CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
| A Bachelor's Reverie. By Ik. Marvel | 620 |
| A Child's Dream of a Star | [73] |
| A Chip from a Sailor's Log | 478 |
| Adventure in a Turkish Harem | 321 |
| Adventure with a Snake | 415 |
| Aerial voyage of Barral and Bixio | 499 |
| A few words on Corals | 251 |
| A Five Days' Tour in the Odenwald. By William Howitt | 448 |
| A Giraffe Chase | 329 |
| Alchemy and Gunpowder | 195 |
| American Literature | [37] |
| American Vanity | 274 |
| A Midnight Drive | 820 |
| Amusements of the Court of Louis XV | [97] |
| Andrew Carson's Money: A Story of Gold | 503 |
| Anecdote of a Singer | 779 |
| Anecdotes of Dr. Chalmers | 696 |
| Anecdote of Lord Clive | 554 |
| A Night in the Bell Inn. A Ghost Story. | 252 |
| A Paris Newspaper | 181 |
| A Pilgrimage to the Cradle of Liberty | 721 |
| Archibald Alison (with Portrait) | [134] |
| A Shilling's Worth of Science | 597 |
| Assyrian Sects | 454 |
| A Tale of the good Old Times | [52] |
| Atlantic Waves | 786 |
| A True Ghost Story | 801 |
| A Tuscan Vintage | 600 |
| A Word at the Start | [1] |
| Bathing—Its Utility. By Dr. Moore | 215 |
| Battle with Life (Poetry) | 731 |
| Benjamin West. By Leigh Hunt | 194 |
| Biographical Sketch of Zachary Taylor | 298 |
| Borax Lagoons of Tuscany | 397 |
| Burke and the Painter Barry | 807 |
| Charlotte Corday | 262 |
| Chemical Contradictions | 736 |
| Christ-hospital Worthies. By Leigh Hunt | 200 |
| Conflict with an Elephant | 352 |
| Death of Cromwell (Poetry) | 257 |
| Descent into the Crater of a Volcano | 838 |
| Diplomacy—Lord Chesterfield | 246 |
| Doing (Poetry) | 268 |
| Dr. Johnson: his Religious Life and Death | [71] |
| Early History of the Use of Coal | 656 |
| Early Rising | [52] |
| Earth's Harvests (Poetry) | 297 |
| Ebenezer Elliott | 349 |
| Education in America | 209 |
| Elephant Shooting in South Africa | 393 |
| Encounter with a Lioness | 303 |
| Eruptions of Mount Etna | [35] |
| Fashions for Early Summer | [142] |
| Fashions for July | 287 |
| Fashions for August | 431 |
| Fashions for early Autumn | 575 |
| Fashions for Autumn | 719 |
| Fashions for November | 863 |
| Fate Days, and other Superstitions | 729 |
| Father and Son | 243 |
| Fearful Tragedy—A Man-eating Lion | 471 |
| Fifty Years ago. By Leigh Hunt | 180 |
| Fortunes of the Gardener's Daughter | 832 |
| Francis Jeffrey | [66] |
| Galileo and his Daughter | 347 |
| Genius | [65] |
| Ghost Stories: Mademoiselle Clairon | [83] |
| Glimpses of the East. By Albert Smith | 198 |
| Globes, and how they are Made | 165 |
| Greenwich Weather-wisdom | 265 |
| Habits of the African Lion | 480 |
| Have great Poets become impossible? | 340 |
| History of Bank Note Forgeries | 745 |
| How to kill Clever Children | 789 |
| How to make Home unhealthy. By Harriet Martineau | 601 |
| How We Went Whaling | 844 |
| Hydrophobia | 846 |
| Ignorance of the English | 205 |
| Illustrations of Cheapness. Lucifer Matches | [75] |
| Industry of the Blind | 848 |
| Jenny Lind. By Fredrika Bremer | 657 |
| Jewish Veneration | [119] |
| Lack of Poetry in America | 403 |
| Lady Alice Daventry; or, the Night of Crime | 642 |
| Ledru Rollin | 476 |
| Leigh Hunt Drowning | 202 |
| Lettice Arnold. By Mrs. Marsh | [13], 168, 353 |
| Lines. By Robert Southey | 206 |
| Literary and Scientific Miscellany | 556 |
