5. At Testwood, aged 75, Anne, widow of the Right Hon. William Sturges Bourne. She was the daughter of Oldfield Bowles, esq., of North Aston, Oxfordshire; was married in 1808, and left a widow in 1845, having had issue an only daughter.

At Turlough Park, Mayo, Lieut.Col. Thomas George Fitzgerald, formerly of Maperton House, Somerset, and Boldshay Hall, Yorkshire.

— At Rickmansworth, aged 82, Capt. Christopher Laroche, R.N.

- At Babworth, near East Retford, in his 88th year, the Hon. John Simpson, a deputy-lieutenant and magistrate of Nottinghamshire: uncle to the Earl of Bradford and grandfather of the Earl of Yarborough. This gentleman was the third son of the Right Hon. Henry Bridgeman, first Lord Bradford, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of the Rev. John Simpson, M.A., of Stoke Hall, county of Derby; and on suceceding to the estates of his uncle Lindley Simpson, esq., of Babworth, who died Feb. 8, 1785, took the name and arms of Simpson by Act of Parliament. A few years after, in 1797, on the death of Miss Addison of Bilton, the only daughter and heiress of the illustrious Addison, by Charlotte Countess of Warwick and Holland, he was also made her heir: her mother the Countess having been the only daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton, of Chirk Castle, county Denbigh, bart., by Charlotte, daughter of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Keeper of the Great Seal. In 1794. Mr. Simpson served as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, and in the same year, on the elevation of his father to the peerage, he succeeded to his seat in the House of Commons, as member for Much Wenlock, which borough he continued to represent during six parliaments, until the dissolution in 1818. Mr. Simpson was twice married: first, in 1784, to Henrietta Frances, only daughter of Sir Thomas Worsley, bart., of Appuldercome Park; and secondly, in 1798, Grace, daughter of Samuel Estwicke, esq., formerly of Barbados, and MP. for Westbury, and has left

Amelia Louisa Noel Hill, youngest sister of the late Rev. Lord Berwick, and of the late Marchioness of Aylesbury.

7. At Bologna, William Bromet, esq., M.D., F.S.A., late Surgeon of H.M. 1st Regiment of Life Guards.

At Edinburgh, Mary, widow of General Sir James Hay, K.C.H., Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, and for some time Lieut.-Gov. of Edinburgh Castle.

At Fontainebleau, on his way to Italy, Frederick Mansell Reynolds, esq., late of Wilton House, Jersey, eldest son of the late Frederick Reynolds, the celebrated dramatist. He was the author of "Miserrimus," and one or two other works of fiction, and the first editor of Heath's "Keepsake."

In Fitzroy-square, aged 78, W. Ross, esq., father of Sir William C. Ross, R.A.

8 At Ordnance Island, aged 30, Algernon S. Tripe, esq., late senior clerk in the Ordnance Department, Jamaica.

9. At Norwich, in his 60th year, John Green Crosse, esq., M.D., of St. Andrew's and Heidelberg, and F.R.S., surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

At Beccles, in his 88th year, T. Farr, esq., a Deputy-Lieut. for the county.

10. At Binfield, aged 93, Richard Lowndes, esq., for many years Clerk of Assize on the Midland Circuit.

- At his house in Grosvenor-square, Sir George Talbot, bart. The deceased married Anne, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Preston, of Swainton, and had issue two daughters; but, from the failure of male heirs, the baronetcy be comes extinct.

- At Kingencleugh, Ayrshire, aged 60, James Smith, esq., late of Deanston, a name long intimately associated with manufacturing as well as agricultural improvement. Mr. Smith was born in Glasgow, on the 3rd of January, 1789. Having lost his father but two months after his birth, his mother resided with her brother, who was the managing partner of very extensive cotton-works at Deanston. Mr. Smith also engaged in this manufacture, and having a very ingenious turn, studied mechanics with a view to improving the machinery used in cotton-spinning. During the war, when labour was very scarce, the Dalkeith Farmers' Club offered a prize of 500l. for an effective reaping machine. Mr. Smith produced one, which was not successful in obtaining the prize; but the committee were so much pleased

court.

At this time he was only 24 years of age. Previous to 1823, Mr. Smith had been successful in many of his experiments upon his uncle's farm; but it was not until the land came into his own hands, that he was able to try the plans which had suggested themselves to his mind, and the execution of which have given him so much fame, and conferred on the country such lasting benefit. This system has now received full development, and Mr. Smith is justly entitled to the gratitude of all classes as the inventor of the system of Deep Draining. The great success which had attended the operations of Mr. Smith made him a great authority upon this and all cognate subjects, and he was much consulted by Government on sanatory measures connected with the drainage and sewerage of towns, and in especial reference to the application of the refuse of great cities to the purposes of agriculture.

12. At Woodbine Villa, St. John's Wood, William de Montmorency, esq., of Upperwood, Kilkenny, eldest son of the late Sir William de Montmorency.

13. In Oxford-square, Hyde Park, aged 72, Robert Borrowes, esq., of Gilltown, co. Kildare, youngest son of the late Sir Kildare Borrowes, bart., M.P. for co. Kildare.

At Calais, aged 76, Dr. Kirby, M.D. He was at the battles of Salamanca and Waterloo.

In Mansfield-street, aged 87, the Right Hon. Alice Mary Countess dowager of Limerick, only daughter and heir of Henry Ormsby, esq., of Cloghan, co. Mayo.

At Maidenhead, Louisa, second daughter of the late Isaac Pocock, esq., of Ray Lodge.

14. At Mount Radford, near Exeter, Colonel Craigie, a retired Lieut.-Col. in the Bengal Army.

14. At Wytham Lodge, near Oxford, in consequence from a fall from her horse, Alicia Ellen, only daughter of the late Capt. John Peter Wilson.

