die in a few months-another of that list of successful administrators-men like Dalhousie, Wilson, and Wardwhom the Obituary of this year records to have died in their prime.

In the early part of last year Lord Elphinstone was nominated a Grand Cross of the civil division of the Order of the Bath, and, as a mark of Her Majesty's especial favour, was created (May 12) a peer of the United Kingdom by the name, style, and title of Baron Elphinstone, of Elphinstone, in the county of Stirling. The late nobleman had been in 1836 made a member of the Privy Council, and the same year made a Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order of Knighthood. For some years he had sat in the House of Lords as one of the representative peers for Scotland. The late Lord Elphinstone was never married.

Oct. 6. At Oxford, aged 55, Dr. Stephen Elvey, Organist of New and St. John's Colleges, and of St. Mary's Church; since 1856 he filled the office of Choragus in the University of Oxford. He was well known in his profession as a profound and talented musician, thoroughly versed in the best school of English church music. Of late years he devoted a great portion of his time and attention to the correct chanting of the Psalms, and in 1856 he published a Psalter pointed upon the soundest and most approved principles. Dr. Elvey had the misfortune very early in life to lose his right leg by an accidental shot from the gun of a friend. Notwithstanding this disadvantage, few performers could give greater effect to Handel's choruses than the organist of New College, aided by a fine instrument, in Wykeham's lofty and beautiful chapel.

March 4. At Craven House, Wakefield, aged 77, Mrs. Erskine, widow of the Hon. H. D. Erskine.

Jan. 10. At Miss Sellon's, the Priory, Bradford-on-Avon, aged 33, Harriett, eldest surviving dau. of the late Sir David Erskine, bart.

Sept. 3. At Uddens, Wimborne, Charlotte, wife of T. B. Evans, esq., of North Toddenham, and of Deane, Oxon, and second dau. of the late Sir John Simeon, bart.

July 17. In Dorset-square, Capt. Harry Eyres, C.B., of Knockwood Park, Tenterden, Kent. As commander of

the Modeste, he distinguished himself highly by his services during the first Chinese war, and was honourably mentioned in the Gazette no less than five times.

Feb. 3. At Edinburgh, aged 70, Sir Henry Fairfax, of the Holmes, Roxburghshire, a colonel on the retired list. He was created a baronet in March, 1836, as a tribute to his father's (Vice-Admiral Sir William G. Fairfax) gallant conduct in Lord Duncan's victory at Camperdown.

Jan. 10. At Hazelbank, near Edinburgh, Lieut. Gen. Chessborough Grant Falconer, K.H., Col. of the 73rd Foot.

Dec. 30. At Sutton Vicarage, Isle of Ely, aged 69, the Rev. Thomas Fardell, LL.D., vicar of Sutton, and magistrate of the county.

Dec. 26. At Acton, Maine, U.S., aged 104, Mr. Ralph Farnham, the last survivor of the men who took part in the battle of Bunker's Hill, in 1775.

Jan. 18. Mr. Henry Farren, the manager of the St. Louis Theatre, eldest son of William Farren, the celebrated English comedian.

April 3. In Chapel-st., Belgrave-sq., Mary, dau. of the late Colonel the Hon. D. L. Anstruther, and widow of F. S. G. Farrer, esq., Brayfield House, Bucks.

April 5. At Geneva, aged 60, MajorGeneral Orlando Felix. He entered the army in 1810, was wounded at Quatre Bras, and became Major-Gen. Oct. 26, 1857. While on the staff in India, he found opportunities of paying several visits to Egypt, where he first deciphered the names and titles of the Pharaohs, and an epitome which he drew up has been translated into French and Italian, and is a text-book on Egyp tian history.

Nov. 8. In Montagu-pl., Russell-sq., aged 60, from an attack of pleurisy, Sir Charles Fellows, kt.

