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Smart, Christopher, the poetical lunatic, 511

Smith, Albert, and Seven Dials, 309

-- Joseph, the Mormon prophet, 210

Snell, Hannah, the female soldier, 116

Snuff-taking legacies, 158

Soane, Sir John, lampooned, 488

Songs, by W. Blake, 343

Soup distribution, classic, 565

Sources of laughter, 520

Southcote, Joanna, 198

Southcote, Joanna, and the coming of Shiloh, 200

-- -- her funeral and grave, 205, 206

-- -- her visions, chapel, and seals, 209

Southcotonian hymns, 206

Southcotonians at Temple Bar, 207

Spanish ambassador hoax, Mathews', 378

Spelling, bad, 556

Spenceans, the religio-political sect, 197

Spendthrift Squire of Halston, 48

Stanhope, Lady Hester, oddities of, 141

Stewart, walking, sketch of, 300

-- -- a general, 300

Stokes' Amphitheatre, Islington Road, 528

Stowell, Lord, his love of sight-seeing, 277

Strangely eccentric, yet sane, 232

Taverns, old, at Islington, 526

Temple, notoriety of the, 546

Thackeray and Waterton, 328

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