Clare (Fitz Gibbon, Lord), his commanding in-
fluence as Chancellor of Ireland, 92; style of
eloquence, ib.; daring spirit, 93; deadly and
lifelong feud with Curran, ib.; crisis of the
quarrel, 94; particulars of their duel, 95; Fitz
Gibbon's deliberate aim, ib.; parallel between
Thurlow and Fitz Gibbon, 96; anecdotes of
his antagonism with Curran, 96, 97; chal-
lenged by the Hon. S. Butler, 97, 98; his
arrogance in the House of Lords, 99; dis-
honoured funeral, ib.; humane conduct in the.
case of Lord Edward Fitz Gerald, ib; witti-
cisms, 100.

Clay's (James, M. P.), treatise on Short Whist
30.

Clonmel (Earl of), Chief Justice of the King's
Bench in Ireland, 92.

Coleridge's (Sir J. F.) letter to Canon Liddon on
the advantages of an establishment, 247.
Collins's Ancient Classics for General Readers,'
a useful series, 284.

Conington's (Professor) Horace, 274. See Horace.
Corpus Historicum projected by the Master of
the Rolls, 215.

Cotton's Compleat Gamester,' 25.

Cromwell, answer of Hampden to Lord Digby
respecting, 40.

Curran and Lord Clare, anecdotes of their an-
tagonism, 96; his attack on Lord Clare before
the Privy Council, 97; Curran's proposed pre-
paration for a duel with Egan, 100.
Cyrenius or Quirinus, Governor of Syria, investi-
gation of the date of the Census of Judæa
taken under, 268; sketch of his career by
Tacitus, ib.; forged and genuine inscriptions
relating to him, 272, 273.

Dickson's History of Japan,' 284; the most ac-
curate account of Christianity in the islands,
290.

Doctrinaires (French), apology for, 197.
Downing Street, perpetual change in the normal
condition of, 146.

Dryden's praise of Lord Shaftesbury, 168.
Duelling, anecdotes of Irish, 98.

calamitous event of the war for France, 76;
the French victory of Bacon, 77; sorties from
Paris, ib.; technical inferiority of the French,
80; hence two German soldiers may be esti-
mated as equal to three French, ib.; ten bat-
tles of the army of the Loire within thirteen
days against the best German troops, ib.;
General Trochu's attack, 80, 81; moral advan-
tage of the French in the operations of the
30th November, 81; physical advantage, 82;
barbarity of the Germans and the terror inspir-
ed by them, 83; burning of Cherizy, ib.; sui-
cides of women, old men, and whole families,
ib.; the servants of the pious King of Prussia, .
84; the war since Sedan stigmatised by Eu-
rope as one of conquest, 85; the present posi-
tion of France paralleled in Prussia's desperate
situation in the Seven Years' War, 86.

Francis (Sir Philip), the author of Junius's Let-
ters, 187.

French defeat, causes of, 138; the chronic revolu-
tion for eighty years, 139; the cyclical period
of French Constitutions about twenty years,
140; logical consequences of Napoleon III.'s
policy with the army, 141; the victories of
Prussia the fruit of systematic preparation, 144.
See Napoleon III.

Gambetta, virtually Dictator of France, 76.
Geneva Convention, 252; blessings due to it, 263.
German grudge against England, 49.

armies, organization of, 21; dreadful ty-
ranny of their military system, ib.

- and French history, contrast between the
two most momentous epochs of, 195; cause of
the war of 1806 between France and Prussia,
196; analogy between that precipitate rupture
and that of 1870, 196, 197; the possession of
Metz a standing menace and national humilia-
tion to France, 200.

Girondins, song of the, 118.

Edwards's (Edward), ‘Libraries and Founders of
Libraries,' 201.

Elcho's (Lord), 'Letters on Military Organiza-
tion,' 301.

Emperors, different types of, 199.
Erskine, repartee of Garrow to, 102.

