he returned about ten years since to this Court, as chief minister, and in such capacity he has terminated his earthly career. The Count was altogether for nearly five-and-twenty years a resident in country, and was highly respected in the circles of our aristocracy.

At Duke-street, Westminster, aged 87, Jane, widow of Samuel Homfray, esq., of Coworth House, Berkshire, and sister of the late Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., of Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire, whom she survived only 17 days.

At his residence, in Fisherton-Anger, near Salisbury, at the close of his 89th year, General George Mitchell. General Mitchell entered the army in 1776, and served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 31st Dragoons, under the Duke of York in Flanders, and conducted his men safely through Holland during the intense frost of 1794-95, in which the British army suffered very severely. He also distinguished himself in the battles of Famars and Cateau, and received the thanks of the Commander-in-Chief. He became a Major-General 1809, Lieutenant-General, 1814, and General, 1837.

At his residence, Dartford, county Kent, in a fit of apoplexy, after many years of suffering, aged 64, John Dunkin, esq., author of some interesting works of topography, and a diligent antiquarian. His principal works were "The History of Bromley," "The History of Bicester, with an inquiry into the Antiquities of Alchester, a city of the Dobuni, in Oxfordshire," "The History and Antiquities of the Hundreds of Bullington and Ploughley, co. Oxon," and History of the Antiquities of Dartford."

24. In Eaton-place, aged 79, John Gage, esq., of Rogate Lodge, Hampshire, a Clerk of the Signet; uncle to Lord Viscount Gage.

25. At Stilton, suddenly, aged 72, Stephen Rowles, esq., late of Washingley and Haddon. He has bequeathed to the Stamford and Rutland Infirmary such a sum of money as would produce a clear annual income of 500l., of which 3501. is to be appropriated to the general purposes of the infirmary, 100% for the salary of the house-surgeon, and 507 to provide a chaplain, and after a racies he gives the residue the infirmary, to

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rarity, who was a native of Edinburgh, was born in March 1813, and was the niece of the Scotch poet, Ferguson. At an early age she displayed much taste for music, and her father determined upon having her instructed in singing. Her improvement was so rapid that in two years she had made great proficiency in the art, and, after singing at some few concerts in Edinburgh with great écial, she was introduced by her father, in 1829, to Sir George Smart, who became her vocal instructor. After a course of study she appeared at Covent Garden, in December 1830, as Cinderella, with great success. and in April 1831 the production of Spohr's opera, "Azor and Zemira," afforded her an opportunity of improving in public favour. In 1834 she married Mr. Martyn, the bass singer, also of Covent Garden Theatre, and at the expiration of her London engagement they made a tour of the principal cities of America with profit and reputation. The fine person of Mrs. Martyn made her very attractive in the United States. They then returned to England, after a stay of two years, and finally established themselves as teachers of music in Newcastle-on-Tyne.

29. At Lancaster, aged 89, John Denis De Vitré, esq., Lieutenant R.N., and late of West Knoll, Cumberland, for many years the oldest Lieutenant in her Ma jesty's service. In 1781, when Lieutenant of the Chaser, 18 gun ship, whilst cruising off the Madras coast, she was fallen in by the Bologna, French frigate, of 36 guns, and, after engaging her in a severe but unequal contest for two hours and upwards, was compelled to surrender. For four months the officers of the Chaser were kept as prisoners of war on board the French vessel, but were afterwards unjustifiably transferred to the tender mercies of Hyder Ali, under whom it is well known all English prisoners cruelly treated. He was subjected to these cruelties for nearly two years, and it is believed that he was the last survivor of all the British prisoners who had been in confinement under the tyrant Hyder Ali, or his still more inhuman and perfidious successor, Tippoo Sultan.

were most

At Dundalk, aged 67, Captain Chandle, of the 17th Lancers. He first entered the service as a private soldier. In 1811 he was presented with an ensigncy in the Infantry, from which he subsequently exchanged into the Cavalry. In 1812 he was gazetted to a lieutenancy, and

late in the same year to a captaincy. His commissions were purchased by hard service alone. He served during the campaign of 1790, in Holland, including the actions of the 2nd and 6th of October. He also took part in the siege of Malta, and was present at the surrender of La Valetta and the battle of Maida. In 1807 he accompanied the expedition to Egypt, and was wounded before Rosetta. In 1809 he served in the Ionian islands, and witnessed the siege and capture of Santa Maria. In 1828 he was appointed Paymaster of the 17th Lancers.

