Bitter apple, poisonous properties of, and remedies against, 28. 118. Bitton, population of, '33. 62. Bitumen Judaicum, duty on (1832), '33. 190. Blacas, Duc de, dies, '41. 138. Black, Dr. Balloon, hydrogen), '29. 55. Blackberry, the, '28. 39. Blackbird, the, 28. 31, 32, 36; '29. 39. Black Cat, the, '28. 34; '29. 38. Black Cawke, punishment of stealing, '28, 135. Black clothing, why discoloured by sea air, '30. 43. Black Forest Mountains, and their several heights, '33. 43; alphabetical index to same, &c. id. 49-53. Black hellebore, poisonous properties of, and remedies against, '28. 119. Black Hole at Calcutta, English suffocated in, '32. 28. Black-lead, punishment of stealing, 28. 135 (See stealing in mines); duty on (1829), '30. 199. Black Prince, Edward the, '28. 58. Blackrock, population of in 1821 and 1831, 34. 89. Black sea declared free, '31. 53; free navigation of ceded to the Americans, '31. 236. Black walnut, '29. 65. Blackburn, Mr. E. L., architect of Crosby Hall, '37. 244. Blackburn, population of (1821), 29. 81; population and representation of, 33. 65; Church burnt, '38. 235; power looms, number of in (1836), '37, 183; Gas Light Act, '39.212; Improvement Act, 42. 193; Small Debts Act, id. 194; Towns' Moor Act, id. 195. Blackett, Mr. his discovery of the sufficiency of the adhesive power of railway carriage wheels to secure progression, '37.83. Blackfriars Bridge, '28, 62; time occupied in its erection, '32. 228; repairs Act, 34. 204; damaged by a flood, '35. 254; repairs of the piers, 35. 247; completed, '41. 252. Blackheath Hill Trinity Church, first stone of laid, '39. 221, 222; account and view of, 40. 229, 231. division, Kent, parishes comprised within, '32. 108; inhabited house tax, houses assessed to, and rental of same, and farmhouses exempt from, for year ending 5th April, 1830, 32. 108; Small Debts Amendments Act, '39. 212. Blackley, population of, '33. 65. Blackstone, W., '31. 76; '32. 61; his observation on the odiousness of the excise, '38. 68. Blackwall Docks, &c. Act, '36.211. and London Railway, account and particulars of, '41. 78, 95, 96; enormous expense of its extension, 42. 65; further powers Act, id. 196; its total length and extent opened since November 1840, id. 56'; further particulars relating to the same and its expenses, id. 64, 66: terminus of same at Blackwall, account of, '41. 243, 244. Bladder, flowered heath, '31. 39. nut, 29. 67; Senna, id. 64; Senna Cape, '31. 43. Blagrave, William, '17. 23; his works, id. 41. Blair, Hugh, '31. 74, 76. '32. 62. Blake, Mr., his observation of the Blanca, '31. 73; '32. 70. Blancs, Six (France), value of, '30., 105. Blandford Forum, population of 133. 61. Marquis of, motion on reform in parliament, '31. 199. Blandfordia nobilis, '31. 37. Blane, Sir Gilbert, his error con 222. Bleda, Jayme, '31. 73; '32. 71. Bleeding, extent of, to cause fainting, facts relating to, '39. 32. Blenheim, Battle of, '28. 61. palace, act for repairing (3 and 4. Vict. c. 43), '41. 153. "Blessing the Ocean," 29. 41. Blenkinsop, Mr., his steam carriages, '37. 82. Blexell, '31. 79; '32. 75. Blights rare in a late spring, '28. 33. Blind, School for the Indigent, '30. 156; tower of the building completed, and view of same, '37. 237, 238. Blinkerschoeck, '31. 75. Blistering fly, poisonous properties of, '28. 116; treatment of persons having swallowed, id. ib. Bloch, M., his opinion that mackerel do not migrate, '29. 