unlearned questions.' A wonderful memory, a mind well stored by reading and observation and travel, a rich fund of anecdote and illustration, a power of graphic delineation of scenes and men; a ready, but never an ill-natured, perception of the ridiculous; a deep and clinging affection, a comprehensive cha rity, these were some of his principal gifts. On the other hand, his tempe. rament was ardent and impulsive to excess, and perpetually got the better of his discretion and calmer judgment. He used to say of himself that he was vain; and no doubt the monstrari digito had its charms for him, as it has for most men: but there was in him, what there is not in most men, the genuine simplicity which avowed it. Joseph Wolff, having early been brought to the knowledge of Christ, made trial of many ways of following Christ, but in no one of them

did he find rest till he tried the way of the Church of England. Then was his soul satisfied. In her way he walked some forty-three years, till called away to a more perfect rest. As he had lived -no temptation, though presented to him at the hands of ardent and loving and valued friends, having power even to make him doubt or misgive about the good part he had chosen-so he died. It is a great lesson, and full of teaching to all who will not refuse to hear."

CHARLES PARKER, ESQ., F.S.A., OF THE

GROVE, BINFIELD, Berks.

May 7. At his residence, The Grove, Binfield, Charles Parker, Esq., on his fifty-ninth birthday.

He was the eldest son of the late Mr. John Parker, of the Strand, London, and grandson of the Rev. Samuel Parker, of Oxford, a member of an old and respectable family long established in that city.

Charles Parker was educated at Dr. Horne's, the Manor-house, Chiswick, a celebrated classical school at that time, many of whose scholars have distinguished themselves in after life. He was articled at the usual age to the late Mr. Hayes, solicitor, of Bedford. row, and soon after the expiration of his term he was recommended by him to Mr. William Tooke, a solicitor in extensive practice, with whom he shortly GENT, MAG. VOL. CCXIII.

afterwards entered into partnership. While so associated he had confided to him the management of the business of the St. Katherine's Dock Company, and the transfer of the establishment of St. Katherine's Hospital from its ancient site, now the Docks, to its present situation in the Regent's Park. Although very young to be entrusted with such important work, he accomplished the task, which was one of considerable difficulty and delicacy, with so much punctuality, tact, and judg ment, as to give entire satisfaction to his employers. They were also one of the firms appointed solicitors for the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and upon Mr. Parker, and his col

league Mr. Carter, then of Birmingham, mainly devolved the labour of carrying that measure successfully through Parliament, after a contest which lasted for two sessions, in spite of great opposition from the prejudices then general against railroads.

About this time Mr. Tooke had taken Mr. Parker into partnership, and soon afterwards retired from this branch of their business altogether in his favour.

In addition to the affairs of the St. Katherine's Dock Company, and the London and Birmingham Railway Company, now merged in the London and North-Western Railway Company, he was solicitor to the North Midland, now the Midland Railway, the Newcastle and Darlington, now part of the North-Eastern Railway Company, the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, the Norfolk Railway Company, and others.

He bore a large part of the labour of launching and conducting these important undertakings, and enjoyed in an eminent degree the confidence of those who had the direction of these affairs. It was at the commencement of the London and Birmingham Railway that he became acquainted with those two eminent engineers, George and Robert Stephenson, and soon formed the friendship of both father and son, which he ever after enjoyed, and over whom, in

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many cases of difficulty which occurred in their career, he exercised an influence greater than was supposed. It is no slight evidence of his ability that he could at times control a mind so firm in its resolves as that of the late George Stephenson; yet so high an opinion had that eminent man of the sound judgment and good sense of his friend Charles Parker, that he would not unfrequently defer any decision in his own course of action until he had appealed to that advice, the judiciousness of which he had learned to estimate.

With Robert Stephenson he was at an early period placed in a position of constant intercourse, and, as was natural between minds of a superior intellectual order, and imbued with high sentiments, (though working in different fields,) a friendship of the warmest character arose from their intercourse.