Experts in comparison of handwritings, Mr.Twis-
leton's observations on, 177.

Fenian invasion of Ireland, conjectures respect-
ing a, 19.

Fitton (Sir A.), Chancellor of Ireland, 88.
Fletcher's (Judge), charge to the jury in a case
of duelling, 98.

Florus, corrupt texts of, 272.

France, its unsurpassed prosperity under the
Second Empire, i; sudden overthrow unparal-
leled in history, 2.

invasion of, 65; the 'Government of Na-
tional Defence,' 66; base of operations for all
the German forces, 69; details of the march
on Paris, 69, 70; every advantage obtained by
either side traceable to superiority of concen-
tration, 70; the surrender of Metz the most

Hardy's (Sir T.) descriptive catalogue of chroni-
cles and memorials, 216.

Haze (red), inspiring the young soldier with a
fury to shed blood, 264.

Historiographers of religious houses, 216.
History, two grand sources of, the State Papers

and the Chronicles, 218; demands on the his-
torian have become more rigid and exacting,
ib.
Homonadenses, a robber tribe, subdued by Qui-
rinus, 270.

Horace, translated into English verse by Profes
sor Conington and Mr. Theodore Martin, 274;
the modus operandi of the two translators com-
pared, 275; metres employed by them, 276;
the palm of ease with Martin, of terseness with
Conington, 277; comparison of various pas-
sages of the two translators, 278; their crite-
rion trial-ground Horace's satiric pictures in the
'Journey to Brundisium' and Horace's 'Bore,'
280; specimens of the translations of the satire
'Ibam forte viâ,' 281; Mr. Martin's excellence
in the gnomic sentences of Horace, ib.; the
gastronomic satires, 282; Professor Coning-
ton's compensatory principle, ib.; two classes
of readers to benefit by those versions, 284.

Hortense (Queen), author of
Syrie,' 116.
House of Commons, how its decisions are influ-
enced, 148; the democratic revolution of 1832
and the legislation of 1867, 150; our adminis-
tration tends more and more to the vice of
drifting, 151; paralysis of government, ib.
Howes's (Rev. F.) translation of Horace, 276.
Hoyle's Treatise on Whist, 28; founder of whist,
ib.

India, Revenues of. The main revenue of all
Indian native states derived from the land, 50;
sources of 'extra' revenue, ib.; the revenue of
the Government about half the rental of its
whole Indian territories, 52; the salt-tax from
500 to 2500 per cent. on the prime cost, 52, 53;
revenue from spirits and intoxicating drugs,
53, 54; parallel between the injurious effects
of opium and spirits, 54; the opium revenue
64 millions sterling, ib.; the stamp revenue
nearly 24 millions, ib.; administration of jus-
tice nearly self-supporting, ib.; effective reve-
nue 40 millions raised, ib.; expenditure, 55;
after deductions, 27 millions of spendable or
net income, ib.; average annual cost of the
army, military buildings, and the marine de-
partment, ib.; summary of the income and ex-
penditure of the British-Indian empire, 55, 56;
deficit of 3 millions, 56; income-tax, ib.; rela-
tive value of labour and money in India, 57;
population of British India, ib.; proportionate
value of labour in this country and in India as
8 or 10 to 1, ib.; the land révenue not a tax on
individuals, ib.; how far new taxation neces-
sary, 59; the value of money in India falling,
and prices rising, ib.; the Indian army, Euro-
pean and Native, 61; average annual expense
of a European soldier in India, 2001, ib.; Indian
railways, 62; the secret of Indian financial dif-
ficulties, 63; comparison of Indian with Eng
lish taxation, 64; two cardinal facts in regard
to Indian taxation, 65.

Ireland, its disaffection, 18; probable result of a
Fenian invasion of, 19; Irish disloyalty would
be cured by a twelve months' occupation by a
foreign army, ib.

