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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 



Original Papers. — 1. The State of the Empire— Police, Press, Popery, and Foreign 

 Relations— II. The Will of Sir diaries Heury Hastings, Bart. — HI. Personal Narrative 

 of a Journey from Whilechapel to Highgate Archway. By Julius Jeremy Joseph de 

 Goose — IV. Ode to au Exalted Personage — V. Esther Wharnciiffe; a Tale of the 

 Reign of Mary — VI. Prose by a Versifier, and Verse by a Proser — No. I. On Sneezing, 

 Predestination, and St. Margaret's Church— VII. The Wellington Administration, the 

 Star Chamber, and the Liberty of the Press— VIII. Memory — IX. Bat !— Protestant 

 Colonies in Ireland. 



Notes of the Month on JJfairs in General. — The Turks and Russians — The West 

 Indians and Sir G. Murray — The Pro- Papist Duke, afterwards King— Captain 

 Dickenson's Trial — The Yarmouth Cobbler and the Norwich Bishop — Irish Residents 

 and English Absentees — Don Miguel and Lord Dudley — Prince Leopold and his 

 Gooseberries— Curiosities of Covent Garden — Portrait of His Majesty, Sir Thomas 

 Lawrence, and Extortion — The New Police Army — Fashionable Pictures — The 

 Whigs, the Greeks, and Sir Something Codringtou — Mr. Sadler's Speech. 



Moiithh/ Review of Literature. — Buckhardt's Travels in Arabia — Cuma and other 

 Poems — Best's Personal and Literary Memorials — Meredith's IMemorials of Charles 

 John (Bernadotte) King of Sweden and Norway — Nicholls's Autographs— Dr. Mayor's 

 Miscellanies in Prose and Verse — Illustrations of Natural History — Castle's Intro- 

 duction to Systematical and Physiological Botany— Middlefon's Memoirs of the 

 Reformers, British and Foreign — The Female Servant's Adviser — Harding's Steno- 

 graphy — ^I'he Last Supper — Surenne's New French Manual and Traveller's Com- 

 panion — Taylor's Herodotus — The Manual of Invalids— Godwin's Wanderer's 

 Legacy, &c. 



Scientific and Literary Varieties.— Biographical Memqlrs of Eminent Persons. — 

 List of Works Published and in Preparation — Chronological, Agricultural, and 

 Commercial Reports — Ecclesiastical Preferments— Provincial Occurrences, Death?, 

 Marriages, &c. 



