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EDITOR'S DRAWER-continued.
ful Age; Fools and Madmen; Under Canvas, 706.
Joking in Letters; Welsh Card of Invitation;
Chiffoniers in Paris, 707. Harrowing Lines, 708.
Eating cooked Rain; Patent Medicine Toast;
New Language of Flowers, 847. Song of the
Turkey; Marks of Affection; Tired of Nothing
to do; Lame and impotent Conclusion, 848. Or-
ders is Orders; The Sleeping Child; Dickens's
Denouements; Statistical Fellows, 849. Keep your
Receipts; Giving a Look; About Dandies; Chawls
Yellowplush on Lit'ry Men; Deep-blue Stockings,
850. A Climax; Some Love-Verses; A Crim-
inal Curiosity-hunter; a Skate-vender on Thaws,
851.
EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR.
Kossuth; Louis Napoleon; A Workingman for
President, 131. Musical Chit-chat; Lumley and
Rossini; America in the Exhibition, 132.
A very
French Story of Love and Devotion; Another of Devotion and Smuggling, 133. Kossuth and our Enthusiasm for him, 265. On Lola Montez; Du- mas and the French Censorship; Signor Braschi; Female Stock-brokers; The consoled Disconso- lates, 266. An Italian Romance, 267. Louis Na- poleon's Coup d'état; Kossuth Talk, 418. Paris Gossip: Cavaignac and his Bride elect; The Lot- tery of Gold, 419. Home Gossip; How Mr. Coper sold a horse, 420. The Hard Winter; The Forrest Trial, 563. The French Usurpation; President- making and Morals in the Metropolis; A Bit of Paris Life; Legacies to Litterateurs, 564. Now; Close of the Carnival; the Cooper Testimonial; Lectures; Exemplary Damages, 702. Congres- sional Manners; The Maine Liquor Law; Re- miniscence of Maffit; French Writers, 703. The Chevalier's Stroke for a Wife, 704. More about the Weather, 843. Sir John Franklin; Free Speech; Lola in Boston; Jenny Goldschmidt, 844. Mar- riage Associations; About Punch; Magisterial Beards; An equine Passport, 845. Matrimonial Confidence; Dancing in the Beau Monde; Major M'Gowd's Story, 846.
Time and Space, 128. Testimony of Geology
to the Supernatural, 130. The Year, 262. The Pulpit and the Press, 265. The Value of the Union, 415. The Seventh Census, 557. The Immensity of the Universe, 562. The Spiritual Telegraph, 699. History the World's Memory, 700. Mental Alchemy :-Credulity and Skepti- cism, 839.
Tailing on; The John Jones Party; How many
Times did the Hedge-pig mew? Touching the
Tin, 134. The Deformed's Hope; Looking out
for Number One-Abroad and at Home; Leaves
and Coats; The Mathematical Monomaniac, 135,
A puzzled Doctor, 136. A Text for a Sermon;
The entombed Racer; Cause and Effect; Vaga-
ries of the Insane, 268. Munchausenism; Love and
Mammon; Professional Enthusiasm, 269. Mind
your P's and Q's; Sympathy thrown away; Win-
ter Duties, 270. Experiments in Flying; Affair
of Honor-almost, 271. Takin' Notes; Having
One's Faculties; Great Talkers, 421. Witnesses
and Counsel-with an Example; Physiognomy at
Fault; Mercantile Drummers, 422. On Discon-
tentment; Omnipresence of the Deity; To Snuff-
ers and Chewers; The French and Death, 412.
Rat and Owl Fight; Moralizing on Climbing a
greased Pole; Inquisitiveness, with an Instance
thereof, 565. Street Thoughts by a Surgeon; The
Millionaire without a Sou; The Deaf-and-Dumb
Boy; Workers in Worsted, 566. Subscribing
Something; Bad Spelling; Lending Umbrellas,
567. Something about Music; The Workhouse Fashions for April.
Clock, 568. Sweets in Paris; Something about Fashions for May..
China, 569. Difference of Opinion; a Tale of other
Episode of the Italian Revolution
Esther Hammond's Wedding Day.
Eyes made to Order..
Fashionable Forger.
Fashions for December.
Fashions for January.
Fashions for February.
Fashions for March.
Better Luck next Time; Doing one a Special
Favor; Etymological Inventions, 141. Off Point
Judith; Singular Phenomenon; A Slight Mistake;
New Biographies, 142. Arrant Extortion; Mr.
