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INDEX TO VOL. C..

ARNOLD, Matthew: his "Culture and Anarchy" re-
viewed, 100 seg. See Man.

CHRIST, Dr. Hanna's Life of, 167; success of the
two earlier volumes, 168; Dr. Young's "Christ of
History," ib.; the problem as to the religious sig-
nificance of the life of Christ, one of historical
philosophy, 169; the idea of rewriting the life of
Jesus a modern conception, ib.; Socrates and
Christ, 170; psychological and critical study of
the Gospels, 171; early efforts-Jeremy Taylor,
ib.; Hess, Herder, Paulus, 172; Schleiermacher,
Hase, ib.; Strauss's "Life of Jesus," 170, 173;
his treatment of the supernatural, ib.; the mythi-
cal theory, 174; the works of Neander, 175, and
Renan, 175, 176; the latter replied to by Edmond
de Pressensé, 176, 177; Ellicott's Bampton Lec-
tures, 177; Dr. Kitto's Illustrations,-work of
Rev. Isaac Williams,-and Ecce Homo, 177, 178;
prerequisites to an adequate biography, 178; char-
acteristics of Dr. Hanna's work, 178, 179; the
influence of Nature on Christ, 179; Dean Stanley,
ib.; break and sequences in the Evangelical nar-
ratives, 179, 180; the soundings of moral evidence
in Dr. Hanna's work, 180; indirect signs of the
supernatural in Christ's life, 181; its consistent
harmony shown, contrary to Renan, De Wette,
Paulus, 181, 182; instances of Christ's unparalleled
assumptions, if only human, 182, 183; the Great
Commission, 184; problems underlying the nar-
rative, 184, 185; the nature of our Lord's resur-
rection body, 185; the fundamental feature which
distinguishes this life from those by Strauss and
Renan, 186; the question of the miraculous,
187; the natural and supernatural, ib.; the es-
sential nature of a miracle, 188; the Ideal real-
ized in One Human Life, 189.

DANISH Literature; see Holberg.

Our

Tyndale, Bishop Bale, and others, 37, 38;
early printers chiefly occupied with works in the
vernacular, 38; translations from the classics,
39, and their influence on the language, 40;
Shakespeare's dramatic works, ib., 44, 45;
changes affecting the language during the period
of the Revolution,--English literature after the
Restoration, 40; fashionable Gallicisms, 41, 42;
literature of Queen Anne's reign, 42; alleged re-
finement of the language, 43; Dryden, and his
criticism of the Elizabethan dramatists, 43,45;
Addison and his writings, 45; his criticism of
Milton's language, 46,47; and protest against ne-
ologisms, 47; Alexander Pope, 48; Johnson, and
his criticism of Shakespeare, 48, 49; Dryden's
version of "Troilus and Cressida," 49, 50; influ-
ence of the events in the latter half of the eigh-
teenth century on the literature of the nineteenth,
50,-exuberance of original poetic genius, ib.;
contrast between the close of the sixteenth and
that of the eighteenth century, 50, 51; expansion
of social and political interests, and its intellectu-
al effect, 51; the work of reflective expansion in
our native vocabulary, 52.

European Morals,-History of, by W. E. H. Lecky,
202; object of the work, ib.; apparent inconsis-
tencies in it, 202, 203; moral condition of the
Roman Empire, 204; mortifying result of the
teachings of Pagan philosophy, ib.; contentions
between the Stoics and the Epicureans, 205; in-
fluence of the conquests of Alexander, ib.; the
dogma of universal brotherhood, 206; Christian-
ity in the Empire, ib.; position of women under
its influence, ib.; success and ultimate triumph of
Christianity, how accounted for, 207; two of the
most important human causes-(1.) Doctrine of
future life, 207, 208; (2.) Formation of a strong
character, 208, 209; Constantine the Great, 209;
the progress of moral ideas and practice in the
first ages of Christianity, 210; excesses and per-
versions of its real force, ib.; misapprehension in-
volved in the charge brought against Christianity
as to its discouragement of patriotism, 210, 211;
the toleration of the Roman government, 212, as
exemplified while conquering and triumphant, 212,
and under reverses, 213; persecution of the Chris-
tians, ib.; the full effect of Christian principle on
domestic life under the Empire, unrecorded, 214;
the history of European morals leaves no impeach-
ment on the claim of Christianity to be divine, 215.

