Martin resolved to put back to Plymouth, the "London" being then about 200 miles south-west of Land's End. At half-past ten that night a tremendous sea swept the ship, broke into the engine-room, and put out the fires. This was the night on which the thirty vessels were wrecked at once in Torbay. All the passengers of the "London" worked at the pumps, while the gale became a hurricane, and the ship was losing all control. At length, at ten a.m. on the 10th, Captain Martin called his passengers together, and told them that they must prepare for the worst. The ship had already sunk as low as her main chains. One boat was lowered and instantly swamped, but the five men in her were dragged on board the ship. No attempt was made to launch the other boats, but the passengers gathered into the chief cabin, and having been calmly assured by Captain Martin that there was no hope left, they quietly joined with a clergyman in prayer. There was no wild and selfish terror, no screaming, no rushing to the boats; there was the agony of sudden partings; but, with the example of Captain Martin before them, all these dying men and women were composed and resigned; while the children wondered and asked why their fathers and mothers looked so sad. Captain Martin remained at his station on the poop, once or twice only going forward, and once or twice into the saloon to join in the devotions of the passengers. At two p.m. the few men who were destined to survive to bring the sad story home, determined to trust themselves to the chances of the sea, lowered the pinnace, and launched her clear of the ship. These men called to the captain to come with them; but this brave seaman declined, saying, "No; I will go down with the passengers; but I wish you God speed, and safe to land." The boat then pulled away, and five minutes afterwards the "London," with 200 souls on board, went down, and all was over.

Mr. John Greenhill, the engineer, one of the survivors, reports:"We left Plymouth on Jan. 6. On the 7th we experienced heavy weather, with rain. 8th, the same. 9th, lost jibboom and fore-topmast, topgallantmast, and royalmast. About nine a.m. we lost the port life-boat, a heavy gale prevailing at the time. On the 10th, at three a.m., the ship put about, intending to run back to Plymouth. About the same time the starboard life-boat was washed overboard by a heavy sea, which also stove the starboard cutter. At noon, lat. 46° 8' Ñ., long. 0° 57′ W., we were shipping heavy seas, which carried away the engine-room hatch, the water going down and putting the fires out. The passengers were baling the water out of the ship with buckets. On the 11th, the gale was still increasing, with heavy cross seas, nearly all coming over the ship. During the morning all who could were trying to stop the leak in the engine-room hatch, but to no purpose. About four a.m. four of the stern ports were stove in. Efforts were made to stop them, but it was found to be impossible. lowered the starboard pinnace, which foundered.

At ten a.m. At one p.m.,

we could see the ship was gradually sinking, it being then as low in the water as the main chains. At two p.m. the following persons left in the port cutter:-D. G. Wain, John Munro, and J. E. Wilson, passengers; John Greenhill, engineer; John Jones, second engineer; John Armour, third engineer; Thomas Brown, fireman ; W. M. Edwards, midshipman; D. T. Smith, boatswain's mate; William Daniels, quartermaster; John King, Benjamin Shield, Richard Lewis, James Gough, Edward Quin, able seamen ; William Crimes, ordinary seaman; A. G. White, boatswain's boy; William Hart, carpenter's mate; and Edward Gardner, second-class steward. About five minutes after leaving the vessel we saw her go down stern foremost, with about 220 persons on board, all of whom are supposed to have perished. There were two other boats getting ready when we left, but they were too late. The persons who were saved were picked up by the 'Marianople,' and treated with the greatest kindness by her captain, Carasa."

The survivors were driven before the gale in the cutter for twenty hours before they were picked up, and had one very narrow escape of being swamped, the boat being half filled with water.

