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church-goers, 101; shop-lifters, ib.; starring the
glaze, 102; house-breakers, ib.; plants and put-
tings-up, 103; beggars, 104; domestic habits,
106; the administration of justice, ib.; Bow
street, 107; Thames, ib.; Worship Street, ib.;
Marlborough Street, 108; the poor-box, ib.;
fees, penalties, &c., ib.

Police in Roman States, 124.

Port-Royal, par C. A. Sainte-Beuve, 268; the mo-
nastery of, 269; Mother Angélique, 270; com-
munity of goods established, 271; seclusion and
separation, 271, 272; the day of the wicket,'
272; the Arnauld family, 273; Maubisson, 274;
reception of Mother Angélique at, ib.; return of
Madame d'Estrées, 275; retreat to Pontoise, 275;
return to the convent, ib.; discipline, 275, 276;
Abbé de Saint-Cyran, 276; change of residence,
276; resignation of Angélique, ib.; indignities
offered to, 277; Le Maître, ib.; his brothers, 278;
arrest of Saint-Cyran, 279; his release, 280;
visitors of rank at Port-Royal, ib.; return of the
nuns to the fields, 281; Jacqueline Pascal, ib;
Jansenism, 283.

Prerogative of the Crown in creating life peerages,

294.

Puritans, the, 62.

Pythagoras, the character of, 44.

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Roman Catholics, political rights of, 311.
Roman State, the, from 1815 to 1850, by Luigi C.
Farini, 117; papal government, ib.; Consalvi,
118; European recommendations, ib.; papal
manoeuvre, 119; position of the Pope, ib.; the
Legates, 120; venalities, ib.; administration of
law, ib.; criminal jurisprudence, 121; case of
Bartolucci, 122; Austrian rigour, ib.; torture,
ib.; the summary process, 122, 123; ecclesias-
tical privileges, 123; the Inquisition, ib.; powers
vested in the police, 124; the Carte di Sicurezza,
125; spies, ib.; executions, 126; financial diffi-
culties, ib.; pensions, 127; bribery and corrup-
tion, ib.; censorship of the press, ib.
Rome, Ancient, Geography of, 227; Dr. Smith's
Dictionary, ib.; Mr. Dyer's article on, ib. ; on the
direction of the Via Lata, 228; position of the
Comitium, 229; of the Capitoline Hill, 230;
assault of the Capitol by the Vitellians, 231, 232;
history of the city, 233; geological formations,
234; the Tiber, 235; the Seven Hills, ib.; forti-
fications, 236; habitations, 237; streets, ib.;
absence of towers, ib.; rebuilding, 238; improve-
ments of Augustus, ib.; great conflagration of
Nero, 289; his improvements, ib.; the Flami-
nian plain, 240; obstacles to the extension of
the suburbs, 241; exaggerated accounts of an-
cient writers, 242; the Aurelian walls, 243;
population, ib.; area, ib.; habits of the people,
244; means of subsistence, 245; rapid decay of
Rome, 246.

Ruatan, the island of, 143, 147; and see America.
Russell, Lord J., administration of, 291.

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Sahel hills, the range of, near Algiers, 185.
Sainte-Beuve, C. A., Port Royal,' par, 268.

Savonarola, the Life and Martyrdom of, 1; cha-

birth and peculiarities, ib.; enters the Domini-
can convent, 3; letter to his father, ib.; poetry
of, ib.; general character, 4; preaching of, 5;
at Florence, 6; the Pazzi conspiracy, ib.; state
of the papacy, 7; preaching at St. Mark's, 8;
is appointed prior, 9; behaviour towards Lo-
renzo de' Medici, ib.; preaches at Bologna, 10;
reformations, ib.; invasion of Florence by
Charles VIII., 11; government of Savonarola, 12;
constitution of, ib.; his sermons, 14; character-
istics of his eloquence, 15; gift of prophecy, ib.;
the Compendium Revelationum,' ib.; denuncia-
tions against the clergy, 16, 17; vices, 17; great
change wrought by his preaching, 18; organi-
zation of a youthful police, ib.; the Carnival,
ib.; state of religion in Rome and Florence, 19;
Pope Alexander VI, ib.; briefs and excommu-
nication, 20; extracts from sermons, 20, 21;
processions, 21, 22; ceases to be vicar-general,
22; a carnival pyre, ib. ; an adverse signory, 23;
the papal bull, ib.; the plague in Florence, 24;
defiance of the Pope, 25; carnival processions,
ib.; appeal to Christendom against the Pope, 26;
ceases to preach, 26, 27; contest with the Fran-
ciscans, 27; attack on St. Mark's, 28; arrest of
Savonarola, 29; papal brief, ib.; torture and
examination, 29, 30; sentence and execution, 31,
32; reformation in the Church considered, 32.
Scheliff river, the, 186.

Scott, Sir Walter, denial of authorship of the
Waverley Novels by, 166.
Ship-money, tax of, 64.

Slavery, Christian, in Algiers, 190.
Smith, Dr. W., Dictionary of Greek and Roman
Geography, edited by, 227; and see Rome.
Sophists of Greece, defence of, by Mr. Grote, 50.
St. Arnaud, Marshal, account of the campaign in
Africa by, 196.

Strafford, Earl of, impeachment of, 74; execution
of, 79.

Symbolics of the Human Form, 247; and see
Physiognomy.

racter of, considered, ib.; family history of, 2; Zouaves, the first organization of, 194, 208.

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