Plate, gold and silver, amount of duties on, in 1827, 29. 188; duty on, in 1835 and 1836, 37. 197; old, intended for private use, duty on (1836), id. 128; gold and silver, stamps on, amount of, in 1837, '39. 178; the same, in 1838, 40. 173. plated ware, jewellery, and watches, declared value of exports of, in 1828, '31. 176; declared value of, exported, in 1830, 33. 179; in 1831, 34. 158; in 1834 and 1835, 37. 161; the same, in 1835, 1836, and 1837, '39. 183; the same, in 1838, '40. 180; the same, in 1839, '41. 187; in 1840, '42. 162. gold and silver (Scotland), standard qualities of, and assaying and marking of, Act for (6 and 7. W. IV. c. 130), '37. 130. stamps on, forgery of, punishment for, 42. 138, 139. Plate-glass, restriction on the thickness of, repealed, ‘36. 144. Platen, Count August von, dies, 37. 110. Platina, 31. 70; *32.55. duty on (1829), '30. 202; finely divided, process for obtaining, 28. 184. Plato, 28. 51; '31. 64; id. 77; 32. 48; id. 76; new philosophy of, '28. 55. Platting of chip and straw, duty on (1829), 30. 200. Platylobium formosum, '31. 42; parviflorum, id. ib.; triangulare, id. ib. Plautius, his conquests in England, '28.54. Plautus, '28. 53; '31. 65; '32. 52. Playfair, John, 31. 78; '32. 62. Playing cards, sale and exportation of, regulated (9 G. IV. c. 18), '29. 147; second-hand, sale of, id. ib.; number of packs charged with duty, and amount and rate of duty, in 1826, '31. 193; in 1830, id. ib.; duty received on, in Great Britain, from 1820 to 1831, '33. 182. Plays, not to be represented without Pleading in common-law courts, altered (3 and 4 W. IV. c. 42), '31. 124; Act, directing the rules for, made by the judges, to be laid before Parliament (1 and 2 Vict. c. 100), '39. 163. "Pleasures of Imagination," '32. 62. Pledging of goods, unlawful, by agent or factor, punishment for, '28. 138. Pletho, '32. 51. Pleurisy, deaths from, within the Bills of Mortality, in 1827, 29. 110. Pliny, the Elder, '28. 51; 31. 65; '32.52. the Younger, '28. 54; '31. 65; '32. 53; his observation on tides, '30. 49; his account of the sound from meteors, '39. 19. Plotinus, 28. 55. Plough Monday, '28. 8. Ploughing time, '28. 32; ploughing for, and sowing winter corn, id. kernels, the use of, prohibited in Hanover, '36. 20. Plumage of birds, and colour of their eggs, remarks upon, '30. 41, 42. Plumbago capensis, '31. 42. Plums, dried, duty on (1829), 30. 205; see further, FRUITS. Plumtree-street, proposed improvements at, '31. 217. Plunkett, created Lord Plunkett, 28. 69; appointed lord chancellor of Ireland, 31. 240; discussion on his appointment as Irish chancellor, 32. 188; is superseded, '42. and Dartmoor Railway, account of, '37.89; '41. 64. 37. port of, customs duties received at, in 1833, '35. 173; collected at, in 1834, '36. 157; the same, in the years ending 5th January, 1835 and 1836, 164; the same, for year ending 5th January, 1837, '38. 175; the same, in the years ended 5th January, 1837 and 1838, '39. 191; the same, in the year 1838, 40. 187; the same, during 1839, 41. 188; the same, in 1840, 42. 164; number of ships, and their tonnage, which entered the, in 1832, 1833, and 1834, '36. 163; same, in year 1835, 37. 166; same, in 1836, '38. 176; same, in 1837, '39. 188; same, in 1838, '40. 186; the same, in 1840, '42. 160. Plympton Small Debts Act, '38. 211. Plymstock, population of, '33. 60. Pneumatics, observations and discoveries in, '29. 63. Poaching, number of commitments for, from 1820 to 1826, '29. 99; penalties for, 32. 155, 156; see also, GAME LAws. Pocock, Isaac, dies, '36. 108. Podalyria biflora, 31. 42; sericea, id. ib.; styracifolia, id. ib. Poddle river, Act amending laws relating to (3 and 4 Vict. c. 58), '41. 156. Podolobium trilobatum, '31. 42. "Poeticon Astronomicon," '32. 52. "Poetry, History of," '32. 55. "Poets, Lives of the," '32. 61. Poggio, '31. 68; id. 55. Poictiers, battle of, '28. 58. Pierre of, '31.69; '32.67. William of, '32. 66. Poid de Marc (French), its weight, '30. 118. Poison, difficulty of defining what is strictly, 28. 114; directions for the immediate treatment of persons who have swallowed, id. 116 -124; administering, punishable with death, 1837 (7 W. IV. and 1 Vict. c. 85), '38. 159; see Poi SONING. oak, '29..66. Poisoning, deaths from, within the Bills of Mortality, in 1827, '29. 110; punishment for (9 G. IV. c. 31), id. 150; law altered by 7 W.IV. s. 1, and 1 Vict. c. 85, '38. 159; attempt at (Scotland), punishment of (1829), '30. 181; fish, punishment for (1828), '28. 144; number of executions for cases of, in France (1826), '29. 89; Stewart and his wife executed at Glasgow for, '30. 263; trial and execution of Mary Ann Burdock for, '36. 242, 243. Poisons, 28. 