Braithwaite's Steam Fire-Engine, 111
Brass-plate Coal-merchants, 56
Bread, legal adulteration of, 366
Brent Tor church, 112
Brevities, 179
Bridewell, in the reign of Elizabeth, 357
Bridge, stupendous, in Spain, 24
Britain, early inhabitants of, 276--371
British Artists' Exhibition, 330--362
British Institution, School of Painting at, 362
British Museum, the, 140
Brougham, Henry, anecdote of, 182
Brydges, Sir Egerton, 86
Bull, national, 240
Burnham Abbey described, 81
Bustard, natural history of, 328
Butterfly, Chameleon, and Serpent, 425
Byron, Lord, conversations with, 6--86--110
and Anastasius, 156
early poems, by, 12
and Earl Grey, 80
and the English, 9
and Mrs. Hemans, 156
and Mr. Hope, 156
on horseback, 110
and Leigh Hunt, 157
and Italian women, 117
his love, 269
letter of, 290
and Moore, 7