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dau. of the late Rev. William Newton, the Rev. Thomas Pitman, Vicar of EastVicar of Old Cleeve, Somerset. bourne.

15. At Torquay, Captain Sir Henry Vere Huntley, R. N., to Caroline, dau. of the late Rev. Henry Drury, of Harrow.

At Antony Church, Cornwall, George Soltau Symons, esq., of Chaddlewood, Devon, to the Hon. Adele Isabella Graves, dau. of Lord and Lady Graves.

At Walcot Church, Bath, the Rev. Joseph Abbott, Vicar of Corsham, Wilts, to Selina Matilda Caroline, dau. of the late Sir John E. Eardley Wilmot, bart., and widow of Wade Browne, esq., of Monckton Farlaigh House, Wilts.

At Madras, Capt. William H. Whitlock, Fifth Madras Native Inf., son of Maj. Gen. Sir Geo. Whitlock, K.C.B., to Margaret Louisa, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Edward Lawford, Madras Eng.

At Grenada, John Richard Walcot, esq., proprietor of the Black Bay Estate, to Aline, dau. of the Hon. Thomas Bell, President of Her Majesty's Council of Dominica.

At the Church Mission Station, Tawranga, New Zealand, the Rev. J. Kinder, M.A., to Marianne Celia, dau. of the Ven. Archdeacon A. N. Brown.

17. At All Saints' Church, Ennismoreplace, Oscar W. Hambrough, esq., of Pipewell Hall, Northamptonshire, son of John Hambrough, esq., of Steephill Castle, Isle of Wight, to the Hon. Caroline Mary, only dau. of the late, and sister of the present, Viscount Hood.

20. At Kensington, Michael Hughes, esq., to Ellinor Mary, dau. of the late Rear-Admiral Colin Campbell, of Ardpatrick, Argyleshire.

22. At Elgin, Scotland, George Wilson, esq., Light Infantry, to Maria Mulgrave, dau. of the Hon. John Salmon, President of the Legislative Council of Jamaica. At St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Charles Thomas Longley, esq., H.M.'s Madras C.S., to Emmeline Frances, dau. of J. Howard F. Lloyd, esq., of Roseau, Dominica.

At Trinity Church, Allahabad, Lieut. Col. Wm. G. Le Mesurier, C. B., Royal Artillery, to Emilia Ramsay, dau. of the late Capt. Thomas Masson, Royal Artillery.

27. At Hampton, the Rev. William G. G. Austin, M. A., son of the Bishop of Guiana, to Mary Emily Gray, dau. of the late William Thomas Smyth, esq.

At Eastbourne, Charles Brodie Locock, esq., M.A., son of Sir Charles Locock, bart., to Fanny Bird, dau. of

30. At Edinburgh, Edward Augustus Prinsep, esq., of H.M.'s Indian C.S., Punjab, to Margaretta Eleanor, dau. of the late James Hunter, esq., of Thurston, N. B.

31. At St. George's, Hanover-sq., the Hon. Geoffrey Browne, only son of Lord Oranmore, to Christina, dau. of the late Alexander Guthrie, esq., of the Mount, Ayrshire.

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June. In the hospital at Brescia, the Duke of Abrantes, son of Marshal Junot. The Duke, who served on the divisional staff of the army of Italy, was struck down at the battle of Solferino, and died after amputation of the thigh.

July 4. At his residence, Winckley-sq., Preston, aged 68, John Addison, esq., Judge of the County Courts, North Lancashire Circuit. The deceased was a magistrate of the county of Lancaster, and of the borough of Preston, of which town he had been twice mayor, and was called to the bar in February, 1818. On the death of his father, who was an attorney in that place, he was appointed Recorder of Clitheroe, and he also acted as assessor to the Sheriffs of Lancashire. When the establishment of County Courts took place in March, 1847, Mr. Addison was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to be Judge of No. 4 Circuit.

Dec. 1. In St. James's-palace, aged 90, Sir Robert Alexander, bart.

June 5. At St. Andrew's, Dr. Andrew Alexander, Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrew's.

Jan. 20. At Cork-street, Burlingtongardens, aged 76, Henry Alexander, esq., surgeon-oculist to Her Majesty.

