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Oceanic stagnation, a Yankee's notions
about, 177

Opera, origin of the English, 535
Opus magnum, Scott's, 19

Oriental histories, extravagancies of, 127
Origen's opinion of St. John's writings, 197
Original Maxims, Lavater's, 468
Ornithology and Watterton, 62
Osborne's Hints to the Charitable, 520
Owyn Glyndower, and Henry V., 576

P.

PACIFIC, Missionary doings in the, 504
Palace, Momfanoi's, description of a, 120
Paradise Lost, characteristics of the, 344
Parker, Mr., his evidence on postage, 235
Parliamentary Portraits, Wilberforce's,
168

Patterson's Insects in Shakspeare's Plays,
599

Partition of Germany, its effect upon offices,

365

Patron, soft feeding for a, 432

Passes, use of, by magnetisers, 474
Pauperism, Vethake on, 400

Penn, Wm., his treaty with the Indians,
502

Pen-portrait, Watterton's, 64

Penny Clothing Fund, Osborne's, 529

Pensions in Malta, 227

Principal Robertson, some of his sentiments,
496

Prior, letters of, to Hanmer, 430
Prisons in Germany, state of, 364
Private life and political science, 394
Privations of a King in exile, 386
Procession, account of a Siamese, 123
Professions, specimen of puerile and confi-
dent, 443

Professor Schlegel, works of, 187
Promising tokens in literature, 427
Pryme's Jephthah and other Poems, 308
Public life and political science, 394
Publication, rate of, in France and Ger-
many, 359

Purcell as an Opera composer, 535
Purity, Hyde's ostentation of, 390
Puritan estimate of regal paraphernalia, 110
Puysegur, M. de, his establishment, 473

Q.

QUEEN Victoria, popularity of, 109
Quakers, amount of insanity in Society of,
370

R.

RABBINICAL learning, character of, 314
Rabbinism, notices concerning, 314
Railroads, English and American, 453
Railroadiana, 559

Perceval, Hon. C. G., and the Duke of Railway Companion, Coghlan's, 456

Normandy, 440

Perpetual pleasure and man, 79

Pestilence, moral influence of, 83

Petronilla, her confession, 484
Phrenology of the Chinese, 126
Physical Man, Mudie's, 547

Pilgrim's Progress, new edition of, 462
Pinel, efforts of, in behalf of lunatics, 373
Pitman's Stenography, 306
Plague at Athens, origin of, 82
Planché, his Regal Records, 109
Polish Jews, notices of, 313

Pope, letter of, to Earl of Strafford, 438
Popular instruction in Germany, excellence
of, 362

Population, estimate of Chinese, 406; how
regulated in Dinajpoor, 510
Portrait Gallery, Pettigrew's Medical,
622

Portuguese Jews, respectability of, 325
Post Office Reform, 234

Poussin on American railroads, 455

Poverty the cause of crime, 523
Practical Philosophy, Hood's, 99

Preaching in the celestial empire, 415
Press, The, and Malta, 232
Princess Victoria and Scott, 20

"Prince of Heaven," mechanical skill of
the, 120

Random Recollections of the Lords and
Commons, 281

Raphael, contemporary fame of, 9

Raventloz, notices of Count, 192
Reade's Italy, 457

Reading well, half a commentary, 198
Rebecca Wilson, 301

Red Indians, general treatment of, 503
Reform, Jewish, notices concerning, 320
Reform Bill, The, and Scott, 22
Reformation, its influence on Art, 8
Reformers, Jewish, notices of, 319
Regal Records, Planché's, 109

Reid, Mr. John, his evidence on letter-
carrying, 239

Relics, mysterious, account of certain, 220
Religion, morals and medical science, their
relations, 79, 84, 85

Reminiscenses of M. Tussaud, 245
Responsibility of the insane to the law,
cases of, 380

Restoration of the Opera, how to be ac-
complished, 537

Revenue of Malta, 223; sources of, 225
Reynolds, Sir J., notices of, 3
Rheims, Pitt at, 157

