; death of one by small-pox, ib.; their visit to William IV., 109; return to Tierra del Fuego -reception of Jemmy' by his family, 119; his rapid relapse into his original state, 120, 121.

G.

Garratt, W. A., Suggestions for a Reform in the proceedings of Chancery, 147; his book contains some shrewd suggestions, 153.

Gassendi, 197.

Gazette de France, the, 240.

Giles, Rev. J. E., Socialism as a religious theory irrational and absurd-his testimony, as a Bap. tist minister, against Socialism valuable, 166; its doctrine exposed, 167.

Gin Palaces, necessity for their suppression, 312. Girona, siege of, 21.

Gladstone, W. E., Esq., M.P., the State in its relations with the Church, 54; remarkable na. ture of his book, 55; character of it, 56; causes of the obscurity of his argument, ib.; popular definition of the church erroneous, ib.; catholicity, 57; of the Anglican church, 57, 58; cha. racter in which the church comes before a nation, 58; a state defined, 60; the ruling part, 60, 61; the principles and limits of the support of the state to the church, 61, 62; the national conscience, 62; the argument that the state ought not to interfere with the church refuted, 63, 64; the reformation, 64; methodism and socinianism, ib.; removal of civil disabilities from dissenters, 64, 65; danger of allowing the will and fancy of individuals to be the absolute supremacy in religion, 65; if this is established what will become of the state? 66; the reli gion of the state should not be regulated by expediency or individual fancy, ib.; if it be, Christianity and truth will perish, 66, 67; morality in a state cannot be established without religion, 68; it is the church which keeps up the tone of public morals, 68, 69; Locke's 'social compact,' 70; the present virtual compact, ib. ; why na. ture has formed political society, 71; the ruler of society must have the sanction of religion, ib.; so must the family, 72; career of a state that has shaken off its allegiance to the church, 72, 73; position of the church if the state apos.

tatizes from it, 73.75; its revenues must be maintained as long as property is sacred, 76; duty and power of the legislator, ib.; the object of government, 77; it should be religious, ib. ; but it is not necessary that every subordinate society must have its faith and religion, ib. ; to preserve the church with the state the great body of the nation must be brought back to it, 78; mode of accomplishing it, 78, 79; it must be preserved as private rights are guarded, 79, 80; the pecuniary aid required, 80; tithes, ib.; they are the property of the church, 80, 81; ne. cessity of concentration of benevolence, 81, 82; melancholy state of our colonial religion, 83; probable issue of the passions of the day on religion, 83, 84; the church must help herself by her own efforts, 84; little is required from the state, 85; the work which the church has to do, ib.; the English church looked upon in other countries as a centre and head, 85, 86; propriety of tolerating dissent, 86.

Gleig, Rev. G. R., Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, visited in 1837, 126; his visit to the Castle of Tetchen described, 141, 142. Glenelg, Lord, the humane friend of the American Indians, 230.

Gutenberg said to be the inventor of printing, 12; Thorwalsden's statue of, ib.

H.

Hallam, (Henry), Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 185; the most elaborate portions of his work treat of writers on various subjects and different characters, ib.; The question, is there any uniformity in the progress of mental improvement, considered, 185, 186; there is no uniform. ity, 186; genius is developed according to the demand for it, 186, 187; the vicissitudes in the state of the different nations of Europe have en. riched literature, 187; Italian literature in the sixteenth century, ib.; characteristics of her writers at that period, 187, 188; Tasso's Jerusalem, 189, 190; his high.wrought religious feeling, 190; madness, 190, 191; German and English literature of that period, 191, 192; Spenser, 192, 193; his development of the capacities of the English language, 193; the Elizabethan drama; Shakspeare, 193; Diction of his juvenile and subsequent poems, 194; Lear, ib. ; Timon, ib.; Coriolanus, 195; the writers at the Reformation, ib.; Jesuits, 196; Popish despotism depresses free and aspiring intellect, ib.; Becon, Gassendi, Descartes, 197; the popularity and influence of the former considered, 197, 198; Spanish literature, 198; her drama, 199; Don Quixote, 199, 200; Literature of France, 201; its cleverest writers were writers for society, ib.; the stage and pulpit the great expanders of French literature, 201, 202; the two elements of the French drama, 202; religion and speculative philosophy, 203; Bossuet and Pascal, 203, 204; the origin of evil in man, 204; the civil wars interrupted literary progress in England, 205; literature in the reign of Charles II., 205, 206; Dryden, 206; Clarendon, 207; Jeremy Taylor, Chillingworth, Malmesbury, 207, 208; Barrow, 208; Mr. Hallam's work acceptable to all lovers of literature, 208, 209. Hertford, Earl of, letter to Sir Wm. Paget, 32, 33; to the Council, 33. Holland, Henry, M.D., Medical Notes and Reflections, 171; varied contents of his book, 171, 172; diet and digestion, 172; Abernethy, 172, 173; effect of mental attention on bodily organs, 173; quantity of food required, 175; the amount dependent upon various causes, ib. ; dyspepsia

in politicians, ib.; over and under-feeding equal. ly injurious, 176; gastric juice, 176, 177; chy. mification, 177; accessories of, and influence of the nervous system on digestion, 178; Dr Prout's system of universal voracity, 179; the three staminal principles of food, 180; milk contains them all, ib.; sameness and concentration of food unwholesome, 181; rules for the promotion of digestion, 183; exercise, ib.; rules for the corpulent, 183, 184; interference of fashion as to particular regimens, 184; use and abuse of wine, ib.

