Abbott, Mr., The Little Philosopher,' Child at Home;' Rollo at Work,' 'Rollo at Play,' 30. See Books for Children.
Acland, James, The Law Craft of Land Craft,' 134.
Adelaide, Queen, sketched by Sir Astley Cooper, 304.
American Notes for General Circulation, 274. See Dickens. Anti-Corn Law Agitation, 134; its present state, 135; history of the Manchester Anti-Corn Law Association,' and of the National Corn Law League,' 135, 136; number of magistrates con- nected with the former, 136; appointment of del- egates, 137; establishment of the Anti-Corn Law Circular,' 138; progress of the Association, and change of tactics at the downfall of the late Ministry, 138, 139; violence of the League-the murder placard, 140; the repeal of the corn laws attempted to be made a religious question; the conference of dissenting ministers at Manches- ter, 140, 141; the late insurrection in the manu- facturing districts mainly chargeable to the Anti- Corn Law League, 141; frequent allusion, in their proceedings, to the French Revolution, and to physical force, 142; connexion of the League with the operative Anti-Corn Law Association, 142, 143; object of the Anti-Corn Law Bazaar, 143, 144; list of the patronesses and committee, 144; Mrs. Secretary Woolley's circular, 145; pro- duce of the bazaar, and its expenditure, ib.; pro- ceedings of the League upon Sir Robert Peel's de- claration of his measures, 146; conduct of the delegates in London, 146, 147; union of the League and the Chartists, 147, 148; violence of the language uttered at the meetings at Manches- ter in opposition to the Government measures, 149; failure of the Leaguers to rouse the people, 152; specimens of their agitation, 153, 154; de- clarations of anti-corn law magistrates, and effects of their declarations upon the mob, 156; proofs that trade was improving at the time that the League proclaimed growing starvation and mis- ery, 157; resolutions of the Anti-Corn Law As- sociations at the prospect of commercial amend- ment, 157, 158; alteration in the tactics of the League to rouse the people, 158; the meetings of the 27th and 29th of July, 1842, 159; measures taken to ensure the stoppage of the mills, 159, 160; progress of the outbreak, 160-162; effect- ual resistance made by Messrs. Birley of Man- chester, 162; real cause of the turn-out, 163; evidence that the people did not sympathize with the League during the outbreak, 163, 164; pro- ceedings of the trades, 164, 165; conduct of the mayors of Bolton and Stockport, and effect of that
conduct, 165, 166; increased effrontery of the League since the suppression of the outbreak, 167; main features of the Anti-Corn Law De- monstration, 168; freedom of discussion at a London district meeting of the Anti-Corn Law Association, 168, 169; character of the subscrip- tion of 50,000l. proposed to be raised by the League, 170; Mr. Cobden's disinterestedness as a labourer in the cause, 171; absurdity of the sup- position that the mill-owners are endeavouring to lower the price of bread for the sake of the work- men, ib.; summary of the motives, proceedings, and objects of the League, 172, 173. Ants and Aphides, loves of the, 9. Ashburton, Lord, appointed on a special mission to America, 312. See Treaty of Washington.
Bagster, Samuel, The Management of Bees, 1; chief recommendation of his book, 14. Bather, Archdeacon, 'Hints on Scriptural Education and on Catechising,' 184.
Bear, The, his love of honey exemplified, 11, 12. Beavan, James, M. A., A Help to Catechising,'
Bees, interest attached in them at all times, 2; the inhabitants of the bee hive, 3, 4; position in which it should be placed, 4; localities to be avoided, 4, 5; bees' pasturage, 5, 6; necessity of not overstocking a district, 6, 7; floating bee- houses, 7, 8; extent of bees' flight, 8; honey- dew, 8, 9; bee-bread-wax, 9, 10; propolis, 10; enemies of the bee, 11; their domestic battles, 12; management of bees, 12, 13; construction of the comb, 13; advantages of straw hives, 14; manner in which they should be treated, 15; anecdotes of their anger, 15, 16; processes for removing the honey, 16; means to be employed for increasing the number of hives throughout England, 19; the best bee-dress, ib. ; product of a bee-hive in fourteen years, 20; bee-ringing, 21; swarming, 21, 22; the queen-bee, 22; devoted attachment to her, 22, 23; propagation of the species, 23; tithe-bees, 26; length of life, 26, 27; massacre of the drones, 27; the bee not set forth as a pattern in the Bible, 28; it is expecial- ly the poor man's property, 29; universal love for the bee, 29, 30.
