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In recording the death of an excellent man and gallant officer, a brief notice of his military career may be not only acceptable to the companions in arms who served with him, and still survive to cheer by their presence their domestic hearths, but also to many other members of his noble profession who take interest in such narratives. He was a native of Jamaica, a younger son of Walter Murray, Esq., of St. James's in that island. He entered the service in His Majesty's 37th regiment in 1792. On the breaking out of the war in the following year, the 37th was among the first of the British army sent over to Ostend, and very shortly after their landing went into action. one of the early sorties Ensign Murray was wounded by a ball in the face, which remained in his head for more than a fortnight, and then fell through the roof of his mouth. He obtained his Lieutenancy in the same regiment, and was afterwards taken prisoner, with nearly half of his corps, on the banks of the Waal in Holland, in consequence of mistaking from their dress a division of the French cavalry for the British. Being detained a prisoner for a length of time, on his release he was promoted in the same regiment to the rank of Captain, accompanying it to Gibraltar and the West Indies. He obtained his Majority in the 4th regiment, and after the peace of 1802 was appointed to the 39th. When the 100th regiment was raised, he joined as Lieut.-Colonel, and was sent with them to British North America. He then became Inspecting Field-officer of the Canadian militia, and in that capacity had the command of the army in advance, intended to check the proceedings of a very superior force of the United States' army, whose object was to render the position of the British untenable, by laying waste the whole of the frontier of Upper Canada. Colonel Murray marched with his comparatively small number of troops to meet the enemy, obliging him to abandon the enterprise, and taking Fort George, drove him out of the province. The subsequent assault and capture of the Fort of Niagara is thus mentioned in "General Orders,' dated Quebec, Dec. 29th,

and finally terminated in the battle of Wa-
terloo, where he unfortunately had more
duty than he could well perform. With
this splendid victory terminated his military
professional career, and he retired from the
service a miles emeritus, with the provision
of a meritorious officer. In the course of
his practice in the army he was careful to
note every extraordinary case that occurred,
and some of them were sufficiently curious.
On one occasion, while he held the hand of
a wounded officer on board the Baltic fleet,
he was astonished to see his throat suddenly
cut, without any apparent cause.
wards appearrd that a carronade shot had
struck the blade of a tomahawk, which it
drove forward in a horizontal direction, till
it came in contact with the neck of the un-
fortunate man, and in rapidly passing near-
ly severed his head from his body. Another
was that of a man wounded at the battle of
Waterloo-the ball had entered his shoul-
der, and was supposed to be lodged in his
arm; but, after searching for it in vain, it
was found to have passed along the bone
under the muscles, and thence issuing at his
elbow, through an almost imperceptible
aperture, had quietly deposited itself in his
waistcoat pocket. Among the diseases, too,
he met with some very singular. In one of
his patients, in Canada, an extraordinary,
frightful, and nondescript insect was gene-
rated under the skin in the integuments of
the muscles, which they filled with a new
and horrid species of morbus pedicularis.
Another in Scotland was attacked with a
disease then very little known, an exudation
of blood from the pores of the skin, and Dr.
Walsh, in " Bradley's Medical Journal,"
gave the first distinct account of a rare and
obscure malady known by the name of pur-
pura hæmoragica. Retired now from ac-
tive life, he formed the delight of domestic
and social circles, to which his experience,
information, and very kind and amiable
qualities, greatly endeared him. He was
ever ready to give his professional advice
gratuitously to all that asked it, freely com-
municated his extensive information, and
though it is to be regretted that he did not
complete some important works for which
he had collected materials, he enriched by
his interesting and beautiful sketches seve-
ral minor publications, to which he was
always a ready contributor. After passing
many quiet and happy years amongst asso-
ciates who respected him for his worth, ad-
mired him for his talents, and loved him for
his benevolence, he terminated a long life,
in the bosom of his family, on the 7th of
Feb. 1832, leaving behind the character of
a man, who so passed through the world as
to attach many warm friends, and was never
known to have had an enemy.

