Taxes, direct, advantages of, 103. Taylor zeal, its origin, 111 --General, greased by Mr. Choate, 113. Thanks, get lodged, 93. Thirty-nine articles might be made serviceable, 24. Thor, a foolish attempt of, 57. Thumb, General Thomas, a valuable member of society, 49. Thunder, supposed in easy circumstances, 90. Thynne, Mr., murdered, 10. Time, an innocent personage to swear by, 13, _note_ --a scene-shifter, 72. Toms, Peeping, 74. Trees, various kinds of extraordinary ones, 100. Trowbridge, William, mariner, adventure of, 24. Truth and falsehood start from same point, 27 --truth invulnerable to satire, _ib._ --compared to a river, 40 --of fiction sometimes truer than fact, _ib._ --told plainly, _passim_. Tuileries, exciting scene at, 51. Tully, a saying of, 43, _note_. Tweedledee, gospel according to, 66. Tweedledum, great principles of, 66. Ulysses, husband of Penelope, 32 --borrows money, 101. (For full particulars of, see Homer and Dante.) University, triennial catalogue of, 36. Van Buren fails of gaining Mr. Sawin's confidence, 116 --his son John reproved, _ib._ Van, Old, plan to set up, 115. Venetians, invented something once, 101. Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave of, 24. Victoria, Queen, her natural terror, 50. Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian, singular views of, 10. Walpole, Horace, classed, 75 --his letters praised, 76. Waltham Plain, Cornwallis at, 14. Walton, punctilious in his intercourse with fishes, 25. War, abstract, horrid, 79 --its hoppers, grist of, what, 94. Warton, Thomas, a story of, 38. Washington, charge brought against, 109. Washington, city of, climatic influence of, on coats, 44 --mentioned, 55 --grand jury of, 62. Washingtons, two hatched at a time by improved machine, 109. Wate, Taunton, proverbially weak, 117. Water-trees, 100. Webster, some sentiments of, commended by Mr. Sawin, 113. Westcott, Mr., his horror, 61. Whig party, has a large throat, 35 --but query as to swallowing spurs, 114. White-house, 81. Wife-trees, 100.