Benton, Mr., Speech in the Secret Session of Con- gress, in opposition to the British Treaty, 306; character of Mr. Benton's statements, 314, 315; his view of the Treaty, 319, 320.
Bevan, Edward, M. D., The Honey Bee, its Natur- al History, Physiology, and Management,' 1; nature and value of his work, 26.
Bill to amend the Laws which regulate the Regis-
tration and Qualification of Parliamentary elect- ors in England and Wales, 261. See Election.
Blind, books for the, 25, 26. Books, manner in which they are got up at the present day, 226.
Books for children, 30; children's books at the end of the last century, 30, 31; their defects, 31, 32; state of children's literature at the present day, 32; fallacy of combining instruction with amuse- ment, ib. ; exception with reference to works of amusement blended with a high moral or intel- lectual tone, 33, 34; character of modern scienti- fic manuals, 34, 35; impropriety of appealing solely to the reason of a young child, 35; Mr. Gallaudet's metaphysical treatises, 36; Peter Parley's works, 41; Mr. Abbott's, 43; Ameri- can disregard of style and taste, 44; American works worthy of favourable consideration, 45; leading national features of Americans traceable in their children's books, 46.
Borrow, George, The Bible in Spain,' 93; Mr.
Borrow's personal history, 93, 94; motives of his journey to Spain, 94; success of his mission, 95; a night-scene at Evora, 96; Druidical remains near Estremos, 96, 97; treatment by a Portuguese officer at Elvas, 97; the author among the gip- sies, 97-99; a tender proposition, 99; interview with a national guard at Jaraicejo, 100, 101; ride with a Moresco, 101-103; a Spanish execution, 103, 104; Mr. Borrow's impressions of Madrid, 104; revolution of La Granja and last day of Quesada, 105-107; rencontre with an old fellow- traveller, 107, 108.
Bowring, Dr., his rhymes in the Anti-Corn Law Circular,' 145.
Brandy and Salt, 46. See Vallance.
Brennow, Erneste Geo., De l'Organon; ou l'Art de Guérir, 46; history of Dr. Hahnemann, the founder of the homeopathic system of medicine, 52-54. See also Curie.
Bush, Mrs. Forbes, Memoirs of the Queens of France, with Notices of the Royal Favourites,' 236; the modern readers at the British Museum, ib.; the three classes of translators, 236, 237; the class to which Mrs. Bush belongs, 237; spe- cimens of her ignorance, 237, 238; offensive materials in her book, 238.
Cass, General, his proceedings in respect to the right of search treaty, 312, 313; ignorance as to the American recognition of the right of search question in 1824, 320, 321.
Catechising, parochial, 184; model of the Chris-
tian Catechesis, ib.; rules of the reformed church on this subject, 185; effect of the great extent of modern preaching, ib.; the Bishop of Exeter's charge, 185, 186; preaching defined, 186; preach- ing as distinguished from catechising, ib. ; period of the introduction of the former, 186, 187; dif- ficulty of enforcing a general system of catechis- ing, 187; its importance, 188, 189; the two methods of appreciating sermons, 190; necessity of simplicity of language in sermons for rural con- gregations, 191; suggestions to catechists, 192. Chadwick, Mr. Edward, 229. See Labouring Class-
of the benefits derived by visitors to the German baths, 56.