30. In Pall Mall, aged 65, Mr. Joseph Calkin. He was a pupil of Mr. Lyon, and afterwards was articled for two years to Spagnoletti, so long a leader of the Opera band. Mr. Calkin was a violin player in the Drury-lane orchestra in 1798, and assisted in the arrest of Hatfield when he fired at George the Third. He was a tenor player in the Philharmonic Band, of which society he was a member and honorary librarian. In 1821 he was appointed one of the King's State Band by George the Fourth, and he was many years an active member of the Royal Society of Musicians. Mr. Calkin was also well known and respected as one of the firm of Calkin and Budd, of Pall Mall, at one time booksellers to Royalty.

31. At Boulogne-sur-Mer, aged 79, Lady Hobhouse, relict of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart.; daughter of Sir Joshua Parry, of Cirencester.

At Edinburgh, aged 73, the Right Hon. John Rollo, eighth Baron Rollo of Duncrub, Perthshire (1651), a Representative Peer of Scotland, and Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire. His Lordship was born April 22, 1773, the eldest son of James, seventh Lord Rollo, by Mary, eldest daughter of John Aytoun, esq., of Inchdairnie, Fifeshire, and succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father, April 14th, 1784. He was appointed to an ensigncy in the Scots Fusileer Guards, February 17, 1790. He carried the colours of that regiment at the battle of Lincelles, and continued to serve with it

in Flanders during the campaigns of 1793, 1794, and 1795. He quitted the army in April 1796, being then a Lieutenant in the same regiment. His Lordship was elected a Representative Peer of Scotland on the death of Lord Grey, in 1842, and supported the Conservative party. His Lordship was chiefly distinguished for the quiet virtues of a country gentleman and worthy landlord, and has gone down to the grave much beloved and respected by those on his estates in Strathearn, and those in their neighbourhood. His Lordship married at Edinburgh, June 12, 1806, Agnes, daughter of William Greig, esq., of Gayfield-place, by whom he had issue.

At Schaw Park, Clackmannanshire, aged 70, the Hon. Henry David Erskine, uncle to the Earl of Marr and Kellie, and heir presumptive to the latter diguity. Mr. Erskine was born May 10, 1776, the third son of John Francis Erskine, Earl of Marr (who was restored to that dignity in 1824, and died in 1825), by Frances, only daughter of Charles Floyer, esq., Governor of Madras. Mr. Erskine married at St. Pancras, Middlesex, Oct. 22, 1805, Mary Anne, daughter of John Cooksey, esq., by whom he had issue.

At Hickleton Hall, near Doncaster, aged 75, Sir Francis Lindley Wood, the second Bart., of Barnsley, Yorkshire (1784). He was born Dec. 16, 1771, the elder son of Charles Wood, esq., of Bowling Hall, near Bradford, by Catharine, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Lacon Barker, esq., and succeeded to the title of Baronet, in pursuance of a special remainder, on the death of his uncle Sir Francis, the first Baronet, who died July 9, 1795. Sir Francis Wood married Jan. 15, 1798, Anne, eldest daughter and coheiress of Samuel Buck, of New Granges, esq., barrister-at-law, and recorder of Leeds, by whom he had issue, the eldest of whom is the Right Hon. Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

PROMOTIONS.

1846.

JANUARY.

30. George Frederick Street, esq., to be Puisae Judge of New Brunswick; William Wright, esq, to be AdvocateGeneral, and William Boyd Kinnear, esq., Solicitor-General for that province. Samuel Turner Fearon, esq., to be Registrar-General and Collector of Chinese Revenue for the island of Hong Kong.

