Traders, influence of free trade on the, 137. Trafalgar Square fountains, the, 314. Travelling, modern universality of, 86 --increased facilities and abundance of it, 195. Tucket, Mr, account of the massacre of Wairau by, 425. United States, protective policy of the, 117 --increase in their population, 123 --on slavery in the, 385 --increased cultivation of grain in the, 489 _note_ --sketches of agriculture in the, 699 _et seq._ --Johnston on their wheat producing powers, 701 --the exports of bread-stuffs from, 702 --the prices of these falling in, 703 --extensive use of maize and buckwheat in, 705 --encouragements to emigration to, 710, 711 --their judicial system, 713 --taxation, 715. Upper Canada, progress of, 708. Vaccination in New Zealand, 430. Van, lake, 732. Van Diemen's land, the aborigines of, 416. Vendôme column, the, 318. Venetian territories, the insurrection in the, 26 _et seq._ --how acquired by Austria, 433 --her administration of them, 435, 436. Venice, the revolt at, 27. Ventilation, Mr Helps on the importance of, 383. Vernet the actor, anecdote of, 161. Verona, the battle of, 30 _et seq._ --capture of it by general d'Aspre, 442. Versailles, Stahr on the galleries of, 552. Vicenza, the capture of, by Radetsky, 34, 35, 445. VOICE FROM THE DIGGINGS, A, 470. VOLTAIRE IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE, 142. Wages, lowering of, among the agricultural classes, 496 --the general reduction of them the object of the free-traders, 634. Wairau, the massacre of, 425. Walmsley, sir J., his reception in Scotland, 298. WALPOLE'S ANSAYRII, reviewed, 719. WANDERINGS ROUND THE WORLD, 86. Wanganui, treaty of, with the New Zealand chiefs, 423. Warburton's "Crescent and Cross," extract from, 721 _note_. Wellington statues, Fanny Lewald on the, 211. WERNE, F. A., A CAMPAIGN IN TAKA by, reviewed, 251. Wheat, alleged increased consumption of, 496 --its price under free trade, 636 --powers of producing, in the United States, 701. "Where summer is, there 'tis fresh and fair," 467. Wilson, James, on the corn laws, 636. Windischgratz, sketches of the campaign in Hungary under, 36. Winter palace, destruction and rebuilding of the, in St Petersburg, 158. Wolves, sketches of, in America, 675. Women, English and German, Fanny Lewald on, 216. Woodcutters' life in Maine, sketches of, 669 _et seq._ Working-classes, effects of free trade on the, 113. WORLD, WANDERINGS ROUND THE, 86. York column, the, 211. Young, G. F., return of, for Scarborough, 245. Zerline, the opera of, 311. Zichy, count, Austrian commandant at Venice, 28. Zichy, lieutenant count, death of, 33. _Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh._ * * * * * Transcriber's note: