Adams, Robert, Esq., R.N., late of Witham, Essex, 31st Jan. Allen, Margaret, relict of the Right Rev. Joseph Allen, D.D., Bishop of Ely, 31st Jan.

Anderson, Mary Elizabeth, wife of Warren Hastings Anderson, Esq., 23d Jan., at Edinburgh.

Andrews, Sarah Jane, second daughter
of the late Edward Andrews, Esq., 3d
Feb., at Leyton, Essex.
Armstrong, Elizabeth, relict of the Rev.
John Armstrong, B.A., chaplain to the
late Duke of Gloucester, 13th Feb.
Aufrere, Anne Margaret, wife of the Rev.

P. Du Val Aufrere, Rector of Scarning,
Norfolk, 23d Jan.

Backhouse. On the 17th Jan., suddenly,

at the age of 27, on board ship off Palermo, to which place she had gone for the benefit of her health, Anna, the wife of John Church Backhouse, of Blackwell, near Darlington, and only daughter of the late Joseph John Gurney, of Earlham, near Norwich. Baines. On the 30th Jan., aged 39, Eliza, wife of Frederick Baines, Esq., of Leeds, and eldest daughter of the late William Pinke Paine, Esq., of Farnham, Surrey.

Barclay, Mary Walker, wife of Joseph Gurney Barclay, Esq., of Walthamstow, 10th Feb.

Barr. On the 28th Jan., Martin Barr, Esq., of Henwick Hall, near Worcester, the eldest brother of the late Chas. Barr, Esq., banker, of Leeds, and of the lamented Lieut.-Col. Marcus Barr C.B., Adjutant-General of the Queen's forces during the campaign of the Sutlej.

Bashall, Edward, youngest son of Wm. Bashall, Esq., of Faringdon Lodge, 30th Jan.

Battersby, Elizabeth, relict of the late Alexander Battersby, of Daffy Lodge, co. Kildare, Esq., and only daughter (by his first wife) of the late Athanasius Cusack, of Laragh, Esq., the male representative of the very ancient family of Cusack of Gerardstown and

Clonard; at Miltown House, co. Westmeath, 28th Jan., aged 66. Beaty, Thomas D., Esq., late a Commander E.L.C.S., 25th Jan., aged 78. Belcher, Alexander Brymen, Esq., of Spring Grove, Pembury, and King's Arms Yard, 8th Feb., aged 54.

Beloe, Mrs., relict of the late distinguished critic, the Rev. William Beloe, B.D., F.S.A., Rector of Allhallows, and Prebendary of Lincoln, the learned and elegant translator of Herodotus, 16th Feb. Bennett. On the 22d Jan., at Gawcott, after a long and painful illness, Augustus Frederick, youngest son of the late Rev. Woolley Leigh Bennett, Rector of Water Stratford and Foxcote, in the county of Bucks, in the 30th year of his age.

Best. On the 12th January, at Malta, aged 25, the Rev. Robert Stanser Best, B.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, eldest son of the late Archdeacon Best, of Frederickton, New Brunswick, and grandson of the late Right Rev. Robert Stanser, D.D., formerly Bishop of Nova Scotia.

Beverley. Louisa Harcourt, Countess of Beverley, died on the 31st Jan., at the family mansion in Portman-square. Her ladyship was third daughter of the late Hon. James Archibald Stuart Wortley Mackenzie, and sister of the late Lord Wharncliffe. She was born 4th October, 1781, and married 22d June, 1801, George Percy, present Earl of Beverley, by whom she leaves surviving issue, three sons and two daughters.

Bingham, Priscilla, relict of Lieut.-General Richard Bingham, of Bingham's Melcombe, co. Dorset, 1st Feb. She was of the Baronetical family of Carden. At the decease of her husband she succeeded by his devise to all his estates for life, which estates now devolve on the General's nephew, the present Richard Hippesley Bingham. Bird, the Rev. John, late of Ampthill, Beds, 27th Jan., aged 45.

