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and was likewise editor of Martyn's Persian and Hindoostanee Testament. In 1817, and the subsequent year, he superintended the Hindoostanee Prayer Book, and Morning and Evening Prayers in Persic, and wrote the history of the Abyssinian and Syrian Churches for the Annual Report of the Church Missionary Society. In 1820, the Grammar and Vocabulary of the New Zealand Language. In 1821, Sylloge Librorum Orientalium, and Letter to Bellamy against his translation of the Bible. In 1824 and 1826 occurred his Controversy with Dr. Henderson; and about this time he edited Sir W. Jones's Persian Grammar, of which a new edition appeared in 1828, and likewise printed some Controversial Tracts on Chris tianity and Mahometanism by Martyn. His Hebrew Grammar appeared in 1830. In 1833, the Travels of John Batuta, translated from the Arabic. In 1837, the Book of Job, translated from the original Hebrew. In 1840, a Hebrew, Chaldaic, and English Lexicon.

16. At Chelsea, Lady Stronge, relict of William Holmes, esq., of Graftonstreet, Bond-street.

17. At Escrick Villa, near York, aged 83, the Right Hon. Jane Lady Middleton, relict of Henry, sixth Lord Middleton.

18. At Walton Villas, aged 48, Peter Borthwick, esq., barrister-at-law, for merly M.P. for Evesham, and recently editor of the Morning Post. Mr. Borthwick was descended from the ancient family of Borthwick, Lord Borthwick in Scotland, and was educated at Cambridge, intending to go into orders; but having become interested in the case of the West Indians he advocated their cause in a series of lectures, and thenceforward devoted himself to politics. In 1834 he became member for the borough of Evesham, and became somewhat distinguished in the House for his unflinching advocacy of Tory principles, supporting the Church and Convocation, and the cause of Don Carlos (in whose behalf he made a journey into the Basque Provinces). He was the author of one valuable provision in the New Poor Law, known as "the Borthwick clause," which his untiring perseverance, after much difficulty, succeeded in extorting from the reluctant House of Commons. To him it is owing that married couples who have shared each others' pains and pleasures up to

the ages of 60, shall not, if overtaken by misfortune, be subjected in the poorhouse to become the victims of a violation of the Divine command, which says, "Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder." Mr. Borthwick ceased to be a member of Parliament at the dissolution of 1847, and he was subsequently called to the bar as a member of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn. Shortly afterwards he became editor of the Morning Post, which he conducted very ably. The labour attending this post was, however, too much for a constitution already much tried, and he died in harness. Mr. Borthwick was a man of varied and ready talent, and had many friends.

18. At Bath, Major Thomas John Parker Butler, only surviving son of the late Sir T. Butler, bart., Garryhunden, Ballintemple, co. Carlow.

21. In Foxley-road, Kennington, in his 61st year, James Francis Stephens, esq., F.L.S., late President of the Entomological Society. Mr. Stephens was born at Shoreham, in Sussex, and was well known as an enthusiastic naturalist, and attained the highest reputation as an entomologist. In early life he edited some of the volumes of Shaw's "General Zoology." In 1827 he commenced the publication of his great work on the insect portion of the British Fauna, completing the orders Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera, and Neuroptera, and one or two families of the Hymenoptera. This work, "Illustrations of British Entomology," was illustrated by Messrs. C. Curtis and Westwood. His "Manual of Coleoptera" is another indispensable work to the collector desirous of naming his specimens. The last works prepared by him were the

Catalogues of British Lepidoptera," in the collection of the British Museum, which contain the largest amount of valuable references ever brought toge ther, and drawn up in the clearest and plainest way. In the Zoological Journal, and other periodical works devoted to natural history, are various papers and communications by him. His collection of members of the British Fauna was probably the largest and most complete in Britain.

21. At Nice, aged 48, Henry Crowther, esq., eldest son of the late Rev. S. Crowther, Vicar of Christ Church, Newgatestreet.

