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'Angleterre ellemême,' ib.; successful resistance
to the claims of Russia and Prussia on Poland
and Saxony, 108; his objection to foreign inter-
ventions, 111; his intellectual composition, 118;
his speeches calculated to conceal his ability,
ib.; his share in destroying the slave-trade, 120;
no sympathy with Absolutism, ib.; advice to
Louis XVIII, 121; his object a balance of
power, securing lasting peace, 122; his style of
speaking, ib.; absence of showy qualities, 123;
rhetorical blundering, ib. ; influence in the House,
ib.; his courage, patience, and sagacity, 123,

124.
Celebes, island of, 261; its radiating conformation,
ib.; peculiarities of its inhabitants, ib.; Spartan
training of children, ib.; political institutions,

263.

Celtic tumuli of Dorset, 147.

Ceylon, Sir Emerson Tennent's theory respecting,

253.

Channing (Mary), post-mortem burning of. 160.
Charles V.'s (the Emperor) advice to Philip II:, 80.
Charleston harbour, barbarism of destroying, 144.
Charlotte (Queen), anecdotes of, 25, 26.

Charlotte of Wales (Princess), her character at
seventeen, 26; description of Warwick House,
27; meeting with the Princess of Wales on Con-
stitution Hill, ib.; her preceptor the Bishop of
Salisbury, 28; her tutors and governess, ib.;
aversion to the Prince of Orange, 30; withdraws
her consent to marriage with him, ib.; cause of
her flight from Warwick House, 31; demeanour
towards Prince Leopold, ib.; evil influence at-
tained over her by her mother, 34; different
versions of her flight to Carlton House, 35; her
generosity of disposition, 37.

Cheney's (Mr.) pamphlet, 'What is Good Iron?'

298.

Chesil Bank, 155.

Chinese immigrants, character of, 265.
Clergy, anticipated failure in the supply of Eng-
lish, 208; extraordinary development of the
Church, ib.; special function of the clergy, 210;
their numbers, ib.; their functions the develop-
ment and safeguard of English liberties, 211;
qualities required in a parochial clergyman,
213; supply must be drawn from the highly-
educated classes, 214; education of the clergy,
215; the mother's part in it, 216; public school
education necessary. 218; Scriptural instruction
in schools, 221; universities and colleges, 223;
ante-Reformation colleges Protestant institu-
tions, 234; moral preparations for Holy Orders,
226; college testimonials, 227; university not
the place for final preparation, 228; colleges in
connexion with cathedral bodies, 230; experi-
ments at Wells and Exeter, 231; requirements
of final clerical education, 232, 233.

Clontarf, battle of, 75.

Clubmen of Dorset, rising of the, 149.
Coles's (Captain) cupolas, 296.

Confessional, Romish, 220.

Corfe Castle, heroic defence of, 148; description,
157; murder of 'Saynt Edward, Kynge and
martyr, b.; the Castle gallows, 158.
Coronation oath, Fox's opinion respecting the, 272.
Courtship, Icelandic, 65.

· Cow and Calf,' landmarks in Dorset, 153.

D.

Dasent's (G. W.) 'Burnt Njal,' 60; an admirable
translation, 61, 62; great value of Mr. Dasent's
services to Northern literature, 62.

Dale (Mr.), entomological discoveries of, 152.
Diplomatist's glory ephemeral, 107; on what his
victories depend, ib.
Dorset, derivation of the word, 147; crusade of S.
G. O., 149; labourers' wages, 149, 150; trück
system, 150; progress of agriculture, ib.; far-
mers' clubs, 151; hunting and fishing. ib.; zo-
ology, ib.; extensive and peculiar flora, 152; geo-
logical structure, 152, 153; fossil remains, 153;
architectural treasures, 158; mansion-houses,
159; antiquities, ib.; hill-forts and barrows,
160; Roman occupation of Dorset, and stations,
161; distinguished natives, 162; peculiarities of
dialect, 163; Specimens from Barnes, the Dorset
poet, 164-166; politeness of the peasantry, 166.
Domingo (San), annexation of half the island to
Spain, 89; history of its revolutions, 90.

