present in the attack on Bomarsund. In December of that year he was promoted to the rank of Admiral, and in virtue of that grade became a Senator. He was Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.

Nov. 7. Suddenly, while riding to town, aged 57, Thomas Devas, esq., of Dulwich Common, J.P. for the county of Surrey.

March 19. At St. Andrew's-ter., Plymouth, aged 78, Rear-Admiral Richard Devonshire. He entered the navy in 1796 as first-class volunteer, and was present at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, the fall of Monte Video in 1807, and was first lieutenant of the Leda (Capt. R. Honeyman) at the bombardment of Copenhagen. He was also engaged in the Walcheren Expedition, and at the taking of Genoa in 1814. His captain's commission bore date June 28, 1838, since which period he has been on half-pay. He accepted retirement with the rank of Rear-Admiral, September 10, 1857.

Jan. 26. At Coburg, Mme. Schroeder Devrient, the celebrated German cantatrice. She was born in 1805, and first appeared on the stage in her 15th year, from which she retired in 1849, on occasion of her second marriage, with M. von Boch, a Livonian gentle

man.

Dec. 30. In Connaught-ter., aged 88, Miss Guy Dickens, dau. of the late General Guy Dickens.

Sept. 4. At Suez, Brevet-Major J. G. C. Disbrowe, of Her Majesty's 43rd Light Infantry. This gallant officer had been sixteen years in Her Majesty's service, and was present with his regiment during the whole of the late operations in Central India.

Sept. 9. Very suddenly, at his residence, Blencogo, Cumberland, aged 67, George Dixon, esq., J.P.

Nov. 22. At Bath, suddenly, of apoplexy, aged 74, Robert Ragueneau Dobson, esq., formerly Capt. 5th Fusiliers.

May 21. At Southfield-lodge, Eastbourne, aged 86, Sir Wm. Domville, bart., Lord Mayor of London in 1813-14, when the Allied Sovereigns were entertained at Guildhall.

Sept. 14. At Paris, aged 61, the Marchioness of Donegal. The late Marchioness was eldest dau. of Richard, first Earl of Glengall, and married, in 1822, the Marquess of Donegal (then Earl of Belfast), by whom she leaves

issue an only dau., Lady Harriet Ashley.

Sept. 30. At Naples, Madame Dupont, the second dau. of the late Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, Kt.

March 17. At Dover House, aged 55, Georgina, Lady Dover, the widow of the first Lord Dover, and dau. of the late Earl of Carlisle. An edition of "White's Natural History of Selborne," by her ladyship, has recently been published by the Christian Knowledge Society.

Oct. 18. In Grafton-st., aged 61, the Right Hon. Lady Downes.

Feb. 20. At Albury Park, Guildford, aged 73, Henry Drummond, esq.

He was the eldest son of Henry Drummond, esq., of the Grange, Hants (the well-known London banker), and Anne, dau. of the first Viscount Melville. He was born in 1786, and was educated at Harrow, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he, in 1825, founded the professorship of Political Economy. In 1847 he was elected for West Surrey, and he continued to represent it until his death. He was a man of great activity of mind, which he displayed in numerous writings upon religious, political, and general subjects, a member of various learned societies, and a very effective speaker in Parlia ment. In 1807 he married Lady Harriet Hay, eldest dau. of the ninth Earl of Kinnoul, who died in 1854, and he leaves two daughters. In politics Mr. Drummond was essentially a Tory, and he retained to the last the principles he had early imbibed from Mr. Pitt and Lord Melville. Thus he always voted for the Government on the Budget, though he might oppose them on everything else, for he held that "they must know best what money was wanted, and how it should be raised."

May 3. At Eaglehurst, Hampshire, aged 65, Major-Gen. Berkeley Drummond. The deceased had served in the Scots Fusilier Guards for nearly fitty years. With that regiment (then called the 3rd Guards) he took part in the campaign of 1814, in Holland, including the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom; the campaign of 1815; and the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. He was one of the grooms in waiting to Her Majesty. His commissions bore date as follows: Ensign, March 5th, 1812; Lieut. and Capt., July 4th, 1815; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., Dec. 21st, 1826; Col.

Nov. 23rd, 1841; and Major-Gen., Nov. 11th, 1851.

Aug. 14. At Paris, André Marie Constant Duméril, a celebrated naturalist.

