complete work on British Annelids when his sudden seizure deprived him of life. His last very interesting work, the Botany of the Eastern Borders (which was reviewed in our Magazine for April 1854), shows that no natural occurrence escaped his scrutinizing observation. It was his critical eye that first detected in the waters of the Blackader the new water-weed (anicharis alsinestrius). Being gifted with a fluent pen and poctical feeling, Dr. Johnston's writings are all more or less characterized by their delightful and impressive style. His labours were the result of leisure moments. From 1819 to 1853 he was actively engaged in a harassing country medical practice. That he never shrank from its claims is well known; but whilst doing all this work, his friends, and those who visited him from a distance, were surprised to find him one of the most social of men. He was an active member, if not founder, of the Berwickshire Natural History Club: a pleasant association of naturalists, who pursue their favourite objects in the open fields and by the sea-side, and afterwards meet together at the social board. Johnston was also one of the founders of the Ray Society, and up to the time of his death took an active interest in its proceedings and publications. Dr. ARCHIBALD ARNOTT, M.D. July 6. At Kirkconnell hall, Dumfriesshire, aged 83, Archibald Arnott, M.D. formerly of H.M.'s 20th Regiment. Dr. Arnott entered the army upwards of 60 years ago, and retired from active service in 1826. For a few years he was attached to the 11th Dragoons, but for a much longer period served with her Majesty's 20th Foot, sharing the perils and exploits of that distinguished corps on the Nile, in Calabria, Portugal, Spain, and Holland, and earning a medal with clasps for Egypt, Maida, Vimiera, Corunna, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. After the war, Dr. Arnott accompanied his brave companions in arms to St. Helena and India, and at the former station became the medical attendant of Napoleon Bonaparte. Shortly previous to his dissolution Napoleon gave a very interesting testimony of his respect for Dr. Arnott. To use the words of one then on the island, "The Emperor, on his deathbed, desired that a valuable gold snuffbox might be brought to him, and having, with his dying hand and last effort of departing strength, engraved upon its lid with a penknife the letter N.,' he presented it to his kind and valued friend, as a parting memorial of his deep esteem and heartfelt gratitude." Besides which Napoleon bequeathed to him 600 Napoleons, and the British government, to mark its approbation of his conduct, conferred on him 5007. When the scene at last drew to a close, the patient expired with his right hand in that of Dr. Arnott. CHARLES COCHRANE, ESQ. June 13. In Nelson-square, Blackfriars-road, in his 48th year, Charles Cochrane, esq. This gentleman was a son of the late Hon. Basil Cochrane, of Portman-square, -we presume of illegitimate birth, as his name has not been admitted into the peerages. He had come before the public in several instances by acts of eccentric enterprise, if not of positive charlatanry. During a period of 18 months, in the year 1825-6, he traversed most parts of the united kingdom as an itinerant musical beggar, and soon after he published his adventures, in two volumes octavo, as the Tour of a Spanish Minstrel-a character he had assumed in reliance upon the sympathy then entertained in this country toward the Spanish refugees, after the French invasion of their country, and which he boasted to have maintained with triumphant success. At the general election of 1847 Mr. Charles Cochrane became a candidate for the city of Westminster, and very nearly succeeded in obtaining his return, for he was within twenty-one votes of Mr. Lushington, and very considerably before Lord Viscount Mandeville; the poll terminating as follows: Sir de Lacy Evans. . . 3139 2810 Lord Viscount Mandeville 1985 Subsequently, Mr. Cochrane took an active part in the foundation and management of the National Philanthropic Institution, established in Leicester-square for the relief of the unemployed poor, by the organisation of street orderlies, the establishment of baths and washhouses, the doling out of soup, &c. Of that society Mr. Cochrane was president; and he was actively engaged in its business from 1842 to 1850. At last he made himself so obnoxious to the authorities of St. Martin's parish, that, with the assistance of the Times newspaper, he was voted down as a greater nuisance than those he strove to abate. He endeavoured to introduce his system of soup kitchens and street orderlies into the large parishes of Marylebone and St. Pancras, but was received by those vestries, to use his own language," with positive incivility." He also established a soup kitchen in the City of London, which however was soon closed, shortly before that in Leicester Square. Mr. Cochrane's philanthropic exertions had concentrated all the idlers