Dred Scott case, points decided in the, 125, 126.
Dryness of climate caused by the destruction of
forests, 85.
Dutch East Indies, 255; commercial system, ib.;
conduct towards England on regaining their
Eastern colonies, 256; boundaries of their pos
sessions in the Eastern Archipelago, 263; colo-
nial possessions in Asia, ib.; colonial policy, ib. ;
improbability of their having permanent power
in the East, 267.

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(popular), statistics of, in England,
compared with France, Holland, and Prussia,
38; origin of the British and Foreign School So-
ciety and the National Society, 39; Bell's and
Lancaster's systems, 39, 40; failure of the moni-
torial system, 40; the 'Government system,' ib.;
pupil teachers the sinews of primary education,'
ib.; training colleges, ib.; subject-matter of in-
struction, 41; scheme of the Commissioners bor-
rowed from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 43,
44; defects specified by the Commissioners as
justifying a change of system, 45; calculations
reducing the estimated increase of expenditure,
46; highest Parliamentary grant the cost of two
'Warriors,' ib.; alleged inability of the present
system to assist the poorer districts, ib.; the
charge of partial inadequacy of teaching answer.
ed, 47; thirty-six seconds examining each scho-
lar,' a mistake of the Commissioners, 48; reading,
writing, and arithmetic taught well in 90 per
cent. of the schools, 50; defect from pressure on
central office absurd, ib.; the Revisal Code, 51;
simplification, (meaning abolition) its key note,
ib.; cooking the registers, 52; difficulties of in-
dividual examination, ib.; discouragement of re
ligious knowledge, 53; effects of the Revised
Code on training colleges, 54; increased number
of school-inspectors, 55; cost of them, 56; aboli-
tion of religious examination by the new code,
ib.; conscience clause, ib.; correspondence with
the National Society respecting Welsh schools,
58; objections to the existing system not reme
died by the Revised Code, ib.; over-educated
teachers, ib.; effect of the new code to drive the
teachers into some other occupation, ib.; the
Revised Code exaggerates three of the defects
and substitutes a worse for the fourth, 59; sug-
gestions, 59, 60; night-schools, 60. ́

Education (public school), grand talisman of reli-
gious, 223.

Edward (Saynt), Kynge and martyr,' murder of,

157.

Eldon's (Lord) narrative of the Princess Charlotte's
flight from Warwick House, 33.
Elphinstone's (Miss Mercer) connection with the
Princess Charlotte, 29.

Ephraem (St.), author of hymns, 174.

Exeter's (Bishop of) noble donation for a theologi-
cal college, 231.

.F.

Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, preceptor to the Prin-
cess Charlotte, 28.

Flora of Dorset, 159.

Foreign intervention, evils of, 111.

Fox's inconsistency on the question of the corona-
tion oath, 274; Earl Russell's mistaken eulogy
of, 282; Fox's zealous sympathy with his coun
try's enemies, ib.
Fugitive slave law, 125.

G.

Genoa, effects of its annexation to Piedmont, 116.
George III.'s opposition to Catholic emancipation,

271; relapse into insanity, 272; insists on ap-
pointing the Duke of York to command the
army. 284.

George IV., his conduct towards the Princess Char-
lotte, 27.

Greece, British policy in founding the monarchy,

189.

Gregory Nazianzen (St.), 175.

H.

Hamilton's (Lady) connection with Nelson, 23; de-
scription of her person and manners, ib.; her an-
ticipated captivation of the Prince Regent, 24.
Hayti, republic and empire of, 90.

Hispaniola (S. Domingo), revolutions of, 89.
Holwell Manor-house, 153.

Holworth Cliff, spontaneous combustion at, 156.
Hussey's (Giles) theory of harmony in the human
face, 156.