Among the passengers who perished on board the “London” were the following:

Mr. Gustavus Vaughan Brooke.-This gentleman had, when taking his passage, omitted part of his name, in order to obtain privacy and that repose during the voyage which was necessary to recruit his health and vigour before commencing a long engagement which he had undertaken with Mr. Coppin, of Melbourne. Mr. Brooke was forty-eight years of age, and was born at Dublin, the son of a gentleman of property. He was educated for the bar, but neglected this profession for that of the stage. His first appearance was as William Tell, in 1833, when he was fifteen years

of

age. He was successful, and till 1847 played in most of the great provincial cities. In 1848 he came to London, and appeared as Othello at the Olympic Theatre. Two years afterwards he was equally successful with the same character in New York. In 1853 he was back in London, whence, after an extended professional tour, he returned to America, and from there went to California and Australia. In each place he met with varying success, but won much reputation-in Australia most. Having come back to the old country, he was induced to accept once more an engagement at Melbourne, and in going out to fulfil it found a watery grave in the Bay of Biscay.

George Harry Palmer, Esq., M.A.-Editor of the "Law Review." Mr. Palmer was born in Wales, and originally studied for the Christian ministry. Incipient pulmonary affection and other circumstances induced him to abandon his original design and to study for the bar. He was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, on June 6, 1861, and joined the Western Circuit. There are many who remember him as a student with feelings of the warmest attachment. His

studies were prosecuted with zeal and success. He became the secretary of the Law Amendment Society, and ultimately the editor of the "Law Review." Suffering during the recent autumn from pulmonary weakness, his physicians advised him to take a long sea voyage. The voyage to Melbourne was selected, and it was his intention to return in about a year and resume his professional duties.

Rev. Daniel Draper.-A Wesleyan minister, well known and highly respected in Australia, where he had been resident about thirty years, and had successively filled the most important offices in his own community. He came to this country about eight months ago in the capacity of representative of the Methodist Conference of Australia, to the Wesleyan Conference of Great Britain. In his native county (Hampshire), in Ireland, and Scotland, as well as in London and in other parts of England, he endeared himself to a large circle of friends by his genial disposition and his able public services. It is hardly necessary to say that his loss was severely felt, but the sorrow occasioned by his removal was mitigated by the comforting assurance that he was enabled to afford spiritual instruction to his numerous fellowsufferers to the close of his life. His amiable and devoted wife, who was also much lamented, was the daughter of one of the first missionaries to Tahiti, who sailed by the ship "Duff," at the end of the last century. Mr. Draper left only one son, resident in Australia.

The Rev. Dr. Woolley.-The Rev. Dr. Woolley was a distinguished member of Oxford University, where many friends mourned his untimely end. He entered as a Commoner at Exeter in 1832, and was shortly elected to an open scholarship in that college. He took his B.A. degree in 1836, and was placed in the first class in literis humanioribus. A year later he became Scholar, and soon afterwards Fellow of University, then remarkable for the number of most distinguished persons who were members of its foundation. He married young, and was successively head master of Hereford, Rossall, and Ipswich Schools. In 1848 or 1849 an offer of the headship of the University of Sydney tempted him to quit England for Australia, where he had since resided continually, with the exception of two short visits to his native country. He left a widow and a large family of young children, and to the University of Sydney the difficult task of finding a successor capable of carrying on the important educational work into which he had thrown all his energies, and of which those who know Sydney can alone appreciate the benefits.

12. LOSS OF THE "AMALIA."-Another steam-ship, the "Amalia," one of the new line recently established in connexion with an overland route to India, left Liverpool for Alexandria on the same day as the "London" left Plymouth; got into the same latitude about the same time, encountered the same weather, and met with the same fate, though, happily, her crew and passengers were saved.

She was a first-class steamer, 3000 tons burden, and owned by Messrs. Pagavanni and Co., Liverpool. She left Liverpool on the 6th inst. On the 10th, the day on which the "London" experienced her worst weather, she was in a hurricane. Nearly every thing on deck was swept away, the bunker-lids were washed off, and the water got down to the fires and extinguished them; the engines soon stopped, the ship became unmanageable in the heavy seas, in which she rolled helplessly. The crew did their best at the pumps, and tried to make sail. All day on the 11th these efforts were persevered with. Meantime another vessel, the "Laconia," had come up, and remained by the "Amalia" all night. But the night made matters worse. Despite all the pumping, the water increased from 9 ft. to 12 ft. in the engine-room. At nine on the following morning it increased to 14 ft. The crew and passengers then gave up in despair, got on board the "Laconia," and in the course of the afternoon the "Amalia" went down.

