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THE

LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOLUME CXII.

JULY-OCTOBER, 1862.

AMERICAN EDITION.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY LEONARD SCOTT & CO.,

79 FULTON STREET, CORNER OF GOLD STREET.

1862.

INDEX TO VOL. CXII.

A.

AGRICULTURE, English, contrasted with Belgian,

206.

America, susceptibility to English criticism, 282;
the recent Emancipation proclamation, ib.; Fe-
deral outrages, 283; failure of Democratic insti-
tutions, ib.; essential weakness of the Federal
form of government, 285; defects of Democracy,
preponderance of the Federals in number and
wealth, 286; failure as commanders, administra-
tors, financiers, and independent governors, 287;
deposition of natural leaders, 258; the represen-
tatives delegates, 289; incompetency of the
President, 290; the irremovable ruler of .a
mob's choice, 291; political influence of slavery,
291, 292; every American theory of government
repudiated, 293; proofs of the enslavement of
the press, ib.; destruction of personal liberty,
294; completeness and power of the Southern
Government, 296; recognition not a matter of
civility, but necessity, 297; American recogni-
tion of the revolted provinces of Spain, 298.
Antwerp, its former commercial greatness, 203;
a loaded pistol directed to the heart of Eug-
land,' 215.

Art, its proper sphere, Creation, 83; restoration
at work in Art studies, 112.

Arundel Castle, historical recollections associated
with, 33.

Astronomy, Plato's conception of a higher, 182.
Ateliers d'apprentissage, utility of, 209.
Atmospheric principle of railway working, 16, 17.
Auckland's (Lord) dissuasion of George III. from
Catholic relief, 193.

Australian volunteers, 73.

B.

Baxter (Richard), his ejection, 132.
Beachy Head, sea-fight off, 41.

Becket, tradition connected with his murderers,
37; materials for his life, 54, 55.
Bedford's (Duke of) violence in his interview with
George III., 191.

Bicentenary of the ejection of the Puritan minis
ters, 126; iniquitous displacement of the clergy
in 1640, 127; taking of the Covenant made com-
pulsory in 1643, 130; six to seven thousand
clergymen ejected; ib.; barbarities attending
their expulsion, ib.; fallacy of Dr. Vaughan re-
specting the number of the ejected clergy refut-
ed, ib.; anecdotes of refusal of fifths, 131; ejec-
tion of the Nonconformists in 1662, 138; Milton's
opinion, 133, 134; the Bicentenary the com-
mencement of a great political agitation, 135;
Mr. Miall's tactics, 137; ery of 'Comprehension,'
138. See Church Tests.'

Bignor, Roman antiquities discovered at, 32.
Blakiston's (Captain) account of the Chinese rebel-
lion, 265.

Blücher, Thiers's unjust remarks on, 230.
Borough English, its prevalence in Sussex, 30.
Brabant's (Duke of) plans for developing the com-
merce of Belgium, 212; objections to his theory,

213.

Brazil, Belgian emigration to, 213; slavery in,`

299.

Bright (Mr.), the Cleon of the Liberation Society,
187; panegyrics on American democracy,

284.

Brighton, historical particulars respecting, 36.
Brine's (Commander), account of the Chinese re-
bels, 265.

Bruges formerly the great mart of nations, 203.
Brunel (Sir Mark I.), his early instinct of construc-

tion, 2; enters the French navy, 3; narrow
escape during the Reign of Terror, 3, 4; inven-
tion of block machinery, 4; chief engineer of
the city of New York, ib.; marriage with Miss
Kingdom, 5; his various inventions and patents,
ib.; completion of block machinery, ib.; his re-
ward inadequate, 6; imprisoned for debt, 7;
additional Government grant, ib.; experiment
in steam navigation, 8; construction of the
Thames Tunnel, ib.; history of the enterprise,
9; applies to its formation the principle of the
teredo navalis, ib.; mode of boring the tunnel,
10; construction of the shield, ib.; deficient in
the business quality, 13.