Condé, the Great, 59. See Mahon. Cooper, Bransby B., Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart., 289; parentage, ib.; boyhood, 290; first love, 291; apprentice to Mr. Cline, 292; Cooper at Edinburgh, 293; demonstrator at St. Thomas's Hospital, ib.; marriage-the wedding trip, 294; professor at the College of Surgeons-rapid ad- vancement, 295; surgeon to Guy's-renunciation of his democratic principles, 296; succeeds Cline at St. Mary Axe, ib.; fees from the city mer- chants, 296, 297; Drs. Currie, Fordyce, and Matthew Baillie, 297; the studio at St. Mary Axe, 298; body-snatchers, 298, 299; amount of his fees in 1815-arrangements for receiving and visiting his patients, 299, 300; relaxations, 301; mental qualifications, ib.; established in New street, Spring Gardens, 302; intercourse with George IV.-created a baronet, ib.; his sketches of the king, 302, 303; of Queen Adelaide, 304; Sir John Leach, when operated on for the stone, ib.; Sir Astley becomes the purchaser of an estate and a successful farmer, 304, 305; his battues, 305; retirement from, and resumption of the pro- fession, ib.; death, 306; character, ib.
Cotton, Wm. Charles, M. A., My Bee-book,' 1; his plan for removing the honey without destroy- ing the bees, 16; qualities of his book, 17; his present profession, ib.
Curie, P., M.D., Principles of Homœopathy-prae- tice of Homœopathy, 46; its fundamental princi- ple, 52; Hahnemann's classification of disease, and nature of the experiments upon which it is founded, 53; infinitesimal divisions of medicines, 54.
Dickens, Charles, American Notes for General Cir- culation,' 274; causes of the morbid sensibility of Americans to the opinions of English visitors, 274, 275; difference in the importance of the criti- cisms of Frenchmen and English writers, 275; Mr. Dickens's previous authorship, 275, 276; anticipated effect of this work, 276; its character, and causes of its failure, 276, 277; synopsis of the topics treated in the first half of the first vol- ume, 277; space occupied in his descriptions of New York and Boston, ib.; absence of all topics of general interest, 278; specimen of his misplaced pleasantry, ib.; reasons why he should not have written a book of travels, 279; specimen of the better portion of the work, 279, 280; American curiosity as to Boz, 280; effective scene of indi- vidual character-the Brown Forester of the Mis- sissippi, 280, 281; discrepancies between Mr. Dickens's general and individual descriptions of American manners and character, 281; hotels and steam-boats, ib.; steam-boat dinners, 281, 282; disgusting prevalence of spitting, 282; causes of this and of other offensive habits, 283; Mr. Dickens on domestic slavery, 284; assassi- nation, ib.; his opinion as to the sources of Ame- rich national defects, 284; their three leading characteristics, ib.; effect of the despot democra- cy upon the advance of civilisation in America, 285; Mr. Mann's anniversary oration, 286.
Edwards, Rev. Henry, Union, the Patriot's Watch- word on the present crisis,' 134. Election Committees and Registration of Electors, 261; history of the jurisdiction of the House of Commons over the return of writs, 261, 262; in-
troduction of Mr. Grenville's bill, 262; failure of all legislation upon this subject, ib.; nature of election committees-contrast between them and juries, 262, 263; practical operation of the union of judge and jury, 263; defects of an election committee as a court, 263, 264; amalgamation of the two separate branches of judicature assigned to it, 264; attempt of the legislature to make it work more smoothly, 265; practical difficulties in consequence of the Reform Act, 265, 266: object of the proposed bill for the amendment of the law for the registration of electors, 266; alterations in the present forms considered, ib.; intended me- thod of paying the revising barristers, 266, 267; main defect of the system of registration proposed in the bill, 267; illustration of its inapplicability to the city of London, 267-269; the court of ap- peal, 269; appointment and condition of the judges-powers of the court, 269, 270; inconsist- ency between the proposed mode of paying the judges and the revising barristers, 270; a better and costless court of appeal already exists, ib. Exeter, the Bishop of, upon preaching and catechis- ing, 185, 186.