Japan, Christianity in, 289; Nobunanga's massa-
cre of the Bonzes and demolition of their tem-
ples and monasteries, 291; he permits the Je-
suits to rebuild their church, ib.; history of the
missionaries during the reign of Taicosama,
292; Don Augustin, a powerful Japanese prince,
the head of the Christian party, 293; rebellion
of the Christians of Arima under intolerable
persecutions, 295.

Jesuits, their daring and intrigues everywhere
about the beginning of the seventeenth cen-
tury, 292.

Julia Alpinula, her famous epitaph the work of
a modern hand, 271.
Janius (Letters of), evidence of their being writ-
ten by Sir Philip Francis, 176; the letters writ-
ten in a feigned hand, 180; two classes of evi-
dence identifying the handwriting with that of
Sir Philip, ib.; facsimiles of his handwriting
and that of Junius, ib. ; peculiarities common
to both, 181; M. Chabot's mode of investigating
the formation of letters, 183, 184; nine instan-
ces of habits common to Junius and Francis,
184; their attention to punctuation, 185; com-
parison of paper used by Junius and Francis,
186; conclusive nature of M. Chabot's argu-
ments, 188.

Langrishe's (Sir H.) personation of Banquo's
Ghost, and consequent duel with Flood, 95; a
bon vivant, 96.

Lewin's New Testament Chronology.' 267.
Lessons of the War, 137; the war a remarkable
experiment illustrating political science, 145;
war, to the vanquished, the same under the
Prussians as under Attila, ib.; an army ready
to take the field in 3 weeks now a condition
of national safety, 147; inefficiency of our de-
fensive preparations, 151; our destiny bound
up with that of Belgium, Turkey, and Sweden,
152; the great need of the crisis a military
organization, ib.; the great lesson of the war
to drive out from us the prophets of optimism,
153; we live in an age of blood and iron,'ib.;
to escape misery and dishonour, no trust to be
placed in moral influence or fancied restraints
of civilisation, ib. ; to trust in untrained valour
Lifford (Hewitt, Lord), Chancellor of Ireland, 91;
and self-devotion, the silliest of delusions, ib.
Lincoln, the Church of, 122; students of, 125;
an example of two maxims, 92.
its schools of architecture and music, 126; of
divinity, ib.; three points in the daily corpo-
rate life of the Cathedral, 128.
Laudare and Laudum, ecclesiastical meaning of,
123..

Malet (Sir A.) on Bismarck's policy, 42, 49.
Mann's (Nicholas) Latin Essay relating to the
date of Christ's ministry, 273.
Marseillaise (La), origin of the song, 111.
Martin of Galway and his fighting opponent
Daly, 98; his vituperation of the Chancellor
(Ponsonby) in the Irish House of Commons, 101.

-'s (Theodore) translation of Horace, 274.
Martyrology, horrors of, 294.
(See Horace.)
Matthews's Advice to the Young Whist Player,

29.

Methuen, Chancellor of Ireland, 89.
Millington's translation of Horace, 277.
Midleton (Lord), Chancellor of Ireland, 90.
Moltke's (von) detailed plan for the invasion of
England, 86.

Napier's (Sir Joseph), Chancellor of Ireland, legal
knowledge and political integrity, 306.
Napoleon I.'s brilliant strategy caused a revolu-
tion in warfare, 20.

III., material prosperity of France
under, 140; his one paramount consideration
outside purely industrial legislation, ib.; mys-
tery of his conduct in declaring war, 141;
essential feebleness of his government, 142;
what would have averted his fall, 143; his
policy contrasted with that of the King of
Prussia, ib.