Belgium, its husbandry the most finished in Eu-
rope, 201; geological changes, 202; subsidence
of the land, ib.; encroachment of the sea, ib.;
the whole population of England formerly
clothed by the Flemish, 203; an appanage of
Spain for 170 years, 204; attached to Austria
for 80 years, ib.; opposite interests of Holland
and Belgium, ib.; prosperity during the union
with Holland, 205; gardenlike appearance of
the country, ib.; agriculture, 206; Council of
Agriculture, 207; Provincial Councils, 208;
classification of the population, ib; assimilation
of the constitution to the British, ib.; represen
tative system, ib.; elementary instruction, ib. ;
ateliers d'apprentissage, 209; coal fields and iron
mines, 210; cloth manufacture, ib.; adaptation
to foreign markets, ib.; Belgium owes its inde-Brussels lace, a wonderful fabric, 210.
pendence to Great Britain, 211; Belgium the
point of intersection of England, France, and
Germany, 213; importance of its independence
to Europe, 214; impossibility of England's ac-
quiescence in its annexation to France, 215.

Brunel (I. Kingdom), his early life, 9; activity and
courage in the construction of the Thames Tun-
nel, 12; his engineering works, 14; engineer of
the Great Western Railway, ib.; skill in design-
ing bridges along the line, 16; the South Devon
Railway an unfortunate undertaking, ib.; em-
ploys the atmospheric principle in railway work-
ing, 16, 17; bridges of Chepstow and Saltash,
17; devises an iron-plated aimed ship, 18; con-
struction of the Great Western' and 'Great
Britain' steamships, 19; the Great Eastern' his
last work, b.; remarkable escapes from death,
ib.; invents an apparatus for extracting a coin
from the windpipe, 20.

Buchanan (President), an example of the evils of a
temporary and elective government, 285.
Buddhist temples destroyed by the Taepings, 272.
Burials Bill, a proposal of Comprehension' on a
grand scale, 141. See Church Tests.'

Burn on Belgian agriculture, 206.
Burns, parallel of Cowper and, 94, 95.

C.

Cæsar's debarkations in Britain, different opinions
respecting, 42.

Cambronne (General), versions of the story of, 233,

234.

Canadian volunteers, 73.

Canning, character of, 194; his quarrel with Lord
Castlereagh, 197; formation of his ministry, ib.
misrepresented by the editor of Rose's 'Diary,'
199; his qualities as a speaker, 200.
Canterbury (Archbishops of), Dean Hook's lives
of, 44; Anglo-Saxon period, 47; relation of the
Anglo-Saxon church to Rome, 49; Anglo-Nor
man period, 50; collisions between the Crown
and Church, ib.; Lanfranc, 51; Anselm, 52;
Becket, 54; suggestions for a new edition of
lives and correspondence of, 54, 55; his chancel-
lorship, 56; Langton's struggle against King
John, 57; his 'Moralia,' 58; general characteris-
ties of the Archbishops, 59.
Catholic relief, opposition of Lords Auckland and
Loughborough to Pitt's project of, 193.
Charles II.'s escape from Brighton, 36.
Chatham (Lord), character of, 192.
Chichester, history of, 31; architectural character-
istics of the cathedral, ib.

China, rebellion in, 263; political importance of
the system of examinations, 264; the Emperor
Kang hi, ib.; the Emperor Keen lung, ib.; cow-
ardice of the Manchus, 270; pirates, 280; opium
cultivation, 281. See 'Taepings.'

Church (Anglo-Norman), the protector of the
weak, 50.

Church tests, question of readjusting, 140; schemes
for altering the formularies, 141; the Burials
Bill, ib. See Bicentenary.'

Cinque ports, barons of the, 41.

Clergy in 1643, barbarities attending their ejection,
130. See Bicentenary.'

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Cobden's (Mr.) 'Three Panics,' 59; fallacies, 61; as
Roi des Belges,' 214; opinion respecting the
annexation of Belgium to France, ib.

Coles's (Captain C) invention adapted to the Ame-

rican Monitor,' 18; plan of national defence 67.
Collins's monument, 31; Ode on the Passions,? 89.
Columbia (British), rapid advancement of, 118.
Colza-plant, 207.

