Paintings, ancient, on the exhibition of, at
Edinburgh, 289

Paisley, extraordinary rescue of two men
there, who had been buried ten days in
a coal pit, 33

Paraphrase of Psalm cxxxvii. 68
Paris, deaths in, in 1817, 71

Parish school in 1640, discipline of a,
231

Park, Mungo, particulars regarding the
manner of his death, 439
Parliament of Britian, opening of, 175-
Prince Regent's speech to it, ib.
Patents lately enrolled, 84, 181, 275, 373
Pedestrian hobby-horse, notice of a machine
so called, 260

Penal laws, statements respecting, 80
Phenomenon of light, 127

Philosophy, curious instance of fancy dic-
tating to, 119

Phillips, Mrs Katharine, remarks on her
poems, 203

Poetical uses of natural history, 113
Poetry, Arabian song, 68-hansonette,
ib.-A fragment, ib.-Paraphrase of the
137th psalm, ib.-Sonnet to a lady, 69
-Stanzas at midnight, ib.-Verses on
a first-born child, 135-Review of Dr
Brown's Emily, and other poems, 160
-January, 164-Verses, ib.-Lines on
seeing the sun set from Arthur's Seat,
165 Letters from the Lakes, 202-
Dreadful fate of resurrection men, 237-
Sunrise, 257-The mournful harp, ib.-
To the rose, ib.The eye, ib.-The
picture, 258-The stormy eve, ib.--Is-
real's song of triumph, 298-The ladies
of ancient times, and the modern fine la-
dies, 518-The lottery ticket, 324-The
mermaid; a Scottish ballad, 400-In-
scription for a hermitage, 402-For a
cave on the north coast, ib.-Joe, an
English story, 403-The congress of
Vienna, 423-St Helena, 425-To a
much loved infant, 450-The Vale of
Clyde, 622-Lady Mary o' Craigne-
..than, 525

Poets and poetry, cursory remarks on, 228
Poets, British, review of Campbell's speci-
mens of, 248

Population, on the doctrine that the prin-
ciple of, is the great source of vice and
misery, 28

Pringle's Autumnal Excursion, remarks on,
319

Prison discipline, review of Gurney's pub.
lication on, 156

Prospects, remarks on our future, 22
Public annusements, journal of, 370, 468
Public schools, on the use of corporal pu-
nishment in, 36

Publications, monthly list of new ones,
74, 171, 263, 356, 456, 558
Pugilism-Battle between Spring and Car.
- 1ter, 572

Rapids of St Lawrence, extraordinary es-
cape from drowning among the, 109

Remarks on Dante's Inferno, 3-On hy-
grometry, 10 On corporal punishment
in public schools, 36 On the repeal of
the bank restriction act, 43-On the
character and writings of the late Mrs
Brunton, 45-On Gawin Douglas's
translation of Virgil's Æneid, 99 On
the Dutch herring fishery, 106—On a
mistaken Roman inscription, 120-On
the English dramatic writers who pre-
ceded Shakespeare, 127-On the present
state of the Scottish pulpit, 131 On
climate, 141-On the poems of " the
Matchless Orinda," 203-On Kean's
Othello, 209-On the parliamentary
committee of education and the Quar-
terly Review, 224-On poets and poc-
try, 228 On the repeal of the usury
laws, 233-On the spring, 238-On Dr
Chalmers's sermons, 242-On the ex-
hibition of paintings in Edinburgh, 239
-On the neglect of oriental literature,
297-On Tom Crib's memorial to 'con-
gress, 300-On the modern education of
the middling classes, 314-On Pringle's
Autumnal Excursion, and other poems,
319 On the proposed union between
the two leading parties of Scottish dis-
senters, 325-On the life and poetical re-
mains of the late Dr Leyden, 414 On
two poems ascribed to Wordsworth, en-
titled Peter Bell, 427-On Bishop Sand-
ford's sermons, 441-On the late Mrs
Brunton's Emmeline, 444-On some re-
cent publications on the present epide-
mic fever, 532-On the declining popu-
larity of the British Essayists, 538 On
the Memoir of the late Mrs Brunton,
485-On Tales of My Landlord, third
serics, 547

Resurrection men, dreadful warning to,
237-Trial of, at Edinburgh, 369
Revenue of Great Britain for 1818, 83
Review of King's Anecdotes of his own
Times, 55 Of St Patrick, a national
tale, 60-Of Campbell, or the Scottish
Probationer, 61-Of Marriage, a novel,
and Coquetry, a novel, ib.-Of Antar.
a Bedoueer romance, 62-Of Warden's
America, 141-Of Gurney on Prison
Discipline, 156-Of Dr Brown's Emily
and other poems, 160-On Duncan's
Letter on Banks for Savings, 246-Of
Campbell's Specimens of British Poets,
248-Of poems by Gall, Knox, and
Gibson, 252-Of Law's Memorials, 254
Of Bowditch's Mission to Ashantee,

