Cobden, Mr, on the effects of corn-law repeal, 125.

Colonies, importance of, to England, 740.

Columbus, a poem, by B. Simmons, 687.

Conservatism, advance of, since the passing of the reform bill, 103 as exhibited by the general elections, 104.

Cordova, history of the Moorish kingdom of, 431.

Corn-law, the new, and its effects, 116.

Corn-laws, on the, 385 viewed in connexion with the manufacturing distress, 105 effects of their repeal on wages, &c., 125.

Corn question, letter from Lemuel Gulliver on the, 98 Sir Robert Peel on the, 106.

Crime, the increase of, 533 table of it since 1805, 534 not attributable to its surer detection by a more efficient police, 535 nor to defects in the law, 540 nor to deficiency in education, 541 its diminution in India and France, 538.

Cry from Ireland, review of the, 638.

Customs revenue, improvement of the, since the new tariff, 114.

Davidson's travels in India, review of, 321.

Delta, lines by, on the snow, 617.

Dhacca, account of the city of, 331.

Difficulties of the present government on its accession, the, 108.

Diligence, the, a leaf on a journal, 692.

Disruption of the Scottish church, the, 221.

Dublin state trials, the, 1.

Duelling in Germany, 555.

Dumas, Alexander; thrush-hunting, a tale by, 150 extracts from his work on Italy, 347 and from his Rhine and Rhinelanders, 546.

Education, statistics of, with reference to crime, 541.

Elections, results of the, since 1832, 104.

Ellenborough, Lord, his Indian policy, 113.

Emigration to Australia, letter on, 184 from Africa, on, 745.

England, efforts made by, in favour of free trade, 261.

Ethiopia, Harris's Highlands of, reviewed, 269.

Europe, diminution of, British exports to, 263.

Eusebius, letter to, on sitting for a portrait, 243.

Exports, diminution of, to Europe, 263.

Fairies' Sabbath, the, a tradition of Upper Lusatia, 665.

Fireman's Song, the, 101.

Foreign policy of the government, the, 111.

France, increased commercial restrictions of, 261 statistics of crime in, 538.

Freethinker, the, a tale, 593.

Free trade and protection, on, 259 efforts made by England to introduce free trade, 261 protective system pursued by France, Germany, &c., ib. true principles of, 268. No. II. The corn-laws, 385 failure of the reciprocity system, ib. comparison of a young and old state as to manufacturing and agricultural productiveness, 386 effects of free trade on the Roman empire, 391 impracticability of that system, 396 and its inexpediency, 397.

Frost and others, the trials of, 4.

Gama, circumnavigation of Africa, by, 271.

General elections, results of the, since 1832, 104.

Germany Customs League, the, 262.

Germany, Dumas in, 546.

Gil Blas, on the authorship of, 698.

Glum, Tabitha, letter from, 199.

Goethe, lines to, 380.

Gopal, a Hindu robber, account of, 326.

Government, position and prospects of the, 103.

Greece, the actual condition of, 785.

Greek romances, the ancient: Clitophon and Leucippe, 33.

Gulliver, letter from, on the corn question, 98.

Gunnings, career of the, 176.

Gwalior, history and present state of, 579.

Hackman, murder of Miss Ray, by, 178.

Harris's Highlands of Ethiopia, review of, 269 notices of it, 730.

Hawash river, the, 277.

Henley, orator, notices of, 171.

Heretic, the, a novel translated from the Russian of Lajetchnikoff, review of, 133.

Hervey, Captain, 180.

High life in the last century, 164.

Hill's Fifty days on board a Slave vessel, review of, 425.

Home policy of the government, the, 110.

Hurdwar, account of the fair of, 324.

Huskisson, Mr, first attempts to introduce the free trade system, 262.

Hydrabad, battle at, 580.

Hymn of a hermit, the, 382.

Imprisonment and transportation—No. I.; the increase of crime, 533.

Increase of crime, the, since 1808, 534 not attributable to greater number of detections, 535 nor to defect in the law, 540 nor to deficiency of education, 541.

India, Colonel Davidson's travels in, review of, 321 diminution of crime in, 538.

Indian affairs, Gwalior, 579.

Ireland, its present position, and effects of the government measures on, 127 its present state, and policy of ministers, 518 objections brought against the ministerial measures, 519 defence of them, 524 the landlord and tenant question, 638.

Irish state trials, the, 1.