Sept. At Edinburgh, aged 69, Dr. William Pulteney Alison, late Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh. The deceased, who was born in 1790, was the son of the Rev. Archibald, Alison, an Episcopal clergyman in Edinburgh, who about the end of last century obtained a considerable literary reputation by the publication of his Essays on Taste, and the brother of Sir Archibald Alison the historian. Dr. W. P. Alison,

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who had while yet a young man shown the highest talent in and devotion to his profession as a medical practitioner, was, as early as 1820, chosen by the Edinburgh Town-council to fill the chair of Medical Jurisprudence in the University there, and was successively promoted to chairs of still higher importance, until in 1842 he was appointed Professor of the Practice of Physic. This chair he held till 1855, when he resigned, owing to ill health. The deceased was not only for many years one of the heads of the medical profession at Edinburgh, and gained for himself a wide reputation by the publication of various works, but he was still better known in his own immediate sphere by his unbounded benevolence and philanthropy. Such was

the estimation in which the deceased was held by his fellow-townsmen that he was honoured with a public funeral, attended by the City authorities, the University Professors, and the Members of the Medical Societies and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

April 1. At the Chantry, Bradford-onAvon, Lieut. Col. James Allen, late of the H.E.I.C.S.

June 13. At his residence, Championpark, Camberwell, Surrey, aged 64, Henry Alsager, esq.

April 16. At St. James's-sq., Bath, Capt. Wm. Proctor Anderdon, late of the H.E.I.C.S. He was descended from a family connected with Bath and Bridgewater for the last two centuries. He entered the service of the East India Company as a cadet, in the year 1796. He served through all the campaigns of Lord Lake, and was wounded in the trenches before Agra by a musket-shot in the shoulder. In 1808, being considered one of the most intelligent, active, and able officers in the Bengal Army, he was selected for the command of one of the Light Inf. Battalions, which were then first embodied for the purpose of instruction and exercise on the plains of Cawnpore, after the model of the camp at Shorncliffe, in 1802, under Sir John Moore.

March 28. At Southampton, aged 60, Richard Andrews, esq., Alderman of Southampton. The deceased was born in a humble village of Hampshire, in 1798. The first years of his life were passed in obscurity and poverty, working as a farm lad at 3d. a-day, from nine to twelve years of age; then get ting employ as a sawyer, next as a blacksmith, but always with aspirations for

something better. In 1821 he came to Southampton with half-a-crown in his pocket (the sum total of his earthly property), and got work as a journeyman coachmaker in Mr. Jones's factory, where he was employed for seven years; when, with the money saved during that period from his wages, he started in business in a humble way on his own account. From that time his course was onward and upward, by his indomitable energy, integrity, and industry, carving out for himself a position of wealth and honour as a tradesman and a name and reputation for public spirit which will long survive him. He successively served the offices of TownCouncillor, Alderman, Sheriff, Mayor (five times), and Magistrate of the borough. Though almost without education, he was a man of a singular shrewdness that enabled him to play a respectable part in any situation in which he chanced to be placed; and the radical coachmaker of Southampton became even a political character of some consequence.

Sept. 29. At Leamington, aged 60, James Annesley, esq., Her Majesty's Consul at Amsterdam, son of the Hon. Robert Annesley, and grandson of Richard, second Earl of Annesley.

Jan. 14. At Deyrah Dhoon, from fatigue and exposure during the late mutiny, Brev.-Maj. Octavius Henry St. George Anson, son of the late General Sir George Anson, G. C. B. The deceased officer served with the Ninth Lancers in the battle of Punniar, for which he receved a medal; the campaign on the Sutlej in 1846, including the battle of Sobraon, for which he received a medal; he was also in the Punjaub campaign of 1848-49, including the passage of the Chenab at Ramnuggur and battles of Chillianwallah and Goojerat, for which he received a medal and clasps. He had served throughout the Punjaub and Gwalior campaign, and against the revolted Sepoys from the siege of Delhi to the fall of Lucknow.

May 16. Of yellow fever, after a very brief tenure of his sacred office, the Right Rev. S. Jordan Rigaud, D.D., F.R.A.S., Lord Bishop of Antigua, and Member of the Executive Council of that Island.