and vagabonds in this huge metropolis to a sort of centre in that locality. After this the public lost sight of him, but it appears he had transferred his attentions to Paris, under the patronage of the present Emperor of the French, who knew him when in London. Mr. Cochrane set about to reform the Parisian Sunday, and the result of his ineffectual labours was given to the public in a pamphlet, entitled "Sunday in Paris." Returning to this country, he abandoned the northern portion of the metropolis, and determined to see what was to be done on the south side; the neighbourhood of the New Cut and the Victoria Theatre presenting a wide field for his exertions. In conjunction with the clergy he gave lectures, and latterly made his appearance every Sunday morning at the church recently erected in the New Cut, followed by 250 of the objects of his charity, having first regaled them with a hearty breakfast, at which he usually presided. His death took place after a few days' illness, and is attributed to phrenitis, or inflammation of the brain. During his illness he was visited by the Rev. Mr. Karr, who found him quite delirious. It may be added to his credit that many of the clergy considered him a wellmeaning man. Several funeral sermons were preached on his decease, which have been published in the pages of the Pulpit. Even in St. Martin's he had many admirers. At his death his affairs were found to be in a hopeless state of confusion. Besides The Spanish Minstrel, which in 1847 he republished, suppressing the amatory passages, he was the author of several pamphlets. THOMAS CHARLES, ESQ. April 29. At Chillington House, Maidstone, aged 77, Thomas Charles, esq. Mr. Charles was a member of the medical profession. He was apprenticed to his father, William Charles; became his partner, and finally his successor. The elder Mr. Charles had been apprenticed to his uncle, William Arnold, whose daughter Mary he married, and had by her eight children (none of whom survive), viz., William Arnold Charles, died young; Thomas Charles, the subject of the present memoir; William, Frances, Doro thea, John, Elizabeth, and Mary. Of this family only one was married, John Charles, Lieut. 36th Regt. to Susannah Eagleton, who survives him, but has no family. Mr. Charles was educated at the Gram. mar School, Maidstone, at that time under the Mastership of Dr. Cherry, who afterwards became Head Master of Merchanttaylors' School, London. From his earliest days Mr. Charles evinced a taste for literature and painting, and the greatest possible gratification to him was to spend the few leisure days that he could spare from his profession in travelling and sketching subjects of antiquity and scenery. His industry in this pursuit is manifest in three large folio volumes, containing upwards of 400 drawings made during excursions in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire. He was likewise partial to the muses: his translations from Boetius and other authors, as well as some original poems, evince great taste. Notwithstanding the age to which he attained, Mr. Charles was, like his father, all his life a sufferer from acute illness, and many of his sketches are endorsed with memoranda of the painful circumstances under which they were taken. After the death of his last surviving brother, William Charles, he erected in his garden a structure to his memory, taking the design from the ruins of the Chapel in the Castle at Hastings, and placing within it a tablet exhibiting his brother's profile in alto-relievo under a wreath of oak, which he had modelled by his own hand, with this inscription— AD MEMORIAM HANC TABVLAM FRATER. EJVS. MERENS SVA MANV FINXIT. He had previously placed a tablet in the same garden, under a pear-tree, with the following original lines: To memory ever dear, this quiet nook The elder Mr. Charles, in addition to his profession as a surgeon, had carried on a manufactory of felting for the papermakers. Mr. William Charles, who, like his brother Thomas, had been apprenticed to his father, conducted this business in the joint names of himself and his brother. After his death it was removed to a distance. The feltings made by Messrs. Charles were in the highest repute, both in this country and abroad. The body of Mr. Charles was interred at Boxley on the 12th of May. The unusual interval between his death and burial is entitled to explanation. It was in ac. cordance with the custom of the family for some time past, in consequence of an ancestor having lain in a trance for several days. There is a portrait at Chillington House of a great-uncle, a Turkey merchant, of whom a romantic love-story is told, and who is said to have actively assisted in the removal of the bodies of the victims of the infamous Judge Jefferies, who were gibbeted in the West of England in Monmouth's rebellion. He persuaded a few of the friends of those who had been executed to assemble, disguised as ghosts; and it was given out that Monmouth's men had