J. S., poems by; the Olympic Jupiter, 378 a Roman idyl, 379 Goethe, 380 hymn of a hermit, 382 the luckless lover, 383.

Jervis, Sir John, career of, 465.

Jesse's Memoirs and Correspondence of George Selwyn, review of, 164 of George Brummell, 769.

Kalergy, General, sketch of the life of, 785.

Kieff, a poem, translated from the Russian of Ivan Kozloff, by T. B. Shaw, 80.

Kingston, the Duchess of, 180.

Krapf, Mr, notices of his mission to Africa, 730.

Labour, gradual reduction in the cost of, in Great Britain, 125.

Lahore, revolution at, 581.

Lajetchnikoff, the Heretic by, reviewed, 133.

Lanarkshire, statistics of crime in, and its police, 537, 539.

Land of slaves, the, a poem, 257.

Landlord and tenant question in Ireland, the, 638.

Larresse on Portrait Painting, extracts from, 246.

Law, administration of the, in India, 333.

Lazzaroni of Naples, anecdotes of the, 354.

League, measures of the, 121.

Lemuel Gulliver, letter from, to the editor, 98.

Le Sage not the author of Gil Blas, 698.

Letter from an exiled contributor, 184.

Literature, the monster misery of, 556.

Llorente, M. on the authorship of Gil Blas, 698.

Lorgnon; a word or two of the opera-tive classes by, 292.

Love in the wilderness. Chap. I., 621 Chap. II., 624 Chap. III., 627 Chap. IV., 631 Chap. V., 635.

Luckless lover, the, a poem, 383.

Lusatia, traditions and tales of; No. I., the Fairies' Sabbath, 665.

Mahratta war, origin, &c., of the, 584.

Manufacturing distress, Sir Robert Peel on the causes of the, 105.

Marston, or, Memoirs of a Statesman. Part VII., 81 Part VIII., 202 Part IX., 362 Part X., 483 Part XI., 561.

Meeanee, battle of, 580.

Melbourne in Australia, letter from, with account of the colony, &c., 184.

Memoirs of a Statesman—see Marston.

Memoirs of Earl St Vincent, review of, 462.

Mexico, two nights in, 449.

Michael Kalliphournas, a tale, 725.

Monster misery of literature, the, 556.

Monmouthshire rioters, trial of the, 4.

Moslem histories of Spain; the Arabs of Cordova, 431.

My friend; a poem, 256.

Naples, account of, by Dumas, 347.

Narration of certain uncommon things that did formerly happen to me, Herbert Willis, B. D., 749.

Nelson, notices of the early services of, 477.

New art of printing, by a designing devil, 45.

News from an exiled contributor, a letter from New Holland, 184.

Non-intrusionists, secession of the, from church of Scotland, 221.

O'Connell and others, trial of, 1 his trial in 1831, 3 his present trial and demeanour during it, 7 his probable policy in agitating for Repeal, 128.

O'Connor, Fergus, state prosecutions of, 6.

Olympic Jupiter, the, a poem, 378.

Opera-tive classes, a word or two of the, 292.

Oude, a sporting excursion to, 329.

Oxford, trial of, 5.

Peel, Sir Robert, on the progress of Conservatism, 103, 104 on the causes of the manufacturing distress, 105 defence of his conduct on the corn-law question, 107.

Phenicians, circumnavigation of Africa by the, 271.

Pirates of Segna, the, a tale of Venice and the Adriatic. Part I. Chap. I., The Studio, 299 Chap. II., The Cavern, 303 Chap. III., The Jewels, 310 Chap. IV., The Ball, 316. Part II. Chap. I., The Battle of the Bridge, 401 Chap. II., The Picture, 409 Chap. III., The Pirates, 415 Chap. IV., The Recognition, 421.

Poetry:—Kieff, from the Russian of Kozloff, 80 The Proclamation, 100 the Fireman's Song, 101 The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes, 196 My Friend, 256 The Land of Slaves, 257 the Priest's Burial, ib. Prudence, 258 The Olympic Jupiter, 378 A Roman Idyl, 379 Goethe, 380 Hymn of a Hermit, 382 The Luckless Lover, 383 The Snow, by Delta, 617 Columbus, by B. Simmons, 687 To Swallows on the eve of departure, by the same, 690.

Police, repugnance to assessment for, 536.

Poor old maids, a bewailment from Bath, 199.

Porter, Mr, on the decrease of our European exports, 263.

Portrait painting, in a letter to Eusebius, 213.

Portugal, restrictive commercial system adopted by, 262.