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22. At Bath, aged 89, Mrs. Harriet Maltby, the contemporary and friend of Wilberforce, Pitt, Hannah More, and many departed worthies of the past generation. She was a large contributor to the charities at Bath; and, among the rest, she gave annually to the National Schools at Weymouth House the sum of 100%.

23. At Clifton, Mary, wife of Mr. Serjeant Stephen.

At Bath, Edward Rogers, esq., of Strange Park, co. Radnor, a deputy lieutenant and magistrate of the counties of Salop, Radnor, and Hereford, LL.B. and barrister-at-law, formerly M.P. for Bishop's Castle, and major in the Radnor Militia.

24. In Victoria-square, Pimlico, Samuel Barwick Bruce, esq., M.D., of Ripon, Medical Inspector of Mills and Prisons in that district. Dr. Bruce was a native of Barbadoes. Having obtained an army medical commission, he saw some of his earliest service afloat, under Lord Nelson, in 1805; was present at the capture of the Danish islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix in 1807; served at the siege of Fort Desaix in Martinique, for which he received a medal and clasp ; at the capture of Les Saintes near Guadaloupe; at the bombardment and driving from their anchorage of the French fleet in 1809; and in 1810 at the capture of Guadaloupe, for which he received a medal and clasp. Dr. Bruce served in the Peninsula in 1813, in America in 1814 and 1815, and was present at the severe actions before New Orleans in Jan., 1815; also at the capture of Fort Boyer, &c. In May, 1815, he joined the Duke of Wellington's army in the Netherlands, and finally he was present at Waterloo, and the subsequent entry into Paris.

At Birch House, near Hereford, aged 75, Kedgwin Hoskins, esq., a deputy lieutenant and magistrate of that county, and formerly one of its representatives in Parliament.

25. At Greystock, Cumberland, aged 87, the Rev. Henry Askew, Rector of that parish. He was the third son of the learned Anthony Askew, M.D.

At Heacham Hall, Norfolk, aged 63, the Rev. Strickland Charles Howard Neville Rolfe, Vicar of that parish. He was the eldest son of the late General Neville, Royal Artillery, and assumed the name and arms of Rolfe by royal licence, May 5, 1837, having received by

bequest the estates of Edmund Rolfe, esq., of Heacham.

25. In Upper Harley-street, aged 49, Anna Maria, second daughter of the late Admiral Sir Charles Morice Pole, G.C.B.

26. At Brecon, Lieut.-Col. Hunter Ward, senior Major 48th Regiment.

At Windsor Castle, aged 84, John Powell, esq., military knight, formerly quartermaster of the 77th Foot. He was nearly 20 years in India, was in the campaigns against Tippoo and Doondiah Waugh, and in that of Wynaad, where he was severely wounded. He served also at Cochin, Colombo, Saddasseer, Seringapatam, Jamalabad, Pangalamcourchy, and Annakenny. Subsequently he was twelve years in the West Indies and four in the Peninsula, and had the war medal with one clasp for Badajoz.

28. At Brussels, Madame Kossuth, mother to the Hungarian leader.

At Northampton, aged 46, Capt. John Lumley, late of 6th Foot, son of the late Gen. Sir J. R. Lumley, K.C.B., Adj.-Gen. of the Bengal Army.

29. At Malta, in consequence of a fall from a horse on the 17th, Hester Eliza, eldest daughter of John Drummond, esq., of Mulgrave House, Fulham.

At Leamington, aged 22, Aline, wife of Henry Hoghton, esq., of Bold, Lancashire, and third daughter of Sir Henry Jervis White Jervis, bart., of Bally Ellis, co. Wexford.

