DEATHS.-APRIL and representative of the Houstons of Cotrioch, N. B. His first commission in the army was that of Ensign in the 31st regiment in 1781. In 1782, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in an independent company; in 1783, he removed to the 77th, and in 1784, to the 19th Foot. During these periods, and until 1794, he served in the West Indies three years and a half, on the Continent fifteen months, and on home-service five years. In 1783, he was reduced on half-pay, and remained so seventeen months. In 1794, he was appointed Major of the 19th Foot, and served in command of his regiment on the Continent under the Duke of York. In 1795, he was appointed to the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the 84th, and afterwards to that of the 58th Foot. From this period till 1802, he served three years on home-service and five years in the Mediterranean. He was present at the taking of Minorca; in the reserve on landing on the 8th March, 1801; in Egypt; covering the flank of the army advancing on the 13th to Alexandria; in the advanced corps in the action of the 21st before Alexandria; in command of a brigade at the taking of Rosetta; and at the surrender of Grand Cairo and Alexandria. The 29th of April, 1802, he received the rank of Col. He served in the Mediterranean and Ireland; was appointed BrigadierGen. in 1804, and attached eight months to the Volunteer Staff; after which he served with brigades of the line and militia in England and Ireland, and on the expedition to Walcheren he commanded the reserve. The 25th Oct., 1809, he received the rank of MajorGen., and remained on home-service at Brighton, till the 25th December, 1810, when he was appointed on the Staff of the army in Portugal, and to command the 7th division, with which he was present at the battles of Fuentes d'Onore, and received a medal in consequence. The 1st of July, 1811, he received the Colonelcy of the 4th, afterwards the 2nd. garrison battalion. He was re-appointed to the command at Brighton, and from thence to that of the SouthWest District; and presented with the Lieut.-Governorship of Portsmouth. The 4th of June, 1814, he received the rank of Lieut.-Gen., and the 5th of April, 1815, the Colonelcy of the 20th Foot. He attained the rank of full Gen. in 1837. He was nominated a Knight Commander of the Bath at the enlargement of the Order in 1815, and some years afterwards advanced to the grade of a Grand Cross. In 1836 he was created a Baronet. Sir William Houston married, November 5, 1808, Lady Jane, widow of Samuel Long, esq., brother to the late Lord Farnborough, and sister to the late Earl of Lauderdale, as also to the Marchioness of Tweeddale, the late Right Hon. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thomas Maitland, G.C.B., &c. Lady Jane died June 1, 1833, having had issue by Mr. Long two sons and a daughter, and by Sir William Houston, two sons. 10. At Dover, aged 73, Rear.-Adm. F. Holmes Coffin. 13. At Edinburgh, Marcelly, wife of Andrew Bonar,esq., of Chester-ter., Regent's-park, and daughter of the late Col. Ranaldson Macdonnel of Glengarry and Clanranald. At Bermondsey, Lieutenant C. F. Thierrey, R. N. He destroyed himself whilst labouring under temporary insanity. 14. In Belgrave-place, aged 69, Mr. J. Theakston, sculptor. He was the last of the scholars of the elder Bacon, and formed his style on the models of that eminent artist. He was several years under the more eminent Flaxman, wrought in the studio of Baily, and for the last twenty-four years of his life was in the employment of Sir Francis Chantrey, and carved most of the draperies, &c., of that artist's statues and groups. He was, perhaps, the ablest drapery and ornamental carver of his time, as he was certainly the most rapid. At Corsham, aged 18, J. Francis, sixth and youngest son of the late Major-Gen. George Mackie, C.B. 15. In Somerset-street, aged 37, Capt. Henry Ash, of the 20th Regt., Bombay N.I., fifth son of the late Edward Ash, esq., M.D. At the house of her uncle, William Leveson Gower, esq., on Clapham Common, aged 20, Eliz., the younger daughter of John Ward, esq., of Durham. Her mother was Frances, daughter of Adm. the Hon. John Leveson Gower, by his lady, who was the daughter of the renowned Adm. Boscawen, and Mrs. Boscawen, the well-known friend of Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Montagu, Hannah More, &c. 16. At his seat Cople House, Bedfordshire, aged 83, the Right Hon. DEATHS-APRIL. George James Ludlow, third Earl