JOHN HOWARD PAYNE, ESQ. At Tunis, the seat of his consulate in Africa, John Howard Payne, the American actor and dramatic author.

He was born in the city of New York, June 9, 1792. His father removing to Boston, some address which the son delivered on a public occasion from the stage is said to have fixed in the boy a love for the drama. It must have been a very early appearance, for in his thirteenth year he was at New York again, a clerk in a counting-house, and editor of a weekly paper, the "Thespian Mirror."

In emulation of Master Betty, he made his debut as a 66 youthful Roscius" in his sixteenth year, in 1809, at the Park Theatre, New York, as Young Norval. His small size and handsome face suggested a still more youthful personage. His talent for recitation in private circles had been previously recognised in Philadelphia. He next appeared in Boston, and in the spring of the same year played a second engagement in New York, acting Hastings, Octavian, Frederick Fribourg, Rolla, Edgar, and Hamlet. In 1812 or 1813 he came to England, and appeared successfully at Drury Lane in his twenty-first year. The painter West interested himself in his success, and pronounced his action on the stage graceful, and his voice fine. He also played in the provinces and in Ireland with success.

His London career produced a host of dramas, chiefly, if not altogether, adaptations or translations from the French, "The Lancers,' "Oswali of Athens," "Peter Smink, or Which is the Miller?" "Therese," ""T was I," "Adeline," "Ali Pacha," "Clari," " King Charles II." &c. Charles Kemble frequently acted in the last. The universal air of "Home, Sweet Home," which gives Payne a hold upon the affections of the world, occurs in "Clari, or the Maid of Milan."

Brutus, a popular stage-play in America, is an adaptation by Payne from the works of previous writers, among others Nat Lee. He announced his method to be "the adoption of the conceptions and language of his predecessors, wherever they seemed likely to strengthen the plan which he had prescribed for himself." The Quarterly Review of 1820 had some severe comments on this production.

When Mr. Payne returned to America some fifteen or twenty years since, he issued a prospectus of a magnificent magazine, to include the literature of the Old and New worlds-under the fanciful melodramatic title of "Jam-jeham-nema," some pretty conceit of an oriental gem. He expended considerable energy on this affair, but it never came to publication.

He was a contributor to the early volumes of the Democratic Review of some gossiping sketches of East Hampton, L. I. His various literary plans and devices would doubtless afford much anecdote for his biography.

He afterwards received the post of United States Consul to Tunis, a position from which he was recalled, but subsequently restored some two years sinceand which he held at the time of his death.

Payne, it is well known, preserved a great mass of books and papers, which from his varied foreign and American career must afford much matter of interest. He talked, at one time, of publishing his Autobiography or Recollections. He was a correspondent of Charles Lamb and Coleridge, whose letters he had preserved and bound. He was much endeared to his circle of personal friends. His frame was delicate, and bore the marks of illhealth, when he left New York on his return to Africa.-New York Literary World.

CLERGY DECEASED.

April 15. At Hayes Common, near Bromley, Kent, aged 62, the Rev. Clement Strong, Rector of Gedney, Lincolnshire (1824), a sinecure benefice. He was the second son of Clement Samuel Strong, esq. by Anne, dau. of Robert Streatfeild, esq. He was of Trinity hall, Cambridge, LL.B. 1819. He married Catherine Bridget, second daughter of Vincent Hilton Biscoe, esq. of Hookwood, Surrey; and has left issue.

April 16. At Rangoon, aged 36, the Rev. Thomas Turner Baker, B.A. Chaplain of H.M.S. Fox. He died of cholera, taken during his unremitting attentions to the sick and wounded in the operations at Martaban and Rangoon. He was formerly of Trinity college, Cambridge, B.A. 1838. In 1840, when Curate of Trinity church, Maidstone, he married Ellen-Wood, dau. of the Rev. George Davey, B.A. Minister of St. Peter's church in that

town.

May 4. At Bradford, Yorkshire, aged 57, the Rev. William Sherwood, M.A. Perp. Curate of St. James's in that town (1842). He was formerly a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy; and graduated at Cambridge as a member of St. Catharine's hall, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1843.

May 8. At the rectory, Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts, the Rev. Henry Benson Fendall, Curate of that parish; B.A. of Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge. May 9. Aged 69, the Rev. William Thomas, Vicar of Loppington, Shropshire.