It was during the subsistence of this that he had an opportunity (which was a source of peculiar gratification, though of the greatest anxiety to him) of serving his friend in an eminent degree, by averting a calamity which at one time threatened overwhelming ruin to all involved in it. This he accomplished with consuminate skill, after an enormous amount of care and difficulty; and he always looked upon it as the principal achievement of his professional career. The highminded man whom he had thus aided failed not on every occasion to acknowledge, with many expressions of regard, the deep debt of gratitude which he owed to the friend who had thus saved him from the threatened disaster, and at his decease bequeathed a considerable portion of his property to the faithful friend whom he considered to have saved the whole of it from being swallowed up.

In conclusion, it seems almost superfluous to add that Mr. Parker was a man of the highest honour and integrity in his profession; he was incapable of any thing mean or un'air, he would not advocate a cause or a policy of the prin ciples of which he disapproved. Clearminded and with a just sense of right, he had also the rare faculty of allowing

what was due to his opponent, while still maintaining the cause he had to support. He combined with a sound judgment more than ordinary professional ability, together with the strictest habits of punctuality and exactness; and this was the secret of his success in life. Placed in favourable circumstances in a time of great activity and excitement, he was enabled to accumulate considerable property, and to retire from professional life before he was fifty. He purchased the house and grounds and small landed property known by the name of the Grove, at Binfield, where he resided for the last ten years of his life as a country gentleman; keeping his farm in the bighest state of cultivation, because this enabled him to employ a number of honest and industrious people, and he rejoiced in doing good to all around him. His loss will be severely felt by a large circle of relations and friends, for he never missed an opportunity of doing a substantial service to any one who had the slightest claim upon him; and by his last will he endeavoured to leave such mementos to each that they should miss him as little as possible in one sense, though perhaps they are the more likely to remember him with that affection and gratitude which the memory of a good man calls forth.

In place of a sumptuous monument to his memory, he presented before his death £500 for the restoration of the tower of his parish church, the rest of the church having been put into good order in his lifetime, and with his assistance; also £500 to the parish school, and £100 for a painted glass window by O'Connor to correspond with another which he had previously erected to the memory of his wife.

In private life he was always warmhearted and affectionate. The most exact punctuality and a strong sense of duty in everything were perhaps the most distinctive features of his character; his friends always knew that they could depend upon Charles Parker for the soundest and best advice in any

difficulty, and help if needed, and that they could always reckon upon his seeing and doing the thing that was right.

RICHARD WHARTON DUFF, Esq.,
OF ORTON.

June 8. At Orton-house, near Fochabers, aged 80, Richard Wharton Duff, Esq. He was the son of the late Thomas Wharton, Esq., Commissioner of Excise, who married, April 7, 1757, Lady Sophia Henrietta Duff, fifth daughter of William, first Earl of Fife. He was born in Edinburgh on May 19, 1782, was educated at the High School there, and on the death of his uncle, the Hon. Arthur Duff, in May 1805, he succeeded to the estate of Orton-assuming at the same time the name of Duff.

Mr. Wharton Duff married, in 1809, his cousin, Lady Anne Duff, second daughter of Alexander, third Earl of Fife; and with Lady Anne lived much in Edinburgh, then more of a fashionable resort than now, and in which, indeed, Mr. Wharton Duff's duties, as Comptroller of the Excise, led him frequently to reside. He continued to hold this office until 1834, when the Board was removed to London. He was also a trustee on the Fife estates. By his wife, whom he survived for upwards of thirty-three years (she died of fever Jan. 24, 1829), Mr. Wharton Duff had issue, one son, Alexander Thomas, late Captain in the 92nd Highlanders, and who now succeeds to the estate of Orton; and three daughters, Sophia Henrietta (who died, only two days after her mother, in 1829), Anne Jane, and Jemima, who married in August, 1841, John Tod, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh, and died in July, 1846, leaving a son, John Wharton, and a daughter, Anne-Helen.

"Mr. Wharton Duff," says a local paper, "had seen a great deal of the world, and his society was most engaging. He had a most retentive memory, and his fund of anecdote was inexhaustible. The variety and extent of poetry he could repeat, as directly ap plicable to any passing remark or incidental subject that might be introGENT, MAG. VOL. CCXIII.

duced, was astonishing. He had a perfect passion for arboriculture, and took the greatest delight in watching the progress of many trees planted by himself, and which had become stately monarchs of the wood. As a landlord, he was kind and considerate. In him the poor had always a good friend. He lived constantly upon his property, and freely spent his means in the district; and in these and in other matters he was a model proprietor."