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| Literary Notices. | |
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| Little Mary—A tale of the Irish Famine | 518 |
| Lizzie Leigh. By Charles Dickens | [38] |
| Longfellow | [74] |
| Lord Byron, Wordsworth, and Lamb | 293 |
| Lord Coke and Lord Bacon | 239 |
| Madame Grandin | [135] |
| Married Men | [106] |
| Maurice Tiernay. By Charles Lever | [2], 219, 329, 487, 627, 790 |
| Memoirs of the First Duchess of Orleans | [56] |
| Memories of Miss Jane Porter. By Mrs. S.C. Hall | 433 |
| Men and Women | [89] |
| Metal in Sea Water | [71] |
| Milking in Australia | [37] |
| Mirabeau. Anecdote of his Private Life. | 648 |
| Monthly Record of Current Events. | |
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| Moorish Domestic Life | 161 |
| Morning in Spring | [87] |
| Moscow after the Conflagration | [137] |
| Mrs. Hemans | [116] |
| My Novel; or Varieties in English Life. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton | 659, 761 |
| My Wonderful Adventures in Skitzland | 258 |
| Neander. A Biographical Sketch | 510 |
| Obstructions to the use of the Telescope | 699 |
| Ode to the Sun. By Hunt | 189 |
| Papers on Water, No. 1 | [50] |
| Physical Education | [106] |
| Peace (Poetry). By Chas. Dryden. | 194 |
| Pilgrimage to the Home of Sir Thomas More. By Mrs. S.C. Hall | 289 |
| Portrait of Charles I. By Vandyck | [137] |
| Poverty of the English Bar | 218 |
| Presence of Mind. By De Quincey | 467 |
| Rapid Growth of America | 237 |
| Recollections of Dr. Chalmers | 383 |
| Recollections of Eminent Men. By Leigh Hunt | 184 |
| Recollections of Thomas Campbell | 345 |
| Scenery on the Erie Railroad | 213 |
| Scenes in Egypt | 210 |
| Shooting Stars and Meteoric Showers | 439 |
| Short Cuts Across the Globe | [79] |
| Singular Proceedings of the Sand Wasp. By William Howitt | 592 |
| Sir Robert Peel. A Biographical Sketch | 405 |
| Sketches of English Character—The Old Squire—The Young Squire. By William Howitt | 460 |
| Sketches of Life. By a Radical | 803 |
| Snakes and Serpent Charmers | 680 |
| Sonnet on the Death of Wordsworth | 218 |
| Sonetto | [72] |
| Sonnets from the Italian | [114] |
| Sophistry of Anglers. By Leigh Hunt | 164 |
| Sorrows and Joys (Poetry) | 627 |
| Spider's Silk | 824 |
| Sponges | 406 |
| Steam | [50] |
| Steam Bridge of the Atlantic | 411 |
| Story of a Kite | 750 |
| Summer Pastime (Poetry) | 524 |
| Sydney Smith | 584 |
| Sydney Smith on Moral Philosophy | [107] |
| Terrestrial Magnetism | 651 |
| The American Revolution. By Guizot | 178 |
| The Appetite for News | 249 |
| The Approach of Christmas (Poetry) | 454 |
| The Australian Colonies | [118] |
| The Blind Sister | 826 |
| The Brothers Cheeryble | 551 |
| The Chapel by the Shore | [74] |
| The Character of Burns. By Elliott | [114] |
| The Chemistry of a Candle | 524 |
| The Circassian Priest Warrior and his White Horse (Poetry) | [98] |
| The Communist Sparrow—An Anecdote of Cuvier | 317 |
| The Corn Law Rhymer | [135] |
| The Countess | 816 |
| The Death of an Infant (Poetry) | 183 |
| The Disasters of a Man who wouldn't trust his Wife. By William Howitt | 512 |
| The Doom of the Slaver | 846 |
| The Enchanted Baths | [139] |
| The Enchanted Rock | 639 |
| The English Peasant. By Howitt | 483 |
| The Every-Day Married Lady | 777 |
| The Every-Day Young Lady | 742 |