Hymns, Nonconformist, 166; hymns written to
supplant the Prayer-book, 167; hymns of Mont-
gomery and Heber, ib.; two imperfections in
Hall's Church Hymn-book, 167, 168; Hymn-
book of the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, 168; 200 hymnals now in use, ib. ;
St. Augustine's definition of a hymn, ib. ; breaches
of good taste and reverence in hymns, 169; pue-
rilities and pettyisms, ib.; irreverent epithets
applied to Christ, ib.; cause of failure of hym-
nals, 170; suggestions for an authorised hymn-
book, 171; Hebrew hymns, 172; St. Ephraem
the father of Syriac sacred poetry, 174; the
Greek hymn-writer, St. Gregory Nazianzen, 175;
Latin hymnology, 176; narrative hymns, 177;
Romish classical hymns a revived paganism,
179; German hymns, ib.; Moravian, Asiatic,
and Russian hymns, 180; English hymns, 181;
qualifications of Sternhold, ib.; King James I's
hymns, ib.; Wither's and Herbert's, 182; sub-
jective tendency of Wesleyan hymns, 183; anec-
dote of hymn-writing, 184; Bishop Mant's trans-
lation of the Roman Breviary, ib.; influence of
Tracts for the Times' on hymnology, ib.; au-
thors of original Church hymns, ib.; American
and Welsh hymns, ib.

I.

Iceland, Norwegian colonisation of, 62; the Land-

náma-búk, or Doomsday-book, ib.; blood-wite,
63; curious distinction between manslaughter
and murder, ib.; Aud, the first Christian woman
of Iceland, ib.; ceremony of the primsignaz, ib.;
Saga of Burnt Njal, 62; conversion of Thorwald
and his household by Bishop Frederick, 66;
first Christian church at As, 67; Olaf Tryggva-
son, the Royal Apostle of Norway, 68; sends
Stefner missionary to Iceland, ib.; muscular
Christianity of Thangbrand, missionary in 997,
69; Thangbrand exiled from Iceland on ac-
count of his manslaughters, ib.; King Olaf's
church founded, 70; the President of the Al-
thing paid to devise laws in favour of Chris-
tians, 71; formal adoption of Christianity, June
24, A.D. 1000, 72; analysis of the Saga of Burnt
Njal, ib.; description of the burning, 73, 74;
description of Icelandic churches, 74, 75; Isleif
the first bishop, 76; the two cathedrals, ib.
Inquisition introduced in Spain from political not
religious motives, 78.

Islamism, original mission of, 193.

Italian unity an idea produced by misgovernment,

117.

J.

Java described, 255; its immense vegetable wealth,
ib.; Dutch settlement, ib.; as a British depen-
dency, 256; conduct of the Dutch after regain-
ing it from Great Britain, ib.; Dutch culture-
system, ib.; revenue from the island, 257; Eng-
lish trade with Java, ib.; insurrection, 261.
Jeffrey's bloody assize, 149.

Jesuits' false direction of the education of the
higher classes, 81; banished from Spain, ib.
Juan (San) seized by General Harney, 136.

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Madden's (R. R.) Turkish Empire in its relations
with Christianity,' 185.

Maiden Castle, Roman encampment of, 160.
Malay pirates, 258; description of their vessels,

254.

Malmbury, amphitheatral oval at, 160.

Manslaughter and murder, Icelandic distinction
between, 63.

Massachusetts alone entirely free soil originally,

126.

Melville (Lord), condemnation of 188.

'Merrimac' and 'Monitor,' action between, 292;
armour and armament of the 'Merrimac,' 293;
destroys the frigates 'Cumberland' and 'Con-
gress,' ib.; description of the Monitor,' 294;
peculiarity of her structure, ib.; in what con-
sists the experience gained from the encounter,
295; iron-plated vessels as rams, ib.; uselessness
of wooden men-of-war, ib.; experiments at Shoe.
buryness, 296; contest between iron-plated ves-
sels and forts, 297; American art of fighting
bloodless battles, ib.; experiments on a War-
rior' target, 298; Armstrong guns, ib.; station-
ary defences and floating batteries, 299.
Metcalf's (Rev. F.) Oxonian in Iceland,' 60.
Miall's (Mr.) opinions respecting the Establish-
ment, 43.

