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death, 100*; ditto to the emperor Ni-
cholas, 101*; the emperor's order to
the army, 102*; convention with Eng-
land respecting commerce, fisheries, &c.
64*; devastations committed by wolves,
286*

St. Alban's, duke of, death of, 267
St. Domingo, see Hayti.
St. John, lady, death, 267

St. Nicholas, miracles by, in Spain, 94
St. Petersburgh, horse-races at, 125

St. Rombaut, festival in honour of, at Ma-
lines, 115

Saline water from a spring in Windsor

park, analysis of, 261*

Salmon fisheries report on, 248*
Santa Maura, earthquake at, 8
Sardinia, attack on Tripoli, 142
Scotland, law proceedings in, alterations
of, [90]; report on the Salmon fish-
eries, 248*

Sculptors, Venetian, 199*

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Seythe, the Flemish, advantages of, 264*
Sherbro, king of, &c. convention with the
governor of Sierra Leone, 87*
Sheridan, anecdotes of his early life, from
Moore's "Life" of him, 166*; Dr.
Parr's account of him, 167*; play of
Jupiter" written in conjunction with
Halbed, 171*; letters from his wife
to him, 177*; his letter to the prince
of Wales on the king's illness, 181*;
letter from captain Payne relative to
the same event, 182*; wagers and bets
made by Sheridan, 187*
Sheriffs, list of, 189

Ships; loss of the Kent Indiaman, by fire,

22; loss of the Mechanic, Steam-boat,
61; trial of the crew of the Criterion,
for revolt, 128; launch of the princess
Charlotte 129; recovery of the Chris-
tiana brig, off Margate, 137; loss of
the city of Glasgow Steam packet, 141;
loss of the Comel Steam packet, 142;
wreck of the Baron of Renfrew, ib.;
loss of the Fury 148; of the Ogle
Castle East Indiaman 155; number of
vessels arriving at Hamburgh 185
Siamese, physical character of, 231*;
manners and customs, 215*; funerals
ceremonies, and treatment of the dead,
ib.; laws, 219*; adultery,
theft and debt, ib.

220*;

Sidi Mahmoud, envoy from Tunis, his
reception at Paris, 60

Sivori, Chevalier, his attack on Tripoli,

142

Sierra Leone, convention between the go-
vernor and the Sherbro Bulloms, 87*;
population, &c. 281*

Silk, St. Helena, 263*

Slave trade; negociations respecting he-
tween the United States and Great Britain
broken off, 62*; treaty with Brazil for
abolition of, 72*; articles respecting
84*, 86*; abolished in Colombia,
133*

Slave testimony competency of, 15*
Society for the propagation of the gospel
in Foreign parts, summary statement of,
45*

Song of the Greeks, 288*
Spain: Zea Bermudez appointed minister,
[166]; dismissal of Ugarte ib.; em-
barrassment of the finances, [167]; dis-
turbance at Seville, [168]; decree is-
sued by Ferdinand ib.; Zea Bermudez
offers his resignation, [170]; nume-
rous arrests, ib.; plan for placing Don
Carlos on the throne, ib., Bessieres'
insurrection and death, [171]; other
revolts, ib.; consultative Junta formed,
[172]; Zea and his cabinet dismissed,
[173]; succeeded by the duke del
Infantado, ib.; surrender of two ships
to Mexico, [208]; ditto castle of St.
Juan de Ulloa, ib.; capitulation of the
army in Peru, 148*

Spanish patriots, stanzas to the memory
of, 287*

Speech of the king of the Netherlands,

89*; of the emperor of Austria to the
Hungarian diet, 92*; of the emperor
of Russia to the chambers of Poland,
95*, 95*

Stanhope, hon. J. H., suicide of, at Caen
Wood, 3

Steam-carriage, Copenhagen, 53

-vessel on a new principle, 139
navigation to India, 171

Stemberg, Made. Ungern, case of her
substitution in infancy, 29
Stepney, sir T., death of, 230
Stock Exchange, fund at, 121
Stonyhurst, Jesuits' college at, 279*
Storm, dreadful one at Collereto, 105;
violent one in the metropolis, 114
Substitution of one child for another, case
of, 29

Suicide hon. J. II. Stanhope, 3; fanali-
cal instance of at Berne, 111
Suicides, list of, in Westminster, 185
Sumner, Dr., epitaph on, by Dr. Parr,
161*; character, 167*
Sunderland, disturbances at, 117
Superstition in England, 89
Sweden, public affairs of, [153]; prose-
cution against the editor of the Argus,
[154]
Switzerland, opening of the Diet, [155];
murders in, 53

Tables Public income, 294

Expenditure, 296

Disposition of grants, 297
Payments for other services,
304

Price of stocks, 333

Bankrupts, ib.