Ludlow Viscount Oreston (1760), and Baron Ludlow of Ardsulla county Meath (1755), in the peerage of Ireland; Baron Ludlow (1831), in this peerage of the United Kingdom G.C.B., a general in the army, and Col. of the Scots Fusileer Guards. By his death the peerage has become extinct. It was first conferred upon the late Earl's father who was Comptroller of the Household of King George 3rd. He entered the army in March 1778, and served during the American war under Lord Cornwallis. He was made prisoner at the surrender of York Town, and narrowly escaped hanging, having to draw lots with Sir Charles Asgill upon whom it fell-but the latter was happily saved through the influence of his mother with the French Court. In 1793 Capt. Ludlow served with the Duke of York in Flanders, and near Roubain lost his arm. In the expedition to Egypt he commanded a Brigade of Guards, and was hotly engaged in Aboukir Bay in March 1801. He was also engaged in the subsequent battles up to the surrender of Alexandria. In the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, he commanded a division under Lord Cathcart. His Lordship was never married. 17. At Mitcham Green, aged 62, Lady Carlisle, widow of the late eminent surgeon Sir Anthony Carlisle, and daughter of John Symmons, esq. of Ewhurst Park, Hants. At Fulham, aged 90, Mary, relict of the Rev. Benjamin Barnard, Prebendary of Peterborough. 22. In Connaught-terrace, aged 70, the Right Hon. H. Boyle, third Earl of Shannon, Viscount Boyle of Bandon, co. Cork and Baron Boyle of Castle Martyr in the same co. (1756) Baron Carleton co. York (1786), K.P., LordLieut. and Custos Rotulorum of the co. of Cork, and a Privy Councillor for Ireland. He was born August 8, 1771. 23. In Affghanistan, in his 60th year, Major-Gen. George William Keith Elphinstone, C.B., Knt., St. Wilhelm of Holland, and Gertrude of Russia; Commanding in Chief in Bengal. He was the third son of the late Hon. William Fullerton Elphinstone, a Director of the East India Company (third son of Charles 10th Lord Elphinstone), by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Fullerton, of Carstairs, co. Lanark, neice and heiress to John Fullerton, of Car berry, co. Edinburgh. He was consequently nephew to Adm. Sir George Keith, first Lord Keith, and K.B.; and cousin to the present Lord Elphinstone, G.C.H. now Governor of Madras, He entered the army as Ensign 24th March, 1804; was appointed Lieutenant in the 41st Foot 11th August following; Capt. 93rd Foot, 7th August 1806; Lieut. and Capt. 1st Foot Guards, 6th August, 1807; Capt. 15th Dragoons 18th January 1810; Major 8th West-India Regt., 2nd May, 1811; Major 6th Dragoon Guards the 30th January, 1812; and Lieut.-Col. 33rd Foot 30th September, 1813. While holding that commission he was present at the battle of Waterloo; and was in consequence made a Companion of the Bath. His conduct and courage upon that occasion having been recently questioned, have been vindicated by letters of Sir Colin Halkett, Sir Peregrine Maitland, and Lieut.Col. Harty, who now commands the same regiment. He was placed on halfpay the 25th April, 1822; was made Aide-de-Camp to the King, with the rank of Col. the 27th May, 1825, and a Major-Gen. the 10th June, 1837. When it was determined to leave a British force in Affghanistan, after we had seated Shah Soojah upon the throne General Elphinstone was appointed to the Command-in-Chief. We must refer our readers to the History Chap. Affghanistan for an account of the fatal retreat from Cabul in which this illfated officer became the captive of Akhbar Khan, and fell a sacrifice to the bodily hardships and mental anxieties with which he had to contend. 25. At Paris, M. Humann, Minister of Finance. M. Humann was born in Alsace, which at the time of his birth was accounted a province of the empire. He passed his early days on the banks of the Rhine, which traverses that country, and occasionally made visits to the borders of Switzerland and Lorraine. A spirit of traffic and travel seems early to have inspired him, and, leaving the corn and tobacco-growing districts of his native place, he proceeded at once to the capital of France to exercise his talents as a merchant. soon became the master of a large mercantile dépôt, which, while it advanced his pecuniary interest, tended also to bring out, by the nature of its affairs, the quick and stirring abilities requisite for a creditable accountant and negoti. He DEATHS-APRIL. ator. By a variety of circumstances, M. Humann formed for