At Partney, near Spilsby, aged 85, Mary, widow of Lieut.-Col. George Maddison.

15. At Kelston, the residence of his father the Dean of York, aged 42, Robert D. Cockburn, esq.

17. Among those who perished in the wreck of the Orion, off Portpatrick, (See CHRONICLE, p. 79), John Burns, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the University of Glasgow. Dr. Burns was a son of the Rev. John Burns, for more than 60 years minister of the barony parish of Glasgow, and, having received an adequate education at the University of Glasgow, became not only a practitioner but a teacher of his art, publishing some excellent works which soon brought him reputation and practice, to which professional lectures which he delivered greatly contributed. In 1815 the Crown instituted a Professorship of Surgery in Glasgow University, to which Mr. Burns was appointed, and in which office he was highly popular. He was nearly 80 years of age.

18. In the wreck of the Orion, at Portpatrick, Alexander M'Neill, esq., of Ardlussa, Jura, and his wife Anne Elizabeth, fourth daughter of the late John Carstairs, esq., of Stratford Green, Essex, with Cecil Anne and Hester Mary, their eldest and youngest daughters; also Thomas B. Bennett, esq., of Chester; John Pearce, esq., of Mevagissey, Cornwall; John Roby, esq., M.R.S.L., of Malvern, a banker in Rochdale in Lancashire, author of "Traditions of Lancashire" and other works.

Aged 76, Mrs. Theodosia Brooke, of Gateforth House, near Selby, and of Church Cliff House, Filey.

At Windsor, aged 71, John Clode, esq., Justice of the Peace for the borough.

19. At Dalby Hall, aged 40, Honoria, wife of E. B. Hartopp, esq.

In Upper Gloucester-place, Crisp Molineux Montgomerie, esq., of Garboldisham, Norfolk, and Dover, Kent. At Labuan, off Borneo, aged 35, John Wilson, esq., M.D., 51st M.N.I. and acting colonial surgeon. He was attached to the suite of Sir Jas. Brooke, with whom he co-operated in the dis

Eider imcher of the

hate Karu Hu Sr Juan Bernart Bosanquet a Justice of the Common Piese Mr. Bowanicuet werred the dire of High Sterf of Northumberland in 1828.

At his seat, Lee, near Chelmleigh, Devonshire, aged 62. Richard Preston, esq., QC, and a Bencher of the Inner Temple, and author of a very excellent work on conveyancing, and other professional works of value.

Near Ramah patam, on his way home from Secunderabad, aged 22, Henry St. Alban's Burdett, esq., late 2nd Madras European Infantry, fifth son of the late W. Jones Burdett, esq., of Twickenham.

At Kenilworth House, Cheltenham, in his 78th year, Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, the third bart. (1778), of Coghill, Yorkshire, and Belvedere House, co. Dublin, a Vice-Admiral of the Red, and a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Dublin. He was the younger son of Sir John Coghill, the first baronet, and succeeded his brother, as third baronet, May 21, 1817, and Axumed, in the following June, the Aurname of Coghill, in place of his patronymic Cramer. He entered the Navy in April, 1782, and served in the East Indios; on the expedition to Egypt; in putting out, in command of the Haerlem's boats, the Prima galley from the mole of Genoa, and in the East Indies; where, with two boats under his immediate orders, he destroyed, after a sanguinary contest, a pirate vessel on the vant of Malacca. In 1808 he joined the armament off Walcheren, where his avityfox was marked by the approbation of the commander in chief; and was on the Leeward Island station from 1813 WIN13

A Edinburgh, Isabella Fraser Makita dust daughter of Lieut. tul Newmoth P. Mackenzie, H.E.I.C.S.

Ar Patran, China, Temple Hillvaud Lavron, en, Her Majesty's Consul Aw Am

*1 Ar Cheltenham, aged 69, Mary,

24. At Cheltenham, Charles Make peace, esq. late Major in the 4th

25 in Upper Grosvenor-street, aged

the Rt Hon George John-Frederick Lord Viscount Cantilupe, son and bein-apparent of Earl Delawarr.

Caroline, lady of Sir Sandford

Graham, bart.

26. At Corehouse. George Cranstoun, esq., formerly Permanent Ordinary of the Court of Session of Scotland, by the title of Lord Corehouse. He was the second son of the Hon. George Cranstoun (seventh and youngest son of William fifth Lord Cranstoun), by Maria, daughter of Thomas Brisbane, esq., of Bris bane, co. Ayr. He was admitted a member of the faculty of advocates in 1793; appointed sheriff-depute of the county of Sutherland in 1806.

At Lowestoft, aged 73, Katharine Gurney, eldest daughter of the late John Gurney, of Earlham Hall, county of Norfolk.

- At Caton, near Ivy-bridge, aged 61, Commander Silas Thompson Hood. This gallant officer was one of Capt. Sir Wil liam Hoste's distinguished lieutenants in the Bacchante, during that ship's service in the Adriatic up to 1814, and on the coast of America. His services during fifteen years afloat were all of a desperate character. In the space of two years he assisted in making at least 1000 prisoners, and in capturing 27 national gun-vessels, 87 sail of merchantmen, and one privateer.

27. In Sloane-street, the Hon. Esther Charlotte Baird, widow of Major-Gen. Joseph Baird, and sister of the Right Hon. Dr. Ludlow Tonson, Lord Bishop of Killaloe.

At Edinburgh, Grace-TheresaEmmeline, eldest daughter of Sir Wm. F. Elliot, bart., of Stobs and Wells.

At Sidmouth, aged 75, Mrs. White, widow of Rear-Admiral George White. At Truro, aged 79, Mary Anne, daughter of the late James Kempe, esq. and sister of the late Lady Devonshire.