Sir Charles was the son of John Fellows, esq., a gentleman of property in the vicinity of Nottingham, and was born in 1799. His name was first brought prominently before the public in 1838, by the publication of his "Journal of an Excursion in Asia Minor," which he had made in the previous year with a view of discovering some of its long-hidden treasures of art, and more especially of sculpture. With this view he travelled over most of the interior of that country, and passing

through the ancient Phrygia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia, came to Lycia, where he resolved on exploring the sides of the river Xanthus. Ascending the stream, he discovered the remains of the old city of the same name, about nine miles from the mouth of the river; and among the extensive ruins, he came upon a quantity of very interesting architectural remains and beautiful sculptures. Of these he made drawings, with which he enriched the work above alluded to. Public attention having been thus drawn to the subject, Mr. Fellows obtained, though with much difficulty, a firman from the Sultan, authorizing the removal of these treasures; and in the following year the spoils of Xanthus were transported to Rhodes through his indefatigable labours.

Mr. Fellows published, in 1841, a "Journal of his Second Excursion in Asia Minor," which further increased the interest felt in his explorations.

The authorities of the British Muscum now sent out an expedition under Mr. Fellows's superintendence, and the packages containing the precious remains of antiquity were safely brought to London and deposited in the British Museum, in what is styled "The Lycian Saloon," and are a great addition to our knowledge of ancient architecture and sculpture.

Mr. Fellows has published several valuable works illustrative of the monuments, coins, and history of this district.

In 1845 Mr. Fellows received the honour of knighthood, in recognition of the value of his discoveries in Lycia, and of his services in the removal of the Xanthian Marbles.

March 13. At Dublin, Sir Robert Ferguson, M.P. for Londonderry, lord-lieutenant of the county, and colonel of the Derry militia.

June 3. Aged 79, Mr. Ferneley, the animal-painter. Originally a wheelwright, he abandoned that trade for painting, and his first sitter was Mr. Assheton Smith, the well-known foxhunter.

March 24. At Hillington Hall, Norfolk, aged 73, Sir William J. H. B. Ffolkes, bart. The late baronet was the son of Sir Martin Browne by the daughter and co-heir of the late Sir John Turner, bart. He was educated

at Jesus College, Cambridge, and in 1818 he married Charlotte, the dau. of Mr. Dominic G. Brown, of Castle MacGarrett, co. Mayo. Sir William, who was a staunch Whig, was returned for Norfolk in 1830, in conjunction with Mr. Coke, "of Holkham," and sat for the county for several years. He was also chairman of the Norfolk Estuary Company. He is succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, William Howell, his eldest son having been killed by lightning eleven years since.

Sept. 25. At Tarver Hall, co. Mayo, aged 74, Charles, second Baron Ffrench, of the Peerage of Ireland. The deceased nobleman was a zealous Roman Catholic, and follower of Mr. O'Connell. He succeeded his father in the estates and peerage in 1809, and married, in 1827, the eldest daughter of the late John Browne, of Moyne, by whom he leaves issue.

April 13. At his residence Lansdowne-crescent, Notting-hill, aged 76, John Finlaison, esq., President of the Institute of Actuaries.

Mr. Finlaison was born at Thurso, in Caithness, North Britain, on the 27th of August, 1783. His studies were, in the first instance, directed to practice at the Scottish bar. Visiting London, however, on business about 1804, he was induced to change his views, and soon after entered the civil service. Appointed in 1805 to the Admiralty Office, he speedily distinguished himself by suggesting a plan, which was adopted, for the entire reorganization of the system under which the vast correspondence of the department was then imperfectly carried on. The "Navy List ' was first compiled in its present semiofficial form by him, and was published under his superintendence. A scheme for the establishment of a widows' fund in the civil service, and a similar plan (afterwards carried out) on behalf of the widows of the naval medical officers, drew Mr. Finlaison's attention, in 1817, to the study of vital statistics. The information then extant on this question was extremely meagre and unsatisfactory; but resorting to the official records of the Exchequer, where certain classes of life annuities had long been payable, Mr. Finlaison established from authentic data those deductions which enabled him successfully to point out the unfitness of the tables then made