31. Lord Glenlyon, to be one of the Lords in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, vice the Earl of Hardwicke.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

30. 2nd Dragoon Guards, Major Wm. Campbell, to be Lieut.-Colonel; brevet Major Power Le Poer Trench, to be Major.-4th Light Dragoons, Major William Parlby, to be Lieut.-Col.; Capt. Lord George A. F. Paget, to be Major.

FEBRUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. Edward Walter Bonham, esq., to be Consul at Calais; Norman Pringle, esq., to be Consul at Stockholm.

4. Joseph Gibson Gordon, esq., to be Provost Marshal for the Virgin Islands.

8. The Marquess of Abercorn, K.G., to be Groom of the Stole to H. R. H. Prince Albert.

11. Knighted, Roderick Impey Murchison, Knight of the first class of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Stanislaus, &c., Fellow of the Royal Society, V.P. G.S. and R. Geogr. S., Member of the Imp. Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburgh, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, Hon. Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Royal Irish Academy, &c. &c.; and Doctor John Richa N., F.R.S., Medical Inspect»

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the titles and precedence to which they would have been entitled in case their father, the late Captain Henry Dawson Damer, had survived his brother the late Earl. Sir Chas. Augustus Fitzroy, Kat, to be Captain-General, and Governor-inChief, of New South Wales. Clarence Thomas Wylde, esq., to be Clerk of the Peace at Swellendam, in the Cape of Good Hope. Walter Harding esq., to be Crown Prosecutor for the district of Natal, in South Africa.

16. The Hon. Henry John Rous, Capt. R. N., to be one of her Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of High Admiral, vice Capt. the Hon. W. Gordon.

19. The Earl of Lincoln, to be one of the Visitors of Maynooth College.

to be Governor and Commander-in24. Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Kut., Chief of North Australia.

25. The Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., and the Right Hon. James Archibald cil, Daniel Peploe Peploe, of Garnstone, Stuart Wortley, sworn of the Privy Counesq., to be Sheriff of Hertfordshire, riz J. F. Vaughan.

bay Art., brevet Major Robert Henderson, 26. Brevet Major George Hutt, BomMadras Eng., and brevet Major Joshua Tait, 6th Bombay N. Inf., to be Companions of the Bath.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

6. Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Lieut.-Col H. Simmonds, from the St. Helena Regiment, to be Lieut.-Colonel.-St. Helena Regiment, Lieut.-Col. J. Ross, to be Lieut.-Colonel.-- Royal Engineers, Major-Gen. E. W. Durnford, to be Colonel Commandant.-West Kent Militia, Capt. T. G. Monypenny, to be Major; Capt. T. T. Hodges, to be Major.

13. 4th Foot. Gen. Sir T. Bradford, G. C.B., from 30th Foot, to be Colonel

MARCH.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. Charles John, Viscount Canning, Alexander Milne, esq., and the Hon. Charles Alexander Gore, to be Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings. Richard Stevens, esq. (now Vice-Consul at Samsoon), to be Consul at Tabreez; Benjamin Barrie, esq. (now Consular Assistant at Madrid), to be Consul at Alicante.

3. Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, K. C. H., to be a Groom in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, vice Duncombe.

5. Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, C.B., to be Groom of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert, vice Anson; General Sir G. Anson, to be Extra Groom of the Bedchamber; Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, Grenadier Guards, to be Equerry, vice Wylde; Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour, Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Equerry, vice Bowater.

9. Captain Charles Hotham, R. N., to be K.C.B.

10. Lieutenant-General Earl Cathcart, K. C. B., to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and of the island of Prince Edward, and GovernorGeneral of all Her Majesty's Provinces on the continent of North America, and of the island of Prince Edward.

