LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND PART OF 1831.

PAGE

TACTICS, with reference to impending War

Song of a Peasant Girl after the Battle of Leipsic

On the Discipline of the Mercantile Marine

Survey of the West Coast of Africa in 1825-6

On the State of Efficiency of the British Army

On the Organization of the British Artillery, No. II.

Narrative of the late disastrous Voyage of the H. C. S. Bridgewater,

The Drummond Light for illuminating Light-houses, &c.

Memoir of Field Marshal Count Von Diebitsch Sabalkanski

On the Mode of Arming and Fighting Steam Ships of War

Cigar-Smoking

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Naval Reminiscences.-Dining out-an Adventure in Portugal

Reviews and Critical Notices

On the Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial-Bourienne's

Life of Napoleon-Education of the Sons of Officers

Recollections of the late American War

On the Defence of Jersey

Reminiscences of a Subaltern

Stand for a Mercurial Horizon

A Recent Visit to several of the Polynesian Islands

On the Equipment of the British Infantry

Distribution of Light Cavalry and Infantry in the Field

The Veteran to his Sword

Yeomanry Cavalry

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The Services of the late Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke, K.C.B.

The Services of the late Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir William

Johnstone Hope, G.C.B..

The Services of the late Rear-Admiral George Sayer, C.B.

Lithuania

Formation of a Naval and Military Museum

On the Distribution and Duties of the Unattached Medical Staff of the

Army at Home

227

Reviews and Critical Notices.-On a New Armament for Ships of War,

and Razéeing-Standard Novels-Cabinet Cyclopædia-Cabinet

Library-The Twelve Nights-Views in the Burman Empire-

Panorama of Constantinople-Family Classical Library-Hinton's

United States-The Harmonicon-Cabinet Atlas-New Sporting

Magazine—The Scientific Gazette-The Edinburgh Cabinet Li-

brary-Haverhill; or Memoirs of an Officer in the Army of Wolfe 234

Experiments at Brest on Marshall's Gun-Carriages

Lord Camelford

Suggestion for a Cipher to be employed on Service

Remuneration for Shipwreck, &c.

Means of Preserving the Health of Soldiers

India Army-Tardy Promotion

Uniform of the Unattached

Deccan Prize Money

A Point of Etiquette

Remarks on the Proposition for a United Service Medical Society

Addresses and Orders on the 16th Regiment leaving Ceylon

Quere as to First Naval Engagement in the French War of 1744

Murder of Capt Logan, 57th Regiment

242

The Soldier's Bride

Theory of the Universe; comprising Strictures on Commander Wood-

ley's "Divine System"

Singular Order of Lieut.-Gen. Prescott in 1794

The Services of the late Admiral the Right Hon. the Earl of Northesk,

G.C.B. and Rear-Admiral of Great Britain

339

Remarks on the Comparative Services and Rewards of the several

Branches of the Army

343

United Service Recreations at Portsmouth

349

Thoughts on the Systematic Practice of Naval Manœuvres .

350

The Effects of Inexperience in Naval Affairs on the Part of the Army

-with a Remedy

354

Actions of the British Cavalry

The Services of the late Admiral Sir John Knight, K.C.B.

The Services of the late Vice-Admiral Viscount Torrington

The Niger

Observations on Naval Gunnery

Reviews and Critical Notices.-Colonel Napier's History of the War

in the Peninsula, Vol. III.-Capt. Hall's Fragments of Voyages

and Travels

Queries

375

391

Epitaph on the late Colour-Serjeant Robinson, 5th Regiment

Target Practice

The late Voyage of H.M.S. Chanticleer

Effects of Intemperance in the Fleet and Army-and its Remedy

A Popular View of Fortification and Gunnery, No. IX.

Services of the late Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell, Knt. and C.B.

Plan of Illuminating the Semaphore Telegraph

Remarks on Lieut. Raper's Method of Working a Day's Work

Reviews and Critical Notices.-Life of Sir Thomas Lawrence-Brooke's

Travels in Spain and Morocco-Life and Adventures of Nathaniel

Pearce-Fletcher's History of Poland-Classical Library-Epi-

tome of English Literature-Cabinet Cyclopædia and Library-

Cabinet Library-The Sunday Library-Sporting Magazine

Suggestion for preventing accidents by Steamers

Judge Johnson's Military Law

Comments on

"The Distribution and Duties of the Medical Staff of

Abstract of Officers who served in the Army on the Peninsula and at

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ERRATA. 1831, PART I.

Page 435, lines 19 and 20 from the bottom. There should not be a full stop or new paragraph,

the sentence should run on from the quotation.

In the Yeomanry Paper, page 500, line 12 from the bottom, for " pretty well" read "fitted well."

page 502, line 21 from the bottom, for "position" read "formation."

page 502, line 18 from the bottom, for "their" read "this."

page 505, line 10 from the bottom, for "first rank" read "front rank."

page 505, lines 23 and 26 from the top, for "division" read "divisions."

ERRATA. 1831, PART II.

Page 6, line 34 from top, for "second battalion" read "two battalions."

Page 9, line 25 from top, for " by mere pressure" read " by the mere pressure."
Page 70, line 10 from bottom, for "Druidar's" read "Dundas's."

Page 339, line 3 from bottom, for "29th of January" read " 21st of January."

Page 364, line 7 from bottom, for "Lucca" read "Queen."

Page 364, line 12 from bottom, for "1799" read " 1797."

Page 365, line 12 from bottom, for " Warmer" read "Wallace."

Page 366, line 23 from bottom, for "Schweling" read "Scheveling."

In our report of the Library and Museum Meeting, for "Capt. Blackhouse, R.N." read "Capt.
Backhouse, Unattached."