Canada, proposed measures relative to importation of corn from, [105] Canadian chiefs, introduced to the king, 48 Canning, Mr., reply to Mr. Brougham,
[12]; remarks on the Catholic Asso- ciation; on the recognition of the South American States, [13]; speech on the Catholic Association, [32]; his course of conduct with regard to the Catholic question, [34]; note to the chevalier de los Rios, relative to the conduct of Great Britain with respect to the Spa- nish American colonies, 51; letter to, from M. Rodivs, in behalf of the Greek government, 56*
Canova, anecdotes of his early life, previous to his residence at Rome, 189; studies under Toretto, 198*; goes to Venice, 198; his first statue, Eurydice, 202*; Orpheus, 204"; Es- culapius, 206; Dædalus and Icarus, ib.; list of his works, 208* Capper, col. James, death of, 279 Carbonic acid gas, natural sources of, 260* Carlisle, earl of, death of, 277 Catholic Association, [1]; mischief of, pointed out by Mr. Canning, [13]; discussion on, in parliament, [17]; Mr. Goulburn's speech on, [18]; Mr; Plunkett's, [26]; Mr. Canning's, [32]; petition from, [40]; bill passed against, [42]; plan of a new Association, [43] Relief bill, [52], 34; debates in the Commons, [54]; in the Lords, [64]
Rent, [23]; suppressed, and "Free Gifts" adopted instead, [40]; purposes of the latter, ib, Catholics, petition from, [40]; ditto presented by sir F. Burdett, [46]. Chalmers, George, death of, 253 Chancery, court of, [83]; character and utility, [84]; complaints and attacks against, ib.; discussions on, in par- liament, [85]; rules and practice of, 100 Charles X, his coronation, 70; manner of living, 104
Check, loss of, action respecting, 68 Cheltenham: col. Berkeley's assault on Mr. Judge, 36 Chemistry, 260*
Chile: plot and commotions, [216]; em- barrassed finances, [217]
Coins, antique, forgery of, 104 Colonial office, increase of business, and additional under-secretary, 116
policy, alterations in, [99]; ad- vanlages granted to the United States, [100]
Colombia, treaty of amity and commerce with, 80; treaty of commerce with the United States, 117; vice-presi- dent's message to Congress, 131'; spe cial articles in the treaty with the United States, 140 vice-president's note to Bolivar, 142°; minister's note to the chargé d'affaires at Buenos Ayres 146*
Columbus (timber-ship) loss of the, 65 Combination Laws, debate on, [91]; dangerous tendency of, [92] Comet, new one discovered, 105
steam-boat, loss of, 142; trial of the master and pilot of the Ayre, 74 Comets, 258*
Commerce, prosperous state of, [2]; pro- posed abolition of fees, at colonial ports, [104], [111]; commercial regulations at Hamburgh, 103; convention with Russia, 64; Denmark, 66°; Hanover, 69; convention of, with the Hanseatic cities, 70°; treaty with Brazil, 75°; with Columbia, 80* Commissions in the army, regulations for sale and purchases of, 57 Committals, Convictions, Executions, &c.,
337 Companies, Joint-stock, list of, 97 Company, new Joint-stock, in France, 119; Lower Rhine steam navigation company, 121
Congress of Panama, [214] Conspiracy of Carbonari, at Rome, 160 Constantinople, murders at, 48 Consuls, regulations respecting, [112] Contrivance, singular one, for effecting robberies, 132
Convention of commerce with Russia, 64; with Denmark, 66°; Hanover, 69; Hanseatic cities, 70°
Convictions, 337, 339
Cook, captain, of the Cambria, letter to the agents at Lloyd's, relative to the loss of the Kent Indiaman, 23; re warded by the East India company, 26 Cooper, the hon. A. F., killed by fighting, at Eton school, 20
Copenhagen: new steam-carriage, 53
City of Glasgow, steam-packet, loss of, Corfu, directions for vessels navigating 141
Clergy of Austria, 1; of France ib.
Cochrane, lord, his arrival at Portsmouth, 93
Coinage, the new, 83
Corn Laws: Mr. Whitmore's motion re- specting, [98]; proposed measures re- specting importation of corn from Ca- nada, [105]
Coronation of Charles X., 70
Corri, Domenico, composer, death of, 251 Corsica, extracts from Benson's Sketches of, 224*
Cotton, general, attack on Donabew, [126], &c.