Dr. Rigaud was the son of the late Stephen Peter Rigaud, M. A., Radcliffe Observer at Oxford from 1827 to 1839. In Michaelmas Term, 1838, he gained the highest honours of his University, a first class both in Classics and Mathematics. After having been for some time Fellow

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and Tutor of Exeter, where he obtained considerable reputation for his success with his pupils, he became head master's assistant at Westminster School, whence he was transferred to the head mastership of Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich. This school was in but little reputation when Mr. Rigaud took it.

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so increased its efficiency that it became necessary to build a new school. Dr. Rigaud, who had a year or two before taken the degree of D.D., and had been Examiner in 1845 at Oxford, and Select Preacher before the University in Michaelmas Term, 1856, was nominated in 1857, by the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, M.P., then Secretary for the Colonies, to the bishopric of Antigua, with a stipend of 2000l. a year; and the clergy, gentry, and people of Ipswich on that occasion presented him with a splendid testimonial, indicative of their sense of his merits in promoting every educational, philanthropic, and religious improvement in their town. In Antigua his career was short, but sufficiently long to mark him as an ornament to the episcopate; for his activity, cheerful disposition, and deep piety impressed his flock so thoroughly, that he was honoured with a public funeral, the Lieutenant-Governor heading it, and hundreds of people following it.

Aug. 6. At Sutton Scarsdale, Derbyshire, Robert Arkwright, esq., aged 76; a Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire, and High Sheriff in 1850.

Mr. Arkwright was the eldest surviving son of the late Richard Arkwright, esq., of Willersley, and grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the "Spinning Jenny." He married Frances, daughter of the late Stephen Kemble, esq., by whom he has left issue. He had inherited the mechanical skill and business tact of his predecessors in the family, and his everyday transactions were characterized by the strictest precision and accuracy. He was exceedingly methodical in all matters of business, however trivial, and everything of note passed under his own recognition. Possessed of great wealth, he was most liberal to those of his tenantry who required his aid or assistance, but he would always fully and thoroughly satisfy himself that his aid was required before he bestowed it. He was of a highly intelligent and independent turn of mind, his decisions were characterized by sound judgment and undeviating firmness of purpose, and his ideas were communicated in language

plain and unmistakable. As a cultivator of land on the improved system few could excel him, as a landlord he was highly esteemed, and in this relation of life he carried out that rigid system of order and regularity in business, which was apparent in all his other transactions. He took great interest in the improvement of the Sutton estate, and expended nearly the whole of the annual rental towards that object. His three eldest sons having pre-deceased him, he is succeeded in his large estates by a youthful grandson, the child of his second son.

April 9. At Gibraltar, on his passage home from India, aged 31, William Delafield Arnold, Director of Public Instruction in the Punjab, fourth son of the late Dr. Arnold, of Rugby.

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May 5. At Aston-hall, near Runcorn, Cheshire, aged 61, Sir Arthur Ingram Aston, K.C.B.; son of the late Col. Henry Hervey Aston, by the fourth daughter and co-heir of the last Viscount Irvine; and great-grandson of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Henry Hervey, who assumed the name of Aston, and was the fifth son of the first Earl of Bristol. 1817, the deceased was attached to the Embassy at Vienna, and was made Secretary of Legation at Rio de Janeiro in April, 1826. In January, 1833, he was appointed Secretary of Embassy at Paris, and was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid from February, 1840, to November, 1843. He received the Order of the Bath on returning to England.

May 5. At Weston-super-Mare, whither he had gone to place one of his sons at school, Edwin Martin Atkins, esq., of Kingston Lisle, near Wantage, aged 51,

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Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of Berks, Chairman of the Wantage Bench of Magistrates, and High Sheriff of Berkshire in the year 1844. Mr. Atkins was a fine specimen of a squire of old family, residing at his ancient family mansion. While he kept up the hospitality proper to an "Old" English gentleman, and indulged in the sports of the field, he possessed the refinements of the modern school, was educated at Rugby and Oriel, possessed considerable skill in the arts, and was an enthusiastic antiquary. The famous "Blowing Stone" was his property, and the White Horse was not far off. Of this memorial of Saxon times Mr. Atkins was a kind of guardian, and the jovial festival of the "Scouring of the White Horse," by which the figure was cleansed of the

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grass, and weeds, and other impurities by which it was becoming obscured, was set on foot by him and conducted with great spirit.