EARLY History of Man: His antiquity-Ancient
Egypt, 272, 274; China, 274; the "mother-
tribe" of the Indo-Europeans, ib.; archæology,
276, 277; Primitive state, 277; definition of ci-
vilisation, 278; the grouping of men in societies,
278, 281; Sir George Grey's hypothesis, 281;
progress in arts and sciences, 282; language-
its origin, 282, 283; systems of religion, 283, 284;
method of studing early history, 286; inequali-
ties of development, 286, 288; symbols of law
and ceremony, 288, 289; summary, 290.
English language, revolutions in its history, 34;
the great creative period of English literature that
of the Reformation, 35; contrast between it and
the productive epoch of our literature, ib.; spirit
of nationality expressed, 36; reign of Henry
VIII., ib.; influence of the Reformation on our
language, 37;-through translations of works by
Continental Reformers, ib.; and by the controver-
sies it provoked--Sir Thomas More and William

GEOLOGICAL Time, 215; trade-unionism in science,
216; Hooker on Lyell, ib.; use of mathematics,
217; the anonymous writer in the Pall Mall Ga-
zette, ib.; the grand question in geology, 218;
the Uniformitarian school, ib.; Dr. Hooker's Ad-
dress, 219; place assigned to mathematics in this
controversy, ib.; resistance to planets' motions,
220; resistance offered by the tides to the earth's
rotation, ib.; tidal reaction on the moon, 221; how

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this bears on the speculations of geologists, ib.;
argument from earth's figure, 222; the Uniformi-
tarian hypothesis disproved, 222, 223; examina-
tion of Professor Huxley's Address, 223 seq.;
British popular geology, 225; Sir W. Thomson's
Reply, 226; periods required by Uniformitarians,
227; general survey of the subject, 228 seq.;
Thomson's three arguments, 228, 231; answer to
Huxley's charge of inconsistency, 231, 232; the
reasoning in Thomson's arguments strictly cu-
mulative, 232; triumph of scientific truth, 232, 233.
Germany, Reconstruction of, 133; the battle of
Sadowa, and its results, ib.; exceptional position
of Germany amongst her neighbours from the
first dawn of her history, 133, 134; the French
Revolution, 134; history of the Confederation
of the Rhine, 185; its contract with France,
ib.; the battle of Jena, ib.; the history of
Prussia between 1807 and 1813 the turning
point in the history of Germany, 135,136;
the war of liberation, ib.; Prussia and Aus-
tria, 136,137; Prussia at the Vienna Congress,
137; King Frederick-William 11., 138; neither
freedom nor union for Germany gained at Vienna,
ib.; Baron von Stein, ib.; Act of the Germanic
Confederation, 139,-its distinctive character, ib.;
the Frankfort Diet, 139,140; policies of Austria
and Prussia subsequent to the Final Act of 1820,
140; Germany's political professors, 140,141; the
"Staatenbund," 141, and the "Bundesstaat," ib. ;
the discussions of 1848-49 in the Frankfort Par-
liament, 142; the crown of Germany offered to
the King of Prussia, but declined, 143,144; the
new Confederacy proposed by Prussia, 144; Aus-
tria summons the Diet to meet at Frankfort, ib.;
the subsequent conflict, 145, 146; the Italian war
gives the signal for the resuscitation of the Ger-
man question, 146; the campaign of 1859, 147;
the attitude of the several governments interested
in the solution of the German question, 147,148;
incidents of the political campaign between the
Great Germans and the Little Germans, 148, 149;
the programme of reform issued by the Wurz-
burg Coalition, 149; replies of Austria and Prus-
sia, 150; formation of the Bismarck ministry at
Berlin, 150,151, and the legacies bequeathed to
him by his predecessors, 151,152; the two lines
of policy taken up by him, 152; aspect of the con-
flict with the Würzburg Coalition at this time,
153; eventful conversation between Bismarck
and the Austrian Minister at Berlin, 153,154; in-
terview between the Emperor of Austria and the
King of Prussia, 154; a Congress of Sovereigns
'proposed shortly afterwards by Austria, ib., de-
clined by Prussia, ib.; the Austrian programme,
155,156; reply of the Prussian cabinet, 157; in-
dependent action of the two great Powers, 158;
the controversy interrupted by the death of the
King of Denmark, ib.; subsequent events till the
battle of Sadowa, ib.; reconstructed Germany,
158,160; examination of the North German Con-
stitution, 162,166.