Cotton manufactories, disturbances in, at Houlme in France, 114 Cottons, duties on, [106]
Covent Garden: Orestes in Argos, 54 Courier, M. Paul Louis, assassination and memoir of, 51; trial of his assassin, 126
Court-martial, on captains Parry and Hoppner, 148
Courts: Admiralty; case of the Zodiac, 9; trial of the master and pilot of the Comet steam-packet, 174 Chancery; Townshend, v. Agnew,
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 (3* Craven, earl of, death of, 268 Crimes, 337
Currents of the Ocean, 257*
Custom House, fall of the floor of the long room, 11
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]
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,
Fisher, Dr. (bishop of Salisbury), death of, 247
Foreign Enlistment Act, proclamation en- forcing, [122]
Fossil Remains, in Sussex, 48 Fouché, memoirs of, suppressed, 2 Foy, general, death and memoir of, 287 France opening of the session of the Chambers, [134]; king's speech, ib.; civil list, [136]; indemnification to emigrants, ib.; sinking fund, &c., [137]; conversion of the Rentes, &c., [138]; budget, [139]; state of sinking fund, ib.; law against sacrilege, [140]; state of the clergy, ib.; prosecutions against liberal journals, the Constitutionnel and Courier Français, ib.; decision of the Cour Royale respecting ditto, [141]; petition for sending consuls to the new states of America, [142]; M. de Vil- lele's defence of the policy of France towards the American states, ib.; ne- gociations with Hayti, relative to the independence of the latter, [143]; see Hayti; regulations for horse-races, 36; assassination of M. Courier, 51; in- creased salaries of judges, 53; new peers, 56; arrival of the duke of North- umberland as ambassador extraordi- nary, 59; of Sidi Mahmoud, envoy from Tunis, 60; article in the Aris- tarque respecting a loan to Rothschild, 61; Coronation of Charles X., 70; disturbances in the cotton manufactories in Houlme, 114; trade with the inde- pendent States of South America, 116; Societé Commandataire de l'Industrie, 119; miracle, 131; murder at Castres, 138; public libraries, 286*
Franklin, Mrs. (Miss Porden), death of,
Gigantic man, account of, 91 Glastonbury, lord, death of, 243 Gotha, duke of, death of, 226 Goulburn, Mr., motion and speech on the Catholic Association, and unlawful so- cieties in Ireland, [18]
Graham, sir James, death of, 236 Graham, lieut. P., indicted for challenging lord Harborough, 51 Gravendeel, fire at, 100
Greece: insurrection headed by Coloco- troni, [184]; his submission, ib.; he and the other leaders of the rebellion sent to Hydra, ib.; blockade of Patras, [185]; siege of Navarino, [186]; sur- render of Old Navarino, [188]; recal of Colocotroni, [190]; military opera- tions in the Morea, ib.; naval prepara- tions of the Turks for the siege of Mis- solonghi,[191]; naval operations, [193]; unsuccessful attempt to burn the Turk- ish fleet at Alexandria, ib.; offer of the Greeks to place themselves under the protection of Great Britain, ib.; M. Rodios' letter to Mr. Canning in name of the provisional government, 56*; manifesto of the Greek nation, 106*; protest of M. M. Roche and Washing- ton, the deputies of France and Ame- rica, to the provisional government, 108 Guatemala: disturbances, [208]; election of president, ib.; expenditure, ib.
Halhed, Mr., intimacy and literary con- nexion with Sheridan, 171 Halo light, polarized state of, 261* Hamburgh, commercial regulations at,
103; number of vessels arrived at, 185 Hanover, convention of reciprocity of commerce with, 69°
Hanseatic oities, convention of commerce, &c. with, 70*
Harborough, lord, action of assault against a seaman, 49; challenged by Mr. Gra- ham, of the Ramillies, 51
Havana, description of the city of, 225* Hay, R. W., under secretary, Colonial office, 116
Haymarket Theatre, “Quite Correct," 110 Hayti: negociations with France, [143]; French decree, [144]; confirmation of ditto, [145]; proclamation of Presi- dent Boyer, ib. note; intended insur- rection, [147]; increased duty on Eng- lish goods, ib.; trade at Port-au-Prince, ib. note; proposed defensive alliance with Colombia, 136*
Hearne, John, tried at Cork, for a rape, and married to the prosecutrix, 120 Heathcote, sir F., death of, 228 Henniker, sir Fred. death of, 270
Hertz, Rachel, case of, who swallowed
several hundred needles, 241* Hippesley, sir J. Coxe, death and memoir of, 246
Hohenlohe, prince, miracle by, 131 Holman, a tailor, case of his refusing to support his daughter, 78
Horse-racing in France, 36; in Russia, 125
House of Lords, case of Bayley v. Maule, 59; list of undecided appeals and writs of error, 186
Howison's "Foreign Scenes," extracts from, 225; description of the city of Havana, ib.
