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
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,
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
QUEEN Victoria, popularity of, 109 Quakers, amount of insanity in Society of, 370
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
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,
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,
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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,
Vulture, on the nose of the, 71
WAAGEN's Arts and Artists in England, 1
Warrior's heart, fate of a, 221
Watterton, his Essays on Natural History,
Wealth, meaning of, in political science, 396
Weather prophets, Hood's lines on the,
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
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
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
ZEALAND, New, colonization of, 506
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