Featherstonhaugh, Geo. Wm., observations upon the treaty of Washington, signed 9th August, 1842, 306; Mr. Jared Sparks's discovery of Franklin's map, marking the American and Ca- nadian boundary intended by the treaty of 1783, 316; Mr. Featherstonhaugh's plea of Mr. Web- ster's want of faith examined, 317.
Feldman, J. C., M.D., Quacks and Quackery Un- masked, 46; the Doctor's method of administer- ing drugs, 55; his impressions as to the efficacy of the cold water system, ib.
Frere, Mr. Henry, his books for the blind, 26. Fronde, the, 70. See Mahon.
Sundays, ib.; Lord John Manners' 'Plea for Na- tional Holidays,' 215.
Handley Cross, or the Spa Hunt,' 215; interest attached to the sporting of London citizens, ib. ; London sportsmen and sporting men, 215, 216; the sporting tiger, steeple-chase and hurdle-race riders, 216, 217; the Epping hunt, 217; Parson Harvey of Pimlico,' 217, 218; an economical method of keeping hounds and hunters, 218; the author not a plagiarist of Boz, ib.; history of the Handley Cross Spa, 219; its doctors, 219, 220; the master of the ceremonies, 220; Mr. Jorrocks appointed master of the hounds, ib.; h s arrival at Handley Cross and inaugural address, 221, 222; answers to his advertisement for a hunts- man, 222, 223; a scene in the harness-room, 223, 224; Mr. Jorrocks and the ex-president of the Geological Society, 225.
Honey-bee and bee-books, 1. See Bees. Huber's Natural History of the Honey-bee,' 1; birth and early blindness, 24; marriage, ib.; ac- curacy of his researches, 25.
Hugo, Victor, Le Rhin, 175; contrast between the mediæval and present navigation of that river, 175, 176; the author at Andernach, 179; Laach, 176, 177; Marksburg, ib.; Lorch-a fire-scene, 177, 178; Mayence-the Dom, 178; tombs of the archbishop-electors, 179; their extinction, 179, 180; the astrologer's prophecy, 180; Cologne- the Hotel de Ville-the Dom, 180, 181; history of the latter, 181; means adopted for completing it, 181, 182; its progress since 1509, 182; object of M. Hugo's work, 183; present state of politi- cal opinion in Germany, 183, 184. Huish, Robert, a Treatise on the Nature, Economy, and Practical Management of Bees,' 1. Hydropathy, 46. See Claridge.
Gallaudet, Rev. T. H., 'The Child's Book on the Soul,' The Youth's Book on Natural Theology,' Jorrocks, Mr., 220. See Handley Cross. 30; absurdity of the arrangement and contents of the first book, 36; dialogue upon the soul, 37; upon eternity, ib.; irreverence of the author's language, 38; character of the Youth's Book on Natural Theology,' 39; specimens, 40. Gardner, Richard, address to the middle and work- ing classes engaged in trade and manufactures throughout the empire, 134.
George IV., 302. See Cooper.
Glasgow, part of its population the most wretched in Great Britain, 233.
Goodrich, Mr., 41. See Peter Parley.
Hampson, R. T., Medii Ævi Kalendarium,' 208; plan of the work, 208, 209; perplexity of inqui- ries relating to historical dates, 209; Yule or Christmas day, 209, 210; causes of the difficulties in ascertaining particular days in the Mediæval periods, 210; the two classes of denominations of days, 210, 211; red-letter days in the present ca- lendars that should be expunged, 211; value of the old method of denominating days, ib.; for- mation of the present kalendar of festivals and saints' days, 211, 212; substitutes for the festi- vals abolished by the Puritans, 213; practical objects thus gained, 214; importance of national holidays, ib.; the opening of museums, &c., on
Kalendars, mediæval, 208. See Hampson. King's evil, number of persons touched for, by King Charles II., 48; practice until its final abolition, ib. Kinnaird, Lord, letter to the secretary of the Anti- Corn Law Association, 135; inconsistency of its statements with fact, ib.