Hulmandell, Mr., 18.

Hungary, 126. See Paget.

Hunter, the Rev. Joseph, on the Scene, Origin, Date, &c. of Shakspeare's Tempest, 256; Literary characteristics of Mr. Hunter, ib. ; his assumption as to the locality of the play, 257; Ber. muda and Lampedusa, 257, 258; the author's arguments in favour of the latter island, 258; their absurdity, ib; his notions as to the origin of the play, 259, 260; the comic passages pro. bably suggested by a passage in Stithe's History of Virginia, 260; the supposition that Shakspeare was indebted to Harrison's translation of Ariosto | refuted, ib.; coincidence between the Tempest and the ballad of the Enchanted Island,' 261; date of the play, 263; incorrectness of Mr. Hun. ter's opinions, ib.; it cannot be identified with 'Love's Labours Won,' 263, 264; the only good suggestion in the book, 264; advice to Mr. Hunter, ib.

J.

Janin, Jules, the most popular of living feuilletonis. tes, 239; specimen of his style, ib.; his dispute with Madame de Girardin, 251; his letter to her! in refutation of her calumnies against the press, 252.

Jesuits, the, effects of their system of education, 196.

Indians, American, the, 209. See Catlin.
Joseph II. of Austria, 127, 128.

Journal des Débats, 238, 239; its feuilletonistes, 238.

Journalism in France, 230; eminence in society of the French journalists, 230, 231; the press at the Revolution of 1791, 231; under Napoleon, 231, 232; the Moniteur, 232; the press at the Restora. tion, ib.; the full development of the power of the press took place in 1823, 232, 233; the censor. ship of 1827, 233; removed by M. de Martignac, b.; National, M. de Chantilouze's report, 233, 234; conduct of the Paris press upon issuing the ordonnances, 234; rewards to the journalists af. ter the Revolution, 235; Armand Carrel, 236. 238; Journal des Débats, 238; Jules Janin, 239; Constitutionnel, Courrier Français, 240; Gazette de France, Quotidienne, ib. ; Commerce, Le Temps, La Presse, 241; Le Siècle, Chari. vari, 242; Figaro, ib.; Moniteur Parisien, Messager, Capitole, 243; Provincial writers, M. Petelin, M. Fonfrede, 244; the reviews, Revue des Deux Mondes, Revue de Paris, ib.; contrast between the English and French jour. nals and their editors, 245; immense power of the French press, though so doubtful as com. mercial speculations, ib.; venality of the critical department, 246; the press illustrated by a work of M. de Balzac, ib.; and by a comedy of Ma. dame de Girardin, 248; extracts, 249; its calumnies refuted, 251, 252; criticism is legiti. mate, and it is not the characteristic of the press to crush genius, 253, 254; it represents the voice of the people, 254; absurd prejudices entertained in England against its members, 255; superior

talents required to insure success as a journalist, ib.

Italy, the acknowledged parent of poetry and general literature in Christendom, 187.

K.

the

Keats, the poet, causes of his death, 253. King, Captain, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, on southern shores of South America, 106; depart. ure from Plymouth, ib.; and commencement of the survey, ib.; death of several officers, 107; return to England, ib.; the Patagonians, 110, 111; difference in the early accounts of this people, 111; Commodore Byron's evidence as to their stature, 112; Captain Clerke's, ib. ; statement of Bougainville, 112, 113; their present appearance and habits described, 114; their Christianity, ib.; general contents of Captain King's book, 115.

King, Mr., Letter to Captain Elliott on the Opium Trade, 294; his warnings unheeded, 302; his criticisms on Captain Elliott's conduct, 304; his method of settling the quarrel, 314, 315. Knight, Mr. Charles, inventor of coloured maps, 17; their small cost, 18.

L.

Lagoon Islands described, 122; theories of their
formation, 123, 124; Siberia, the climate of, an-
terior to physical changes, resembled that of the
southern hemisphere at the present day, 125.
Lampedusa, the island of, 257, 258. See Hunter.
Lin, Commissioner, 301. See Opium.
Lindsay, H. H., Is the war with China a just one?
294; his book entitled to much consideration,
295; his testimony to the zeal of Captain Elliott,
302; he disapproves of any Chinese island being
seized by the British, 314.

Lintin made a depot for opium, 296.
Locke, 70.

Lynch, A. H., Esq., M.P., Letter to Lord Mel. bourne on the Court of Chancery, 147. Lyndhurst, Lord, his opinion of the value of the press, 255.

M.

Man in his savage state described, 116.
Man in the civilized and uncivilized state com-
pared, 210.

Manuscripts, labour and expense of, 9.
Mary, Bloody,' 33, 34. See Tytler.
Mandan tribe, the, wholly swept away by small-
pox, 221.

Maurice, the Rev. Frederick, 71.
Melbourne, Lord, presented Owen the inventor
of Socialism, at Court, 165; its consequences,
168, 169.

Mémoires d'un Touriste, 43. See Beyle. Mess, the, of English regiments, its great advan tages, 135, 136.

Metternich, Prince, first interview with Mrs. Trol lope described, 146.

Miller, J. T. C., Esq., on the present unsettled con, dition of the law, 147; his book contains mang valuable suggestions, 153.

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