for the Moral Philosophy Chair in Edinburgh,
259; election to that of Civil History, ib.; his
marriage, and its influence on his character and
subsequent career, 259,260; researches in Phre-
nology, 260; Mr. Carlyle's reminiscences of him,
260,261; his first appearance as a critic, in 1829,
in Edinburgh Review, 261,262; subsequent con-
tributions to that Journal, 262; contest for the
Chair of Logic in 1836, 263,264; opening of the
class, 264; description of the class-room, 265;
sketch by Professor Baynes, 265,266; remini-
scences by Dr. Cairns, 266; work of the class,
266,267; courtesy to his students, and the gener-
al effect and value of his teaching, 267; influence
of his writings in America-passage from a pa-
per by Professor Porter, 268; his edition of
Reid's Works, ib.; honours conferred on him
from abroad, ib.; small recognition of his claims
in his own country, 269; struck by paralysis in
1844, ib.; the pension, 270; Sir William in his
latter days, 270,271; his edition of Dugald Stew-
art's Works, 271; unfinished literary labours,
271,272; last years, illness, and death, 272.
Holberg, Ludvig,--the father of modern Danish
literature, 233; no national literature before him,
233,234; parentage, 234; visit to Holland, ib.;
visits England, and studies at Oxford, 234,235;
returns to Copenhagen and lectures on his trav-
els, 235; publishes his first work, ib.; his visit to
Rome, and return to Copenhagen, where he is
appointed Professor of Latin and Rhetoric, 236;
period of literary activity, 236,237; his illness
and death, 237,238; his simple mode of life, 238;
distinctive features of his genius, ib. ; his desire to
found a national literature, 239; his strength as a
moralist, and his weakness, 239,240; his influence
on the language, 240,241; his three principal
works-"Peder Paars," 241; "Niels Klim,"
242, and the Comedies, 243; comparison between
Holberg and Molière, 244; translations, from one
of his comedies, "Erasmus Montanus," 244,249;
charges brought against his comedies, 249,250;
the "Epistles," 250; influence of his works on
the minds of his contemporaries, 250,251.
Hudson's Bay Company, The origin, history, and
present condition of the Red River Settlement, 83,
84; Sebastian Cabot-Henry Hudson-Prince Ru-
pert, 84; nature of the Company's title, 84, 85;
Parliament petitioned in 1690, by the traders, 85;
the Company's failure, 86; the first legislative in-
quiry into its affairs, ib.; the North-West Fur Com-
pany, 87; rivalry and warfare between the Com-
panies, and their subsequent amalgamation, ib.;
the Charter of the Company denounced as illegal
---opinion of counsel as to its validity, ib.; Lord
Brougham's opinion, 88; Right Hon. Edward
Ellice, ib.; misgovernment of Red River Settle-
ment, and grievances of the settlers, 88, 89; the
Hudson's Bay dispute, 90; the Company's preten-
sions, ib.; the portion of territory styled the
Fertile Belt, ib.; the character of the country
misrepresented by the Company's officials, ib. seq.;
Sir George Simpson's paradox, 91; expeditions to
explore the country, 91, 92; route to the Rocky
Mountains, 92; testimony of the independent ex-
plorers, Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle, ib.; change
of opinion indicated in the Company's last pros-
pectus, 98; the Company and the Stock-Ex-
change, ib.; agitation in the Dominion of Canada
as to the acquisition of the Company's territory,
94; Canadian forests, ib.; definition of the foot-
ing on which the Company was to stand in rela-
tion to the Dominion, 95; Mr. Gladstone's propo-
sitions, 95, 96; the "Rupert's Land Act, 1868,"
96; Colonial administration, 96, 97; desirability
of extinguishing the claims of the Company by