Portuguese, circumnavigation of Africa by the, 271.

Position and Prospects of the government, on the: its position on the secession of the Whigs, 103 advance of Conservatism since the passing of the Reform Bill, ib. the manufacturing distress, 105 the sugar and corn question, 106 difficulties with which it had to contend, 108 its home policy, and what it has done, 110 its foreign policy, 111 the new tariff and corn-law, 113 results of its measures in the revival of trade, tranquillity, &c., 120 its measures with reference to Ireland, 127.

Priest's burial, the, a poem, 257.

Printing, the new art of, by a designing devil, 45.

Proclamation, the, 100.

Prophecy of the twelve tribes, the, poem, 196.

Prosecution, the State, 1.

Prudence, a poem, 258.

Rampore, city of, 322.

Ray, Miss, murder of, by Hackman, 178,

Rebeccaites, trials of the, 6.

Reciprocity system, effect of, in diminishing the exports to Europe, 263 failure of the, 385.

Repeal agitation, the, 128.

Revenue, improvement of the, 114.

Reviews: the Heretic, 133 George Selwyn and his contemporaries, 164 Harris's Highlands of Ethiopia, 269 Davidson's Travels in India, 321 Hill's Fifty days on board a Slave Ship, 425 Tucker's Memoirs of Earl St Vincent, 462 Cry from Ireland, 638 Jesse's memoirs of Beau Brummell, 769.

Rhine, the, and Rhinelanders, 546.

Rigby, Richard, notices of, 172.

Roman empire, effects of free trade on the, 391.

Roman Idyl, a, 379.

Sahela Selassee, King of Abyssinia, British mission to, 282.

St Vincent, Earl, Tucker's Memoirs of, reviewed, 462.

Sandwich, Lord, notices of, 177.

Scinde, subjugation of, by the British, 580.

Segna, Pirates of—see Pirates.

Selim, Captain, expedition under, to explore Central Africa, 731.

Selwyn and his contemporaries, review of, 164.

Shaw, T. B., translation of Kieff, a poem, from the Russian by, 80 review of his translation of the Heretic, 133.

Shoa, mission to the kingdom of, 275.

Simmons, B., poems by:—Columbus, 687 To swallows on the eve of departure, 690.

Sindiah, history of the house of, 582.

Sitting for a portrait, on, in a letter to Eusebius, 243.

Slave trade, the, 425, 730, 741.

Sliding scale, effects of the, 119.

Snow, the, a poem by Delta, 617.

Song of the Fireman, the, 101.

Southern Mexico, two nights in, 449.

Spain, condition of, under the Arabs of Cordova, 431.

Speculation in grain, diminution of, under the new corn law, 118.

State prosecutions, comparison of, in ancient and modern times, 1 that of O'Connell in 1831, 3 those of the Canadian insurgents, ib. of the Monmouthshire rioters, 4 of Oxford, 5 of the Chartists in 1842, ib. of the Welsh rioters, 6 the present, of O'Connell and others, for conspiracy, 7.

Statesman, memoirs of a—see Marston.

Struggle in Texas, the, 18.

Sugar question, Sir Robert Peel on the, 106.

Swallows on the eve of departure, address to, by B. Simmons, 690.

Tariff, the new, and its results, 113.

Tatius, Achilles, account of his romance, Clitophon and Leucippe, 33.

Texas, adventures in. No. III.; the struggle, 18.

Thrush-hunting, a tale; by Alexander Dumas, 150.

Traditions and tales of Upper Lusatia. No. I., The Fairies' Sabbath, 665.

Tropical colonies, on, 730, 741.

Tucker's Memoirs of Earl St Vincent, review of, 462.

Twelve tribes, prophecy of the, a poem, 196.

Two nights in Southern Mexico, a fragment from the journal of an American traveller, 449.

Two patrons, the, a tale. Chapter I., 500 Chap. II., 503 Chap. III., 505 Chap. IV., 509 Chap. V., 511 Chap. VI., 514 Chap. VII., 515.

Vardarelli, account of the, 358.

Wages, gradual reduction of, in Great Britain, 125.

Washington, the treaty of, 112.

Welsh rioters, trial of the, 6.

Who wrote Gil Blas? 698.

Wiggins' Cry from Ireland, review of, 638

William, John, letter from, to the editor, 184.

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 174 Gilly, 175.

Willis, Herbert, B. D., narration of, 749.

Word or two of the opera-tive classes, a, 292.

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