'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,
Celtic tumuli of Dorset, 147.
Ceylon, Sir Emerson Tennent's theory respecting,
Channing (Mary), post-mortem burning of, 160. Charles V. (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; towards Prince Leopold, ib.; evil influence at- demeanour 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?'
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,' 1b.; the Castle gallows, 158. Coronation oath, Fox's opinion respecting the, 272. Courtship, Icelandic, 65.
'Cow and Calf,' landmarks in Dorset, 153. *
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 Dorset, derivation of the word, 147; crusade of S. victories depend, ib. G. O., 149; labourers' wages, 149, 150; truck 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 Domingo (San), annexation of half the island to poet, 164-166; politeness of the peasantry, 166. Spain, 89; history of its revolutions, 90.
Dryness of climate caused by the destruction of Dred Scott case, points decided in the, 125, 126. 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.
Education, the training of the faculties of the mind, Eastern Archipelago, ethnology of the, 266.
(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.; 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,
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.
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,
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-
Mindanao, low state of barbarism of Negritoes in, 266; their concoction of poisons, ib.; ascend trees like monkeys, ib.
Ministerial responsibility, theory of, 269. Missouri compromise, the, 127.
Moluccas, early description of the, 262; terrific volcanic explosion in Makian, ib.
Monitor' and 'Merrimac,' action between, 292. See Merrimac.'
Montreal, necessity of protecting, 141. Morocco, Spanish war with, 89.
Mosquito, protectorate of, 136.
Murat protected by Lord Castlereagh, 113.
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,
Raffles' (Sir Stamford) ascendency over the people at Bencoolen, 258.
Negritoes resembling the Bushmen of South Af-Railways, the United Kingdom intersected by
Nelson (Lord) and Lady Hamilton, anecdotes of, 23. Nicaragua, politics of, 136.
Norway, first Christian church in, 59; union with Sweden, 115.
Norwegian establishments on the British coasts, 62.
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-
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- eussed, 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
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.
Strategists, dearth of great, 285.
Sumatra described, 257.
Sumbawa, description of a great eruption in, 252.
St. Alban's Head, chantry on, 157.
Texas, struggle as to its admission among the Unit- ed States, 127.
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,
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.
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 20
Tracts for the Times,' a counter movement to the Wesleyan, 184.
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-homa- 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-
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, 188. mour against, 226.
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 Wornum's Turner Gallery,' 234; recommended, of Russell, 159. 251. See 'Turner.'
York (Duke of), disastrous campaign not the direct fault of, 284.
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