National defence, twofold problem of, 2; French
and English dockyards and arsenals compared,
3, 4; sale of Deptford and Woolwich Dock-
yards, 4; inadequate state of the Thames de-
fences, 5; increase in the thickness of armour-
plating and the bore and charge of guns, 6;
the Staunch' and other gun-boats, 7; inse-
curity of Malta and Gibraltar, 8: hypothetical
consequences of an invasion of England, 9;
cost of a British soldier 1007. per annum, 10;
compared with that of a French or Prussian
one, ib.; inefficiency of the militia, 11; steady-
ing effect of the volunteer movement on the
French colonels, 12; recommendation of the
Commission of 1860 for a central arsenal at

Cannock Chase, 13; reply to an objection
against the fortification of large cities, 13, 14;
question of the fortification of London, 14; |
estimate for the complete defence of Chatham,
17; progress of the power of the United States,
Russia, Prussia, and France, 20, 21; the mise-
rable pretext of economy the ruling passion of
our statesmen, 22; where our real danger
lies, 23.

National Guards (French), its tendency to create
revolutions, 190.

Nativity of Christ, the common era of, untrust-
worthy, 266; not later that the year 5 before
the common era, ib.

Naval battles, ramming in, 3.

New York and Boston, unassailable defences
of, 7.

Norbury (Toler, Lord) as a duellist, 98; Lord
Clare's opinion of his unfitness for the judicial
seat, 100.

O'Connell's duel with D'Esterre, 98: challenged
by Sir Robert Peel, ib.; Lord Norbury's sar-
casm on, ib.

O'Flanagan's Lives of the Chancellors of Ireland,
86; character of the work, 107, 108.

Opium, question whether it is more injurious
than spirits, 54; great extension of its cultiva-
tion in China, 60.

Pan-Teutonism, 46; summary of the Pan-Teu-
tonic creed, 47; designs on German Switzer-
land, Flemish Belgium and Holland, 48.
Paris, its vast circumference the principal cause
of its strength, 73.

Peel (Sir R.), as challenged and challenger to
duels, 98.

Pensions (Civil List), their aggregate amount
18,000l. or 20,000l. a-year, 219; Act of Parlia-
ment establishing pensions on the Civil List,
220; number and amounts of pensions granted
during the present reign, ib.; pensions for
military services, 221; naval, 222; foreign and
colonial, ib.; services in public offices, 223;
miscellaneous, ib.; for useful discoveries in
science, 224; pensions of 3007. ib.; of 2007.
down to 504, 224, 225; pensions for attain-
ments in literature, 226; lists of pensions from
300l. to 100l., 226, 227; from 90, to 20, 227,
228; questions suggested by an examination
of the names and nationalities of literary pen-
sions, 229; suggestions for the future manage-
ment of the Pension List, 230, 231.
Phipps (Sir Constantine), Chancellor of Ireland,
90.

Plunket (Lord), free from the faults attributed to

the Irish school of eloquence, 101; Sir G. C.
Lewis's comparison of Pitt and Plunket as
orators, ib.; family and early career, 102;
early eminence in criminal cases, ib.; returned
for the borough of Charlemont, 103; imme-
diate collision with Lord Castlereagh on the
Union, ib.; invective against Castlereagh, ib.;
his part in the debate on the Union, 104; speech
of, on Catholic emancipation in the British
House of Commons, 105; answer to a proposed
vote of censure on him, 106; jockeyed out of
the woolsack to make way for Lord Campbell,
ib.; his judicial career less successful than his
forensic and political, ib.; his wit, 107; the
boast and ornament of his country, ib.; his
luminous career closed in darkness and
gloom, ib.

Pole's (Dr.) theory of whist, 30.

Ponsonby, Chancellor of Ireland, 100; Toler's

attack on him in the Irish House of Com-
mons, 101.
Porter (Sir C.), Chancellor of Ireland, 88.
Portuguese expeditions to the East, 284.
Propertius supposed to be Horace's' Bore,' 280.
Prussia, historical position giving peculiar
strength to the reigning house, 145; Prussia's
ruling passion territorial aggrandisement, .97;
its conduct respecting Hanover exposed by Mr.
Fox in 1806, ib.; military view of the Prussian
system, 200; Prussia's German policy, by Pro-
fessor Schmidt. ib.; the country's position be-
fore the war, 248.

