Madagascar, coal is to be found there, value of, to further the introduc-
tion of steam navigation to India, 363, 364; much could be done for
commerce by trading up the river Betsibooka to the principal towns
in the interior, 364.

Magnetic Pole, reached by Commander Ross, 445-447.
Maitland Club, good effects resulting from it, 407.
Manufactures, the philosophy of, being principally the history of British,
453; possession of supplies of the raw material used in, 455; the com-
mand of the natural means and agents best fitted to produce power,
instanced in our possession of coal mines, 456, 457; value of steam-
impelled power compared with horse power, 457, 458; the advanta
geous position of a country, compared to others, 459; nature of the soil
and climate, 459, 460; moral causes conducive to prosperity in, 460;
the influence of taxation on, 461-463; their influence in increasing
the population and wealth of the nation, 463; its effects on those em-
ployed in the manufactories, 463-467; wages of adults are invariably
increased by improvements in machinery, 467-469; cheapness of
Foreign, compared with English labour, 469, 470; prospect Great
Britain has of retaining its ascendency in, 470; combinations have
generally increased inventions, ib.; the invention of spinning by
rollers revolving with different degrees of velocity, is incontestibly due
to Mr John Wyatt, 471; an estimate of the extent and value of the
British cotton manufacture in 1833, 472.

Marávi Lake, in Africa, situation, length and breadth of, 348; rivers
that are said to proceed from it, 347.

Measures not Men, some illustrations of, in connexion with the British
Constitution, 11–20.

Messier, absorbing attention he paid to the discovery of Comets, 102.
M'iás, a native tribe on the eastern coast of Africa, prefer to sell them-
selves as slaves, 352–361.

Middling Classes, Isaac Tomkins' opinion of, 69.

Mill (Mr), comparison between, and Sir James Mackintosh, as histo-
rians, 286, 287.

Mirabeau, Mémoires Biographiques, Litteraires et Politiques de, 186; his
character, 186, 187; 195-198; sketch of his Father, 188-191; of his
Uncle, 191, 192; of Madame de Pailly, 193; extracts from letters
between his Father and Uncle, 193, 194; his connexion with Madame
le Mounier, 196, 197; his character as an Author, and extracts from
his writings, 198-201; notice of his personal appearance, 201; ex-
tracts from his memoirs showing the treatment he received from his
father and family in early life, 201-213; disagrees with Madame le
Mounier, 213; sketch of her after-life, 214; truly wretched state of
Society under the old régime, 214, 215.

Mitchell (T.), the Acharnenses of Aristophanes, with Notes by, 283; the
public indebted to him for bringing it again forward, 324; has com
menced with the play, chronologically, in order to give unbroken con-
nexion with contemporaneous history, 324, 325; his principal inten-
tion in doing so, to give the history of Athens, 325; is signally hostile
to the Athenians, 327-329; his note on igo, tribute Money,' 329
-331; Critique on his comparison between the Athenians and Lace-
dæmonians, 332-335; the notes most valuable, 336; extracts from the
illustrative passages, 337-339; has kept away with much propriety

every thing even bordering on indelicacy, 339; scholastic observations
that were withdrawu from the body of the strictures on, 340, 341.
Mombása, attempts made by the Sultan of Muscat to seize it, 356-358;
ceded by Sultan Ahmed to the British government, 356, 357; its port
improved under the direction of Lieut. Emery, 357, 358.
Montgomery's (James), the Poetical Works of, 473; great improvement
made by him, ib.; the choice of his subjects have not been made with
judgment, 474; his poem of Greenland better suited, 476, 477; ex-
tracts from, 477; his Pelican Island not so well conceived, 479; his
talents are displayed to greater advantage in his short lyrical effusions,
479, 480; extracts from his poems, 480-489.

Mortality, necessity of keeping proper bills of, 167, 168.

Morality, Mr Bentham's science of, allows that man is only susceptible
of pleasures and pains physical or intellectual,' 365; denies that it
is aught but a purely rational science, 366-377. See Bentham.
Morality and Religion, close connexion between, 373.
More (F. J.), Historia Statisticæ Adumbrata, 154.

N.

See Statistics.

Natural Son (The), Translated from the German. See Spindler.
Newspaper Tax, Petition from the inhabitants of London against the,
181; newspapers favourable to its continuation, 181; reason for their
being so, 182; price of, ib; newspapers the most efficient means of
diffusing information, 182-185; by its repeal, the revenue would gain,
185; absurdity of supposing that by its repeal it would increase im-
morality, ib.

Newton, explains in his Principia, the means of determining the appear-
ance of Comets, 94; conjectures that comets are the aliments by which
suns are sustained, 111, 112. See Comets.