| The Flower Gatherer | [78] |
| The Force of Fear | 640 |
| The Genius of George Sand. The Comedy of François le Champi | [95] |
| The Gentleman Beggar. An Attorney's Story | 588 |
| The German Meistersingers | [81] |
| The Haunted House in Charnwood Forest | 472 |
| The Household Jewels (Poetry) | 692 |
| The Imprisoned Lady | 551 |
| The Iron Ring | 808 |
| The Laboratory in the Chest | 673 |
| The Light of Home | 842 |
| The Literary Profession—Authors and Publishers | 548 |
| The Little Hero of Haarlem | 414 |
| The Magic Maze | 684 |
| The Mania for Tulips in Holland | 758 |
| The Miner's Daughters. A Tale of the Peak | 150 |
| The Modern Argonauts (Poetry) | [120] |
| The Mother's First Duty | [105] |
| The Mysterious Preacher | 452 |
| The Old Church-yard Tree—A Prose-poem | 483 |
| The Old Man's Bequest. A Story of Gold | 387 |
| The Old Well in Languedoc | 521 |
| The Oldest Inhabitant of the Place de Grève | 749 |
| The Orphan's Voyage Home (Poetry) | 272 |
| The Paris Election | [116] |
| The Planet-Watchers of Greenwich | 233 |
| The Pleasures of Illness | 697 |
| The Pope at Home again | [117] |
| The Power of Mercy | 395 |
| The Prodigal's Return | 836 |
| The Quakers during the American War. By Howitt | 595 |
| The Railway (Poetry) | 826 |
| The Railway Station (Poetry) | 163 |
| The Railway Works at Crewe | 408 |
| The Return of Pope Pius IX. to Rome | [90] |
| The Rev. William Lisle Bowles | [86] |
| The Salt Mines of Europe | 759 |
| The Schoolmaster of Coleridge and Lamb. By Leigh Hunt | 207 |
| The Snowy Mountains in New Zealand | [65] |
| The State of the World before Adam | 754 |
| The Steel Pen. Illustration of Cheapness | 677 |
| The Sun | 689 |
| The Tea Plant | 693 |
| The Two Guides of the Child | 672 |
| The Two Thompsons | 479 |
| The Young Advocate | 304 |
| The Uses of Sorrow (Poetry) | 193 |
| The Wahr-Wolf | 797 |
| The Wife of Kong Tolv. A Fairy Tale | 324 |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | [136] |
| Thomas Carlyle. By George Gilfillan | 586 |
| Thomas de Quincey, the "English Opium Eater" | 145 |
| Thomas Moore | 248 |
| Trial and Execution of Mad. Roland | 732 |
| Truth | [137] |
| Tunnel of the Alps | [77] |
| Two-handed Dick, the Stockman. A Tale of Adventure in Australia | 190 |
| Ugliness Redeemed—A Tale of a London Dust-Heap | 455 |
| Unsectarian Education in England | [100] |
| Villainy Outwitted | 781 |
| Wallace and Fawdon (Poetry). By Leigh Hunt | 400 |
| What becomes of all the clever Children? | 402 |
| What Horses Think of Men. From the Raven in the Happy Family | 593 |
| When the Summer Comes | 780 |
| William H. Prescott | [138] |
| William Pitt. By S.T. Coleridge | 202 |
| William Wordsworth | [103] |
| Women in the East | [10] |
| Work! An Anecdote | [88] |
| Wordsworth—His Character and Genius. By George Gilfillan | 577 |
| Wordsworth's Posthumous Poem | 546 |
| Writing for Periodicals | 553 |
| Young Poet's Plaint. By Elliott | [113] |
| Young Russia—State of Society in the Russian Empire | 269 |
Lord Jeffrey's Account of the Origin of the Edinburgh Review—Character of Sir Robert Peel—The Ownership of Land—A Self-Taught Artist—Conversation of Literary Men—Rewards of Literature—Schamyl the Prophet of the Caucasus—The Colossal Statue—Wordsworth's Prose-Writings—Anecdotes of Beranger—The Paris Academy of Inscriptions.
