Transcriber's note: This issue contains the index to Volume 63. Spelling and punctuation are sometimes erratic. A few obvious misprints have been corrected, but in general the original spelling and typesetting conventions have been retained. Accents are inconsistent, and have not been standardised. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. CCCXCII. JUNE, 1848. VOL. LXIII. CONTENTS. HOW TO DISARM THE CHARTISTS, 653 STODDART AND ANGLING, 673 THE CAXTONS. PART III. 685 GUESSES AT TRUTH, 701 LIFE IN THE "FAR WEST." PART I. 713 LOMBARDY AND THE ITALIAN WAR, 733 THE INCA AND HIS BRIDE.--A MEDLEY, 750 SENTIMENTS AND SYMBOLS OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, 767 AMERICAN FEELING TOWARDS ENGLAND, 780 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, 45, GEORGE STREET; AND 37, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. _To whom all Communications (post paid) must be addressed._ SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. HOW TO DISARM THE CHARTISTS. The tempest which has lately passed over the moral world has begun to subside,--we no longer hear of empires revolutionised, monarchies overturned, by every post. The states which were to be prostrated by the blast have already fallen; those which have withstood the shock, like a cannon which has borne a double-shotted discharge, are only the more firm from having escaped uninjured from such a trial. France has been utterly revolutionised: Prussia, to all appearance, scarcely less thoroughly convulsed: Italy has been thrown into transports: the smaller states of Germany have, more or less, become republican: Austria has been violently shaken: the seeds of another bootless democratic convulsion sown in Poland. This is enough for three months. Even M. Ledru Rollin and Louis Blanc could scarcely, in their wildest imaginations, have figured a more rapid consummation of their wishes. But other states have stood firm. England, the firstborn of freedom, has shown herself worthy of her glorious inheritance:--she has repelled tyranny in the form of democracy, as she has repelled tyranny in the hands of kings. Russia is yet unshaken;--her people have responded to the call of the Czar, and are preparing on the Vistula for a crusade into western Europe. Belgium, contrary to all expectation, has withstood the tempter; the hordes sent down from Paris to carry desolation into its beautiful plains have been repelled with disgrace. Denmark has boldly thrown down the gauntlet to revolutionised and spoliating Prussia, and is striving to maintain its comparatively inconsiderable dominions against its gigantic aggressor;