Chapter 2

Chap. II., The Picture, 409 Chap. III., The Pirates, 415 Chap. IV., The Recognition, 421.

Poetry:--Kieff, from the Russian of Kozlóff, 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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