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AGRICULTURE, English, contrasted with Belgian,
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.
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,
Brazil, Belgian emigration to, 213; slavery in,`
Bright (Mr.), the Cleon of the Liberation Society, 187; panegyrics on American democracy,
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.
Cæsar's debarkations in Britain, different opinions respecting, 42.
Cambronne (General), versions of the story of, 233,
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
Jowett's (Professor) inaccuracy in stating facts, Judges (elective) the creatures of the people, 286. 247; plagiarism, 247, 248.
Kilauea, description of the great volcano of, 123,
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,
Gibbon, burial place of, 23.
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.
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.
Immortality of the soul as held by Plato, 177.
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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