Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844

by Various

[A] 2 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1832.

[B] The tambouria are always constructed with the ditch in the inside, in order that they may afford a better cover from artillery.

[C] One English sufferer has for several years vainly attacked the king for justice, even with the assistance of the English Minister in Greece and the Foreign Office at home.

INDEX TO VOL. LV.

• Aborigines of New Holland, the, 193.
• Achilles Tatius, account of his romance of Clitophon and Leucippe, 33.
• Actual condition of the Greek state, the, [785].
• Aden, the British position of, 272.
• Adventures in Texas.—No. III. the Struggle, 18.
• Adventures of Clitophon and Leucippe, the, 33.
• Africa, ignorance of the interior of, 269.
• Africa—the Slave Trade—and Tropical Colonies, [730]
  • various expeditions to explore, [731]
  • its principal rivers, and countries watered by them, [734].
• Agriculture, causes of the decline of, in the Roman empire, 391.
• Ameer Ali, a Thug, account of, 326.
• Ameers of Scinde, case of the, 580.
• Anti-corn-law League, measures of the, 121.
• Ancient Greek romances—Clitophon and Leucippe, 33.
• Arabs of Cordova, sketch of the history of the, 431.
• Australia, statistics of the various colonies of, 184.

• Banking in Australia, on, 186.
• Banking-House, the, a history in three part. Part III. Chap. I., Symptoms of rottenness, 50
  • Chap. II., A meeting, 56
  • Chap. III., A chapter of loans, 61
  • Chap. IV., A dissolution of partnership, 65
  • Chap. V., The crisis, 69
  • Chap. VI., The crash, 75
  • Chap. VII., The vicarage, 79.
• Beau Brummell, Jesse’s memoirs of, reviewed, [769].
• Beauclerk, Topham, 182.
• Beke, Dr. T. C., his travels in Africa, [740].
• Belfront castle, a retrospective review, 334.
• Benton, Mr, on the treaty of Washington, 112.
• Bewailment from Bath, a, or Poor Old Maids, 199.
• Bristol, the Earl of, 180.
• British fleet, the, 462.
• Brummell, Jesse’s memoirs of, reviewed, [769].
• Bumbo Khan, sketch of, 223.
• Bundelcund, Colonel Davidson’s travels in, 325.

• Canadian insurgents, trials of the, 3.
• Catholicism, effects of in Ireland, 520.
• Chartists, state trials of the, in 1842, 5.
• Cheap labour and cheap bread, connection of, 125.
• Chudleigh, Miss, career of, 180.
• Church of Scotland, the secession from the, 221.
• Churkaree, town of, 327.
• Circulating libraries, on, 556.
• Circulating medium of Great Britain, amount of the, 388.
• Clitophon and Leucippe, account of the romance of, 33.
• 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.