At Edinburgh, after a six weeks' illness, in his 63rd year, Mr. Robert Forrest, sculptor. Mr. Forrest was a native of Carluke, Lanarkshire, and was entirely a self-taught artist; he was bred as a stone-mason in the quarries of Clydesdale. His first public work was the statue of Wallace, which occupies a niche in the steeple of Lanark parish church, and was erected in 1817. His next works were the colossal figure of the first Viscount Melville, which surmounts the pillar in the centre of St. Andrew's-square at Edinburgh; and the well-known statue of John Knox in the Necropolis of Glasgow. In 1832 Mr. Forrest opened his public exhibition of statuary on the Calton Hill at Edinburgh, with four equestrian statues, under the patronage of a Royal Association of Contributors to the National Monument. In progress of time the gallery was extended to about 30 groups, all executed by the indefatiga

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ble sculptor himself, and the statuary soon took its place as one of the most popular exhibitions in the Scottish metropolis.

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29. At his lodge, in the 72nd year of his age, the Rev. Francis Hodgson, B.D., Provost of Eton College, and Rector of Cottesford, Oxfordshire. Hodgson was educated at Eton, and was elected in 1799 to King's College, and was tutor to Mr. Lambton (after wards Earl of Durham) and his brothers. In 1837 he returned to Eton as an Assistant Master, but resigned in the same year. While at Cambridge he formed an intimacy with the late Lord Byron, equally honourable to both, and which was only put an end to by the death of the noble poet. Lord Byron not only regarded Mr. Hodgson with great affection, but entertained a very high opinion of his intellectual endowments. This opinion was justified by several poetic works subsequently published by the deceased; in particular, by a translation of "Juvenal;" a volume entitled "Lady Jane Grey," with Miscellaneous Poems in English and Latin, 1809, 8vo; and "Sir Edgar," a Tale in two Cantos, 1810. In his later days he made considerable contributions in Latin to the Arundines Cami-a collection of poems in Latin and Greek, which was the successful and very popular forerunner of two other beautiful works of similar character-the Anthologia Oxoniensis and Sabrina Corolla. He also published several books with the view of directing the students of Eton in the art of versification, which has so long been the boast of that school. In 1816 Mr. Hodgson was presented by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield to the vicarage of Bakewell in Derbyshire, and in 1836 he was appointed Archdeacon of Derby, and also held for some time the donative chapelry of Edensor, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire. In March, 1840, he was elected Provost of Eton by the Fellows, on Her Majesty's recommendation; and shortly after he became Rector of Cottesford, one of the livings attached to Eton. Mr. Hodgson was a scholar of sound and accurate judgment, and of delicate and refined taste. As a man, he was remarkable for benevolence and singular kindness of heart. As a friend, he was no less worthy of admiration for warmth and sincerity of affection.

30. At Stradishall, Suffolk, aged 52, Sir Charles Wager Watson, the second Baronet (1760), of West Wratting Park, Cambridgeshire. He was grandson of Rear-Admiral Charles Watson, who, after distinguishing himself in two engage ments, died in command of the naval forces in the East Indies in 1757; and whose son, in acknowledgment of the father's services, was created a baronet in 1760, being then a boy of nine years of age. Sir Charles was hunting with the Suffolk foxhounds, accompanied by his son, and was riding at a brisk rate, when he was seen suddenly to reel and fall from his horse.

31. In action against the Kaffirs, at Fort Peddie, aged 35, Henry Robert Eardley Wilmot, Capt. Royal Artillery, and Brevet-Major. This gallant officer was the fifth son of the late Sir John Eardley Wilmot, bart., of Berkswell Hall, Warwickshire, Lieut.-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, and obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery in 1834. He served in Newfoundland and Canada, and in 1843 went to Van Diemen's Land as aide-decamp to his father, the Lieutenant-Governor. On the breaking out of disturbances in New Zealand, he hastened to the scene of operations, and did good service there. In June, 1847, Major Wilmot returned to England, where he remained engaged in the recruiting service until July, 1850, when he was promoted as First Captain to a Company at the Cape, where he arrived at the end of December. Immediately on his arrival he proceeded to the frontier, and took an active part in all the operations there down to the 31st of December, 1851. On that day he fell in a skirmish with the Kaffirs, some few miles from Fort Peddie, while in command of a party of British troops. On Saturday the 3rd of January, the earth closed over all that was mortal of the gallant Major Wilmot. His death caused the utmost sorrow, expressed not only by the Commander-in-Chief and the superior officers, but by those under him, and by the soldiers. Everywhere his kindness and gentlemanly bearing appear to have won friends, while his soldierly conduct, his bravery, and general high professional attainments, secured for him the respect and admiration of all with whom he acted.