use of by Government for the sale of annuities. Mr. Finlaison's representations met with a favourable reception from Mr. Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer at that time, and ultimately led to the establishment of a sounder system, that brought about an immense pecuniary saving to the country. The immediate result of his general services on this question was his appointment, in 1821, to the office of Government Actuary. From this time forward, until his retirement in 1851, his counsel and calculating powers were called in requisition when any of the public measures involved considerations of political arithmetic. Some of the principal subjects in which he was consulted may be enumerated in the order of their Occurrence. The negotiation with the Bank of England for its acceptance of the charge for public pensions, in consideration of the "dead weight" annuity; the investigations in 1825 and 1827 by select committees of the House of Commons into the general condition of friendly societies; the preparation of his report in 1829 on the evidence and elementary facts on which his new tables of life annuities were founded. This important Parliamentary document contained twenty-one new observations of the law of mortality, and one of the law of sickness prevailing among the labouring classes in London; vast computations of the duration of slave and Creole life with reference to the emancipation of slaves in 1834, and the West India loan raised for that purpose; Mr. Finlaison's report on the late Mr. Hume's resolutions on that loan is a Parliamentary paper of that date well worth perusal. In the measures emanating from the Ecclesiastical Commission in 1835; the steps leading to the "appropriation clause" in 1836; and those preceding the discussion of the churchrate question in 1837, Mr. Finlaison's services were called out to an extent greatly beyond what is generally known to the public. He was also consulted on certain points connected with the establishment in 1837 of the registration of births, deaths, and marriages; and the closeness of his estimate of the deaths which would be registered in the first year (falling within 14 of nearly 336,000 recorded) attracted much notice at the time when mentioned in the Registrar-General's first annual report. The demands made on his mental

powers about this time affected his health, and thenceforward he was obliged to exercise more caution in his devotion to the public service. His professional researches were, however, still assiduously carried on for some years, and from time to time he was frequently called upon to give evidence before Royal Commissions and select committees of both Houses of Parliament, until he finally retired in August, 1851, from his position as Actuary of the National Debt and Government Calculator. For the last nine years his studies were directed to Scripture chronology, and to the universal relationship of ancient and modern weights and measures. His researches, which were exceedingly profound on the latter subject, led him to form opinions decidedly adverse to the introduction of a decimal system of coinage and metrology into this country.

Sept. 27. At Old Charlton, aged 90, Lady Fisher, relict of Major-General Sir George Bulteel Fisher, K.H.

Oct. 5. At her residence, Grosvenorgate, Park lane, Louisa Catherine, wife of Sir John William Fisher.

Feb. 28. Lost on board the Nimrod steamer, on the passage from Liverpool to Cork, aged 72, Sir John Judkin FitzGerald, bart., of Lisheen, co. Tipperary, and Plas yn Roe, St. Asaph.

March 30. At Danesfort, co. Cavan, aged 74, the Very Rev. the Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, Dean of Kilmore. His lordship was the second peer, and succeeded to the title on the death of his brother.

Aug. 20. At Newmarket, of consumption, aged 50, Mr. Nathan Flatman. A first-rate jockey, he rode the winners of many of the great races; among others, " Orlando," for the Derby in the "Running Rein" year, and Lord Clifden's "Surplice" for the Doncaster St. Leger in 1848.

April 23. At Gloucester-sq., Hydepark, Lieut.-Gen. Edw. Fleming, C.B., Colonel 27th Regt. (Inniskillings).

Sept. 30. At Clapton, aged 73, the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, D.D., Minister of Finsbury Chapel. The name of this eminent Nonconformist preacher will be long associated with the foundation of the system of Sunday Schools, in which he was highly useful from his talent in addressing the young. Nor was he without success as a writer of religious works. Of his "Family De

votion," more than 50,000 copies have been sold in England alone, besides numerous editions in the United States. The son of the Rev. William Fletcher, of the Bridge of Teith, he was educated at the University of Glasgow, and in the year 1810 he came to London, where he occupied in succession the pulpits of Mile-end-road, Miles's-lane, Albion Chapel, Moorfields, and Finsbury Chapel.