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Piræus captured by Harald Hardrada, 60.
Pitt (Right Hon. W.), Lord Stanhope's Life of, 268;
resignation on the King's refusal of the Catholic
claims, 271; the King's relapse into insanity,
272; Pitt's promise not to renew the question in
the King's lifetime, ib.; contrasted with Fox's
conduct, 273, 274; declining zeal for the Ad-
dington administration, 274; resumption of of
fice, ib.; negotiations with Fox and Grenville,
275; policy of his administration, 276; charge
of severity to the English Jacobins, 276, 277;
repressive measures, 277; circumstances justify-
ing an Alien Bill, 278; parallel of the suppres
sion of liberty in the United States, 279; terror
inspired by the French Revolution, 280; did not
undertake a crusade against democracy, 281;
letter to Lord Stafford, 281, 282; war declared
by the Convention, 283; Earl Russell's unjust
censure of Pitt, ib.; did not go to war for an
idea, ib.; contradictory censures of Pitt by Lords
Macaulay and Russell, 283, 284, 286; cause of
Pitt's military ill-success, 284; cause of the disre-
pute of his war administration, 286; did not sur-
vive to gather the fruits of his policy, 287; effect
on him of Lord Melville's condemnation, 288;
Duke of Wellington's intercourse with Pitt,
289; effect of Austerlitz on him, 290; last mo-
ments, 290, 291; error respecting his last words,

291.

Poland, Alexander, at the Congress of Vienna,
claims the whole of, 110.

Porte and Seraglio, distinction between, 201.
Portland Island, convicts at, 154; churches built
of Portland stone, ib.; breakwater 155; suposed
origin of the name, ib.

Portlanders, slingers and wreckers, 148.
Primsignaz (prima signatio), Icelandic, 63.
Protectorates, effects of Austrian, Russian, and
other, 111.

Psalms, their rythmical arrangement of thought
answering to thought, 172.

Public schools, how to deal with their dangers
and evils, 219.

R.

Raffles' (Sir Stamford) ascendency over the people
at Bencoolen, 258.

Railways, the United Kingdom intersected by
10,500 miles of, 1; annual receipts 27,000,000l.,
ib.; statistics of 300, ib.; keen con petition not
injurious, 2; safer than any other mode of tra-
velling, ib; 1 in 8,000,000 passengers killed, 3;
accidents caused by overwork of servants, ib.;
distant signals, 4; break-power insufficient, ib.;
system of continuous breaks, 5; spraggs to assist
the breaks, 6; suggestion for legal enforcement
of break-power, ib.; safe interval between the
trains not observed, ib. ; interval of time insuffi-
cient in tunnels, 7; suggestions for telegraph
huts, 8; semaphore-posts and signals, 8, 9; col-
lisions on single lines, 8; three systems of work-
ing single lines, 9, 0; causes of accidents from
engines leaving the rails, 10; G. R. Stephenson's
pamphlet against high speeds, ib.; accidents
from giving way of trenails, 12; fished joints
the greatest improvement in permanent way,
ib.; accidents from fracture of tyres, 13; pa-
tented modes of fastening tyres, 14; Mansell's
and Burke's rival patents, ib.; means of inter-
communication between different parts of a train,
ib.; a train on fire, 15; narrow escape of twen.
ty persons from being roasted alive, ib.; narra-
tive of accident to a convict-carriage, 16; explo

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sions of boilers, 17; accidents at facing-points,
17, 18; anecdote of a wilful accident to prevent a
marriage, 18, 19; average of 77 accidents a year,
19; three contingencies against which provision
is impossible, ib.; Government interference dis-
cussed, 19, 20; more equitable distribution of
responsibility required between higher officers
and subordinates, 21.