Prices of Sugar and Hay, 334
Corn, ib.

Butcher's meat, 335

Meteorological table, ib.
Bills of mortality, 336

Taganrog, death of the emperor Alexan-
der at, [157]; account of, ib.; note
Taunton, sir W. E, death of, 270
Temple of Vesta, prize poem, 291*
Thanet, lord, death of, 221
Tilloch, Dr., death and memoir of, 222
Titanium, metallic, in iron furnaces, 261
Tomlinson (engraver) death of, 67
Topazes, Brazilian, sold for diamonds,
103

Trade, with Portugal, 13; See Commerce.
Tread-wheel, report on, 15; not prejudicial
to health, ib.

Treaties with Brazil, 72*; with Colombia,
80*; with Rio de la Plata, 84*; be-
tween the emperor of Brazil and the
king of Portugal, 203*; between Co-
lombia and the United States, 140*

See Conventions.
Trials: C. Wood, rape, 5; J. B. Desha
(son of the governor of Kentucky), for
murder, 18; Master G. A. Wood, and
A. W. Leith, manslaughter, 28; Ed-
ward M'Elroy, arson, 31; G. Balty
and Ellis, rape, 37; R. Maydwell,
murder, ib.; Hannah Read, murder of
her husband, 112; Hannah Taunton,
for killing her husband, 117; Louis
Frimont, for the murder of M. Paul
Louis Courier, 127; D. M⚫Innes and
Peter M'Bride, master and pilot of the
Comet steam-packet, 174; Wm. Allan,
robbery and murder, 182; Chas. Lynn,
murder, 3*; C. Holder and D. Gar-
diner, threatening letter, 5* ; A. Keefe
and T. Bourke, murder of the Franks
family, 31*

Tripoli, attack on, by a Sardinian flotilla,
under the chevalier Sivori, 142
Tuchan, Peter, a giant, death of, 270
Turkey: remonstrance to the British
government, and measures adopted in
consequence, [122]; relations with
Russia, [184]; disturbances, and death
of the sultan's son, ib.; preparations of
Redschid pacha against the Greeks,
[185]; Egyptian fleet sails against
Navarino, [187]; siege of Navarino,

[188]; siege of Missolonghi, [191];
See Greece.

Turner, sir C., governor of Sierra Leone,
convention with the king of Sherbro,
&c., 87*

Vineyards, produce of, in France, 264*
Union Hall, case of imposition by a bar-
ber, 33

Unitarian marriage bill rejected, [89]
United States: election of a president,

corres-

[195]; Mr. Adams chosen, and his
inauguration, [196]; rejection of treaty
with Colombia relative to slave-trade,
ib.; differences with Georgia, [197];
message to congress, [198]; finances,
ib.;
army 1; diplomatic
pondence with Great Britain, 60*; in-
augural address of the president, 109*;
president's message to congress, 114*
commercial policy, 115*; treaty of
commerce with Colombia, 117*; bank-
rupt laws, militia, finances, 118*; mili-
tary service, 120*; treaties with Indian
tribes, 121*; surveys, roads, &c., 122*;
La Fayette, 123*; naval force, &c.,
ib.; West India squadron, 124*; naval
academy wanted, 125*; post, ib. ; edu-
cation and science, 126*; population,
&c., 128*; statistics, 285*
University, meeting respecting a new one
in the Metropolis, 81

Usury laws, bill for the repeal of, [89];
and discussion on, ib.