Aug. 20. At his residence, Herculesbuildings, Lambeth, aged 37, Mr. Richard Flexmore, the well-known clown. At the early age of 11 years he made his first appearance at a small theatre at Chelsea, in a fantastic piece, called "The Man in the Moon." He danced very effectively a burlesque shadow-dance. He subsequently became a pupil of Mr. Frampton, and showed great aptitude for stage business in his own peculiar line. He was especially celebrated for his close and natural imitation, à la clown, of the leading Terpsichoreans of the day, such as Perrot, Carlotta Grisi, Taglioni, Cerito.

June 21. At his residence, Beresfordlodge, Peel-terrace, Brighton, aged 86, Luke Thomas Flood, esq., J.P. for Sussex, Herts, and Middlesex, and D.L. of Middlesex.

Dec. 2. At Prestwood, the Hon. Mrs. H. W. Foley.

Aug. 25. Capt. John Ford, late of the 79th Highlanders. The deceased officer served during the Peninsular campaign from 1809 to 1814, and was present at the siege of Flushing, the defence of Cadiz, and the battles of Fuentes d'Onor, Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse, besides other actions of less importance. He had received the war medal with four clasps for his services.

April 5. At Plymouth, aged 79, Sir James Forrest, bart., of Comiston. Sir James was a senior member of the Faculty of Advocates. Being a steady adherent of the Whig party, he was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1837, and was continued in that office for six years. Being Lord Provost in 1838, he was created a baronet on occasion of the coronation of Her Majesty. At the disruption in 1843, Sir James, who had for several years previously held the office of a ruling elder in the Established Church of Scotland, joined the Free Church. In everything which tended to social progress he took an active part. He served long as director

of many public companies and benevo lent institutions, and he had also the honour of holding the office of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in Scotland, now held by his Grace the Duke of Athol. Sir James married Charlotte, third dau. of Alexander Horsburgh, esq., of Horsburgh, in Peeblesshire, by whom he leaves two sons and two daughters.

July 1. At Southfield, near Stirling, Capt. J. N. Forrester, of Craigannet, H.E.I.C.S., a lineal descendant of John Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms.

Feb. 2. At Brussels, aged 70, Thomas Forster, M.D., F.L.S., F.R.Ast.S., Hon. Member of the Medico-Chirurgical and Phrenological Societies, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, &c.

This somewhat eccentric philosopher was the son of an eminent banker in Threadneedle-st., and grandson of the Governor of the Russia Company. From a very early age Dr. Forster and his brothers distinguished themselves in the study of natural science. At 16 he kept a journal, and at 19 he published a treatise on the migrations of the swallow; at 21 he became a member of the Linnean Society, and two years later went to college, a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1816 he went to study at Edinburgh, and became a member of the Wernerian Society. About 1829, being employed upon a treatise on the Calendar, he became enamoured of the history of the Saints he recorded, and adopted the Roman Catholic faith. The remainder of his life appears to have been without any fixed abode or purpose. During his whole life he was engaged in issuing works on anatomy, physiology, medicine, natural history and science, which, to judge from their titles, were of a very eccentric character. The nature of his writings may, perhaps, be best learnt by his own description of his own nature:-"J'ai eté joueur, moqueur, malade, et en quelques choses fou. comme le reste de mon espèce : j'ai eté écolier, académicien, musicien, physicien, métaphysicien, enthousiaste, voy ageur, aéronaute, phrénologiste, poète, et philosophe."

Dr. Forster married, in 1817, Julia, third dau. of Colonel Beaufoy, F.R.S.

March 19. At Kingsbridge House, Southampton, aged 81, Lieut.-Col. Ro

bert Hamilton Fotheringham, Madras Engineers.

Feb. 25. At Lowesby, Leicestershire, aged 32, Lawrence Woolaston, youngest son of the late Sir Frederick Fowke, bart.

May 25. At Walliscote House, near Reading, aged 79, Vice-Admiral Robert Merrick Fowler.

Feb. At Hoe House, Plymouth, aged 77, Thomas Were Fox, esq., merchant. Mr. Fox was the head of the mercantile-house of Fox, Sons, and Co.