Blackburne, Emma Anne, second daugh

ter of the late Rev. Thomas Blackburne, Rector of Prestwich, 12th Feb. Blunt, Anna Matilda, wife of James

Tillyer Blunt, Esq., 16th Feb., aged 26. Bond, the Rev. Essex Henry, 11th Feb.,

at Merton Parsonage, aged 52. Boultbee, Sydney, eldest daughter of the late John Boultbee, Esq., at Bath, 12th Feb.

Boys, Thomas, Esq., of Blackheath, 30th Jan., aged 75.

Braithwaite, Mrs. John, of Cobham, Kent, 4th Feb

Bridgwater. On the 4th Feb, at his residence, Tollington Park, near Hornsey, Symonds Bridgwater, Esq., formerly collector of H. M. customs, and president of the Board of Council in the island of Dominica, West Indies. Brisbane. On the 22d Jan., at Brisbane

House, Ayrshire, after a few days' illness, Captain John William Douglas Brisbane, R.N., only surviving son of the late Vice Admiral Sir Charles Brisbane, K.C.B.

Brocklehurst, Mary, wife of John Brocklehurst, Esq., M.P., 1st Jan. Brooke, Thomas Langford, Esq., of Mere

Hall, Cheshire, 24th Jan. This gentleman, second son of Thomas Langford Brooke, Esq., of Mere, by Maria, his wife, daughter of the Rev. Sir Thomas Broughton, Bart., succeeded to the property on the decease of his elder brother in 1840. He married in 1817 Eliza, daughter of John W. Clorigh, Esq., of Oxton House, co. York, but had no issue. The Brookes of Mere were founded by Sir Peter Brooke, M.P. (a younger son of Thomas Brooke of Norton), who purchased, in 1652, the manor of Mere. Brydges, Frances Isabella, youngest surviving daughter of the late Sir S. Egerton Brydges, Bart., 27th Jan. Budd, Charlotte, wife of Henry Budd, Esq., of Russell Square, 30th Jan. Burford, William George, Esq., of Chigwell, Essex, 5th Feb., aged 30. Burland, John B. Harris, at Wottonunder-Edge, aged 15.

Burnet, Maria, wife of the Rev. Dr. Burnet, Rector of St. James's, city, 4th Feb.

Campbell, John, Esq., M.D., late of Cawnpore, aged 49.

Camps, John, fourth son of the late Wm. Camps, Esq., High Sheriff of the Counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, 10th Feb. Canterbury, Archbishop of. Dr. William Howley was born in 1765, at the village of Alresford, six miles from Winchester. His father was the Rev. Dr. William Howley, vicar of Bishops Sut

ton and Ripley, in the county of Southampton. He was the only son, and while yet young quitted the paternal roof for Winchester School, where, under the government of Dr. Joseph Warton, he laid the basis of those attainments in literature, morals, and theology, which enabled him to reach the highest position in our national church.

Having completed his studies at Winchester, Mr. Howley proceeded, in 1783, to New College, Oxford; and, after remaining for two years a scholar on the Wykeham foundation, he was elected to a Fellowship. He.took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1787, and that of Master of Arts in 1791. Within three years from that date he was chosen a Fellow of Winchester College; and in 1804, appointed a Canon of Christ Church. In the course of the next year, he took the degree of B.D., and subsequently of D.D.; and, in 1809, on the advancement of Dr. Hall to the Deanery of Christ Church, Dr. Howley succeeded him as Regius Professor of Divinity.

The manner in which he discharged his duties as principal tutor of New College, the fame of his learning, the purity of his life, and the acknowledged piety of his character, obtained for him the cordial patronage of George III. It will, of course, be recollected that the Prince of Orange, now King of Holland, was an Oxford man. It is equally well known that at a very early age it was proposed to form a matrimonial alliance between that illustrious personage and the late Princess Charlotte, so that his Royal Highness was regarded as likely to occupy in this country the position of Prince Consort. The care of his education was given to Dr. Howley-a trust of no ordinary importance, and one which evidently augured his advancement to the episcopal bench. That the learned Professor of Divinity stood high in the estimation of his Royal pupil, there can be no doubt; it is well known that the last time the King of Holland visited this country he paid a visit at Lambeth Palace, and took especial pains to mark the high esteem with which, after the lapse of many years, he continued to regard his quondam preceptor. Dr. Howley was also tutor to the Marquis of Abercorn.

Dr. Howley's discharge of the duties of the Professorship added so considerably to his reputation, that on the death of the Bishop of London, in 1813, he was at once elevated to the See of London; this being the first instance

since the Revolution, of that Diocese being conferred on any other than a previously consecrated Bishop.

Bishop Howley, in this elevated and responsible situation, discharged its duties with great consistency, purity of conduct, and firmness of principle, so as to gain universal esteem. His Lordship was consecrated at Lambeth Palace; and Queen Charlotte, the consort of George III., though upwards of 70 years of age, witnessed the ceremony accompanied by two of the Princesses. In the following year, our new Bishop made his primary Visitation; and the Charge which his Lordship delivered on that occasion, on being published, produced some excitement in one or two quarters, especially amongst the Unitarians, whom he described as "loving to question, rather than learn." Their great champion, Mr. Belsham, attacked the Diocesan of London with at least as much zeal as power; and accused him of enforcing the slavish doctrines of Popery rather than the free and inquiring spirit of Protestantism. Bishop Howley, in reply, certainly succeeded in proving that one of the first duties of a Christian is to "approach the oracles of Divine truth with that humble docility, that prostration of the understanding and the will," which the great theologians of every age and almost of every Christian Church have earnestly inculcated.

For fifteen years, Bishop Howley administered the affairs of the See of London with prudence and piety, firmness, and well-regulated energy. Within that period, many important events occurred, of which he was not altogether an unconcerned spectator. The close of the war, the agitation of Parliamentary Reform, the trial of Queen Caroline, and the struggles for Roman Catholic Relief, excited the passions of the whole community, and even inspired with unwonted vigour the spirit of this retiring and gentle-minded ecclesiastic; but it neither became his station nor accorded with his character to leave behind him any very prominent memorials of political strife.

Residing in the vicinity of the Court since 1813, a man of his character necessarily acquired considerable influence with the Royal Family. Many members of that illustrious house sought from him counsel and consolation in their dying moments, as is well known to the public. Nor were the offices which he administered to the Sovereign, and the immediate relatives of the Monarch, confined to death-bed scenes;

he assisted at all those marriages of the Royal Family which followed close upon the death of the Princess Charlotte, the baptisms of the several issue of those unions, the funeral of George III., and the coronation as well as the funeral of George IV.

In 1828, on the death of Archbishop Sutton, Dr. Howley was elevated to the See of Canterbury: this good fortune was attributed by the Archbishop's political opponents to the support which he gave to the Bill of Pains and Penalties against Queen Caroline. Bishop Howley, on that occasion, laid it down with much emphasis that the King 'could do no wrong either morally or politically.

Nevertheless, the new Archbishop, within eight months of his elevation, protested against the policy of the Minister from whom he had received his appointment; and when the principle of the great government measure of that year (the Roman Catholic Relief Bill of 1829) came under discussion in the House of Lords, and after the Duke of Wellington had concluded his speech, moving the second reading of the Bill, the Archbishop rose, and in a zealous and learned address, moved an amendment, "That the bill should be read that day six months," "dreading," he observed, "the designs of the Papists more than the consequences which might result from a refusal of their claims." His Grace also opposed the Reform Bill on the second reading, in October, 1831, and justified his vote in favour of the late Lord Wharncliffe's motion, on the ground that he thought the bill would "be mischievous in its tendency and dangerous to the fabric of the Constitution." Earl Grey was defeated by a majority of 41, but in the following spring his Grace offered no further opposition on that great question. We may mention as the last important part he took in the House of Lords, his energetic opposition to the Government education measure introduced by Viscount Melbourne in 1839, which he was instrumental in defeating by an overwhelming majority.

