he condemns, 499; tractarians com- mended unjustly as defenders of the Church, daily service impossible with present numbers in the Church, 500; attacks the developement system, re- marks on education, 502.
Dickens, Mr., censure on his recent works, 53.
Divorce, incongruities of present law, 218.
Dost Muhammed, his delivery and his sons, 246.
Die Ruckkehr, Von Verfasser der Briefe eines Vestorbenen. The Return. Prince Pückler Muskau, 257. Daguerreotype, remarks on this inven- tion, 402.
Eight Stones, rocks supposed to be near Teneriffe, non existent, 1. Euclid's Elements of Geometry, by R. Potts, A.M., excellent work on the Theory and History of Mathematics, 235.
Essington Port, its high character, 7;
anecdote of a native, 15. Eaton, Charles, a vessel lost in Torres Straits, her crew murdered by the savages, bad conduct of Captain Carr of the Mangles with respect to two Europeans of this crew, 8.
Emilia Wyndham, a novel, elegantly written, extracts, 55-57. Electro-gilding, remarks on it, 392. Elfin legend, 437.
Edinburgh Review, has adopted Mr. Baines' misrepresentations on cotton manufacture, 464.
Exeter, Bishop of, the course adopted by this prelate likely to plunge his diocese into schism, 499. Ernest Jones's Chartist Lyrics, extracts from this work, 524.
Fitzroy, Capt., river named after him,4. Fitzmaurice, Mr., discovers the Adelaide
River, his adventures, together with Mr. Key's, among the savages, 7; river named after him, 11. Flinders, the Navigator, 14. Franklin, Sir John, his kindness to the officers of the Beagle, 16.
Grey, Lieut., proceeds to Australia, on a voyage of discovery, 1; quits the Bea- gle for inland expedition, 2; rejoins the Beagle, 6; his account of his dis- coveries, 6; appointed Governor of South Australia, 16.
Gore, Mrs., tendencies of her works censured, 52.
Geographical Journal, a fine concentra- tion of geographical intelligence, 197. Gladstone, Mr., over-refines on sub- jects, 212.
Grammont, Count, his Memoirs, cha- racter of them, 236.
Græco-Italian Vases, excavations of them, 298; principal Archeologists who have written on them, 298; ex- tent of the Fictile Region, 299; style, 300; classification, 301; subjects on them, 302; inscriptions, 308; mode of fabrication, 310; nomenclature, writers on them, 314; myths, 316; modern art, highly indebted to them, 330.
Garden Flowers, account of them, 396, 397.
Gilroy, Mr., his plagiarisms, 473, 474. Guru Govind, the last of the Gurus, or Spiritual Guides of the Sikhs, con- fers on his followers the title of Singh, or Lion; makes war on Aurungzebe, 509.
Harris, Capt., account of his adven- tures, 2. Hollingworth, Rev. A. G. H., his pam- phlet, entitled, "The Folly of going to Rome for a Religion," 236; ex- tracts from it, 236-238; his promo- tion in the church, far more desirable than recent instances, 238.
Houtman's Abrolhos, a group of Coral Islands visited by the Beagle, 13. Henty, his settlement at Portland, high character of it, 16.
Happar, a tribe of savages in the Mar- quesas, 24.
Hybridity, phenomena of, 125.
Horne, Rev. H., his introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, useful character of the work, 230; its immense circu- lation, 231.
Horace, the Odes, illustrated by parallel passages from Greek, Roman, and British poets, 182.
Howell, his Illustrations of Horace, 188; his parallels of Horace with other writings, 190, 191, 192; his remarks on the custom of throwing mould on the grave at Christian funerals, com- parison of this custom with one de- tailed in Horace, 193.
Herodotus, life of, by Professor Dahl- man, 255.
Haydon, remarks on his melancholy death, 361.
Hosiery Trade, present position of it, 401.
Hinchliff, Mr. J., his excellent engrav-
ing of Watt, the great engineer, 402. History of the Punjaub, 507; extract from this work, remarks on its vari- ous dynasties, 508; cessions of terri- tory in it to Great Britain, 511.
Isidoro, San, description of this con- vent, 71.
Ireland, its distressed state, 149; dimi-
nution of O'Connell's rent, opinions of Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham on distress, 152; ejectments from the land, 153; proposed grant of £400,000, to alleviate distress, 155; destitution in its various provinces, 161; further accounts of same, 164; failure of potato crop, 166; various opinions of statesmen on Ireland, 166. Illustrations of the Tragedies of Eschy- lus and Sophocles, 182-196. Inks, sympathetic description of them, 394.
