pens that, when the works are completed, their actual cost is found to correspond with the hypothetical calculation. But the truth is, that the value paid for the land taken by railways is the only item of expense which cannot be justly challenged. The reason is plain. A railway company has in the first instance to prove the preamble of its bill-that is, it must show to the satisfaction of the Legislature that the construction of the work will be attended with public and local advantages. The settlement of the money question, regarding the value of the land, is reserved for the legal tribunals of the country. To complain of the verdicts given, is to impugn the course of justice, and to cast discredit on the system of jury trial. Very wisely was it determined that such questions should be so adjudicated, because no reasonable ground of complaint can be left to either party. The decision as to the value of the land, and the amount of compensation which is due, is taken from the hands both of Ahab and Naboth, and their respective engineers and valuators, and intrusted to neutral parties, whose duty it is to see fair play between them.

We have done with this book. It has greatly disappointed us in every

respect. As a repertory of facts, or as a history of the railways, it is ill-arranged, meagre, and stupid; and the sketches which it contains are so absurdly conceived, and so clumsily executed that they entirely fail to enliven the general dulness of the volumes. At the very point which might have been rendered most interesting in the hands of an able and well-instructed writer-the period of the great mania-Mr. Francis fails. His pen is not adequate to the task of depicting the rapid occurrences of the day, or the fearful whirl which then agitated the public mind. In short, he is insufferably prosy throughout the first four acts of his drama, and makes a lamentable break-down at the catastrophe. His work will fail to please any portion of the public, except the heroes whose praises he has sung. He has given them sugar, indeed; but, after all, it is a sanded article. We hope they will combine to buy up the edition, and thus fulfil the prophecy of Shakspeare

"Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou gavest me-'twas a pennyworth, was't not?" "O Lord, sir! I would it had been two." "I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it." "Anon, anon, sir!”

Africa, recent travels in, 251.
Agricultural depression, amount of, in
Ireland, 136-reaction of it on other
classes of the community, 303.
Agricultural interest, experienced results
of free trade to the, 133-Lord John
Russell on its state, 489.
Agricultural Relief Associations, proceed-
ings and demands of the, 616.
Agriculture, Huskisson on protection to,
632-state of, &c. in the United States
699 et seq.-relations of Geology to,
703-improvements in, in New York,
&c., 704-its state, &c., in Canada, 707.
Agriculturists, effects of the depression of
the, on the home trade, 109-lowering
of the wages of the, 496.
Albany, professor Johnston's Lectures in,

700.

Alchemy, origin of chemistry with, &c.,

564.

Aleppo, town of, 725.

Alexandretta, town of, 463, 724.
Alexandria, a voyage from, to Syria, 451.
Alexis the clairvoyant, 77.
Ali-Beg, the pass of, 100.
Amadeus I. of Savoy, 414.
American States, the, 708, 709.
American slavery, on, 385.
Americans in California, character, &c.
of the, 478.

Amiens, sketches at, 199.

ANSAYRII, THE, 719-their tenets, num-
bers, &c., 733.

Apes, shooting of, at Hassela, 270.
Arab Scheik, an, 728.

Arable culture, expense of, 1790, 1803,
and 1813, 620.

Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, the, 319.
Arches, the triumphal, of Paris, 320.

Arkwright, sir R., origin of the disco-
veries of, 566.

Army, the French, feeling in, toward
Louis Napoleon, 546.

ARNABOLL, THE RAID OF, chap. I., 220-
chap. II., 225-chap. III., 230-chap.
IV., 236.

Artesian well, the, at Paris, 317.
Aspre, general d', notices of, during the
campaign in Italy, 29 et seq. pass.-his
march on Verona, 442.
ASSASSARII or Ansayrii, the 719-their
tenets, &c., 733.

Atbara river, the, 257 et seq. passim.
Atoi, a New Zealand chief, 417.
Auber's opera of Zerline, on, 311.
Aumale, the duke d', the duke of Orleans
on, 555.
Australia, character of the aborigines of,

416-a voyage to California from, 471.
Austria, sketches of the war between her
and Piedmont, 25 et seq.-her interven-
tion in the Papal States in 1830, 432—
her long possession of Lombardy and
acquisition of Venice, 433-her admi-
nistration of the Lombardo-Venetian
kingdom, 434.