At Huntsham Court, Devonshire, aged 88, the Rev. Edward Berkeley Troyte, D.C.L. Rector of Huntshain, and of Packington, Somerset, to both which livings he was instituted in 1787. He was of Oriel college, Oxford, B. and D.C.L. 1796. He was the last of his family, and it is stated that his estates, worth 7,000l. a-year, are bequeathed to Arthur H. D. Acland, esq. second son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland,-who is to take the name of Troyte. Dr. Troyte has left a legacy of 2000l. to the Devon and Exeter Hospital.

May 10. At Hastings, the Rev. Robert Heath, M.A. Rector of Saddington, Leicestershire, to which he was presented by the Lord Chancellor in 1829, and Chaplain to the London Orphan Asylum, Clapton.

May 11. Accidentally drowned at Helstone, Cornwall, aged 36, the Rev. James Henry Scuda

more Burr, Priest-Vicar of Exeter cathedral. He was the younger son of Lieut.-Gen. Daniel Burr, of the East India Company's service, by his second wife Mary, dau. and heiress of James Davis, esq. of Chepstow, and coheiress of Frances Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, being a descendant of John Higford, esq. who married a sister of John Lord Scudamore of Home Lacy. Hence his name of Scudamore. He was of Christ church, Oxford, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1838. He has left a widow.

Aged 63, the Rev. Francis Faris, Rector of Donard, co. Wicklow.

May 12. Aged 30, the Rev. John Barnard Dodd, B.A. late of Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge.

At Burntwood, near Lichfield, the Rev. R. Errington, Perpetual Curate of Burntwood and Hammerwich. He fell from a pear-tree growing against the wall of his house, whilst removing some sparrows' nests, having incautiously left the ladder, and stepped upon a bough which gave way. His neck was broken, and his death resulted immediately. He has left a widow and three children.

At Hutton hall, Preston, Lanc. aged 72, the Rev. Robert Atherton Rawstorne, Perp. Curate of Penwortham and Longton, and Rector of South Thoresby, Linc. He was of Brazenose college, Oxford, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803, and was for twentyfour years Rector of Warrington, to which he was instituted in 1807, to South Thoresby in the same year, and to Penwortham in 1831. He was the third and youngest son of Lawrence Rawstorne, esq. of Newhall and Hutton, High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1776, by Elizabeth-Goldsmith-Atherton, dau. of Robert Gwillym, esq. of Bewsey and Atherton, by Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John Atherton, esq. of Atherton. He married his cousin Mary, eldest daughter of Richard Gwillym, esq. of Bewsey, and had issue one son and three daughters. She died at Ventnor, I.W. Dec. 20, 1841.

May 13. Aged 33, the Rev. John Ball Chalker, late Curate of Ivybridge, Devon. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847.

At East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, aged 63, the Rev. Henry Dawson, B.D. Perp. Curate of Eastville and Midville, in the same county, and Curate of East Kirkby.

At Newdigate, Surrey, aged 71, the Rev. John Young, LL.D. Rector of that parish.

May 15. Aged 43, the Rev. Wm. J. Fancourt, Perp. Curate of St. Mary's, Barnard's Green, Worc. He has left a widow and seven children.

May 16. Aged 60, the Rev. Thomas Payne, Perp. Curate of Trinity church, Weymouth (18..). He was appointed Chaplain of the Weymouth Union Workhouse in 1839.

May 21. The Rev. William Robert Meade, Rector of Kinsale.

DEATHS,

ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Sept. 19. Whilst bathing at Bhooj, India, aged 21, Edward Tracy, Bombay Art. eldest son of the late Martin Tracy, esq. of Stoke Newington, greatgrandson of the Hon. Robert Tracy.

Dec. 13. Aged 69, Mary, wife of William Hibbert, esq. of Chorlton-upon-Medlock, co. Lane. She was the only surviving daughter of the late Henry Forshaw, of Liverpool, by Helen, dau. of the late Rev. Joseph Valentine, of Warton, in the same county.

Jan. 29. On his passage from Canton, aged 22, Richard-Julian, third son of Mr. D. Jackson, of Salisbury, solicitor.

Jan. 31. At Hobart Town, Gamaliel Butler, esq. solicitor, formerly of London.

Feb. 23. At Croydon, in his 72d year, Mr. John Blake, auctioneer, one of the most useful men in that town. The Board of Guardians of the Croydon Union have recorded on their minutes the sense they entertain of their loss in him as one of GENT. MAG VOL. XXXVIII.

their earliest and most influential members, a social honest man, a discriminating administrator of the union, the guardian and the friend of the poor." Mr. Blake has bequeathed 1000l. to the Little Almshouses, to which he had formerly presented a piece of land which he bought of the Brighton Railway Company for 1501. He also materially assisted in the erection of the new church of St. Peter's, and in the purchase of the additional parochial burial-ground. He is succeeded in his business by his nephew Mr. William John Blake.