CLERGY DECEASED.

May 23. At Ardwick, Manchester, aged 81, the Rev. Samuel Warren, LL.D., Rector of All Souls', Ancoats, Manchester. On Sunday, the 13th December last, the rev. gentleman preached twice, administered the Communion, and held an evening meeting in his church. This was too much for his strength, and a few hours after his return home he had a severe

paralytic stroke. Some weeks later, a second stroke followed, and both sides were palsied. Yet such was the strength of his constitution that he lingered for upwards of five months, suffering much from repeated and violent fits of convulsion. The early life of Dr. Warren, who was not originally designed for the Church, was one of some adventure. With his father he was taken prisoner by a French frigate early in the Revolutionary war; and about twenty years ago he published in Blackwood's "Magazine" a very interesting account of his adventures, under the title "Narrative of a Captivity in France during the Reign of Terror." He was ordained nearly a quarter of a century ago by the present Archbishop of Canterbury, then Bishop of Chester, whose see at that time included Manchester. He was twice married, and he is survived by Mr. Samuel Warren, Q.C., and Mr. Edw. Warren, of Liverpool, the only remaining offspring of the first marriage; and a daughter by his second wife.

May 28. At the Deanery, aged 82, the Very Rev. James Henry Cotton, LL.B., Dean of Bangor, and Rector of Llanllechyd, Carnarvonshire. See OBITUARY.

At the Rectory, aged 61, the Rev. Joseph T. Parker, M.A., Rector of Wyton, Huntingdon.

May 31. At the Rectory, Hemmington, the Rev. William Buller.

June 1. Aged 65, the Rev. John Balfour Magenis, M.A., Rector of Great Horkesley, Essex.

June 3. At Farringdon Rectory, near Exeter, the Rev. C. H. Collyns, D.D. He was the eldest son of the late Charles Collyns, esq., of Exeter, and received his education under Dr. Bartholomew, in the school of which he was afterwards master. At the age of seventeen he entered at Balliol College, Oxford, and

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was one of the first-class men in that college. Soon after he became M.A. he was elected Head Master of the Exeter Free Grammarschool, a post which he filled for many years, retiring first to the Rectory of Stokeinteignhead, to which he was preferred by Dr. Carey, then Bishop of Exeter, and removing subsequently, by the appointment of the present bishop, to the Rectory of Farringdon, which he held until his decease. Dr. Collyns's eminent success as a teacher is attested by the fact that very many among his pupils have attained to the highest honours in the University of Oxford.

June 3. At Ramsey, Isle of Man, aged 80, the Rev. Christian Frederick Harke.

June 6. At Marchwiel, near Wrexham, aged 65, the Rev. John Hoskins.

At Hastings, aged 66, the Rev. W. F. Cobb, Rector of Nettlestead, Kent.

Aged 56, the Rev. William Marsh, M.A., for twenty years Chaplain of Morden College, Blackheath.

June 11. At Helston, aged 68, the Rev. Henry Grylls, Vicar of St. Neot, son of the late Rev. Richard Gerveys Grylls, of Helston, Cornwall.

At Clapton, Middlesex, aged 70, the Rev. George Coulthard, formerly of Emmanuel College, and Medstead, Hants.

June 13. At Winchester, aged 61, the Rev. Edward Wickham, Vicar of Preston Candover, Hants.

At Hastings, aged 28, the Rev. George F. Hitchcock, B.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, eldest son of George Hitchcock, esq., of Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-park.

At Penmaenmawr, North Wales, suddenly, aged 62, the Rev. W. A. Care-Browne-Care, M.A., late Rector of Stretton-en-le-Field, Leicestershire, and second and only surviving son of the late Sir W. C. B. Cave, bart.

At Tenby, the Rev. J. C. Shapley, formerly of Carriacou, West Indies.

June 14. At Goldington, Beds., aged 56, the Rev. Wm. Monkhouse, Vicar of that parish, and Senior Fellow of Queen's Coll., Oxford.

At Guestling Rectory, Sussex, aged 41, the Rev. John Mayow Lukin.

Suddenly, at Islington, aged 60, the Rev. William Bolger.

June 18. Suddenly, at Wanstead, Essex, aged 55, the Rev. John Budgen, Incumbent of Barking-side, Essex.