walked again. By this device the bodies were removed and buried clandestinely. Mr. Charles, by his will, has bequeathed to his executors, Alexander Randall, esq. and Susannah Charles, widow, the whole of his Museum, a collection of minerals, fossils, Roman and other pottery, coins, curiosities, antique articles, and articles of virtu, and such of his books, manuscripts, and paintings as they should select, upon trust, to make such arrangements as they should think fit for the permanent preservation thereof in the town of Maidstone, and the same to be called THE CHARLES MUSEUM. In addition to legacies to friends and servants, he has bequeathed 2007. in charities to the town: namely, to the West Kent Infirmary, Ophthalmic Hospital, Blue-coat School, and All Saints' National School, 507. each. The Museum which Mr. Charles has so liberally bequeathed to the town of Maidstone remains for the present at Chillington House. This collection is extremely valuable in its fossils, particularly from the chalk formation. Dr. Mantell considered some of the specimens so rare, that he induced the late Marquess of Northampton to visit the museum, in order to inspect them. The noble lord expressed himself highly gratified, as well as with the early domestic architecture of the building itself. The collection of Roman remains discovered at Lockham Wood, Boxley Hill, and other parts of Kent, are *Some mention of the venerable building may probably be given in a future number. additional claims to the attention of the public. In the library are many curious and carly printed books, including choice copies from the Aldine and Elzevir presses, as well as various works on art and topography. The paintings are few, but will attest the judgment of Mr. Charles as a collector. Altogether this bequest will form such a nucleus for the establishment of a museum and library as seldom occurs in a provincial town; and we sincerely hope that other gentlemen in the county may feel disposed to contribute towards the enrichment of the collection. Indeed, we know of a promise already to that effect in the numismatic department, when the museum shall have been established. MADAME DE GIRARDIN. June 29. At Paris, the wife of M. Emile de Girardin. Delphine Gay was born about the year 1803. Her father was Receiver-General of the Department of Noër. Her mother, Madame Sophie Gay, acquired a considerable reputation in the literary world. She was chiefly known as a sarcastic writer, and was the main cause of the privations inflicted upon her husband under the first Napoleon. In 1815 she might be seen at the head of those Parisian dames who crowded upon the path of Wellington, offering him bouquets of violets. Madame Sophie Gay, on the death of her husband, made literature her profession, and gained a large number of acquaintance, including many of the most distinguished writers of the Restoration. Her daughter was thrown at an early age into the society of refined and talented persons. At fourteen she was remarkable for her beauty, which is described in the following terms by one of her mother's acquaintances:" Large blue eyes, full of tenderness, magnificent flaxen hair, a fair forehead, a small delicately-shaped mouth (called a casket of pearls by a certain poet), an exquisite complexion-these are the characteristic features of the lovely Mdlle. Gay." Beranger said of her that she had shoulders like a Venus, and Chateaubriand thought her smile was like an angel's. It was in the year 1822 that Mdlle. Delphine Gay sent her first poems to the Academy. The learned assembly accorded to her a special prize, and Charles X. gave her a pension of 1500 francs. She accompanied her mother in a tour to Switzerland and Italy the renown of the young poetess had already crossed the Alps, and she was received in Italy like another Corinne. She was conducted in triumph to the capital, and recited several pieces in : presence of an enthusiastic assembly. Her return to France was the signal for a still more flattering ovation. Legros, who had just completed the frescoes of the Pantheon, himself conducted Mdlle. Delphine to a place of honour beneath the dome. The whole of the aristocracy of Paris had assembled to hear her recite. After she had finished, the dais on which she had stood was so strewn with wreaths and bouquets that she seemed as if standing in a garden. In 1831 she was married to Emile Girardin. She subsequently published in the Presse several spirited articles, called "Lettres Parisiennes," under the nom de plume of Vicomte Charles de Launay. She continued to charm Paris with these piquant reviews until the year 1848. Her principal works are the poems" Napoline' and "Madeleine," the "Canne de M. de Balzac," the Marquis de Pontages,' the "Cross of Berny;" and the plays of "Judith," Cleopatra," Lady Tartuffe," "La Joie fait Peur," and "Le Chapeau d'un Horloger." M. and Madame de Girardin took up their abode at Chaillot, near the Champs Elysées, in a little house fashioned