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CHAMBERS'S
EDINBURGH JOURNAL.

NEW SERIES.

CONDUCTED BY

WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS,

EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' 'INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' &c.

VOLUME XVII.

Nos. 418 to 443. JANUARY-JUNE, 1852.

WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS,

LONDON AND EDINBURGH.

1852.

Edinburgh:
Printed by W. and R. Chambers.

Issue/Page Number Cross Reference

VOLUME XVII.

Nos. 418 to 443. JANUARY-JUNE, 1852.

New Series

INDEX.

FAMILIAR SKETCHES AND MORAL ESSAYS.

Afghan Blunder, the Great, [118]
Age, Prosaic Spirit of the, [401]
Ages, Lost, [17]
Air-Travelling, [215]
America, Railway Jubilee in, [75]
Ayah, the, [249]
Beggars in the Far East, [29]
Cash, Corn, and Coal Markets, [42]
Chapter on Cats, [27]
Charitable Chums' Benefit Club, [145]
Child's Toy, [1]
City Inquest for the Poor, [232]
Clubs, Unfashionable, [369]
Crossing-Sweepers of London, [305]
Curiosities of Chess, [186]
Day at the Baths of Lucca, [219]
Dibdin's Sailor-Songs, [124]
Dingy House, the, [241]
Dinner-Bell, [161]
Edfou and its Neighbourhood, [171]
Evening in Westminster, [153]
Family Life in a Negro Town, [12]
Forced Benefits, [273]
Glimpse of Ballyvourney, [245]
Half-penny Worth of Navigation, [333]
Happy Jacks, [65]
Holmfirth Flood, Visit to the Scene of the, [353]
How is the World Using You? [33]
Imperfect Respectabilities, [209]
Indus, up the, [81]
Infant Schools in Hungary, [133]
Last of the Palæologi, [24]
Laughter, Philosophy of, [321]
London Crossing-Sweepers, [305]
Lost Ages, [17]
Lowell Mechanics' Fair, [181]
Mediæval Mania, [225]
Music-Grinders of the Metropolis, [197]
Musical Season, [289]
Negro Town, Life in a, [12]
Night in a German Wood, [381]
Nightingale, a Musical Question, [392]
Number Twelve, [412]
Old House in Crane Court, [385]
Pattern Nation, the, [97]
Pet-Birds of India, [190]
Phantoms of the Far East, [314]
Philosophy of Laughter, [321]
—— the Shears, [390]
Popular Music—Mainzer, [103]
Pronouncers, [193]
Prosaic Spirit of the Age, [401]
Puff and Push, [257]
Railway Jubilee in America, [75]
Rambles in Search of Wild-flowers, [151]
Royal Italian Opera, Visit to the, [410]
Rustication in a French Village, [311]
Sea and the Poets, [185]
Sisters of Charity in Bohemia, [42]
Steeple Jack's Secret, [89]
Summer Lodgings, [345]
Therefore and Because, [337]
Things in Expectation, [177]
Time's Review of Character—Robespierre, [129]
Toy, Child's, [1]
Tree of Solomon, [405]
Unfashionable Clubs, [369]
Up the Indus, [81]
Venice, [113]
Visit to the Scene of the Holmfirth Flood, [353]
Westminster, Evening in, [153]
Why the Scotch do not Shut the Door, [169]

POETRY.

Bugle Song, [402]
By the Sea, [128]
Forest Teachings, [112]
In Expectation of Death—Constantia, [352]
Jupiter, an Evening Star, [288]
Kunjunee, [384]
Lines, [304]
Linnæa Borealis, [16]
Martyrdom of Faithful in Vanity Fair, [32]
Mountains in Snow, [80]
Nightingale, [392]
Noble Mariner, [48]
Oases of Libya, [224]
Rejected Lover, a, [208]
Saint Elizabeth of Bohemia, [240]
Sitting on the Shore, [144]
Sky-lark's Song, [192]
Sonnet, [272]
Sonnet: On my little Boy's first trying to say 'Pa-pa,' [416]
Tongue of Fire, [336]
Welcome Sacrifice, a, [176]
Wet Shroud, [320]
Where'er there's a Will there's a Way, [64]
Wind-storm at Night, [368]
Wordsworth, to, [96]

POPULAR SCIENCE.

