Angling, Sir H. Davy's passion for, 374
Animal Kingdom, the, by Baron Cuvier, 404
Annan Water, melancholy incident con-
nected with, 424
Annuaire for 1831, 284
Annual, Medical, 622
Annuals for 1831, 47, 154
Antiquities of Mexico, 253

Arago, M., his construction of a light-
house, 242

Aranjuez, inhabitants of, described, 456
Architecture, Dictionary of, 472
Argyle, Duke of, 565

Army, character of that of Cromwell, 491

Articles of the church, interpretation of,
587

Associations, Missionary, 2
Astracan, Steppes of, 191
Astrology, 321

Atherstone, Mr., his Sea Kings in England,
113

Atlas Family Cabinet, 158

Atossa, character of, intended for the
Duchess of Marlborough, 574
Attornies, low, 190

Attrition, means of counteracting, 596
August, ancient Mexican festival in, 266
Austria, conduct of, in the affairs of Greece,

335

policy of, towards Greece, 336
Autopsy, the, of Lord Byron, 100
Autumn, poetical address to, 201
Avoués, French, devices of, 169-practice
of, 172

B.

BABBAGE, Charles, reflections on the decline
of science, by, 135

Bagpipe, the Highland, 351-impressive
power of, 352-anecdote of a player
on, ib.

Ballot, observations against, 431-in favour
of, 438

Banditti, account of an attack of, in Spain
546

Banff, regulations of a literary society of,

160

Bank of England, history of, 475
Bantam-cock, anecdote of one, 282
Barillon, intrigues of, 494

Bar, the English, character of, 187-objec
tionable regulations in, 188
Barristers. English (see Bar)
Barrow, Dr. J., works of, 314

Barton, John, his pamphlet on population,

476

Bavaria, King of, 502

Beachy-head, light-house of, 241

Beaumont, J. T. B., his plan of Parlia-
mentary Reform, 439

Beauties of the Mind, a poetical sketch, 470
Beccaria, anecdote of, 224

Becker, C. F., his grammar of the German
language, 474

Beddoes, Dr., anecdote of, 376

Beechey, Captain, his expedition to the
Pacific, and Behring's Strait, 601-his
encounter with the Easter Islanders, 603
-escape from a water spout, 609
Beer, sale of, 480

Bell, H. G., poetry of, 553
Bernal, Mr., verses by, 49

Bertini, Signor, his plan for giving facility
on all musical instruments, 473
Bhurtpore, 584

Bible, diffusion of, in foreign countries,
1-6-account of the society for, 6-in-
efficacy of, and the causes, 7-10-ac-
count of the translations of, 12-speci-
mens of a version in the Canara language,
13-fate of Bibles in India, 17-distri-
bution of, among the Calmucs, 199
Bible, the, 532

Birds, signs in the Pacific, 601
Biron, Marechal, his generous conduct to
Rodney, 278

Birth, Mexican custom at, 257-births in
London aud Paris, 284-in Great Britain,
286

Black, Dr., discovery of, 141
Black Book, the Extraordinary, 619
Blane, Sir G., his account of the great
victory of Rodney, 280

Blasting rocks, method of, in Seringa patam,

291

Blessington, Lady, a fragment by, 52
Blood, peculiarity of, in the reptile tribes,

406

Blossom, the ship, 601

Blushing, phenomenon of, 524

Boaden, James, his life of Mrs. Jordan,
28-faults of that work, ib.-protest
against, 45

Boccacio, account of, 299--enthusiasm of,
for Greek literature, 300
Bolingbroke, Lord, letters of, 569
Bonaparte, anecdote of, 378

Bounty, effect of the, on the herring fishery,
294

Bowdler, Mrs. H. M., her Pen Tamar, 473
Boy, verses on the portrait of one, 57
Brahmin, difficulty of his understanding
Bible, 8

Bramab, Mr., ingenuity of, 141

Bray, Mrs., her Talba, 133

Brenan, Justice, his Foreigner's English
Conjugator, 318

Brewster, Dr., his discovery of the con-
struction of a lens, 242

Brisbane, Sir T., founder of an observatory,

146

167-character of the measure, 176-
speech of, 177

Bruno, Dr., anecdote of, 97

Bulteel, Rev. Mr., his sermon at Oxford,
586

Bulwer, H. L., his poem of the Siamese
Twins, 396

Burials in London and Paris, 284

Burns, Robert, life of, by Dr. Currie, 419
Burnes, James, his visit to Sinde, 575
Burton, diary of, 488

