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Gunpowder, probable invention of, by the
Arabs, 377.

Gustavus, Adolphus, account of, 151.
Gutzlaft, Rev. Mr., his voyage to China, 30.

Joint stock, bank observations upon, 185.
Jonathan compared with John, 574.
Jugglers, feats of some Indian one, 335.
Julian calendar, 567.

Jury laws of Ireland amended, 180.
Juvenile offenders, 67.

H.

Hampden, in the 19th century, 544.
Hand, treatise on the human, 424-de-
tinctions of, 425.

Haüry, Baron, notice of, 172-Abbé, his
care of the blind, 275.

Hawkins, Dr., his report on factories, 89.
Headsman, The, a novel, 530.

Hegira, explained, 568.

Hermitage wine, account of, 400.

Herschell, Sir W., his scientific expedition,
596.

Hindoos, manners of, 7-their hospitality,

10.

Hobart Town, account of, 389.
Hock wine, account of, 405.

Hodges, G. L. Esq., his expedition to
Portugal, 129.

Hogg, T., on Florists flowers, 451.

Hoops, use of, in the Chiloe islands, 205.
Hottentots, remark on, 210.

Hugo, Victor, his tale of Notre Dame, 93.
Hulks, characters of those used for pri-
sons, 71.

Hungarian wines, 409.

Hydraulic arrangements in Constantinople,

320.

I.

Ice, formation of, in the sea, 200.
India-rubber, 298.

Indian biography, account of, 293-Mis-
sions in South American, 206, 207-
North American, 507-account of, 510
―a convocation, 511-further remarks
on, 515- - curious description of their
manners, 517.

Indies, East, domestic life in, 1.
Indigo, 61.

Ines de Castro, remarks on, 465. 468.
Infants, treatment of Negro, 122.
Infanticide practised in New Holland, 385.
Invasion, history of the meditated of Eng-
land by France, 478.

Ireland, agriculture of, 295-measures re-
specting, 179.

Irish register, a curious document, 231.
Italian wines, 409.

Jardine, Sir W., his Naturalists' Library,

443.

Jeffery, F., letter from, 549.

Jewish calendar, 572.

Joharmesberg wine, account of, 405.

K.

Katibs, explanation of, 330.

Khennah, the celebrated cosmetic, account
of, 329.

Kilmarnock, Lord, the rebel lord, account
of, 236.

King's German Legion, defence of, 596.

L.

Labourers, agricultural, remarks on, 294.
Layfayette, the Marquis, his imprisonment
at Magdeburgh, 447.

Lanark mills, account of the children of, 83.
Land, distribution of, in New South Wales,
391-clearing land there, 392.

La Perouse, remarks on, 354.
Last Supper, account of the ruin of the
great picture of, 45.

Latitudes, mild temperature of the south-
ern, 198.

Law, recent reform in, 188.

La Vendée, the seat of Bourbon influence,
301, 302-its peculiarities, 303.
Lawyers, proper treatment of, 341.
Lee, Mrs., her life of Baron Cuvier, 159.
L'Heritier, account of, 167.

Lemmonier, account of, 167.

Leonardo da Virici, account of, his picture,
499-account of the state of the Last
Supper of, 45.

Lightning conductor, a new one, 154.
Lindsay, Mr., his voyage to China, 30.
Linnæus, anecdote of, 595.
Lisbon, remarks on, 460.

London, description of its supply, 575.
London mob, ninety years ago, 230.

Loudon, Dr., his report on factories, 86.
Lovat, Lord, account of, 237.

M.

Mahomedan hierarchy, 331.

Maize, account of, 58.

Malaga wine, account of, 401.

Malthus, Mr., his doctrines, 547. 556.
Manchester, factories of, 89, 90.

Manilla, account of, 351.

Manufactures in England, remarks upon,

19 of the Romans, 529.

Marriage in England, 15-amongst the
Greeks, 526-a Portuguese one, 467-
in London, 484-historical remarks on,
485-in Turkey, 327.

Masquerade, account of one ninety years
ago, 228.

Massacre Islands, account of the dreadful

scenes which gave rise to the name, 216.
Maule, T., his Annual, 333.
May-Fair, marriages at, 489.
Mechanics, remarks on, 427.
Medical reform, thoughts on, 272.
Medicine dance amonst the Indians, 514.
Mendicancy, a Brahmin virtue, 338.
Methodists, account of them at their origin,
237.

Michael Angelo, remarks on his works,

500.

Mill workers, 84.

Miller's Gardeners' Dictionary, 444.
Millet, account of, 58.

Milton, M. J., poems by, 589.
Mirra, 60.

Missionaries, Methodists, 128.

Missionary labours in the Pacific Islands,

204.

Mitford, Miss, her sketch of "Children out
of Doors."

Monterey, account of a mission at, 206.
Moors, in Spain, 370.
Moravians, in America, 74.

Morean, General, instance of his good
sense, 481.

Morgan, Lady, her Dramatic Scenes, 147.
Morrell, Mrs., her Narrative of a Voyage,
349.

Morrell, Captain, his voyages of discovery,
193-his opinions as to the practibility
of visiting the South Pole, 195-his
account of Selkirk and De Foe, 202-his
account of the Massacre islands, 216.
Morris, Governor, correspondence of, 445.
Mortar, manufacture of, in Constantinople,
321.

Mufti, explanation of, 330.

Muscular power, account of, 427, 428.
Muzzeims, explanation of, 330.

N.

Navy, remarks on the Turkish, 328.
Negroes in the West Indies, account of,
114. 117, 118, 119, 120, 121.

Negro villages of Jamaica, description of,

416.

Nervous system, discoveries of Sir Charles
Bell, 431.

New Holland, natives of, 384-curious
custom of, 386.