Feb.13. Aged 36, Willingham Franklin, esq., formerly of Hazelbeech Hall, Northamptonshire, only son of the late Sir William Franklin, and nephew of Sir John Franklin.

Aug. 27. At Beaufort Castle, aged 83, Mrs. Fraser, of Strichen, relict of Capt. Fraser, of Strichen, and mother of the Right Hon. Lord Lovat.

April 26. At Swanbourne, Bucks, aged 49, Capt. Stephen Grenville Fremantle, R.N., youngest son of the late Vice-Adm. Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, G.C.B., K.M.T., &c.

Nov. 27. At St. Leonards-on-Sea, aged 84, Lieut.-Col. William Temple French, of Ballyhindon, co. Cork.

July 18. At Upper Camden-place, Bath, aged 25, Wm. Augustus Fry, of Weston-road, late of the 11th Hussars. The deceased was one of the fortunate few who survived the gallant charge at Balaklava, where he was severely wounded.

Nov. 7. At Firl-place, the Hon. Mrs. Gage. She was the only dau. of the Hon. William Gage, and married in 1856 her cousin, the Hon. Col. Gage, youngest son of Viscount Gage.

March 2. At Torquay, Isabella Rachel, dau. of the late Major-General Sir Archibald Galloway, K.C.B.

Dec. 5. In Charlotte-square, Edinburgh, aged 58, William, eldest son of the late Sir James Gambier.

Feb. 29. At Edinburgh, aged 75, Miss Gardiner, dau. of the late Gen. William Gardiner.

Sept. 2. Suddenly, at Greenwich Hospital, Commander Edward Garrett. He was wounded when lieutenant of the Mars at Trafalgar, and was in the same ship at the capture of the frigate Rhin, and four others. He was at the taking of Copenhagen in 1807, and senior lieut. of the Onyx at the capture of the Dutch brig-of-war Manly in 1809.

Aug. 30. At Tredugnoc Rectory, Monmouthshire, of scarlet fever, aged 36, Eleanor Isabella, wife of the Rev. John Philip Gell, and only child of the late Sir John Franklin, K.H.

June 29. At Point-de-Galle, Ceylon, Philip Wm. Le Geyt, esq., member of the Legislative Council of India, eldest son of the late Rev. Philip Le Geyt, of Marden, Kent.

Aug. 27. At Lakenheath, aged 82, Capt. Joseph Ginger. He was several years in active service abroad, particularly in Calabria, and was wounded at the battle of Maida.

May 23. At his residence, adjoining the Palace, Mr. F. H. Glover, F.S.A., Librarian to the Queen for upwards of twenty years.

Oct. 24. At Edinburgh, Mr. Edmund Glover, eldest son of the late celebrated actress, Mrs. Glover, and for some years past manager of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow.

Nov. 3. At his residence, Cavendishsquare, aged 75, Aaron Asher Goldsmid, esq.

Nov. 17. At her residence, St. John'slodge, Regent's-park, aged 72, Isabel, widow of the late Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, bart., Baron de Goldsmid and da Palmeira.

Sept. 1. At Wrottesley, aged 28, the Hon. Mrs. Edward Goodlake, only surviving dau. of Lord Wrottesley.

May 9. At New York, aged 67, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known as "Peter Parley." He was born in Connecticut, commenced life as a publisher in Harford, and after a visit to Europe in 1824, removed to Boston. From 1828 to 1842 he edited "The Token," and in 1827 he commenced his series of tales under the name of Peter Parley. In 1857 he had written and edited 170 volumes, of which about 7,000,000 copies had been sold, and about 300,000 were then sold annually. From these works Mr. Goodrich realized a large fortune. He was at one time a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and for several years resided in Paris as United States Consul.

Oct. 2. In Duke-st., Bath, aged 79, Admiral Charles Gordon, C.B., brother of the late Admiral Henry Gordon. The deceased entered the service as midshipman in June 1796, and in 1807, when in command of the St. Lucia. sloop, off Antigua, had the misfortune