At Bombay, Brigadier-General James Manson, C.B. He had been nearly forty-two years in India, and at the time of his death was in command of the Scinde division of the army, having previously held a similar command at Poona. He was present at the storm and capture of the Fort of Chya, April 13th, 1811; was severely wounded through the knee, when serving with Colonel Elrington's detachment against Pahlunpore and Deesa, Oct. 1807; served through the Mahratta war of 1817-18, and with the Guzerat division of the army of the Deccan, at the siege of Asseerghur, March and April, 1819; the attack on Nugger Parkur, 25th Feb. 1820; the escalade of Dwarka, 26th Nov. 1820; and the attack on Meeteallah, 1st Feb. 1821. He became Commandant of Artillery, 16th Feb. 1846.

Lately. In her 72nd year, at the residence of her brother, the Rev. Nathaniel French Bruce, D.D. Frances La Roque Bruce, eldest dau. of the late Barwick Bruce, M.D. of the island of Barbados, and of Gartlet, co. Clackmannan, N.B.

Mr. Henry Fley, late a partner in the firm of Bentleys, Wilson, and Fley, printers, Bangorhouse, Shoe-lane. He was chairman of the committee of the Printers' Pension Sooiety, to the funds of which he bequeathed 2507.

At Petersham, in her 83rd year, Mrs. Alice Martin, the last surviving daughter of Josiah Martin, esq. Governor of North Carolina at the Declaration of American Independence, and niece of Sir Henry Martin, the first baronet of that name, of Lockinge, Berks.

March 1. At Florence, aged 52, Edw. Lombe, esq. of Melton Hall, near Wymondham, Norfolk.

March 3. At Grantown, in his 50th year, Mr. Donald Gordon, post-runner between Grantown and Forres. He was a superior Gaelic scholar; and a contributor in prose and verse to the Gaelic Messenger and other publications. Some years ago he prepared for the press the songs and other productions of John Roy Stewart, with traditionary sketches of the most eminent men connected with Strathspey, but the MS. was unfortunately lost by a late firm of publishers in Glasgow.

March 5. At Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, Hannah, wife of W. T. Earle, esq. third surviving dau. of the late George Ubsdell, esq.

March 9. At Woolwich, Major-General Richard John-James Lacy, Director-General of Artillery, and Colonel-Commandant of the 6th Battalion. He entered as a Second Lieutenant in 1796, became a First Lieut. 1798, Captain 1804, a battalion Major 1814, a regimental Lieut.-Colonel in 1827, Colonel in 1837, and Major-General in 1846. He was last appointed Director-General of Artillery, Jan. 1, 1849; and Colonel-Commandant of the 6th Battalion last year. He served in Holland in 1799, and on the coast of Spain from 1812 to 1814, and was present at the battle of Castalla and the two sieges of Tarragona.

March 14. Aged 78, Capt. Hugh Brodie, of Helensburgh, near Dumbarton. He served with the Royals at the siege of Toulon in 1793, and was severely wounded in the right leg. In 1794 he served the campaign in Corsica, and was present at the storming of the Convention Redoubts, and the Capture of the Martello Towers, with the garrison of St. Florenzo, the capitulation of Bastia, the storming of the Mozelle Forts; and before Calvi during a siege of fifty-two days. In 1799 he served in Holland, and was at the battle on land

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ing at Helder in the action of the 10th September. He was with Sir James Pulteney's expedition to Ferrol, Vigo, and Cadiz. In 1801 he served the Egyptian campaign. In 1803 he went with the expedition against St. Lucia, at the storming of Morne Fortunee, and capitulation of Tobago. In 1809 he was in India with the field force in the ceded districts, and in 1814 he joined the field force under General Doveton. He died greatly regretted as a useful member of society, and as a devoted churchuman.

March 16. On his passage from Aden to Bombay, P. C. Wright, Lieut. 29th Bombay N.I. second son of the late John Wright, esq. of Wickham place.

March 17. At Lyndhurst, Hants. John Frederick Breton, esq. late of the Royal Horse Artillery. As Lieutenant Mr. Breton served in Captain Mercer's Troop at Waterloo, and had three horses shot under him, but escaped himself with only a few bruises.

