L than Roman, 38; seen in his letters as he was,
40; his intention to defend Catiline, 41; Con-
sulate, ib.; relations with Pompey, 43; his mis-
trust of Pompey, 44; despair on being exiled,
45; triumphant return described, 46; his letter
to Lentulus, an apology for his political conduct,
47; analysis of it, 48; Mr. Forsyth's analysis,
49; justification of his change of policy, 50; hero-
ism during the last year of his life, 51; his cha-
racter as a man and his value as a teacher of
philosophy, 52; apocryphal likenesses of him,
ib.; his vanity, 53; his epicene character, 53, 54;
not an original thinker, ib.; central principle of
his ethics, ib.

Colonna family's first appearance in history, 112;
derivation of their name and romantic story of.
their rise, 113.

Comacchio, eels in lake of, 99.
Competitive system of China, 21.

Confederates, prospect of the, 149; two heads of
Confederate difficulties, 154; momentous inci-
dent from Gen. Hill's carelessness with despatch-
es, 157; McClellan's failure to take advantage of
it, ib.

Conger, its offensive odour, 101; conger soup, ib.;
the poor man's pig in the Isle of Man, 101; its
toughness, ib.; attack by a huge, ib.; capturing
by dogs, ib.; the fat used for pie-crust, 103.
Copenhagen, expedition in 1807 to, 207.
Cornwallis's (Lord) correspondence respecting the
Irish rebellion, 200.

Corunna, incidents in the retreat to, 211.
Coste (M.) on eel culture, 99.

Cotton, cultivation in China, 9, 10; indigenous in
Mexico, 184.

Craufurd's (Gen.) rashness at the Coa, 214, 215.

horse hair, ib.; not viviparous, ib.: three species
indigenous to the British Isles, 94; migration of
young eels from the sea, 94, 95; ascent of rocks,
95; eel-fare, 96; elver cakes, ib.; eel-fare in
the Thames, ib.; eels pre-eminently nocturnal
animals, ib.; unable to endure severe cold, ib.;
tame eels, 97; ancients acquainted with the art
of taming, ib.; power of living out of water, ib.;
tenacious of life, 97, 98; their enemies, 98; an-
ecdotes, ib.; eel culture suggested, ib.; eeleries
in the British Isles, 99; places named from eels,
ib.; All-eel-day in Naples, 100; question of
wholesomeness, ib.; uses of eel-skin, 101; the
conger, ib. (See Conger.) The muræna, 103.
Egypt, determination of the Viceroy to suppress
the slave trade, 68.

Electric telegraph, legend anticipating the, 116.
Electrical eel, 103. (See Eels.)

Elizabeth's (Queen) treatment of her maids that
wished to marry, 237.

Emerson's (R. W.) English Traits and Conduct of
Life' reviewed, 22; intellectual character, 25;
observations on England and the English, 26;
on the upper classes in England, 28.
English character drawn by R. W. Emerson, 27.
Essays and Reviews, the Privy Council judgment
on, 276; the object of the prosecution not to
stifle discussion, ib.; but to determine the com-
pact entered into by the national clergy, 277;
parallel and contrast in the National Reformed
Church of France, ib.; remarks on the con-
stitution of the Judicial Committee, 278;
reversal of the suspension of Dr. Williams and
Mr. Wilson, ib.; hailed as a great success by
the Liberal, Roman Catholic, and Dissenting
Journals, ib.; fallacy respecting the liability of
the Church to have her sentences reversed,
281; the Oxford Declaration, ib.; the two
points assailed by the Essayists, ib.; unanimity
in receiving the Bible as the Word of God, the
link between Dissenters and the Church, 282;
evil of shaking the general belief in eternal
punishment, ib.; antagonists brought together
by the love of common truths, ib.; the judg-
ment powerless in its immediate effect on the
doctrines of the Church, 283; but alters them
indirectly, ib.; strict legal effect of the judgment,
284; the decision relates only to particular
extracts, ib.; Old Bailey acquittal' of the
accused, 285; its limited effect, ib.; the Court
while acquitting the teacher has left the
teaching unsanctioned, 286; two limitations in
the Church's acceptation of Scripture as the
Word of God, 287; solution of a difficulty by
supposing the writers inspired, and not the
book, 288; deductions from this assumed law
of God's revelation, ib.; everlasting' not
necessarily lasting ever,' 289; Bishop of
London's Five Discourses, ib.; grave conse-
quences of the acquittals, 290; effect on the
laity of the Church, 291; necessity for reform
in the Appellate Jurisdiction, 292; evil of the
selection of the judges by the government of
the day, 294; origin of the Judicial Committee's
judging matters of heresy, 295; historical
foundation for the redress required, 295, 296;
Mr. Gladstone's letter to the Bishop of London,
296, 298; relation between the Church and
the Crown, 298; plan proposed for change in
the Constitution of the Court of Appeal, 300;
on the supremacy of the Crown in things
spiritual, 302; not endangered by an alteration
in the Court of Appeals, 303.