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"The fort of Niagara was most gallantly car

ried by assault at the point of the bayonet, at daybreak on the morning of the 19th inst., by a detachment consisting of the grenadiers of the Royals, the flank companies of the 41st, the 100th regiment, and a small party of the royal artillery, under the command of Colonel Murray. The enemy suffered severely in killed and wounded. Captain Leonard, the commandant, together with several officers, and the greater part of the garrison, were made prisoners. This gallant enterprise was achieved with the loss on our part

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Lord Eldin-Sir William Grant-Charles Butler, Esq.

of very few of our brave men; but his Excellency has to regret the fall of Lieut. Nolan of the 100th regiment, and that Colonel Murray has been wounded. All the ordnance mounted in the fort,

together with three thousand stand of arms, clothing, and military stores of every description, to a considerable amount, have fallen into our hands, His Excellency is in hourly expectation of receiving the official details of this brilliant affair, which reflects the highest honour upon Colonel Murray and the small detachment under his command."

When, by the peace, Colonel Murray's services were no longer required in Canada, thinking his health might benefit by a residence in a milder climate, he passed some time in France, but having there the misfortune to lose his wife, whose early death was the source of deep affliction to him, he returned in broken health and spirits to England, and after a long and painful illness, borne with his characteristic patience and fortitude, he died at Brighton on the 21st of February last, leaving an only daughter yet a child.

LORD ELDIN.

This remarkable man and truly great lawyer, who long stood as the facile princeps of the Scottish Bar, expired at his house in Edinburgh, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. His Lordship had for a long period been in a declining state of health, and some years ago increasing infirmity rendered it necessary for him to retire from the Bench, to which, in fact, he had not been raised till the exhaustion and decay of strength resulting from intense and long-continued professional application, in some measure disqualified him for the effective discharge of his duties as a Judge. Lord Eldin was the son of John Clerk, Esq. of Eldin, the author of the celebrated treatise on Naval Tactics. He was born in April 1757, and in 1775 he was bound apprentice to a writer to the signet. His original destination was the civil service of India, and an appointment in that department had been promised him; but some political changes occurring before it was completed, the views of his friends were disappointed, and he turned his attention to the law as a profession. At first, we believe, he intended to practise as a writer and accountant; but he soon abandoned this lower branch of the profession, and in 1785 was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates. As a lawyer, Mr. Clerk was remarkable for great clearness of perception, never-failing readiness and fertility of resource, admirable powers of reasoning, and a quaint, sarcastic humour peculiar to himself, which gave a zest and flavour to every thing he said. His wit seemed perfectly at command, was always adapted to the occasion that called it forth, and, from its point and effectiveness, never failed to be rememJuly.-VOL. XXXVI. NO. CXXXIX.

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bered. For many years he had half the
and
business of the Bar on his shoulders;
the infirmities which crowded so thick upon
him in his latter years, and for ever clouded
one of the brightest intellects which this
country has ever produced, were doubtless
owing, in a great measure, to the relentless
course of labour which he had to undergo.
In private life he was distinguished for his
social qualities not less than for his varied
accomplishments, including a taste for the
fine arts, in which he was a connoisseur of
the very highest grade.

SIR WILLIAM GRANT.

Among the deaths of eminent persons, we have to record, with regret, that of Sir Wm. Grant, the once great and erudite Master of the Rolls, who died at Dawlish, Devon, on the 25th of May. He was a native of Inverness-shire, studied at Aberdeen, and came to London under the protection of his He entered uncle, an eminent merchant.

at one of the Inns of Court, and after having been called to the Bar, proceeded to Leyden to study the civil law; he went subsequently to Quebec, where he officiated for some time as Attorney-General, during the absence of that officer; when he returned, he was sent to Parliament for Shaftesbury; in the next Parliament, for Windsor; and afterwards for Banffshire. He was subsequently appointed Solicitor-General to Queen Charlotte, and Master of the Rolls, at which time he was, as a matter of form, Knighted, and as a matter of honour made a Privy Counsellor. He was considered one of the first lawyers of his age, and his name will ever be referred to with veneration and respect by those who are to follow him in the court over which he so ably presided. It is said there were fewer appeals from his decisions than from those of any preceding Master. He lived to a very advanced age; and although we must deeply lament the loss of the man, the fact that his retirement had long since deprived the country of his services, reduces our grief to the regret which must naturally attend the death of one of the most amiable and exemplary men in private life that ever existed.

CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ.