30. Blockade of Britain, '28. 63; England by France, '31. 56. Blondus, Flav. '31.70; '32. 55. Blood, profuse discharges of, produced by excessive spirit-drinking, '29. 123. of letting, sometimes a test of the nature of disease, '39. 32. Bloomfield, Robert, '31. 76; '32. 62; his allusion to the summer clouds, '30. 82. Bloomsbury, population, &c. of, '28. S6. 87; St. Giles and St. George, rental of the parishes of (1829), '29. 85; Savings' Bank, particulars relating to the, from 1817 to 1829, shewing the classes of depositors, the amounts deposited, and the balances, '30. 118, 119; dispensary, '30. 143. Blore, Mr., architect of the Church in Vincent Square, '38. 219; of the new church in Berwick Street, '39. 222; of the restoration of St. Mary Magdalene Church at Oxford, '42. 102. BLUBBER, see OILS. Blue-bottle, the, '28. 35. Blue Ceanothus, '31. 38; Dianella, id. ib. Blue-berried Billardiera, '31. 37; dog-wood, '29.65. Blue-fruited Eloescarpus, '31. 39. Blumenbach, 31. 76; '32. 66; his opinion of the duration of human life, '35. 32; he dies, '41. 138. Blumenhagen, Dr. W., dies, '40. 141. Blumner, Dr. H., dies, '40. 141. Blundeville, '37. 23; his works, id. 42. 43. Blunt-leaved oxylobium, '31. 42. Blyth, coals, quantity of, imported into London from, in 1833, '35. 186. and Seaton sluice, coals quantity of, sent from to London, and number of ships employed in same in 1836, 37 & 38. '40. 193. Boaden, James, dies, '40. 141. Board of Health to prevent contagion, money advanced for, '35. 167. of Revenue (India), established, '32. 34. Boats, let for hire on the Thames, regulations for, '28. 157. stealing from, punishment for, '28. 132; and see further Act relating to CANALS and NAVIGABLE RIVERS. Bobbin-net, French, particulars relating to its manufacture, '35. 109. Boccacio, '28. 58; '31.68; 32. 54. Bocking, population of, '33. 62. Bodin, his opinion on comets, '33. 7. Bodenmuller dies, '37. 110. Bodmin, population and representa tion of, '33.59; difference of time between, and London, '31. 14; Courts of Assize Building Act, '37.220. Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway, '33. 211; improvement Act, '36. 210; particulars of, '41. 70. Boedromion, an Attic month, '30. 8. Boerhaave, '28. 61; '31. 75; '32. 73; his observation on the real value of chemistry, '35. 35. Boethius, 31, 66; '32. 54. 'Bogle v. Lawson," cause of tried, 42. 241; account of the fraud exposed which caused the action, id. ib. Bognadovitch, '31. 77. Bognor, Improvement, &c., Act, '36. 206. Bogota, British Consul-general at, Boiardo, M., '31.70; '32. 55. de Paris, do., do., id. ib. double, do., do., id. ib. half, do., do., id. ib. quarter, do., do., id. ib. Boistre, Laboullanger de, dies, '39. 141. Bojador, Cape, or Nun, doubled, '30. 93. Bokhara, see BOUKHARA. Bolam, Archibald, tried for the murder of Millie, '40. 260. Bolingbroke, Lord, '31. 74; '32. 61. Bolivar, Simon, defeats Canterac, '28. 66; Dictator of Peru, '28. 66; again Dictator of Peru, id. ib.; id. 68; President of Lima for life, '28. 68; proclaimed Dictator at Bogota, 29. 240; his proclamation to the Colombians, id. 243, 244; conspiracy against, id. 244; again President of Colombia, '31. 234; resigns the presidentship of Colombia, '31. 235; dies, '32.235. Bolivia, extent and population of, in 1828, '28. 