Eyder (the), always the northern limit of the
Holy Roman Empire, 125. (See Slesvig.)

F.

Faney and Imagination distinguished, 29.
Fiorelli's additions to Pompeian literature, 163;
persecuted by the late Neapolitan Government,
170; his improved system of excavation, 171;
wonderful casts from hollows in the volcanic
matter, 172. (See Pompeji.)

Foreign policy of England, 250; change in foreign
estimate of English character, 251; our policy
essentially one of cowardice, 252; contrasted
with a policy of moderation, ib.; retrospect
of measures, ib.; Brazil, 253; King Leopold's
decision, 255; contrasted with the violent
demands of Earl Russell, 255, 256; Japan, 256;
no precedent for Earl Russell's demands from
Japan, 258; they practically amount to 'væ
victis, 259; bombardment of Kagosima, 260;
Colonel Neale's subsequent confession that an
impossibility was insisted on, ib.; ferocity with
weak Powers, pusillanimity with strong, 261;
timid spirit in dealing with the United States
illustrated by the case of Mr. Shaver, ib.; of
Mr. Rahming, &c., 262; Earl Russell's policy
on the Continent of Europe, ib,; his inability
to perceive the connexion between advice and
action, 263; begining with menace, ending with
peace, ib.; the Polish question, 263, 264;
Quixotism faltering at the sight of a drawn
sword, 264; menacing despatch of Earl Russell
to Prince Gortchakoff, 265; his threat of war
to Baron Brunnow, 266; six points demanded,
267; defiance by Prince Gortchakoff, and the
humiliating retreat of England, ib.; Earl
Russell's retraction of his statement that Russia
had forfeited her Treaty title to Poland, ib.;
rebuffed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys, 268, 269;
Danish affairs fruitful in humiliation to England
(see Denmark and Slesvig), 269; eviscerated
despatches, ib.; selection from the menaces of
the Government, 270-273; Lord Palmerston's
speech promising assistance to Denmark, 275;
England's disloyalty and Denmark's ruin, 275,

276.

Ford (Gen.) first proposed protecting forts by
wrought iron, 88, 89.

Forsyth's Life of Cicero' commended, 37; his
'Hortensius' contains a valuable account of
Roman law, ib.

Fremantle's (Col) 'Three Months in the Southern
States,' 149, 152.

French books on America, high character of,
150.

- Emperor the first to case ships with iron,
80.
Frost's (Susan) heroism in the Irish rebellion,

202.

G.

George's (St.) Church at Rome, 116; the patron
saint of England not the Arian pork con-
tractor, ib.

Germany deficient in maritime power, 124.
Gladstone's (Right Hon. W. E.) remarks on the
Royal Supremacy, 276; his conclusions respect-
ing appeal to the Privy Council in spiritual
affairs, 298.

Grant's (Capt.) services in African discovery, 67;
(See Speke.)

Greek Art, history of, 89.

Gregorovius, work on Rome in the Middle Ages,
104; his inaccuracies, ib.; exaggerated Teutonic
nationality, ib. (See Rome.)
Gregory VII.'s (Pope) last words, 108.

