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Municipal Reform Bill, Irish, 304, 307.
Munster, devastation of, in Eliza-
beth's reign, 205; wretched state
of in 1761, 224; potato diet in, 364.
Murphy, Lieutenant, 77, 94, 97, 100,

113.

Murray, Sir George, 162, 163.
Murray, John Archibald, 162, 164.
Musselburgh, 5; grammar school of, 9.

NAPIER, Sir Charles, 266.

New Zealanders, treatment of the,
197.

Nicholl, Mr, on the Irish poor, 308.
Norbury, Lord, murder of, 325, 339.
Normanby, Lord. See Mulgrave.

OAKBOYS, an Irish society, 226.
O'Connell, Daniel, 238, 240, 291, 292,
310, 383.

O'Loghlen, Michael, 251, 283.
Orangemen, 226, 238, 408; Mr Drum-
mond's contention with, 258 sqq.,
277.

Ordnance Survey of Britain and Ire-
land, 38, 46-137, 247-8, 438;
origin and progress of, 50 sqq.;
methods of, 47; hardships of, 55;
measurement of base-line, 47, 51-53,
81, 83-112, 167, 440.
Ormelie, Lord, 162, 163.

PALE, Irish, 198, 201, 202.
Paley not the author of the maxim,
"Property has its duties as well as
its rights," 329.

Papists. See Roman Catholics.
Parliament, Irish, 228, 232.
Parnell, Sir Henry, on the Irish penal
laws, 217, 240.

Patrick, St, 192, 199.

Peel, Sir Robert, 179, 180, 234, 235,

383, 418, 419,
Peep-of-day-boys, 226.

Penal laws, Irish, 209, 210, 215-21,
228, 240.

Pendulums, compensation, 84.
Pension conferred on Mr Drummond,

and soon renounced, 152, 181.
Perrin, Louis, 251, 283.
Perthshire, first election in, under the
Reform Act, 162.

Petty Sessions in Ireland, 283, 362.
Petty, Sir William, on Ireland, 218,
218, 220, 239.

Philips, Sir George, 177, 185.
Phoenix Park, suppression of Sunday
fairs in, 404.

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Pigot, David R., Chief Baron, 251,
338, 340, 416, 475.
Playfair, Professor John, 12, 22.
Plowden's Historical Review of the
State of Ireland, 239, 240.
Plymouth, Mr Drummond's studies at,
38.

Police force in Ireland, 266 sqq.
Pollock, Baron, his attack on Mr
Drummond, 149, 151.

Pontoon invented by Mr Drummond,
40.

Poor-Law, Irish, 305, 308, 368.
Pope, The, not originally acknow-
ledged by the Irish Christians, 195;
the conquest of Ireland by Henry
II. authorised by Adrian IV., 195;
how and when the Irish became
adherents of the, 203.

Population, increase of, in Ireland,
220, 232, 237, 363.

Portlock, Lieut.-Col., his Memoir of
Colby, 55; on the Irish Survey, 80;
on the inventor of the compen-
sation bar, 95-105.

Portrait of Mr Drummond, 161, 182.
Potato diet of the Irish, 237, 364.
"Property has its duties as well as its
rights," 322, 325, 326, 327, 331,
339, 366.

Prisoners' Counsel Act in Ireland, 459.
Prosecutors, public, 281.
Prout, Dr, 16.

Purfleet lighthouse, 119, 125.

"QUARTERLY REVIEW," 346, 849,387.
Queen's County, 355.

RAILWAYS, mismanagement of, 391;
should they be assumed by the
State? 386, 392, 464; financial posi-
tion of Irish railways in 1866, 389;
Irish Railway Commission, 256,341,
409; report of, 336, 410, 412, 414,
415; recommendations of, 374, 383;
opposition to, 380; bill framed on
the report, 382-5; opposition to the
bill in Parliament, 417.
Rebellion, Irish, in 1641, 211; in
1798, 226, 231.

Reform Bill, 138-161; first election
under the Act, 162.

Reid, Colonel Sir William, 39, 42.
Religion, Professor Jardine on, 32.
Ribandism, 238, 258 sqq., 288.
Richards, John, 251.
Rightboys, an Irish society, 225.
Robe, Lieutenant, 56, 57; letter from,
to Mr Drummond's mother, 181.

Robinson, Dr Romney, 45.
Roden, Earl, gigantic petition to the
king, presented by, 236; his aver-
ments as to Ribandism, 288, 293;
his committee of the House of
Lords, 246, 256, 417; Mr Drum-
mond's evidence before it, 256,
260-4, 267, 269, 271-6, 281, 284-8,
290-3, 339, 415, 419.

Roe, river, 83, 107.

Roman Catholics, none in Ireland till
the Reformation, 195, 203; penal
laws against the, 209, 210, 215, 221,
228, 240; emancipation of, 235,
295-6; their admission into the
Irish constabulary, 274, 295; and
into juries, 282.
Rowan, Mr, 293.

Roy, General, survey of Britain by,
51, 52, 67.

Roy, Mr, a teacher of Thomas Drum-
mond, 11, 12.