himself a large acquaintance with the ministerial men of the day. His talents as an able financier became more and more acknowledged, in the advice and guidance which be not unfrequently rendered them; and finally he himself had the ambition to aspire to and at length to gain, a seat in the Cabinet in this capacity. The unsettled state of affairs in France towards the close of the year 1832, and the hostile discussions in the Chambers, caused at length a change of Ministry, which ended in the entry into office, on the 11th of October, of the first Thiers Ministry, and of which M. Humann was appointed Minister of Finance. In the same capacity, M. Humann continued in the Cabinet of the 25th of December, and in that of the 4th of April, during the Ministry of 1834. In Jan. 1836, M. Humann's proposal to reduce the French Five per Cents. to a Four per Cent. stock, gave great offence to the Prime Minister and to some others of his colleagues. M. Humann hereupon tendered his resignation, which was accepted, and on the 18th of Jan. Count d' Argout was named Minister of Finance in his place. But further explanations regarding this occurrence were called for in the Chamber of Deputies, and the consequence was the subversion of the whole Cabinet. M. Humann's proposal was too reasonable and useful not to be a general favourite. A hot debate of two days ensued, and on a division of the Chamber the Government was left in a minority of two, 192 members having voted for adjourning the question, and 194 against it. All the ministers immediately repaired to the Tuilleries, and placed their resignations in the hands of the King. On the formation of a new Ministry Count d'Argout still continued Finance Minister. A long blank of five years then occurs, in which M. Humann was totally out of office, till the 29th of October 1840, when he came in with the new administration. By the above enumeration, therefore, it will appear that M. Humann has been Minister of Finance in seven cabinets out of the nineteen which has been formed and dissolved since 1830. The funeral of M. Humann took place with great pomp, on the 30th of April. The splendid new church of the Madeleine, only consecrated that morning, was opened for the first time on this occasion. The whole garrison of Paris was under arms. All the ministers and chief employés of the public offices were present. 28. At Hallow-park, near Worcester, where he was staying on a visit, aged 64, Sir Charles Bell, K.H., F.R.S., &c., late Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. Sir C. Bell was the youngest son of the Rev. William Bell, a clergyman of the episcopal church of Scotland, and born at Edinburgh in 1778. He received his education at the High School, and turned his attention at an early period to anatomy, which was at that time taught with distinguished success by his brother, the late John Bell. The remarkable progress made by him in anatomical science, soon enabled him to give assistance to his brother in his lectures and demonstrations, and before he was admitted a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, in 1799, he had published the first part of his "System of Dissections." He was soon afterwards made one of the surgeons of the Royal Infirmary, and acquired great celebrity by the skill and dexterity he evinced in the performance of surgical operations. Dissentions among the professional men of Edinburgh in relation to some regulations of the Royal Infirmary in the appointment of the surgeons in which Mr. John Bell took a very active part, induced Mr. Charles Bell to quit Edinburgh for the metropolis in 1806. Here he commenced as a lecturer on anatomy and surgery. He associated himself with Mr. Wilson at the school founded by the celebrated Hunters in Great Windmill-street, and his lectures were well attended. His modes of demonstration, the facility with which he varied his descriptions, and the extent of information he had always at command in the elucidation of all points connected with physiological research, were highly estimated, and could not fail to make a lasting impression upon his auditors. Anxious for improvement in every branch of his profession, Mr. Bell was induced, after the battle of Corunna, in 1809, to quit London to attend upon the numerous wounded of our army, and he published the results of his practice in an essay on gun-shot wounds, which formed an appendix to a system of operative surgery which he had published in 1807. He also went over to Brussels after the battle