Making and manufacturing, 55
  Maltese Legend, 370
  Malt Liquor, antiquity of, 227
  Manchester, public buildings of, 177
    Infirmary, 178
    Royal Institution, 179
    Town Hall, 178
  Manners, family, history of, 130
  Marriage, curious, 271
  Marriage custom, 439
  Marrying, excuses for not, 336
  Mercers and Drapers, respectability of, 320
  Merchants, opulent British, 319
  Men of no business and paper cutting, 272
  Michael Angelo, ecstasy of, 16
  Mind on the Body, influence of the, 354
  Mistletoe, origin of, 430
  Mock-heroics, 304
  Monasteries, error respecting, 265
  Money, Anne’s, 224
    of Betrayal, or Price of Blood, 120
    Charles, I. and ii., 224
    Cromwell, 224
    Ecclesiastic, 223
    Edward I. and IV., 223
    Henry VII., 223
    James ii., 224
    Milled, 224
    Richard III., 223
    Stephen, 223
  Moody, the actor, avarice of, 367
  Mortality, comparative, in England, 152
  Mosaic Pavement described, 409
  Muscular strength, extraordinary, 432
  Mussulman and Hindoo religion, 80
  My Fatherland, 38
  Nankeen, varieties of, 416
  Napoleon’s Return from Elba, 165
  National Gallery, the proposed, 64
  Natural History, errors in, 38
  Nature, luxuriance of, 175
  Necklaces, satin-stone, 342
  Nell Gwynne and Dr. Ken, 336
  Newcastle, grammar-school, 193
  Newcastle, the learned duchess of, 161
  Newcastle-under-Lyne, election at, 288
  New Year’s Gifts, 439
  Niagara, recent visit to, 446
  Niger, discoveries on the, 149
  Nightingales in Essex, 144
  Norfolk, the late duke of, 86
  Norton Lees, hall at, 273
  Nugent, Lord and Lady, legends by, 350
  Nutria Fur, account of, 279—­314
  O’Brien, the Irish Giant, 182
  Oil in cookery, 352
  Old Soldier, the, a sketch, 403
  Olive Oil, 79—­424
  Omen, evil one, 261
  Opera and Theatres in London, 365
  Opal, beauty of, 77
  Oporto described, 49
  Oriental Smoking, 170
  Ornithorhyncus Paradoxus, the, 189
  Ostrich speed, and diet of, 262
    stomach of the, 303
  Otway’s “Venice Preserved,” 50
  Owen’s almshouses, 143
  Paddy Fooshane’s Fricassee, 108
  Painters born at Antwerp, 380
  Painter’s last passion, 132
    retort, 128
  Panorama of Stirling, 410
  Parliamentary debates, origin of, 128
    forms, 326
  Parliaments, early, 211—­325
  Party-spirit, Fuller on, 352
  Past, the, a song, 46
  Past Times, a song, 46
  Pastor, a faithful one, 207
  Patriotism, genuine, 438
  Peak, Antiquities of, 113
  Pearl in the Oyster, 230
  Pekin, ancient trade of, 320
  Pelican, error respecting, 96
  Pennsylvania, settlement of, 208
  Pepper, varieties of, 416
  Perrier, Casimir, memoir of, 116
  Persian Bath, 145
    Fable, 228