DEATHS.-INDIA. her an annuity of 1000l. a year. A new patent of baronetcy was issued in favour of the eldest son, now Sir Henry Marshman Havelock, and on him also Parliament conferred a pension of 1000l. a year for life. A public subscription has also been commenced for the purpose of erecting a statue of the deceased officer in some public place. 27. At Fort William, Calcutta, aged 35, Lieut.-Col. J. L. R. Rooke, C.B., Knight of the Legion of Honour, commanding H.M.'s 19th Regiment. 28. At Cawnpore, aged 34, Lieut. -Col. Charles John Woodford, commanding a detachment of the 2nd Batt. Rifle Brigade, second son of Gen. Sir Alexander Woodford. At Cawnpore, aged 32, William Fletcher Morphy, Brig.-Maj. and Capt. H.M.'s 64th Regiment. 30. At Lucknow, aged 21, Sir Mountstuart Goodriche Jackson, bart., son of the late Sir Keith Alexander Jackson, bart. He was murdered at the instigation of the Moulvie of Fyzabad, on the day the Commander-in-Chief entered the city, after being betrayed by the Rajah of Mitawlee, who had protected him and his sister, with six other persons, at the flight from Seetapore. DECEMBER. 14. At Gungaree, aged 25, Lieut. John Hudson, of the Carabineers, second son of George Hudson, esq., M.P. In action at Gungaree, aged 28, Capt. George Wardlaw, 6th Dragoon Guards, Carabineers. 18. While gallantly leading his regiment against the mutineers of the 34th N.I., the Hon. Robert Byng, brother of Viscount Torrington. 27. At Allahabad, Bengal, Robert Loveday Inglis, Ensign in the 63rd N.I. Mr. Inglis was in the garrison at Lucknow during the whole period of the siege, was twice wounded by the enemy, and died of fever caused by his wounds and the hardship of the siege. IN THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION. DECEMBER, 1856. 9. At the storming of Bushire, Lieut. Col. Malet, 3rd Regiment Light Cavalry. This officer is stated in the despatches to have "fallen while leading on his men in the most gallant style." 9. Killed at the storming of Bushire, Brigadier Stopford, C.B. This gallant officer was the third son of the Rev. Wil. liam Stopford (Rector of Garrycloyne and Grenah, grand-nephew of the 2nd Earl of Courtown). He studied military art at the University of Gottingen; whence he received a commission in the 40th Regiment. He was sent to join this corps, then serving in Australia, in charge of a convict ship, and on the voyage he showed his first instance of cool bravery. He was parading his guard on the quarter-deck, when the convicts rushed on deck, having mutinied, and taken advantage of an endeavour to save the doctor, who had thrown himself overboard; Ensign Stopford had barely time to form his men and fire on the mutineers, and they were forced below, with many killed and wounded. From Australia he accompanied his regiment to India, and served with it there until it came home under his own command as Lieutenant-Colonel. He accompanied the 40th as junior Major up the Bolan Pass, in the Candahar campaign; was at the taking of Khelat-iGhilzie and Cabul, and, having traversed India, returned through the Khyber Pass to Bengal. He commanded the 40th at Maharajpore, where, in attacking and taking the enemy's guns, the 40th lost as many officers and men comparatively as they did at Waterloo. Here, as the despatch said,-"Major Stopford fell, leading on his regiment, dangerously wounded, at the very muzzle of the enemy's guns." For this service he was made LieutenantColonel, and C. B. He lay for a considerable time wounded on the field, among the dying and the dead, men and horses, and might have fallen a victim to his own generosity. When his "dooly" or stretcher was sent for him from the rear, and he perceived General Churchill lying near him mortally wounded, with both legs carried away by a cannon-ball, he said, "Oh! General, you are worse than I am, you'll bleed to death, you must go on this dooly." When Colonel Stopford was at last carried to the rear, he arrived just in time to say farewell to the General, In the exwho died immediately after. pedition to the Persian Gulf, Colonel Stopford had the command of a brigade which was employed in the assault on Bushire. Colonel Stopford led his men in gallant style, forcing wall after wall, until the enemy were driven to the very cliffs on the margin of the sea; but, unhappily, fell in the moment of suc cess. PROMOTIONS. CENTENARIANS. JANUARY. 26. At Penicuik, aged 100, Margaret Porteus, who retained the full use of her naturally strong intellect to the last. 27. In the Aylesbury Union, aged 104, Mary Masters, known as "Dame Masters.' She has left survivors to the fifth generation. 