11. Hon. S. T. Carnegie, and Ralph Neville, esq., to be Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.

18. Charles John, Viscount Canning, sworn of the Privy Council.

19. The Right Hon. Charles John, Viscount Canning, to be an additional Fine Arts Commissioner.

28. Theophilus Shepstone, esq., to be Diplomatic Agent to the native tribes residing within the district of Natal, in South Africa. John Maclean, esq., Captain in the Army, to be Diplomatic Agent to the T'Slamble, Congo, and Fingo tribes, on the eastern frontier of the Cape of Good Hope.

Df London, the Right Yor of the City

Herries, and Sir John Mark Frederick Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Eng., to be Commissioners for investigating and reporting upon the various railway projects of which the termini are proposed to

be established within or in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis.

Lord Lyttelton to be Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

13. 7th Dragoon Guards, Major-Gen. Sir George Scovell, K. C. B., to be Colonel; 7th Dragoons, Major General Sir William Tuyll, to be Colonel.-13th Foot, Major General Sir W. M. Gomm, K. C.B., to be Colonel.

20. Staff, brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, John Bloomfield Gough, of the 3rd Light Dragoons, to be Quartermaster-General to the Queen's Forces in the East Indies. Brevet Captain John St. Leger, 2nd West India Regiment, and Captain Thomas Hurdle, Royal Marines, to be Majors in the Army.

27. 61st Foot, Captain J. B. Thomas, to be Major.-Brevet, Captain C. Randall, 1st Foot Guards, to be Major in the army; Captain T. F. Tait, of 2nd Bengal European Regiment, to be Major in the army in the East Indies.

31. 9th Foot, to be LieutenantColonels, Major G. L. Davis, Major C. Barnwell; to be Majors, brevet Major C. Douglas, brevet Major M. Smith.

ter.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

To be retired Commander-. W. Les

Appointments.-Captains Sir T. Herbert, K. C.B. (1822), to the Raleigh; R. B. Watson (1842), to the Brilliant. Commanders J. C. Pitman (1842), to the Childers; E. Crouch (1843), to the Devastation.

With reference to the successful engagement at Punta Obligado, by the combined English and French Naval Forces, the following naval promotions have taken place, dated the 18th Nov. 1845, the day of the action, viz.-To be Captain, Commander B. J. Sullivan; to be Commanders, Acting Commander E. A. Inglefield, Lieutenant R. J. T. Levinge, C. F. Doyle, Lieutenant A. C. Key.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Bridport.-Alexander D. R. W. Baillie Cochrane, esq. (re-elected.) Gloucestershire. (East.)—Marquis of Worcester.

Mayo Co. Joseph Myles M'Donnell, esq.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Viscount Canning, to be one of her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into and considering the most effectual means of improving the metropolis, and of providing increased facilities of communication within the same.

2. To be Companions of the Bath :Col. Thomas Reed, 62nd Foot, Col. the Hon. Thomas Ashburnham, 62nd Foot, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Ryan, 50th Foot, Peter John Petit, 50th Foot, Marcus Barr, 29th Foot, Thomas Bunbury, 80th Foot, John Byrne, 31st Foot, Charles Barnwell, 9th Foot, Robert Blucher Wood, 80th Foot, James Spence, 31st Foot, and Capt. James Hope, command. ing her Majesty's steam-frigate Firebrand; also the under-mentioned officers in the service of the East India Company,-Major-Gen. Walter Raleigh Gilbert, to be K. C. B., and Lieut.-Cols. David Harriott, James Parsons, J. S. H. Weston, W. J. Gairdner, William Burlton, William Garden, Patrick Grant, James Stuart, Richard Benson, George Brooke, George Hicks, William Mactier, William Geddes, George Gladwin Denniss, and Edward Huthwaite, of the Bengal army, to be Companions of the said Most Hon. Military Order.

7. Lieut.-Gen. the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C. B., Governor-General of India, created Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of King's Newton, county of Derby; General Sir Hugh Gough, Bart, G. C.B., Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's forces in the East Indies, created Baron Gough, of Chinkeangfoo, in China, and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej, in the East Indies.

Major-Gen. Sir Henry George Smith, K.C. B., to be G.C. B.; Norman William Macdonald, esq., to be Captain