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1837.

CONTENTS OF No. CXXXI.

ART. I. Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Na-

tural Theology. By the Rev. William Buckland, D.D.,
Canon of Christ's Church, and Reader in Geology and
Mineralogy in the University of Oxford,

II. Journal of a Residence in Norway during the years 1834,

1835, and 1836; made with a view to Enquire into the
Moral and Political Economy of that Country, and the

Condition of its Inhabitants. By Samuel Laing, Esq.

III. 1. A Letter to the Right Honourable Viscount Melbourne,

on the Causes of the Recent Derangement in the Money
Market. By Robert Torrens, Esq., F.R.S.

2. The Causes and Consequences of the Pressure upon the
Money Market; with a Statement of the Action of the

Bank of England from the 1st October, 1833, to the 27th
December, 1836. By J. Horsley Palmer, Esq.

3. Reflections suggested by a perusal of the Pamphlet of
Mr Horsley Palmer. By S. J. Loyd, Esq.

4. Reply to the Reflections, &c., of Mr S. J. Loyd. By
J. H. Palmer, Esq.

5. Observations on the Recent Statement of J. H. Pal-

mer, Esq. By Samson Ricardo, Esq.

6. The Cause of the Present Money Crisis explained; in

Answer to the Pamphlet of Mr Horsley Palmer. By W.
Bennison, Esq.

7. A Defence of Joint-Stock Banks. By David Salomons,
Esq.

IV. Coleccion de obras y documentos relativos a la Historia

Antigua y Moderna de las Provincias Del Rio de la Plata,

ilustrados con notas y disertaciones. Por Pedro de An-

gelis,

V. 1. Du Sucre de Canne et du Sucre de Betterave.

Page

39

61

87

2. Question des Sucres. Par J. B. Delaunay,

110

ART. VI. Report of the Proceedings of the Section of the British

Association on the Mechanical Arts, at the Meeting held

at Bristol, in September, 1836,

VII. 1. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Mo-

dern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833,

1834, and 1835; partly from Notes made during a former

Visit to that Country, in the years 1825, 1826, 1827, and

1828. By Edward William Lane.

2. Rambles in Egypt and Candia, with Details of the

Military Power and Resources of those Countries; and

Observations on the Government, Policy, and Commer-

cial System of Mohammed Ali. By C. Rochfort Scott,

Captain H. P. Royal Staff Corps,

VIII. 1. Letter from W. R. Hamilton, Esq. to the Earl of

Elgin, on the New Houses of Parliament.

2. Second Letter from W. R. Hamilton, Esq. to the Earl

of Elgin, on the propriety of adopting the Greek style of

Architecture in the construction of the New Houses of

Parliament,

IX. 1. Attila, a Romance. By the Author of the Gipsy, &c.

(G. P. R. James, Esq.)

2. Rookwood, a Romance. By W. Harrison Ainsworth,

Esq.

3. Crichton. By W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq.,

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119

146

174

180

X. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. From a variety of

original sources. By James Prior, F.S.A.,

204

XI. Speech of Thomas Wyse, Esq. M.P., in the House of

Commons, on Tuesday May 19, 1835, on moving for

leave to bring in a Bill for the establishment of a Board

of National Education, and the advancement of Element-

ary Education in Ireland,

245

Note to the Article in No. CXXIX., entitled, ‘Recent Pub-

lications on the War in Spain,'

265

List of New Publications.

267

CONTENTS OF No. CXXXII.

ART. I. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England.

A new Edition. By Basil Montagu, Esq.

II. 1. The Great Metropolis. By the Author of Random

Recollections of the Lords and Commons.'

2. The Great Metropolis.

First Series.

Second Series,

Page

277

380

III. 1. Miscellaneous Works and Correspondence of the Rev.

James Bradley, D.D., F.R.S., Astronomer-Royal, Savilian

Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford.

2. Supplement to Dr Bradley's Miscellaneous Works, with

an account of Harriot's Astronomical Papers,

395

IV. Strafford; a Tragedy: in Five Acts. By J. Browning, Esq.

408

V. Athens, its Rise and Fall; with Views of the 'Literature,

Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People. By

Edward Lytton Bulwer, Esq., M.P.

VI. A Letter to Lord John Russell, M.P., on the Abolition of

Church-Rates, the Cost of Parliamentary Bishops, and the

Appropriation of Cathedral and Episcopal Property. By

Richard Moorsom, Esq.

VII. England under Seven Administrations. By Albany Fon-

blanque, Esq.

VIII. 1. First Report from his Majesty's Commissioners on Crimi-

nal Law. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed,

30th July, 1834.

427

434

472

2. Second Report from his Majesty's Commissioners on Cri-

minal Law. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be

printed, 20th June, 1836,

490

IX. Enquiry into the Circumstances that have occasioned the

present embarrassments in the Trade between Great Britain

and the United States of America,

497