Ricci, exertions of, in China, 408

Richard II. and Henry of Monmouth, 579
Richardson's Dictionary, 514

Risks at sea, singular speculation about,

138

Robespierre and M. Tussaud, 249
Rogers' Italy, new edition, 151

Romantic and Picturesque Germany, 630
Rome, Scott at, 27; stanzas on, 459
Romilly, indefatigability of, 171

Small-pox, reputed origin of, 82
Smith, anecdote of Sir S., 169
Smuggling and the Post office, 238
Snowden's Arithmetic, 468

Soame, Henry, extracts from his poetry,

439

Social condition in Germany, 365, 367

Roscoe's History of the London and Bir- Somnambulism, phenomena of, 473

mingham railway, 453

Rousseau, notices of, 246

Roxenburg Palace, collections at, 540

Royal shield, suggested alterations in quar-
tering of the, 115

Royal vault at Windsor, Knighton's visit
to, 97

Royalty and Montrose, 213
Rufus, or the Red King, 151
Ruling passion, Watterton's, 65

Ruschenberger's Voyage round the World,
115

Russian Autocrat, The, and Jenner, 623
Rutland, Duke of, as a senator, 286

S.

SAAVEDRA, Wellesley's letter to, 60
Sampans at Bankok, notices of, 118
Satan, character of Milton's, 347
Savages of Europe, charge against the, 507
Scepticism in Germany, progress of, 360
Schlegels' Public Law of Denmark, 184
Scott, Life of, 15

Scottish nobles, insolency of, 210

Scottish portraitures, fidelity of Scott's, 16
Scratching Shins, a royal luxury, 122
Sculpture, character of English, 5
Seamen, methods for raising the character
of, 142

Seats of our Nobility, Waagen's visits to,
10

Second Charles, Hyde's position in the

court of the, 388

Seclusion, effects of, on the insane, 378
Secretary at War, duties of, 267; recom-
mendations concerning, 270
Self-knowledge, value of, 550
Sentamentalizing, Mr. Tyler's, 576
Sermon, specimen of remarkable, 498
Shaftesbury, Earl of, as a senator, 287
Shakspeare and Hanmer, 434
Ship-captains, character of American, 141
Ship-insurances, effects of, 142
Shipmasters, incompetency of, 135
Shipping and Shipwrecks, report on, 132
Siam, notices of the royal family of, 119
Siamese, characteristic superstition of the,

122

Silkworm, Murray on the, 460

Slaughterer among the Jews, his eminence,
316

Slavery, Wilberforce's early feelings on, 155

Somnolency of an hysterical girl, 475
Sonnets of Shakspeare, Brown on, 620
Sound duties, notices of the, 194
South Africa, English system of colo-
nizing, 504

South Sea bubble, and mad-houses, 369
Southampton, quarrel with the Jews of,
322

Southey's poetical works, vol. VI., 310
Spanish intrigue and insincerity, examples
of, 52

Spanish character, Chateaubriand on, 583,
590

Spanish generals, notices of, 256

Spiritual Lords, a scene beeween two, 286
Squeers, Mr., and a stepfather, 103
Standish, his Northern Capitals of Europe,

539

Stanhope, Earl of, as a senator, 287
State papers relating to reign of King
Henry VIII., 369

Steam-boats and letter-carrying, 239, 243
St. John's Gospel, revision of, 195
St. Peter's, Scott's visit to, 27
Stewards, seafaring, and passengers, 420
Steele, letter of, to Hanmer, 429
Stock-jobber, the, and Chateaubriand, 590
Stonyhurst, Watterton at, 65

Sudor Anglicanus, origin of, 82
Summary of Scott's character, 32
Superintendent, Chinese synonyme for, 125
Supernatural interpositions, alleged in-
stances of, 452

Swedes, Standish's account of the, 515
Surrey Hunt, a Cockney Swell at the, 105
Sweet Ann Page, story of a, 564

Swift, letter of, to Hanmer, 431
Symbolic forms at Coronations, 112
Symptoms of insanity, 378
Syracuse, Knights of, 149

Szentpetery's Battle of Arbella, 312

T.