May 24. In London, aged 68, Lieut.Col. Thos. Dundas, of Carron Hall and Torwood. The deceased was the son of Major-Gen. Thomas Dundas and Lady Helena, dau. of the Earl of Home. He attended the Military College at Marlow, and, during the Peninsular war, served as ensign in the 52nd Light Infantry. He afterwards joined the 1st Royal Dragoons as lieutenant, and subsequently was appointed captain of the 15th Hussars. He marched into France with the army of occupation, but almost immediately returned home. he married Charlotte Anna, dau. of Joseph Boultbee, esq., of Springfield House, Warwick. On the breaking out of the war the same year he rejoined his regiment, and in 1816 retired on half-pay, with the rank of major, and was subsequently advanced to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

In 1815

October 30. At Kensington, aged 84, the Right Honourable Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald, Baron Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree, a Baronet of Scotland and Nova Scotia, Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom, G.C.B., Grand Cross of the Imperial Brazilian Order of the Cruzero, Knight of the Royal Order of the Redeemer of Greece, and of the Order of Merit of Chili.

The family of Cochrane has held a very distinguished position among the baronial families of Scotland from a very remote period, and had extensive possessions in Renfrewshire. At the head of the race in the fifteenth century was Robert Cochrane, a man who seems to have devoted himself to elegant pur. suits to a degree far beyond the ideas of that age; for it is recorded of him, that in 1456, he surrendered his estates to his eldest son, in order that he might devote himself, without distraction, to the study of architecture. This accomplished noble became the favourite and minister of James III., and exercised so much power as to excite the jealousy of the rude nobility against himself (whom they contemptuously styled "the mason chiel ") and his master. The result was a conspiracy, in course of which, Cochrane falling accidentally into the power of his enemies, was

hanged by Archibald Douglas, who gained from his share in the transaction the name of "Archibald Bell-the-Cat." A descendant of this unfortunate statesman, Sir William Cochrane, of Cowden, was a leading man of the Royal party when Charles the First visited his turbulent subjects of Scotland in 1641, and by his exertions effected a temporary reconciliation. Charles created him a baron by the style of Lord Cochrane of Cowden, in the same year; but the patent was not published until 1647, and he is there styled Lord Cochrane of Dundonald. During the civil wars he did great services for the King, and was fined by Cromwell 5000l. for his malignity. At the Restoration, his services and sufferings were recognised by Charles the Second, by his elevation to the earldom of Dundonald, and the gift of considerable places and emoluments. A second son of this worthy joined in Argyll's insurrection against James the Second, and escaped the consequences only by the payment of a fine or bribe of 5000l. The deceased Admiral was descended from this son.

Lord Cochrane, (for by his courtesytitle, and not by his earldom, his name is a household word wherever the English race is spread) was born on the 14th December, 1775, at Annsfield, Lanarkshire, the eldest son of Archibald, ninth Earl of Dundonald, by Anne, second daughter of James Gilchrist, a distinguished captain in the navy.

The once extensive family estates, which had been greatly impaired by the forfeitures, fines, and waste of his predecessors, were reduced almost to nothing by the genius of the ninth earl. He had an unfortunate talent for inventions, which proved in the end more fatal to his family than all the miscalculated politics of his ancestors. He was a man of great scientific acquirements, quick observation, and fertile mind, and made or suggested many discoveries which, having since benefited posterity, served only to hasten his own ruin. Among other experiments, the Earl discovered that coal, treated in a particular manner by heat, gave forth an inflammable gas, which, being caused to pass through a tube, and lighted at one extremity, produced a continuous flame, with great illuminating power. He actually applied this discovery to throw a light

over his own works; but he never carried his invention to any public utility, and by this oversight probably lost the opportunity of restoring the fortunes of the family. As it was, a series of expensive failures caused the dispersion of the small remainder of the ancestral lands; and though the Earl, a handsome and accomplished man, was successful in three marriages, his son succeeded to nothing but the title and an ancient

name.

Lord Cochrane, the Admiral, was the eldest of seven children, of whom three died young. So fallen were the fortunes of the family, that the young nobles appear to have owed their early education almost to accident. The mother died early. Their earliest instructor was a volunteer, the minister of the parish in which was Culross Abbey, the family seat, who gratefully sought to repay early benefits by imparting elementary instruction to the children of his patron; their maternal grandmother also devoted a portion of a very limited income to provide a tutor. Before this precarious instruction had time to produce effects on the young hero's mind, his father, intent on forwarding a useful invention for covering ships' bottoms with a preparation of tar -ships of war were at that time "protected by innumerable large-headed copper nails, driven into the woodwork -took him with him to London. The Earl's invention failed to command even a trial. The Admiralty poohpoohed it as an innovation; the private builders, with more frankness, declined to adopt a plan which would be injurious to their profits-the worm was their friend, not their enemy. The visit was, however, productive of great results to young Cochrane. His father had fixed upon the ariny for his son's profession; the son had fixed upon the navy for himself. The father had obtained for him a commission in the army; the lad's uncle - afterwards Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, then a captain in the navy-had already put his name on the books of the various ships he commanded; so that the youngster was, at the same time, an officer of the army and an officer of the navy, and of some standing in the latter profession. The parent took the initiative, and put his son into regimentals, after the grotesque taste of those times. These wonderful habili

