Admission of Dissenters to the Universities. See Dissenters.
Afghan Country, sketch of the, 58, 59.
Agricultural Producers, advantages likely to arise to, by railways being
established, 98-102.
Agrippa, Cornelius, absurd account of, 43-47.
America-List of railways executed and projected in the United States,
119, 120; State of Pennsylvania takes the lead in the formation, 120;
first one formed by government, connected Philadelphia with the banks
of the Ohio, ib.; other railroads formed, 121, 122; the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad the most magnificent, 122, 123; Baltimore and York,
123; Petersburg and Walden, ib.; the South Carolina railroad nearly
straight, 123, 124; great public spirit and candour which characterise
the proceedings of the directors, 124.
Angelo, Michael, merits of, 139.
Animal Physiology, the study of, conduces to the love and admiration
of God, 143-145; zoophytes-process by which sponges move in
seeking a habitation, 147-149; the polypiferous animals, their orga-
nization, 149; the Flustra Carbasea, ib.; the Hydra, 149, 150; the
infusory animalcula—the Monads, 150—153; the Medusae, 153; the
Beroe, ib.; the Portuguese Man of War, ib.; the Actiniae, ib.; the
Echinodermata, ib.; the Mollusca, ib.; natural history of the spider,
153, 154; account of the casting of the shell of the lobster, 154-156′;
Insect life the Pulex, or flea, 156; the Podura, ib.; the Julus and
Scolopendra, ib.; the Julus terrestris, ib.; the developement of in-
sects, 156-160; structure of the feet of insects, 160; progressive
motion and flight of insects, 161, 162; ossification of vertebrated ani-
mals, 163; of birds, ib.; structure of their feathers, 164-166; con-
trivances by which animals seize their food, 170, 171; structure of
the poison-fangs of serpents, 172; process of trituration in the sto-
machs of animals, 172, 173; in the human stomach, 173-175; sto-
machs in the camel and elephant as a reservoir of water, 175; defence
afforded to the arteries, 176; force with which blood is drawn into the
aorta, ib.; local rotatory circulation in polypiferous zoophytes, 176,
177; phenomena of respiration, 177; the brain furnishes the mind
with the material of thought, 178; comparative physiology of vision,
ib.
Arabian Gulf formerly connected with the Mediterranean, 454.
Astronomy, ideas excited in our minds by its study, 142, 143.
Bacon, Friar, branded as a necromancer by Mr Godwin, for having
attempted to make a speaking head, 47, 48.
Ballingall, James, the mercantile navy improved by, 338; contains
valuable information for a new classification of ships, 352.
Beaumont, Dr William, experiments and observations on the physio-
logy of digestion, 173–175.
Bible, opinions held by German theologians regarding certain portions of
it, 223-230.
Blemyes, the original occupiers of Nubia, 302; the signification of their
name, 303; expell the Nubians from their country, ib.
Bokhara, travels in, by Lieut. Alex. Burnes, 395.-See Burnes.
Bolaun, the pass of, 60.
Brain furnishes the mind with the material of thought, 178.
Brewster, Sir David, one of the first founders of the British Scientific
Association, 370; appeals to the public in its behalf, 371, 372.
Bridgewater Treatise, Dr Roget's.-See Roget, and Animal Physiology.
Britain, Great, railways in.-See Railways.
British Association, report of its first, second, and third meetings for the
advancement of science, 363; necessity of such an institution at the
present time, 363-365; Sir David Brewster appeals to the public
in its behalf, 371; rules laid down before its first meeting, 372; first
meeting held at York, 373, 374; second meeting held at Oxford,
374; third meeting held at Cambridge, 375; fourth meeting held at
Edinburgh, ib.; its primary objects considered, 377-387; objections
urged against such meetings, 387; the great objects contemplated by
its founder, 393-394.
Brougham, Lord, corrected report of his speech on moving the second
reading of the bill to amend the Poor Laws, 230.
Burke, his reception and patronage of Crabbe, 257.
