The king of Hanover has nominated the following Englishmen to be knights of the Guelphic order. Sir Joseph Planta, as grand cross; capt. George Gosling, R.N.; lieut. Gordon, R.N.; and capt. Stephens, aid-de-camp to the duke of Cambridge.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

T. Musgrave, D.D. to be bishop of Hereford.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. J. Worsley, to be master of Downing college, Cambridge.

Rev. W. Cureton to be assistant keeper of the manuscripts in the British Museum.

SEPTEMBER.

GAZETTE PREFERMENTS.

5. Nassan William Senior, esq., Sam. Jones Loyd, esq., Wm. Edw. Hickson, esq., and John Leslie, esq., to be commissioners for inquiring into the condition of the unemployed hand-loom weavers of the United Kingdom.

11. Capt. William F. Beatson, 54th Bengal, N.I. and late lieut.-col. in the service of the queen of Spain, to accept the cross of the first class of San Fernando.

15. 13th Light Dragoons, capt. T. P. Lang to be major; 56th Foot, brevet, major P. S. Norman to be major; Andrew Smith, M.D. to be surgeon to the Forces.

19. Angela Georgiana Burdett, of Stratton-street, Piccadilly, youngest dau. of sir Francis Burdett, bart,, and of dame Sophia his wife, formerly Sophia Coutts, (in compliance with the will of the duchess of St. Albans) to take the surname and bear the arms of Coutts, in addition to those of Burdett; the very rev. John Merewether, D.D. dean of Hereford; the very rev. George Davys, D.D. dean of Chester; and the rev. Thomas Vowler Short, rector of Saint

George's Bloomsbury, to be deputy clerks of the closet to her Majesty.

The sixteen Representative Peers for Scotland returned to serve in the new Parliament; The marquess of Tweeddale, earl of Morton, earl of Home, earl of Elgin, earl of Airlie, earl of Leven and Melville, earl of Selkirk, earl of Orkney, the viscount Arbuthnot, the viscount Strathallan, lord Forbes, lord Saltoun, lord Gray, lord Sinclair, lord Colville of Culross, lord Reay.

22. James Bunce Curling, esq. to be one of her Majesty's corps of gentlemen

at-arms.

25. Joseph Townsend of Woodend, Bucks, to be an assistant commissioner under the act for the commutation of tithes in England and Wales; sir John de Vealle to be bailiff of the island of Jersey.

NAVAL PREFERMENTS.

2. The President, 52, has been commissioned at Portsmouth, by capt. J. Scott, for the flag of rear admiral Chas. Ross, C.B. who is to command in the Pacific; the Melville, 74, is re-commissioned by the hon. capt. R. S. Dundas, for the flag of rear-admiral G, Elliott, C.B. who is to command on the cape and coast of Africa station.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Dr. Corbett, to be archdeacon of York.

OCTOBER.

GAZETTE PREFERMENTS.

4. Major-gen. Geo. Thomas Napier, C.B. to be governor of the cape of Good Hope.

11. The earl of Uxbridge to be one of the lords in waiting to her Majesty.

18. Joseph Cade, esq., to be consul at Panama, T. S. Willimott, esq., at Puerto Cabello, and J. F. Close, esq. at Cha

rente.

20. James Mercier, esq. to be one of her Majesty's gentlemen-at-arms.

30. James Clark, esq. M.D. of George street, Hanover square, first physician

3. His royal highness prince George of Cambridge to be colonel in the army by brevet.

9. The right hon. John Cowan, lord mayor of London, created a baronet; George Carroll, esq. and Moses Montefiore, esq. sheriffs of London and Middlesex, knighted by her Majesty at Guildhall.

11. Matthew Wood of Hatherley Ho. county Glocester, esq. alderman of London, created a baronet.

16. Lord Vernon, in compliance with the will of Elizabeth Harriet viscountess Bulkeley, to take the name and arms of Warren only, instead of Venables Vernon. 29- Earl of Rothes to be lieut.-colonel of Fifeshire Yeomanry cavalry.

CIVIL PREFErment?.

Rev. C. R. Dicken, to be head mas ter of the Grammar School at Ashby-dela-Zouch.

Rev. C. H. Maturin, to be classical

master in the Birmingham and Edgebaston proprietary school.

Thomas Harrison, esq. M.D. professor of anatomy to Trinity college, Dublin.