Acalephæ, [87]
Arago on the Sun, [371]
Colour in Dress, [123]
Cooling the Air of Rooms in Hot Climates, [194]
Crustacea, their Exuviation, [248]
Dodo, Memorials of the, [360]
Dust-showers and Red Rain, [230]
Electro-Magnetic Machine, [121]
Glaciers, Ancient, in the Lake Country, [400]
Insect Wings, [309]
Insects, Tenacity of Life in, [121]
Ivory and its Applications, [57]
Jelly-fishes, [81]
Lodoicea Seychellarum, [405]
Pendulum, why does it Swing? [6]
Red Rain and Dust-showers, [230]
Sewed Muslins, [125]
Things Talked of in London [77], [141], [205], [270], [349], [414]
Vegetation of Europe, [331]
Wild-flowers, [151]

TALES AND OTHER NARRATIVES.

Admiral Blake, Memoir of, [342]
Adventures of an Army Physician, [37]
Artist's Sacrifice, [93]
Barbara's Sea-side Excursion, [373]
Blighted Flowers, [60]
Bréguet the Clockmaker, [239]
Burgomaster Law in Prussia, [284]
Chapter on Cats, [159]
Church of the Cup of Cold Water, [195]
Colours in Ladies' Dress, [144]
Cooper the Novelist, Memoir of, [3]
Counter-stroke, [325]
Country Cousin, [8]
Daughter of the Bardi, [247]
David's Last Picture, [339]
Duel, a, in 1830, [403]
Forest Trees, [160]
Gaspar Mendez, Story of, [18]
Happy Jacks, [65]
History of Jane a Poole, [203]
Hunchback of Strasbourg, [387]
Incendiary, [355]
Jeffrey, Memoir of, [277]
La Rosière, [147]
Last of the Palæologi, [24]
—— Revel, [210]
Legend of Amen Corner, [227]
Little Gray Gossip, [318]
Losing Game, [135]
Mainzer, Account of Dr, [103]
Memoir for the Million, [217]
Mendez, Gaspar, [18]
Mezzofanti, Cardinal, [297]
Missing Ship, the, [254]
Monomania, [259]
Monsieur Jerome and the Russian Princess, [274]
Moonlight Ride, [281]
My Travelling Companion, [99]
Mysterious Lady, [41]
Night in a German Wood, [381]
Number Twelve, [412]
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, [322]
Oyster-eating, Facts as to, [224]
Palo de Vaca, or Cow-tree, [144]
Really! Indeed! Impossible! [116]
Recollections of a Police-Officer, [259]
Rembrandt, Story of, [45]
Reminiscences of an Attorney, [355]
Remittances to and from Emigrants, [160]
Robespierre, Account of, [129]
Tales of the Coast-Guard, [210]
Tollman's Story, [293]
Tree of Solomon, [405]
Two Kinds of Honesty, [163]
Vatteville Ruby, [70]
Venetian Adventure of Yesterday, [364]
Vincejo's Prize, [263]
Whisky and Misery, [160]
Wolf-gathering, [49]
Wrecker, the, [179]

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes, [371]
Arthur's Successful Merchant, [188]
Cockburn's Memoirs of Jeffrey, [277]
Desert Home, Reid's, [67]
Dixon's Robert Blake, [342]
Fortune's Wanderings in China, [395]
Gutzlaff's Life of Taou-Kwang, [243]
Head's, Sir Francis, Faggot of French Sticks, [54]
Helps's Friends in Council, [84]
Henfrey's Vegetation of Europe, [331]
Jerdan's Autobiography, [375]
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, [322]
Men of the Time, [155]
Prisons, Mr Hill's Report on, [30]
Reach's Claret and Olives, [267]
Reid's Desert Home, [67]
Taylor's Notes from Life, [72]
Ware's Sketch of European Capitals, [126]
Whately's Book of Synonyms, [147]
Willmott's Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature, [251]
Worsaae's Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, &c. [286]
Zschokke's Labour Stands on Golden Feet, [301]

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES OF INSTRUCTION AND ENTERTAINMENT.

