of Tuesday night not merely went to declare want of confidence, but positively to recommend a change of system in the Government of Ireland. To the introduction of that change the Ministers could be no party; they, therefore, under all these circumstances, and believing that the Government of the country could not continue beneficially to act against decided majorities, felt that perseverance would be fruitless.-Lord John Russell briefly observed that all must admit that the course of the Right Hon. Baronet had been marked with perfect honour and propriety.

April 9.-The House met pro forma, and adjourned to the 13th.

April 13.-Soon after the House assembled, Sir Robert Peel rose and said" I have received an intimation from his Majesty that arrangements for the formation of a new Government are in progress, but that they have not yet been finally completed. Under these circumstances, I cannot doubt but that the same motives which induced the House on a former day to consent to 'a short adjournment will still influence them, and that, from considerations of convenience to the public service, they will now agree to a similar motion. I therefore beg to move that the House, at its rising, do adjourn till the 16th.”—The question having been put, after a few words from Sir J. Campbell and Mr. S. Rice, relative to the disposal of private business, the motion was agreed to.

April 16.-Sir R. Peel, after stating that he had received a communication from his Majesty similar to the one which had induced him to move the former adjournment, moved a further adjournment to the 18th. Mr. Sinclair inquired whether any progress had been made in the formation of a new Ministry?-Lord J. Russell said that, on the resignation of the late Government, his Majesty had sent for Earl Grey; and that, in consequence of what then passed, his Majesty had sent for Lords Melbourne and Lansdowne. He was not yet at liberty to state the nature of the communications which had taken place; but he hoped the arrangements would be so far concluded by the 18th as to admit of explanation.

April 18.-Several new writs were moved for, and the House adjourned. April 20.-The House met, and several new writs having been moved for, adjourned to May 12.

THE COLONIES.

CANADA.

THE following resolutions have been passed by the Assembly:"1. Resolved, that any censure of the proceedings of this House on the part of another branch of the legislature or executive government is a violation of the statute in virtue of which this House was constituted—an infringement of its privileges, which they cannot disperse without protesting against, and a dangerous attack upon the rights and liberties of his Majesty's subjects in this province.

"2. Resolved, that that part of the speech of his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief addressed to the House on the 18th of March, at the close of the last session, and which relates to the petition addressed by this House to his Most Gracious Majesty and to the two Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the state of this province, complaining of grievances and abuses which exist in the province, and introducing measures for remedying the same, is a censure on the part of the head of the executive of this province of the proceedings of the House, which had acted as an equal and independent branch of the legislature for divers good causes and considerations to itself known, for the benefit of his Majesty's subjects in this province and of his Majesty's government therein.

Foreign States.

"3. Resolved that the said speech be expunged from the journals of this House."

These resolutions, upon a division, were carried by sixty-four to eight. By the latest accounts from Montreal we learn that the majority in the House of Assembly had passed a Bill appointing Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., as their agent in England. A salary of 6007. has been voted to Mr. Roebuck, with an allowance of 5007. for contingencies, and 150l. for a corresponding secretary in Quebec; but the Legislative Assembly had refused to sanction the appointment.

EAST INDIES.

It appears that there has been a falling off in the territorial revenue of the British settlements in the East Indies, to the amount of nearly 70,000%., which has caused the present depression of East India Stock.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Accounts from Sydney contain some unpleasant intelligence from New Zealand. The natives were continuing their depredations upon the Europeans, particularly at Otago. A letter from this place, dated Sept. 28, is written in very gloomy terms. Tabooca, who is represented to be one of the most ill-disposed chiefs, and a horrible cannibal with a large head, was restrained from shooting and robbing the white people only by the persuasion of the relatives in Sydney, until the arrival of the Lucy Ann; when after some consultation they departed, having first endeavoured to provoke a quarrel. The letter adds, that, from the statements in the Sydney papers, great hopes were entertained that assistance would ultimately arrive, as it appeared that two men-of-war were on the coast. The government had been petitioned for assistance.

FOREIGN STATES.

PORTUGAL.

THE young and interesting Prince, Augustus of Portugal, died at Lisbon March 28. This event, as little foreseen as it is universally deplored, was occasioned by an attack of quinsy, which was mild at first, but soon proved alarming, and eventually, after a very few days, laid such hold of the patient as to resist the utmost efforts of art. The Prince was seen in all the vigour of health and buoyancy of youth, attending his wife, the Queen, in public on Sunday; on Monday he was present at a horse-race, but before night on the Saturday following, was a corpse. The sympathy for the youthful Queen, a widow before she is yet sixteen, is sincere and universal. It is described as being very much akin to the feeling produced in this country by the lamented death of the Princess Charlotte. Duke Augustus Charles Eugene Napoleon of Leuchtenberg was born on the 9th December, 1810. The post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, vacated by the Prince's death, has been conferred on the Duke of Terceira, who is very popular with the troops. The Chambers have resolved upon supporting the Queen, as well against "the Miguelites, as all anarchists."

ITALY.