FEBRUARY.

1. THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.-A meeting of the Royal Academicians was held at their house in Trafalgar-square, to decide on the election of a President, in the room of Sir Charles Eastlake, deceased. On the 24th ult. Sir Edwin Landseer was elected by a large majority of the Royal Academicians who were then present, but he declined to serve. So strong a feeling, however, was evinced that he should be the new President, that an adjournment was at once agreed upon until the 1st. At that meeting it appeared that Sir Edwin Landseer persevered in his intention not to serve, and the result was that Mr. Francis Grant, R.A., was elected President. The new President of the Royal Academy is the fourth son of Mr. F. Grant, of Kilgrasdon, Perthshire, and a brother of General Sir J. H. Grant, G.C.B. At the commencement of his artistic career he applied himself to the painting of sporting pieces, but, abandoning this part of the profession, he devoted himself to the higher branches of the art, and in 1834 exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1842 he was elected an Associate, and in 1851 was advanced to the rank of a Royal Academician.

6. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT BY THE QUEEN IN PERSON.-The first session of the seventh Parliament of the reign of Queen Victoria was opened by Her Majesty in person. The ceremony attracted a considerable amount of interest, as this was the first occasion since the death of the Prince Consort, in December, 1861, on which Her Majesty assisted at any State ceremony. interior of the House of Peers was not opened until twelve o'clock, at which hour an uninterrupted line of carriages stretched down.

The

Parliament-street, and on to Old Palace-yard to the rear of Westminster Abbey, all of them occupied almost exclusively by ladies. At twelve o'clock the living stream poured along the corridors to the different places allotted to the bearers of the different species of tickets. Within the splendid hall the most conspicuous object was the throne, over which were spread in ample folds the royal state robes. The front row of crimson benches on either side was retained for the Peers, but all the back rows were appropriated to the accommodation of ladies, with the exception of those to the rear of the episcopal bench, which were railed off for the use of the diplomatic corps. The side galleries and the great gallery at the end of the building were also set apart for ladies. The Peers, arrayed in red cloaks and ermine, attended in unusually large numbers, and the Prelates were also numerous. Amongst the foreign ministers were the French, Austrian, and Prussian Ambassadors, the Italian and other ministers. A considerable number of the learned judges also attended. The Queen did not go down to the house in her principal state carriage. Her Majesty entered by the Peers' entrance, and not by the Royal passage commencing at the Victoria Tower. She did not wear her robes of state, which were merely laid upon the throne, and the Royal Speech was not read by Her Majesty, but by the Lord Chancellor, in obedience to Her Majesty's commands.

At twenty-five minutes past one o'clock the Lord Chancellor entered the house. The Duke of Cambridge took his seat at the head of the ducal bench. Soon afterwards the Prince and Princess of Wales entered, and the whole House rose in honour of the illustrious visitors. The Prince took his seat immediately above the Duke of Cambridge, and the Princess was escorted by the state officers in attendance to the woolsack, on which she sat facing the throne, and with her back to the Lord Chancellor. She had for attendants the Hon. Mrs. Stonor and another lady, while Earl Spencer and a few other officers formed the suite of the Prince.

Prince Christian of Augustenburg formed another of the late arrivals. He was accommodated with a seat near the end of one of the ambassadors' benches.

At two o'clock the Lord Chancellor left the house, accompanied by the Usher of the Black Rod, for the purpose of being in readiness at the Peers' entrance to receive Her Majesty, and twelve minutes afterwards the royal procession made its appearance. First came a number of heralds and pursuivants, then followed the great officers of state, and, finally, Her Majesty advanced in person, accompanied by the Princesses Helena and Louisa, who, on passing the Princess of Wales, kissed Her Royal Highness. Her Majesty then seated herself on the throne, and the Prince of Wales passed to his chair of state on her right. On her left stood the Princesses Helena and Louisa, Earl Granville bearing the sword of State, the Duke of Argyll in his capacity of Lord Privy Seal, and the Earl of Bessborough, the new Lord Chamberlain. Behind her, to the right,