Incumbent, description of qualities of a valuable metropolitan incumbent, 491.
Key, Professor, his paper on the Lap and Finn Tongues, 111.
Kerry Examiner, quotation from this paper, 163.
Keppel, Captain, his Account of the Ex- pedition to Borneo, 196; extract from this work, which is compiled from Mr. Brooke's Journal, 198; quotations from this work, 199, 200, 201, &c.; his observations on the defective cha- racter of the Admiralty charts, his attack on the Pirates of Murrundum, 203; takes a Prahu; proceeds to Sa- rawak with Mr. Brooke, 204; joins with Mr. Brooke in an attack on pirates, 205; destroys the pirate settle- ment, 206.
Latham, Dr. R. G., his Theory on the Origin of the Cimbri, &c., 109. Lawrence, his Lectures show that the mingling of nations renders each more productive, 127.
Llewelyn's Heir, a novel, 134; extract from it, 135; plot, 136; extract, 137 ; curious Welsh custom, 138; super- stitions in North Wales, 140; love- spinning in Wales, 142; description of samphire gathering, 142; of the well of St. Winifred, 144; of the pe- nitents at the well, 144; legend of St. Winifred, 146; final extract from this work, 147.
Luxembourg, Great, Railway, Report presented to the shareholders, 167; comparison of constructing this with Great Western, 171; towns through which this railway passes,-Brussels, Boitsfort, Wavre, Gembloux, Namur, Ciney, Rochfort, Lecogne, Neufcha- teau, Arlon, Marche, Deulin, Bas- togne, Longlier, Steinfurt, Habbaye, Luxembourg, 173; extension from Luxembourg to Metz, by Frisange, Thionville, Ukange, 173; branch to Trêves, 176; great advantages real- izable by traffic on this railroad, 176; map, showing its connexion with the overland route, via Constantinople, Trieste, Venice, Milan, 177; lines now making in connexion with it, 178; by it Trieste may be reached in a day, 178. London, Bishop of, his singular con- duct with regard to the living of St. James; appointment of Mr. Jack- son to it; unsatisfactory measure to the clergy of London, 215; his want of consideration of the services of the clergy, 216; appointment of his son-
in-law by the Archbishop to Lambeth, also unsatisfactory to the clergy, 216. Lorenzo de Medici, his Life by Roscoe, 234.
Landor, W. S., his Works, extracts
from them, 250, 254.
Lyndsay, Sir Coutts, remarks on his poetry, 361.
Lowell, Mr., his poems, extracts from them, 363-365.
Lewis, G. H., ignorance of this writer, 374; his mistakes on Kant, 378; on Hegel, 381; his various blunders, 382, 383.
Lace, earliest application of machinery to, 396.
Makaheva, principal island of the Mar- quesas, 19. Melville, embarks on board the Dolly, deserts his ship with a companion named Toby, when arrived at the Marquesas, his adventures with the savages, 23; with Marhego, Kory Kory, and others, 25; his descrip- tion of a Marquesan beauty, Faza- waz, 25; escapes from the Marquesas in the Julia, 34. Marquesas, lovely climate of these is- lands, 28.
Marnoo, a Marquesan, description of him, 29; conversation of Mr. Mel- ville with him, 34. Marryatt, Captain, his Peter Simple, 53. March, Earl of, his opinions on grant to Ireland, 155.
Maunsell, Mr., his lawless conduct in resisting expulsion from the land, 157. Mail, Dublin Evening, its erroneous statement, 158.
Mac Gregor, his commercial statistics, 167; his statement of money in joint stock bank companies, 168. Morris, Captain, his Songs, 188. Marriages in Scotland, their shameful character, 218.
Mehemet Ali, anecdotes of him, 261. Muskau, Prince Pückler, his easy style, anecdote of him, 259; his censure of Mr. Wilkinson, 263; thinks he has discovered the site of the labyrinth, 264; his account of Professor Lep- sius, 265; his predilection for Egyp- tian architecture, 266; his account of Mr. Lowe, 267; of the climate of Berber, 268; of the breeding of ani- mals, 268; his dialogue with Me- hemet Ali, 271.
Mackay, Mr., extracts from his writ- ings, 368.
Magnetic Rings, totally useless, 393.
Novel, modern, criticism on it, 51. Nations, complexion of, 116; similari- ties of language, 120; heads of people altered by civilization, 121; sameness of diseases among them, 127; diver- sities of form among them, 129; doc- trine of independent pairs of men of different origin refuted, 132.