An article in the " Allgemeine Zeitung" states that the recent accounts from Italy describe that country as in a very satisfactory state. Commerce and manufactures are prospering, and the enjoyment of peace allows that beautiful country to advance without interruption in the improvement of all branches of manufactures and art. They export a large amount, and have surpassed Switzerland in many branches of manufacture, and will gain the advantage over it in every thing, if the useless political agitation

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which has gained ground in Switzerland should long continue and spread further. We hear, indeed, from Berne that many political fugitives are retiring to the French frontiers. But so long as the Swiss authorities themselves do not see in a right point of view the wants of their fellowcountrymen, and the relations with foreign powers, little will be gained by sending away a few individuals.

BIOGRAPHICAL PARTICULARS OF CELEBRATED
PERSONS, LATELY DECEASED.

DR. MATON.

DR. MATON died at the age of 61. He was a great favourite with the late Queen Charlotte and the other members of the Royal Family. He was an excellent scholar, and ranked high in the profession as a physician and botanist. He translated "Linnæus," and was a Fellow and Elect of the Royal College of Physicians. In private life he was an amiable and kind-hearted man, and paid upwards of seventeen thousand pounds for his late father, who had been Chamberlain to the Corporation of Salisbury. He was a constant patron to merit wherever he could discover its indication, and it was principally to his fostering hand that Dr. Paris owes his being first brought into public notice. He was a bachelor, and amassed a considerable fortune. He held the office of Physician to the Westminster Hospital for many years.

HENRY DAVID INGLIS.

This distinguished author, who died on the 20th of March, was the only son of a barrister in Edinburgh, and was descended from a very ancient family. His maternal grandmother was daughter of the celebrated Colonel James Gardiner, who fell so nobly at the battle of Preston Pans; and was herself the authoress of an heroic poem. Through her Mr. Inglis was allied to the noble house of Buchan and the Erskines.

The writings of Mr. Inglis are two-fold-travels and fiction; and what is not unusual, the success of his works was pretty nearly in the inverse ratio of their merits. It may be justly said that Mr. Inglis gained his reputation by those of his works least distinguished by genius; for while it is as a writer of travels that he is chiefly known, it is as a writer of fiction that he most deserved to be so. Of the former class, his "Spain in 1830" is unquestionably his best work; and his "Ireland in 1834" attracted very considerable notice. His "Channel Islands" abounds in elegant descriptions of natural scenery; his "Tyrol," his "Switzerland and the Pyrenees," and his " Norway," are all books of much merit, and have altogether contributed to establish for him a just and well-earned reputation, while they have been of great utility to the world, by making one part of it better able to appreciate the moral character and the physical advantages possessed by other parts. But it was in the regions of pure imagination that the genius of Inglis loved most to range; and it was here only that the magic of his pen is to be seen and felt.

For travels, however useful, are limited in the means which they place at the disposal of genius for making its power to be felt. But how changed is the position of him who enters the wide and boundless regions of uncreated worlds of whim, who, soaring

"Above this visible diurnal sphere,"

attempts to embody, by the aid of a frail and perishable pen,

(6 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme."

This is the impassable gulph that separates the little from the great

that divides genius from her imitators. And here it is that Inglis has taken up his abode; and ignorant as I believe the world at this moment is of the fact, it is in these regions that our author will be sought and found by posterity. With all the great efforts of the brightest spirits of our land still fresh in my memory, I will boldly assert, that there is one effort of our author that will stand a comparison with the best of them. Yet, will it be believed, the "New Gil Blas" was the only one of all his works that was unsuccessful.

Half the world, alarmed at the title, refused to read it; and the other half feared to judge, after it had read; while of those able to form a judgment, and who felt the power of this work, not a man was found bold enough to encounter the public ordeal, by standing forward to speak the bold truth before the world. "Alas!" my poor friend used to exclaim, I fear I have written my Gil Blas for posterity." He was right, and the next generation will find it out.

His" Solitary Walks in Many Lands" is the other work, partly of this class, which developed the real genius of its author. The apostrophe to May, and the solemn picture of September, have hardly a parallel for purity of diction and elevation of thought, whether in the prose or poetry of our tongue. Shakspeare founded his plays on translations from the French and Italian romances. Byron copied most of his stories from D'Herbelot, and the German Kotzebue; while in the " Ivanhoe" only I detect three long stories copied from Boccaccio.

Inglis created for himself-because with him it was easier to create than to borrow, and that man has yet to live who will present in one work so many subjects on which to engage the study of the artist in the loftiest and tenderest styles.

Mr. Inglis died near Regent's Park, in the 40th year of his age; his body sinking down beneath the weight of his mind.-Lit. Gazette.

MR. HENRY HUNT.

