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Jones, The Rev. Edmund, rector of Mis- Lord Melbourne's Administration, he was cheldean &c. 3rd May.

raised in 1839 to the Peerage, as Baron Joplin, Thomas, Esq. well known for his Lurgan. The family from which his

introduction of joint-stock banking into Lordship derived was established in IreEngland, and his numerous works on land by Sir William Brownlow, Knt., a banking and the currency, suddenly at native of Derbyshire, who received, in Bohmischdorf in Austrian Silesia, 12th 1629, a patent and grant of lands in the April.

county of Armagh, in which he was sucKay, John, Esq. formerly E.I.C.S. St. ceeded at his decease, by his grandson, Helena, 9th May.

Arthur Chamberlain, Esq. who assumed Kenrick, Mrs. W. C. at the Holt, Oaking- the surname and arms of Brownlow. The ham, Berks, 24th April.

latter's grandson, the Right Hon. William Kerrison, Dr. Robert Masters, Upper Brook Brownlow, of Lurgan, represented the Street, 28th April.

county of Armagh in Parliament, and King, Mary, wife of Charles King, Esq. was long one of the leading Commoners of

of Broomfield Place, Essex, 16th May. the Sister Kingdom. By Judith Letitia, Kynaston, Roger, Esq, aged 71, 13th May. his first wife, daughter of Dean Meredyth, Lamb, Mary Anne, sister of the late he was father of Lieut. Col. Charles

Charles Lamb, author of the Essays of Brownlow, of Lurgon, who married
Elia, 20th May.

Caroline, daughter and coheir of Benja-
Lawrence, Elizabeth, relict of the late John min Ashe, Esq. of Bath ; and left at his

Lawrence, Esq. of Hampstead, 2nd May. decease in 1822, a son and successor, the Lewis, Col. of St. Pierre, co. Monmouth, noble Lord whose death it is our painful

aged 67. This gentleman, the represen- duty to record. That melancholy event tative of one of the oldest families in the the effect of an attack of typhus fevercounty, possessed the beautiful estate of took place on the 30th Apr. at Brownlow St. Pierre, near Chepstow, and was House. His Lordship had just completed Lieut.-Col. of the Monmouthshire Mili. his 52nd year. He married, first, in 1822, tia.

Mary, daughter of John, fourth Earl of Littledale, Thomas, Esq. at Highfield house, Darnley, but that Lady died in the fol

near Liverpool, 27th April. Mr. Little- lowing year, leaving an only child, Mary dale was the head of the widespread Elizabeth. His Lordship’s second wife family of Littledale. He married Sarah, was Jane, daughter of Roderick Macneil, daughter of Thomas Molyneux, Esq. and Esq. of Barra, and by her he leaves two has left two sons, and a daughter.

sons and one daughter; the elder of the Long, Walter, jun. eldest son of Walter former, Charles, being now Lord Lurgan.

Long, Esq. M.P. of Rood Ashton, Wilts, Lynn, Captain Thomas, late E.I.C.S. 2nd
at Rome, 17th April.

May.
Lovewell, John, Esq. formerly Captain 7th Maberley, Henrietta, wife of Joseph Ma-

Dragoon Guards, aged 61, May 16th. berley, Esq. of Harley Street, 4th May.
Lurgan, the Right Hon. Lord, 30th April. Macdonald, Susannah Helena, only dau. of