AUSTRIAN AID-DE-CAMP, the campaigns
of an, 25.

AUTUMN POLITICS, 607.
Bacon, Friar, the prophecy of, 562.
Bagdad, sketches of, 97.
Ballet-dancing, Fanny Lewald on, 217.
Baranken, fur called, 172.
Bassora, a voyage to, 96.

Bears, the, in the Jardin des Plantes,
314-sketches of, in North America,
672, 677.

Beautiful, Ruskin's theory of the, exa-
mined, 333.

Belgian Revolution, Stahr on the, 544.
Benares, sketches by Madame Pfeiffer at,

93.

Berchthold, count, fellow-traveller of

Madame Pfeiffer, 87 et seq passim.
Bethmeria, village of, in Lebanon, 456.
Beyrout, sketches at, 454, 721.
Blanc, Louis, account of, by Fanny Le-
wald, 214.

Bombay, a voyage from Bassora to, 96.
BOROUGHS,DISFRANCHISEMENTOFTHE,296
Boroughs, apparent secession of the, from
the free-trade cause, 299.

Part XII. Book VI. chapters XIII. to
XXV. 173-Part XIII. Book VII.
chapters I. to XV. 275-Part XIV.
Book VII. chapters XVI. to XXII.
392-Part XV. Book VIII. chapters
I. to VI. 573-Part XVI. Book VIII.
chapters VII. to XIV. 681.

CENSUS AND FREE TRADE, the, 123.
CHAMPIONS OF THE RAIL, the, 739.
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, sketches
of, 30 et seq. passim-his conduct with
regard to Lombardy, 437-hostilities
begun by him, 440-sketch of his pre-
vious career, 442-the campaign under
him, 444-his last defeat, abdication,
and death, 446.
Chartum, the town of, 251.
Cheapness, examination of the question
of, 638.

Chemistry, alchemy the parent of, 564.
Cherbourg, the harbour of, 197.
China, sketches in, by Madame Pfeiffer,

92.

Chinese junk, voyage in a, 93.
Church, Mr. Phelps on the, 388.
Churches, Ruskin on, 327.
"Claims of Labour," remarks on the,
380.

Clairvoyance, examination of the claims
of, 70 et seq.

Clam, General Count, 33.

Clergy, influence of free trade on the,

500.

Clouds, Ruskin on, 330.

Coal gas, how first discovered, 569.

Carey's Harmony of Interests, &c., ex-
tracts from, 640.

Carlists, fall of the, in Spain, 356.
Carré, Michael, French translation of
Goethe's Faust by, 556.

Carrousel, the arch of the, 320.
Cash payments, influence of the suspen-
sion of, 619-and that of their resump-
tion, 622.

Catamount, adventure with a, 677.
Cavalry, the Russian, 165.

Caxton, Pisistratus, My Novel by, Part
XI. Book VI. chapters I. to XII. 1—

Concorde, the Place and Pont de la, in
Paris, 202, 203, 312.

CONGRESS AND THE AGAPEDOME, the,
chap. I., 359-chap. II., 365-chap.
III, 370-chap. IV., 375.
Conjurors, Indian, 94.

Conquerors of the New World, the,"
remarks on, 380.

Conscription, the, in France, 323.
Constable the painter, the trees of, 332.
Constantinople, winter aspect of, 723.
Constituencies, large, the Times on, 301.
Continent, revolutionary tendencies on
the, and their causes, 431.
Cook, Captain, on the cannibalism of
New Zealand, 416.

Corn laws, causes which brought about
the repeal of the, 115-separation be-
tween landlord and tenant induced by
their repeal, 610-circumstances which
originated them, &c., 621-Huskisson
in favour of the, 632-effects of their
repeal on prices, 637.

Cornu, Madame, letters of Louis Napo-
leon to, 547.

Costazza, defeat of Charles Albert at,

445.