Charles Butler, Esq. the eminent jurisconsult, died at his residence in Great Ormond-street, London, in the 83rd year of his age. Mr. Butler was celebrated for his great researches in the jurisprudence not only of this but of foreign countries. Perhaps neither Mr. Bentham nor Sir James Mackintosh could be said to have surpassed him in the extent of his reading on legal subjects. He possessed a great power of illustrating the complex and difficult subject of our laws of real property. The profession

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public Funds; this, however, does not appear to be the result of any political events, but simply from there having been a demand for money. The closing prices on the 25th were as follow:

ENGLISH FUNDS.

Three per Cent. Consols, shut.-Three per Cent. Consols for the Account, 85 one eighth.-Three per Cent. Reduced, 83 seven-eighths.-Three and a Half per Cent. Reduced, 91 quarter, threeeighths. New Three and a Half per Cent., shut. -Four per Cent. (1826) 101 quarter.-India Stock, shut.-Bank Stock, 198 half, 199 half.Exchequer Bills, 9, 10.-India Bonds, 1 dis. par. -Long Annuities, 16 seven-sixteenths, half.

FOREIGN FUNDS.

Belgian Loan, 74 half.-Brazilian Five per

Cent. 45 half, 46.-Chilian, 15 half, 16 half.Colombian (1824) Six per Cent. 12, 13.-Danish Three per Cent. 66 half, 67.-Dutch Two and a Half per Cent. 43 three-eighths, five-eighths.— French Five per Cent. 96, 97.-French Three per Cent. 67, 68.-Greek Five per Cent. 30 half, 31.-Mexican Six per Cent. 29 half, 30 half.— Portuguese Five per Cent. 53, 54.-Portuguese New Loan, par. quarter, pr.-Russian Five per Cent. 98 half, 99.-Spanish Five per Cent. 14 quarter, half.

SHARES.

Anglo-Mexican Mines, 9, 10.-United Mexican Mines, 37. 15s., 4. 5s.-Colombian Mines, 57. 10s. 6l. 108.-Del Monte, 20, 21.-Brazil, 441. 10s., 45%. 10s. Bolanos, 195, 205.

MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL,

FROM MAY 23, TO JUNE 22, 1832.

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History of the War of the Succession in Spain, by Lord Mahon - The Life of Gouverneur Morris, with Selections from his Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers; detailing Events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the Political History of the United States, by Jared SparksRecollections of Mirabeau, and of the Two first Legislative Assemblies of France, by Etienne Dumont, of Geneva-The Highland Smugglers, by the Author of "The Persian Adventurer "The Life and Pontificate of Gregory the Seventh, by Sir Roger Griesley, Bart. F. A.S.-Lights and Shadows of American Life, by Mary Russel Mitford -A Reply to various Opponents, &c., by Colonel W. F. P. Napier, C.B.-Dramatic Sto. ries, by Thomas Arnold--The Microscopic Cabinet, by Andrew Pritchard-Biographical Sketches of the Reform Ministers, by William Jones, M. A.-Edinburgh Cabinet Library British India, vol. 2-Edinburgh Cabinet Library: Africa, Second Edition; Egypt, Second Edition-Memoirs of Felix Neff, Pastor of the High Alps, and of his Labours among the French Protestants of Dauphiné, by Stephen Gilly, M. A. &c.Rhymes and Reminiscences, by the Rev. J. Saul-Jolande, and other Poems-The Literary Pancratiuin; or, a Series of Dissertations on Theological, Literary, Moral, and Controversial Subjects, by Robert Carr, and Thomas Swinburn Carr-A Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Grey on Colonial Slavery, by John Murray, F.S. A. F.L.S. &c. &c.-Barney

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Mahoney, 1 vol., by T. Crofton Croker, Esq. -Beauties of the Rev. George Crabbe; with a Biographical Sketch-Letters from Continental Countries, by George Downes, A.M.Three Nights in a Lifetime; and Inishairlach: Domestic Tales-The Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion-Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells; em. bellished with Maps and Plates, by J. Britton, F.S. A. &c. The Sacred Harp: the Mother's Present-The Phenomena of Nature, familiarly explained: translated from the German of Wilhelm von Türk-The Village Poor House, by a Country Curate.The Natural Son

