claims of Eschylus to be considered the second
inventor of tragedy, 176; disputes as to the num-
bers of the chorus, 177; changes in the structure
of the drama from Thespis onwards, 178; origi-
nal purport of tragedy, 179; effects of this com-
position, 179, 180; character of tragedy, 180; ef-
fects of the religion and philosophy of Greece
upon it, 180, 181; its tendencies, 182; manner in
which the Greek drama should be considered, ib. ;
establishment of the Satyric drama, ib.; the tri-
logies of Eschylus and of Sophocles, 182, 183;
the Lycurgia of Eschylus, 183; construction of
the drama on the family history of the Pelopida,
184; means by which the catastrophe is prepared
-the chorus, 186; the unities of the Greek drama,
188; the catastrophe of the first play, 190; the
second and third plays, 191, 192; the Aristotelic
definition of the tragic drama the true one, 192;
causes of the trilogy not continuing to be popular,
ib.; reasons for considering that the Orestea was
not the only trilogy of Æschylus, 193; the Pro-
metheus, 193-195.

P.

Parent-Duchâtelet, Baron, De la Prostitution de
la Ville de Paris '; character and nature of the
work, 12.

Paris; its dangerous classes, 1. See Fregier.
Paxton, Joseph; a Pocket Botanical Dictionary,
108.

Peel, Right Hon. Sir Robert; financial statement in
the House of Commons, 11th March, 1842, 265;
grounds upon which Sir Robert Peel's policy de-
serves approbation, 266; summary of the case
he had to deal with, ib.; his course of action,
267; improvement of the revenue by reductions
of duty generally doubtful policy, ib.; basis of the
operations for equalizing the revenue with the en-
penditure, 268; principle of the income tax, ib. ;
grounds upon which Sir R. Peel proposed it, 268,
269; manner in which it has been received, 269;
the two classes of persons displeased with the
measure, 270; contrast of his plan and that of
the Whigs on the Tariff, 270, 271; Sir Richard
Vyvyan's letter to his constituents, 271; Sir R.
Peel's propositions on the Corn Laws, Tariff, and
Poor Law Commission are not new projects of
the Conservatives, 275; coincidence with the
ministerial proposition of the opinions of the
"Quarterly,' as expressed previously to the last
general election, 275, 276; Sir Robert Peel's
speeches with reference to the Corn and Poor
Laws in 1840, 278, 279; wisdom and justice of
his propositions, 279; reasons for the adoption of
the Income Tax in its present form, 279–281;
amount of duties produced by the seventeen most
generally used articles of consumption, 281, 282;
principles which render Sir R. Peel's measure de-
serving of support, 282; practical working of the
old tariff in respect to high protecting duties, 282,
283; benefits to both producers and consumers
from the importation of meat and cattle, 284;
operation of the new scale of corn duties, 284,
285; effect that the fixed duty would have produced
upon the price of bread, 286; result of the New
Corn Act, 288; advantages derived from it, 289;
proofs in the late disturbances of the utility of
the present government, 240; grounds for ad-
ditional confidence, 241; legal and administrative
measures introduced during the last session of
parliaments, ib.

Peile, Rev. T. W., Αισχύλου Χοηφόροι, 173.
Perceval, Rt. Hon. Spencer, his monument de-
scribed, 242.

Piety, instance of, in a boy embedded in a mine,
103.

Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, correspondence between,.
and the Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, 159; impressions as to Mr. Pitt's written
compositions, 159, 160; manner in which the
present correspondence was brought to light,
160; letter relative to Mr. Orde, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, 160-162; Mr. Pitt's feelings, on pa-
tronage and promotions to the peerage, 162; his
opinion of Lord Mornington, now Marquess Wel-
lesley, 162, 163; upon Irish Tithes, 163, 164; pro-
gress of the Irish 'Commercial propositions' traced
in these letters, 164, 165; Reform of Parliament,
165; Mr. Pitt's arguments in favour of the com-
mercial propositions, 165-169; their failure in
the Irish Parliament, 169; consistency of Mr.
Pitt's views relative to the admission of Roman
Catholics to Parliament, 171; extracts from let-
ters relating to English politics, 172; his monu-
ment described, 242.

Plants, causes of their unlimited growth, 69.
Population, growth of, in Great Britain, since 1801,
283.

R.