TALFOURD'S Athenian Captive, 173
Talmud, effect of studying the, 316
Talmudic law, persecuting spirit of, 324
Theremin's Confessions of A. Dalbert, 307
Thoas, Character of, 174

Tussaud, Madame, her Memoirs, 244
Titchburne, verses by Chidiock, 562
Todd's edition of Johnson's Dictionary,
remarks on, 515

Tokens of rank, Siamese, 124
Toryism of Sir Th. Hanmer, 428

Tower of the Temple and the Dauphin of
France, 446

Trades' Unions, Vethake on, 401

Wages in Malta, 224

Walsingham in Woman's Wit, character
of, 331

Wanderings, Watterton concerning his, 69
War, the cause of contagious diseases, 81

Translations, differences between literal War, a productive cause of Words, 517

and faithful, 196

Travellers, a hint to, 513

Travels of Minna and Godfrey, 302
Treasurer of Malta, his duties, 227
Treasury Board, functions of, 268
Treaty, merits of the Eliot, 260
Tring, notices of, 565

Troubled nights, reflections concerning, 17
Tweedside, view of, its effect on Scott, 30
Two-penny Post, Metropolitan, recom-
mendations concerning, 235
Tyler's Memoirs of Henry V., 574

U.

ULTRA Tories, Clarendon the idol of, 392
United States, lunatic asylums in, 377
Unnatural innovations, instance of, 537
Unproductive labour, Vethake on, 398
Utility, meaning of, in political science,
394

V.

VALENTINE de Grey in Woman's Wit, cha-
racter of, 337

Vaux's Rambles in the Pyrenees, 470
Verbiest in China, works of, 409
Vericour, De, his Lectures on Milton, 342
Versailles, fêtes at, 248

Vethake's principles of political economy,
393

Vice, the cause of disease, 84
Vicissitudes, marvellous, 447
Victim, The, a Tale, 302

Victoria Parliament, features of the, 282
Village economy, Osborne's, 531

Vision, mental, experiment to try the fa-
culty of, 476

Vizard's Mystery of the Tabernacle, 469
Vocabulary, how increased, 516
Voltaire, notices of, 246

Voyage round the World, Ruschenberger's,

115

Vulture, on the nose of the, 71

W.

WAAGEN's Arts and Artists in England, 1

Warrior's heart, fate of a, 221

Watterton, his Essays on Natural History,

62

Wealth, meaning of, in political science,
396

Weather prophets, Hood's lines on the,

100

Wedded felicity, a King's estimate of, 93
Wei-hae, visit to, 415

Wellesley, Despatches of Marquess, 51
West Indies, notices of discovery of, 494
Westmacott, his merits, 6
Whampoa, scenes near, 403
Whitbread's eloquence, character of, 169
White negroes, 163

Widows, condition of, in Dinajpoor, 509
Wife's Friendly Society, Osborne's, 527
Wilberforce, Life of, 153; death of, 171,
Wilkie, Sir D., notices of, 5,

William Shakspeare, Dramatic Works, new
edition, 465

William Pitt and Wilberforce, 156, 157,
159, 167

Williams, Mr., his testimony as to South

Sea Islanders, 504

Willis, Mr., on British Shipping interests,
143

Wimbleton, Wilberforce at, 155

Wise Men's Offering, The, criticised, 11
Woful religious errors, instances of, 494
Woman's Wit, Knowles's, 326
Women, condition of, in Dinajpoor, 509
Woodroffe, Mr., on ship building, 135
Words, sources of, increase of English, 518
Worldly greatness not happiness, 89

Y.

YEAR to Year, Laughter from, 99
Yew, The, and Shakspeare, 609
York, Wilberforce at, 159, 165
York Faction, blood-thirstiness of the, 573
Yorkist testimonial, extracts from, 572
Young Christianity, how threatened, 506

Z.

ZEALAND, New, colonization of, 506

LONDON:

J. HENDERSON, 18, BANNER-SQUARE.

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