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The official tables of the produce of the revenue, for the quarter ended the 5th of July thus exhibit, as contrasted with the corresponding period in the last year, as well as upon the whole year itself, a very considerable, though, perhaps, under all the circumstances, not an unexpected deficiency. The falling off is apparent under every head of public income, except those of the stamps and excise, the latter of which alone exhibits upon the quarter an increase of 56,228l. In the Customs the deficiency is, upon the year, 1,462,3841. and the quarter 239,296.; in the Post Office 51,017. for the year, and 54,000l. for the quarter; assessed taxes 29,7681. for the year, and 82,4717. for the quarter; and in those charges which are classed under the head of " Miscellaneous," 181,452. for the year, and 10,154. upon the quarter. The Stamp department shows an increase upon the whole year of 48,616l., but a decrease on the last quarter of 14,866.; and the Excise, though deficient upon the year 985,8431., has exceeded, as we have already stated, the corresponding quarter last year by 56,2281. The prosperity of this last branch of revenue is satisfactory, as it has been always treated as the test of the comforts of the people. The fallings off under other heads may be in some degree accounted for by the interruption given to foreign commerce by the quarantine regulations during that quarter; by accidental stagnation in some branches of domestic manufacture, by the repeal of the candle duty, and by the arrears of taxes which are still unpaid in consequence of some recent alterations in the machinery of the collection. The falling off upon the quarter is 344,5651., and upon the year 2,661,8481.; and the amount of Exchequer bills to be issued for the service of the next quarter is 7,575,3741.

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A Supplement to the Gazette of July 17th contained an Order in Council relative to the days of registration, &c. under the Reform Bill, in consequence of the Boundaries Bill not having passed by the 20th of June. For counties, the overseers are to cause notice to be given on the 25th of July, of being ready to receive claims; and claims to be inserted in the list of electors are to be made on or before the 20th of August; and the overseers are to make out their list by the 31st of August; notice of objection to any one in such list to be given by the 25th of September; the list of objected voters to be fixed upon the church doors on two Sundays previous, and to be open for inspection ten days previous to October 15th; the list of voters and of objections to be delivered to the high constable on the 29th of September; and the barristers are to hold their courts for hearing objections or claims to be inserted in the list of electors, between the 15th of

October and the 25th of November.-For boroughs, overseers of parishes and town clerks of boroughs are to make out lists of persons entitled to vote for boroughs, on cr before the 31st of August; notice of claim to be inserted in such list, or of objection to any person in such list, to be made before the 25th of September; the lists to be affixed on church doors two Sundays previous, and to be open for inspection ten days previous to October 15th; the barrister to hold his court between the 15th of October and the 25th of November. The overseers of any parish are to be entitled to make their extracts from the tax assessments from the present time (July 12.) to August 31.; no barrister can hold an adjourned court after November 25.; the clerk of the peace is to complete his list of electors on or before the 1st of December in the present year; it is to be delivered to the returning officer, and is to be the list of electors from December 1. in the present year, till November 1. in the next year, when the second register is to come into effect.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

June 25. The House resolved itself into a Committee, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Punishment of Death Bill.

- Lords Tenterden and Eldon entered into extended comments and elaborate criticism on the Bill. The latter noble Lord declared that he could not define the meaning of secondary punishments; and contended that the fear of death operated more powerfully in the mind to prevent crime than any other sort of punishment. His Lordship also urged, that before the capital punishment was repealed, they should know what were the secondary punishments. Lord Dacre supported the amelioration.-Lord Wynford moved, as an amendment, that the discretionary power should be taken away from the judges with respect to the cases in the Bill, and that transportation for life should be the inevitable consequence of conviction. The Earl of Melbourne saw no objection to the amendment, and it was therefore agreed to. Some amendments on the subject of transportation for life were adopted, and the Bill was ordered to be printed, as amended.

June 27. Their Lordships met soon after one o'clock, and shortly afterwards, accompanied by the Speaker, and the other members of the House of Commons, proceeded in procession to St. James's, for the purpose of presenting the Addresses voted by both Houses of Parliament to His Majesty, congratulating His Majesty on his fortunate escape from injury from the at tack at Ascot Races. On their return the Lord Chancellor read His Majesty's answer as follows: My Lords and Gentlemen, I thank you for this affectionate expression

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