James Manning, esq. to be recorder of Oxford and of Banbury; R: Wildman esq. of Nottingham; and F. Dwarris, esq. of Newcastle upon Tyne.

South Australia.-The following appointments have been made; sir J. W. Jeffcott, knt judge of the province; Robert Gouger, esq. secretary; Charles Mann, esq. advocate general and crown solicitor; J. H. Fisher, esq. registrar; Geo. Stevenson, esq. clerk of the council; rev. C. B. Howard colonial chaplain; Thomas Lipsau comm. R.N. naval officer and harbour master; Jn. Brown, esq. emigration agent ; Thomas Gilbert, esq.colonial storekeeper; Osmond Gilles, esq. colonial treasurer and collector of

revenue.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

11. The earl of Fingal to be one of her Majesty's lords in waiting.

13. John marquess of Queensberry to be lieutenant and sheriff principal of the shire of Dumfries, vice his father the late marquess.

15. His royal highness the duke of Sussex, to be first and principal knight grand cross, and acting great master of

the order of the Bath.

22. Colonel sir G. Arthur, K.C.H. to be lieut. governor of the province of Upper Canada, and to have the local rank of major-gen. in Upper Canada only.

NAVAL PREFERMENTS.

Commander W. H. Crauford to the Racehorse, 18; comm. W. Preston to

the Electra 18; commanders H. O. Love, sir J. E. Home, and the hon. H. Keppel to be captains ;lieut. Bird Allen to be commander.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Midhurst.-Hon. Fred. Spencer. Sunbury-Joseph Bailey, jun. esq.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Dr. Sadlier to be provost of Trinity college Dublin; sir Henry Meredyth to be a member of the Irish ecclesiastical board, vice Sadlier; Dr. Stock to be judge of the admiralty court in Ireland, vice Meredyth.

Robert E. Grant, M.D. F.R.S. (professor of comparative anatomy in the London University college) to the professorship of physiology in the Royal Institution founded by the late John Fuller, esq.

Rev. J. S. Reid, D.D. (author of the History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland) to be professor of ecclesiastical history in the Belfast Royal Institution.

J. J. Sylvester, esq. (second wrangler at Cambridge in Jan. 1837) to be professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in the London University col.

Rev. W. Hey to be first master of the York proprietary school.

Rev. T. F. Layng to be head master of Bristol college school.

Rev. O. J. Tancock to be master of Truro Grammar School.

DEATHS.

1836.

Oct. 6. At Edge-grove, Aldenham, Herts. in his 82nd year, William Marsden, esq. D.C.L. Fellow of the Royal Society, and Member of the Antiquarian, Asiatic, and other learned Societies. Dr. Marsden was born in Ireland, and went to India at an early age. Soon after his return to this country he published the "History of the Island of Sumatra," in 4to., 1782. In 1781 he communicated to the Royal Society, "an account of a phenomenon observed in the island of Sumatra," and in the same year, to the Society of Antiquaries, through Sir Joseph Banks," Remarks on the Sumatran Language;" and in 1785, "Observations on the language of the people commonly called Gypsies." In 1788 he communicated to the Royal Society a dissertation on the æra of the Mahometans, called the Hejira; and in 1790, a paper on the Chronology of the Hindoos. About 1795 he was appointed second Secretary to the Admiralty, by Lord Spencer. After his retirement

from public life, in 1807, he resumed the studies of his youth, and has left behind him a number of publications which are well known to the Orientalist. His History of Sumatra was reprinted in 1812; in which year he also published a Dictionary of the Malayan Language, 4to; and a Grammar of the same, to the latter of which is prefixed an interesting discourse on the history, religion, and antiquities of the Oriental islands. He had previously compiled "A Catalogue of Dictionaries, Vocabularies, Grammars, and Alphabets," in two parts." This was not printed for publication; and he also printed privately a catalogue of his own valuable Oriental library. In 1818 he published, in another quarto volume, "The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the thirteenth century; being a description of remarkable places and things in the Eastern part of the world, with notes:" and subsequently, in two quarto volumes, "Numismata Orientalia Illustrata: the Oriental Coins, ancient and modern, of his collection, described and historically illustrated," 1823, 1825, including fiftyseven plates engraved, with "scrupulous fidelity," by Mr. John Swaine. In 1830, the Oriental Translation Committee published Mr. Marsden's Translation of the "Memoirs of a Malayan Family," in Svo.; and in the same year he communicated to the Asiatic Society, a "Notice respecting the natives of New Guinea." Mr. Marsden very liberally presented his collection of coins to the British Museum; it includes the original coins collected by sir Robert Ainslie, formerly British ambassador at Constantinople; and by the Abbé Beauchamp, titular bishop of Bagdad, who died of the plague at that place, in 1779 or 1780. He recently presented his extensive and valuable library to King's college, London. Mr. Marsden some time ago exhibited a not very common instance of patriotism, in voluntarily resigning a pension of 1,500. a-year, which had been bestowed on him as the reward of his public services. Since the death of lord Stowell he has been the senior member of the club which was founded by the great lexicographer, Dr. Johnson, Edmund Burke, and sir Joshua Reynolds, and known by the honorary designation of "The Club."