Burnes's, Lieut. Alexander, Travels into Bokhara, 395; difficulties at-
tending their first attempt to sail up the Indus, 396-399; commence
their voyage, 399; reach Bukkur, ib.; successful progress of the
mission, 399, 400; reach the court of the great Maharaja Runjeet
Sing, and reception there, 400-403: return along the frontiers of
British India to Simla, 404; commences his journey to Western
Turkistan, 405; reaches Lahore, ib. ; proceeds up the Jelum, and
visits the Tope of Manikyala, ib.; reaches the Indus, and fords the
river, 406-408; reaches the plains of Peshawur, 409; extract de-
scribing the march of the caravan, 409, 410; crossed the desert plain
of Buttecote, 410; arrives at Cabúl-his ideas respecting the race and
language of the inhabitants immature, 411-413; leaves Cabúl, 413;
description of the approach to the crest of the Paropamison range, 413,
414; reaches Bameean, 415; enters the plain of Turkistan, ib.; en-
ters Khooloom, 416; is denounced, but successfully extricates him-
self, 416, 417; arrival at Bokhara, 417; description and character of
the city, 418-421; proceeds to Meshed, 421; the importance of the
journey, ib.
Byron's, Lord, poetry, addressed to the sentient, rather than to the per-
cipient qualities of the mind, 6.
Caravaggio, merits of, discussed, 139.
Cardan, Jerome, notice of, by Mr Godwin, 51, 52.
Carrington, N. T, the collected poems of the late, edited by his son,
317; principally local, ib.; his early history, 318; character of his
poems, 318-321; extracts from his poem Dartmoor,' 321-324;
his talents appear to the greatest advantage in the minor poems, ex-
tracts from, 324-327.
Cellini, Benvenuto, accused and condemned for magic, 52, 53.
Christian Advocates, refutation of its remarks on the theology of Ger-
many, 221-230.
Church Property, appropriation of, 483; many of the arguments brought
forward are more ingenious than strong, ib.; the right of the Legisla-
ture to new mould ecclesiastical property, 484-487; what is the
Church? 487-489; what is Church property? 489; Parliament has
the moral and equitable right to appropriate church property to secular
purposes, 491-494; best application of any surplus fund, 494; objec-
tions founded on the supposed inexpediency of alienating Church pro-
perty, 495; when once alienated, must be viewed as part of the public
income, ib.; no common fund should be established for religious pur-
poses, 503; establishing a precedent, 504-506; Churches of Eng-
land and Ireland are not bound up together by the act of Union, 506;
comparison of the English and Irish Churches, 510-512; doctrine of
numerical proportion of inhabitants argued for the support of religion,
pamphlet on, 483; extract from, 489, 490.
Commons, House of, fall into many errors in their impatience to reform
abuses, 235-244.
Conolly's, Lieut. Arthur, journey to the North of India, overland from
England, through Russia, Persia, and Afghanistan, 54; stopped, and
led far into the desert of the Turkomans, 55; escapes
and pursues his
journey by Herat; but detained at Meshed, ib.; melancholy descrip-
tion of the province of Meshed, 56, 57; arrives at Herat, and detained
by a deficiency of funds, 57; generously assisted by Syed Muheen
Shab, and arrives under his guidance at Candahar, 58; notice of that
part of the country, 58, 59; remains in the Valley of Pisheen some
days, 59; crosses the hills of Agrum and Musailaigh, ib.; arrives at
Quetta, and introduced to the governor, 59, 60; enters the pass of
Bolaun, 60; pass of Cundye, ib.; crosses the Indus near Shikarpoor,
61; at last arrives at Hissar, ib.; considers the project of an overland
invasion of India, 61-66.
Corn Law Rhymes, the Splendid Village, &c.-See Elliot, Ebenezer.
Crabbe, Rev. George, life and poems of, 255; his life divided into two
contrasted periods, ib.; early history, 255, 258; bitter moments of
his existence, 258-260; the effect which the situation his father held
at Aldborough had on his future prospects, 260, 261; his talents and
predilections, 261-267; the patronage he received, 267–269; the
political principles he entertained, 269-270; his character as a cler-
gyman, 270; susceptibility of feeling which he felt, 273-274; reserve
he maintained concerning himself, 274; forgetfulness he felt for his
old friends, 275-276; affection he and his wife had for each other,
276; as a grandfather, 277; full of unmeaning and unnecessary notes,
278; special criticisms not judicious, and criticisms on them, 278—
281; the posthumous poems attached to the edition are decidedly in-
ferior, 281-287; extracts from, 289-290; general opinion of the
power and popularity of Crabbe, 282-287; analysis of his posthu
mous tales, 290-292; extracts from, 292-295; meagreness of his
correspondence, 295.