Butler, Charles, letter from, to Pinkerton,
70

Byam Martin Island, 611

Byron, Lord, his adoption of the Greek
cause and habits at Cephalonia, 93—his
partiality for medicines, 94-for Hol-
lands, 95-other predilections of, 96—
last illness and death of, 97, 98-his
superstition, 99-account of the post
mortem examination of his body, 100-
his life, (2d vol.,) by Mr. Moore, 217-
his visit to Switzerland, 220-fine poeti.
cal image by, 221-his first acquaintance
with Shelley, 222-proposed reconcilia-
tion with his Lady, ib-his lines to
death, 223-his curious orders, 225-
his avarice, 226-account of his personal
appearance, 229-present of his MSS.
of his life to Mr. Moore, 230-purposes
to set up a newspaper, 232-account of
his way of life by himself, 234-his pro-
ject respecting Greece, 236

C.

CALENDAR, account of an old Mexican one,
266 of the Church of England, analysis
of, 317

California, account of, 91, 612

Callanan, J. C., his beautiful lines to the
Virgin Mary's Bank, 459

Calniuc Tartary, account of a journey to, 191
Calmucs, some account of, 192-their idols,
193 their religion, 194-progress in
literature of, 195-march of their tribes,
196

Camels, notice of, 576

Cameleon, natural history of, 411
Cameron, the colours in the plaid belong-
ing to, 348

Campbell, Thomas, anecdote of 420
" R. C., his Lays from the East,

316

Cannibals, 85
Canning, G., political life of, 325-his
private life, 327-his conduct towards
the holy alliance, 329-his master policy
as to Spain, 330, 331-as to Greece,
332-7-General policy of, 340-remarks
on him, 344

Cardale, James, his account of a Scotch
miracle, 20

Carne, Mr., his Exiles of Palestine, 134
Carriages adapted to rail-roads, 595
Cartoons, an account of Raphael's, 353
Case-hardening iron explained, 595
Celts, account of, 346

Charles X., sentiments of, in 1826, 340
Charles II., his religion, 497

Chemistry, its application to oratory, 372—
remarks on the state of, 143
Childe Harold, anecdote of the completion
of the fourth canto of, 226
Chimneys, patent lining for, 321
China, progress of christianity in, 5-treat-
ment of a missionary in, 7
Church, Mr. Irving's specimen of, 206
Church of England, calendar of, 317
Church of England, remarks on, 586-state
of at present, 588-state of at the resto-
ration, 589

Clarence, Duke of, his connection with

Mrs. Jordan, 33-account of, 37-cele-
bration of his birth-day, 38 (see William)
Clarendon, character of, dissected, 493
Classics, the, 615

Clergy, ordination of, 588-grounds for the
contempt of, 589-state of, at the resto-
ration, 590

Correction, ancient mode of, in Mexico, 259
Costs, bills of, 177

Costume of the Tahaitians, 81-the high-
land, 347

Cotterill, C. F., on political economy, 620
Counter, Rev., his Island Bride, 156
Counts, the title to whom given, 171
Courts of local jurisdiction, bill for esta-
blishing, 167-outline of, 172
Courts of justice in France, description of,
172-effect of the bill, 176-objections
to the bill answered, 180-5

Coutts, Thomas, characteristic letter from,
78
Cranstoun, Lord, first suggested the cele-

brated manoeuvre of Rodney, 280
Creoles of the Mauritius, manners of, 387
Cromwell, O., curious anecdote of, 72-his

reply to the offer of the throne, 488-
inauguration of, as Protector, 489-his
character, by Lingard, 490

Cuba, freedom of the press in, 162
Currie, Dr., memoir of, 416-birth of, 417
-his Jasper Wilson, 418-his life of
Burns, 419-character of, 421-anecdote
of, 422

Cutch, history of, 575

Cuvier, the baron, his Animal Kingdom, 404

D.

