Chapter II: Part II: Chap. I., The Battle of the Bridge, 401

Chap. II., The Picture, 409
Chap. III., The Pirates, 415
Chap. IV., The Recognition, 421.

Poetry:--Kieff, from the Russian of Kozloff, 80
The Proclamation, 100
the Fireman's Song, 101
The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes, 196
My Friend, 256
The Land of Slaves, 257
the Priest's Burial, _ib._
Prudence, 258
The Olympic Jupiter, 378
A Roman Idyl, 379
Goethe, 380
Hymn of a Hermit, 382
The Luckless Lover, 383
The Snow, by Delta, 617
Columbus, by B. Simmons, 687
To Swallows on the eve of departure, by the same, 690.

Police, repugnance to assessment for, 536.

Poor old maids, a bewailment from Bath, 199.

Porter, Mr, on the decrease of our European exports, 263.

Portrait painting, in a letter to Eusebius, 213.

Portugal, restrictive commercial system adopted by, 262.

Portuguese, circumnavigation of Africa by the, 271.

Position and Prospects of the government, on the: its position on the
secession of the Whigs, 103
advance of Conservatism since the passing of the Reform Bill, _ib._
the manufacturing distress, 105
the sugar and corn question, 106
difficulties with which it had to contend, 108
its home policy, and what it has done, 110
its foreign policy, 111
the new tariff and corn-law, 113
results of its measures in the revival of trade, tranquillity, &c., 120
its measures with reference to Ireland, 127.

Priest's burial, the, a poem, 257.

Printing, the new art of, by a designing devil, 45.

Proclamation, the, 100.

Prophecy of the twelve tribes, the, poem, 196.

Prosecution, the State, 1.

Prudence, a poem, 258.

Rampore, city of, 322.

Ray, Miss, murder of, by Hackman, 178,

Rebeccaites, trials of the, 6.

Reciprocity system, effect of, in diminishing the exports to Europe, 263
failure of the, 385.

Repeal agitation, the, 128.

Revenue, improvement of the, 114.

Reviews: the Heretic, 133
George Selwyn and his contemporaries, 164
Harris's Highlands of Ethiopia, 269
Davidson's Travels in India, 321
Hill's Fifty days on board a Slave Ship, 425
Tucker's Memoirs of Earl St Vincent, 462
Cry from Ireland, 638
Jesse's memoirs of Beau Brummell, 769.

Rhine, the, and Rhinelanders, 546.

Rigby, Richard, notices of, 172.

Roman empire, effects of free trade on the, 391.

Roman Idyl, a, 379.

Sahela Selassee, King of Abyssinia, British mission to, 282.

St Vincent, Earl, Tucker's Memoirs of, reviewed, 462.

Sandwich, Lord, notices of, 177.

Scinde, subjugation of, by the British, 580.

Segna, Pirates of--_see_ Pirates.

Selim, Captain, expedition under, to explore Central Africa, 731.

Selwyn and his contemporaries, review of, 164.

Shaw, T. B., translation of Kieff, a poem, from the Russian by, 80
review of his translation of the Heretic, 133.

Shoa, mission to the kingdom of, 275.

Simmons, B., poems by:--Columbus, 687
To swallows on the eve of departure, 690.

Sindiah, history of the house of, 582.

Sitting for a portrait, on, in a letter to Eusebius, 243.

Slave trade, the, 425, 730, 741.

Sliding scale, effects of the, 119.

Snow, the, a poem by Delta, 617.

Song of the Fireman, the, 101.

Southern Mexico, two nights in, 449.

Spain, condition of, under the Arabs of Cordova, 431.

Speculation in grain, diminution of, under the new corn law, 118.

State prosecutions, comparison of, in ancient and modern times, 1
that of O'Connell in 1831, 3
those of the Canadian insurgents, _ib._
of the Monmouthshire rioters, 4
of Oxford, 5
of the Chartists in 1842, _ib._
of the Welsh rioters, 6
the present, of O'Connell and others, for conspiracy, 7.

Statesman, memoirs of a--_see_ Marston.

Struggle in Texas, the, 18.

Sugar question, Sir Robert Peel on the, 106.

Swallows on the eve of departure, address to, by B. Simmons, 690.

Tariff, the new, and its results, 113.

Tatius, Achilles, account of his romance, Clitophon and Leucippe, 33.

Texas, adventures in. No. III.; the struggle, 18.

Thrush-hunting, a tale; by Alexander Dumas, 150.

Traditions and tales of Upper Lusatia. No. I., The Fairies' Sabbath, 665.

Tropical colonies, on, 730, 741.

Tucker's Memoirs of Earl St Vincent, review of, 462.

Twelve tribes, prophecy of the, a poem, 196.

Two nights in Southern Mexico, a fragment from the journal of an American
traveller, 449.

Two patrons, the, a tale. Chapter I., 500
Chap. II., 503
Chap. III., 505
Chap. IV., 509
Chap. V., 511
Chap. VI., 514
Chap. VII., 515.

Vardarelli, account of the, 358.

Wages, gradual reduction of, in Great Britain, 125.

Washington, the treaty of, 112.

Welsh rioters, trial of the, 6.

Who wrote Gil Blas? 698.

Wiggins' Cry from Ireland, review of, 638

William, John, letter from, to the editor, 184.

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 174
Gilly, 175.

Willis, Herbert, B. D., narration of, 749.

Word or two of the opera-tive classes, a, 292.

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