Northampton (Marquis of), on vacating seats in Parliament, on the ac-
ceptance of office, 40. See Parliamentary Seats.

O.

Owen (Captain), sent by the British government to survey the eastern
coast of Africa, 342. See Africa.

P.

Parliament, Free conference proposed between the two Houses of, on
any important measure on which they, as separate bodies, could not
agree, 19, 20.

Parliamentary Seats, on vacating, on the acceptance of office, 40; the plan
followed in France, proposed by Mr Bulwer, 40, 41; disadvantage of
the present system, and History of the Statute, 41-45; course pursued
in America, 42, 43; refutation of arguments put forward for the pre-
sent system, first, because the enactment was contemporary with the
first efficient place bill, 45; second, it is a valuable preliminary check
on the prerogative of the Crown, 45, 46; third, it is necessary to recog
nise their representative in his new character, 46, 47; fourth, the right
of declaring whether they are satisfied with the conduct of their member,
47-49; impossibility, in the case of a total change of ministry, of carry-
ing on for some time the general business of the state, 49,-51; is a
subject that cannot be much longer delayed, 51, 52.

Parliamentary Report on Lighthouses, with the minutes of evidence,
221. See Lighthouses.

Parties, state of, 242; the conduct of the present government, the effects
of their conduct on public confidence, ib; absurd conduct pursued by
Sir Roger Griesley, 243-245; by Mr Shaw, recorder of Dublin, 245,
246; the party of trimmers and their tactics, 246, 249-251; the Tories
have declared themselves reformers, 247, 248; the Opposition com-
posed of the real friends of the people, 248, 249.

Peers, great respect paid to during the administration of Cromwell and
his son Richard, 292; they generally concurred with the lower house
in the reign of Charles II. and the reason for their doing so, 292, 293.
Poets, peculiarity of several of the British in their versification, 147, 148.
Poets and Poetry of America. See American Poetry.

Pontecoulant (G. de), Notice sur la Comète de Halley, et sa retour en
1835, par, 82; calculated the perturbations of Halley's comet, and gains
the prize of the French Academy of Sciences, 105.

Pontius (Petrus), successful method he had of teaching the Deaf and
Dumb, 410-412.

Population Returns of Census of 1831 (abstract of), 154. See Sta-

tistics.

R.

Reports of the select committee of the House of Commons on public
documents, 154. See Statistics.

Reports, The, first and second, of his Majesty's Commissioners on Eccle-
siastical Revenue and Patronage, Ireland. See Irish Church.

Report, First, of the Commissioners of Public Instruction, Ireland. See
Irish Church.

Revelation, does not inform us of the moral differences of actions, 60;
the true design of, 60, 61.
Revolution of 1688, Sir James Mackintosh's history of, 265; the good it
has done, 288; the Declaration of Right, 311, 312; the principles on
which the Authors of the revolution acted, 312, 313; place William on
the throne, 313, 314; benefits arising from the revolution, 314; the
Toleration Act passed, ib.; the Presbyterian kirk established in Scot-
land, 314, 315; alteration in granting the supplies, 315, 316; the puri-
fication of the administration of justice in political cases, 316-319;
the most important was the establishing the liberty of unlicensed print-
ing, 319; effect these changes had in placing the Whig party in power
for nearly seventy years, ib.; the fundamental doctrine of that party
in that power is a trust for the people, 319–322.

Roderer (Count), The avowed author of Adresse d'un Constitutionel
aux Constitutionels, 216; his character, ib.

Ross (Sir John), voyage to the Arctic Regions, 419; the public interest
had began to subside before his last voyage, 417, 418; inutility of such
discoveries, 418, 419; circumstances attending his former voyage, 419,
420; the whole expense undertaken by Sir Felix Booth, 421; circum-
stances under which he undertook the voyage, 422-424; fits out the
Victory Steamer and engages one or two other vessels to carry his
stores, 424; arrives at Holsteinberg, 426; defends his conduct as to
failing to discover Lancaster Bay, 426, 427; discovers the stores of the
Fury left by Captain Parry, 427-429; description of the situations he
was often in, 430, 431; arrives at Felix Harbour, and prepares his

winter habitation, 431, 332; occupations of the crew, 432; his opinion
as to the generation of heat under severe cold, 432, 433; visited by a
party of Esquimaux, 433–435; description of their village, 435, 436;
of their females, 436, 437; undertakes several expeditions by their
assistance, 437, 438; hostile feelings shown by the Esquimaux, 438
-440; bad effects of making the natives believe that he had super-
natural power, 441, 442; his narrative contains a running fire against
knowledge and free institutions, 442-444; undertakes a fourth expedi-
tion to Franklin's Point, 444; breadth of the isthmus of Boothia,
444, 445; spend another winter, 445; expeditions undertaken, ib. ;
reaches the calculated position of the magnetic pole, 445-447; has
made no allusion to the Pole of Maximum cold, 447; its position,
447, 448; attempt to travel homewards in sledges and boats to Baffin's
Bay, 449, 450; compelled to remain for another year, 450; again
attempt to travel homewards, in which they are successful, 450, 451;
are discovered by the Isabella of Hull, 451, 452; justice done to him
and his party by Government, 453.