DANIEL, Mr., on a new register pyrome-
ter, 239

Dance in Pitcairn Island, 608
Dancing, 310

Dangerfield, his accusation of James II.,

494

Dante, remarks on his Commedia, 295
Daubeny, Dr., on the occurrence of Iodine
in England, 237

1-anec-

Davy, Sir H., life of, by Paris, 364-his
birth, 367-his hazardous experiments,
368-curious letter from, 371-
dotes of, 373, 374-his visit to Paris,
376-anecdotes, 378, 379-account of
the death and funeral of, 383
Dead, ancient Mexican feast of the, 266
Death, lines to, by Lord Byron, 223
Deaths in London and Paris, 284-in
Great Britain, 286

Debt, calculations of affidavits of, 177
Decameron, depraved taste in, 299
December, ancient Mexican feasts of, 268
De Grasse, Rodney's victory over, 279
De Trueba, Don T., his novel of the Incog-
nito, 443

Dibdin, Rev. T. F., his Sunday Library, 469
Dictionary, topographical, of London, 475
Dido, effects of the performance of the
drama of, 303
Dinner, a curious

one,
Sea islands, 89

in one of the South

Diving bell, fatal attempt to improve, 290
D'Istrias (see Istrias)

Dog, anecdote of one, 541
Donne, fame of, 530

Don Juan, anecdote of the poem of, 227
Doubt, Treatise on religious, 619
Doyle, Martin, tracts by, 157
Dragons, natural history of, 409
Drama in the Radack islands, 88
Dramatic poetry, remarks on, 302
Drummond, Lieut., on light-houses, 240-
invention of, 243

Drummonds, anecdote of the firm of, 278
Drunkenness, effect of, 368-Mexican pu-
nishment for, 265

Du Bartas, fame of, 530

Dubois, Abbe, account of his mission at
Meissour, 9-anecdote of, 11

E.

EARTHQUAKE, ancient notion of, 362
East India Company, policy of, 17
Easter Island, Captain Beechey's visit to,
602-account of, 603-6
Eddystone light-house, 241
Edge-rail, 593

Education, ancient Mexican mode of, 258
Egypt, improvement of, 323
Ellis, Agar, an essay by, 48

Elmes, James, his topographical dictionary
of London, 475

Emerson, James, his History of Modern
Greece, 460

Emery cloth, 626

Emigrators, hint to, 626

Emigration recommended, 312
Emperor's Rout, 156

Encke, his falsification of pretended obser-
vations, 149

Engines, locomotive power of, 598
England, state of science in, 135-history
of, by Lingard, 483

Engraving, superiority of, in England over
France, 61

Epps, Dr., his Life of Dr. Walker, 617
Erica, found in Ireland, 322
Eriland, adventures of, 306

Euler, 626

Eustatius, St., capture of, 279
Exiles of Palestine, 113

Expansion of solids, pyrometer for measur-
ing, 239

F.

FAME, examples of the temporary nature of,

529

Family Classical Library, 615
Fanaticism unveiled, 214

Faraday, M., a remarkable letter from,
giving his history, 375
Fasts, ancient Mexican, 267

Fossil tree, singular specimen of, 161
France, state of science in, 137, 143-
military events of the revolution of, 158
-administration of justice in, 168, 172,
-light-houses of, 242-romantic history
of, 305-stories from the history of, 316
-remarks on the state of, 341, 3

Frazer, Mr., his romance of the Kuzzilbash,
125

French invasion of Madrid, effect of, 541
Fresnel, M., his theory of double refrac-
tion, 288

Friction, laws of, 596

Friends, early, lines to, 203

Friendship, precepts of, by Mr. Roscoe,

sen., 60

Frog, the natural history of, 414-use of,
as food, 415

Fuseli, H., Life of, 619

G.