New South Wales, account of, 379..

Newspaper, account of one, 156.

New York, account of, 73.

Ney, Marshal, memoirs of, 469-descrip-
tion of his person, 473-made prisoner,
474.

New Zealand, account of, 382-their can-
nibalism of the inhabitants, 383-mode
of burial of, ib.—inhabitants of, 350—
account of, 214.

Notre Dame, a tale, 93.

Novels, account of new ones, 530.
Nutmeg, anecdote relating to, 155.

0.

Oaths, abuse of, 267. 270, 271.

Old Bailey, experience at, 62-trials at,
64.

Olympiads, era of, 567.

Opium, 61.

Ostrich, remarks on the, 356.

Owen, remarks on his doctrines, 544.

P.

Pacific Islands, missionary labours in, 204.
Painting, Phillips's lectures on, 493-pro-

posals relating to, 494 curious and
useful application of, 595.

Paleologi, account of the family of that
name, 255.

Pancailliers, explanation of, 308.

Paper, probable invention of, by the Arabs,
376

Para, the peculiarities of it, 331.
Pardoe, Miss, her Tracts and Traditions of
Portugal, 459.

Pardon, the power of, 63.

Paris, institutions for the blind in, 276.
280.

Parker, R. G., on English composition,

588.

Parliament, curious anecdotes relating to,
226. 231.

Pastoral Life, that of the Arabians, 365.
Patagorians, remarks on, 209.

Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, 452..
Pedro, Don, anecdotes of, 134.
Peruvian Sect, 550.

Peter Simple, a novel, 530.
Philadelphia, account of, 74.

Phillips, T., his Lectures on Painting, 493.
Picken, Mr., his Traditional Stories, 93.
Pickpockets of London, 70.

Pilaffa, Turkish article of food, 318.
Pilgrimage to Mecca, account of, 378.
Planters, West Indian, account of, 111.
Poetry, Arabian, 367.

Poland, policy of, interference with by Great
Britain, 192.

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Portugal, account of the expedition to, 129
-Miss Pardoe's travels in, 459.
Portuguese wines, 406.

Port wine, remarks on, 407.

Prairie, account of, 598.

Prediction, a novel, 530.

Press, historical notice of, 299.
Prices in New Holland, 388.
Pride, remarkable example of, 233.
Priestly, Cuvier's eulogy of, 168.
Priests, French and English, 16, 17.
Printing, era of the introduction of, into
Turkey, 324-rapid progress of, 325.
330 for the blind, 278. 280.
Prize Poems of the Universities, 453.
Privy Council, recent reform in, 189.
Pyramids of Egypt, origin and design of,

153.

R.

Radstadt, account of the assassination at,
476.

Raffaelle, remarks upon, 501.
Rationalism, account of it in Germany,
293.

Real property, reform of the laws of, 190.
Recovery from sickness, delight of, de-
scribed, 118.

Redding, Cyrus, his account of modern
wines, 394.

Reductions, amount of, effected by Mini-
sters, 183. 186.

Religious madness, why so peculiar to Ame-
rica, 581.

Reynolds, F. M., his Annual, 559-Sir J.,
character of, 504.

Right side in man distinguished from the
left, 428.

Ritchie, L., his Annual, 559.

Roads in England, superiority of, 21.
Robberies, number of in former times,
237.

Robinson Crusoe, singular history of, 202.
Rome, domestic life in, 520.

Rookeries, account of those in islands in
the South Seas, 196.
Roscoe, T., his Landscape Annual, 333.
Ross, Captain, account of his return, 454.
Ryotwar system, 2.

Sago, 59.

S.

Sailors, necessity of moral instruction to,

359.

St. Bernard, account of the Convent of, 45

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Salt, method of making, 155.
Sandwich Islands, directions for sailing
amongst them, 208.

Sand-winds, account of, 209.

Saracens, account of, 371.

Savings' Banks, improved principle incorpo-
rated with, 191.

Scheppler Louise, extraordinary history of,
164.

Scotch rebel lords, account of the trial of,
236.

Scotland, state of the agriculture of, 295,
Scott, Sir Walter, admirable letter from,
565.

Scrope, John, an eccentric character, ac-
count of, 231-on political economy,
590.

Seasons in the British Empire, 155.

Sechura, account of the strange inhabitants
of, 208.

Self-immolation in India, 338.

Selkirk, Alexander, remarks on, 201.
Sember, doctrines of, 294.

Shark, anecdote of one, 384.

Sharpe's Peerage of the British Empire,

296.

Sheiks, explanation of, 330.

Sheridan, Miss, her Annual, 333.
Sherry wine, account of, 402.
Shortland, Capt., defence of, 600.
Silk-worms, how treated in Turkey, 329.
Sinecures, abolition of, 184.
Skin, peculiar endowments of, 433.
Slang names, 69.

Slave ships, account of one, 211.
Slaves, state of, in South Carolina, 75, 76.
Slavery in America, apology for, 582-

moral effects of, in the United States, 518
-early protest against, 222.

Small-pox, influence of vaccination in check-
ing it, 438.

Smith, R., a Story by, 152.
Sobieski, notice of, 151.

Soormay, a cosmetic so called, 329.
Sooterays explained, 319.

Southey, Dr., anecdotes of, 555-his Lives
of the Admirals, 591.

South Pole, a visit to, not impossible, 195.

199.

Spain, Moslem conquest of, 369-account
of, under the Moors, 370, 371.
Spanish wines, 401.

Staunton, Mr., account of, 144.

Steam, novel application of, 455—an ex-
tinguisher of fires, 300.

Steinman, G. J., his History of Croydon,

287.

Stilton cheese, 297.

Stuart, Rev. M., on the Epistle to the
Hebrews, 452.

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