Raushnick, Dr., Marshal Forwards;' or Life,
Actions, and Character of Prince Blucher von
Wahlstadt, 244; large apportionment of fame to
military eminence, ib.; names connected with
the wars of the present century that will be
handed down to posterity, 245; Blucher's birth
and family, ib.; entry into the army, and service
during the latter part of the Seven Years' War,
246; retirement from the service, and marriage,
ib.; readmission to the army, 247; services at
the commencement of the Revolutionary war,
247, 248; second marriage; appointed Governor
of Munster, 248; retreat after the battle of Jena,
ib.; his subtlety and address, 249; removed
from his Pomeranian command at Napoleon's
instigation, 250; placed at the head of the
Silesian army, ib.; causes of his successes, ib.;
joins the army for the Belgian campaign of 1815,
251; state of the allied forces, 251, 252; the
Prussian defence at Ligny under Blucher, 253,
254; retreat on Wavre, 254; services of the
Prussians on the field of Waterloo, ib.; their
loss in the battle, 255; Blucher in Paris, 264;
retirement from the army, 265; death, ib.
Religion, state of, in France, 25.
Rio, A. F., La Petite Chouanerie, ou l'Histoire d'un
Collège Breton sous l'Empire, 40; chivalrous
spirit of the natives of La Vendée, 40, 41; pro-
ceedings before engaging, 41; subservience of
every other feeling to loyalty, ib.; Henri de La-
rochejaquelein, 42; his brother Louis, ib.; con-
nection of the Chouan war with that of La Vendée,
M. Rio's qualifications for writing a history
of Chouanerie, 43, 44; the Chouan College at
Vannes, 44; part taken by the students during
the hundred days,' 45; cause of this outbreak,
46; manner in which they were disciplined and
armed, 46, 47; choice of a leader, 47; departure
from the College, 47, 48; junction with the main
body of the Chouans, 48; Gambier, the Chouan
Chief, ib.; attack and defeat of the republican
army, 48, 49; attack upon the town of Redon, 49,
50; severe test of the students' courage, 50; con-
flicts around and in Auray, 51, 52; decoration of
M. Rio and a comrade with the Cross of the Le-
gion of Honour, 53; effect of the author's narra-
tive upon the poets of England, 53, 54.
Robison, Professor, his contributions to the 3d Edi-
tion of the Encyclopædia Britannica,' 26.

43;

Rutland, Duke of, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 160;
character, 171; predictions with reference to the
Union, ib.

S.

Scott, Sir Walter, character of his poetic images of
human life, 214.

Sepulchral Monuments, 228. See Markland.
Shakspeare, extract from the Life of, by Mr. De
Quincey, 35.

Smith, the Rev. Sydney, on Railroad Travelling, 39,
40.

Smith, Dr. Wm., Dictionary of Greek and Roman
Antiquities, 77, 78.

Starvation, phenomena of, 57.

Stuart family, the, 147. See Coltness.
Stuart, Professor Dugald, 27.

Strong, Fred., statistical description of Greece,
drawn up from official documents, 82; dimen-
sions of the Grecian dominions and divisions of

the land, 82, 83; number of inhabitants, 84; con-
stitution of the government, ib.; oath taken by
the electors, ib.; deficiency of agricultural popu-
lation, and means of remedying it, 85; emissary
of Lake Copaïs for the drainage of the redundant
water, ib.; state of the revenue of the kingdom,
86; future prospects of Greece under a wise Gov-
ernment, ib.

T.

Table-talker, the, of the Morning Post, 19.
Tariff, the, 267. See Peel.

Tea, its active principle the same as that of coffee,
67.

Tennyson, Alfred, Poems by, 211; character of the
verses and poetry of the present day, ib.; causes
of the paucity of poetic power, 213; delineations
of human life by Chaucer and Shakspeare, 214;
by Byron and Scott, 214, 215; by Crabbe and
Wordsworth, 215, 216; divisions of Mr. Tenny-
son's collection of poems, 216, 217; the Odes,
217; Fancies,' 218; extract from the Day

Vyvyan, Sir Richard, Bart., M.P., a letter from, to
his constituents, upon the commercial and finan-
cial policy of Sir Robert Peel's administration,
265; reasons for its being deserving of notice,
271; objectionable course taken by the author,
ib.; his excuses for adopting it, 271, 272; the
copper-ore section of the tariff, 272; chief practi-
cal object of the letter, 273; Sir Richard's plan
to prevent the minister from intercepting a peti-
tion to the Queen, 274; his first and main charge
against the ministry, ib.; proofs of its being un-
founded, 275.

Wellington, the Duke of, country in which he re-
ceived his first military education, 245; the Duke
at Waterloo, 254, 255; fallacy of the theory that
he was surprised, 260; verification of his Grace's
prediction as to the time of beginning the Belgian
campaign of 1815, 262; letters to Marshal Blucher
relative to the destruction of the Bridge of Jena
at Paris, 264, 265.

Wheat, table of old and new scales of duty upon its
importation, 285; average price and quantities
entered for home consumption from 1828 to 1842,
286; duties at which they were entered, 286,
287.

Wolfe, General, his monument, 241.
Wordsworth, Wm., 216.