Bryant's Letters of a Traveler; Bayard Taylor's Eldorado, [140]. Standish the Puritan; Talbot and Vernon, [141]. Smyth's Unity of the Human Races, 284. Talvi's Literature of the Slavic Nations; Greeley's Hints toward Reforms, 288. Antonina Martinet's Solution of Great Problems; Lossing's Field Book, 286, 427, 837. Lamartine's Past Present and Future of the French Republic; Lardner's Railway Economy; The Lone Dove; Mezzofanti's Method applied to the Study of the French Language; The Ojibway Conquest; Buffum's Six Months in the Gold Mines; The World as it is and as it appears; Drake's Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, 286. Campbell's Life and Letters, 425. Life and Correspondence of Andrew Combe, 426. Dr. Johnson's Religious Life and Death; Sydney Smith's Sketches of Moral Philosophy; The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, 427. Mrs. Child's Rebels; Davies's Logic and Utility of Mathematics; The Gallery of Illustrious Americans; The Phantom World; Christopher under Canvas; Byrne's Dictionary of Mechanics; Griffith's Marine and Naval Architecture, 428. Duggin's Specimens of Bridges, etc. on the U.S. Railroads; M'Clintock's Second Book in Greek; Baird's Impressions of the West Indies, and North America; Fleetwood's Life of Christ; The Shoulder Knot; Supplement to Forester's Fish and Fishing; The Morning Watch; Debates in the Convention of California; The Mothers of the Wise and Good, 429. Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets, 430, 571. The Illustrated Domestic Bible; Earnestness; Amy Harrington; The Vale of Cedars; Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange; Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail; Poems by H. Ladd Spencer; Talvi's Heloise; The Initials; The Lorgnette, 430. Tennyson's In Memoriam, 570. Abbott's History of Darius; Fowler's English Language in its Elements and forms; Julia Howard; Cumming's Five Years of a Hunter's Life; Moore's Health, Disease, and Remedy; Wright's Perforations of the Latter-day Pamphlets; Lanman's Haw-Ho-Noo, 571. Leigh Hunt's Autobiography; U.S. Railroad Guide and Steamboat Journal; Ware's Hints to Young Men; The Iris; Irving's Conquest of Granada, 572. Life and Times of Gen. John Lamb, Progress of the Northwest; Everett's Bunker Hill Oration; Walker's Phi Beta Kappa Oration; Bayard Taylor's American Legend; Ungewitter's Europe, Past and Present; Downing's Architecture of Country Houses, 573. Jarvis's Don Quixote; Halliwell's Shakspeare; Meyer's Universum; The Night Side of Nature; Giles's Thoughts on Life; Hill's Lectures on Surgery; The National Temperance Offering, 574. Rural Hours; Robinson's Greek and English Lexicon; The Berber, 713. Works of Joseph Bellamy; Adelaide Lindsay; Mayhew's Popular Education; Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; After Dinner Table Talk; Cooper's Deer Slayer; Stockton's Sermon on the Death of Zachary Taylor; Raymond's Relations of the American Scholar to his Country and his Times, 714. Loomis's Recent Progress of Astronomy; Loomis's Mathematical Course; Autobiography of Goethe; Braithwaite's Retrospect; Mrs. Ellett's Domestic History of the Revolution; Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men; Johnson's Cicero; Lady Willoughby's Diary; The Young Woman's Book of Health, 715. Whittier's Songs of Labor; Nicholson's Poems of the Heart; The Mariner's Vision; Collins's edition of Æsop's Fables; Seba Smith's New Elements of Geometry, 716. Buckingham's Specimens of Newspaper Literature; Edward Everett's Orations and Speeches, 717. Echoes of the Universe; Memoir of Anne Boleyn; The Lily and the Totem; Reminiscences of Congress; Mental Hygiene, 718. Williams's Religious Progress; Poetry of Science; Footprints of the Creator; Pre-Adamite Earth, 857. Household Surgery; Gray's Poetical Works; Memoirs of Chalmers; History of Propellers and Steam Navigation; The Country Year-Book; Success in Life; Alton Locke, 858. The Builder's, and the Cabinet-maker and Upholster's Companion; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Lexicon of Terms used in Natural History; Lamartine's Additional Memoirs, and Genevieve; Rose's Chemical Tables; Pendennis; Stockhardt's Principles of Chemistry; Petticoat Government; Etchings to the Bridge of Sighs, 859. Bartlett's Natural Philosophy; Church's Calculus; Lonz Powers; Abbott's History of Xerxes; Alexander's Dictionary of Weights and Measures; America Discovered; Dwight's Christianity Revived in the East; Grahame, 860. George Castriot; The Last of the Mohicans; Johnston's Relations of Science and Agriculture; Descriptive Geography of Palestine; Life of Commodore Talbot; American Biblical Repository; North American Review, 861. Methodist Quarterly Review; Christian Review; Brownson's Quarterly, 862.