March 27. Near Murree, in the Punjab, in consequence of wounds received from a tiger two days previously, aged 32, Captain Charles Colby, H.M. 98th Regiment, third surviving son of the late John Colby, esq. of Fynone, Pembrokeshire.

March 28. At George Town, Demerara, Lieut. George Bott, R.N. late a stipendiary magistrate of that colony.

March 31. At Barbados, aged 83, KeturahShephard, wife of William Murray, esq. formerly of the civil service. She was the only child of Alexander Bruce, M.D. of Edinburgh (who died before her birth), by Dorothy his wife, daughter of the Hon. James Shephard, Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, Barbados, and granddaughter of the Hon. James Bruce, of Gartlet, co. Clackmannan, grandson of Robert Bruce, esq. of Kennet. She was brought up under the guardianship of Mr. John Cleland, of Edinburgh (who had married her great-aunt, Rachael Bruce), and formed an early acquintance with his grandson, her second cousin, the Rev. John Jamieson, D.D. F.R.S. F.S.A. a gentleman whose name will long be remembered as the author of the Scotish Dictionary and other works. Mrs. Murray was twice married, first in 1787 to Joseph Devenish, Lieut. R.N. who died in 1793, leaving issue a son James Alexander, Lieut. 53d Regt. killed before Salamanca in 1812, and Keturah-Shephard, wife of Alexander Gray Davidson, esq. of Limpsfield, Surrey; secondly, in 1798, to William Murray, esq. by whom she had further issue William Murray, Colonel of the Barbados Militia, and head of the Colonial Bank, who has married Anne, dau. of the Rev. John Frere Pilgrim, M.A.; 2. Davidson-Munro, died Aug. 1851; 3. Alexander-Bruce, died in 1815; 4. Dorothy-Bruce, mar. to the Hon. Samuel Harman, Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Antigua; 4. Elizabeth Pilgrim, wife of Lieut.Gen. Sackville Hamilton Berkeley, Colonel of the 75th Regt. ; and, 5. Williamina.

April 3. By the explosion of the steam-packet Glencoe, at St. Louis, on the Mississipi, aged 33, Lieut. William Amphlett, R.N. youngest son of the late Rev. Richard Holmden Amphlett, of Wychbold, Worc. He entered the service in 1835, served as mate in the Inconstant 36 and Excellent gunnery-ship; was made Lieut. 1844, and appointed to the Acteon 26.

April 5. At Hillingdon, Middlesex, Major-Gen. James Grant, C.B. Governor of Scarborough Castle. He entered the army in 1797. He served for five years in India with the 25th, afterwards the 22nd Dragoons, and was at the battle of Mallavelly, the siege of Seringapatam, and the action with Doondia. At the storming of the fort of Turnioul he volunteered and led the assault with fifty dismounted dragoons; and he took part, during the short period of three years, in the capture of no less than fifteen fortresses. In 1806, during the war in Sicily, he served with the 21st Fusiliers. From 1807 to 1811 he again served in India with the 17th Light Dragoons. On his re

turn to Europe he joined the army under the Duke of Wellington, and served with the 18th Hussars in the campaign of 1813-14-15, including the battles of Toulouse and Waterloo. He was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel by commission dated the 18th June 1815; was advanced to Colonel in 1837, and to Major-General in 1846.

April 8. At Calcutta, aged 28, George Alfred Schreiber, Capt. H.M. 70th Regt. and eldest son of the late Licut.-Col. Schreiber, of Melton, Suff.

April 10. At Berthier, in the district of Montreal, aged 106, Mr. Charles Boucher. He was married to three wives, by whom he had in all sixty children. He leaves to deplore his loss forty-three children, sixty-six grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, twenty-eight nephews, seventy grand-nephews, eighteen great-grandnephews, and a large circle of friends, who assisted at his funeral.

April 12. Aged 21, Lient. Leverton Donaldson, Bengal Eng. While gallantly seconding and following his brave chief, Major Frazer, up the ladder at the Whitehorse stockade, Rangoon, he fell mortally wounded, and died within two hours after in the hospital.

By a stroke of the sun, on the same service, aged 43, brevet Major Augustus Oakes, Director of the Madras Art. Depot, and fifth son of the late Thomas Oakes, esq. Senior Member of the Council.