of Waterloo, where he was put in charge DEATHS-APRIL. of an hospital, and for three successive days and nights he was engaged in dressing wounds and operating upon the wounded. He attended to no less than 300 men, and made various drawings, which, perhaps, afford the finest specimens of water-colouring in the English anatomical school. Prior to 1812 he had not been admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, which was a necessary step to his obtaining the appointment of surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, for which, in that year, he was the successful can didate. A few years afterwards the college appointed him one of their professors of anatomy and surgery, and the benches of the theatre were crowded to listen to his discourses. Sir Charles Bell published many works, but those on which his fame principally rests, relate to the nervous system. His repu tation in this respect is not confined to this country, but must be regarded as European. Upon the accession of William 4th to the throne, it was proposed by the Government, with the cordial sanction of the Sovereign, to confer the order of knighthood upon a limited number of men particularly distinguished in various branches of science. Mr. Bell received the Guelphic order together with Mr. König, Sir John Herschell, Sir David Brewster, Sir John Leslie, Sir J. Ivory, and a few others. At the request of his friend Lord Brougham, Sir Charles Bell furnished to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge two papers on animal mechanics, and he assisted Lord Brougham in his edition of "Paley's Evidences of Natural Religion." He was the author of third and fourth volumes of a "System of Anatomy," the former two volumes being the composition of his brother Ja. Bell. He also published a volume of "Engravings and descriptions of the Arteries," in 1801, of which the third edition appeared in 1811. Also "Engravings of the Brain," in 1802, and of the "Nerves" in 1803. In 1806, and again in 1824, “Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting,", a work of great importance to the artist. This, as well as all his other works, is illustrated from drawings made by himself, the fidelity and elegance of which have been universally admitted. In 1810 he published Letters on the Diseases of the Urethra ; and in 1811 he printed, for private distribution, a small essay entitled "Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain." In 1813 he published a folio volume of engravings from specimens of morbid parts, contained in his collection in Great Windmill-street; and in 1816 a volume of surgical observations, consisting of five quarterly reports of cases of surgery treated in the Middlesex Hospital. In 1819 he printed an "Essay on the forces which circulate the blood, being an examination of the difference of the motions of fluids in living and dead vessels ;" in 1820, a "Treatise on the Diseases of the Urethra ;" in 1821, a volume of "Illustrations of the Great Operations in Surgery;" in 1824, "Observations on Injuries of the Spine and of the Thigh Bone." In 1826, he published an edition of his brother's work"Principles of Surgery." In 1832, he put forth one of the Bridgewater Treatises, his subject being the "Hand, its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design." In 1836, Sir Charles Bell was invited to accept the chair of surgery in the University of Edinburgh, an appointment of too distinguished a character to be rejected, and he accordingly left London, receiving from many of his professional brethren a splendid testimonial of their regard for his worth and talents. It is scarcely necessary to add, that his exertions have sustained the high reputation the university has always held as a medical school, and his labours have been continued to the close of his career. The publication of his researches on the nervous system may be said to commence with his papers inserted in the "Philosophical Transactions for 1821," to the present time. They have been collected together by him, and illustrated by their application to pathology. Sir Charles also published "Institutes of Surgery," in which he arranged the subjects in the order of the lectures he delivered in the university. In private life Sir Charles was exceedingly beloved. He was distin. guished by the amenity and simplicity of his manners and deportment, and his loss will be deplored by all who are attached to science, literature, or whatever can enlighten and improve mankind. His body was interred on the 2nd of May in Hallow churchyard. The funeral was private. 