Raleigh (Sir Walter) at Sherborne, 158.

opinion opposed to the slave trade, 90; attach
ment to monarchy, 91.

Spence's 'American Union' recommended, 124.
Spice Islands, excitement on their discovery, 263.
Spithead, forts to be erected at, 299.
Squatter sovereignty' explained, 127.
Stanhope's (Earl) Life of Pitt, 268.
Statesmanship, practical, opposed to that of men
of genius, 118.

Reformation, difference of character in the English Stephenson's (G. R.) pamphlet against high speeds

and German, 181.

Romish priesthood in Ireland, 218.

Runic inscription on an Athenian sculpture, 60.

Ruskin (Mr.), Turner's treatment of, 249.

Russell, rise of the house of, 159.

Earl, on the war of 1793, 283.

on railways, 10.

Strategists, dearth of great, 285.

Sumatra described, 257.

Sumbawa, description of a great eruption in, 252.

S.

St. Alban's Head, chantry on,

157.

Tariffs, American, 128.

T.

Texas, struggle as to its admission among the Unit-
ed States, 127.

'Tracts for the Times,' a counter movement to the
Wesleyan, 184.

St. George's (Mrs.) ‘Journal,' extracts relating to Thornbury's (Mr.) Life of Turner. See Turner.'
Nelson and Lady Hamilton, 23.
St. John (Mr.), Borneo explored by, 258.
Sarawak described, 260; steam communication
with Singapore, ib.; British protectorate sug-
gested, 268.

School education (public), beneficial effects of,

218.

39.

Society, origin of the British and Foreign,

Self-concentration, curious Icelandic mode of, 71.
Sherborne Castle, 158.

Shoeburyness, experiments at, 296.

Shrikes, their utility in destroying insects, 265.
Shuttleworth's (Sir J. K.) opinions respecting the
educational grant, 46; letter to Earl Granville
on the Revised Code, ib.

Singapore, its establishment recommended by Sir
Stamford Raffles, 266; wonderful increase of the
population, ib.; description of the settlement,
266; commerce, 267.

Slave-trade, public opinion in Spain opposed to it.

90.

Solouque (Faustin I.), Emperor of Hayti, 90.
Spanish possessions in the Eastern Archipelago,
264; wise conduct in governing them, ib.
Speaker of the Law, Icelandic, 71.
Spain, its prostration after the death of Charles
II. described, 80; one-fifth of the land held in
mortmain, 81; three well-defined epochs in
Spanish history, 82; influence of the French
Revolution on Spain, ib.; constitutional govern-
ment inaugurated in 1830, ib.; suppression of
convents and prohibition of religious vows, ib. ;
the people's bitter hatred of monks and friars,
ib.; consequences of the suppression of monas-
teries, ib.; future acquisitions of land in mort-
main prohibited, 83; revenues of the different
rauks of clergy, ib.; Spanish intolerance, ib.;
transportation the punishment of apostatising
from the Romish Church, ib.; statistics of the
elective franchise, 84; ascendency of the execu-
tive over the legislature, ib.; progress of educa
tion, 84, 85; great natural resources of Spain,
85; agriculture the chief element of exports,
ib.; cause of the extreme dryness of the climate,
ib.; remarkable revival of commerce, 86; abun-
dant beds of coal, ib.; tariff the most restrictive
in Europe, ib.; fertility and mineral wealth, 87;
fondness of the peasant for gay costume, ib.;
remarkable increase of letters sent by post, 88;
naval power, ib.; number of the army, ib.; war
with Morocco, 89; relations with Mexico, ib.;
annexation of half San Domingo, ib.; public

