PROTECTION MEETING, THE GREAT, IN LONDON, 733. Protective system, past benefits of the, to Canada, 255. Provision trade, influence of free trade on, 129. Provisions, importations of, 1845 and 1849, 370. Prussia, reaction in, 3 --want of moral courage in the government of, 4 --fidelity of the troops in, 6 --prophecies regarding, 561 _et seq._ QUAKER'S LAMENT, THE, 733. Railways, depreciation of, 383 --causes of their depressed state, 613 --German prophecies regarding, 563, 565. REACTION, THE YEAR OF, 1. Reeves, Sims, the singer, 699. Reform Bill, extinction of the Sinking fund by the, 517 --Alison's essay on the, 607. Rembrandt, Wilkie on, 202. Rent, rates of, in England and Scotland, 226. Rents, alleged rise of, and its causes, 122. Representation, proposed colonial system of, 379. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the, 187. Revolution, philanthropic pretexts under which begun, 2 --causes of the success of, 4 --causes of the reaction against the, 5 _et seq._ --the first French, influence of the remembrance of it, 5 --that of 1848, Alison on, 619. Reybaud, Louis, the political novels of, 431. Richmond, the duke of, speeches of, at the protection meeting, 748, 769. Rigden, Mr W., at the protection meeting, 766. Roberton, James, statistics of farming produce, &c., by, 114. Rolink, prophecies of, 569. Rome, reaction at, 3. Rossi, the countess, career of, 690. Rossini, anecdotes of, 688 note. Roubiliac the sculptor, anecdote of, 143. Roxburgh, returns of farming produce, &c., in, 108. Roy, J. L., letter from, on farming statistics, 111. Royal Academy, on the, 206. Royal speech, the, 347. Runcorn, state of the shipping interest at, 358. Russell, lord John, on the Agricultural question, 352, 353 --presentation of the protectionist memorial to, 770 _et seq._ Russia, effects of the intervention of, in Hungary, 9. RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN, history of a regiment during the, 573. Rusticus, letter from, to the Courant, Appendix, 66. Ruxton, William, letter from, on farming statistics, 112. Sacramento, battle of, 39. SACS ET PARCHEMINS, 439. Sadler, Thomas, letter from, on farming statistics, 111 --statement of these by him, 116. Sandars, Mr, on the price of wheat abroad, 102 --his pamphlet on the Agricultural question, 374. SANDEAU'S SACS ET PARCHEMINS, 431. Sapienza, the island of, the case regarding, 538. Scarron, marriage of madame de Maintenon to, 182. Scotland, statistics of farming in, 107 _et seq._ --rates of rent in, 226 --effects of free trade on the cattle trade of, 237 --state of the agricultural interest in, 367 --present prices of grain in, 382 --increase of poor rates in, 384. Scotsman, the, on the "British Agriculture, &c." Appendix, 57 --letter of Mr Gibson to, Appendix, 65.