Mr. Marsden married a daughter of the late sir Charles Wilkins, K. H., D.C.L., F.R.S.

9. At Ibstock, Leicestershire, aged 78, the rev. Spencer Madan, D.D. for upwards of 50 years rector of that parish, prebendary and chancellor of the diocese of Peterborough. Dr. Madan was the eldest son of the rt. rev. Spencer Madan, D.D. lord bishop of Peterborough, and the lady Charlotte, sister of the first marquis Cornwallis. He was educated at Westminster, and elected from the foundation of that school in 1776 to Trinity College, Cambridge. He obtained in 1782 the Seatonian prize for his classical and spirited lines entitled, "The Call of the Gentiles." As a preparatory exercise for holy orders, Mr. Madan undertook a translation of Grotius's treatise on the truth of the Christian religion. Of this work he published a second edition in 1814, with the two supplementary books of Mr. Le Clerc, and the annotations and testimonies. Having served the curacy of Wrotham, in Kent, about a year, of which living Dr. Tarrant, dean of Peterborough, was incumbent, Mr. Madan became in 1783 rector of Bradley Magna, in Suffolk, which he resigned, after holding it three years, having succeeded to the prebend and vicarage of Tachbrook, Warwickshire, given him by his uncle, the bishop of Lichfield, the former of which he exchanged for Ibstock in 1786, and in the following year resigned the latter on his presentation by the bishop to the rectory of St. Philip's, Birmingham, with the treasurership and prebend of Sawley, in the church of Lichfield annexed. In 1794, he was collated by his father to the chancellorship of the diocese of Peterborough, and in 1800 to a prebendal stall in that cathedral. The most arduous portion of his professional life embraced that eventful period of disaffection and dissent, which preceded and produced the riots at Birmingham in 1791; during which critical juncture the rector of St. Philip's laboured ably and successfully to repress the dangerous spirit of innovation in our civil and religious polity, which, at that time, actuated a revolutionary faction in this kingdom. Many of his local publications and addresses from the pulpit, especially "The principal Claims of the Dissenters considered,' in a sermon preached on the 14th of February in that year, and "a Letter to Dr. Priestley," occasioned by his strictures on the sermon, attracted general attention, and were circulated with good effect through

the immense population of that town and neighbourhood.

13. In his 87th year, the rev. David Williams, perpetual curate of Heytesbury and Knook, in the county of Wilts.

20. At Dawley Lodge, Middlesex, aged 65, Jerome Count de Salis, a de puty-lieutenant and magistrate for that county.

27. At Davenport, in his 50th year, George Harris, esq., a post captain, R.N. and C.B., formerly M.P. for Grimsby.

31. At Southampton, aged 70, Matthew Henry Scott, esq., vice-admiral of the Red.

Lately-AtWoburn-place, Mrs. Anne Margaret Forster. She has bequeathed 1000l. to the Westminster, and 1000%. to the Charing-Cross Hospitals, after the death of Mr. William Forster, now 70 years of age.

NOVEMBER.

1. The rev. James Brown, D.C.L. late professor of natural philosopby, in the University of Glasgow.

4. At Edinburgh, Capt. Gilbert M'Donald Milton, late of the royals. He was the last surviving nephew ď the celebrated Flora M'Donald, who rescued the pretender.

5. In St. James's Place, Dugdale Stratford Dugdale, esq., of Merivale Hall, Warwickshire, formerly M.P. for that county.

6. In York-street, Portman-sq. majorgeneral Sir Thomas Bligh St. George, C.B, K.C.H.

7. At Little Berkampstead, Hertfordshire, aged 70, Cholmeley Dering. esq., great uncle to Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, of Surrenden Dering, bart.