Hume, Mr., his motion against the Irish church establishment, [80] Hungary meeting of the diet, [155]; speech of the emperor of Austria to the diet, 92
Huskisson, Mr., motion respecting our colonial commerce,[89]; ditto abolition of fees in colonial ports, [104]; ditto on the Combination laws, [91]; ditto re- specting the diminution of duties, [106]
Jealousy, singular and dreadful instance of, in a soldier at Genoa, who, after kill- ing and wounding several persons, de- stroys himself, 166
Jerningham, dowager lady, death of, 231 Jeweller, action brought by, to recover balance of a bill, nonsuited, 12 Jesuits' college at Stonyhurst, 279* Imports, colonial, at Liverpool, compared
with the rest of Great Britain, 185 Improvements: project for forming a street between Lincoln's-inn-fields and Strand, to be called Lincoln's-Inn Place, 151
India, navigation to, by steam, 171 Inquests: hon. J. H. Stanhope, 3; Red- mond Barry, 85; J. Tietjen, killed by an elephant at Exeter Change, 153 Ionian Islands: tranquil state of, [183]; acts relative to ecclesiastical establish- ment, ib.; change in state of landed property, ib.
Joint-stock companies, table of, and list of advertisements of, [2]; proposed bill relative to, [88]
Josephs, Mr. E., expelled the Stock Exchange, 121
Ireland: Catholic Association, [1]; see Parliament; new Catholic Association formed, [45]; bill for regulating elect- ive franchise in, [67]; proposed provi- sion for the Catholic clergy, [69]; committee of the Lords for inquiry into the state of Ireland, [71]; poverty of the peasantry, [72]; their dependence
on the landlords, [74]; tythe system, [75]; abuse of legal proceedings, [76]; civil ejectment bill, [77]; other topics of investigation, [78]; motion in par- liament respecting religious animosities, [79]: state of charter schools, [80]; report of the select committee of the House of Lords on the state of Ireland, 42*
Iron boat, 133
Islands, discovered, 253*
Isle of Man, disturbances at, on account of potatoe tithes, 157
Italy: Papal states, [181]; Naples, iš. Judicial curiosity, 158
Judge, Mr., editor of the Cheltenham Journal, assaulted by colonel Berkeley, 36
Judges, regulation of salaries of, [86]; in- crease of salaries of, in France, 55 Juries, Mr. Peel's bill for amending the laws relative to, [88]
Kelt, rev. H, death of, 266 Krudener, Mad., death of, 215
Lacepède, count de, naturalist, death and memoir of, 283
Land, minute division of, in Ireland, 42* Launch of the "Baron of Renfrew," Quebec, 93
Law proceedings, exparte publication of,
Lens, J., death of, 271
Levant company, surrender of charter of, [113]
Libel, action for, against the editor of the Dublin Star, 20*
Lilford, lord, death of, 266
Lime, oxalate of, its electric powers, 260* Lincoln's-Inn Place, project of a new street to be so named, 151
Linquiti, Chevalier, death of, 281 Lion fights at Warwick, Nero, 105; Wallace, 108
Lisbon, regulations relative to goat-own- ers, 133
Lists, Sheriffs, 189
Births, 190
Marriages, 195 Promotions, &c., 209 Deaths, 215
General Acts, 315
Local Acts, 321
Liverpool, colonial imports, 185 Liverpool, lord, speech on the Catholic relief bill, [64]; his conduct with re- gard to the Catholics animadverted upon by sir F. Burdett, [79] Living Skeleton, 239 Loan, Danish, 27
London, consumption of provisions in, 187 Lucerne, M. Keller, a magistrate, murder- ed at, 156
McElroy, Edw., tried for setting fire to Mr. Wood's car-house, at Carduffkelly,
Maddock, rev. T., death of, 226
Malines, jubilee in honour of St. Rom- baut, 115
Manifesto of the emperor Nicholas of Russia, 96*; of the Greek nation, 106* Marriage, singular one, of a prisoner tried