General Intelligence.—The invasion of Cuba, 275. Mr. Webster's letter on the delivery of fugitive slaves; Reply of Hon. Horace Mann, 275. Prof. Stuart's pamphlet, 275. The Nashville Convention, 275. New Southern Paper at Washington, 275. Connecticut resolutions in favor of the Compromise Bill, 275. Dinner to Senator Dickenson, 275. Dinner to Hon. Edward Gilbert, of California, 276. Constitutional conventions in Ohio and Michigan; Governors Crittenden and Wright, 276. Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, 276. Seizure of a vessel for violation of the neutrality act, 276. Death of President Taylor; succession of Mr. Fillmore, and the new Cabinet, 416. Release of the Contoy prisoners, 417. Incorrect rumor of an insult to the U.S. Minister to Spain, 417, 703. Fire in Philadelphia, 417. Will saltpetre explode, 417. Cholera at the West, 417. Professor Webster's confession, 418. The Collins steamers, 418. Mr. Squier's researches in Central America, 418. Measures for a direct trade from the South to Liverpool, 418. Free School System in New York, 418. Medal to Colonel Fremont, 418. U.S. Boundary Commission, 418. State Convention in New Mexico, 419. Fourth of July Addresses at various places, 420. Celebration of the Capture of Stony Point, 420. Affairs at Liberia, 420. American claims on Portugal, 424. Courtesies between the Corporations of Buffalo and Toronto, 563. Suffering the growth of the Canada thistle made penal in Wisconsin, 563. Report of the West Point Board of Visitors, 563. Project for shortening the passage of the Atlantic, 563. Gen. Quitman's letter, 702. Re-election of Mr. Rusk as Senator from Texas, indicating a disposition to accept the U.S. proposals, 702. Arrival of a Turkish Commissioner, 702. Changes in the Cabinet, 702. Mr. Conrad's letter to his constituents on the slavery question, 702. Execution of Prof. Webster, 703. Arrival of Jenny Lind, 703. Opening of the Gallery of the Art Union, 704. Passage of the Pacific from Liverpool, the shortest ever made, 707. Whig State Convention at Syracuse; Convention of the seceders at Utica; Letter of Washington Hunt, 849. Anti-Renters' convention at Albany, 849. Feeling at the South in relation to the admission of California, 850. Hon. C.J. Jenkins on disunion, 850. New Collins steamers, Arctic and Baltic, 850. Property in N.Y. City, 850. Swedish colony in Illinois, 850. Working of the Fugitive Slave Bill, 850. Jenny Lind's concerts, 850. New York a Catholic Archepiscopal See, 850. The Boundary Bill in Texas; Mr. Kaufman's letter, 851. Policy of Government in relation to the transit of the Isthmus, 851. Earthquake at Cleveland, 851.
Congressional.—The Compromise Bill in the Senate, 275. Webster's speech on the Bill, 416. The Galphin Claim, 416. Final action of the Senate on the Compromise Bill, 561. Protest of Southern Senators against the admission of California, 561. Proposals to Texas, in relation to the boundary, 562. Discussion in the House on the Appropriation Bill, 562. President's Message on Texas and New Mexico, with Webster's letter to Gov. Bell, of Texas, 562. Nominations to the Cabinet, 563. Passage of the Texas Bill, and analysis of the votes, 700. Passage of the California Bill; of the Fugitive Slave Bill; of Bill abolishing the Slave-trade in the District, 701. Passage of the Appropriation Bills, with provisions for abolishing flogging in the navy, and granting bounties to soldiers; Adjournment of Congress, 849.
Elections.—In Virginia for members of constitutional convention; contest between the eastern and western sections, 463. In Missouri, partial success of the Whigs, 463. In North Carolina, success of the Democrats, 463. In Indiana, giving the Democrats the control of the legislature and constitutional convention, 463. In Vermont, success of the Whigs, 703. Election of Hon. Solomon Foot as Senator, 850.
California, New Mexico, and Oregon.—Tax on foreigners, 276. Excitement at the delay of admission to the Union, 276. Riot at Panama, 276. Fires at San Francisco, 419. Gold, 419. Indian hostilities, 419. Bill for the admission of California as a state into the Union, passed the Senate, and protest of Southern Senators, 561. Line of stages between Independence, Mo., and Santa Fé, 563. Continued discoveries of gold, 566. Disturbances with Foreigners and Indians, 566. Steam communication between San Francisco and China, 566. Rumors of gold in Oregon, 566. Resignation of Gov. Lane, 566. News from the Boundary Commission, 702. Disturbances on account of Sutter's claims, 705. Cholera on board steamers, 706. New rumors of gold in Oregon, 706. Arrival of Senators from New Mexico; conflict of authorities; Indian outrages, 706. State of affairs in California, up to Sept. 15, 851. In Oregon to Sept. 2, 852.
Mexico And South America.—Presidential Election in Mexico, Cholera; Right of Way across the Isthmus, 418. Ravages of the Indians in Mexico, 566. Transit of the Isthmus; Opening of the Port of San Juan, 851. Steamers proposed between Valparaiso and Panama, 851.
