To be Captain, Frederick Wood (1838).

To be Commander, Lieut. J. T. Paulson (1822).

To be Lieutenants, James S. Davison and Edw. A. Inglefield.

To be Commanders,-Lieuts. Joseph C. Gill, Lord William Compton, Hugh Dunlop, H. Budd, P. H. Somerville (1840), late of the Persian; G. T. M. Purvis (1823), of the Cambrian: H. F. Seagram, late of the Termagant; Chas. E. Tennant (1832), Flag Lieut. to Sir W. Parker.

CIVIL PREFerments.

Irish Law Appointments.-Right Hon. Francis Blackburne to be Master of the Rolls; J. D. Jackson, esq., a Justice of the Common Pleas; Thos. B. Cusack Smith, esq., to be Solicitor-General, vice Jackson, since Attorney-General, vice Blackburne; Mr. Serjeant Greene to be Solicitor-General; Edw. Litton, esq., M.P.. to be a Master in Chancery.

Mr. Alderman Humphery to be Lord Mayor of London.

Mr. Alderman Hooper and Jeremiah Pilcher, esqrs., to be Sheriffs of London and Middlesex.

Rev. W. Pedder, to be Vice-principal of the Wells Diocesan Theological Col lege.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. H. Newland, D.D., to be Dean of Ferns.

Rev. O. Dayys, to be Archdeacon of Peterborough.

Hon. and Rev. C. Lawson, to be Archdeacon of Barbadoes.

Rev. Alexander Ross, to be Archdea

con of Ross.

Rev. D. Aitchison, to be Archdeacon of the Isles, Scotland.

Very Rev. G. Gordon, D.D., Canon Residentiary of Lincoln.

Rev. C. Davys, Prebendary of Peterborough.

To be Honorary Prebendaries of Exeter, The Rev. G. Hole, Rector of Chumleigh; the Rev. G. Cornish, Vicar of Penwyn; the Rev. P. Johnson, Rector of Wemworthy; the Rev. C. Ayre, Vicar of Tywardreath; the Rev. J. Medley, Vicar of St. Thomas's, Exeter; and the Rev. R. Laney, of St. Andrew's, Plymouth.

Rev. II. Whitby, to be a Prebendary of Killaloe.

NOVEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. 92nd Foot, Brevet-Major G. E, Thorold to be Major.

Brevet. To be Lieut.-Colonels, Major James Macdougall, 43rd Foot; Major P. Hill, 53rd Foot; Major D. Hay, 6th Drag. Guards; Major W. L. Dames, 66th Foot.

To be Majors, Capt. H. R.Wright, Royal Art.; Capt. T. Canch, Fort Major at Edinburgh; Capt. F. Wollaston, 14th Drag.; Capt. John Douglas, 79th Foot.

7. Col. Berkeley Drummond, Scots' Fusileer Guards, to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in ordinary to Her Majesty, vice Gen. the Hon. Sir William Lumley, G.C.B., who is appointed an extra Groom in Waiting.

8. 26th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Robert Ellice to be Colonel.

27th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Maclean, K.C.C., to be Col.

60th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. G. Davy to be Col.-commandant of a battalion.

9. The Earl of Wicklow elected K.P. 18. Alexander Wood, esq., Dean of Faculty, to be one of the Lords of Session in Scotland.

22. Louis Hypolite Lafontaine, esq., to be Attorney-General, and Thomas Cushing Aylwyn, esq., to be SolicitorGeneral of Lower Canada.

Robert Baldwin, esq., to be Attorney-General and James Edw. Small, esq., to be Solicitor-General of Upper Canada.

Unatt., Major Lord A. Lennox, from the 71st, to be Lieut.-Col.

3rd Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia, First Major J. W. Patten to be Col.; Second Major Sir J. Gerard, bart, to be Lieut.-Col.

24. Col. John Le Couteur, to be Viscount of the Isle of Jersey.

28. Knighted by patent, Jasper Atkinson, of Portman-square, Middlesex,

inquiring into the employment of women and children in agriculture.

30. The Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., H. T. Hope, esq., H. Gally Knight, esq., Alexander Milne, esq., the Hon. Charles Gore, Sir Robert Smirke, knt., and Charles Barry, esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into and considering the most effectual means of improving the Metropolis, and of providing increased facilities of communication within the same: Trenham Walshman Phillipps, esq., to be Secretary to the commission.

The Hon. Robert Fulke Greville, late Lieut.-Col. Brit. Aux. Legion in Spain, to accept the cross of the first class of San Fernando, conferred for services before St. Sebastian in Jan. 1835.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Augustin Norbert Morin, esq., to

Rev. George Butler, D.D., to be Dean of Peterborough.