114-124; acrid, table of, id. 115; acro-narcotic, table of, id. ib. 121-123; animal, mineral, and vegetable, id. 114-124; animal corrosive, id. 116; corrosive, table of, id. 115; their action, id. 116; mineral corrosive, id. ib.-118; narcotic, table of, id. 115; putrescent, table of, id. ib.; sedative, table of, id. ib. ; septic, table of, id. ib.; septic or putrescent, id. 123, 124. sale of, remarks on, and regulations for, '36. 25, 26. Poland, extent and population of, in 1828, 28. 71; kingdom of, its extent, population, and sovereign, in 1828, '29. 72, 73; extent and population of (1831), 33. 55; first partition of, 28. 62; second partition of, id. ib.; third partition of, id. ib.; partition of, '31. 54; secret convention for the partition of, id. 53; revolution in, 28. 62; Great, ceded to Prussia; id. ib.; diet of, opened, '31. 236; revolution in, 32. 235; throne of, declared vacant, id. 236; made part of the Russian empire, '33. 229; debates concerning the struggle for the liberty of, id. 204; motion against the existing political state of, 34. 197;"Chronicle of," '32. 75; "History of," id. ib. ; " Collection History of," id. 76. Poland and Russia, number of Jews in (1829), 30. 100; "Chronicle of," '32. 75. Polar circles, what they are, '42. 21. Polari, trial of, 35. 256. Polarization of light, Huygens, 29. 63. Poles, meaning and derivation of the, '28.90; of the ecliptic, what they are, 42. 20, 21. Police and police offices, expenses of, in 1836, '38. 187. report upon a general system of, 40. 109-130; assaults on, penalty for, id. 153; assuming dress of, penalty for, id. ib. C. courts in the metropolis, Act for regulating the (2 and 3 Vict. 71), '40. 159-161; Act better defining the powers of justices (3 and 4 Vict. c. 84), 41. 164; power to appoint within the metropolitan police districts, id. ib. "Gazette," exempt from newspaper stamp duty, '37. 137. - Magistrates' Continuance Act (10 G. IV. c. 45), 30. 187; their salaries, reports to secretary of state, &c., '40. 160; power to appoint two for Westminster (1829), '30. 182, 183. offices, Act for more effectual administration of justice in, &c., for three years (3 W. IV. c. 19), '34. 110-116; Act for further improving the, in and near the metropolis (2 and 3 Vict. c. 47), 40. 153-155. Police, metropolitan, expenses of, in 1833, 35. 187; expenses of, up to December 31st, 1835, 37. 176;expenses in 1834, 1835, and 1836, id. 152; receipts and expenditure for 1836, '38. 187; and criminal prosecutions, expenses of, in 1836, $38. 187. of the metropolis, regulations of, under the Act 10 G. IV. c. 44, 30. 131-138. number of persons apprehended, and how dealt with, in London and Middlesex, in 1831 and 1832, 34. 65; number of persons taken into custody by the metropolitan, in 1832, and how dealt with, id. 171; number of persons taken into custody by the metropolitan, in 1831, 1832, and 1833, 35. 188; number of charges at police stations in London in 1834, and how disposed of, '36. 173. constabulary force in Ireland, in 1829, '31. 194. Polignac administration, 30. 263. Prince de, trial and sentence of, '32. 235; proposed address to the king to interpose for his liberation. 37. 204; he is released, '38. 243. Polish authors, list of, and of their principal works, from A.D. 1200 to A.D. 1800, '32. 75, 76; literary chronology, id. ib.; revolution id. 235. commences, Polishing rushes, duty on (1829), '30. 202. Political science, better understood than formerly, '32. 80. offences, number of persons charged with, and tried, and their several sentences, 1839 and 1840, '42. 102. societies (unions), discussion on the correspondence of ministers with, '32. 195. unions, observations on their legality in both houses, '34. 195, 196. changes in France, '29. 246. Politz, Professor C. H. L., dies, '39. 141. Poliziano, 31. 70; Angelo, '32. 55. Polling at Elections Act (9 G. IV. | c. 59), '29. 161, 162; see further, POLLS. Pollio, 28. 54. Polmont, population of, '33. 87. Polloc and Govan Railway Act, '31. 212; 32. 216; railway, par ticulars of, 41.70. Pollockshaws, machinery at, in 1801, '34. 49. Polls at elections for boroughs con- Polytrichum commune, 29. 31. Pomegranate tree, '29. 66. Pomegranates and peels of, duties on (1832), '33. 192. Pomerania, extent and population of (1831), '33.55; given to Sweden, '31. 48. Pomfret, John, '31. 74; 32. 60. Pompeii, destroyed, '28. 54. Pompeius, Cn., '28. 53; Festus, '32. 53. Pompey, conquers the pirates, '28. Pomponius Atticus, T., '32. 52. Mela, '31. 65; '32. 52. Pond, John, dies, '37. 110. Pondicherry, established, '32. 26; siege of, id. 27; peace of, id. 28; surrender of, id. 29; sea-fight between the English and French at, id. 34; captured, and the fortifications destroyed, id. ib.; again taken by the English, id. 39; restored, id. 41; again taken, id. 42. Ponds, observation on the formation of, and cracks in the mud at the bottom of, when dried, '29. 