Labouring Classes, Report on the Sanitary Condi- tion of the, 229; sources from which the facts contained in the report are derived, ib.; the air of London, ib.; absence of all scientific means for its purification, ib. ; a London drawing-room, 230; importance of remedial measures, 231; miasma, ib.; its production by London churchyards, 231, 232; deaths in England in 1838 from want of drainage and ventilation, 232; forms of diseases caused by removable circumstances, 232, 233; public arrangements external to the residences, by which the sanitary condition of the labouring classes is affected, 233; state of portions of Liver- pool, Edinburgh, Stirling, &c., 233, 234; the Foul Burn' at Edinburgh, 234; plans for the disposal of the refuse of cities, 235; objections to Mr. Chadwick's plan with reference to London, 236; privations of the labouring classes from want
of water, 237; effects of want of ventilation, 238; effects of good ventilation in crowded places, 239; over-crowding of the dwellings of the poor, ib.; evils arising from damp buildings, 240; domestic mismanagement a predisposing cause of disease, 240, 241; comparative mortality of the several classes of society, 241; value and importance of sanitary measures in prolonging the lives of the labouring classes, 242; evidence of their being short-lived, and of their physical deterioration, 242, 243; ages of the prisoners for trial at the special commission in Cheshire, Lancashire and Staffordshire, October, 1842, 243; characteristics of the pauper children at Norwood, ib.; import- ance of remedial measures, both in a moral and in a pecuniary sense, 243, 244; advantages derived from employers providing suitable dwellings for their work-people, 244; consequences of paying wages at public houses, 245; necessity of legisla- tive interference, 246; steps to be taken in the mean time, 246, 247; proposed machinery, 247, 248; character of Mr. Chadwick's labours in this investigation, 248.
'Lays of Ancient Rome,' 249. See Macaulay. League, The, 134. See Anti-Corn Law Agitation. Ley, Rev. J., Documents and Authorities on Public Catechising, 184.
Liverpool, number of inhabited cellars, courts and alleys in, 234.
Long, St. John, his Medical Theory and Practice, 57.
Louis XIV. at the deathbed of his father, 63.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 'Lays of Ancient Rome, 249; difficulties of Mr. Macaulay's task, ib.; probable origin of the early Roman history, ib.; contrast between the mythic and heroic le- gend, 249, 250; character of the poetic ground- work of the early history of Rome, 250; grounds for believing the existence of this poetry, 251; prosaic elements in the Roman history, 252; evi- dence of the existence of Roman ballad poetry, ib.; manner in which popular poetry becomes history, 252, 253; causes of its extinction, 254; the Lay on the defence of the bridge over the Tiber, by Horatius Cocles, 255; self-devotion of Horatius and his companions, 256; his reward, 257; the battle of the Lake Regillus, ib.; description of Mamilins of Tusculum, 258; the flight of the Latins, 258, 259; the Lay of Virginia, 259; style to be avoided by Mr. Macaulay as an his- torian, 261.
Mackenzie, Captain A. S., United States Navy, 282, 283.