Wagers, curious, made by Sheridan, 187*
Walrus, or sea-horse, found at Fierceness,
78

Water spring in Windsor-park, analysis
of, 261*; Cheltenham water, ib.;
Leamington ditto, ib.
Water-colour exhibition, 54
Warwick, lion-fight at, 105
Weather, extraordinary heat of, 99
Wellesley, Mrs. W. P. L., death of, 280
Wewitzer, Ralph, comedian, death of, 217
Whitworth, lord, death and memoir of,
248

Wilson, Harriette, her letter to Mr. Ellice,
27; action for libel against the pub-
lisher of her "Memoirs," 13*
Windsor-park, analysis of saline water
from a spring in, 261*
Witchcraft, man swam for, 98
Wolf, ravages of a, at Tonnerre, in France,

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Woollen goods, duties on, [106]
Wurtemburg, renewal of intercourse with
the Holy Alliance, [154]

York musical festivals, 1823 and 1825,
receipts of, 131

York, duke of, speech on the Catholic
relief bill, [58]

Young, John, artist, death of, 232

Zinc plates, for engraving, 266*

T. C. Hansard,
Printer,
Paternoster-row Press,

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100

Common Pleas; Brooke v. Carpenter,
95; J. Hunter, esq., contempt of
court, 159

High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh;
W. Allen, robbery and murder, 182;
case of the Comet, 184
House of Lords; Maule, v. Maule, 77
King's Bench; Montague v. Espi-
nasse, 12; The King v. Taylor,
gaming houses, 16; Harborough v.
Pinner, assault, 49; Down v. Halling,
&c., 68; Poole v. Elliston, assault,
76; Robinson, v. Ward, for recovery
of a sum of money paid by the de-
fendant into his own banker's in his
own name, 150; Joseph v. Perrer,
1*; Byrne v. Parkins, 7*; Blore v.
Stockdale, libel 13*
Craven, earl of, death of, 268
Crimes, 337

Currents of the Ocean, 257*

Custom House, fall of the floor of the
long room, 11

seizures, 16

Customs, produce of, [115], [117]
Cuxhaven, hurricane and inundation, 14

Dance, George, architect, death of, 219
Danish Loan, 27

David, French painter, death of, 292
Demetriades, Constantine, Greek mendi-
cant, death of, 275

Denmark, convention of commerce with,
66*

Denon, baron, death and memoir of,
244

Disturbances at Sunderland, 117; num-

ber of persons wounded by the military,
118; in the Isle of Man, 157
Donabew, taken by sir A. Campbell,
[130]

Donoughmore, earl of, death of, 275
Dorset, duchess dowager, death of, 269
Downman, lieut.-col., death of, 272
Drama: Orestes in Argos, 54; William
Tell, 62; Faustus, 63; Broken Pro-
mises, 96; Quite Correct, 110
Dream, the, by T. Campbell, 289*
Drury-lane, "William Tell," 62; " Faus-
tus," 63

Dublin: singular species of robbing com-
mitted by tenants pulling down houses,

89
Duprat, Josephine, tried for the murder of
her husband, 64

Duties, proposed diminution of, on cot-
tons, [106]; woollen goods, ib.; books,
glass, iron, &c., [107]; copper, [108]

Earthquake, at Santa Maura, 8 ; at Algiers,

26

East Indies: operations of sir A. Camp-
bell, [124]

Edinburgh: remarkable incident respect-
ing two brothers, 120

Egerton, sir J. Grey, death of, 252
Elephant at Exeter Change, keeper killed
by, 153

Elliston, Mr., action against for assault, 76
Elmsley, rev. Dr., death of, 252
England fifty years ago, 284*
English Opera House, "Broken Pro-
mises," 96

Equitable Assurance Company, capital of,

96

Equity Courts in the United States, rules
of, 136

Erskine, sir James, death of, 231
Espinasse, Mr., action against by a jewel-
ler, for recovery of money, 12
Eton, fatal contest between two scholars,

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Fanaticism and Imposture, 66, 79
Ferdinand IV. of Naples, death of, 218
Fife cause, final decision of, 169
Finances, statement of, by the chancellor
of the Exchequer, [115]; Mexico, [200]
Finlayson's Mission to Siam, &c., extracts
from, 213*

Fires: Kent, Indiaman, 22; in St. Mary

Axe, 65; extensive fire in Mortimer-
street, &c., 22; at Gravendeel, 100; at
Mr. Jones's, Cavendish-street, 109; at
Obigt, 134; destructive fire at Mira-
michi, New Brunswick, 173
Fish, quantity of, imported, at London,

138

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