Napier, Mr., his statement of Irish dis- tress, 162.
Nanuk, founder of the Sikhs, 509.
Overland route from India, quickest passage by Great Luxembourg, 171; points in favour of passage through Belgium, 172; method in which it can be effected to Ostend in twenty-- four hours, 527; reduction of Messrs. Waghorn's two routes, by means of the Great Luxembourg, 527, 528. Outram, Lieut.-Colonel, his unjust at- tacks on Sir Charles Napier, 283; de- ceived by the Ameers, 285; his seven- teen propositions do not materially affect Sir C. Napier, 286; the annex- ation of Scinde not impolitic, 287. Ogilvy, Mrs., her book of highland min- strelsy, extracts from it, 366; a work of high imaginative beauty. Odometer, remarks on this instrument, 391.
Omnibus, account of it, 393.
Ordeal, ancient methods of protection from it, 441.
Pedro, Don, King of Spain, Anecdote of him, 68. Pritchard, J. C., M. D., his Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, 99; his Natural History of Man, 98; his description of the African races of men, 99; of Abyssinia, 102; of Egypt, 103; affirms that the Egyp- tians are an African race, 104; his in- vestigation concerning the Hotten- tots, 106; on European nations, 106; on the Ligurians and Belgians, 107; on the Cimbri, 108; Caledonians, 109; on Wales, 110; on the old Italian nations, on the Fins, 110; of the
Germans, 112; of the Lithuanian and nations bordering on Greece, 113; his opinion of the Pelasgi, 113; of the Medo-Persian Empire, 114; of the Samoiede nations, 115; of the His- myarites and of the Jews, 115; extract from his work, 124, 125, 128. Pallas, his remarks on domestic ani- mals, Colonel Hamilton Smith con- firms his Theory, 126; thinks man- kind descended from a single pair, 130. Pardoe, Miss, her description of a cu- rious German ceremony, 147. Power, Rev. Mr., his statement of Irish distress, 162.
Park, Mungo, quotation from him, 195. Peel, Sir Robert, influences against him, 212; does nothing for his own party, 212; country in favour of his return to office, 214; objections to a Peel and Russell Cabinet, 220; remarks on his system of taxation, 294; his reply to the merchants of Elbing, 295. Palmerston, Lord, difficulties that sur-
round him in various directions, 216. Prebendaries, remarks on the rapacious character of some of them, proposal to restrict them to their Cathedral duties, 219.
Purwan Durrah, battle of, 249. Pasilogia, or Universal Language, 276;
writers on this subject, Bishop Wil- kins, Des Cartes, Morhoff, Leibnitz, Michaelis, Beck, Dalgarno, De Murr, Vater, &c. 277-281; possibility of its realization, 282.
Pelasgo-Tyrrhenians, the inhabitants of Etruria, 328.
Patmore, Coventry, his poems, extracts from them, 347.
Pens, reed, feather, and steel, account of each, 394.
Pawnbrokers, their enormous profits, 399 Plumbago, or black-lead, manufactory of it, 402.
Psylli, their influence over snakes, 442. Promotion in the Church, abuses of lay patronage, 488; length of ser- vice no claim to promotion, nor high talent, remarks on the appointment of Mr. Nott, 490; irregularity of the distribution of patronage, 491; course of patronage irrespective of the man, respective of his interest, 493; me- thod proposed by the Dublin Univer- sity Review, 494.
Parochial Clergy dissatisfied with the conduct of the Episcopal body to them, 495; a general statement anticipated from the Bishops with regard to the law of patronage, 496.
Quicksilver, shower of it, 435. R.
Reporter, Southern, its statement of Irish distress, 164.
Railways, advance of them promotes civilization, 171; probable religious consequences from them, 180; their benefit to England, 182.
Russell, Lord John, character of his Ca- binet; symptoms of disunion; Ire- land a difficulty to him, 213; his Ca- binet composed of literary men, 215. Runjeet Singh, his excesses, 510; takes the Koh-i-nur, or Hill of Light, the well-known diamond, from Shah Shu- jah, his death, 511.
Revelations of Austria, by M. Koubra- kiewicz, 516; exaggerations of this work, 517.
Swan River, anecdote of a native, 2. Scrope, Poulet, Esq. M. P., his opinions
Sharpe, Samuel, his History of Egypt,
extracts from it, 233; his erroneous statement of the character of the Sep- tuagint, 234.