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Trent question discussed, 136. See 'America.'
Turkey, Mr. Madden's opinion respecting English
protection of, 186; origin of British connexion
with, 187; charter of the Levant company, ib.
capitulations of 1675, ib.; amount of English
trade with, 188; well grounded interest in the
welfare of, ib.; liberal commercial policy of Tur-
key, ib.; British policy in founding the kingdom
of Greece, ib.; treaty of 1699, 189; English me-
diation between Turkey and Russia, 190; Treaty
of Bucharest, ib.; effect of the fall of Sebastopol,
ib.; England bound by treaty to maintain the
integrity of Turkey, 190, 191; dependent on Tur-
key for direct communication with India, 192;
influence of education, slavery, and the harem,
193, 194; decrease of population, 194; indepen-
dent tribes, ib; debased coinage, 195; farming
and sub-farming the revenue, ib.; need of rail-
ways, ib.; causes working for the sick man's'
ruin, 195, 196; French policy towards the Porte,
196; problem for solution, ib.; the Koran not
an unelastic code of laws, 197; extra-Koranic
concessions, ib.; reforms by the Hatt-y-homia-
youn, 198; the Sultan Abdul Aziz, 200; Magna
Charta of the Turkish empire, 201; effects of fa-
vouritism, ib.; college founded by the Govern-
ment, 203; English Treasury clerks employed
in Turkish finance, ib.; exclusion of the Impe-
rial princes from public business, 204; late fi-
nancial reductions, 205; arguments for improv-
ing friendly relations with, 206; Turkish reve-
nue capable of progressive increase, 208.
Turner, Mr. Thornbury's Life of, a deplorable
piece of book-making, 234; Mr. Thornbury's
abuse of his predecessors, 235; paste and scis-
sors, 236; borrowings from Mr. Wornum, 236,
237; specimens of his English, 238; Latin and
Greek blunders, 239; anachronisms, 239, 240;
misrepresentations and plagiarisms, 240; modes
of stuffing, 241, 242; tables of English and French
chronology, 242; incorrectness of dates, ib.;
iteration, ib.; inconsistency, 243; Turner's de
fective spelling, 245; his early success, ib.; his
pictures bequeathed to the public estimated at
400,000l., ib.; unjust complaints respecting the
patrons of art, 246; Turner's sufferings from the
evil speaking of the world,' 247; his relations
with engravers and publishers, 247, 248; fondness
for money, 248; compromise in distributing his
wealth, 249; illiberality of Turner's Gift, ib.;
treatment of Mr. Ruskin, ib.; a pleasant com-

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panion, 250; anecdote relating to a picture of
Mr. Daniell's, ib.; bounty to distressed artists,
ib.; his own father his drudge, ib.; early love
affair, ib.

U.

Wallis (Mr.) on the effects of the suppression of
monasteries in Spain, 82.

Watchet, or Whitehart Forest, legend respecting,
152, 153.

Wellington's (Duke of) intercourse with Pitt, 289;
Pitt's appreciation of his caution and courage,
290, 291.

University studies, cessation of the popular cla- Wesleyan hymns, subjective character of, 183.
mour against, 226.

V.

Vaughan's (Dr.) pamphlet on the Revised Code,

54.

Venice, Lord Castlereagh justified in acceding to
the Austrian reoccupation of, 115.
Viking (Norse), not akin to the word 'king,' 61.
Vienna (Congress of), its decisions now only a
name, 191,

Virginia, the 'Mother of Presidents,' 126.

Volcanic explosion in Makian, 262.

Weymouth, account of, 155, 156.

Wild-flowers, Dr. Arnold's music, 152.
Wimborne Minster, 159.

Winkworth's (Miss) translations of German sacred
poetry, 179.

Wolveton, its connection with the rise of the house
of Russell, 159.

Wornum's Turner Gallery,' 234; recommended,
251. See 'Turner.'

Y.

York (Duke of), disastrous campaign not the direct
fault of, 284.

Wales, schools in, 58.

W.

Zoology of Dorset, 151.

Z.

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