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INDEX.

A.

Adams, President, opinions and character of, 177.

Africa, our geographical knowledge of, very small, 326; the Ancients
had no knowledge of the country south of the Great Desert, 327-
329; chief epochs of African discoveries, 329-333; expedition up
the Quorra, 335-340; appearance of the Delta of the Quorra, 340;
town of Attah, 341; appearance of the country above Attah, 342;
cultivated state of the country between Eboe and the mouth of the
Shary, 344; ascend the river Shary, 345; town of Fundah, and their
reception, 345-347; descend again to the Quorra, ib.; the Shary
again ascended, 348; return and ascend the Quorra, 348, 349; reach
the town of Rabbah, and return, 349-352; expedition again ascends
the Quorra, 352, 353; striking discrepancies occurring between Mr
Laird's text and the chart of the Quorra, by Commander Allen, R.N.,
353; the expedition yields but little exact information regarding the
banks of the Quorra, 354; the natives characterized as civil, gentle,
and honest, 355; benefits most likely to arise from discoveries in
Africa, 355, 356; some points on the western side of Africa where a
short exploration might be productive of valuable results, 356, 357;
the eastern coast appears a fairer and more interesting field, 357.
Apprenticeship System. See Negro.

Astronomy, history of, 123.

Attila, King of the Huns, an epic poem, by Herbert, 261; is the age
of epic poetry past? 261, 262; great epics always produced where
the genius of a people had been called into action by great events,
262-264; modern poetry, 264-266; a great poet at the present
time would find the best opening in the department of the epic, 266;
rules which regulate epic poetry, 266-269; the machinery required
for an epic poem is that of thought and intelligence, 269–272; cri-
tique on Attila, with liberal extracts, 273-294.

Ballot must have a trial, 211.

B.

C

Church Revenues and Church Rates, 295; clergy maintained for ages
by the voluntary contribution of the laity, 295, 296; sketch of the
Church's unscrupulous acquisitions in wealth, from the time of Con-
stantine to that of Pope Innocent III, 296-301; when payment of
tithes in England was introduced, 301; the division of tithes by law
tripartite, 301-308; tithes not the only fund appropriated to the
reparation of churches, 308-313; the distinction between the chancel

and the nave, or body of the church, first carried into effect in the
year 1250, 313, 314; progress of the innovation of the clergy, 314-
318; application made to the Court of King's Bench, by the laity,
when the Church Courts exceeded their jurisdiction, 318-320; Ed-
ward I, by his writ of circumspecte agatis, defined the limits of tem-
poral and spiritual jurisdiction, 320, 321; Church rates a voluntary
contribution on the part of the parish, 321–324; church-scot of the
Saxons different from the present Church rates, 324; recapitulation
of the conclusions, 323.

Coleridge, S. T., affecting letter of, to Cottle, 32.

Commons, Committee of the House of, on the poor laws in Ireland, 198;
three reports by, ib.; recommendations contained in them, 199; de-
cide against the applicability of English workhouses to Ireland, ib.
recommend that those who desire to emigrate should be furnished
with the means of doing so, 199, 200; classes enumerated for whom
entire maintenance is to be provided by the State, 201; reasons for
recommending voluntary associations, 202, 203; have excluded the
able bodied from the scheme of national charity, 204.
Constabulary, Irish, character of, 237.

Couper, character of his letters, compared with Lamb, 4, 5.
Crime, diminution of, in Ireland, 243-452-457.

Dissent, practical evils of, 461.

D.

D'Israeli's Novels, character of, 59; failure in his bold attempts, ib;
doubts whether he could produce a really good work of fiction, 80;
chose in Vivian Grey the department in which he was most fitted to
excel, 61; Henrietta Temple analyzed, 63—68; his Venetia, 69-72.
Divine right of Princes, doctrine of, considered, 400-409.

Documents, Valuable, republished by Sir Francis Palgrave, 52. See
Palgrave.

E.

Education Bill gives the power to municipal corporations to establish
schools and levy a local rate for its support, 440, 441; a school com-
mittee empowered to meet in each parish, 441; educational or know-
ledge qualification to be the test for voting, 442; religious instruction,
443, 444; local management, 444; powers and functions of the cen-
tral board, 444, 449; Note to the article, 523.

Emigration caused by the principle of population, 90; recommended by
the Committee of the House of Commons, to enquire into the condi-
tion of the poorer classes in Ireland, 198.

Encyclopædia Britannica, the celebrated writers of the Dissertation
attached to the book, characterized, 111, 112.

England, its state of crime compared with that of Ireland, 452-457.
Epic poetry, the causes which have led to its rise and fall, See Attila.

Federalists, designs of, 176.

F.

Franklin, Dr, formed one of the committee who drew up the Declara-

tion of Independence, 166; humorous and characteristic apologue by,
169; conduct in Congress, 173; joint-envoy to France, 174.

Fraser, Bishop, of St Andrews, unjustly treated by the historians of
Scotland, 41.

H.

Hales', Rev. W. H., pamphlet on Church Rates, 295. See Church
Revenues.

Herbert's, Rev. William, Epic poem, entitled Attila. See Attila.
Highlanders, Origin and History of, 416. See Skene.

Horne, Leonard, attacks the Education Bill in his translation of M.
Cousin's Education in Holland, 523.

I

Ireland under Lord Mulgrave, 220; badly treated by England, 222,
223; four-fifths of the constituency disfranchised under George II.,
225; evils entailed on, 226.

Ireland, State of, necessity of discussion on the, 450; Earl of Mulgrave's
Speech on, 451, 452; amount of crime in, compared with that of Eng-
land, 452–457; Mr Fox's character of the Irish people, 458; obstruc-
tions Government have had to contend with, 458, 459; differences which
exist between the relation of landlord and tenant, 459; defence of the
Government, 460.

J.

Jamaica, abolition of Slavery in, 477-522. See Negro.
Jefferson, President, life of, 156-159; religious opinions, 160; elect-
ed to the assembly, 161; takes part in the dissensions between
America and Great Britain, 162, 163; takes his seat in Congress,
166; draws up the Declaration of Independence, 166, 167; appoint-
ed joint-envoy to France, 170; obtains the abolition of the law
of primogeniture, ib.; and of church establishment, 171; attempts to
abolish slavery, 172; chosen to Congress, 173; repairs to Paris, 174;
excursion to England, 175; returns to America, and accepts the office
of Secretary of State, 176; elected Vice-President, 180; brilliant
career of his Presidency, 183; death, 184; his characters of Washing-
ton and Madison, 185, 186.

K

Knowledge, or Education qualification considered as a test for the fran-
chise, 442, 443.

L.

Laird and Oldfield's expedition into Africa, 326. See Africa.
Lamb, Charles, his extraction, 8; lived with his sister, ib.; similarity
between his essays and letters, ib.; describes his own character in a
letter to Southey, 9-11; predilection for the scenes around him, 11;
quizzing letter of, to Manning, 12, 13; unfit for the realities of life, 14;
attachment to plays, 15, 16; affection for his sister, 17; and friends, ib.;
letter to Wordsworth, explaining the history of his own mind, 18; his
inventions, puns, 19; ironical letter to Coleridge, 20; his attachment
to London, 21; effect produced on his mind by mountain scenery, 22;
defence of himself, and Hunt and Hazlitt, in a letter to Southey, 24;
his religious opinions, 25; his hatred of business, 27; tormented with

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