29. At Park-terr., Upper Bristol-road, aged 107, Ann Lewis, retaining to the last all her faculties with the exception of her sight, of which she had been deprived for the last 14 years. Lately. At Hexham, aged 110, John Bell. Old John married early in life, and had 10 children, eight of whom are now living; 41 grandchildren; 60 great grandchildren; and two great-greatgrandchildren, both of them now living. Old John Bell, although brought up as a farmer, carried his kegs across the Borders, a noted smuggler, and could tell of his exploits and narrow escapes both by flood and fell. Lately. At the Union Workhouse, Saffron Walden, aged 100, Martha Gascoyne, widow. Her husband being a pedlar, she had slept under a tent the greater part of her life. Lately. At the Caxton Union, Cambridge, aged 103, James Mills, for many years resident in the parish of Kingston. He was well known in the neighbourhood as a hawker of wicker baskets, sieves, &c, He lived to see his descendants unto the fifth generation, and possessed all his faculties up to within a short period of his death. FEBRUARY. 2. At East Harling, aged 107, Mr. Daines, cooper and basket-maker, leaving nine sons and daughters, and 80 grandchildren. He retained his faculties to the last. MARCH. 21. At Obsdale, in the parish of Invergordon, an unmarried woman of the name of Catherine Munro or Macrobb, who attained to the extraordinary age of 107 years. 28. Aged 102, Rachel, widow of John Samuel Gale, esq., John Southerden Burn, esq., Major George Graham, Robert Lush, esq., William Palmer Parken, esq., Horace Mann, esq., and Hull Terrell, esq., have been appointed Commissioners for inquiring into the state, custody, and authenticity of certain non-parochial Registers of Births or Baptisms, Deaths or Burials, and Marriages, in England and Wales. Lord Napier, now Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America at Washington. Sir James Macaulay Higginson, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Mauritius, to be K. C.B. William Govett Romaine, esq., DeputyJudge-Advocate of the Army lately serving in the East; Charles Fitzgerald, esq., Capt. R. N., late Governor of Western APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. Australia; and Sir Henry Edward Fox Thomas Mayo, esq., M.D., elected Pre- David Lynch, esq., Q.C., to be Assistant Barrister for the county of Louth. William Stephenson, esq., now Superintendent of Honduras, to be Governor of Mauritius. Frederick Seymour, esq., now President of the Island of Nevis, to be Superintendent of Honduras. George Skelton, esq., to be Arbitrator of the Mixed Commission Court at Sierra Leone. Charles Dacre Bevan, esq., to be Judge of the Cornwall County Court. Thomas Price, esq., to be President of the Virgin Islands. A. J. Lewis, esq., to be Advocateeneral at Bombay. The Earl of St. Germans, C. B., to be Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath (Civil Division); and Colonel His Serene Highness Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe Weimar, Grenadier Guards, to be a Companion of the said Most Hon. Order (Military Division). John George Shaw Lefevre, esq., C. B., Clerk of the Parliaments; and Henry William Gordon, esq., Principal Storekeeper of the Army lately serving in the East; to be C.B. FEBRUARY. The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have appointed the undermentioned noblemen and gentlemen to be trustees for the formation of a Gallery of the Portraits of the most eminent persons in British history, viz. :-The Lord President of the Council for the time being, the Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G., Earl Stanhope, the Earl of Ellesmere, K. G., Lord Elcho, M.P., Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., the Right Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Charles Eastlake, William Smith, esq., and W. H. Carpenter, esq. The Marquess of Kildare, Sir T. N. Redington, K.C.B., Bonamy Price, esq., and James Gibson, esq., to be Commissioners for inquiring into the condition of the Queen's Colleges, Ireland. 381 The Right Hon. William Francis Cowper to be Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education. Viscount Castlerosse sworn of the Privy Council. The Earl of Yarborough to be LordLieutenant of the county of Lincoln. Charles Henry Darling, esq., to be Governor of Jamaica. Sir Alexander Bannerman to be Governor of Newfoundland. sident of the General Board of Health. Rear-Admiral Peter Richards, C.B., to The Duke of Rutland to be Lord Lieut. of Leicestershire. Col. G. C. Munday to be Lieut. -Governor of the Island of Jersey. Sir Benjamin Hawes to be Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War. J. R. Godley, esq., Under-Secretary of the Ordnance. Sir Henry Storks, K. C.B., Secretary for Military Correspondence. tillery, Director of Stores and Clothing. Sir Thomas Troubridge, late DirectorGeneral of Army Clothing, Deputy-Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards. The Rev. Sydney Turner to be Inspector of Prisons connected with Reformatories. Henry Woodfall Crow, esq., to be Consul at Helsingfors. Edward W. Cox, esq., to be Recorder of Falmouth. Wm. Robert Ward, esq., to be Secretary of Legation at the Hague. Augustus Paget, esq., to be Secretary of Legation at Lisbon. Charles Alison, esq., to be Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople. Lord Cremorne to be one of the Lords- Humphrey Sandwith, esq., C.B., to be Thos. Carlyle, esq., to be one of the Mr. Serjeant Channell to be a Baron of H. J. Ross, esq., to be Chief Justice of C. S. Whitmore, esq., to be Judge of PROMOTIONS. Lieut.