Rev. A. Newland, D.D., to be Dean of Ferns.

Ven. Wm. Hale Hale (Archdeacon of Middlesex) to be Archdeacon of London.

Rev. J. W. Stokes to be Archdeacon of Armagh.

Rev. J. Henderson to an Unendowed Canonry of St. Paul's, London,

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Joseph Stock, esq., to be Her Majesty's first Serjeant-at-law in Ireland; Richard Benson Warren, esq., second Serjeant; and Richard Keatinge, esq., Q.C., third Serjeant.

Mr. Alfred Dowling appointed Serjeant-at-Law.

Sir John Pirie to be President of St. Thomas's Hospital, vice Sir John Cowan, deceased.

John Musgrove, esq., elected Alderman of Bread-street Ward.

Rev. J. D. Glennie, to be Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Rev. W. J. Conybeare, to be Principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution.

Canada.

6. Belford Hinton Wilson, esq. (Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-Gen. to Peru) to be Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-Gen. to Venezuela; William Pitt Adams, esq. (Sec. of Legation to the Mexican Republic) to be Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-Gen. to Peru; Percy William Doyle, esq. (First Attaché of Embassy to the Ottoman Porte) to be Secretary of Legation to the Mexican Republic; and Anthony Barclay, esq., to be Consul in the State of New York.

Alfred Austin, esq., barrister-atlaw, to be an Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner, for thirty days, for inquiring into the employment of women and children in agriculture.

13. 81st Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir M. C. O'Connell, to be Col.

Brevet Lieut.-Col. Sir H. Floyd, Bart., Unatt. to be Col.; Capt. G. F. Paschal, 70th Foot, to be Major.

15. Henry Halford Vaughan, esq., barrister-at-law, to act as an Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner, for thirty days, for inquiring specially in the employ ment of women and children in agricul ture.

23. Royal Horse Guards, Gen. Henry William Marquess of Anglesey, K.G, G.C.B., to be Col.

7th Light Dragoons, Lieut-Gen. Sir J. Kearney to be Col.

Brevet, to be Lieut.-Cols. in the Army, Majors G. Browne, 41st Foot; G.Hibbert, 40th Foot; T. Skinner, 31st Foot; J. Simmons, 41st Foot; G. H. Lockwood, 3rd Light Dragoons.

To be Majors, Capts. A. Ogle, 9th Foot; G. Baldwin, 31st Foot; M. Smith, 9th Foot; F. Lushington, 9th Foot; F. White, 40th Foot:

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To be Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Col. in the Army, Lieut.-Col. S. Bolton, 31st Foot.

Brevet for services in China: to be Licut.-Cols. in the Army, Majors C. Warren, 55th Foot; G. A. Malcolm, 3rd Light Dragoons; D. L. Fawcett, 55th Foot; J. B. Gough, 3rd Light Dragoons; N. Maclean, 55th Foot.

To be Majors, Capt. J. Paterson, 26th Foot; W. Greenwood, Royal Art.; W. R. Faber, 49th Foot; A. O'Leary, 55th Foot; H. C. B. Daubeney, 55th Foot; D. M'Andrew, 49th Foot; F. Wigston, 18th Foot; F. Whittingham, 16th Foot.

To take rank, by Brevet, in Her Majesty's Army in the East Indies: to be Lieut.-Colonels, Majors F. Blundell, Madras Art.; C. W. Young, 14th Ma dras Native Infantry; J. Campbell, 41st Madras Native Infantry.

To be Majors, Capts. W. H. Simpson, 36th Madras Native Infantry; F. A. Reid, 6th Madras Native Infantry; R. Shirreff, 2nd Madras Native Infantry; T. T. Pears, Madras Engineers; R. C. Moore, Madras Artillery.

Naval Promotions in consequence of the recent war in China: Commanders to be Captains, H. Boyes, esq.; C. Frederick, esq.; C. Richards, esq.; H. Kellett, esq.; R. B. Watson, esq.; W. H. A. Morshead, esq.; R. Collinson, esq.; E. N. Troubridge, esq.

Lieutenants to be Commanders, J. Tudor, esq., E.I.C.; R. B. Crawford, esq.; J. J. M'Cleverty, esq., E.J.C.; C. Wise, esq.; G. Skipwith, esq.; J. G. Harrison, esq.; C. Starmer, esq.; J. Fitzjames, esq.; H. C. Hawkins, esq.; J. Stoddart, esq.; P. A. Helpman, esq. Lord Dunsany to be Lord Lieut. of Meath.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

To be Capt., Comm. John Hallowes, of the St. Vincent.

To be Comms., Lieuts. J. A. Gordon of the Warspite; T. C. Forbes, G. Smith, and Edward Pierce.

MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Bute County.-Hon. James Stuart Wortley.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Holt Waring, to be Dean of Dromore.

Rev. E. J. Burrow, D.D., to be Archdeacon of Gibraltar.

Rev. John Lonsdale, to be Archdeacon of Middlesex.

Rev. Marsham Argles, to be Chancellor of the diocese of Peterborough.

Rev. H. Brown, to be Prebendary of Chichester.

Hon. and Rev. T. U. Cavendish, to be a Hon. Prebendary of Lincoln. Rev. John Carr, Prebendary of Lincoln.

Rev. H. B. W. Churton, Prebendary of Chichester.

Rev. W. E. Coldwell, Prebendary of Lichfield.

Rev. H. Deane, Prebendary of Salis

bury.

Rev. T. Hill, Prebendary of Lichfield. Rev. J.T. Vogan, Prebendary of Chichester.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Sir J. L. Knight Bruce (Vice-Chancellor), to be Chief Justice in Bankruptcy.

Loftus Wigram, esq., M.A., to be Standing Counsel to the East India Company.

The Right Hon. Fox Maule, elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.

Rev. W. Jacobson, elected Public Orator of Oxford.

Rev.G. H.S. Johnson, elected White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford.

Alexander Maconochie, esq., to be Professor of Civil Law at Glasgow.

Mr. John Macneill, to be (the first) Professor of Civil Engineering in Trinity College, Dublin.

DEATHS.

1841.

OCTOBER.

2. In the Champs Elysées, Paris, of consumption, Louisa Henrietta, wife of Lieut.-Col. Sir Henry Wyatt, better known as Miss Louisa Sheridan. She was the only daughter of Capt. Wm. B. Sheridan, who died in August, 1836.

DECEMBER.

18. At Brock Hall, near Northampton, aged 78, William Thornton, esq., a Lieut.-General in the Army, and formerly an active magistrate for the county of Middlesex and city of Westminster.

25. In Curzon-street, aged 71, John Hungerford Penruddocke, esq., of Compton Chamberlain, Wilts, late M.P. for Wilton. He was fifth in descent from Col. Penruddocke, who was beheaded at Exeter in 1655, for proclaiming King Charles the Second at Salisbury; and was the eldest son of Charles Penruddocke, of Compton Chamberlain, esq., M.P. for Wiltshire.

27. At Teignmouth, General William Thomas Dilkes, late of the Scotch Fusilier Guards, and Lieut.-Governor of Quebec.

30. Of apoplexy, Mr. Edward Howard, author of several successful works of fiction. Mr. Howard was a naval man, and attained his chief popularity by his naval novel, entitled "Rattlin the Reefer," published in 1838.

Lately. At Teheran in Persia, in his 30th year, Charles Scott, esq., second son of the late Sir Walter Scott, of Abbotsford, Bart. He was interred in a sepulchre which Sir John M'Neill, our Ambassador in Persia, purchased some years ago when he lost a child. Mr. Charles Scott was of a reserved and diffident temper and disposition, but possessed of considerable intelligence, and a fund of quiet humour, which he delighted to exercise among his private friends. He was carefully educated at Oxford; but from his unobtrusive manners and retired habits, was little known. VOL. LXXXIV.

1842.

JANUARY.

1. At Vienna, Sir Samuel Hannay, Bart., of Nova Scotia (1629). He was the son of William Hannay, esq., by the daughter of the Rev. Patrick Johnston; and was served heir to the Baronetcy, Sept. 26, 1783, upon the failure of the lineal descendants of Sir Patrick Hannay, who was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1629, with remainder to his heirs male.

He

At Walford Vicarage, near Ross, Herefordshire, in his 72d year, the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, M.A., F.S.A., Honorary Associate of the Royal Society of Literature. This distinguished antiquary and archæologist was descended from a respectable family first settled at Fosbroke, in Staffordshire. He was born May 27, 1770, and was named Dudley, after a cousin, a squire of Lebotwood Hall, Shropshire. lost his father in 1775, and his mother married a second husband, James Holmes, esq., Ensign in the Coldstream Guards. His mother lived to an extreme old age, and died at Walford in 1831. Her greatgrandmother, Mrs. Dodgson, was cousin to Thomas Guy, esq., the founder of the Hospital in Southwark. Mr. Fosbroke was sent when he was nine years old to St. Paul's School, London, under the care of Dr. Roberts, from whence he was elected, in 1785, to a Teasdale Scholarship at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he proceeded B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792. It had been proposed that he should be a Special Pleader; but it was his father's dying wish that he should be placed in the Church. In 1792 he was ordained Deacon, upon the title of his scholarship; and settled in the curacy of Horsley, co. Gloucester, for which he was ordained priest in 1794, and he held that curacy till 1810. He then removed to a curacy at Walford, on the banks of the Wye, where he remained a curate until 1830, when he was presented to the Vicarage. In 1796. he married Miss Howell, of Horsley, by whom he had four sons and six daughters.