ments, restraining for the first time the limbs of a raw Scotch boy, already shot up into tall stature, were so provocative of ridicule, that the shy lad took an intense hatred to the army, and announced it so forcibly, that his father retaliated by a sound cuffing. But the spirit which in after life compelled obedience from all that eame within its sphere was not likely to succumb to such treatment on such a subject; the father finally yielded, and on the 27th June, 1793, the future hero, being then 17 years old, joined the Hind, of 28 guns, at Sheerness, as midshipman. The Earl of Hopetown, a connection of the family, kindly met the difficulty of an outfit by advancing 1007.; his father gave him his gold watch and his blessing, all the patrimony he ever inherited. The first lieutenant of the Hind, Jack Larmour, was a character which would not be tolerated in these more polished days— one of those men who were promoted from the forecastle to the quarter-deck to do the rough work. His ordinary garb was that of a seaman, and his delight to cover his hands, face, and clothes, with grease and tar, in setting up rigging, caulking the seams, or other practical work. Jack had conceived a great prejudice against the young officer; he objected to him somewhat as a new comer; he objected to him much as his captain's nephew; he objected to him more as a lord; and he objected to him most of all as a youngster six foot high. He had, perhaps, also heard that he had a commission in the army, and he objected to such an anomaly; perhaps he thought the youth had proved too bad for the army, and was thought good enough for the navy. The unlucky young noble's chest, scanty as was his outfit, drew forth a storm of growls from the lieutenant he had hardly gone below when the key was sent for; the noise of sawing was soon heard, and the indignant mid beheld his officer superintending, with evident satisfaction, the operation of sawing the offending chest short off, just beyond the keyhole. When the box had been reconstructed in its diminished form, the lieutenant returned the key, pointing out to its owner the absurd arrangement of shore-going carpenters, who had put the keyhole at the end of a chest instead of in the middle. After this

favour.

The early years of Lord Cochrane's service must be rapidly passed over. The teachings of Jack Larmour had made him excellent in many points of practice which afterwards stood him good stead. His uncle was an able officer, and the war with the French Convention kept the game alive. From the Hind, Captain Cochrane was transferred to a finer frigate, the Thetis, ordered to the North American station, and took his nephew with him. In January, 1795, Admiral Murray gave the noble midshipman an order as acting third-lieutenant of the Thetis. It was but eighteen months since Jack Larmour had so whimsically visited his disgust at the chest of the new comer; but such had been the Idiligence of the youth that there was no doubt of his competency to fill the rank to which his uncle's patronage and his own title had promoted him. In a short time he was, on the requisition of the captain, appointed to the Africa, and his commission was confirmed. Lieutenant Lord Cochrane soon rejoined his uncle's ship, but was as quickly transferred to the Resolution, the flag ship of Admiral Vandeput, who had succeeded Admiral Murray. After remaining five years on the North American station, the Thetis returned to England. In the summer of 1798, Lord Cochrane was again afloat, serving under Lord Keith in the Mediterranean, in the Barfleur, and afterwards in the Queen Charlotte. According to the opinions put forth by the Earl of Dundonald, in his "Autobiography of a Seaman," the naval campaign in this

quarter was sadly mismanaged. Between Lord St. Vincent and Lord Keith the French and Spanish squadrons were many times suffered to escape, when a little promptitude and decision would have ensured their destruction. Nevertheless, great things were done, despite the inactivity of the chiefs, by their restless subordinates; but it is singular to find Nelson, in command, and Cochrane, a junior lieutenant, alike chafing on the bit that restrained their impulses to glorious action. Nelson, unconsciously, afforded Cochrane a step-he had captured the Genereux, 74, and Cochrane was appointed her prizemaster. His crew was scanty in number, and miserable in efficiency; the prize's rigging was badly set up and dangerous. In this precarious state the prize was caught in a gale of wind, the masts and spars were in the utmost danger, none of the crew could be induced to go aloft, and the peril was imminent. But there were two spirits on board to whom danger and difficulty were things made only to be faced and overcome. Lord Cochrane's brother Archibald had also entered the navy, and was serving in the Queen Charlotte; he had been permitted to accompany his brother on board the prize. These two ascended the quivering rigging, a few of the better seamen followed, the mainsail was furled, and the Genereux brought uninjured into Port Mahon. The fortunate accident which perhaps saved the ship, perhaps also saved the officers' lives. While they were absent, the Queen Charlotte took fire at Leghorn, and was totally destroyed; the captain, four lieutenants, the marine officer, surgeon, upwards of twenty masters, mates, and petty officers, and 600 men perished.