like a Greek temple. Her door opened every evening to receive the aristocracy and celebrities of Paris. She was thoroughly domestic in her habits and ideas, and seldom travelled. During the winter season she held her court in her salon, and during the summer in a tent in the middle of her garden, receiving with exquisite grace guests the most noble and the most famous. Poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, philosophers-these were her courtiers and her subjects. She was not only the colleague but the hearty and cordial friend of nearly all the most popular writers of modern France, and Balzac, Hugo, and others of these were glad to receive her counsels. Her funeral took place on Monday the 2d July, and she was followed to her last home by the élite of Parisian society, literary, artistic, learned, and political. Jules Janin, in accordance with French custom, delivered a valediction over her grave. After enumerating the principal works of Madame de Girardin in his own high theatrical style,-"Let us bid her farewell!" burst out the orator.-"Let us carry away in our hearts that image stamped with grace and power-with intelligence and devotedness!-Let us not lament her!-Madame de Girardin has gone, before her time, to join so many persons who loved her, and whom she loved with all her heart. She goes again to see General Foy, her grandfather,-Madame O'Donnell, her worthy sister, whom she wept so much,-her mother, who would have died of grief to see this tomb, had she not died some years ago,-she goes again to see her brother, who fell on the field of honour, and Frédéric Soulie and Balzac (twin-brothers),--and Soumet,--and Guiraud, and M. Vatout-and Châteaubriand himself, who bent the knee so willingly before her brilliant and unchanging beauty." Such are the strange and fantastic tributes which our mercurial neighbours commingle with their funereal rites! THE ABBE ROSMINI. July 1. At Stresa, on the Lago Maggiore, the Abbé Rosmini. He was born at Roveredo, in the Italian Tyrol, in 1797. Of a noble family and in easy circumstances, he adopted the clerical life from inclination, and completed his education for it at the University of Padua. He was the author of many works on moral philosophy, the earlier of which bear a strong stamp of ultramontane intolerance; and he founded an order, called after him the Rosminiani, whose mission includes instruction and preaching, and many of which order are to be found in England, particularly in Lancashire. Himself thoroughly honest and conscientious, he was thus unknowingly aiding the propaganda of Jesuit doctrines, and consequently the Abbé Gioberti, who was always the steady advocate of Church reform, wrote in opposition to him. Notwithstanding this opposition, however, when Gioberti was Minister of Public Instruction and the whole soul of the government, in 1848, he recommended the Abbé Rosmini to the King of Sardinia for the delicate office of representative at the Court of Rome, with a view to concluding a Concordat and arranging the terms of an Italian League. Before going to Rome he had published a work, advocating liberal principles in Church discipline,called "The Five Wounds of the Church." Of this, however, no no tice was taken at Rome at the time, but, on the contrary, Rosmini was urged by both Count Rossi and the Pope himself to accept the portfolio of Public Instruction at Rome, and furthermore had received from the Pope the nomination of Cardinal-inpectore. The offers of office he declined, and the nomination of Cardinal never was confirmed, because after the restoration a condemnation by the Consulta of the Index against "The Five Wounds of the Church" was produced, which bore a date anterior to Rosmini's visit to Rome, though there is strong reason to believe it was not passed until long afterwards. When the Pope went to Gaeta Rosmini followed him, but was so annoyed by the Neapolitan police that he soon left, and removed to Piedmont, where he has resided ever since, MR. JOHN WILSON. April 29. At Folkestone, aged 81, Mr. John Wilson, landscape and marine painter. He was born Aug. 13, 1774, in the town of Ayr, and apprenticed, at the age of 14, to Mr. John Norie, house decorator, in Edinburgh. Soon after the completion of his apprenticeship he took a few lessons in oil-painting from Alexander Nasmyth (father of the celebrated P. Nasmyth), which constituted the only instruction he About ever received in his profession. 