HAMILTON, Sir William,-Memoir of, 251; birth and
parentage, 252; early studies, 253; at Glasgow
and Oxford Universities, 253,254; intimate
friends, 254; Mr. Christie's Oxford reminiscences,
254,255; additional particulars by Mr. Traill, 255,
256; final examination for his degree at Oxford,
256; studies for the Scottish Bar, and passes as
advocate, ib.; adjudged heir-male to Sir Robert
Hamilton of Preston, ib.; the patrimonial estate,
ib.; notice of his ancestors, ib.; career at the Bar,
257; his merits unrecognised, 257,258; life in
Edinburgh, 1813 to 1820-anecdote of this period
given by Professor Baynes, 258,259; candidature

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an immediate payment in cash, 97; our imperial
policy, 98; Canada as a field for emigration, ib. ;
route to the East through the Dominion of Cana-
da, 99; importance of having this controversy
with the Hudson's Bay Company finally settled,
ib.; probable issue of its settlement, ib.

lums in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland,
ib.; nature and causes of the increase, ib.; the
numbers admitted into asylums during the last
ten years, 65, 66; discharges and admissions une-
qual 66, 67; private and pauper lunatics, ib.; dif-
ferent classes of the discharged, 67, 68; the cura-
ble and incurable, 68; the question as to the
possibility of providing for some of the insane
poor otherwise than in asylums, with probable ben-
efit, 69, 70; the Report of the Scotch Commis-
sioners on this question, 70; desirability of pro-
viding for this class less pretentious buildings, 71;
the additions in constant demand in County and
District Asylums, 71, 72; remedies proposed: (1.)
transference to buildings intermediate in character
between work-houses and asylums, 73, 74; (2.)
transference to the workhouse, 74; condition of
the insane in workhouses, ib.-in England, 74,
75-in Scotland, ib.-and in Ireland, 76; (3.)
transference to private dwellings, ib.; state of
pauper lunatics so disposed of at present, in Eng-
land, 77-in Scotland, 78; seq.--and in Ireland,
79; results of the examination of the three propo-
sed outlets for the chronic insane in asylums, 79,
80; recent provisions of the law to keep down un-
due accumulation in establishments, 80, 81; oth-
er considerations affecting this question, 81; mad-
houses and asylums, ib.; reform in treatment of
the insane, 82; importance of early treatment of
the disease, ib.; the relations between mental
and bodily health, 83; importance of the whole
subject, ib.

INDIA,-Public Works in: want of roads, 119; ap-
plication of the term "Public Works," 120; the
means available for work,-forced labour, ib.;
the idea of "Government" to a Hindu, ib.; com-
pulsory labour under the Mogul Shahs, 120, 121;
peculiar position of the British Government in
India, 121; its results-much writing, little work-
ing, ib.; difficulties and drawbacks to the opera-
tions of the Public Works department, 121, 122;
responsibilities of the officers, 122; their work,
122, 123; financial arrangements, 124; the
American blockade and the supply of cotton,
125; need of assistance for works in India, ib. ;
inducements to lay out money in improving
India, 125, 126, staff of the Department, 126; engi-
neering Colleges, ib.; labour and labourers in India,
127; Major Chesney's "Indian Polity," 127, 128;
State versus private enterprise, 128; operations
connected with irrigation, ib.; road-making hin-
dered by the want of suitable materials, 129;
railways, tramways, and bridges, 130; the con-
tract system, ib.; what is necessary to make the
Public Works department really useful, 130, 131;
administration of the department, 181; conse-
quences of the minute system of supervision at
present exercised, 132; the question of Russian
invasion, ib.; importance and necessity of enlist-
ing on our side the interests and sympathies of
the people of India, 133.