for rape, and the prosecutrix, 120 Mars, Mademoiselle, anecdote of, 8 Martyn, rev. Thomas, death of, 255 Mechanical arts, 266*
Mechanics' Institution, London, 77 Meeting at the Mansion House, 169 Meteor in Guelderland, 258* Mexico: recognition of its independence, [14]; meeting of congress, and presi- dent's speech, [199]; treaty of com- merce with Great Britain proposed to congress, but not ratified, [205]; close of the session, and president's speech, ib.; military defence, navy, judicial administration, [206]; voluntary sur- render of two Spanish ships, [208];
surrender of the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, ib.; inland navigation, 34 Meyer, Dr. J., death of, 268 Mezzofanti, prof. (celebrated linguist), account of, 280*
Middleton, explosion of a mine at, 4 Miloradovitsch, prince, shot in an insur- rection at St. Petersburgh, [162] Mine, explosion of, at Middleton, 4 Mines in Spanish America, 285* Mining shares, &c., estimate of payments on, 48
Miracle, effected by prince Hohenlohe,
Miramichi, New Brunswick, dreadful fire and hurricane at, 135, 174 Missionaries: East Indies, 46; North America, ib.
Missolonghi, siege of, [191]; surrender of the fort of Anatolico, [192] Money-market, panic in, [123] Monte Video, success of the Independents against the Imperialists, [179] Moore's Life of Sheridan, extracts from, 166
Moretti's fulminating acid, 261*
Morris, Miss, and two other females burnt to death, 109
Mostyn, lady, killed by her horses running away, 10
Mountain, Dr., bishop of Quebec, death of, 263
Muirhead, J. G., tried for misdemeanor,
Murder: Francis Baker, esq., by Mr. Desha, son of the governor of Kentucky, 18; John Ryan, by his wife and Patrick Cusack, 28; at Oporto, 33; Frances Smaller, 37; Mary Ann Hallenborough, 38; at Constantinople, 48; in Switzer- land, 53; of a sealing party, in New South Wales, 63; Josephine Duprat murders her husband, 64; Behier mur- ders his wife, and a girl, 90; horrible murder at Paris, 91; Chevalier, 112; James Read, by his wife, ib.; murder in the forest of Facq, 134; murder of M. Keller, 156; singular murder of a child, by cutting off its head, ib. ; at Frouquet, 164; in La Bresse, 168; at Genoa, 166; A. Hogg, 3*
Murray, lieutenant-governor of Demerara, Mr. Serjeant Rough's petition against,
Musical festivals at York, comparison of receipts, 1823 and 1825, 131
Naples: death of the king, [181], 218; reduction of the Austrian troops in the Two Sicilies, [182]; pretended miracles, ib.; assassins executed, 55; quarantine regulations, 80
Natural Philosophy, 228*
Needles, case of a Jewess, at Copenhagen, who swallowed upwards of 300, 230* Netherlands: distress occasioned by in- undations, [148]; speech at the close of the session of the states-general, ib. ; decrees for the regulation of education and the universities, [149]; letter from the court of Rome to the archbishop of Mechlin, [150] note; opposition of the Catholic clergy to the decrees, and liberality of those of Luxemburg, [150]; new duties imposed by France on the manufactures of the Netherlands, ib.; new session of the states-general, [151]; insurrection in Java, [152]; engage- ment near Samarang, [153]; king's speech, 89; financial embarrassments in India, ib.
New Brunswick; fire and hurricane at Miramichi, 135
Newcomen, lord, death of, 220 New Orleans, gigantic organic remains discovered near, 247° Newgate, annual state of, 339 Newspapers, transmission of to the colo- nies, 110
Nicholas, emperor, see Russia. Northumberland, duke of, goes to France as ambassador extraordinary, 59 North West Expedition, court-martial re-
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