April 14. At Galway, in Ireland, Lieut-Colonel George Lennox Davis, C.B. late of the 9th Foot, inspecting field officer of the Liverpool recruiting district. Lieut.-Colonel Davis entered the army in 1808 as an Ensign in the 9th Regt, became a Lieutenant in 1811, a Captain in 1825, a Major in 1837, and a Lieut.-Colonel and commanding officer of the regiment in 1845. In 1808 he proceeded to the Peninsula, where he served until taken prisoner in Jan. 1809, in the retreat of Sir John Moore at Lugo, where Ensign Davis was left dangerously ill. He was detained as a prisoner of war in France until 1814. He afterwards served many years in India, and in 1842 served the campaign in Affghanistan, was present at the forcing of the Khyber, the Jugdulluck, the Tezeen, and the Huft Kotel passes, and the assault and capture of Istaliff. He also served in the Sutlej campaign, and commanded the 9th at the battle of Sobraon, in 1846. He had received medals for Affghanistan and Sobraon, and was in 1846 nominated a Companion of the Bath.

April 15. At Sierra Leone, Capt. John Julins MacDonnell, commanding Her Majesty's brig Crane, second son of the late Col. MacDonnell, and grandson of the late Sir John Johnson, Bart. He entered the navy in 1816, obtained his first commission in 1826, was appointed in 1829 to the Winchester 52, flagship of Sir E. G. Colpoys, in North America and the West Indies; in 1830 to the command of the Firefly schooner, which was lost on the West Indian station in 1835; in 1844 to the Coast Guard; and in 1845 to the Nautilus 10. He was made Commander 1846; and married in 1841 Louisa, widow of H. Hyde, esq. of London.

April 25. At Hermosa, West Teignmouth, aged 81, John Sweetland, esq. J.P. At the age of 19, he was appointed Inspector of the King's Revenues at Gibraltar, shortly after became Deputy Commissary General, and in the year 1802, Principal Commissary; a place created especially for him, and filled with equal energy and ability for a long series of years. On his return to England in 1813 he settled in his native county, where he was a magistrate for 31 years, and during a large portion of that time was Chairman of the Committee of Accounts. He was ever the firm supporter of the constitution in Church and State. His funeral at West Teignmouth was attended by above one hundred of the tradesmen and gentry of the neighbourhood. The pall-bearers were Dr. Richards, Capt. Reed, Gen. Gardener, Dr. Shapter, W. J. Watts, and W. Cosens, esqrs.

April 26. On her passage to England, Maria, wife of Lieut.-Col. James Alexander, C.B. Bengal

Horse Art. and only sister of Peter B. Long, esq. of Ipswich.

April 29. At Madeira, aged 16, Elizabeth-Augusta, second dau. of Major Lloyd, of Exmouth.

May 1. At Demerara, aged 31, Henry John Sawyer, barrister-at-law. third son of Charles Sawyer, esq. of Heywood, Berkshire.

May 4. At Villafranca, near Genoa, aged 48, the Hon. John Capel Hanbury Tracy, third son of Lord Sudeley.

May 6. At Market Harborough, Ada-Arnold, infant daughter of William and Harryette Wartnaby.

May 7. At Dublin, aged 87, Lady Fitzgerald, widow of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Augustine Fitzgerald, Bart. of Carrigoran, Clare.

May 8. At Madeira, aged 77, John Lewis, esq. late of Oxford-street.

Hugh Reid, esq. town clerk of Ayr, Scotland.

At Leamington, aged 80, the Hon. Margaret Speirs, relict of Archibald Speirs, esq. of Elderslie, aunt to the Earl of Zetland. She was the eldest dau. of Thomas first Lord Dundas; was married in 1794, and left a widow in 1832.

May 9. At Alveston Field, aged 78, Ann, wife of the Rev. William Cantrell, incumbent of Thrumpton, Notts.

May 10. At Bellary, Edward Cockburn Ravenshaw, 1st Madras Light Cav. second son of John Hurdis Ravenshaw, of Suffield House, Richmond.

Aged 24. At Keynsham, Clara, youngest dau. of the late William Wingrove, esq. surgeon.

May 11. At Pool House, near Hereford, Hannah, wife of the Rev. Edward Nugent Bree, Vicar of All Saints.

In London, aged 68, Mary-Anne, relict of the Rev. Thomas Cole, Vicar of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, and last surviving dau. of the late George Freeman, esq. of that place.

At Chesham, Bucks, aged 76, Mary, relict of Thomas Nash, esq.

At the rectory, Stanton Prior's, Somerset, Caroline, wife of the Rev. James Phillott.

