TABLE OF
OF CONTENTS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN HISTORY.

CHAP. I.

Parliamentary Proceedings in February. Opening of Parliament.- King's

Speech.-State of Ireland.—Address.-Catholic Association.-Usury Laws.—

Ways and Means-Supplies.—St. Catherine's Docks.-Justices of the Peace.-

Ireland.-Dissenters' Marriages.-Apothecaries in England and Wales.—--

Spring Guns.-Export of Machinery.-The Budget

CHAP. II.

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London Water-Works.-Catholic Priests.-Catholic Petitions.-Irish Unlawful

Societies.-Ship Canal.-Assessed Taxes.-Supplies.-Marine Mutiny.- Cruelty

to Animals. Annual Duties.-Thames Quay.-Canadian Waste Lands.-

Peruvian Mining Company.—American and West-India Trade.-Police Magis-

trates.-Pay of Ships of War.-Criminal Law.-The Indian Army.--Cus-

toms and Excise.-Dissenters' Marriages.-Combination Laws.-Quarantine

Laws

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Supplies.-Catholic Relief Bill.-Combination Laws. - Spirit Duties.-Corn

Laws. Elective Franchise of Ireland.-Game Laws.—Provision for the Ro-

man Catholic Clergy

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320

Beer Duties.-Scotch Imprisonments.-Abuse of Prisons in England.-Roman

Catholic Relief Bill.-The West India Company's Bill.-South America.—

Judges' Salaries.-Quarantine Laws.-Juries Bill.-Naturalization Oaths.--

Scotch Attainders.-Oppression in Ireland.-London University.-Grants to

the Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cumberland.-Delays in Chancery.—

Cotton Mills Regulation

CHAP. V.

384

Unitarian Marriages.-London College.-Quarantine Laws.-Mauritius Trade.

-Canada Corn.-London Tithes.-Burning of Hindoo Widows.-Colonial In-

tercourse.-Grant to the Duke of Cumberland.-Merchant Laws.-Writs of

Error-Duty on Soap and Candles.-Discipline of the Navy.—Irish Char-

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tered Schools-Lord Charles Somerset.-Petition from Jamaica.—Buckingham

House.-The Judges' Salaries.—Supplies.—Customs. Consolidations.—Borough

of West Loo.-Shooting and Stabbing (Scotch) Bill.-Distillery Bill.-Rev.

Mr. Shrewsbury-Combination Laws.-Ships Registry.-Dr._Frie.—Mr.

Kenrick.-Bubble Act Repeal.-Appellate Jurisdiction. Deccan Prize Money.

-South America.-His Majesty's Speech and Prorogation

CHAP. VI.

481

State of the Country, external and internal.—Agriculture, Manufactures, Com-

merce, &c.-Ireland.-Colonies

625

CHAP. VII.

State of France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the North,—Russia, Greece, Turkey,

America, &c.

627

Slave Population-West Indies and the Cape

641

Protest to the Second Reading of the Unlawful Societies Bill, entered on the

Journals of the House of Lords, March 3, 1825

on the Third Reading of the Corn Bill, March 20.

642

643

on the rejection of the Bill limiting the consequences of Attainder in Cases

of High Treason and Murder to the Offender or Offenders, entered on the

Journals of the House of Lords, on Thursday, May 26

Convention of Commerce-Denmark and Hanover

with Russia

Russian Arbitration

644

646

649

652

653

657

Speech of the King of France on opening the Royal Sitting of 1825

660

Treaty with Colombia.

with the South American Provinces

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of the King of the Netherlands on opening the States General... 661

Message of the Vice-President of Colombia in charge of the Government to the

Congress of 1825

664

674

Speech of his Excellency the President of the United Mexican States, on closing

the Session of the Constitutional Federal Congress

Answer of his Excellency the President of the Congress to the foregoing Speech, 678

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams, as President of the United States, ibid.

Address from Venice to the Emperor of Austria

684

1. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

2. Memoirs of John Philip Kemble, Esq. including a History of the Stage,

&c. &c.

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4. An Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South

America, by W. B. Stevenson

3. Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan in the years 1821 and 22, including

some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia, &c. &c. by James

B. Frazer, Author of a " Tour in the Hamala Mountains"

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5. Travels among the Arab Tribes inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and

Palestine, &c. &c. by J. S. Buckingham

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6. A Picture of Greece in 1825: being the Journals of James Emerson, Esq.,

Count Pecchio, and W. H. Humphreys, Esq.; written during their recent

visits to that Country

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7. Journal of a Residence and Travels in Colombia, during the years 1823 and

1824, by Captain C. Stuart Cochrane, R. N.

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8. Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholicism, by the Rev. Joseph

Blanco White

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9. Antediluvian Phytology, illustrated by a Collection of the Fossil Remains of

Plants, peculiar to the Coal formations of Great Britain, by Edmund

Tyrell Artis, F. S. A. F. G. S.

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