-Colonel John Henry Lefroy to be Inspector-General of Army Schools, vice Rev. G. R. Gleig. Richard Pattinson, esq., to be Lieut.Governor of Heligoland. Frederick Alexander Forth to be Treasurer of Hong Kong. Dr. Robert Ferguson to be Physician Extraordinary to Her Majesty. Earl Fitzwilliam to be Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Earl of Burlington to be Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire. The Earl of Elgin to be Plenipotentiary to the Court of Pekin. The Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre, late Speaker of the House of Commons, summoned to the House of Lords by the title of Viscount Eversley, of Heckfield, in the county of Southampton. Commissioner of Oude. Colonel St. George Lawrence to be Agent of Rajpootana. Thomas O'Hagan, esq., to be a Commissioner of Charitable Donations and Bequests, Ireland. Robert Johnston, esq., to be an Assistant Barrister of Longford. Robert Nairne, esq., M.D., to be a Commissioner in Lunacy. Wm. Lawless, esq., to be Consul at Martinique. J. Crawford, esq., to bę Consul at Guadaloupe. G. F. Crossthwaite, esq., to be Consul at Cologne. George Jackson Eldridge, esq., to be Consul at Kertch. Robert Thorley King, esq., to be Consul at Moscow. Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas to be one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. PROMOTIONS. Baron Cowley, G. C.B., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of the French, to be Viscount Dangan, in the county of Meath, and Earl Cowley. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Chichester, the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, Travers Twiss, D.C.L., Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury, the Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair, the Ven. Archdeacon Wigram, and the Ven. Archdeacon Jones, to be Her Majesty's Commissioners to consider the state of the several dioceses of Canterbury, London, Winchester, and Rochester, with special reference to the circumstances of the said dioceses, and the extent and boundaries thereof. Major Nasmyth to accept the Order of the Medjidie, of the fourth class. Charles Locock, of Speldhurst, Kent, M.D., Physician Accoucheur to Her Majesty, to be a Baronet. Representative Peers for Scotland elected to the New Parliament :-The Marquess of Tweeddale, the Earl of Morton, the Earl of Home, the Earl of Strathmore, the Earl of Airlie, the Earl of Leven and Melville, the Earl of Selkirk, the Earl of Orkney, the Earl of Seafield, Viscount Strathallan, Lord Grey, Lord Sinclair, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Colville of Culross, Lord Blantyre, and Lord Polwarth. Frederick Johnson, esq., to be ViceConsul at Acapulco. Colonel A. M. Tulloch, and the Right Hon. Thomas Wyse, C. B., to be Knights Commanders of the Bath. J. H. Drummond Hay, Esq., to be a Companion of the Bath. Colonel Whimper to be Major of the Tower of London, William Foster Stawell, esq., to be Chief Justice and Judge of the Admiralty Court, Victoria. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN Tipperary Co.-The O'Donoghue. THE GENERAL ELECTION.-A complete List of Members returned to the New Parliament, at the General Election, in this month, is given in this volume, see post. MAY. M. l'Amiral Hamelin, French Minister of the Marine, to be a G. C.B. Nicholas Gustave Bestel to be Second Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Mauritius. Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, of Bombay, knight, to be a Baronet. The Hon. George Waldegrave to be Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons. The Rev. Thomas Garnier to be Chaplain to the Speaker. Robert Bailey, esq., to be Counsel and Examiner of Election Recognizances. G. Romaine, esq., to be Second Secretary of the Admiralty. Sir John Ramsden, M.P., to be UnderSecretary for War. Major Cuthbert Davidson to be Resident at Hydrabad. Sir Richmond Shakspeare to be Political Agent at Baroda. Sir James Outram to be Political Agent to the Rajpootana States. Lieutenant Monck Mason to be Political Agent at Joudhpore. Captain C. L. Showers to be Political Agent in Meywar. C. Mark, esq., to be Consul at Baltimore, U.S. C. Rennie, esq., to be Consul at Archangel. Sir R. Schomburgk to be Consul at Bangkock. Martin Wood, esq., to be Consul at St. Domingo. W. L. Booker, esq., to be Vice-Consul at San Francisco. Charles O'Leary, esq., to be ViceConsul at Bogota. Andrew Buchanan, esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Denmark, to be C. B. Thomas George Baring, esq., to be one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Henry Singer Keating, esq., Q.C., to be Solicitor-General. Henry Arthur Herbert, esq., to be Chief Secretary for Ireland. The Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., to be Under-Secretary for Ireland. Charles Cooper, esq., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, knighted. |