Mr. Hunt was born at Widdington Farm, in the parish of Upavon, Wilts. For many years he regularly attended Devizes market, seldom, if ever, missing a market-day. After his father's death he was elected chairman of the table of the principal dining-room of the farmers at the Bear Inn, the daughter of the landlord of which inn (Miss Halcomb) he married. Fond as he was of pleasure, no man attended more strictly to his farming business, and the farms of no man in the kingdom were managed better, or were in higher condition. He had also the best flock of Southdown sheep in the county, bearing the finest fleeces, the wool of which sold for the very highest prices. Some idea of the extent of his farming business may be formed from the following fact :-During Mr. Pitt's Administration in the year 1801, the fear of an invasion was so great, that the Lord Lieutenant of the county caused letters to be written to the churchwardens and overseers of every parish to return an account of all the moveable property, live and dead stock, &c. In Mr. Hunt's schedule was enumerated-wheat, 1600 sacks; barley, 1500 quarters; oats, 400 quarters; hay, 250 tons; cart horses, 30, value from 30 to 70 guineas each; working oxen, 10; cows, 20; sheep, 4200, &c., altogether valued at upwards of 20,000l.; the whole of which he voluntarily tendered to the Government, to be at their disposal in case of an invasion. He also engaged to enter himself and three servants, completely equipped, and mounted upon valuable hunters, as volunteers, into the regiment of horse that should make the first charge upon the enemy. The liberal and patriotic offer was talked of all over the country; and he received the thanks of the Lord Lieutenant. The years 1801 and 1802 may be said to have been the zenith of the farmer's glory; wheat being at that time 47. a sack. Although Hunt generally drove four-in-hand to Devizes market, he was able to do a day's work with any labourer in the county; and it is related of him, that after returning one

Wednesday evening from a jaunt of pleasure, he was told that his threshers had struck for higher wages. A quantity of wheat was necessary to be threshed out for the following day's market at Devizes. Determined, however, not to yield to his labourers, within five minutes after he dismounted from his carriage he was in the barn, and, with the assistance of his coachman, and some of his household servants, threshed out the requisite quantity, and attended the market with it on the Thursday morning. Before marriage, he spent one Sunday with Miss Halcomb, at Heytesbury, a distance of nearly thirty miles from his father's house, where the time passed so pleasantly that the clock struck twelve before he recollected that he had an engagement with his father's mowers at four on the Monday morning, to attack a field of oats, of seventeen acres and a half, very heavy crop, to see if they (five in number) could not cut it down the same day. It was one o'clock before he started; within two hours, however, he arrived home, and without waiting to take off his tight leather breeches (which were in fashion at the time), or his boots, he mounted another pony, and reached the field of oats (three miles off), just as the four men were stripped and whetting their scythes in order to begin. He went to work with them, and in ten minutes after the sun had sunk below the horizon, the last swathe was laid flat, and not one oat left standing-a day's work which stands unrivalled in this country; and which is the more uncommon, as, in fact, there were only four scythes at work during the greater part of the day; for it being exceedingly hot, one of the men, the worst mower, of course, was principally employed in riding to and from the inn, at Everley, to replenish the bottles.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

Married.]-At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, to Lady Ribblesdale.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, Captain George Richardson Johnston, of the Madras army, grandson of the late Sir George Richardson, of Pencaitland, Bart., to Clara Maria, youngest daughter of R. Tillyard Blunt, Esq.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, Captain James Hanway Plumridge, R.N., to Harriet Agnes, daughter of the late Right Hon. Hugh Elliot.

At St. George's, Hanover square, Captain Mathew, M.P., Coldstream Guards, to Anne, daughter of Henry Hoare, Esq., and sole grandchild of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., of Stourhead, Wiltshire.

At St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., to Isabella Charlotte Lady Congreve, widow of the late Major-General Sir William Congreve, Bart.

At Wandsworth, the Rev. Henry Mosely, Professor of Natural Philosophy in King's College, to Harriet, daughter of William Nottage, of Wandsworth-common, Esq.

At All Saints Church, Southampton, the Rev. William Farley Wilkinson, B D., Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to Jane, only daughter of the late Thomas Russell, Esq.

Died.]-Aged 74, at Compton-place, East

Bourne, the Right Hon. Elizabeth Countess
Dowager of Burlington.

At Gileston-park, in the prime of life, Sophia Anne, only remaining daughter of R. Plumer Ward, Esq.

In Cavendish-square, Sir George Leman Tuthill, Knt., M.D.

Lady Isabella Thynne, daughter of the late and sister to the present Marquis of Bath.

In Berkeley-square, Lady Julia Hobhouse, wife of Sir John Cam Hobhouse, and sister of the Marquis of Tweeddale.

Suddenly, Dr. Maton, aged 61, physician to the Duke of Sussex.

At Kimpton, Herts, in his 57th year, the Rev. Charles Chauncy, Vicar of St. Paul's Walden, for 30 years curate of Kimpton, and lineal descendant of Sir Henry Chauncy, the Historian of Hertfordshire.

In Portugal-street, Grosvenor-square, Daniel Hailes, Esq., aged 84. By his demise a pension of a thousand a year reverts to the crown.

At Dalmahoy, near Edinburgh, John Thos. Hope, Esq., eldest son of Gen. the Hon. Sir Alexander Hope.

At Cheltenham, Anna, wife of the Rev. R. Dickson, and sister of Sir William Chatterton, Bart., and Colonel Chatterton, M.P.

The Hon. Mrs. Sackville Germain, at Dray. ton-house, in Northamptonshire.

At her house in Philadelphia, Lady Oldmixton, once the celebrated Miss George, pupil of Dr. Arne and Mara.