Guns and Plates, 68; rifled guns a necessity from

the improvement in small arms, ib.; ancient
guns on the built-up system, 69; the Mons
Meg, ib.; enormous calibre of the Kemerlichs,
ib.; gun-metal, 70; bronze guns, ib.; history
of cast-iron ordnance, ib.; superiority of
wrought-iron over cast-iron guns, ib.; develop-
ment of crystalline structure, ib.; guns of cast-
steel, 70, 71; steel a capricious material, 71;
wrought-iron in combination to strengthen cast-
iron, ib.; hooped guns have no advantage over
unhooped, 72; object of rifling, 73; polygroove
and two-groove rifles, ib.; fit by expansion
and shot fitting mechanically, ib.; relative
advantages of muzzle-loading and breech-loading,
74; principle of Sir W. Armstrong's shells,
75; fuses for rifled projectiles, ib.; Armstrong
rifled artillery, ib.; his rifled gun in China,
76; in New Zealand, ib.; in the action off
Kagosima, 79; Armstrong guns employed
against iron-plated targets, 80; shunt guns,
ib.; Armstrong shell for the rifled 12-ton 300-
pounder, 81, 82; experiments with the 600-
pounder at Shoeburyness, 82; Whitworth's
steel shot and shell, 88; comparative merits of
Armstrong and Whitworth guns, 85, 86;
doubtful contest between guns and iron-plates,
86, 87; probable effect of steel shell from the
600-pounder, 87; monster guns may be worked
in ships, ib.; substitution of steel for cast-iron
shot necessary, 87, 88.

Jackson, General Stonewall, 157.

Japan, our relations with, 256-murder of Mr.
Richardson, 258. (See Foreign Policy.)
Jewish catacomb in Rome, discovery of a, 111.
Jews, criticism on their objection to eels, 90.
John the Baptist, numerous heads of, 113.
Joan (Pope), 120.
Jonson (Ben), contrasted with Shakspeare, 227.
Joyce's (J. W., M.A.), 'Ecclesia Vindicata' recom-
mended, 300.

Juarez's (President) violation of liberal pledges,
191-Sir C. Wyke's character of, 195. (See
Mexico.)

K.

Kagosima, Armstrong guns in the action off, 79;
bombarded, 260.

Kenia (Mount), influence of its snows on the Nile,

66.

Kilimandjaro, Baron von Decken's ascent of, 66;
description of, ib.

dress and expression, ib.; statuette of Narcissus
listening to Echo, 173; description of a 'scavo,'
ib.; ancient robber excavators, 174; disinterred
eating-house, 175; amphere and marks descrip-
tive of the wines they contained, 175, 176; oven
containing eighty-three loaves, 176; description
of a lupanar, ib.; election placards, 177; the
Elephant and Serpent inn, ib.; regulations for
visitors to the excavated city, 177, 178; usual
subjects of the frescoes, 178, 179; reflections on
Classic and Gothic reproductions, 179.
Popes, foundation of their temporal power by
Pepin and Charlemagne, not by Constantine, 107.
Popocatepetl, the highest mountain in Mexico, 181.
Pudentiana (St.), church of, 121; gives title to
the chief English representative of the Roman
Church, ib.

R.

Rhine, Prussian and Bavarian provinces on the
left bank of the, 146.

Rice-cultivation described, 8.

Roman (ancient) life, essentially public character
of, 36.

Rome in the middle ages,103; Rome in the reign
of Honorius, 105; charge from paganism to
Christianity the main cause of the ruin of ancient
Rome, 106; estimate of the population, 105;
demolition of edifices for the materials, 106;
real date of the decay of Rome, ib.; Elian
bridge and Mole of Hadrian, 108, 109; churches
in the Trastevere, 110; the Ghetto and Jews,
111; the Pantheon alone of ancient buildings
preserved, 112; change of heathen into Chris-
tian rites, ib.; Trajan's pillar, 113; Colossal
statues on the Quirinal, ib.; the Flavian amphi-
theatre, 114; the Coliseum first so called by
Bede, ib.; temple of Venus and Rome, 114,
115; Arch of Titus and Palace of the Cæsars,
115; the Capitol, ib.; Convent of Ara Coeli, ib. ;
Statue of Marcus Aurelius, 116; the Aventine
and Monte Testaccio, 117; Great Church of the
Lateran, 120; the Basilica Heleniana, 121;
Legend of the foundation of St. Mary Major's, ib.
Russell's (Earl) fierce notes and pacific measures,
147; policy on the Continent of Europe, 262;
bluster the characteristic of his policy, 269, (See
Foreign Policy.')

