HARPER'S
NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
VOLUME II.
DECEMBER, 1850, TO MAY, 1851.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1851.
ADVERTISEMENT.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
Letters and Letter Writing 35 Literary Notices.Preparatory Schools for Young Ladies; Ladies' Arithmetic; Netting for Ladies, 285. A False Apple-ation; A Tête-à-Tête; Expected out soon; Going down to a Watering-place; Attraction; 19th Cent'ry; Putting the Cart before the Horse; A Narrow Escape; Division of Labor; Animal Economy; A Holiday at the Public Offices, 429. Lectures on Letters; Punch on Special Pleading; Smithfield Club Cattle Show; Golden Opportunities; Universal Contempt of Court; Startling Fact, 569. 1851; Please, Sir, shall I hold your Horse? The Affairs of Grease; The War on Hats; Peace Offering; The Best Law Book; Justice for Bachelors; The Weather, a Drama for Every-Day Life; A Juvenile Party; the Kitchen Range of Art; Reward of Merit, 713. Encouragement to Book-Lenders; Diplomacy and Gastronomy, Supper at a Juvenile Party; One of the Juveniles after the Party; Conversation-Books for 1851; To find Room in a Crowded Omnibus; A File to Smooth Asperities; The Lowest Depth of Meanness; A Little Bit of Humbug, 859.
The Salamander; Spencer's Pastor's Sketches; Abbott's Madame Roland; Stanton's Sketches of Reforms and Reformers; Gorree's Churches and Sects of the United States; Cenotaph to a Woman of the Burman Mission; Fleetwood's Life of Christ; Banbridge's Scripture History for the Young; Poems by Grace Greenwood, 139. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair; The Green Hand; The New Englander; Bibliotheca Sacra; Maturin's Lyrics of Spain and Erin; Holmes's Astræa; De Quincey's Essays; Bigelow's Jamaica in 1851; Cantica Laudis; Young's Translations from Beranger, 140. Andersen's Tales; Gem of the Western World; Our Saviour with Prophets and Apostles; Sacred Scenes; National Cook-Book; Smith's Relations between Scripture and Geology, 141. Life and Works of John Adams; The Broken Bracelet; The Immortal; Boyd's edition of Paradise Lost; General View of the Fine Arts; Artist's Chromatic Hand-Book, 142. Reveries of a Bachelor; Richard Edney; Washburn's Issue of Philosophic Thought, 281. The Memorial; Evening of Life; Mrs. Knight's Memoir of Hannah More; Andrews' Latin Lexicon, 282. Smith's Classical Dictionary; Mansfield's American Education; The
Political and General News.—State of feeling on the Compromise measures, 122. Letters of Washington Hunt to the Secession and Anti-Rent Conventions, 122. Meeting at Castle Garden; Letter of Mr. Webster; Nominations, 122. Constitution of Congress, 123. State Convention in Georgia, 123. Meeting at Macon, 123. State of Feeling in Georgia, 123. In South Carolina, 124. In Alabama; Gov. Collier declines to call a State Convention; Letter of Mr. Hilliard, 124. In Mississippi, 124. In Louisiana, 124. Letters of Senators Downs and Soulé; Letter from the Congressional delegation to the Governor, 124. Correspondence between Isaac Hill and Mr. Webster, 125. Dinner to Mr. Clayton, 125. Opening of Congress, 263. Message of President Fillmore, 133. Report of the Secretary of War, 264. Of the Secretary of the Navy, 265. Of the Postmaster General, 265. Of the Secretary of the Interior, 266. Bill for the protection of fugitives in Vermont, 267. Message of Gov. Ford of Virginia, 267. Of the Governor of Alabama, 267. Of Mississippi, 267. Union majority in Georgia, 267. Message of Gov. Bell of Texas, 268. Of Gov. Seabrook of South Carolina, 268. Of Gov. Brown of Florida, 268. The Nashville Convention, 268. Various Union meetings; and letters and speeches of Messrs. Webster, Choate, Stuart, Woodbury, Hilliard, and others, 268, 269, 270, 271. Reception of Mr. Clay in the Legislature of Kentucky, 271. Letters of Messrs. Hamilton, Poinsett, and Rush, 272. Speech of Mr. Clayton, 272. George Thompson, 272. General News from California, 272, 410, 556, 701. General news from Oregon, 273. Webster's reply to Hulsemann, 409, 848. Opening of the Legislature of New York, and Message of Gov. Hunt, 409. Message of Gov. Wright of Indiana, 410. Florida resolutions, 410. Of Gov.