July 23. At his residence, Kippington, Sevenoaks, aged 84, Col. Thomas Austen, M.P. for West Kent, 1845.

Jan. 3. At Packington-hall, Warwickshire, aged 72, Heneage, fifth Earl of Aylesford. His lordship was born April 24, 1786, and succeeded to the honours as fifth earl on the death of his father in 1812. He married, in 1821, Lady Augusta Greville, daughter of George, Earl of Brooke and Warwick, and has left issue. The late earl was formerly Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, and filled the office of Lord Steward of Her Majesty's Household. He was a trustee of Rugby School, and F.S.A.

April 15. At Edinburgh, Jane Emily Wilson, wife of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, esq., Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh.

July 14. At his residence, Bathwickhill, near Bath, aged 82, John Bacon, esq., F.S.A., formerly of Sidcliffe, near Sidmouth, eldest son of the late John Bacon, R.A., sculptor.

April 15. In Eccleston-sq., Caroline Rachel Baillie, eldest daughter of the Lord Advocate for Scotland, M.P.

Nov. 2. At Dunstable-house, Richmond, aged 72, Vice-Adm. Sir Henry Loraine Baker, bart., C. B. He assisted at the storming of Sumana (St. Domingo), in 1827, and was promoted for his conduct at the defence of Anholt in 1811. He served with considerable distinction at Guadaloupe in 1815.

Dec. 24. In his 66th year, Mr. Robert Baker, of Writtle, the father of the Protection Societies, and one of the most celebrated of our agriculturists. Himself a tenant farmer, Mr. Baker was ever ready to stand up for the rights and everything calculated to promote the prosperity of the class to which he belonged; while his sound judgment and integrity secured for him the confidence of all classes connected with the land. His life was one long career of usefulness, great ability, and increasing energy, employed from the first in doing everything to advance that interest with which he had become so signally identified. For a long series of years the results of his study and experience might be traced through the columns of our agricultural publications, as one of the safest of our pioneers to the improved system of husbandry, as one

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May 19. At Dungannon, Ireland, aged 40, Sir Robert Barclay, bart.

Feb. 16. At her residence, Brook-st., Bath, aged 86, Harriet Alicia, relict of Sir R. Barclay, bart.

Aug. 19. At Christ Church, Oxford, aged 88, the Rev. Frederick Barnes, D.D., Vicar of Colyton-cum-Shute and Monkton, and Senior Canon of Christ Church.

Aug. 15. At Upper Holloway, aged 75, Mr. Josiah Bartlett, for 36 years resident in the house of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Earl-st., and in the service of the Society for nearly 50 years.

Aug. 20. At Southam-villa, Leamington, aged 70, Miss Anne Bateson, eldest sister of Sir Robert Bateson, bart., of Castruce.

April 12. At Dawlish, aged 69, Major O'Hara Baynes, R. N., Roy. Art.

April 2. At Indore, Lieut. -Col. Charles Grant Becher, of the Fifth Bengal Light Cav., and of Beatson's Horse.

April 8. At his residence, Stanhopest., Park-pl., Regent's-park, aged 74, Joseph Beioley, esq., formerly a Chief Factor of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company, and late a Governor of the Royal Hospitals of London.

June 12. At Tunbridge Wells, aged 49, Jacob Bell, of Langham-pl. and Oxford-st.