-(Mr. Scott) target, 81.

Samuda's target, 81.

S.

wrote, ib.; likenesses of the poet, 250; note on
Dyce's and the Cambridge Shakspeare,' and
Mr. H. Staunton's facsimile of the first folio, ib.
Ships, our old wooden three-deckers 'floating
charnel-houses,' 80.

Scarlet uniforms due to the cochineal insect, 184.'
Sculpture, the ancients in the habit of colouring,

165.

Silk, Chinese inferior to French or Italian, 12.
Silver district of Mexico, geological character
of, 185.

Slavery, its effects in Eastern Africa, 67.
Slesvig and Holstein, 122; Slesvig always under
Denmark, Holstein and Lauenburg fiefs of the
Empire, ib.; Holstein and Lauenburg included
in the German Confederation, 123; the existence
of Denmark fatal to the creation of a German
marine, 124; designation of North German
Peninsula' invented, 125; the 'Slesvig-Holstein
theory' of indissoluble union an argument capa-
ble of opposite applications, ib.; the Eyder the
limit of the Holy Roman Empire, ib.; growth
of German population in Slesvig, ib.; alleged
political union of Slesvig and Holstein for four
ceuturies untrue, 126; King Valdemar's consti-
tution visionary, ib. ; examination of a passage
in a Charter of Christian I., 127; revolution of
the Duchies in 1848, 129; invasion of the Duchies
by Prussia, ib.; Protocol of Olmütz, 130; motives
of Austria in preventing the incorporation of
Slesvig with Denmark, 130, 131; Treaty of
London, 131; fulfilment of Danish pledges pre-
cedent to the performance of the Treaty of
London, ib.; examination of despatches relating
to those pledges, 132-133; the Slesvig Holstein
fiction exploded by the Austrian despatches,
134; revocation of the Constitution of 1855 as
to Holstein and Lauenburg, 136; Danish refusal
to place the four parts of the monarchy ou an
equality unavoidable, 137; the harbours of
Slesvig the real object of the Germans, 139;
number of Danish and of German parishes in
Slesvig, 140; irreconcileable nature of the quar-
rel of Germany with Denmark, 142; question
as to the application of the Lex Regia to the
duchies, 143; dilemma affecting the Duke of
Augustenburg's claims, 144; claims of Russia to
Holstein, 147; Lord Russell's fierce notes and
pacific measures, ib.; inconsistent with British
honour to abandon Denmark, 148.
Snow, variable limit of perpetual, 66.
Southampton (Earl of), patron of Shakspeare,
Marlowe, and other poets, 283; courtship of the
'fair Mistress Vernon,' 235; character repre-
sented in Shakspeare's sonnets, 239; anecdote
of Southampton and Raleigh, 241.
Speke's (Capt.) 'Discovery of the source of the
Nile,' 54; desertion of half his porters, 56;
description of King Rumanika aud his Court,
57, 58; the King of Uganda, 58; refined man-
ners of that people, 59; not permitted to explore
the Victoria Nyanza thoroughly, 60; the King
of Unyoro, 62; description of the junction of
the Bahr el Ghazal with the Nile, 62, 63;
geographical questions still left open for inquiry,
64, 65; doubt whether the enigma of ages has
been resolved, 67.

Stael's (Mad. de) remark on ancient Roman cha-
racter, 36.

Steel missiles, inquiry respecting their superiority,

84.

Sugar-cane of Mexico yields more saccharine
matter than any other, 183.

Sulphur-mine in Mexico, accidental discovery of

a, 181.

Sycee silver, 6.

V.

to, 107.

Vesuvius the destroyer and preserver of Pompeii,

Wellington's (Duke of) opinion of Spanish soldiers,
214; extraordinary combination of qualities, 221.
Whitworth (Mr.), the first to use steel shell, but
not steel shot, 84; his guns speedily disabled,
Wilson's (Rev. H. B.) Brief Examination of Preva-
85. (See Guns.')
lent Opinions on Inspiration,' 285.

Window-glass in frames discovered at Pompeii, 175.
Women, Greek and Roman, estimate of, 46.
Wordsworth's remark on the American need of a
civil war, 35.

Wyke (Sir C.), on the remedy for disorders in
Mexico, 193.