Elections.—State elections in New York and New Jersey, 122. In Ohio and Massachusetts, 123. General Congressional result, 123. Election of U.S. Senators, 555, 701. Mr. Fish in New York, 555, 847.
MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA.GREAT BRITAIN.Capture of slaves at Rio, 127. General news from Mexico, 273, 411, 557, 701, 849. Message of Herera, 457. Inauguration and speech of Arista as President, 557. Affairs in Nicaragua; discovery of gold; proceedings of Mr. Chatfield, the British consul, 557. Intelligence from Valparaiso, 557. Hostilities between Guatemala and San Salvador, 702. Gold in New Grenada, 702. Route across the isthmus through Lake Nicaragua, 702. Earthquake at Carthagena, 702. Peru, 702. Banishment of Buenos Ayreans from Bolivia, 702. Prohibition of the landing of liberated slaves in Brazil, 702.
FRANCE.Establishment of Catholic sees in England; Letter of Dr. Ullathorne, 125. Speech of Lord Stanley on Protection, 125. Tenant right in Ireland, 126. The Synod of Thurles, 126. Increase of Crime, 126. Submarine telegraph, 126, 132. Illumination on Arthur's Seat, 126. Speech of Prince Albert at York, 126. Consuming smoke at Manchester, 127. Emigration, 127. Movements for independence in New South Wales, 127. The Exhibition, 132, 274, 278, 419, 558, 704, 851. Bridge at Westminster, 133. New College at Glasgow, 133. Catholic excitement, 273, 558. Lord John Russell's Durham Letter, 273. Cardinal Wiseman's Appeal, 273. Law Reform, 273. Cotton in India, 274. Ornamental cemeteries in London, 278. Tax on telegraphs, 278. General view of the state of England, 411. Progress of the Catholic excitement, 413. Various addresses, speeches, deputations, etc., 414. Attempts to increase the supply of Cotton or to discover a substitute, 414. Famine in the Highlands, 415. Opposition of the Cunarders to the American steamers, 415. Increased value of silver, 415. Protest of the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Ireland, 558. The surplus, 558. Austria demands the punishment of the assailants of Haynau, 558. Disturbances at the Cape of Good Hope, 558. Opening of Parliament; the Queen's Speech, 702. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill; Free-trade motion; unsatisfactory Budget, 703. Defeat of Ministers on franchise question; resignation of Ministers; attempt to form new cabinet, 704. Queen Adelaide's pension, 704. Petition for constitution for Cape of Good Hope, 704. Protestants of Dublin and Duke of Wellington, 704. Viceroyalty of Ireland, 704. Return of Cabinet to office, 848. Ecclesiastical Titles Bill mutilated, 849. Checks to Ministers, 850. Arsenic Bill, 850. Kaffir revolt, 850. Revolutionary Committee, 850. Miss Talbot and the Convent Bill, 850. Public execution, 850. Monster address, 850. Charges against Lord Torrington, 850. Coal-pit disaster, 850. Adulteration of food, 850. Hungarian refugees, 850. New expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 851.