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Suddenly, Lieut. Peter Stark, R.N. for 22 years Government Emigration Agent in Belfast." was the son of a Captain in the army. He entered the naval service in 1806 on board the Ajax 74, and on the destruction of that ship by fire off the isle of Tenedos in 1807, was received on board the Endymion 40, and was present in the passage of the Dardanelles. He was taken prisoner the same year, but escaped in 1810; and in 1811 joined the Warspite 74, and in 1813 the Medway 74, flag-ship at Portsmouth. In 1814 he was made Lieutenant; he afterwards served in the Spitfire sloop Grampus 50, Larne 20, and Glasgow 50, and from 1827 to 1838 on the Coast Guard.

May 12. At Egton, near Whitby, aged 76, John Peckett, esq. He was fifty-four years woodbailiff on the Egton Estate, under R. C. Elwes, esq.

At Hall Brook, Wonersh, near Guildford, aged 69, William Street, esq.

In Parliament-st. in consequence of injuries received by a fall from his horse, aged 25, Robert Sutherland, of H.M. 4th Light Dragoons, third son of Alexander Robert Sutherland, esq. of Torquay. At Edinburgh, William Thomson, M.D. professor of the practice of physic in the University of Glasgow.

At Bristol, Eleanora, wife of Lieut.-Col. Woodburn, C.B. and dau. of J. Cleland, esq.

May 13. In Paris, the Hon. Lady Airey, widow of General Sir George Airey, K.C.II. and aunt to Lord Talbot de Malahide.

At Rome, aged 26, Louisa-Maude, wife of George W. Allan, esq. of Toronto, Canada, and dau. of the Hon. Chief Justice Robinson.

At the Citadel, Plymouth, Jessy, wife of Col. Calder, Royal Eng.

At Dorchester, aged 75, Thos. Coombs, sen, esq. At Camden-road-villas, aged 30, Caroline-Eliza, wife of the Rev. James Joyce Evans, Chaplain to the Home and Colonial Training Schools.

At the Lodge, Bedford, Nicholas Fitzpatrick, esq. M.D. late R.A.

At Durham, George Griffith, esq. sixth son of the late John Griffithi, esq. of Durham.

At New Court, Devon, Mary, wife of the Rev. Thomas Halford, and dau. of the late John Bowden Creswell, esq. She has left 1,0007. each to the following charitable institutions: Exeter Dispensary, West of England Eye Infirmary, West of England Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, West of England Institution for the Instruction and Employment of the Blind, and the Governesses' Benevolent Institution (London); and (after giving specific legacies amounting to 60,000l.) the whole residue of her property to the Devon and Exeter Hospital, amounting, it is supposed, to nearly 50,000.. Her body was interred in the family vault at Topsham.

At Horsham, aged 78, Mary, dau. of the late John Holmes, esq. of Arundel.

At Blackburn, William Henry Morrice, esq. brother of Robert Edmund Morrice, esq. of King William-st. London.

At Leven House, Ryde, I.W., aged 80, Frances Dorothea Oglander, sister to the late Sir William Oglander, Bart. of Nunwell-park, I.W.

At Bath, aged 72, Nathaniel Wells, of Piercefield, esq.

At Chapel-field-grove, Norwich, aged 72, Richard Morgan, esq. actuary of the Norwich Union Life Assurance Office.

At Ticehurst, aged 70, Dr. Newington, proprietor of the asylum at that place.

At Newcastle-on-Tyne, Anthony Nicol, esq. lately an alderman of that town, and formerly of Dowgate-wharf, London.

At Northfleet, Kent, aged 55, John Palin, esq. LL.D. late of Barnes-green, Surrey.

At Swanscombe, Anna Russell, of Belmont, eldest dau. of the late Wm. Michael Russell, esq. At Ryde, aged 16, Adelaide, third dau. of the late Commander Shallard, R.N. May 14. At Loose-hill, aged 59, Mary, relict of George Addison, esq. of Offham, Kent. Aged 77, Wm. Siria, esq. of Harford-st. Cathay, formerly of the 2nd Royal Veterans.

Aged 77, Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. James Sperling, late of Monk's Lodge, Great Maplestead, and second dau. of the late William Bullock, esq. of Shelley-house.

May 15. At Old Cassop, Durham, aged 69, Paul Anderson, esq.

At Leamington, aged 80, Mary-Elizabeth, relict of the Rev. John Brickdale Blakeway, F.S.A. incumbent of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, and jointauthor of the History of that town.

At Bathampton, Bath, aged 86, Mary, relict of the Rev. Charles Cole, formerly Rector of Stutton, Suffolk.