Magistrates, number of, nominated by Lord John Russell in the anti-corn law, and other districts,
Mahon, Viscount, Essai sur la Vie du Grand Conde,' 59; his Lordship's motive for writing the work in French, ib.; titles and pedigree of the Condé family, 60; birth and boyhood of Louis, the great Condé, 60, 61; his first appearance at court, 61; his first appointment and campaign, 62; marriage, ib.; appointed to the command of the army on the Flemish frontier, 63; gains the victory of Rocroy, 64; reception upon his return to Paris, ib.; gains the battles of Fribourg and Nordlingen, 65, 66; his neglect of his wife, 66; conquest of Dunkirk, 67; death of his father, ib.; his Spanish campaign of 1647, 68; of 1648, on the Scheldt, ib.; the Fronde, 69; position of par- ties at its commencement, 69, 70; origin of the term, 70; Condé detached from the Parliament
chiefs, 71; divisions in his family, 72; rupture with Mazarin, ib.; imprisoned in Vincennes, 73; defeat of Mazarin's attempts to arrest the Prin- cess de Condé and her son, 74, 75; opposition to Mazarin at Bourdeaux, 75; analogy between the events in that city in 1650 and 1815, 76; failure of an attempt for the escape of Condé from Vin- cennes, 77; causes of the termination of the siege of Bourdeaux, 77, 78; the Princess de Condé's interview with the Queen Regent, 78, 79; effects of the battle of Rhetel, 79; release of Condé, 79, 80; state of parties shortly after this event, 80, 81; flight of Condé from Paris, 81; proceedings at Bourdeaux, 82; Mazarin's efforts in opposition to Condé, 82, 83; Turenne's invasion-his and Condé's alternate defeat and success at Orleans, 83, 84; their march to Paris, 84; battle before the Porte St. Antoine, 84, 85; slaughter of the magistrates of Paris, 86; fatal blow to Condé's power, ib.; complete success of Mazarin's policy, 86, 87; Condé in arms against France, 87; his attainder removed, 88; in re- tirement, 88, 89; obtains a lettre de cachet to imprison the Princess, ib.; Condé in the cam- paigns of 1673 and 1674, 91; death, 92.
Mann, Horace, an oration delivered before the authorities of the city of Boston, 4th July, 1842, 286; Mr. Mann's views as to government, ib.; causes of the complexity of the American govern- ment, ib.; his exposure of the means by which it is constituted, 287; universal suffrage-the bal- lot system as it works in America, ib.; fearful state of society in the United States, 287, 288; Mr. Mann's proposed remedies, 288. Manners, Lord John, Plea for National Holidays,' 215; character of the work, ib. Mazarin, Cardinal, 62, 63. See Mahon. Medical Profession, nature of the bill for the regu- lation of, intended to be introduced by Sir James Graham, 58.
Medicines, quack, utility of several, 57. Miasma, its effects upon the white population at Sierra Leone, 231.
Milliners and dress-makers in London-their early deaths, 239.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley-description of the physician who attended her in a dangerous illness, 46, 47; her opinion of tar-water, 48; her expla- nation of the reasons why persons have faith in quackery, 56.
Mortality, excessive, does not diminish the sum total of population, 241.
Mustard-seed, its history as a universal medicine,
'Peter Parley's Farewell;' his 'Magazine,' 30; | Tar-water, its history as a medicine, 48.
cause of the original popularity of these works, 41; specimen from his farewell book, 41, 42. 'Poor Robin's Almanack' for 1733, 212. Popery an evil to the Christian church, 109; not Anti-Christ, 110; the Anti-Christ power is still to come, ib.; connection of Anti-Christ with Po- pery, ib.; manner in which the controversy against it should be carried on, 111; Popery not purely evil, 112; means by which it has been upheld, ib.; sources of its good, 112, 113; its essential evil principle, 113; character of the papacy, 114; contrast between Christianity and Popery, 114, 115; theory of its morals, 115; confession and absolution, 115, 116; contrasts in that part of the system relating to the maintenance and incul- cation of religious truth, 116; character of the intellectual system of Popery, 116, 117; its ten- dency towards infidelity and scepticism, 117; its grasping for supremacy and universal authority, 117, 118; its virtual suppression of episcopacy, 118; it has set aside the Bible, 119; asserts su- pernumerary sacraments, ib.; encourages and practises forgeries, 120; undermines the evidence of the senses-the doctrine of transubstantiation, ib.; the part taken by Christianity in respect to temporal authority, 121, 122; that taken by Po- pery, 122; Judaism, 123; nature of the Pope's authority, 125; Rationalism and Popery, 126; Jesuitism-sacraments, 126, 127; sources of the sins of Popery, 129; position with reference to the true faith, 130; conditions required of its followers, 131; reasons for closely watching it, 132; parallels between it and Anti-Christ, 133.