Lately. In Australia, Hugh Proby,

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esq., third son of the Hon. Admiral Proby, and nephew to the Earl of Carys fort. Mr. Proby was drowned in attempting to cross a flooded river.

Lately. At Tarbolton, aged 79, Mr. Thomas Stobo. He entered in the Greys or 2nd Dragoons in 1790, and was with the Duke of York at Dunkirk; he was the oldest soldier in the Greys who fought at Waterloo, and the very "beau ideal" of a British dragoon. He was brother to the late Capt. Stobo of the Greys, who died in 1838.

Lately. At Castle Douglas, aged 73, Mr. Joseph Train, a friend and antiquarian auxiliary of Sir Walter Scott. Mr. Train was the author of a history of Galloway, but better known by the compliments paid him in Mr. Lockhart's "Life of Scott."

Lately. Joseph Willday, esq., of Atherstone, co. Warwick. He has bequeathed the sum of 1000l. to each of the following charities:-the London Orphan Asylum, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the Blind Asylum, St. George's Fields, the Blind Asylum, Liverpool, and the Birmingham General Hospital.

Lately. John Zechariah, esq., of Haverstock-hill. He has left the following legacies payable on the demise of his widow, viz., Jews' Hospital, 500l.; Jews' Free School, 2007.; Society for Relieving the Destitute Blind of the Jewish persuasion, 2001.; Jews' Orphan Asylum, 2007.; Widows' Home Asylum, 2007.; Hand-in-Hand Asylum for Decayed Jewish Tradesmen, 200l.; Portsmouth Synagogue, 100%.

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1852.

JANUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Lord Augustus Loftus, now Paid Attaché to Her Majesty's Legation at Stuttgardt, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at that Court.

2. To be Inspectors of Coal Mines in Great Britain: Thomas Wynne, esq., William Lancaster, esq.

16. George Hammond Whalley, esq., to be Collector of Customs for Trinidad. 19. James Hudson, esq., now Envoy Extraordinary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to be Envoy Extraordinary

and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sardinia; Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, G.C.B., now Envoy Extraordinary to the United States of America, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany; and John Fiennes Crampton, esq., now Secretary of Legation at Washington, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America.

20. Major-Gen. the Hon. George Cathcart to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope and its dependencies, and to be Her Majesty's High Commissioner for the settling and adjustment of the affairs of the territories adjacent or contiguous to the eastern and north-eastern frontier.

Charles Henry Darling, esq., to be Lieut.-Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

Major-Gen. the Hon. G. Cathcart to have the local rank of Lieut.-General at the Cape of Good Hope.-The Hon. Mark George Kerr Trefusis, second son of Charles, 18th Baron Clinton, to take the surname and arms of Rolle.

H. Baldwin, esq., Q.C., to be one of the Commissioners of Charitable Bequests in Ireland.

Thomas Falconer, esq., to be Judge of the Glamorganshire, Breconshire, and Radnorshire County Courts.

G. R. Waterhouse, esq., to be Curator of Mineralogy and Geology in the British Museum.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

2. 72nd Foot, Lieut.-Gen. J. Aitchison to be Colonel.-78th Foot, Lieut.Gen. Sir N. Douglas, K.C.B., to be Colonel.

10. Royal Marines, Col. Second Commandant R. Mercer, to be Colonel Commandant; Lieut.-Col. G. B. Bury, to be Colonel Second Commandant; brevet Major E. Hearle to be Lieut.-Colonel.