Booby in the New Costume, 285. A Bloomer in
Leap Year; Strong-minded Bloomer, 286. A Hor-
rible Business; Rather too much of a Good Thing,
429. Mrs. Baker's Pet, 430. Signs of the Times;
France is Tranquil, 573. The Road to Ruin;
New Street-sweeping Machines, 574. Going to
Cover, 173. Revolution on Bayonets; Thoughts
on French Affairs; Early Publication in Paris,
714. Scene from the President's Progress, 715.
Touching Sympathy; Sound Advice, 716. Ef- fects of a Strike, 717. Perfect Identification; Calling the Police; The Seven Wonders of a Young Lady, 718. Butcher Boys of the Upper Ten, 857. The Inquisitive Omnibus Driver; The Flunky's Idea of Beauty, 858. A Competent Ad- viser; Scrupulous Regard for Truth, 859. Awful Effects of an Eye-glass; Penalties; Rather Se- vere, 860. What I heard about Myself in the Ex- hibition; The Peer on the Press, 861. The Inte- rior of a French Court of Justice in 1851, 862. Legend of the Lost Well...... Legend of the Weeping Chamber.... Life and Death. By the Author of Alton Locke..
LITERARY NOTICES-continued.
traiture; Stephen's Lectures on the History of
France, 425. Chambers's Life and Works of Burns,
569. Abbott's Corner Stone; Browne's History of
Classical Literature; Dickson's Life, Sleep, and
Pain; Head's Fagget of French Sticks; Hudson's
Shakspeare; Simmon's Greek Girl; House on the
Rock; Companions of my Solitude; Wright's Sor-
cery and Magic; Ravenscliffe; Mitford's Recol-
lections of a Literary Life, 570. Memoirs of Mar-
garet Fuller Ossoli; Edwards's Charity and its
Fruits, 708. Richardson's Arctic Searching Ex-
pedition; Bonynge's Future Wealth of America;
Copland's Dictionary of Medicine; Cheever's Reeĺ
in the Bottle; The Head of the Family; Nean-
der's Exposition of James; Men and Women of
the Eighteenth Century: Bon Gaultier's Book
of Ballads; Walker's Rhyming Dictionary, 709.
Stiles's Austria in 1848-49, 852. Forester's Field
Sports; Simms's Golden Christmas; Falkenburg;
Isa; The Howadji in Syria, 853. Stuart's Com-
mentary on Proverbs; Parker's Story of a Soul;
Arthur and Carpenter's Cabinet Histories; Mos-
heim's Christianity before Constantine; Pulszky's
Tales and Traditions of Hungary; Aytoun's Lays
of the Scottish Cavaliers; Barnes's Notes on Rev-
elation, 854. Kirwan's Romanism at Home, 855.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
Hawthorne; Literary Gazette on Hitchcock;
The News on Vestiges of Civilization; Westmin- ster Review; New Works announced; Assyrian Sculptures; Pension to Reid; Christopher North; Map of France; Manuscripts of Lalande; Du- mas's Memoirs, 139. Documents on the Thirty Years' War; Douglas Jerrold's Works, 275. Lady Bulwer; Rise of Bunsen; New College, Edin- burgh; Madame Pfeiffer; Richardson's Arctic Ex- pedition, 276. Plays by Jerrold and Marston; Stephen's Lectures; Critique on Hildreth; On -Moby Dick; Shakspeare for Kossuth; Landor on Kossuth; Critique on Springer's Forest Life; On Layard's Nineveh, 277. Alison; Works de- nounced; Brougham; Translations of Scott; New * Works in France, 278. M. Vattemare; The El- zevirs; Daguerre; Heine; Leipzig Easter Fair; Papers in Germany; Japanese Dictionary; Ex- cavations at Athens; Ximenes; Spanish Classics; Ida Hahn-Hahn; Professor Nuylz; Oriental MSS.; Proscription in Italy; Discovery of Old Paintings in Münster; Jeffrey; Mr. Jerdan; Brougham; Gutzlaff, 425. Carlyle's Sterling; Yeast; Blake; Dickens in Danish; Delta; Steph- en: M'Cosh; Hahn-Hahn; Junius; Kossuth's Eloquence; Beresford, 426. Guizot; Revolution- ary Walls; Migne's Book Establishment; French Works; Bonaparte and Literature; Silvio Pellico; German Novels; Oersted; Oehlenschläger; Men- zel; Heine, 427. Schiller Festival; Zahn; Kos- mos; Servian Poetry; Shakspeare in Swedish; Italian Book on America; Chinese Geography: Turkish Grammar and Dictionary; Ticknor in Spanish, 428. Westminster Review; New Books; Benedict; Macaulay, 570. Browning's Shelley; Junius; Budhist Monuments; Freund's German- English Lexicon; Bulwer's Works; The Head of the Family; Lossing's Field-Book; Hawthorne ; Eliot Warburton, 571. French Literary Exiles; Lamartine; Count Ficquelmont; Works on the Coup d'Etat; Louis Philippe and Letters; George Sand; Humboldt; Schiller's Library; Hagberg; Translations into Spanish, 572. Theological Translations; Bohn's New Publications; Greek Professorship in Edinburgh; Dr. Robinson; Talvi, 710. Moby Dick; Tests in Scottish Universities; Montalembert; Cavaignac; The Press in Paris; Posthumous Work by Meinhold, 711; Lamartine's Civilisateur; Eugene Sue; Neuman's English Empire in Asia; English Literature in Germany; Nitzsch on Hahn-Hahn; Gutzkow; The Rhenish Times; Hebrew Books; Literature of Hungary; Monument to Oken, 712. Cockburn's Life of Jef.