Irish Church Measure, 300; Lord Salisbury on the
functions of the House of Lords, ib.; his advice
with regard to its present action, 301, 302; it is
more than a Senate, 302; the attainment of
equality between the confessions the present
problem, 303; policy of Gladstone and Bright, ib. ;
the Irish Church Bill and its object, 303, 304; its
character as passed by the House of Commons,
304, 305; examination of Mr. Disraeli's speech on
the second reading, 305, 306; the question of
endowments, 307, 308; position of the Church as
contemplated by the Bill, 309; arrangements for
the employment of the surplus, 310; Maynooth
and the Regium Donum, ib.; tithes, ib.; general
justice of the measure, 310, 311; present state of
Ireland, 311; effect of the large majorities in the
House on the great body of the people, 311, 312;
the new Irish Lord Chancellor, 312; to what are
the recent outrages in Ireland to be attributed?
313, 314; liberation of the Fenian prisoners, 315;
the banquet at Cork, 316; demonstrations against
the Bill in the North, ib.; amendments to be in-
troduced in the House of Lords, 317; generosity
and justice, 318.

MAN, Early History of; see Early.
Man's Chief End,-What is it? 100; Mr. Arnold on
"Culture and Anarchy," ib.; the ideal of culture
and its realization, 101; thesis to be proved,-
that culture prosecuted with a view to the entire
perfection of our manhood and the reflex glory of
God, is the one absolute and untransferable end of
human existence, ib. ; what are the essentials of
human nature? 101, 102; "man's chief end" as
defined by the Westminster divines, 102, 103; the
educational schemes of so-called "practical men
vitiated by a fundamental flaw, 103, 104; this
doctrine of culture not separative and exclusive,
but intensely social, 104; a well-educated mind
sympathizes with other departments of study than
those it is specially acquainted with, 105; ideal
of an educated life, 105, 106; the religious facul-
ty, 106, 107; the relation in which religious cul-
ture stands to human perfection, 107; operation
of the law of intellectual and moral habit, 108;
three results of recognising the ideal, as here de-
fined, 108, 109; can this ideal be realized? 109;
obstacles and objections, 110, 111; summary of
the laws of culture, 111, 112; Mr. Arnold's teach-
ing on this subject, 112; Hellenism and Hebraism,
113; contrast between the two tendencies so de-
signated, 113, 114; Mr. Arnold's doctrine lays too
much stress on thought, and indefinitely postpones
action, 114; his anticipations of the future some-
what sad, 115; and why, ib.; his range of culture
unduly narrowed, 115, 116; his antagonism to
"machinery," 116; the austerity of his attitude
towards his own generation, 117; his classifica-
tion of British society, 118; "whence do we
come ?" "whither do we tend ?" 118, 119.
Milman's (Dean) "Annals of St. Paul's," 52; his
early life, and literary labours, 52, 53; careless
editing of the "Annals," 54; notices of early
Deans, ib.; and Bishops of London, 55; the hu
mour and urbanity of his writings, ib.; his style
compared with that of Gibbon, 56, 57; charac-
teristics of it, 57, 59; controversies in which he
was engaged, 59; his "History of the Jews," 59,

LANDOR, Walter Savage,-Forster's biography of,
290; birth and parentage, 291, 292; his way-
wardness as a boy, 292; at Rugby school, 293;
his year at Oxford, 294; Dorothea Lyttleton, ib.;
becomes an author, 295; writes political articles
-visit to Paris, 295, 296; residence at Bath--
"Ianthe," 296; raid into Spain-purchase of
Llanthony, 296, 297; marriage with Julia Thuil-
lier, 297; settles at Florence till 1835, when he
returned to Bath, 297, 298; acquaintanceships
formed there-Forster, Dickens, Eliza Lynn, 298;
death at Florence, ib.; description of his person,
ib.; his love of children, 299; remarks on his
genius, ib.