39. Pons, M., the discoverer of Encke's comet, '33. 5+. Ponsonby, Hon. G., Lord of the Treasury, '31. 240. Lord, ambassador at Bue nos Ayres, '28. 68. Pontano, G., '31. 70; '32. 55. Pontanus, J. J., '32. 74. Pontécoulant, M. de, his Elements of the orbits of Halley's comet referred to, '33. 24; his calculations of Halley's comet, '35. 13. Pontefract, population and representation of, '33. 78; Small Debts and Court Baron Act, '40. 214. Pontia rapæ, '30. 42, 43. Pontoppidan, '31. 77; '32. 75. Poodle River further Act, '41. 222. Poole, population of (1821), '29. 82; population and representation of, '33. 61; difference of time between, and London, '31. 15; Bridge Act, '35. 220; Corporation Bill, passes the Commons, 37. 212; rejected by the Lords, id. ib. and Wareham Road Act, '37.222. Mr. Moses, his evidence on patents referred to, '30. 123. Poor, advice to the, 28. 107; proposed buildings for, '42. 237; charitable institutions in aud near London for the education of the, '30. 155-158; Bill for the transport of the unemployed to the colonies, '32. 191; Allotments, Act for letting to industrious cottagers (2 W. IV. c. 42), '33. 134, 135; employment of, by churchwardens (1 and 2 W. IV. c. 42), '32. 159; (1 and 2 W. IV. c. 59), id, 167. Poor Law, operation of the old, in Lancashire and Yorkshire, '38. 106; number and classification of cases decided by the judges on the, as reported, to November 1832, '33. 123; Lord Teynham's motion on, 31. 201; select com. mittee of the Lords appointed, '32. 188; administration of, committee upon, '38. 199. commission, expenses of, from 1835 to 1839, 41. 196; commissioners, their "Circular" referred to, '41. 58. sum expended for the relief of the poor in the year ended 25th March, 1838, '40. 188; average annual expenditure for the relief of, for each of five years, 1830 to 1834, and 1835 to 1839, saving in same period, '41. 193; sum expended in the several Unions in England and Wales before the Poor Law Act, also the sum expended for the year ended 25th March, 1840, salaries, out-door relief, &c., '42. 168. number of in-door and out-door paupers relieved in England and Wales in 1839 and 1810, and proportion per cent. relieved to population, '42. 168. Amendment Bill read a second time, 35. 205; read a third time in the Commons, id. 209, 210; debated in, and passed by the House of Lords, '35. 211 -215. Amendment Act (4 and 5 W. IV. c. 76), '35. 152-157; operation of the, '37. 50-60; its beneficial effects on the expenditure of rates, &c. &c. shewn, id. ib.; Duke of Wellington's declaration in favour of, '38. 201; operation of the (1838), id. 98108; its effect on the diminution of the poor rates, 39. 131; Repeal Bill, rejected, id. 202; Continuance Act, resolution for out-door relief, rescinded, '40. 207; continuance for ten years moved, '42. 173; Bill brought in, id. 174; debates on, id. 179, 187. Loans Repayment, Act extending time for (6 and 7 W. IV. c. 107), '37. 146; Act extending same (1 Vict. c. 25), '39. 148, 149. Poor law, occupation by party hiring, and payment of 107. rent by him (1 W. IV. c. 18), '32. 139. in Ireland, abstract of the report on the state of the (1830), 31. 106-119; compulsory relief of the, in Ireland, recommended (1830), id. 119; motion for introducing, into Ireland by Mr. Sadler, id. 206; (Ireland), resolutions concerning, by Mr. Sadler, '33. 204; Act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in (1 and 2 Vict. c. 56), '39. 153-156; Act amending same as to electoral divisions, voting, appeals, &c. &c. (2 Vict. c. 1), '40. 142. in the United States, particulars relating to, '34. 67-72; their injurious effects there, id. 70, 71. Poor tax, in the United States, amount of, in various years, '34. 67-72. Poor rates, observations on, '28. 108; applied for the deficiency of wages, commencement of the practice, '34. 45; amount contributed by every individual in the kingdom in money and wheat at various periods, from 1748 to 1832, '35. 190; average amount of, levied on every head of the population of England and Wales, in 1776, 1803, 1815, and 1832, 34. 173, 174; average proportional sums paid on account of, and of taxes, by each individual in the kingdom in 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831, id. 175; and county rates, amount of, levied by assessment in each county of England and Wales, in the year ending March 25th, 1826, distinguishing the amount levied on land, dwelling-houses, mills, factories, and manorial profits, '28. 171; amount levied by assessment for poor rates and county rates in each county of England and |