Stokes, Captain, bay named after him, Stokes' Bay, 5; wounded by the sa- vages, 12; appointed to sole command of the Beagle, 14.
Sturt, Captain, his expedition into Cen- tral Australia, 16.
Seville, description of town, 70; cathe- dral, singular ceremony in it, 69; anecdote of a gentleman of this place, 72; inquisition first established here, 73.
Spain, description of a singular custom in this country on the eve of St. John, 71.
Standard Newspaper, quotation from it, 155.
Stoddart, Colonel, account of him, 246. Schlegel, A. W., his lectures on drama- tic art and literature, his high accom- plishments in language, 256. Stephens, G., remarks on his tragedies, 352; extracts from them, 354-360. Steel, manufacture of it, 400. Salverte, Eusebe, his life, 434; his ac- count of figurative expressions strained, 436; his explanation of oracles, 438. Surgical, mechanical, and medical treat- ment of the teeth, by James Robin- son, extracts from this work, 506.
Teneriffe, peak of, description of, 2. Torment Point, discovered by the Bea- gle, 4.
Typee, a tribe in the Marquesas, 24. Taboo, description of this ceremony, 32. Thornton, his work on Over-population, quotations from it, 174, 175. The Theologian, character of this work, 238; extracts from it, 239, 240. Turkistaun, a peep into, by Captain R. Burslem, 240; description of the Dundun Shikkun Kotul, or Tooth- breaking Pass, 241; of the cavern of Yeermalik, 241, 245. The Conquest of Scinde, by Colonel Outram, 283.
Trumbull, Colonel J., an American, his autobiography, 413; description of a Mohegan chief, 414; introduced to Mr. Copley, the artist, 416; becomes aide-de-camp to Washington, 418; proceeds to Europe to study art, first to Paris, then to England, 421; in- troduced to Mr. West, 421; becomes suspected as a spy, and is imprisoned, Mr. West intercedes for him to the king, 423; liberated, and returns to America, 423; visits England a se- cond time, 425; his account of Ma- dame de Bonouil, 426; visits Paris, his difficulties there, 431; David, the painter, extricates him from them, he returns to America, 433. The Occult Sciences, by Eusebe Salverte, 434. Thaumaturgists, their wonderful skill, acquaintance with mechanic princi- ples, 440; their influence over ani- mals, 441; predictions on agriculture, 444; their skill as electricians, 445; knowledge of chemical bodies added to their power, 446; many modern discoveries possibly known to them, though mysteries to the vulgar, 446; Christian miracles totally different from any thing they ever attempted,
The Horatii, a tragedy, extracts from it, 512-515.
The Life of a Beauty, by the author of "The Jilt," extract from it, 519. The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Reviews, their union, their semi-ex- istence probably brief, 520. The Knight of Gwynne, a tale of the Union, by Lever; an accurate pic- ture of life in Ireland, 522. The Ransom, a tale of the Thirteenth Century, by Miss Laura Jewry, 525.
The Poor Cousin, a novel, edited by the author of "The Young Baronet," extract from it, 525.
Ullman, Professor, his work on the Worship of Genius and the Distinc- tive Character of Christianity, 231; extracts from it, 232.
Ure, Dr., extract from his work, 470. V.
Victoria River, in Australia, 11. Vindicator, Tipperary, quotation from this paper, 168.
Wakley, Mr., his recommendation of food for the Irish, 156.
Wickham, Captain, commands the Bea- gle, 1; invalids home, 14. White Jack, native of Australia, accom- panies the Beagle, 7.
Wells, M. A., his Picturesque Antiqui-
ties of Spain, 59; his description of a ceremony in the chapel Del Condes- table, 61; of the Chartreuse of Mira- flores, 62; of the royal convent of Las Huelgas, 63; of the bath of Flo- rinda, 63; of the virgin of the Sagra- rio, 63; of books and manuscripts at the cathedral of Toledo, 65; of the knight-nuns of Santa Fe, 65; of the Palacios di Galiana, 66.
Waghorn, Mr., saving effected for his Indian mail by the Great Luxem- bourg, 179.
Waghorn and Co's., Messrs., Overland Guide to India, by three routes to Egypt, 526.
Whigs, their accession to office, uncer- tain character of their party, offer to take in a portion of conservative party, 211; recommendations to them as to church patronage, 216. Wolff, Dr., government gives him 4007. to re-pay Captain Grover, the sum advanced for his liberation, 221. Widows of clergymen, their state dis- graceful to the church, 493.
Young, Dr., his Egyptian discoveries, 259.
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