ABERDEEN, Lord, and the Crimean War, 164.
Achilles, shield of, peculiarity of, 46.
Ad. ms succeeds Washington as President of
the United States, 262.

Adrianople, the peace of, 285; treaty of, 288.
gora, the, at Mycenæ, 36.

royd, Mr., church at Haley Hill, Halifax, 184;
is other gifts to the church, ib.

PANY,

sto's Orlando Furioso,' 8; spirit of irony,

totle, the prophetic exponent of a limited
and regenerated democracy, 64; foresight of
a constitutional government, 150.
nold's, Matthew, discourse on 'Equality,' 156.
Art, Italian, dissociated from religion, 18.
Athens, democracy in, 62; under Pericles, 63;
system of government, 150.

BAKER, Colonel J., on emigration into Bulgaria,
291.

Bakers, effect of their occupation on health, 54.
Banns, marriages by, increase of, 57.

Baptist churches in Yorkshire, annual report of,
190.

Bartolmèss, M., describes Giordano Bruno, 198.
Bessarabia, retrocession of, 299.

Bill of rights, the, 151.

Bisset, Mr., Omitted Chapters in the History of
England,' 251.

Boccaccio, absence of an heroic element in his
writings, 7.

Bowls, Phoenician, 43; from Cyprus, 39, 43 ;
Italy, 43.

Brake-power, its importance in railways, 94.
Bright's, Mr., speech at Manchester on the gov-
ernment of India, 232.

'Britannia' training-ship, course of study, 212.
Bruno, Giordano, 192; birth, 193; enters the
Order of the Dominicans, ib.; flight from
Naples to Rome, 194; at Geneva, ib.; at Tou-
louse, ib.; at Paris, ib.; at the French ambas-
sador's in London, 195; lectures at Oxford, ib.;
contrasts the masters and scholars with
English gentlemen, ib.; his paradoxes and
patrons, 196; condemned as an apostate, ib. ;
his Platonic philosophy, 197; habit of satire
and invective on the Church, ib.; hatred for
the papacy, 198; character described, ib.;
burnt at Rome, ib.

Bulgarian peasant, the, prosperity and indepen-
dence of, 290.

Burke, on the character of the Renaissance in
England, 12; on the Cabal,' 153.
Butchers, mortality among, 53.

Butler's Analogy,' Professor Tyndall's misap-
prehension of, 25.

CACCINI, the monk, his sermon against Galileo,
202.

Carvers and gilders, health of, 54.
Children, death-rate among, 51.
Church, the, in West Riding, 174; increase of
population, 175; numerous dialects, ib.; John
Crosse, ib; Hammond Roberson, 176; Henry
Venn and William Grimshaw, ib.; their indif-
ference to the authority of the Church, 177;
irreverence, Dissent, 177, 178; Church exten-
sion promoted by Bishop Longley, 178; and
popular education, ib.; Dr. Hook, 179; Method-
ism, 180; Church Extension Society at Leeds,
182; at Bradford, 183; at Sheffield, 184;
church restoration, 185; sums expended, 186;
baptisms and confirmations, ib.; increase of
contributions, ib.; effect of the Education Act
of 1870, 187; lavish expenditure of the School
› Board, ib.; Sunday-schools, 188; Church in-
stitutes, ib.; influence of Church progress on
Dissent, ib; Congregationalism,, 189; Bap-
tists, 190; church missions, 191; choral ser-
vices, ib.

Clergy, health of the, 54.

Clive's, Lord, policy in India, 221; obtains
three imperial charters from Shah Alum, ib.
Cock-fighting prohibited by the Long Parlia-
ment, 248.

Commonwealth, the, legislation of the, 238; first
act of the Long Parliament, 239; coinage, ib.;
new great seal, ib.; gunpowder and saltpetre,
239, 240; Act abolishing any temporal juris-
diction to persons in holy orders, 240; assess-
ment on behalf of wounded soldiers, widows
and orphans, ib.; the Directory substituted for
the Prayer-book, 241; baptisms, 242; cele-
bration of marriage, ib.; provisions for burial,
ib.; singing of psalms, ib. ; removal of altars,
&c., 243; payment of tithes, ib.; upholding
and keeping all parish churches and chapels,
244; Society for propagating the Gospel in
New England, ib.; observance of the Lord's
day, 244, 245; Saints' days abolished, 245;
violations of the moral law, 246; control of
the press, ib.; the 'Areopagitica,' ib.; unli
censed or scandalous pamphlets, ib.; preserva-
tion of literary treasures, 247; suppression of
stage-plays and interludes, ib.; fiddlers or
minstrels, 248; horse-racing, cock-fighting,
ib.; the law of marriage and registration, ib. ;
appointment of surveyors of the highways,
248, 249; union of parishes for spiritual pur-
poses, 249; the well-governing of the univer-