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9. At York, on his 87th birth-day, W. Blanchard, esq., proprietor of the York Chronicle for nearly sixty years. At North-place, Marylebone, aged 64, John Rutherford, esq., of Morpeth, late claimant of the Scottish peerage of Rutherford, in which claim he is succeeded by his eldest son, John Rutherford, esq.

11. At Dunmore Park, Stirlingshire, aged 74, the right hon. George Murray, fifth earl of Dunmore, brother-in-law to the duke of Hamilton, and the late duchess of Somerset, uncle to Sir Augustus, and Mademoiselle d'Este, &c.

13. At Cambridge, aged 77, the rev. Charles Simeon, M.A. senior Fellow of King's-college, and rector of Trinity Church in that town. Mr. Simeon was born at Reading, Sept. 24, 1759; and was brother to the late sir John Simeon, master in Chancery, recorder of Read ing, and M.P. for that borough. He was educated at Eton, and entered at King's College, Cambridge, Jan. 29, 1776. It was there he received, very soon after his admission, what may be termed his first lasting religious impressions. From this time his attention was turned towards entering the sacred ministry. It was his earnest desire to have, if possible, a church in Cambridge, and his particular wish was, to hold that very church which was afterwards given to him. He was presented by the same bishop of Ely who had ordained him deacon to the church of Trinity parish, in that town, when he was only twenty-three and-a-half years old, and before he had actually entered into priest's orders. The reason of such a presentation being possible was, that Trinity Church was then considered only a curacy, and was holden under sequestration by the bishop. It was on January 4, 1783, that he preached his first sermon in that church, from whence he never afterwards removed; and where he preached his last sermon in September 1836. So that his ministrations in that parish have been extended to a period of more than fifty-three years and a half. From the time he felt himself established as a minister of a parish in Cambridge, and therefore in a situation that could reasonably command some respect, and give him authority to speak to young men in the university upon religious subjects; he directed the whole energy of his active and persevering mind to do them good; feeling, as he justly did, that in making one student truly religious, and sending him into the church, he procured a blessing for multitudes. A still more important engine for the advancement of his peculiar views, was his society for the purchase of advowsons, and thereby planting, in many populous districts, ministers devoted to his opinions. number of advowsons so purchased amounts to at least forty-three; several having been added from those put up for sale in pursuance of the Municipal Reform Act. The press was, of course, actively employed in the diffusion of Mr. Simeon's sentiments. In 1832 Mr.

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Simeon's entire works were published in twenty-one large and closely compressed 8vo. volumes of 600 or 700 pages each. These works consist of 2536 sermons and skeletons of sermons, which form a commentary upon every book of the Old and New Testament, with Claude's Essay prefixed. Mr. Simeon received from Mr. Cadell, the publisher, the sum of 5,000l. for copy right, of which he appropriated 1,0007. to the Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews, 1,000l. to the London Clerical Education Society, and 1,000. to the Church Missionary Society. In addition to the 5,0001. for the copyright, Mr. Simeon had twenty copies appropriated to him, out of a few which were printed upon royal paper. These he had handsomely bound, at an expense of 200 guineas, and presented as follows:-To his Majesty King William the Fourth, and his successors on the British throne; to Sir Richard Simeon and his heirs; to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his successors; to the Archbishop of York and his successors; to the University Library at Cambridge; to the Library at King's College, Cambridge; to the Bodleian Library at Oxford; to the Library at Eton College; to the Universities of Dublin and Edinburgh; and to the Public Libraries at Paris, Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, Leyden, Upsala, Copenhagen, Munich, Philadelphia, and New York. Mr. Simeon's funeral took place on the 19th November, and it is supposed, that nearly 700 members of the University assembled to join in the solemnity. The whole town throughout the day partook of the general feeling; the shops were closed, and a silent awe pervaded the streets.

14. At his cottage, in Horsemongerlane, Southwark, aged 70, Mr. John Richardson, the itinerant dramatic showman. Mr. Richardson's first recollection of himself, was that of a poor little urchin in the workhouse at Great Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, the place of his birth. After filling several menial situations in that town, he started for the metropolis, in order to better his fortune; and gained employment, for some time, in the cow-house of Mr. Rhodes, at Islington, at one shilling per day. Soon after, he acquired some taste for theatricals. In the year 1782, he first joined Mrs. Penley, who was then performing in a club-room at the Paviours' Arms, in Shadwell; but after going from town to town with little snc