GADARA, a description of, 134
Gael, the Scottish, 345
Gardener's Manual, 155
Gambier Group, 609
Gambling, a story of, 512
Gas, policy of employing it, 369
Gem, the, for 1831, 57

Genesis, specimen of a translation of the

first chapter of, 13

Gentleman in Black, 156

Gentry, English, history of the, 432

Geographical Society, prizes of, 626

Geography, ancient, Guy's, 618
Geology, use of exemplified, 290
George III., pious wish of, 1

German grammar, Dr. Beckers, 474

Gifford, W., commentary of, on a passage
of Byron, 227

Gilbert, Mr. D., benefaction of, to science,
152

Glasgow Port, miracles at, 211

Glass, peculiar properties of, 288-taxes
on, 145

Godwin, W., letter from, to Pinkerton, 73
his Thoughts on Man, 515-
his religion, 517-his habits, 520-youth
of, 521

Gospel, preparation for the, 477

Grace, peculiar one of Pitcairn Island, 607
Graves, Rev. R., his sermons on practical
subjects, 320

Gray, the poet, compared with Hume, 67
Greece, Trant and Millingen on, 92-adop-

tion of the cause of, by Lord Byron, 93,
236-governments of, 101-specimen of
local government in, 102-state of, after
the invasion of Ibrahim Pacha, 105-
picture of, under the sway of D'Istrias,
107-effect of the appointment of Prince
Leopold as King of Greece, 109-obser-
vations on the state and prospects of,
110-Mr. Canning's policy as to, 332-
conferences respecting, 334, 5-abomi-
nable proposal respecting the people of,
336-the bagpipe of, 351-history of
modern, 460-policy of Venice towards,
461-Ottoman government of, 463, 464,

466

Greek and Latin authors, 615

Green, Mr., his account of modern Greece,
466

Griffith, E., his version of Cuvier's animal
kingdom, 404

Grinfield, Rev. E. W., his sketches of the
Danish mission, 315

Gryllus migratorius (see locusts)
Guido, comparative merits of, 357
Guicciole, Countess, anecdote of, 231
Gunn, Rev. W., his account of Raphael's
cartoons, 353

Guy, Joseph, his Ancient Geography, 618

H.

HAY, Major Leith, his Narrative of the
Peninsular war, 472

Hearing, instrument for modifying, 478
Hell, notions of the ancient Mexicans con-
cerning, 270

Henry of Navarre, poem on a passage in
the life of, 21

Hermitage, the monastery of, described,
549

Herring, state of the fishery of, in Scotland
in 1830, 293-effect of the bounty on,
294

Herschel, J. F. W., his discourse on the
study of natural philosophy, 286-pro-
posed as president of the Royal Society,

135

Highlanders, account of, 346-garb of, 347
-their hospitality, 348-their fondness
for snuff, 349.-their longevity, 350-
pipes of, 351

Hindostan, remarks on, 584

Hinton, J. H., his topography of the United
States, 319, 477

History of England, Lingard's, 483
Holiday in Vienna, 506

Holman, Mr., the blind traveller, 480
Holy Land, Tour of the, 614

Home, Sir E., his papers in the Philoso-
phical Transactions, 147

Hood, Mr., his Comic Annual, 154

Hooke, Theodore, his novel of Maxwell, 124
Hope, Thomas, 515

Horses, power of, 598

Hospitality, anecdote of, 348

Hughes, Rev. S., his Divines of the Church
of England, 314

Hume, Mr., compared with Gray, 67
Hume, Sir P., 563

Huygens, discovery of, 141

Hyderabad, account of a visit to, 575-
society of, 583

I

ICELAND spar, singular property of, 288
Ice, destruction of ships by, 625
Idols, the, of the Calmucs, 193
Image, a fine poetical one, 221
Incognito, a Spanish Tale, 443
India, proneness to litigation of the natives
of, 313-Vine in, 322
India-See Cutch, Sinde
Indians, religion of, 3-East, 8
Insanity, singular case of, 423

Institute, the French, particulars of, 137
Inundation, curious coincidence respecting,

91

Iodine, occurrence of, in English springs,

237
Ireland, hints addressed to the peasantry
of, 157-Tracts on, by Martin Doyle,
157-precedent for the government of,

463

Iron, smelting of, how performed, 290—
case-hardening of, 595-respect of sa-
vages for, 610-oxydation of, 627
Irving, Rev. Mr., his quarterly publica-
tion, 205

Irving, W., his voyages of the companions
of Columbus, 244-his account of the
birth-place of Columbus, 251
Isabey, anecdotes of, 505, 10
Islands, discovery of, 611
Islands, the, of the Pacific, 602
Istrias, Count Capo de, account of him,
104-charges against him, 107—his po-
licy, 108

Italy, poets of, their lives, 295-their inde-
pendence, 300-guide to the literature
of, 313

Ivory, painting on, 315