Literary.—Agassiz and Smyth on the Unity of the Human Race; Address of Professor Lewis; Bishop Hughes on Socialism. Walter Colton's book on California; Professor Davies's Logic and Utility of Mathematics, 276. Bartlett's Natural Philosophy; Mansfield on American Education, 277. De Quincey's writings: Poems by Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell; Giles's Christian Thoughts on Life; Bristed's Reply to Mann; Gould's Comedy, The Very Age, 277. Historical Society in Trinity College, Hartford, 420. March's Reminiscences of Congress, 564. Torrey's translation of Neander, 564. Life of Randolph, 565. Kendall's work on the Mexican War, 565. Commencement Exercises at various Colleges, 565. G.P.R. James's Lectures, 704. Andrews's Latin Lexicon, 704. Hildreth's new volume of American History, 705. Dr. Wainwright's Our Saviour with Prophets and Apostles; Miss McIntosh's Evenings at Donaldson Manor, 853.
Scientific.—Paine's Water-gas, 277, 564. Forshey's Essay on the deepening of the channel of the Mississippi, 563. Professor Page's experiments in electro-magnetism, 564. Mathiot's experiment's at illuminating with hydrogen, 564. Meeting of the American Scientific Association at New Haven, 564. Astronomical Expedition under Lieutenant Gillis; Humboldt's Notice of American Science, 705.
Personal.—Arrival of G.P.R. James, 419. Arrival of Gen. Dembinski, 419. Emerson, Prescott, Hudson, Garibaldi, 420. Hon. D.D. Barnard, 563. Henry Clay at Newport, 563. Intelligence from the Franklin Expedition, 564. Messrs. Lawrence and Rives at the Royal Agricultural Society, 567. Messrs. Duer, Spaulding, and Ashmun, decline re-election to Congress, 702. Ammin Bey, 702. Jenny Lind, 703. Nomination of George N. Briggs for re-election as Governor of Mass., 850. Hamlet the fugitive Slave, 850. Archbishop Hughes, 851. Bishop Onderdonk, 851. G.P.R. James and the Whig Review, 853.
Deaths.—Adam Ramage; S. Margaret Fuller, 420. Commodore Jacob Jones, 563. Mr. Nes; Professor Webster; Dr. Judson; Bishop H.B. Bascom; John Inman, 703. Gen. Herard, ex-President of Haiti, 706.
England.—Birth of Prince Arthur, [123]. Mr. Gibson's motion in Parliament to abolish all taxes on knowledge; bearing of these taxes; motion negatived; evasion of the excise on paper by the publisher of the "Greenock Newscloth," [124]. Education Bill introduced, discussed, and postponed, [124]. Defeat of ministers on unimportant measures, [124]. Preparations for Industrial Exhibition, [125], 280, 852, 853. Expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin, [125], 855. The Greek quarrel, 277. Consequent action of Russia and Austria in relation to British subjects, 278. University reform, 278. Imprisonment of British colored seamen at Charleston, 278. Sinecures in the ecclesiastical courts, 278. Motion in Parliament to give the Australian colonies the full management of their own affairs, lost, 278. Bill passed reducing the parliamentary franchise in Ireland, and speech of Sir James Graham in its favor, 279. Various bills for Sanitary and Social reform, 279. Bill to abolish the Viceroyalty in Ireland, 280. Commission of inquiry into the state of the Universities, 280. Death of Sir Robert Peel, 420. Discussions on the Greek question; remarkable speeches of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell, 421. Sunday labor in the Post-office, 421. Bill lost for protecting free sugar; Intra-mural interments Bill passed, 422. Assault on the Queen, 422. Wrecks in the Northern Atlantic; wreck of the Orion, 422. The Rothschild case, 566. Foreign policy of ministers sustained, 566. Sundry Bills for social and political reform lost, 567. Grants to the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, 567. Explosion of a coal-mine, 567. Gen. Haynau mobbed, 706. Prorogation of Parliament, 706. Lord Brougham's vagaries, 706. Extent of railways in Great Britain, 707. The Times and Gen. Haynau, 852. The Arctic Expedition, 852. Cotton in Siberia, 852. Lord Clarendon in Ireland, 852. Queen's University and the bishops, 852, 855. Shipwrecks, 853. The Sea Serpent in Ireland, 853. Punishment of naval officers for carelessness, 853. Amount of Irish crop, 855. Cunard steamers, 855.