At North-end, Crayford, Kent, aged 78, Elizabeth, widow of John Colyer, esq.

At Evington, aged 90, Mary, relict of Edward Davenport, esq.

At Clifton, aged 60, Henry Fothergill, esq. At Ottery St. Mary, aged 48, John Hyfield Garland, esq.

Aged 63, Harriott, wife of Edward Grant, esq. of Highbury-pl.

At North Lodge, Teddington, Eliza, third dau. of the late George Hartwell, esq. of Laleham, Middlesex.

At the house of Beauvoir Brock, esq. Loughborough, within eleven months after her marriage, and seven days after the birth of a son, aged 27, Sarah-Ann, wife of Joseph Singleton Seed, esq. of Cheadle Bulkeley, Cheshire.

In Hanover-st. aged 79, William Winstanley, M.D. of West Cliff, Preston, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the co. of Lancaster.

May 16. At the residence of her son in Devonport Dockyard, Wilhelmina, relict of Thomas Thynne Folds, formerly surgeon of H. M. Dockyard at Sheerness.

Rosetta, dau. of the late Comm. France, R.N. At Gover Villa, near Honiton, aged 60, Georgiana, youngest dau. of the late Edw. Honywood, LL.D. Rector of that place.

May 17. At Wyke's-court, Bridport, aged 66, Mary, wife of Thomas Collins Hounsell, esq.

At Marlborough, aged 75, Martha, relict of G. May, esq.

At Ramsgate, aged 68, Lieut. Edward Edwin Morgan, R.N. After serving several years in the Rose and North Star on the South American and East India stations, he was made Lieut. 1845, and appointed to the Agincourt 72. In July 1846, having been appointed to the Hazard 18, he served in the expedition under Sir T. J. Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo.

At Edinburgh, Mrs. Robertson, relict of Major Robertson, of Cray, Perthshire.

At Honiton, aged 74, Mary, relict of E. Stamp, esq.

At Little Somerford, Wilts, William Tillotson, esq. M.A. of Harewood-sq. London, barrister-atlaw, and formerly fellow of St. Peter's-college, Camb. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple May 11, 1832.

At Ealing, Middlesex, Frederick-Watson, third son of J. Snaith Rymer, of Whitehall-pl. solicitor. May 18. At Kilfane glebe, Amy, wife of Capt. Chamberlain, late of the Buffs, youngest dau. of the Ven. Crinus Irwin, Archdeacon of Ossory.

At Orleans, Louisa, relict of Lt.-Col. Cocks, R.E. At Cardiff, aged 45, Thos. Evans, esq. solicitor. At Haverstock-hill, aged 67, W. C. Landzelle, esq.

At Colchester, aged 78, William Scragg, esq.

At Hertford, aged 58, Miss Thompson, who was 34 years mistress of the girls' school at Christ's Hospital.

At Cheltenham, aged 71, Frances-Asser, wife of John Gregory Welch, esq. late of Arle House.

May 19. At Sangnée, near Liege, aged 63, Susanna, relict of George M. Box, esq. late of Enfield and Doctors'-commons.

At Newington, Oxf. aged 80, Peter Cotes, esq. late of Ticton-bridge, near Beverley.

At the house of her brother-in-law Henry Cribb, esq. Bishop's Stortford, Sarah-Lincoln, widow of John Jennings Cribb, esq. formerly of Cambridge, surgeon, third dau. of the late Nathaniel Rix, esq. of Blundestone, Suffolk.

At Bridlington Quay, Yorksh. Hannah-Frances, second dau. of the late John Day, gent. Wymondham, Leic. and niece of Robert Day, esq. Belgrave.

At Winchester, aged 56, Mary-Ann, relict of James V. Earle, esq.

In Cambridge-terr. Hyde-park, aged 76, SophiaElizabeth, relict of Robert Kirby, esq. of Cannonstreet, City.

In Eaton-pl. Sidney, relict of John Madocks, esq. of Glanywern, Denbighshire.

At Camden Town, aged 75, J. M. Meyers, esq. late of Calcutta; and on the 17th, Henry Albert Weston, aged 5 months, his grandson, and youngest son of H. Meyers, esq. of Norwood.

Aged 68, John Gardner Rolls, esq. of Chelsea. In New Milman-st. aged 73, Eliza-Esther, widow of Roger Shine, esq.

At Foot's-Cray Place, Kent, Harriette, wife of W. Vansittart, esq.