At the Rectory, South Tedworth, aged 68, the Rev. John Fendall.

June 20. In Sussex-gardens, aged 77, the Rev. John Brewster Wilkinson, for many years Rector of Holbrook, Suffolk.

At Halberton, Devon, aged 45, the Rev. Charles George Newcomb, Vicar.

DEATHS.

ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORder. March 1. Suddenly, at Hobart Town, Tasmania, aged 57, Richard Bright, esq., M.D.,

third son of the late Rev. John Bright, o Skeffington-hall, Leicestershire.

March 5. At New York, aged 45, Thomas Caswall, esq., formerly Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and fourth son of the late Rev. R. C. Caswall, Vicar of West Lavington, Wilts.

April 6. At Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica, Dr. David Mason, late Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica.

April 9. After a lingering illness, contracted while serving in the Crimea, Capt. Fenton John Aylmer, late of the 97th Foot and Northumberland Light Infantry Militia, eldest son of Arthur Percy Aylmer, esq., and grandson of Sir Fenton Aylmer, bart.

April 10. At Vera Cruz, of yellow fever, aged 26, M. H. Price, esq., Lieutenant Royal Marines.

April 14. At Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope, of fever, aged 26, Harry Parnell Cole, Lieut. Royal Engineers, son of Lady Henry Moore and the late Edward Cole, esq.

April 26. At Dum Dum, aged 21, Janie Harriet, wife of Capt. J. E. Cockburn, R.A., A.D.C. to General Showers.

April 30. At Tripoli, in Barbary, Elizabeth, widow of John Dickson, esq., Surgeon R.N., dau. of Arch. Dalzell, esq., sometime Governor-Gen. of Cape Coast Castle, &c. "It was chiefly through the persevering efforts of this excellent and very remarkable lady that the inhuman treatment of the Christian captives in Barbary was fully made known to Europe early in the present century, and their ransom ultimately effected. Residing at that time in Algiers, where her brother was British ViceConsul, she was an eye-witness of the horrible sufferings of these poor creatures, and when all other efforts in their behalf had failed, the eloquent appeal of a girl of sixteen, published in the leading English journals, aroused such a feeling in Europe as forced the subject upon the serious attention of Government, and led to the famous expedition under Lord Exmouth, and the final overthrow of that infamous system of piracy which had been so long the scourge and the disgrace of Europe. For her early and effectual labours in this benevolent cause she was made a member of the Antipiratical Society of Knights and Noble Ladies, liberators of the slaves in Africa, with the honours and privileges of a Lady Foundress,' receiving at the same time the gold medal, and an unanimous vote of thanks, for the eloquent and energetic appeals that led to the employment of efficacious measures for the liberation of the Christian slaves in Africa.' Mrs. Dickson was nearly 70 years of age when she died, and the universal grief at her death, among all classes of people in Tripoli, where she spent so many years of her life, is the best tribute to her benevolence and worth."-Malta Times.

John Wheeley Gough Gutch, esq., (mentioned at p. 792, vol. ccxii.) was born in Bristol, and educated as a surgeon, at the infirmary there. After being for some time in private practice in Florence, he accepted the pleasant

and varied, but somewhat laborious, life of Queen's Messenger, and as such bore the despatches of our ambassadors from most of the capitals of Europe where we are represented by plenipotentiaries, including Paris, Madrid, Vienna, St. Petersburgh, and Constantinople. It was while engaged in the last-named mission that he was struck with paralysis, and had to retire from the service on a pension. Still, of a refined taste and of a most sweet and genial disposition, he bore his sufferings, which were at times most acute, with the greatest patience, and occupied himself in literary and art matters, having been, amongst other things, a very ardent photographer. Under the patronage of the late Prince Albert, Mr. Gutch published for twenty-one years an almanack, entitled "The Literary and Scientific Register," which was a little encyclopædia in its way, and shewed how various and useful was the knowledge its compiler possessed. He occasionally contributed agreeable literary papers to "Felix Farley's Bristol Journal," the paper so long conducted by his father. A more generous Christian and benign spirit, or one whose tastes were more refined and innocent, than those of the late J. W. G. Gutch, could not be found. He leaves a widow, but no children.