73; republic of, its extent, population, vice-president, capital, religion, revenue, and debt, in 1828, '29. 74, 75; hunting at, id. 237. Bolivian Republic established, 28. 67. Boll, variance of its quantity, '35. 116. Bollington, church building at, '35. 227. "Bologna, History of," '32. 55. Bolton, population of (1821), '29. 81; population and representation of, 33. 65; charter of, its validity, determined, '42. 236; Small Debts Act, '41. 218; Water Works Act, '33. 210; Police Im. provement Act (2 and 3 Vict., c. 95), '40. 164; Police Rate Assessment Act (3 and 4 Vict., c. 30), '41. 148; railways, and particulars of same, viz: Bolton Railway Act, '36. 210; and Bury Railway Act, '32. 216; Bury and Manchester Railway Act, '33. 211; particulars of, '41.70; Bolton and Leigh Railway Bill, '29. 182; Amendment Act, '32. 216; further Amendment Act, '37. 223; account of, '37. 104; particulars of, '41. 64; Bolton and Preston Railway Act, '38. 213; Extension Act, '39. 214; particulars of, '41. 80; its total length and extent opened up to 1841, '42. 57; further particulars of same, id. 71. Little, Watching, &c., Act, '31. 210. Bolton and Watt, coining machinery, '29. 60. Bombay, Island of, taken by the English, 28. 60; garrison of, declare themselves King's subjects, '32. 26; granted, "as of the manor of East Greenwich," to the East India Company, '32. 26; of, '40. 255. Bona, British Vice Consul at, his salary (1828), '31. 183. Bonaparte (Jerome) King of Westphalia, 31. 56; (Joseph) King of Naples, '28. 63; 31. 56; King of Spain, 28. 64; (Lucien) dies, '41. 138; (Louis) King of Holland, '28. 63; '31. 56; abdicates the throne of Holland, '31. 58; (Louis Napoleon) heads the insurrection at Strasburg, '37. 257; embarks for England, 40, 252; proceedings relating to between France and Switzerland, '40. 251, 252; attempts an insurrection at Bou logne, is arrested, '41. 254; sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, '41.255; (Madame Maria Letitia) dies, 37. 253; (Napoleon) 28. 62; his victories in Italy, id. 62; crosses the Alps, id. 63; First Consul, id. ib.; Consul for life, id. ib.; in Syria and Egypt, id. ib.; declares Britain blockaded, id. ib.; Emperor, id. ib.; King of Italy,id. ib.; marries Maria Louisa, id. 64; meets the Emperor Alexander, id. ib.; abdicates, id. ib.; returns to France, id. ib.; renounces the sovereignty of France, '31. 58; declared the common enemy of the world, 31. 59; declared prisoner of the four powers, id. ib. ; at St. Helena, 28. 64; dies, '28. 65; his remains deposited in the Hôtel des Invalides, 42, 234; account of the removal of his body from St. Helena, id. ib; his statue placed on the column at Boulogne, id. 241. Bonar, 31. 68; '32. 63. Bonaventura, '31. 68; 32. 54. Bondam, P., 31. 77; '32. 73. Bonds, &c., of resignation made Boniface VIII., '28. 57. Bonomi, sculptor of the decorations of Streatham Church, '42. 207. Bonvoisin dies, '38. 128. Boodbah, a Hindoo day, '30. 27. Boodh, an Indian day, '30. 21. Boodle's Club, '30. 160. "Book of Answers," by Shererā, '32. 46; "Book of Faith," by Saadià Gaon, id. 46; "Book of God," id. 47; "Book of Martyrs," id. 59; "Book of Piety," id. 47; "Book of Rectitude," id. ib. Book Society for promoting religious knowledge among the poor, '30. 153. Books printed, quantity, and declared value of exports of, in 1828, 31. 176; in 1830, 33. 179; in 1831, '34. 