1796 he took up his abode at Montrose, where he continued, teaching drawing, &c. for nearly two years, after which he travelled to London, and was engaged as principal scene-painter at the different metropolitan theatres. In the year 1810 he married a Miss Williams, whose amiable and affectionate disposition made the painter's hearth a cheerful and happy one; he survived her twenty-four years. While employed at Astley's, he sent two pictures to the exhibition of the Royal Academy, both of which were favourably hung, and speedily found a purchaser in Mr. John Farley. About the same date Mr. Wilson was one of the successful competitors for premiums offered by the British Institution for "the best painting of The Battle of Trafalgar ;" and he had the good fortune to dispose of his picture to Lord Northwick, who became, for many years, one of his stanchest friends and most liberal patrons. Mr. Wilson was an honorary member of the Royal Scotish Academy, as well as one of the founders of the Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street; and although many, with much less claims to the honours of the Royal Academy, "forgetful of their first love," migrated and were admitted into the Academy, he was contented to abide by the fluctuating fortunes of the society he had assisted in establishing, and continued, until his death, one of the most important contributors to its annual exhibitions. As a marine painter, in his best days, he had no rival, for none so thoroughly understood the various moods of the everchanging element, or could render its rolling restlessness so truthfully, whilst his execution, and eye for colour, added a peculiar charm to the creations of his pencil. He had a fine feeling for poetry, and might almost be called a living edition of Burns, his countryman and acquaintance, whose poems he recited as those only could recite them who warmly and deeply felt their beauties. Shakspere, Pope, and Scott were also especial favourites-in fact, there were few British poets with whose works he was not familiar, and which he could not quote with a perfect appreciation of the text. Kind, generous, and affectionate, in all the relations of life, few men have left behind them recollections more endearing than the subject of this brief memoir. He has left a son, of his own names and profession, resident at Folkestone.-Art Journal. CLERGY DECEASED. June 17. At Scutari, aged 46, the Rev. Henry John Whitfield, the officiating Chaplain. He was of Downing college, Cambridge, and was lately Vicar of Granborough, Bucks. June 21. At Bridgewater, aged 72, the Rev. Henry William Rawlins, Rector of Fiddington (1821), and Vicar of Kilton (1844), Somerset. He was of Balliol college, Oxford, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808. June 22. At Clifton, the Rev. David Jones, Rector of Panteague and Tregunnock, co. Monm. (1838). June 24. At Lowestoft, aged 67, the Rev. Peter Blomfield Jeckell, late Vicar of Watton, Norfolk (1838). He was of Queen's college, Camb. B.A. 1825. June 25. At Milford, the Rev. Thomas Richards, eldest son of the late T. Richards, esq. of Bathampton Hill House, near Bath. June 28. The Rev. William Cockayne Frith, Rector of Childfrome, Dorset (1824), and of St. Peter's, Wallingford (1828). He was of St. John's coll. Oxford, B.C.L. 1808, D.C.L. 1814. Aged 75, the Rev. Thomas Parry, of Upper Bangor. June 30. Aged 43, the Rev. Bryan Faussett, of Heppington, Kent. He was the eldest son of the late Rev. Godfrey Faussett, D.D. Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford, by his first wife, Marianne-Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Thomas Bridges, esq. of St. Nicholas Court, in Thanet; and great-grandson of the Rev. Bryan Faussett, M.A. of Heppington, whose archæological collections he has recently sold to Mr. Mayer, of Liverpool. He was of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836. Lately. At his rectory, aged 57, the Rev. Charles James Hutton, Rector of Ilketshall St. John, Suffolk. He was the second son of the Rev. James Harriman Hutton, Vicar of Leckford, Hampshire. He was of Magdalene hall, Oxford, B.A. 1824; was instituted to the perp, curacy of Chalford, co. Glouc. in 1827; and to Ilketshall St. John's in 18... He married in 1833, Isabella, fourth dau. of William Baly, esq. of High Wycombe. July 4. At Bowness, Cumberland, aged 54, the Rev. John Jenkins, Rector of that parish (1852) and one Her Majesty's justices of the peace for Cumberland. At Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, aged 57, the Rev. Robert Wooding Sutton, Rector of Layer Breton, Essex (1831). He was of Clare hall, Camb. B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827. July 6. At Kincaldrum, near Forfar, aged 79, the Rev. John Paterson, D.D. father of G. Paterson, esq. M.D. of Tiverton. July 8. At Fylingdales, near Whitby, aged 88, the Rev. James Harrison, Perp. Curate of Fylingdales and Aislaby (1800). July 11. In his 35th year, the Rev. Edirard John Allen, son of Mr. Edward Allen of Spalding and formerly of South Audley-street. At Horning, Norfolk, aged 87, the Rev. Charles Carver, Vicar of that parish (1809) and Perp. Curate of Aclacton (1793). He was of Gonville and Caius college, Camb. B.A. 1791. July 13. Aged 57, the Rev. William Macbean, Rector of Peter Tavy, Devon. (1825). July 23. At Foston, near York, aged 60, the Rev. William Spencer Whitelock, Rector of that parish (1835). He was of Balliol college, Oxford, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1820. |