Cornwallis (Lord), Diary and Correspondence, 188.
Cowper's poetry, characteristics of, 94; compared
with Burns, 94, 95.
Crabbe's poetry, 93.

Criticism, canon of, 163.

Cromwell's massacre of the garrisons of Drogheda
and Wexford, 271.

Cuthman (St.), legend of, 35.

D.

Davies and Vaughan's translation of Plato's 'Re-
public,' 164.

Defence (national), extent of assailable coast-line,
66; telegraphs and railways, ib.; means of re-
sistance to be kept in readiness for an invasion,
68; coast volunteers, 69; movable brigades, ib. ;
protection of the Mersey, Tyne, and Clyde, 70;
the vital points, dockyards, and arsenals, with
Dover and Portland, ib.; march upon London,
72; four lines of defence, ib.; Brighton review
demonstrates the facility of moving troops by
railway, 76; particulars of means of railway
transport, ib.

Democratic institutions, failure of, 283.
Devil's Dyke, tradition respecting it, 36.

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Engineer, drawing the alphabet of the, 14.
Essays and Reviews,' answers to, 235; their stale-
ness and plagiarism, 250; condemned by the Bi
shops of the United Church, 252; condemnatory
address of 10,000 clergymen, 254; Edinburgh
Reviewer's' strictures on the tone of Dr. Willi-
ams and Mr. Wilson, 255; judgment of the Court
of Arches, ib.; principle of Dr. Lushington's
judgment, ib.; his censure of the ambiguous
language of Dr. Williams and Mr. Wilson, 255,
256; on what ground Dr. Williams condemned,
257; Dr. Williams's mode of receiving the judg-
ment, 258; grounds of the sentence on Mr. Wil-
son, 260; consequences of the principle pervad-
Evangelical movement, advantages of the, 240.
ing the judgment, 261. See 'Faith' and Tracts.'
Exhibition (International), 95; determination of
the site, 97; arrangement. ib.; architectural
combinations of iron and glass, 98; original de-
sign of Captain Fowke, 99; nature of the struc-
ture, 100; mismanagement in respect to exhibi-
tors, 103; first condition of the nave, ib.; Pal-
grave's Handbook, 104; Hollingshead's Chro-
nicle' of the nineteenth century, 105; absurd-
ities of the Illustrated Catalogue, ib.; Jury Re-
ports, ib.; Court-dress ceremonial, 105, 106; Ex-
hibitious of 1851 and 1862 contrasted, 107: Rus-
sian contributions, 108; Austrian, 109; Belgian,
&c., 109, 110; the French display typical of the
nation, 110; contrasted with the English display,
112; notices of particular works of art, 113;
architectural drawings, ib.; Minton's majolica
fountain, 114; Skidmore's screen, 115; general
character of English industrial art, 116.

· F.

Faith, attacks on the cardinal doctrines of, 142.
Faith (Aids to), 235; defence of dogma, 237; Bi-
shop of Oxford on encouraging religious doubts,
ib.; doubtfulness not 'a sacred agony of the soul,'
but a temptation to be resisted, 258; two modes
of defending faith against its assailants, 239; the
refutation of error negative only, ib.; building
up the truth against the perversion of error posi-
tive, 239, 240; Bishop of Gloucester's Aids to
Faith,' 240; its nine essays, ib.; advantages of
the evangelical movement, ib. ; evils of depreciat-
ing internal evidence in the exaltation of external,
241; Mansel's Miracles as Evidences of Chris-
tianity,' 242; Dean Ellicott's contribution, 243;
his vindication of the inspiration of Scripture,
ib.; five rules for the study of Scripture, 244;
reply of the Bishop of Exeter to Dr. Temple,

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Gauges, battle of the, 14.

Germain's (St.) works recommended, 146.

Infanticide in the Hawaiian Islands, 124.1
Iron cannon, the first cast in England, 22.
Iron-plated frigates, number of French, 62,
Irving's (Washington) speech at New York, con-
trasting England and America, 284.
Italian poetry, effect on it of spiritual and temporal
tyranny, 83; Tasso and Ariosto retrospective, ib.