At Wilton, Taunton, Harriet, relict of J. W. Warren, esq.

May 20. At Oswaldkirk, aged 88, Elizabeth, relict of the Rev. Thomas Comber, Rector of Oswaldkirk.

Aged 56, Martha, wife of John Booth Freer, M.D. of Brentford Butts, formerly of Leicester, second dau. of the late Sir William Walker.

Aged 62, Thomas Eyre Lee, esq. of Birmingham. At Exeter, aged 83, Commissary-Gen. Charles Palmer.

May 21. In Gloucester-sq. Hyde-park, aged 76, William Wyckham Cowell, esq. late of the Bengal Civil Service.

At Funchal, Madeira, aged 34, Dorothea-Julia, only dau. of the late Rev. Brownlow Poulter, Rector of Buriton, Hants.

At Puttenham Priory, Surrey, Fanny, wife of Richard Sumner, esq.

At the house of his friend, Thomas Stephings, esq. Barnsbury-road, aged 34, Dr. William Webber, surgeon, R.N.

In Woburn-sq. aged 27, Thomasine-Elizabeth, wife of John Price Williams, esq. barrister-at-law. At Edinburgh, Alexander Wood, esq. W.S. youngest surviving son of Lord Wood, one of the judges of the court of session in Scotland.

May 22. At Southampton, Ann-Dowse, wife of Thomas Bradby, Comm. R.N.

At the residence of her son-in-law G. W. Lovell, esq. in Mornington-cresc, aged 81, Ann, widow of Willoughby Lacy, esq.

At Sydenham-hill, aged 35, Edward Lawes, esq. barrister-at-law, chairman of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, eldest son of the late Mr. Serjeant Lawes.

At Chepstow-villas West, aged 26, Octavius, third son of George Scholey, esq. of Westbourneterrace.

At Southmolton, Lewis Southcomb, esq. son of the late Rev. John Southcomb, Rector of Rose Ash. At Romsey, aged 77, Sarah, widow of Thomas Tylee, esq. formerly of Devizes.

At Boulogne, aged 40, Harry Farr Yeatman, esq. late of Manston House, Dorset.

May 23. At Bath, aged 74, the wife of the late H. Bernard, esq. surviving her husband only a fortnight.

At Southampton, Caroline, wife of Vice Adm. Thomas Brown.

At Funchal, Madeira, aged 19, Sir Charles Forbes, 2d Bart. of Newe and Edinglassie, Aberdeenshire (1823). He succeeded his grandfather the late Sir Charles Forbes in 1849; and is succeeded by his uncle, now Sir Charles Forbes, born in 1803, who married in 1830 the second dau. of George Battye, esq. of Kensington.

Aged 51, Mary-Anne, wife of Baker Gabb, esq. of Lllwyndu-court, Abergavenny, and eldest dau. of the late Thomas Stead, esq. of Gloucester-st. Queen-sq. London.

At Exeter, aged 73, Henry Platel, esq. formerly. of Lincoln's-inn-fields.

At Brixton, aged 73, Andrew Flude Thomas, esq. formerly of Mark-lane, City.

May 24. At Knightsbridge, aged 62, the Hon. John Coventry, of Burgate House, Hants. brother of the late George-William Earl of Coventry, and uncle to the present Earl. He married Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. G. Wilson, and had issue three sons, of whom the eldest is the Rev. John Coventry, Rector of Tywardreath, Cornwall, and the youngest, Charles-Farmer, a Lieut. R.N., and two daughters.

While on a visit to his son the Rev. E. B. Everard, Stanhoe parsonage, aged 78, Scarlet Everard, esq. late of King's Lynn, Norfolk.

At Edinburgh, aged 76, Lady Grant of Rothiemurchus.

At London-road, Brighton, aged 67, B. Ward, esq.

May 25. At Hampton Court Palace, aged 72, Lady Sarah Bayley, fourth dau, of George-Bussey late Earl of Jersey. She was married in 1799 to Charles Nath. Bayley, esq.

In Hanover-st. Hanover-sq. Elizabeth, relict of Ambrose Born, esq. whose death she survived only three months.

At Lancaster, John Massey Hutchinson, esq. barrister-at-law, of Heversham, Bucks, and Codrum, Cork, Ireland. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, Jan. 27, 1815.

At Brackley, aged 57, William Lee, esq. At the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, aged 78, Elizabeth, wife of Professor Narrien. Mary-Ann, wife of Richard Weller, esq. of the Elms, near Maidenhead.