A.

Adams, John, the administration of,
the cause of the party division of
Federalists and Democrats, 250;
ephemeral character of his mea-
sures, 252.
Almagro, see Peru.

B.

Benton, Thomas H., Speech of, in
Senate, on the failure of the Lieut.
General Bill, 18.

British Reviewers and the U. S., 187-
225; English and American slave-
ry compared, 197; the Canada re-
bellion, with Sir Francis Head's
account of it, 204; the Mexican
war and the English press, 207;
British wars in India and China,
216-224.

Byron, Appleton's edition of, noticed,
264; the critics and the poets, 266.

C.

Capsa, the siege of, as illustrating the
value of secresy and celerity in
military operations, 24.

Chapman, J. R., treatise on the Rifle
by, noticed, 511.

China, British war with, 217; New
Route to, reviewed, 347-361; po-
licy of the Government in regard
the Navy, 349; cost of a steam
navy, 351; merchant steam-ships,
352; progress in the establishment
of ocean mail steamers, 353; the
shortest route to China, 354; the
canal across Darien, and Tehu-
antepec, 355; superiority of a
railroad across the continent to
California, 358; line of steamers
across the Pacific, 365; hydro-
graphical survey of the California
coast, 370.

Clarke, Alvan, improvements in the
rifle by, 514.

Coleridge, S. T., Literary Biography
of, noticed, 527.

Constantinople, siege of, as described
by a Turkish historian, 71.
Cotton, growth and consumption of,
reviewed, 103-136; distribution
of production, 106; of manufac-
ture, 107; character of the cotton
planters, 109; variety of Southern
products, 112; limitation of the
cotton-growing region, 117; capi-