S.

Sa'id Seid, Sultan of Muscat, extent of his dominions on the eastern
coast of Africa, 354, 355; enterprising character, 355; his repeated
failures in attempting to take Mombása, 356-358.

Scoresby (Rev. William), revives the question of a north-west passage,
419, 420.

Sejour (Du), his investigation on the near approach of Comets to the
earth, 117, 118.

Selection from the American Poets. See American Poets.

Sheriffs, election of, in London before the revolution, power they pos-
sessed, 317, 318.

Socotra, Island of, excellent situation of, for making it the Sincapore of
the Arabian seas, 363.

Spindler-The Natural Son, translated from the German of, 71 ; charac-
teristic feature of his writings, 72-74 ; are devoid of all morality, 74
-76; exhibits an accurate copy of the manners and morals of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, 76; extract from, 77-81.
State of parties, 242. See Parties.

Statistics-State and defects of British, 154, 155; little progress statis-
tics has made in Britain, 155, 156; nature, objects, and limits of the
science, 156-158; value of, 158; contradictory opinions as to the area
of England and France, 158, 159; of Scotland, 159; of Ireland, 159,
160; population of Great Britain, 160, 161; table of the annual pro-
portion of Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages, to the population of Eng-
land, 161-163; indefinite classification of trades taken in the four last
censuses, 163, 164; extraordinary statements made in consequence,
164, 165; a new plan is absolutely necessary for the next census,
outlines of one, 165–168; papers connected with the income-tax de-
stroyed by order of the House of Commons, 168; defective informa-
tion we possess of the quantity and value of the produce of land, 168,
169;-of the number of cattle, 169, 170;-of our manufactures, 170,
171; table of the estimated value of our cotton manufacture, 172; table
of British produce and manufactures exported, 173; have no accounts of
the trade between Ireland and Great Britain, 173, 174 ; no means have

existed or do exist of estimating the condition of the people, 175-177;
necessity of having statistical boards established for procuring proper
information, 177-181.

Steam Engines, value of, compared with horse power, 456–458.
Stewart's (Dugald), Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of
Man, 61.

Supplies, power of stopping the, entirely vested in the House of Com-
mons, 9.

T.

Taxation, the influence of, on manufactures, 461-463.
Taylor (Jeremy), Coleridge's opinion of, 137.

Tithe, estimate of the amount of, collected in Ireland, 509.

Tocqueville's (M.de), account of the national temper of the Americans for
egotism, 391, 392.

Toleration, cried for by all parties when they are down, 304, and 307,
308.

Tomkins (Isaac), Thoughts upon the Aristocracy of England, 64; relates
mainly to their privileges, ib.; what they are born too, 65, 66; picture
of their refined society, 66, 67; the relation they stand with the press,
68, 69; his opinion of the middle classes, 69; necessity of confining
the Peers to their proper constitutional functions, 70.

U.

Ure's (Dr Andrew) Philosophy of Manufactures, 435; the contents of
his book does not realize what the titlepage holds out, 454, 455. See
Manufactures.

Utilitarians' Morality, what is gained in the science of ethics by their
doctrines, 374-376; does their doctrine make us more prompt and
powerful in urging to moral conduct, 376.

W.

Wardlaw (Dr), in his work on Christian Ethics,' argues that conscience
or judgment is utterly corrupted and debased, 59, 60.

Whigs lay down the fundamental doctrine, that power is a trust for the
people, 319-322.

Wyatt (Mr John), the invention of spinning by rollers revolving with
different degrees of velocity, due to, 471.

Y.

Young (Dr John), Lectures on intellectual philosophy, 52; classifies the
phenomena of consciousness into three primary powers-sensation,
memory, and judgment, 54; virtual coincidence between his system
and Dr Thomas Brown, ib. ; his ideas regarding association, 55; does
not always express himself clearly in giving an account of preceding
enquirers, 62; his lectures show him to be a man of talent, ib.; extract
from his lectures, whether metaphysical as well as physical enquiry
furnishes any positive additions to our previous knowledge, 63.'

Z.

Zanzibar, developement of its resources, 355, 356-362; number of
slaves sold in one year at, 361.

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