Queens of France, Memoirs of the, 226. See Bush.
Ramsay, Rev. E. B., A Catechism for the use of St. John's Chapel, Edinburgh,' 184.
Registration of Electors, 261. See Election. Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, 229. See Labour- ing Classes.
Reporters of the English newspapers described, 106. Rhine, The, 175. See Hugo.
Richelieu, Cardinal, his death described, 62, 63. Rives, Wm. C., Speech of, in the American Senate, on the Treaty of Great Britain, 306.
Taylor, Henry, author of Philip Van Artevelde,' Edwin the Fair, an Historical Drama,' 192; cha- racteristics of the present age, ib.; their effects upon the drama, 193; story of Edwin the Fair,' 194; extracts, 194, 197, 201-206; qualifications for a dramatic and lyrical poet, 195; contrast between tragedy and the historic drama, 195, 196; analysis of the characters in Edwin the Fair,' 196, 197; its merits as a drama, 198, 199; Dunstan, 199-201; the synod scene, 202; Dun- stan in the character of Tempter, 203, 204; his downfall, 205; illustration of the author's pa- thetic powers, 206; faults of the work, 207; cha- racteristics of Mr. Taylor's poetry, 207, 208. Todd, James Henthorn, B. D., Discourses on the Prophecies relating to Antichrist in the Writings of Daniel and St. Paul,' 108; character of the work and of the writer, ib.
Treaty of Washington, the, 306; state of the ques- tion in 1831, 307; cause of the King of Holland's award not being accepted by America, ib.; Gen- eral Jackson's proposal in 1835, 308; Lord Pal- merston's answer, 309; terms proposed by his Lordship, ib.; consequences of this step, 310; state of feeling in the United States, 310, 311; the case of the Creole, 311; other causes of ex- citement against England, ib.; measures taken by the government of Sir Robert Peel-appoint- ment of Lord Ashburton on a mission to America, 312; difficulties of his Lordship's position, ib.; refusal of France and America to sign the right of search treaty, 312, 313; character of the Trea- ty of Washington of the 9th of August, 1842, 313; advantages gained to England by it, 314; Mr. Benton's view of the treaty, ib.; objections made to it by Lord Palmerston's organs, 315; discovery of Franklin's map of the boundary-line intended by the treaty of 1783, 316; improbability of America yielding to the claims of Great Britain, notwithstanding the discovery of this map, 317; Mr. Webster's conduct investigated, ib.; conces- sions which Lord Ashburton found it necessary to make, 318, 319; suppression of the slave trade on the coast of Africa-distinction between the right of inquiry and the right of search, 319; actual agreements entered into by the Treaty of Washington for the suppression of the slave trade, 320; American and French ignorance as to the right of search question, ib.; recognition of the principle by America in 1824, 320, 321; the 9th clause of the treaty-suppression of slave-mar- kets throughout the world, 322; the ex-tradition clause, ib.; the remaining articles of the treaty, 323, 324; its character as a treaty, 324; excel- lence of Lord Ashburton's diplomatic correspon- dence, 325.
Vallance, J., brandy and salt-a remedy for inter- nal complaints, 46; cures alleged to have been made by its use, 51; Mr. Vallance's fee for ad- vice, ib.
Water, price of, when provided by water companies and brought into houses by hand, 244. Webster, Mr., 317. See Treaty. Wilson, James, M. D., the water-cure, 46; Mr. Priesnitz, the inventor of the cold-water system, as described by Dr. Wilson, 54; qualifications of the latter for writing upon this subject, ib.
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