Archibald Alexander, D.D.; J. Kearney Rod- gers, M.D.; Granville Sharp Pattison, M.D.; Gardner G. Howland, 122. Dr. Wingard; Byron's Sister; H. P. Borrell; Dr. Gutzlaff; Mrs. Sher- wood, 140. King of Hanover, 261. Professors Wolff and Humbert, 280. Joel R. Poinsett; Mo- ses Stuart, 411. Marshal Soult, 414. William Wyon; Rev. J. H. Caunter; Chevalier Lavy; M. de St. Priest; Paul Erman; Professor Dunbar; Dr. Sadleir; Basil Montague, 426. T. H. Turner, 570. Baron D'Ohsen; Robert Blackwood; Ser- angelli, 712. Hon. Jeremiah Morrow, 836. Thom- as Moore; Archbishop Murray; Sir Herbert Jen- ner Fust, 837. Marshal Marmont; Armand Mar- rast, 838.
Louis Napoleon and his Nose
The November Elections: success of the Union
Party in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi,
and Alabama, 120. Adoption of the New Consti-
tution in Virginia, 120. Election in Pennsylvania,
120. Return of the Arctic Expedition, 121. Din-
ner to Mr. Grinnell, 121. Imprisonment of John
S. Thrasher in Havana, 121, 258, 553. Appeal of
Mr. Tyler in behalf of the Cuban prisoners, 121.
Inauguration of Gov. Campbell of Tennessee, 121.
Convention of Cotton-planters in Macon, 121. De-
cision in favor of Morse's Telegraph, 122. Deci-
sion of the Methodist Book-fund case, 122. Letter
of Mr. Clay on the Compromise, 122. Elections
in California, 122. General Intelligence from Ca-
lifornia, 122, 258, 411, 553, 693, 835. General In-
telligence from Oregon, 122, 411, 693. Volcanic
Eruption in the Sandwich Islands, 123. General
Intelligence from New Mexico, 123, 259, 411, 553,
693, 835. Arrival of Kossuth, and reception in New
York, 255. Speech of Kossuth at the Corporation
banquet in New York, 255. At the Press dinner,
256. Opening of the Thirty-second Congress, 256.
Abstract of the President's Message, 256. Corre-
spondence with foreign Powers respecting Cuba,
258. Official vote in New York, 258. Speech of
Kossuth at the Bar dinner in New York, 410.
Kossuth at Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and
Washington, 410. Opening of the New York
Legislature and Message of Governor Hunt, 410.
Opening of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 411.
Mr. Clay resigns his seat in the Senate, 411. De-
struction of the Congressional Library, 411. Amer-
ican expedition to the Sandwich Islands, 411.
Kossuth at the West, 551. Esterhazy, Batthyani,
Pulszky, and Szemere on Kossuth, 551. Speeches
in Congress on Intervention, 552. Outrage at
Greytown disavowed by the English government,
553. Legislative nominations for the Presidency,
553. Message of Gov. Farwell of Wisconsin,
553. The U. S. Indemnity in Texas, 553. Let-
MONTHLY RECORD-continued.
ter of Mr. Buchanan, 553. Of Mr. Benton, 553.
General proceedings in Congress, 692. Corre-
spondence respecting Kossuth, 692. Mr. Web-
ster's discourse before the Historical Society, 693.
Commemorative meeting to J. Fenimore Cooper.