J.

Jowett's (Professor) inaccuracy in stating facts,
Judges (elective) the creatures of the people, 286.
247; plagiarism, 247, 248.

K.

Kilauea, description of the great volcano of, 123,

124.

L.

Legislative chambers analogous to the House of
Lords, Continental failure in establishing, 208;
anomaly in their composition, ib.

Ghent, impoverished manufacturing population of, Leonard (St.), patron of prisoners and travellers,

213.

Gibbon, burial place of, 23.

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Leopold (King), obligations of Belgium to, 216.

Gloucester's (Bishop of) Aids to Faith,' 240. See Lewes Levels, numerous churches on, 38.
'Faith.'

Goodwood races, 31.

Gray's Elegy, characteristics of, 90.

Greek massacre of 20,000 of the Mussulman popula-
tion in 1821, 270.

Grenville character, immobility of the, 195.
Griffin's (Rev. T. N.) 'Seven Answers to the Seven
Essayists,' 248.

Gundreda's tomb, discovery of, 37.

H.

Hastings, particulars of the battle of, 43.
Hawaiian, or Sandwich Islands, 117; conjectures
on their geological formation, 118; traditions,
ib.; equable temperature and fertility, 118, 119;
physical qualities of the natives, 119; indolence
and sensuality, 120; 'tabu,' 120, 121; a female
premier, 121; national breaking of the taboo,
121, 122; destruction of 40,000 idols, 122; sacer-
dotal opposition to the extinction of idolatry, ib.;
landing of the first missionaries, ib.; Christian
heroism of Kapiolani, 123; the volcano of
Kilauea, 123, 124; infanticide, 124; defect of
Congregationalism in missions, 125; natives re-
ject Romanism, ib.; foundation of the See of
Honolulu, ib.; character of the King, ib.
Hereditary sovereignty, 285.

Holland, great inundation of 1825, 202; possible
submergence of, 203; object of the Allied Powers
in annexing the Austrian Netherlands to, 204.
Honolulu, foundation of the See of, 125.
Hook's (Dean) 'Lives of the Archbishops of Canter-
bury,' 44; his distrust of idealism, 45; his tone
that of an Anglican Churchman, ib.
Hopkins's account of the Sandwich Islands.recom-
mended, 118.

Howards, vicissitudes of the, 33:
Hugo's (Victor) 'Les Misérables,' 145; his excep-
tional position in French literature, 146; Les
Misérables' written partly by Victor Hugo the
Poet, partly by Victor Hugo the Quack, ib.; his
language and style, 147; his ignorance of social
and political philosophy, 163; account of the
battle of Waterloo, 226. SeeMisérables' and
'Waterloo.'

Huntington, S. S. (William), his epitaph, 37.

I.

Immortality of the soul as held by Plato, 177.

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of, 188.

Mansel's (Mr.) luminous essay on 'Miracles as Evi-
Manure, importance of liquid, 206.
dences of Christianity,' 242.
Maudslay (H.), inventor of the slide-rest, 5.
Massacres by conquerors in recent times, 271.
Maurice's (Rev. F.) hard language to his oppo-
nents, 236; absurdity of his defence of Creeds
and Articles, ib.

Meadows (Mr.) on the Chinese rebellion, 270.
Memoirs (English Political) contrasted with French
Memoirs, 185; aid in the study of Constitutional
Government, ib.; nature of the editorship re-
quired for them, 187, 188; demarcation between
periods, 189; the two great political parties
evenly represented, 191; memoirs do not over-
throw the traditional estimate of public men,
192; illustration in the cases of the Duke of
Bedford and Lord Chatham, 192, 193; Lord
Castlereagh and Pitt, 194; Canning an excep
tion, ib.; how the rule is modified in the case of
Fox, 194, 95; duty of editors of political me-
moirs, 198; its violation illustrated in the case
of Canning, 199; of Lord Eldon, ib.

Miall (Mr.) and the Liberation Society, 137. See
'Bicentenary.'

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