France.—Contest in Paris for election of Member of Assembly; election of Eugene Sue, [122]. Mutiny in the 11th Infantry, [122]. Destruction of the suspension-bridge at Angers, and terrible loss of life, [122]. Arrest of M. Proudhon, [123]. Capture of Louis Pellet, a notorious murderer, [123]. Bill for restricting the suffrage, 283. Stringent proceedings against the Press, 283. Recall of the French embassador to England, 283. Increase voted to the salary of the President, 424. New laws for the restriction of the Press, 424. Walker's attempt to assassinate Louis Napoleon, 424. M. Thiers's visit to Louis Philippe, 424. Tax on feuilletons, 569. The President's tour, 707. Death of Louis Philippe, and notice of his life, 708. Decision of a majority of the departments in favor of a revision of the constitution, 709. Duel between MM. Chavoix and Dupont, 711. Death of Balzac, and notice of his life and works, 711. The President's plans; revision of the Constitution, 856.
Germany.—Convocations at Frankfort and Berlin, 284. Attempt on the life of the King of Prussia, 284. Dissolution of the Saxon Chambers, and of the Wurtemberg Diet, 424. Peace Convention at Frankfort, 424, 712. Restrictions on the Press in Prussia, 424. Fresh hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein, Battle of Idstedt, 570. Proceedings of Austria, respecting the Act of Confederation, 712. Inundations in Belgium, 712. General Krogh rewarded by the Emperor of Russia for his bravery at the battle of Idstedt, 712. Extension of telegraphs, 855. Hungarian musicians expelled from Vienna, 855. Colossal statue completed, 855. Revolutions in Hesse Cassel and Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 856.
Italy, Spain, Portugal.—The Pope's return, and adhesion to the Absolutists, [128]. State of affairs in Italy, 284. Intrigues in Spain, 284. Rain after a five years' drought, 284. Explosion of a powder-mill, 284. Claims of the United States on Portugal, and consequent difficulties, 424, 569. Birth and death of an heir to the Spanish Crown, 569. Disturbances in Piedmont, 712. Disquiets in Rome, 712. Inundation in Lombardy, 855. Prisons at Naples, 855.
India, And The East.—Disturbances among the Affredies; their villages destroyed by Sir Charles Napier, [128]. Arrangements of the Pasha of Egypt for shortening the passage across the desert, [128]. Establishment of a new journal in China, [129]. Permission granted the Jews for building a temple on Mount Zion, [129]. University in New South Wales, [129]. Terrible explosion at Benares, 570. Sickness at Canton, 570. The great diamond, 570. Revolt at Bantam, 570. Sulphur mines in Egypt, 856.
Literary.—Postponement of the French Exhibition of Paintings, [129]. Goethe's Manuscripts, 423. Mr. Hartley's bequests set aside, 423. History of Spain, by St. Hilaire, 568. Sir Robert Peel's MSS., 568, 712. Miss Strickland's forthcoming Lives of the Queens of Scotland, 569. Bulwer's new novel, 710. Copyright of foreigners, 710. Sale of the Paintings of the King of Holland, 710. Lamartine's Confidences, 710. Notice of Ticknor's Spanish Literature in the Morning Chronicle, 710. The North British Review, 711. Sale of the Barbarigo Gallery at Venice, 711. A new singer, 711. New edition of Owen's Works, 853. Copyrights paid to American Authors, 854. Theological Faculties in Germany, 854. Translation of Dante and Ovid into Hebrew, 854. Books issued, [126], 282, 422, 564, 710.
Scientific.—Papers read by Murchison and Lepsius before the Geological Society, [125]. Before the Royal Society, by O'Brien, Faraday, and Mantell, [125]. The Pelorosaurus, [125]. Lead for statues, [126]. Operations of Mr. Layard, [126], 280, 854. Discovery of ancient Roman coins in the Duchy of Oldenburg, [128]. Opening of the submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais, [129]. Experimental slips dropped from balloons, [129]. Box Tunnel, London, [129]. Transplantation of a full grown tree, [129]. Glass pipes for gas, [129]. International railway commission, [129]. Russian expedition for exploring the Northern Ural, [129]. Invention for extinguishing tires, 280. Experiments on light and heat, 281. Discovery of a new comet, 281. Unswathing a mummy, 423. Society for investigating epidemics; for observations in Meteorology, 423. Depredations on Assyrian and Egyptian antiquities, 568. Apparatus to render sea-water drinkable, 568. Improved mode of producing iron, 569. Prof. Johnston on American Agriculture, 569. Telegraphic wire between Dover and Calais, 711. Iron unsuitable for vessels of war, 853. New submarine telegraph, 853. The atmopyre, 854. A new star, 854. The Britannia bridge, 855. Ascent of Mount Blanc, 855.