693. Archbishop Hughes's lecture on Catholicism
in the United States, 693. Whig State Conven-
tion in Kentucky, 693. In Indiana, 693. Web-
ster meeting in New York, 693. Washington's
birthday at the Capital, 693. Mormon disturbances
in Utah, 694. Debates in the Senate on Interven-
tion; speech of Mr. Soulé, 834. Abstraction of
public papers, 834. Mr. Cass on the Wilmot Pro-
viso, 834. Presidential speeches in the House,
834. Political Conventions in various States, and
nominations for the Presidency, 834. Proceed-
ings in the Legislature of Mississippi, 834. State
debt of Pennsylvania, 835. Mr. Webster at Tren-
ton, 835. Accident at Hell-gate, 835. Return of
Cuban prisoners, 835. Letter of Mr. Clay on the
Presidency, 835. Expedition to Japan, 835. Loss
of steamer North America, 835. Col. Berzenczey's
expedition to Tartary, 835.
Election of Montt as President of Chili, 123.
Attempt at insurrection, 123, 412. Contest against
Rosas in Buenos Ayres, 124, 694, 835. Difficult-
ies growing out of the Tehuantepec right of way
in Mexico, 124. Insurrection in the northern de-
partments under Caravajal, 124, 412, 553, 694, 835.
Letters to the Governors of the departments, 124.
General Intelligence from Mexico, 124, 412, 553,
835. Message of the President of Venezuela, 694.
Disturbance in Chili penal settlements, 694, 835.
Mexican claims for Indian depredations, 835. De-
feat and flight of Rosas, 836. Peruvian expedition
against Ecuador, 836. Gold in New Grenada,
836.
Arrival of Kossuth at Southampton, 124. Speech
of Kossuth at Winchester, 125. Close of the
Great Exhibition, 126. Disturbances in Ireland,
126. War at the Cape of Good Hope, 126, 554,
696. Opposition of the Sultan of Turkey to the
Suez Railway, 126. Kossuth at Birmingham,
Manchester, London, and Southampton, 259. Em-
barkation for America, 259. Resignation of Lord
Palmerston and appointment of Earl Granville as
Foreign Secretary, 412. Deputation of merchants
to Lord John Russell, 412. Dinner to Mr. Walker,
412. From Ireland, 412. Petitions from Scotland
against the Maynooth grant, 413. Burning of the
steamer Amazon, 554. The national defenses,
554. Controversy between workmen and employ-
ers, 554. Movements of the Reformers, 554. Gold
in Australia, 554. Destruction of Lagos in Africa
by the British, 554, 696. Meeting of Parliament
and the Queen's Speech, 694. Explanations as
to the retirement of Lord Palmerston, 694. De-
feat and resignation of the Russell Ministry, 695.
Appointment of a Protectionist Ministry, 696.
Correspondence with Austria respecting political
refugees, 696. Disaster from water, 696. New
expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 697.
Attitude of the Derby Ministry, 836. Position of
Lord John Russell, 837. Mr. Disraeli's address
to his constituents, 837. Revival of the Anti Corn-
Law League, 837. Mr. Layard declines to con-
tinue in office, 837.
The President demands the repeal of the elec- tion law of May 31; the Ministers refuse their as- sent and resign, 126. Formation of a new Minis- try, 127. Insults to the Republican members of Assembly, 127. Meeting of the Assembly, Mes- sage of the President, demanding the restoration of universal suffrage, and its rejection by the As- sembly, 260. Progress of the struggle between the President and Assembly, 261. President's
speech on distributing prizes to exhibitors, 261.
The President dissolves the Assembly and as-
sumes the sole powers of government, 413. His
decree, 413. Arrest of members of Assembly,
413. Unsuccessful attempts at resistance, 413.
Great majorities returned in favor of the President,
414, 554. Correspondence between the English
and French Governments, 414. Celebration_at
the result of the election, 554. Speech of M. Ba-
roche, 555. Proceedings of the President, 555.
The new Constitution decreed by the President,
555. Formation of a Ministry of Police and of
State, 556. Seizure of the property of the Orleans
family, 556. Measures limiting discussion, 556.
New Legislative law, 697. Letter of the Orleans
princes, 697. The Ministry of Police, 697. Din-
ner by the President to English residents, 697.
Decree regulating the press, 697. Correspond:
ence between the government and the Emperor of Russia, 697. Proceedings in relation to Belgium, 698. Success of the government in the elections, Presidential decree for mortgage banks,
837. Decree respecting the College of France,
837. Judges superannuated at seventy years,
837. Prize for adaptation of Voltaic pile, 838.
Donation to M. Foucauld, 838. New military
medal and pension, 838. French demands upon
Belgium refused, 838. Correspondence between
Austria, Prussia, and Russia respecting France,
838. French demands upon Switzerland, 839.
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