Jacob Bell was the head of the famous firm of dispensing chemists, the excellence of whose drugs have given them an European reputation. Mr. Bell was himself an ardent and indefatigable student in chemical and in other sciences. He died of hard work. In the full expectation of death, and in spite of a most painful malady, he could not desist from his labours, and in a half-fainting state was buckled up to his work till within an hour before he breathed his last. He spent a fortune in starting and in advancing the Pharmaceutical Society, which

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bids fair to embrace before long all the chemists and druggists of Great Britain, and which, in the meantime, has raised enormously the educational standard of the class. He was the President of the Society; and it is some proof of the estimation in which he was held, not only in his profession, but throughout the district where he resided, that, on the day of his funeral, there was scarcely a town in the kingdom in which some pharmaceutical chemist" had not his shutters closed to mark the event. He was a man of the most unselfish nature, who devoted himself to public objects, who toiled like a galley-slave for other people, and who won the affection of all who knew him. It is well known that, subsidiary to the professional views which were the absorbing object of his life, Mr. Jacob Bell was a most generous patron of the arts, and had collected in his house at Langhamplace a very valuable gallery of pictures, many of them from the easel of his friend Sir Edwin Landseer. With the same unselfishness which characterized his public life, he has bequeathed the best of his pictures to the nation. Among them, there are of Landseer's-"The Maid and the Magpie," the celebrated picture of the "Shoeing," "The Sleeping Bloodhound," "Alexander and Diogenes," "Dignity and Impudence," and the "Defeat of Comus." There are beside, "The Sacking of a Jew's House," by Charles Landseer; two fine landscapes by Lee and Sidney Cooper; O'Neil's picture of "The Foundling Examined by the Board of Guardians;" one of Ward's best historical works, "James II. Receiving the News of the Landing of the Prince of Orange;" the popular "Derbyday" of Mr. Frith; and, to crown all, there is the "Horse Fair" of Rosa Bonheur-not the large picture, but a smaller original, painted at the same time, and the work from which the engraving is taken. There are in all thirteen fine pictures of English masters, and one of Frank Stone's, not finished.

Jan. 26. At Fan House, Wivelsfield, aged 70, Thomas Jones Bellamy, esq., for many years an active magistrate for the county of Sussex.

March 16. In the Close, Salisbury, Mr. Bennett, proprietor of the Salisbury and Winchester Journal, a much-respected magistrate of the former city.

April 7. At Shrivenham Vicarage, aged 81, the Ven. Archdeacon Berens.

Oct. 3. In Lower Leeson-st., Dublin,

aged 76, James Bessonett, esq., Q.C., Chairman of Sessions for the county of Waterford.

April 18. At the Palace, Bangor, aged 86, the Right Rev. Christopher Bethell, D.D., Lord Bishop of Bangor. The deceased prelate was born in 1773. He was the son of the Rev. Richard Bethell, and was born at Isleworth. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, of which foundation he was elected a Fellow, and became second Members' prizeman. In 1824, he was nominated by Lord Liverpool, the then Prime Minister, to the bishopric of Gloucester. In 1830, the Duke of Wellington, the then Prime Minister, transferred him to the more lucrative see of Exeter, and again in the same year to the still more lucrative see of Bangor, which he held up to the time of his death. His lordship was the author of several theological works, the principal of which is his "General View of the Doctrine of Regeneration in Baptism," which has become a standard work among High Churchmen. Dr. Bethell was a very distinguished scholar, and was, during the whole of his life, identified with the theological views of the High Church party, which he consistently defended in his speeches and his various writings.

Sept. 26. Aged 79, the Rev. Frederick Stephen Bevan, rector of Carleton Rode, Norfolk, Honorary Canon of Norwich, and Rural Dean.

Sept. 2. At Christ Church Parsonage, Hampstead, aged 71, Sarah, widow of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, rector of Watton, Herts.

Feb. 3. Lieut. -Col. John Lewis Black, late of the Fifty-third Regt. of Foot. He served in the Peninsular campaign of 1815, including the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, at which last he was slightly wounded. He served also in the campaign on the Sutlej, for which he received a medal. Also in the battles of Buddiwal, Aliwal, and Sobraon.

Aug. 7. In Portman-st., London, the Dowager Lady Blackett, relict of Sir W. Blackett, bart., of Matfen, Northumberland.

Aug. 3. At Caldwell, Ayrshire, the seat of her son-in-law, Col. Muir, after a few hours' illness, Elizabeth, widow of Sir David Hunter Blair, bart., of Blairquhan, second daughter of Sir John Hay,

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June 19. At Grove House, Hampton, Middlesex, aged 70, Major. -Gen. Thomas Blanshard, C.B., R. E.

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