Lord Cochrane's gallantry in the Genereux was so well appreciated by the Admiral, that he recommended him for promotion, and in the meanwhile appointed him to Her Majesty's man-ofwar the Speedy. This vessel was a burlesque on a ship of war, even as ships of war were at that day. Her name might have been given in derision; she was the size of a coasting brig; she was crowded rather than manned by a crew of eighty-four men and six officers, and her armament consisted of fourteen 4-pounders-a gun as large, but not so handy, as a blunderbuss. The commander's cabin is an example of this

warlike craft's accommodation ― there was no room for even a single chairthe lockers around served for seats; but as the ceiling was only five feet high, a very peculiar manoeuvre was required in order to get seated. A great inconvenience was, that when the long cap. tain wished to shave, the sky-light was removed, the looking-glass placed on the deck, and the captain, thrusting his head through the opening, made the deck his toilet-table. The slight armament of this man-of-war had, indeed, its compensation, for when the captain strode supereminent upon his deck, he was able to ballast himself by carrying her whole broadside of shot in his jacket pockets!

But Commander Lord Cochrane was in no humour to be critical; the insignificant little vessel was his first command, and fame lay before him. If he could not grasp her wreaths the fault was not to be his. The Speedy and her hopeful commander were ordered to the Mediterranean. The time was critical. Suwarrow had chased the French from Italy; only Genoa was held by Massena with invincible tenacity; famine alone seemed capable of subduing the obstinacy of the garrison. To misery the French troops and the unhappy citizens had been already reduced-it was necessary to tighten the pressure even unto starvation. In this duty the Speedy, under her fearless commander, proved herself as efficient as nobler vessels under less spirited officers. Lord Cochrane's first prize ought to be recorded. "May 10. At 9 A.M., observed a strange sail take possession of a Danish brig under our escort. At 11.30 A.M. rescued the brig and captured the assailant. This prize-my first piece of luck-was the Intrépide, French privateer, of six guns and fortyeight men." And so he proceeded, now capturing a tartan, now recapturing prizes, cutting out a letter-of-marque, or escaping from a dozen gun-boats. The energy of the commander appeared to impart a speed and ubiquity to the little vessel, which seemed instinct with animal life, and pursued, turned, or run, "like a horse that knoweth its rider." The Speedy became a perfect nuisance all along the Spanish coast, and while at Port Mahon, information was received that several vessels had been fitted out to look after her. Lord Cochrane applied to have his 4-pounders changed

for 6-pounders. The request was acceded to; but when the new guns were sent on board, the ship's ports were not large enough to receive them, they were sent back, and the brig went again to cruise with her pop-guns. The Speedy had become a marked object with the Spanish authorities; and since all attempts at open capture had failed, she was to be trapped. A frigate was inade to assume the appearance of a well-laden merchantman. The Speedy fell into the snare-she sighted the stranger, gave chase, was permitted to overtake, and then the ports were raised, and a heavy broadside was seen ready to pour in the shot. But the captain of the Speedy was as quick-witted as daring. His brig had also been disguised in rude imitation of a Dane: he instantly hoisted Danish colours, and the Spaniard forbore to fire. But she sent a boat to examine. Cochrane, when he painted his ship a Dane, had also shipped a Danish quarter-master, and had rigged him in a sort of Danish uniform. The enemy's boat approached; Cochrane ran up that terror of the Spaniards, the yellow flag; the Dane came to the side, explained that the ship was two days from Algiers, where the plague was raging fatally. This was enough; the boat sheered off, and the Speedy made sail. Such audacity and confidence had success inspired into the Speedy's crew, that they grumbled at not being allowed to fire at the frigate, which is supposed to have carried at least thirty guns! But Cochrane was both prudent and humane. He would not incur fruitless danger, and he would not permit a useless shedding of blood. After this narrow escape, the Speedy pursued her career of suc

cess.

On looking over her log, it seems impossible, unless the enemy's vessels voluntarily threw themselves in her way, or the ship was ubiquitous, that captures could follow in such rapid succession. On the 28th of February, 1801, came the capture of the El Gamo, a feat of arms unexampled in war, and which, had Cochrane done nothing else, would have made his name historical.

"On the following morning the prizes were sent to Port Mahon; and keeping out of sight for the rest of the day, the Speedy returned at midnight off Barcelona, where we found the gunboats on the watch; but on our approach they ran in shore, firing at us