Social.—Great project for agricultural emigration, [129]. English criminal cases, [129]. Building for the Industrial exhibition, 567. Lord Campbell on the Sunday Letter Bill, 707. Extension of the Franchise in Ireland, 707. Introduction of laborers into the West Indies, 707. Tenant-right conference in Dublin, 707. Peace Congress at Frankfort, 424, 712.
Personal.—Monument to Jeffrey, [125]. Absence of mind of Bowles, [133]. Degree of Doctor of Music conferred upon Meyerbeer, 422. Gutzlaff, Corbould, Gibson, 422. Baptism of the infant prince, 422. Accident to Rogers, 423. Monument to Wordsworth, 423. Sir Robert Peel's injunction to his family not to accept titles or pensions, 567. Barral and Bixio's balloon ascent, and Poitevin's horseback ascent, 568. Poverty of Guizot, 568. Meinhold fined for libel, 569. Guizot's refusal to accept a seat in the Council of Public Instruction, 569. Bulwer a candidate for the House of Commons; his new play, 569. Ovation to Leibnitz and Humboldt, 569. Haynau mobbed, 706. Movements of the Queen, 707. Duel between MM. Chavoix and Dupont, 711. Viscount Fielding embraces Catholicism, 855. Prospective liberation of Kossuth, 855.
Deaths.—Wordsworth, Bowles, [125]; Sir James Bathurst, Madame Dulcken, Sir Archibald Galloway, Admiral Hills, Dr. Prout, Madame Tussaud, [127]; Dr. Potts, inventor of the hydraulic pile-driver, [129]. Gay Lussac, 282; M.P. Souyet, the Emperor of China, Earl of Roscommon, Sir James Sutherland, Mrs. Jeffrey, 283; Sir Robert Peel, 420; Duke of Cambridge, 422; Dr. Burns, Dr. Gray, Rev. W. Kirby, B. Simmons, 568; Neander, 569; Louis Philippe, 708; Balzac, 711; Sir Martin Archer Shee, 711. Gale the aeronaut, 854.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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| PORTRAIT OF ARCHIBALD ALISON | [134] |
| PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY | [136] |
| PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT | [138] |
| THE PYRAMIDS | 210 |
| SECTION OF THE GREAT PYRAMID | 211 |
| THE GREAT HALL AT KARNAK | 212 |
| VIEW FROM PIERMONT (Erie Railroad) | 213 |
| VALLEY OF THE NEVERSINK (from the Erie Railroad) | 214 |
| STARUCCA VIADUCT (Erie Railroad) | 215 |
| PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS MORE | 289 |
| BOX CONTAINING THE SKULL OF MORE | 289 |
| CLOCK HOUSE AT CHELSEA | 290 |
| HOUSE OF SIR THOMAS MORE | 292 |
| CHELSEA CHURCH | 293 |
| TOMB OF SIR THOMAS MORE | 294 |
| HOUSE OF ROPER, MORE'S SON-IN-LAW | 295 |
| SIR THOMAS MORE AND HIS DAUGHTER | 296 |
| PORTRAIT OF ZACHARY TAYLOR | 298 |
| PORTRAIT OF JANE PORTER | 433 |
| JANE PORTER'S COTTAGE AT ESHER | 437 |
| TOMB OF JANE PORTER'S MOTHER | 438 |
| SHOOTING STARS (Six Illustrations) | 439 |
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| NEANDER IN THE LECTURE ROOM | 510 |
| PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | 577 |
| WORDSWORTH'S HOME AT RYDAL MOUNT | 581 |
| PORTRAIT OF SYDNEY SMITH | 584 |
| PORTRAIT OF THOMAS CARLYLE | 586 |
| REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIALS (Fifteen Illustrations) | 721 |
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| PORTRAIT OF MADAME ROLAND | 732 |
| FASHIONS FOR EARLY SUMMER (Six Illustrations) | [142] |
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| FASHIONS FOR SUMMER (Three Illustrations) | 287 |
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| FASHIONS FOR LATER SUMMER (Five Illustrations) | 435 |
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| FASHIONS FOR EARLY AUTUMN (Four Illustrations) | 573 |
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| FASHIONS FOR AUTUMN (Three Illustrations) | 718 |
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| FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER (Three Illustrations) | 863 |
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initial Letter. Meteoric Showers in Greenland. Meteors at the Falls of Niagara. Falling Stars among the Cordilleras. The November Meteors. Diagram.