Royal establishment at Windsor, 271

Strictures on population, 28

353

Royal Births, 369, 568

Russia, literary and scientific notices re-
garding, 451

Sacheouse, John, an Esquimaux, account
of, 330

Saffron supposed a remedy for sea-sickness,
71

Salisbury Craigs, on the dilapidations com-
mitted on, 241

Sand, a young German student, assassinates
M. Kotzebue, 362-Some account of,
518

Sandford, Bishop, remarks on his sermons,
441

Savannah, dreadful fire there, 461
Saving Banks, review of letters on, by the
Rev. H. Duncan, 246

Scientific and literary intelligence, 70, 166,
259, 353, 451, 555

Scotland, proposed national monument for,
178, 269-Rapid progress of, in wealth,
industry, and refinement, 315-Pro-
posed union between the dissenters of,

325

Scottish pulpit, on the present state of,

131

Scottish herring fishery, historical notices
of, 216

peasantry, customs and supersti-
tions of the, at births and burials, 219
missionaries of Caucasus, account
of the, 323

Zoology, No. III. 504
Scriptures, the, progress made in transla-
tions of, in the East Indies, 166
Seceders, proposed union between the two
great parties of, in Scotland, 325
Sedition, trials at Manchester for, 464
Sermons of Dr Chalmers, remarks on, 242
Serpents, fascinating powers of, 355
Shakespeare, historical illustrations of, 39
-On the English dramatic writers who
preceded him, 127, 318, 409
Shakespeare club of Alloa, meeting of the,
398, 645

Shipwrecks, melancholy ones on the coasts
of Britain, 179

Skye, a young lady from, first impressions
of, during a residence in London, 389,
491-Her visit to Westminster Abbey,
492

Society, probable effects of increasing know-
ledge, on the condition of, 22-Diffu-
sion of knowledge detrimental to the
happiness of the lower ranks of, 121
Sonnet to a lady, 69

Spain, death of the Queen of, 78-Cession
of the Floridas to the United States by,
363-Letter from, 422-Present poets
and painters of, 451

Spee hes delivered at the Shakespeare club
at Alloa, 398, 545

Spring, on the, 238
Stanzas at midnight, 69

countries of Europe, 177

Superstitions and customs of the Scottish

peasantry at births and burials, 219
Sweden, population of, decreasing, 79
Switzerland, dreadful conflagration in, 362
Tales of My Landlord, third series, re-
marks on, 547

Temperature of the ground at various
depths, experiments in the, 499
Temperatures, mean, on the methods of
fixing, 141

at Bombay, 166
Thomson, proposed monument in memory
of, 336
Thunder-stroke, account of the feelings
of a person who recovered from one,

Tierney, Mr. his motion for a committee"
on the state of the nation, rejected by a
great majority, 565

Tillietudlem, localities of that and other
scenes mentioned in the tale of Old Mor-
tality, 136

Tippahee, a New Zealand chief, particu-
lars regarding, 305

Turkey, termination of the war against
the Wechabites, torture of their chief,
173

Universities in Germany, insubordination
of the students at the, 362, 394
University of Edinburgh, number of stu-
dents at, 467-Prizes at, ib.-Donations
to the museum of, 555
Usury laws, considerations on the propos-
ed repeal of, 233

Vaccination, notice of Dr Monro's work
on, 167

Vale of Clyde, a poem, 522

Vampyre, the, a tale, ascribed to Lord By-

ron, 425

Vegetables, the laws which govern the
distribution of, over the globe, 556
Verses on a first-born child, 135-To a
much loved infant, 450

Vienna, the Congress of, a poetical effu.
sion, 423

Volcano, miniature one in the West In-
dies, 261

Voyage of discovery to Baffin's bay, ac-
count of, 329
Wangerooa, account of the island of, 304
-measures taken for rescuing some
English captives there, 310

Warden, Mr, review of his account of the

United States of America, 149-His re-
marks on natural religion, 154
Warden, George, tried and conden.ned for
abstracting money from letters in the
Aberdeen post-office, 367-His declara-
tion and execution, 463

Water burner, notice of an invention so
called, 355

Waterloo, a private soldier's account of the
battle of, 46

Westminster election, 270