May 2. At Southport, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Harrison, esq., of Galligreaves, Blackburn, Lancashire.

May 4. At Falls of Truim, Inverness-shire, Major D. Macpherson, of Ralia. The deceased was for many years collector and comptroller of the Customs of Inverness, and a magistrate in the county. He was born at Breackachy, in Badenoch, in 1787, and entered the 69th Regt. as an ensign at the age of eighteen. He went with his regiment to India, and was dangerously wounded in the expedition to Java. Between 1815 and 1823 he served in England with the 11th Foot, and was then appointed to the Customs. Some years ago Major Macpherson relinquished all active occupation.-Inverness Courier.

May 5. At Sholapore, Capt. Charles C. G. Cowper, 8th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry.

May 7. At her residence, Gloucester-gardens, Hyde-park, aged 90, Mary Cathcart, widow of Dr. Alex. P. Anderson, formerly of Brighton.

At Clifton, Anna Maria, widow of A. F. Lind, esq., Bengal Civil Service.

May 9. Aged 25, during the voyage from Bombay to England rid the Cape, James Drummond Stewart, Lieut. H.M.'s 72nd Highlanders, second surviving son of Lieut.-Col. C. A. Stewart, late Bombay Army.

May 10. At Broughton-place, Edinburgh, aged 97, Andrew Storie, esq., Writer to the Signet. He had been a member of the Society for the period of sixty-eight years, having been admitted in the year 1794, five years earlier than any member now surviving. Mr. Storie, besides being one of the most respected and energetic members of the profession in Edinburgh, had for a long time filled the office

of treasurer of his Society. Up to the very end of his life, too, he retained very much of his old business habits and acuteness of intellect, and even a keen relish for the study of legal principles and doctrine.-Scottish Paper. May 10. At Simla, Sophie, wife of Patrick Hunter, esq., Capt. 82nd Regt.

May 11. At Dublin, aged 77, Dr. John Richardson, Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals. He entered the army in 1805, served at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, as also in South America and the early part of the Peninsular War; for which he had received a medal with two clasps.

Suddenly, in a coffee-house in the Waterlooroad, Dr. Magnus Wikstrom, a Swedish traveller, who had but recently returned from Australia. It appeared at the inquest that the deceased, whose travels had been very extensive, suffered much from the want of medical attendance on his last voyage. He entered the coffee-house to wait for a railway, but was suddenly taken ill, and died almost immediately.

Major James Masterson Pennington (mentioned at p. 794, vol. ccxii.) entered the army on the 5th of February, 1807, and became lieut. the 31st of March, 1808. He served in the" Peninsula with the 5th Regt. from June, 1809, to May, 1814, and while commanding a party of one sergeant and thirty men, on the 9th of June, 1811, drove the enemy's picket from the foot of the breach. While engaged at the siege and storm of Cuidad Rodrigo he received two contusions in the trenches, by the explosion of a 13-inch shell. He received the warmedal and eleven clasps for his services.

May 14. At Brompton, aged 83, Sarah Prosser, widow of Thomas Gibbs, esq., of Bromptonlodge, Old Brompton, and Ampthill, Beds., and dau. of the late Thoswihan Brandreth, esq., J.P., of Houghton-hall, Bedfordshire.

May 15. At Skisdon-lodge, Cornwall, aged 84, Vice-Adm. John Sheridan.

May 16. At Madeira, aged 66, Thos. Wakley, esq., M.R.C.S. Eng., Coroner for Middlesex, and late M.P. for the borough of Finsbury. See OBITUARY.

May 17. In the Tenterden Union Workhouse, aged 71, Mrs. Weller. She was the dau. of J. Franks, esq., of Stoke-hall, Essex, and niece to Dr. Thomas Lee, President of Trinity College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of that University from 1814 to 1818, with whom in early life she resided. She, when young, was married to G. Crofton, esq., brother to Sir Edward Crofton, and for some years they resided in Kent. Becoming reduced in their circumstances, she and her husband left England, and for many years lived at the Cape of Good Hope. After Mr. Crofton's death she maintained herself for a time at the Cape by teaching, but eventually returned to England in distress, and became an inmate of the London Union, from which she was passed to ber settlement at Tenterden. Late in life she married a person named Weller, in humble