Lunacy, Increase of, 65; statistics of the asy-

this bears on the speculations of geologists, ib.;
argument from earth's figure, 222; the Uniformi-
tarian hypothesis disproved, 222, 223; examina-
tion of Professor Huxley's Address, 223 seq.;
British popular geology, 225; Sir W. Thomson's
Reply, 226; periods required by Uniformitarians,
227; general survey of the subject, 228 seq.;
Thomson's three arguments, 228, 281; answer to
Huxley's charge of inconsistency, 231, 232; the
reasoning in Thomson's arguments strictly cu-
mulative, 232; triumph of scientific truth, 232, 233.
Germany, Reconstruction of, 133; the battle of
Sadowa, and its results, ib.; exceptional position
of Germany amongst her neighbours from the
first dawn of her history, 133, 134; the French
Revolution, 134; history of the Confederation
of the Rhine, 135; its contract with France,
ib.; the battle of Jena, ib.; the history of
Prussia between 1807 and 1813 the turning
point in the history of Germany, 135,136;
the war of liberation, ib.; Prussia and Aus-
tria, 136,137; Prussia at the Vienna Congress,
137; King Frederick-William III., 138; neither
freedom nor union for Germany gained at Vienna,
ib.; Baron von Stein, ib.; Act of the Germanic
Confederation, 139,-its distinctive character, ib.;
the Frankfort Diet, 139,140; policies of Austria
and Prussia subsequent to the Final Act of 1820,
140; Germany's political professors, 140,141; the
"Staatenbund," 141, and the "Bundesstaat," ib.;
the discussions of 1848-49 in the Frankfort Par-
liament, 142; the crown of Germany offered to
the King of Prussia, but declined, 143,144; the
new Confederacy proposed by Prussia, 144; Aus-
tria summons the Diet to meet at Frankfort, ib.;
the subsequent conflict, 145, 146; the Italian war
gives the signal for the resuscitation of the Ger-
man question, 146; the campaign of 1859, 147;
the attitude of the several governments interested
in the solution of the German question, 147,148;
incidents of the political campaign between the
Great Germans and the Little Germans, 148, 149;
the programme of reform issued by the Wurz-
burg Coalition, 149; replies of Austria and Prus-
sia, 150; formation of the Bismarck ministry at
Berlin, 150,151, and the legacies bequeathed to
him by his predecessors, 151,152; the two lines
of policy taken up by him, 152; aspect of the con-
flict with the Würzburg Coalition at this time,
153; eventful conversation between Bismarck
and the Austrian Minister at Berlin, 153,154; in-
terview between the Emperor of Austria and the
King of Prussia, 154; a Congress of Sovereigns
'proposed shortly afterwards by Austria, ib., de-
clined by Prussia, ib.; the Austrian programme,
155,156; reply of the Prussian cabinet, 157; in-
dependent action of the two great Powers, 158;
the controversy interrupted by the death of the
King of Denmark, ib.; subsequent events till the
battle of Sadowa, ib.; reconstructed Germany,
158,160; examination of the North German Con-
stitution, 162,166.