Prussian army, its unity of action and of com-
mand, 11; the Prussian system must be
adopted by France, Austria, and other na-
tions, 21.

Purchase system in the army misrepresented,
302; its benefits conferred on the nation, 304.

Record Office (National) described, 201; former
restrictions on reference to State Papers, 202,
203; Mr. Cole's description of the condition of
public muniments, 203; Prynne's report of
the state of the records to Charles II., 204 ;
extortionate fees abolished, 205; the task of
making catalogues or calendars, 206; names
of their editors, 207; the minutest details of
social life and domestic manners contained in
the State Papers, 207, 208; comparison be-
tween manuscript and printed calendars, 210;
Mr. Tytler's remarks on Catalogues raisonnées,
211; the calendars take the reader behind the
scenes, 212; their utility to history, 213.
Redesdale (Lord), Chancellor of Ireland, 100;
jokes at his expense, ib.

Republic (French), the monomania expressed by
the principles of 1789,' 190; the French re-
public always a scourge or a sham, 191;
cond French Republic (1848), 192.

Se-

Roche (Sir Boyle) in the Irish House of Com-..

mons, 172.

Rouget de l'Isle, author of 'La Marseillaise,' 111.
Rowan's (A Hamilton) challenge to Sir Robert
Peel, 98.

Ruff-and-Honours, game of, 25.
Russian property in France, delicacy of the Ger-
mans towards, 256, 257.

Shaftesbury (first Earl of), his autobiographical
fragments, 155, 156; descent, 156; a striking
instance of pr cocity, 157; life at Exeter Col-
lege, ib.; successful resistance to tucking
freshmen,' 158; a constant sufferer from dis-
ease, 159; chosen burgess for Tewkesbury to
the Short Parliament, ib.; elected for Downton
to the Long Parliament, ib.; offers the King to
undertake the general pacification of the realm
if the required powers were vested in him, ib;
renounces the King's party, 160; honour and
delicacy respecting his knowledge of the king's
affairs, ib; appointed Field-Marshal General,
ib.; gallantry in storming Abbotsbury, ib.;
participation in a popular superstition, 161;
makes common cause with Cromwell, ib.;
speech in Richard Cromwell's Parliament, 162;
tone and style of his speeches, 163; plays an
active part in the measures leading to the Re-
storation, 164; made Baron Ashley for his ser-
vice in accomplishing it, 165; rivalry with Clar-
endon, ib.; member of the famous Cabal, 166;
made Lord Chancellor and an Earl, ib.; re-
stores the equestrian procession of the judges,
167; estimate of his judicial character, 168;
required to give up the Great Seal, 170; cour-
tesy of Charles II. to him, ib.; aggressive

measures against the Court, ib.; defeats Dan-
by's Test Act, 174; conflicts with the bishops,
ib.; committed to the Tower, ib.; a saying of
his rivalled by Sir Boyle Roche, 172; the Ro-
man Catholic Disqualification Act and the Ha-
beas Corpus Act his work, ib.; attacked by
Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel,' 173;
fight to Holland, 174; summary of his cha
racter, ib.; his two theories of character and
conduct, 175; anecdotes of his ready wit and
humour, 175, 176.

Shaftesbury (the present Earl of), his intellec-
tual, moral, and political character, 176.
Simmons's (Sir Lintorn) pamphlet on the army
of Great Britain, 301.

Songs, national, 108.