Royal Astronomical Society, 119.
Royal Dublin Society, 406.

Russell, Earl, 138, 139, 143, 150, 345,
383.

SCOTLAND, Ordnance Survey of, 54.
Scotsman newspaper, 177, 180; quoted,
330.

Scott, George, 12.
Septs, Irish, 187 sqq.
Sharp, Richard, 184.
Sharp, Mrs, 405.

Shaw, Mr, motion of, in the House
of Commons, 339, 416.

Sheriffs in Ireland, 305.

Shiel, Mr, quoted, 246.
Slattery, Mr, 275.

Slieve Donard, 81.

Slieve Snaght, 74-78, 439.

Smiles, Samuel, his history of Ireland,
239.

Smith, Dr, 22.

Smith, Goldwin, on Irish history, &c.,
240; on the maxim, "Property has
its duties as well as its rights," 328.
Smyth, Geo. Lewis, his work on Ire-
land, 239.

Snaght, Slieve, 74-78, 439.
Societies, illegal, in Ireland, 224
sqq.; state of the law in regard to,
461.

Somers, James, 3-5.

Somers, Mrs, 5, 6, 16, 33.
Spencer, Lord, 179. See Althorp.
Spenser, Edmund, his account of the
Irish, 205, 214, 239.
Spy system in Ireland, 293.

Station-hunting by the Ordnance Sur-
veyors, 56.
Statistics of crime in Ireland, 286-8.
Steelboys, an Irish society, 226.
Stephen, Sir George, on the author-
ship of the maxim, "Property has
its duties as well as its rights," 334.
Stevenson, Robert, 126.
Stipendiary Magistrates in Ireland,
273, 277, 280, 453.
Succession, law of, among the Irish
tribes, 189.

Sunday fairs, suppression of, 404.
Survey of Britain and Ireland. See
Ordnance Survey.

Synge, Edward, his "Case of Tolera-
tion," 240.

TANISTRY, 190, 192.

Taylor, Mr, a teacher of Thomas
Drummond, 9, 10.
Telegraph, Belgian, 394.
Theodolite, its use in surveying, 48.
Thoms, Alexander, 239.

Thrashers, Irish insurgents, 233.
Times newspaper, 177, 180.
Tipperary, county of, 355; Mr Drum-
mond's correspondence with the
magistrates of, 313-339, 367; effects
of that correspondence on the for-
tunes of the Whig Government, 339.
Tithes, levying of, in Ireland, 408;
Commutation Bill, 303, 306, 310.
Tolerance indignantly disclaimed by
James I., 210, 239; Synge's "Case
of Toleration," 240.
Tone, Wolfe, 230.
Trigonometrical Survey. See Ordnance
Survey.

Trinity House Corporation, their trial
of the Drummond Light for light-
houses, 114-127.

Troughton, Edward, 94, 96, 102, 103.
Tyrone, county of, 357.

ULSTER, devastation of, in Elizabeth's
reign, 206; rebellion in 1641, 211
colonisation of, 219.
Union between Britain and Ireland,
232; agitation for repeal of, 236.
United Irishmen, 226, 230.

VALLENCY'S "Collectanea," 239.
Verner, Colonel, correspondence with,
296, 310, 312.

Vetch, Mr, 62, 63, 64.

Victoria, Queen, Ireland under, 237,
243 sqq.; Irish statutes of, 460,
464.

Vignolles, Mr, 348.

WAGES, when too low, give a bad re
turn of labour, 357, 369; inade-
quacy of, in Ireland, in Mr Drum-
mond's time, 365.

Waræus de Hibernia, &c., 239.
Waterford, county of, 355.

Wayland, Francis, 313.

Wellington, Duke of, 312, 235, 385;

his administration, 179.
Westmeath, 355.

Wexford, county of, 355.

Whigs, their administration in Ire-
land, 1835-39, 243. See Mulgrave.
Whiteboys, an Irish society, 224.
Widgeons, an Irish society, 291.
William the Conqueror, 196.

William III., Ireland under, 215;
blowing up his statue in Dublin,
408.

William IV., 117; Mr Drummond's
visit to, at Brighton, 128; Ireland
in the reign of, 236, 243; Irish
statutes, 451, 454, 459, 460.
Woolmore, Captain, 129, 133 sqq.
Woolwich, Mr Drummond at, 14, 17,
18-36, 43; history of the Royal
Academy at, 37.

Woulfe, Stephen, 251, 303; not the
author of the maxim, " Property has
its duties as well as its rights," 329,
332, 334, 335, 338.

YOLLAND, Captain, his account of the
measurement of the base at Lough
Foyle, 85, 88, 90, 92, 93, 98, 99, 104,
109, 113.

Young, Arthur, his "Tour in Ire-
land," 240.

ERRATA.

Page 64, 16th line from top, for the British Survey, read the great
triangulation in connection with the British Survey.

101, 21st line from top, for Mitscheclich, read Mitscherlich.
251, 15th line from bottom, after Pigot add Law adviser from 1837
to February 1839.

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