Croly, Rev. D. P., on the Roman Catholic Church, 483; extracts from
his able statement, 496–501. See Irish Church.
Dissenters, admission of, to the English Universities, 202; their claim to
admission withheld, as being inexpedient and unjust, ib.; these argu-
ments refuted, 202-230.-See Universities.
Durham, Earl, speech of, at the Edinburgh National Festival, 248-
252.
Edinburgh National Festival, given to Earl Grey, 248–252.
Education, benefits which would arise to Oxford and Cambridge by its
system of education being revised, 210.
Egyptian, connexion between the Éthiopian and, language, 307-309;
enquiry as to whether the Nubian ever had a community of religion
with the ancient, 309; many of their customs still preserved in
Nubia, 309, 310.
Ehrenberg's, Professor, discoveries regarding the Monads belonging to
the order Rotefera, 150—153.
Elliot's, Ebenezer, poems-sketch of his history, 67, 68; originality of
his poems, 68; conceives that the Corn Laws are owing to the selfish-
ness of the higher orders, 69-71; extract showing that
poetry
been studied and wrote, by the lower classes, 71; fancies that the hand
of man is against his writings, 72-74; extracts to show his talents as
a song-writer, 74-79; grapples with subjects of greater compass, as
exemplified in extracts, 80-83; possesses great powers in describing
nature, 83-86; ' vision of Bradshaw the regicide,' 87, 88; his miscel
laneous poems inferior, 88; Miles Gordon, extracted from The
Ranter,' 88-92; his picture of his home, 92; writes with fierce hos-
tility against the wealthier parts of his countrymen, 92, 93; the Poet's
prayer, 93.
Ethiopian, connexion between the Egyptian and, language, 307.
Euphrates, questions connected with the navigation of it, 457-463;
dangers attending its navigation from the
powers which possess
463-467; nearest point from it to the Mediterranean, 468.
Exeter, speech of Henry, Lord Bishop of, on presenting a petition from
Cambridge, 423, 424.
Faculty, meaning of the term, 218.
Flinter's, Colonel, account of the present state of the island of Puerto
Rico, 328.-See Puerto Rico.
France, railways in operation and forming in, 118, 119.
French, sketch of the, students, 138.
Gair, F. C., antiquités de la Nubia, etc. par, 297.-See Nubia.
Genoa, picture of, 128-129.
German Students, sketch of, 137.
German Theologians, their opinions on portions of the Bible, 222–230.
Germany, railway formed in, 119.
Germany, the first country where a scientific association, was formed, 365.
Glassford's, James, lyrical compositions, selected from the Italian poets,
with translations-the present time auspicious for its appearance, 355;
his translations are generally excellent, ib.; might have made a better
selection from Petrarch, 357, 358; extracts, 358–363.
Godwin's, William, Lives of the Necromancers 37; the Physics of,
unmasked by several late writers, 37, 38; the history of human
irrationality in the dark ages presents two classes of impostors, 38;
history does not transmit to us a correct detail of their conduct, 39;
the possessor of knowledge deluded not only the public but himself,
ib.; the pretended discovery of the philosopher's stone, and the
transmutation of base metal, into gold, 40; the forming of the uni-
versal medicine, and other causes, 41; Mr Godwin's work does not
exhibit that philosophical sagacity looked for, ib.; objects of his work,
as explained by himself, 42; absurd account of Cornelius Agrippa,
43-47; the celebrated Roger Bacon considered as a necromancer,
by his attempt to make a speaking head, 47;-has not marked the
distinction between what was believed and what was wilfully fabri-
cated, 49;-this mistake shown in his account of the notorious Dr
Faustus, ib.; the general silence of the East respecting individual
necromancers, 49-50; brief account of Paracelsus and Jerome
Cardan, 50-52; Urbain Grandier, considered by Mr G., as one
of the cold blooded quacks,' 52, 53;-has not supplied an authentic
history of necromancers, 54.
Grant, Professor, the first who gave accurate information respecting
zoophytes, 147.
Grey, Earl, National Festival given to, at Edinburgh, 248-252.
Handeck, description of the wild scenery of, 131-132.
Happiness, what it depends on, 296.
Hazlitt, William, treats the character of Portia in a very superficial
manner, 184.
Heber, Bishop, his Journal is a model for future writers, 125.
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