In the memoir in the Times, it is remarked that Archbishop Howley "had other difficulties with which to contend, and other painful duties to perform. He had baptized the Queen; he had solemnized her marriage; he had placed the Crown upon her head; he was the first ecclesiastic in the realm; and when it appeared to him, as well as to other distinguished members of the hierachy, that in the palace of the Sovereign,

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Sunday was observed in a rather in accordance with the gaiety of continental tastes than with the quiet reserve of English and Protestant habits, he did not hesitate to call her Majesty's attention to the subject; and it has been stated that more than once during the Melbourne Ministry, he respectfully tendered to the Crown advice not quite in accordance with the wishes of those who at that time surrounded our then youthful and inexperienced Sovereign. Though a man of remarkably mild and unassuming manners, he was by no means deficient in moral courage, nor likely to be deterred by any set of courtiers from discharging a duty due to his Sovereign, or to the Church of which that Sovereign is the head."

Upon the accession of Dr. Howley to the Archbishopric, he found the Palace, at Lambeth, in a very dilapidated condition. He almost immediately set about its re-edification and restoration. He commenced, also, extensive repairs in the Cathedral at Canterbury. At Lambeth, his Grace expended, in this munificent spirit, upwards of £80,000. As we intend, upon an early occasion, to illustrate the improvements at Lambeth, we shall leave their details for that opportunity. Upon his seat, at Addington, near Croydon, the Archbishop also expended considerable sums: this was his favourite retreat.

Archbishop Howley, though not a man of brilliant talents, has left many charges and sermons, acknowledged to be perfectly orthodox, and written with spirit, and not without elegance. Yet he was by no means eloquent in the pulpit, nor in addressing a public assembly. Extreme moderation was the distinguishing feature of his character, and his safeguard.

That the venerable Primate was an active promoter of good and liberal works is attested by the following list of the offices which he filled. His Grace was a Lord of Trade and Plantations, a Commisioner for Building Churches, a Trustee for the British Museum, and a Governor of the Charter House. He was visitor of All Souls, Baliol, and Merton Colleges, Oxford, and of King's College, London; Harrow School, Dulwich College, and of Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School. His Grace was a munificent benefactor to the various religious and charitable institutions of the metropolis, and was President of the Corporation of the sons of the Clergy; of the Anniversary Festival of the Society for

Building Churches; of the National Society for the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church; of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; of the Clergyman's Orphan School; of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; of the Grey Coat Hospital School at Westminster; of the School for the Indigent Blind; the St. Ann's Society School. &c,

His Grace was a Fellow of the Royal Society; a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; and a member of the Royal Society of Literature; and a Privy Councillor, since 1813.

Before he became Bishop of London, Dr. Howley married Mary Frances, eldest daughter of John Belli, Esq., of Southampton. The issue of that marriage were two sons and three daughters. One of the Archbishop's sons was for a short time an officer in the Guards, but he died of consumption at the age of twenty. His other son only lived to be twelve years of age. The Archbishop's eldest daughter married, in the year 1825, Sir George Beaumont, Bart., and died in ten years after her marriage. Another of his daughters was married to a Mr. Wright, and a third to a Mr. Kingsmill.

The latter years of the deceased Prelate were not much distinguished from the general quietude of his life. Even within a year of his decease he appeared in public almost as frequently as usual, though, of course, he gradually ceased to preach, and very rarely during the last four or five years addressed the House of Lords. At length, the infirmities attendant upon extreme old age became every day more apparent; a severe attack of the prevailing epidemic shattered his enfeebled constitution; his malady yielded to medical treatment; but, in a short time, he sank into irrecoverable debility: his end was tranquil, and within a short period of his decease, he was in full possession of his faculties.

Cape, Major Thomas, late E.L.C.S., 20th Jan., aged 87.

Cerjat, Lieut-Colonel Charles S., formerly of the 1st Dragoons, 9th Feb., at Lausanne, Switzerland.

Chalmers, Frances, relict of Patrick Chalmers, Esq., of Auldbar, 10th Feb., aged 70. This lady was eldest dau. of John Inglis, Esq., of Vere Hills, co. Lanark, an East India Director. She married in 1801 the late Patrick Chalmers, Esq.,