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,
Puritans, the, 62.
Pythagoras, the character of, 44.
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.
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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