for the Moral Philosophy Chair in Edinburgh,
259; election to that of Civil History, ib.; his
marriage, and its influence on his character and
subsequent career, 259,260; researches in Phre-
nology, 260; Mr. Carlyle's reminiscences of him,
260,261; his first appearance as a critic, in 1829,
in Edinburgh Review, 261,262; subsequent con-
tributions to that Journal, 262; contest for the
Chair of Logic in 1836, 263,264; opening of the
class, 264; description of the class-room, 265;
sketch by Professor Baynes, 265,266; remini-
scences by Dr. Cairns, 266; work of the class,
266,267; courtesy to his students, and the gener
al effect and value of his teaching, 267; influence
of his writings in America-passage from a pa-
per by Professor Porter, 268; his edition of
Reid's Works, ib.; honours conferred on him
from abroad, ib.; small recognition of his claims
in his own country, 269; struck by paralysis in
1844, ib.; the pension, 270; Sir William in his
latter days, 270,271; his edition of Dugald Stew-
art's Works, 271; unfinished literary labours,
271,272; last years, illness, and death, 272.
Holberg, Ludvig,--the father of modern Danish
literature, 233; no national literature before him,
233,234; parentage, 234; visit to Holland, ib.;
visits England, and studies at Oxford, 234,235 ;
returns to Copenhagen and lectures on his trav-
els, 235; publishes his first work, ib.; his visit to
Rome, and return to Copenhagen, where he is
appointed Professor of Latin and Rhetoric, 236;
period of literary activity, 236,237; his illness
and death, 237,238; his simple mode of life, 238;
distinctive features of his genius, ib.; his desire to
found a national literature, 239; his strength as a
moralist, and his weakness, 239,240; his influence
on the language, 240,241; his three principal
works-"Peder Paars," 241; "Niels Klim,"
242, and the Comedies, 243; comparison between
Holberg and Molière, 244; translations, from one
of his comedies, "Erasmus Montanus," 244,249;
charges brought against his comedies, 249,250;
the "Epistles," 250; influence of his works on
the minds of his contemporaries, 250,251.
Hudson's Bay Company, The: origin, history, and
present condition of the Red River Settlement, 83,
84; Sebastian Cabot-Henry Hudson--Prince Ru-
pert, 84; nature of the Company's title, 84, 85;
Parliament petitioned in 1690, by the traders, 85;
the Company's failure, 86; the first legislative in-
quiry into its affairs, ib.; the North-West Fur Com-
pany, 87; rivalry and warfare between the Com-
panies, and their subsequent amalgamation, ib.;
the Charter of the Company denounced as illegal
-opinion of counsel as to its validity, ib.; Lord
Brougham's opinion, 88; Right Hon. Edward
Ellice, ib.; misgovernment of Red River Settle-
ment, and grievances of the settlers, 88, 89; the
Hudson's Bay dispute, 90; the Company's preten-
sions, fb.; the portion of territory styled the
Fertile Belt, ib.; the character of the country
misrepresented by the Company's officials, ib. seq.;
Sir George Simpson's paradox, 91; expeditions to
explore the country, 91, 92; route to the Rocky
Mountains, 92; testimony of the independent ex-
plorers, Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle, ib.; change
of opinion indicated in the Company's last pros-
pectus, 98; the Company and the Stock-Ex-
change, ib.; agitation in the Dominion of Canada
as to the acquisition of the Company's territory,
94; Canadian forests, ib.; definition of the foot-
ing on which the Company was to stand in rela-
tion to the Dominion, 95; Mr. Gladstone's propo-
sitions, 95, 96; the "Rupert's Land Act, 1868,"
96; Colonial administration, 96, 97; desirability
of extinguishing the claims of the Company by

HAMILTON, Sir William,-Memoir of, 251; birth and
parentage, 252; early studies, 253; at Glasgow
and Oxford Universities, 253,254; intimate
friends, 254; Mr. Christie's Oxford reminiscences,
254,255; additional particulars by Mr. Traill, 255,
256; final examination for his degree at Oxford,
256; studies for the Scottish Bar, and passes as
advocate, ib.; adjudged heir-male to Sir Robert
Hamilton of Preston, ib.; the patrimonial estate,
ib.; notice of his ancestors, ib.; career at the Bar,
257; his merits unrecognised, 257,258; life in
Edinburgh, 1813 to 1820--anecdote of this period
given by Professor Baynes, 258,259; candidature i

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