16. 74th Foot, Major A. Seaton to be Lieut. Col.; Capt. G. Monkland to be Major.

30. Capt. M. Geale, of the 36th Foot, to be Major in the Army.

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E. K. Barnard to be Commander.-R. Lloyd, to reserved list of Commanders.

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Commander W. B. Oliver to be Captain; Lieuts. J. Scudamore, C. Simmonds, and T. Brewer, to be Commanders.

19. Vice-Adm. John Dick to be Admiral of the Blue; Rear-Adm. Sir Edw. C. Strode, K.C.B., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue; Capt. W. Walpole to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Te be retired Rear-Admirals (on the terms of 1st Sept., 1846): Hugh Patton, Hon. C. O. Bridgman, Sir Henry Shiffner, bart., and Henry Forbes.

Appointments.-Capt. A. Lowe to Impregnable; Commander R. Maguire to Plover; Lieut. and Comm. J. S. Rundle to Hercules.

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Rev. J. Chambers (Head Master of the High School, James's Town) to be Inspector and Superintendent of Government Schools in the Island of St. Helena.

Rev. J. G. Lonsdale, Readership, Temple Church, London.

Rev. Richard Macdonnell, D.D., Provostship of Trinity College, Dublin.

Rev. J. Woolley, D.C.L., Principal of University College, and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Sydney, N.S.W.

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2. Henry Richard Lord Cowley, and the Right Hon. Sir J. Patteson, knt., one of the Judges of the Queen's Bench, sworn of the Privy Council.

3. Lord Cowley, K.C.B. (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Confederation), to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the French Republic.

5. The Right Hon. Fox Maule to be Her Majesty's Commissioner for the Affairs of India.-C. L. Wyke, esq., to be Consul General to the Republics of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa-Rica, Honduras, and Salvador.

6. The Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith, to be Secretary at War.

11. Lord Stanley of Alderley to be Vice-President of the Committee of Council appointed for Trade and Foreign Plantations.-Charles Barry, esq., Architect, R.A., Fellow of the Royal

Society, the Society of Arts, and of the Institute of British Architects, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Luke at Rome, of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts at Saint Petersburg, and of the Royal Academies of Fine Arts at Berlin, at Stockholm, and at Brussels, knighted.

12. Rear-Adm. Sir James Stirling, knt., to be one of Her Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of High Admiral vice Dundas.-R. G. M'Donnell, esq., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Settlements in the river Gambia, to be C.B. Civil Division.

Arthur Charles Magenis, esq. (Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation), to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Wurtemburg. - Andrew Buchanan, esq. (Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg), to be Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation. -Philip Griffith, esq. (Secretary of Legation at Athens), to be Secretary of Legation at Washington.-Augustus Paget, esq. (First Paid Attaché at Paris), to be Secretary of Legation at Athens.

13. Brevet Colonel Lord de Ros to be Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London.

20. Robert Temple Harris, esq., of Waterstown, co.. Westmeath, to take the name of Temple, and bear the arms of Temple quarterly with his own, in compliance with the will of his grandfather Robert Handcock Temple of Waterstown, esq.

23. Lord Broughton to be G.C.B. of the Civil Division; Lord Howden, Envoy Extraordinary to the Queen of Spain, to be K.C.B. of the Civil Division; Major-Gen. John Owen, C.B., Deputy Adjutant-Gen. of the Royal Marines, to be K.C.B. of the Military Division; and William Miller, esq., Commissary General to the Forces, to be C.B. of the Military Division.— Graves Macdonnell, esq., Č.B. (Governor of Her Majesty's Settlements in the Gambia), to be Lieut.-Governor of St. Vincent; Morris Power, esq., to be Lieut-Governor of St. Lucia-Cosmo Innes, esq., Advocate, to be one of the Ordinary Clerks of Session in Scotland, vice Thomas Thompson, esq., resigned.

25. Knighted by patent, Charles Nicholson, esq., M.D., Speaker of the Legislative Council of New South Wales.

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