29. At Pentonville, in his 65th year, Mr. Robert Mudie, author of several useful and successful works in natural history, &c. DEATHS-APRIL. Lately. At Gijon, in the Asturias, in his 58th year, M. Aguado, Marquis de las Marismas del Guadalquiver, Commander of the Order of Charles 3rd, and Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, and Intendant Gen. of the Spanish Marine. M. Aguado was born in Spain. Early in life he embraced the military career, and, having joined the French party in 1808, was a Capt. of dragoons in the service of Joseph Buonaparte. M. Aguado was a most successful speculator in the funds, and left behind him an enormous fortune. MAY. 2. At Woodhall House, aged 71, Sir James Foulis, Bart., of Colinton. He was the seventh baronet, and married, 1810, a daughter of John Grier, esq., of Edinburgh; succeeded his kinsman in 1825, being great-grandson of Sir James Foulis, of Ravelston, a title forfeited by the second baronet, who was beheaded in 1745. At Calcutta, Lieut. Lake, her Majesty's 28th regiment, son of Capt. Lake, late of the Scots Fusileer Guards, and now in charge of the barracks at Weedon. 3. At Lisbon, aged 70, Major-Gen. Sir Ralph Ouseley, K.B. de A., K.T.S., K. St. F., &c. At his residence, Oriel Lodge, Cheltenham, aged 70, Lieut.-General Sir William Nicolay, C.B. and K.C.H., Colonel of the 1st West India regi. ment. Sir W. Nicolay was descended from an ancient family of Saxe Gotha, settled in this country about a century ago. 4. At St. Petersburg, aged 62, Sir Robert Ker Porter, knt., K.C.H., K.J., and K.L.S. He was descended from an Irish family, and was brother to the clever novelists, Jane and Anna Maria Porter. Their father was an officer in the army, who left them in reduced circumstances. Sir Robert was born at Durham in the year 1780. In early life he manifested considerable ability in drawing; and, although he had a strong preference for military life, it was deemed proper to cultivate his talents as an artist. About 1790 he became a student of the Royal Academy, under the auspices of Mr. West. There the rapid success which attended his labours did great credit to his industry and talents. In 1798 he commenced a picture of Moses and Aaron, for the communion table of Shoreditch Church; in 1794 he presented an altar-piece to the Roman Catholic Chapel at Portsea, representing Christ suppressing the Storm; and in 1798 he gave to St. John's College, Cambridge, the altarpiece of St. John Preaching in the Wilderness. At only twenty-two years of age he began his large picture of the Storming of Seringapatam, which was succeeded by two other pictures of the same magnitude-one the siege of Acre, and the other the Battle of Agincourt, which latter was presented to the City of London. In 1803 he was appointed a captain in the Westminster Militia. In 1804 he was invited to Russia, and appointed historical painter to the Emperor. One of his largest works in that country was the decoration of the Admiralty Hall in St. Petersburg. During his residence at St. Petersburg he gained the affections of the Princess Mary, daughter of Prince Theodore von Scherbatoff, of Russia, and was about to marry her, when ministerial differences compelled him to leave Russia; in the year 1811, however, this marriage was solemnised, and the princess now survives him. Robert accompanied Sir John Moore into Spain, and shared in the hardships and perils of the campaign which ended in the battle of Corunna. In 1807 he was created a Knight of St. Joachim of Wurtemburg, and, on his return to England, he received the honour of knighthood from the Prince Regent, April 2, 1813. From 1817 to 1820 he was engaged in travelling throughout the East. In 1819 he was created a Knight of the Lion and Sun of Persia, and in 1832 he was created a Knight Commander of the Hanoverian Order by William IV. In 1826 he was appointed Consul at Venezuela, in South America, where he continued to reside until the spring of 1841, when he left his mission on leave of absence. Having visited his old friends in Russia, he was about to return to England to await the commands of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. His brother, Dr. Porter, of Bristol, received a letter dated St. Pe tersburg, 3rd of May, 1842, in which he signified his intention to embark, in the Jupiter steamer, for England. On the following day another letter arrived dated the 4th of May, and written Sir |