He was the author of a great variety of antiquarian and topographical works; amongst which the best known are his "British Monachism," "His

R

tory of the City of Gloucester," "The Wye Town,' "The Encyclopædia of Antiquities and Elements of Archæology," and " The Tourists Grammar." We regret to say, that he left his family very insufficiently provided for.

At Hakes's hotel, Mary-Elizabeth, wife of Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., of Norwood Park, Nottinghamshire. She was daughter of the late Benjamin Burton, esq., of Burton Hall, Carlow, and married in 1819.

At the residence of her brotherin-law, the Rev. Dr. Bailey, Coleshill. street, aged 54, Miss Elizabeth Walker, daughter of the late Edward Walker, esq. of Over Hall, Halstead, Essex, and granddaughter of Jones, of Nayland, the celebrated author and divine. Her profound researches in Oriental criticism and biblical learning are well known, from her extensive labours for the Jews, in superintending the publication of the modern Hebrew version of the New Testament; also from her learned Dissertations in the Jewish Expositor.

At Bristol, in his 78th year, the Rev. W. Wait, formerly Minister of St. Mary-le-Port Church, in Bristol, originator, and for many years editor of the first Church of England religious periodical, denominated "Zion's Trumpet," which subsequently, under the same editor, assumed the title of "The Christian Guardian."

His

2. At Walworth, aged 49, Mr. George Hollis. He was a native of Oxford, and a pupil of the late Mr. George Cooke, the celebrated line engraver, of whose instructions he so effectually availed himself, as to become one of the most efficient engravers in his time. labours in this department of art have been unremitted for the last twentyseven years; during which period he has contributed largely to the illustration of the following topographical works, viz. Sir R. C. Hoare's "History of Wiltshire," Warner's "Glastonbury Abbey," Owen and Blakeway's "Shrewsbury," Ormerod's "Cheshire," and Hunter's "Hallamshire."

3. At his chambers in the Temple, Robert Matthew Casberd, esq., D.C.L., Queen's Counsel, one of the Benchers of the Middle Temple, and formerly one of His Majesties Justices of the Grand Sessions for the counties in Wales. Mr. Casberd was a native of Bristol, the son of Dr. Casberd, of that city, and he was there educated. He was elected from

Bristol School at the age of 16, to a Scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, where he was matriculated July 1, 1788, and succeeded to a Fellowship in that society in 1791. He took the degree of B.C.L. Jan. 26th, 1796; that of D.C.L. Oct. 23, 1800. Having early decided upon following the law as a profession, he entered at the Middle Temple; was called to the Bar on the 8th Nov. 1799; and was for many years one of the principal counsel on the Western Circuit. He received a patent of precedency in Hilary Term, 1819, and was appointed a King's counsel in Easter Term, 1820. From 1812 to 1820 he sat in the House of Commons for Milbourne Port, but resigned his seat after his appointment to a Welsh Judgeship. His Fellowship he resigned in 1831. After quitting his post as Judge_in Wales, he was for some time an Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioner. Dr. Casberd was greatly respected by all who knew him.

At the Mauritius, in his 64th year, his Excellency Lieut.-General Sir Lionel Smith, Knt. and Bart., G.C.B. and G.C.II., Governor of that colony, and Colonel of the 40th Foot. He was the younger son of Benjamin Smith, esq., a West india merchant in London, and of Lys, co. Southampton, High Sheriff of that county in 1780, by Charlotte, daughter of Nicholas Turner, esq. of Bignor, Sussex, and Stoke, near Guildford. Sir Lionel entered the army at the early age of eighteen, having been appointed, without purchase, in March, 1795, to an Ensigncy in the 24th Regiment of Foot, then in Canada; where, in October, 1795, he obtained his Lieutenancy. While in America, he attracted the particular notice of the Duke of Kent, the father of Her present Majesty-to whose patronage he was principally indebted, in after life, for his promotion and advancement. In the West Indies, he saw much service, and got his Lieut.-Colonelcy in 1805. In 1807, he took the command of the 65th Regiment at Bombay, and remained in India twenty years. He obtained his full colonelcy in 1813, and after much active service, was, in 1832, appointed Col. of the 96th Foot. After a short stay in England, he went out to Barbadoes as Governor of the Windward and Leeward Islands; and while there in 1838, was made a Baronet. He succeeded Lord Normanby as Governor