(French patriotic), 'Vive Henri Quatre,'
108; the royalist song, 'O Richard, O mon
Roi,' ib.; origin of 'Pauvre Jacques,' 109; the
revolutionary song, ' Ça ira,' ib.; the name of
Carmagnole, 110; the Marseillaise,' the chief
patriotic song, 111; its origin, ib.; the 'Chant
du Départ,' with translation, 113; the Réveil
du Peuple,' 114; the Napoleonic anthem,
'Partant pour la Syrie,' 116; songs of Béran-
ger and Emile Debreaux, ib.; Les Conscrits
Montagnards,' with translation, 117; historical
Bongs of the later crises of France, 118; La
Parisienne,' representative of the Revolution
of 1830-with translation, ib.; Mourir pour la
Patrie,' ib.; songs of the Revolution of 1848,
119; De Musset's German Rhine,' with trans-
lation, ib.; songs sprung from the present
time, ib.; C'est notre Tour,' with translation,
120.
Surtees (the historian of Durham) his Northum-

brian ballad alleged by him to be of the olden
time, 271; adopted by Sir Walter Scott in his
'Border Minstrelsy,' as a genuine traditional
ballad, ib.

Syria, list of governors of, about the birth of
Christ, 271.

art of fortification an application of the same
principle, ib.; mode of conducting a sortie, 72.

Usages of. Terms imposed expressly in
foresight of future war, 247; means of keeping
war within the influence of civilisation, 248;
difference between international and domestic
law, ib.; complaints against the Germans for
violations of the usages of war, 249; pleas at-
tempting to justify the Germans, 250; the
Convention of Geneva, 252; the privilege of
quarter, ib.; the laws of war as promulgated
by the Prussians, 254; evils of the requisition
system as opposed to paying for supplies, 254,
255; 'souvenirs' carried away by the Prus
.sians, 255; parallel between the hordes of
Alaric round Rome and the hosts of Kaiser
Wilhelm about Paris, 256; unnecessary cruel-
ty at Tours, 257; barbarous proceeding at
Strassburg, ib.; refusal to recognise the
Francs tireurs, 258; comparison of them with
the Landsturm, ib.; our Volunteers have no
more authorisation than the Francs-tireurs, ib. ;
difference between the citizen armies' of Prus-
sia and France, 260; inhuman reprisals at Ne
mours, ib.; the repetition of similar military
executions' in Denmark, 260, 261; the fate of
Nogent-le-Roi, 261; vengeance at Châteaudua,
261, 262; two new practices of the Germans as
to the law of hostages, 262; the law of sus
pected persons,' ib. ; objects needing settlement
by a new convention, 264.

Whist, origin of the word, 25; the same as Ruff
and-Honours while in an imperfect form, ib.;
its new designation whisk,' ib.; the name an
interjectio silentium imperans, 26; French ac
count of the word, ib.; whisk and swabbers,
ib.; Hoyle moulds the game into a scientific
form, 27; short whist, 29; anecdote of Talley-
rand, Charles X., and Louis Philippe, 30; cha-
racteristics of the works of Dr. Pole, Mr. Clay,
and Cavendish, ib. ; combination of the hands
the basis from which the play springs, 31; Dr.
Pole's fundamental theory of the modern sci-
entific game, ib.; language of the game for
communication between partners, 33; Spanish
proverb on whist, ib.; the art of signalling,
ib.; the call for trumps, 34; Paley's justifica-
tion of advantages gained by skilful play, ib. :
accidents of the game, 35; four cases of bad
play, 35, 36; the three great points of modern
whist, 37; memoranda of important points of
the modern game, ib.

Will case (the Matlock) determined by compari-
son of handwritings, 188.

Wilson's (Rt. Hon. James) Indian finance, 53.
Wolsey's (Cardinal) death-bed, 209.

Xavier (Francis), the Jesuit missionary, sails for
the Indies, 285; triumphant success of his mis
sion, ib.; the Apostle of the Indies, 280; his
striking character, appearance, and manner of
life, ib.; death and canonisation, 289; his won-
derful labours, courage, energy, self-denial, and
concern for the souls of his fellow-creatures, ib.

Young Men's Christian Associations, 134.

Zumpt's (Dr.) theory of the dates of the Nativity
and the Passion, 267; his success in solving a
difficulty gloated over by Dr. Strauss as inso-
luble, 273.