Cotton manufacture, wheat used for
starch in the, 497.
Counties, decrease of population in,
1841 to 1851, 129.

Country, immigration of population into
the towns from the, 307.
Country districts, first failure of popula-
tion in the, 125.

Crime, increase of, under the free-trade
system, 139-increase of it in the
towns, 307.

Croats, the troops called, 443.
Crusades, increase of population during
the, 124.

CRYSTAL PALACE, VOLTAIRE IN THE, 142.
Currency reform, necessity for, 111.
Currency system, the new, the monetary
crisis due to, 132—relation of it to the
free-trade question, 618.

Custine, M. de, his book on Russia, 160.
Cuvier, superintendence of the Jardin
des Plantes by, 316.

Daun, Marshal, the victory of, at Kolin,26.
DAY-DREAMS OF AN EXILE, Longings-
I. To
465-II. Where summer
is, 467-III. Earth is the realm of
death, 469-IV. Stand by the ocean,
ib.-V. Sigh thou not for a happier lot,
601-VI. To 605-VII. Oft in a
night of April, ib.-VIII. Dream on,
606-IX. Colonisation, two sonnets,
ib.

Defalla, an African chief, 259.

Delta, The Lament of Selim, by, 103-
his death, and sketch of his life, &c.,

Derby, the Earl of, on protection, 613.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, supposed acquaint-
ance of, with mesmerism, 77.
DIGGINGS, A VOICE FROM THE, 470.
DISFRANCHISEMENT OF THE BOROUGHS,
the, 296.

Disraeli, Mr., new policy proposed by,
against free-trade 612, et seq. passim.
Domestic tyranny, Mr. Helps on, 381.
Doubleday, Mr., on the effects of Peel's
currency system, 622.
DOWNWARD TENDENCIES, 106.
Drama, sketch of the rise and history of
the, in France, 323-its present state
there, 324.

"Dream on, ye souls who slumber here,"

606.

Druses, sketches of the, 456.
Dumas, Alexander, sketches of, by Pro-
fessor Stahr, and account of the Duke
of Orleans by him, 547, 554.
Dunshunner, A. R., letter to R. M'Cork-
indale by-"Downward tendencies,"

106.

Dunstan the monk, on the character of,
513.

Duprat, M., speech of, on the National
Guard, 207.

Durando, General, defence of Vicenza,
by, 35.

Earle, Mr., account of cannibalism in
New Zealand by, 417.

"Earth is the realm of death, who
reigns," 469.

East, interest of the, 719.

Eastlake's Good Samaritan, on, 212.
Eating-houses in San Francisco, 472.
Edinburgh Review, the, on protection,

306.

Education, Mr. Helps on, 383.
Edwin the Fair, review of, 513.
Egypt, interest of, 719-sketches of,
720 et seq.

Electric_telegraph, laying down of the,
from England to France, 568.
Elliotson, Dr., Phreno-mesmeric exhibi
tion by, 74.

Elora, visit to, by Madame Pfeiffer, 95.
Emigration, increase of, from Great
Britain, 113-rapidity of it in a
declining state, 126-amounts of it
from Great Britain, 1841 to 1850, 128,
note-amount of it from Ireland, 131—
influence of free trade on it, 139,
503-the Times on the increased, 626-
encouragements to, to the United
States, 740, 711.

Employers, on the relation between, and
employed, 381.

Employment, influence of, on population,

123.

England and France, laying down of the
submarine electric telegraph between,

568.

English travellers, contrast between, and
French, 447-follies, &c., of, 454-how
regarded in the East, 461.
Esperon, Dr., 453.

"Essays written in intervals of business,"
remarks on, 380.
Etoile, the Arc de l', 319.
Euphrates, the, 727.

Europe, the advances of population in,
123-tendencies to revolution in, 431.
Eve of the Conquest, Taylor's, remarks
on, 520.

Exhibition of paintings, Fanny Lewald
on the, 211.

Exile, day-dreams of an, see Day-
dreams.

EXPERIMENT, the, 488.

Exports, increase of, under free trade,