Accidents at Sea, [95]
Aërostation, [214]
Afghan War, [119]
Africa, Semi-civilisation in, [12]
Allopathists and Homœopathists, [175]
Anderson's Pills, [362]
Arctic Regions, Food of the, [91]
Australia, Gold-fever in, [282]
——, Notes from, [62]
Ayah, the, [249]
Balloon, M. Pétin's Monster, [215]
Ballyvourney, Glimpse of, [245]
Bank of England, [42]
Beggars in India, [29]
Blake, Admiral, Memoir of, [342]
Bohemia, Sisters of Charity in, [35]
Bréguet the Clockmaker, [239]
Brooke, Rajah, [155]
Budgett, Samuel, Memoir of, [188]
Burgomaster Law in Prussia, [284]
Cambridge, Student-life at, [366]
Cats, Chapter on, [27]
Charitable Chums' Benefit Club, [145]
Charity, Curiosities of Posthumous, [298]
Chess, Curiosities of, [186]
China, Paper-money in, [347]
City Inquest for the Poor, [232]
Clubs of the Poorer Classes, [369]
Clyde, Lodgings by the, [345]
Cocoa-nut, double, of the Seychelles, [405]
Colonial Penny-postage, [235]
—— Training-school, [153]
Colour in Dress, Science of, [123]
Commandite, Partnership in, [138]
Cooling the Air of Rooms in Hot Climates, [194]
Cooper, James Fenimore, [3]
Corn Market, [44]
Criminal Trials, [378]
Crossing-sweepers of London, [305]
Curiosities of Chess, [186]
—— Posthumous Charity, [298]
Curiosity of Natural History, [248]
Danes and Norwegians in England, [286]
Decimal System of Coinage, [167]
—— Weights and Measures, [316]
Dibdin's Sailor-Songs, [124]
Dickens, Charles, [155]
Dinner Hour, [161]
Doctor versus the Medicine, [175]
Dodo, Memorials of the, [360]
Dr Dickson, Memoir of, [217]
Dust-showers and Red Rain, [230]
Edfou and its Neighbourhood, [170]
Electioneering Curiosity, [47]
Electro-magnetic Machine, [123]
Emigrants, a Word to Genteel, [143]
Emigration, Genius for, [107]
Emperor of China, the late, [243]
Employers and Employed, [110]
Europe, Vegetation of, [331]
Example, Influence of, [223]
Expectation, Things in, [177]
False Political Economy, [10], [52], [408]
Fire-panics, Recent, [140]
Food of the Arctic Regions, [91]
France, Effect of Division of Land in, [97]
Frauds, Legislative Protection against, [408]
Garonne to the Rhone, Notes by the Way, [267]
Genius for Emigration, [107]
Glaciers, Ancient, in the Lake Country, [400]
Gold-fever in Australia, [282]
Great Oyer of Poisoning, [397]
Half-penny Steamers on the Thames, [333]
Handworkers of Germany, [301]
Helps, Account of his Essays, [84]
Holmfirth Flood, Account of the, [353]
Homœopathists and Allopathists, [175]
Hume, Joseph, [155]
Hungary, Infant Schools in, [133]
India, Pet-birds of, [191]
Indus, Voyage up the, [81]
Influences of the Railway System, [22]
Insect Wings, [309]
Ivory and its Applications, [57]
Jackson, Dr, Memoir of, [37]
Jane a Poole, a Curious Piece of Family History, [203]
Jeffrey, Cockburn's Memoir of, [277]
Jelly-fishes, [87]
Jerdan's Autobiography, [375]
Kites, Uses to which they have been applied, [1]
Laughter, Philosophy of, [321]
Les Petites Sœurs, Society of, [241]
London Cab Reform, [235]
—— Newspaper in 1667, [334]
Lowell Mechanics' Fair, [181]
Lucca, Day at the Baths of, [219]
Mainzer—Popular Music, [103]
Marshal Macdonald, his Nativity and Parentage, [416]
Memoir for the Million, [217]
Memorials of the Dodo, [360]
Mezzofanti, Cardinal, [297]
Monograms of Painters, [264]
Monopolies, [362]
Musical Season in London, [289]
Music-grinders of London, [197]
National Debt, Plans for Paying, [52]
Neuralgia, [399]
Newcastle Chronicle for 1765-6, [105]
New York, Fire-panics in, [140]
—— Strike in, [173]
Night in a German Wood, [381]
Nightingale, a Musical Question, [392]
Notes from Australia, [62]
Occasional Notes, [121], [235]
Ophir Diggings of Australia, [201]
Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, [322]
Painters' Monograms, [264]
Palæologi, Family of the, [24]
Paper-money in China, [347]
Paris, Sir F. Head's Sketches of, [54]
Partnership in Commandite, [138]
Pendulum, why it Swings, [6]
Penny-stamp on Newspapers, [329]
Pleasures of Literature, [251]
Political Economy, False, [10], [52], [408]
Pre-Raphaelite School of Art, [225]
Prisons, Report on the State of, [30]
Puffs of London Shopkeepers, [257]
Railway Jubilee in America, [75]
—— System, Influences of, [22]
Rembrandt, Account of, [45]
Robespierre, Time's Review of, [129]
Royal Italian Opera, description of the, [410]
Rustication in a French Village, [311]
Sailor's Life at Sea, [221]
Scottish Hospital, [385]
Sea, Accidents at, [95]
—— and the Poets, [185]
Sewed Muslins, [125]
Sisters of Charity in Bohemia, [35]
Small Investments, [250]
Somerset and Overbury Tragedy, [378], [397]
Spitting, American Habit of, [126]
Steeple Jack, Account of him, [89]
Stock Exchange, [44]
Strike in New York, [173]
Student-life at Cambridge, [366]
Sun, Arago on the, [371]
Superstitions of India, [314]
Surveying Voyage of the Rattlesnake, [236]
Synonyms, English, [157]
Tailor-philosopher, [390]
Taxes on Knowledge, [329]
Taylor, Henry, Account of his Writings, [72]
Tea-countries of China, [395]
Tenacity of Life in Insects, [121]
Thackeray, W. M., [155]
Things Talked of in London, [77], [141], [205], [270], [349], [414]
Tree of Solomon, [405]
Vegetation of Europe, [331]
Venetian Adventure, [364]
Venice, [113]
Vincejo's Prize, [263]
Voice from the Diggings, [201]
Voyage up the Indus, [81]
Weights and Measures, Decimal System of, [316]
Wild-flowers, Rambles in Search of, [151]
Wines, Law Concerning, [10]
Wolves, Children Suckled by, [122]