Pretended Republican plot, 127. The President's attempt to secure the army, 127. Quarrel between him and Changarnier, and between the Assembly and Gen. Hautpoul, who resigns,
SPAIN, ITALY, AND PORTUGAL.Hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein, 128. Catastrophe at Herrgott, 129. Forest conflagration in Poland, 129. Constitutions for Galicia and Bukowina, 129. Detailed statement of the German question, 274. Warlike aspect, 275. General view of the continent of Europe, 412. Peace prospects; Conference at Dresden, 415. Return of the Elector of Hesse Cassel, 416. Internal affairs of Austria, 416. Progress of affairs in the Dresden Conference; understanding between Austria and Prussia for the depreciation of the minor powers, 558, 705. Dresden Conference at fault, 851. Policy of Austria and Prussia, 852.
THE EAST.Address of Mazzini, 127. Overthrow of the Constitution and of liberty of the press in Tuscany, 129. Brigandage in the Roman States, 130, 705. General view of the state of the south of Europe, 413. Foreign troops in Rome, 416, 705. The Austrians in Venice, 416. Condition of Sardinia, 416. Disruption of the Spanish Cabinet, 416. Conspiracy under Mazzini, 705. Archbishop Hughes at Rome, 705. Liberal ministry in Piedmont, 705. Austrian movements, 852. Proclamations against political pamphlets, 852. Washington's birthday at Rome, 852. Protestant chapel, 852.
LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND PERSONAL.Contributions preparing for the Exhibition, 128. Affairs in India, 128. Mortality at Hong Kong, 129. Cotton in Bombay, 129. Insurrection in China, 129. The Hungarian refugees in Turkey, 129. Conspiracy at Teheran, 130. Collisions between the Turks and Christians, 276. Persecutions in Aleppo, 276. Disturbances in Syria, 276. Canal between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, 419. Napier's farewell, 705. Prospective annexations, 705. Suppression of insurrection in China, 705. Death of Lin, 705. Difficulties in Egypt, 705. Troubles at Bagdad, 705. Massacres in Southern Africa, 705.
United States.—Dinner to Mr. Webster at his native place, 130. Amin Bey, 130. M. Vattemare; Statue of Calhoun; Wm. W. Story; Wm. D. Gallagher, Prof. Filopanti; Daniel D. Barnard, 130. Crawford's Washington; bust of Allen; monument to Warren; movements of artists, 131. Gift-books and Annuals, 276. Lessing's Martyrdom of Huss, 277. Ehninger's etchings, 277. Academy of Design lectures, 277. Hawthorne, 277. Greek Slave, 277. Jenny Lind, 277, 852. Third ring of Saturn, 277. Cultivation of tea, 277. Darley's outlines, 277. Healey's portraits of Calhoun and Webster, 277. Power's statue of America, 279. Mr. Webster on the Mayflower, 416. Stephenson's statue of the Wounded Indian, 416. Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress, 417. Mount's Lucky Throw, 417. Powell's Burial of Fernando de Soto, 417. Prof. Hart's Female Prose Writers, 417. Mrs. Hale's Female Biography, 417. Mr. Putnam's new publications, 417. The Opera, 417. Paine's Water-gas, 417. Dembinski, 417. Public lectures by various individuals, 277, 559, 705. Presidential library, 559. Burns's birthday, 559. Dinner to Mr. Hoe, 559. Books, 559. Papers of Citizen Genet, 559. Talvi, 559. Panoramas, 705. Arrival of Tupper, 705. Celebration of Washington's birth-day, 706. Irving to Ichabod Crane, 706. Opening of Exhibition of Academy of Design, 852. Greenough's Pioneer, 852. Healey's Calhoun, 852. Pictures by Wright, Duggan, Stearns, and Richards, 852. Tupper as a lion, 853. Calhoun's Life and Works, 853. Works of Alexander Hamilton, 853. Taylor's El-Dorado in German, 853. First cotton sent to Liverpool, 853. Dr. Goadby's insects, 853. Acquittal of the Cuban invaders, 853.
Foreign.—Miss Howard's donation for hospital for widows, 126. Sir John Franklin, 126, 132. Levi's Commercial Law,
Richard M. Johnson, 125. Watkins; Lenau; Becker; Rottman; Thomaschek,