Peasant properties, the advantages and disadvantages of, 675, _et seq._ Peasantry, state of the, in Saxony, 347. PEEL, SIR ROBERT, 354 --his anticipations regarding the price of grain, 107 --character of the legislation of, 115 --circumstances under which he imposed the income tax, 612 --on taxing the funds, 621. Peninsula, intervention in the, 322. Pennant's Scottish views, on, 228. Perceval, Palmerston first brought forward by, 214 --Bellingham's trial for the murder of, 564. Pericles, example of the oratory of, 653. Peronne, relief of, by Guise, 7. PHIPPS' MEMOIRS OF R. P. WARD, review of, 199. Phrenology, fundamental error of, 266. Physicians, the, on moral insanity, 548. PICTURES OF THE SEASON, the, 77. Pious Martha, the drama of, 542. Pirna, Frederick the Great at, 524. Pitt, charges of Ledru Rollin against, 164 --ancedote of, in connection with the treason trials, 203 --letter of, on the peace of Amiens, 209 --letter to R. P. Ward from, 210 --intrigue of Canning regarding, 211. Poet, the, on Dugald Stewart's ideal of the, 480, _et seq._ --Horace on the, 493, _et seq._ Poland, persecution of the Protestants in, 519, 520. Police, introduction of the system of, 356. POLITICAL AND LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, 199. Political economy, misapplications of, by travellers, 671. Pollock, sir F., 380, _et seq._, 553. Popery, effects of, on Spanish literature, 534. POPISH PARTITION OF ENGLAND, THE, 745. Population, classification of the, 116, 117. Porter, misstatements of, regarding agriculturists and manufacturers, 116. Portland gallery, exhibition of paintings in the, 77. Portland ministry, the, 214. Portugal, state of exports of cotton to, 127 --Palmerston on the intervention in, 322. Poussin, Gaspar, the landscapes of, 192, 194. Pragmatic Sanction, the, 522. Prague, the battle of, 526. Presentiment, on, 273. Produce, dependence of revenue on, 614. Propagandism, system of, 320. PROPOSED EXHIBITION OF 1851, the, 278. Protestantism, first blows at, in France, 6 --Prussia the champion of, 519. PRUSSIA, THE RISE, POLITICS, AND POWER OF, 516 --Hardenberg's territorial reforms in, 680. Pulpit eloquence, defects of, 668. Purefoy, Mr, trial of, 716. Puritans in the time of James I., the, 141. Quarterly Review, the, on the London and Edinburgh chess match, 98, _et seq._ Queen, Oxford's trial for shooting at the, 551. Quintilian on oratory, 660 --on training for it, 661. Radicals, objects of the, regarding the national debt, 109. Railway crisis, effects of the, 125 --losses, use made of, by the free-traders, 135. Ramsay, Mr, on peasant properties, 678. Rantzau, count, free corps under, 311. Recamier, madame, 40. Reform bill, Peel's conduct regarding the, 358. Reichel, Mdlle, 268, 269. REICHENBACH'S RESEARCHES, review of, 265.