157; value of, in 1834 and 1835, '37. 161; the same in 1835-36-37, 39. 182; the same, and quantities thereof, in 1838, '40. 180; the same in 1839, '41. 187; the same in 1840, '42. 162. Foreign, duty on, paid yearly, imported during each year from 1821 to 1838, '33. 188. Boorne, William, '37. 23; his works, id. 37. Booths Higher, population of, '33. 65. Booths at fairs regulated, '40. 154. Boots and Shoes, imports of, from France, from 1829 to 1839, '41. 190. Boracic Acid, duty on (1832), '33. 190. Borax, duty on (1829), '30. 198; or Tincal, duty on (1832), '33. 190. Borde, Andrew, '37. 23; his works, id. ib. BORDEAUX, See BOURDEAUX. Bordesley, Canal from, to Birming 1 ham Canal near Salford Bridge, Act for, '41. 221. Bording, Anders, '31. 73; '32. 74. Boreland Loan Road Improvement Act, '40, 213. Borelli, percussion and animal mechanics, '29. 62; translation of Apollonius, id. 60. Borger, 31.77; '32. 74. Borghini, Vin., '31. 70; '32. 55. Borgupbalus, '32.75. "Borhani Kata," '32. 79. Borlum Bridge, destroyed by a waterspout, replaced, '34. 238. Borne, Ludwig, dies, '38. 128. Borneo discovered, '30. 94; kingdom of, its extent, population, capital, and religion, in 1828, '29. 74, 75. Bornou, empire of, its extent, population, sovereign, capital, religions, and army, in 1828, '29. 74, 75. Borough, 37. 23; his works, id. 29. Borough of Southwark, improvements in, '33, 214. Courts of England and Wales, Act for regulating the proceedings in (2 and 3 Vict. c. 27), '40. 148. English, tenure of, discontinued in certain cases, '42. 136. Boroughs, list of, having commission of the peace under the Municipal Corporations Reform Act, '36. 139, 142; those which are not to have, unless on petition and grant, id. 142, 143; Administration of Justice in certain, Act relating to (6 and 7 W. IV. c. 105), '37. 145, 146; Boundaries of, Act relating to (6 and 7 W. IV. c. 104), '37. 145; elections in, polls to be confined to one day (5 and 6 W. IV. c. 36), '36. 121; justices of, empowered to commit for trial to quarter sessions (4 W. IV. c. 27), $35. 135; Watch rates of, Act for levying (2 and 3 Vict. c. 28), '40. 148, 149. Borrowstowness, population of, '33. 86. Bory de, St. Vincent, his article "Météores," in Dict. Class. d'Hist. Naturelle, referred to, '30. 68.* Boscan, Juan, '31. 71; '32. 70. Bosch, General Van den, originator of the pauper colonies in Holland, '29. 131. Boscowitch, G. R., 31. 74; 32. 57. Bosio, M., the artist of the statue of Napoleon at Boulogne, '42. 241. Bosmere and Claydon Poor Act, '34. 205. Bosphorus, the, closed, '29. 244; blockaded by the Russians, '30. 259. Bossiæa linophylla, '31. 37. Bostock, Dr., his analysation of water supplied to the metropolis, 29. 107. Boston (America) Insurrection, '28. 62; tea destroyed at, '31. 53; blockaded, 28.62; British consul at, his salary (1828), '31. 182. (Lincolnshire), population of (1821), 29. 81; population and representation of, '33.67; paupers, number of in, and expenses of, in1819, 1821, and 1823, 34. 68. Harbour Improvement Act, '35. 223. Port of, Customs duty received at, in 1840, '42. 164. Boswell, J., '32. 62. Bosworth-field, battle of, '28. 58. "Botanic Garden," '32. 62. Botany Bay Fig, '31. 39; indigo, id. 40. Botho, Conrad, '31. 70; '32. 64. Botta, Carlo, dies, '38. 128. Böttiger, Carl August, dies, 37. 110. Bottinelli, '31. 76. Boughroad Ferry Bridge Act, '39. |