ANECDOTES AND PARAGRAPHS.

Amber, Variety of, [32]
American Editor, [32]
Boston, Scene in, [335]
Californian Items, [48]
Cheap Living, [80]
Children of Prisons, [288]
Children's Joys and Sorrows, [207]
Commercial Ports in England, [15]
Copper-plate Engravings copied on Stone, [416]
Cowden Clarke, Mrs, American Testimonial to, [96]
Dog-selling Extraordinary, [192]
Domestication of Wild Bees, [416]
Dreams, [368]
English Ploughing, [111]
Excessive Modesty, [384]
French Battle-pictures, [31]
Ground-Lizard of Jamaica, [63]
Illustrations of Extreme Minuteness, [304]
Intellect Developed by Labour, [96]
Intending Emigrants, Note to, [240]
John Bunyan and Mince-pies, [111]
Juvenile Energy, [192]
Lard-Candles, [48]
Literary Circles of London, [192]
Lord Rosse's Discoveries, [304]
Lottery of Death, [352]
'Magnetoscope,' [127]
Man for the World, [352]
Mangel-wurzel, New Application of, [31]
Man-of-War, or Man of Peace, [240]
Marshal Macdonald, [416]
'My Travelling Companion,' [176]
National Customs, [128]
Nativity and Parentage of Marshal Macdonald, Duke of Tarentum, [416]
Negro's Account of Liberia, [48]
Nerve, [80]
New England, Scene in, [64]
'Robespierre,' [208]
Sea-kings of Nantucket, [16]
Serpents, have they Taste? [32]
Sheriffmuir, Anecdote of the Field of, [111]
Slow but Sure, [16]
Soap-bubble, Thinness of a, [111]
South-African Reptiles, [304]
Tears of Oysters, [208]
Turn of Life, [79]
Twenty-four Hours of a Sailor's Life at Sea, [384]
Unfortunate Man, [16]
Village Cleaning, [127]
'Visit to an English Monastery,' [96]
Water, [352]
Wild Animals in Confinement, [256]
—— Bees, Domestication of, [416]
Wings of Insects, Rate at which they move, [176]
Wire Used in Embroidery, [80]
Women, [64]