The death of this distinguished Nobleman the late General Alexander Macdonald,
is deeply felt in his unhappy country. 16th May.
A Christian in the highest acceptation of Macdowall, John, Esq. of the Inner Temple,
the term, a kind and considerate landlord, barrister-at-law, eldest son of the late
the munificent patron of every institution William Macdowall, Esq. of Woolmet,
having for its object the good and happi- N.B. 19th May.
ness of his fellow men, his Lordship Maclean, Arthur Henry, only child of Col.
could ill be spared at the present moment Maclean, 13th Dragoons, 25th April.
of national suffering. His whole life Manning, Lydia, relict of the Rev. James
was one of usefulness. Under his aus. Manning of Exeter, 16th May.
pices. Lurgon rose to be the important Manning, Mary, rclict of the late William
and flourishing town it now is, and to his Manning, Esq., M.P. of Totteridge,
devoted zeal and unbounded liberality.it Herts, and Combe-bank, Sundridge,
is chiefly owing that the Province of Ulster Kent, at Brighton, 12th May.
possesses the establishment for the educa. Manson, William Griffith, 3rd son of Col.
tion of the Deaf, the Dumh, and the Manson, Bombay Artillery, 30th April.
Blind, the most valuable of all the public Maples, Admiral John Fordyce, R.N.C.B.
charities which so creditably distinguish aged 79, 12th May.
the north of Ireland. At the ouiset of Marr, Mrs. Sarah Ann, of Hamilton terrace
his political career, the deceased Noble- St. John's Wood, 11th May.
man belonged to the Ultra-Tory party ; Marsh, Catherine, widow of the late Rev.
but, during the agitation on Catholic Henry Marsh, for nearly 30 years vicar of
Emancipation, he became a convert to Manuden, in Essex, at Bromley College,
religious tolerance, and thenceforward in Kent, in her 79th year, 30th April.
adopted moderate Whig principles. By Martin, Frederick, Esq. of Melbourne, New

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South Wales, magistrate for the district or the huts where poor men lie.. .... the of Port Philip, fourth surviving son of the fiercest hate or the most unbounded love Rev. J. W. Martin, rector of Keston, were equally his great reward.” It is, Kent, at Sidney, aged 28, 20th September therefore, quite impossible to utter one last.

syllable regarding him, which has not Martin, Thomas Barnewall, Esq. M.P., of been iterated and reiterated, which has

Ballinahinch, co. Galway. This gentle- not been rung and re-rung on the public man fell a victim to an attack of fever, ear, until the sound, like other clashing caught in the discharge of his duties as noises to which familiarity accustoms us, one of the Poor Law Guardians, on Fri- ceases to be heard, or, if heard, ceases to day, the 23rd April. By his death, a va. be heeded. Suffice it to state that the cancy occurs in the representation of the learned gentleman was born at Carhen, county of Galway, Mr. Martin was son near Cahirciveen, co. Kerry, on the 6th of the late eccentric Richard Martin, Esq., of August, 1775, that he received his who has given his name to the Act for the education at the College of St. Omer, prevention of cruelty to animals. His and that he was called to the Bar in 1798, possessions in Connaught may, from their being amongst the earliest members of the extent, be called a territory, but their Catholic church who became candidates value is by no means commensurate with for legal advancement. His parliamentary their extent. They descend to the hon- career commenced in April 1829, the ourable gentieman's only daughter and session imme ately succeeding that in heiress, Miss Martin, of Ballinahinch. which the Emancipation Act-the great May, Major-General, Sir I. M. K.C.B. achievement of Mr. O'Connell's life

K.C.H., at his residence in Hyde Park- had received the Royal assent. He had street, 8th May. This gallant officer was previously in 1828, been elected by the present throughout the entire Peninsular county of Clare, while Catholics were yet campaign, and at Quatre Bras and Water- excluded from Parliament, but had refused loo. For his services in the former he re- to take the prescribed oaths. Subse ceived a Cross and three Clasps,and for the quently he sat for Waterford, Kerry, the latter, the Order of St. Anne of Russia, cities of Kilkenny and Dublin, and lastly second class. He was also nominated a for the county of Cork. Knight of the Tower and Sword of Por- The family of O'Connell claims Milesian tugal in i815. Sir John May was son of origin, and was originally established in John May, Esq., Store-keeper of the the county of Limerick. During the Ordnance, Guernsey, and descended line- contest in Ireland in 1688, John O'Con. ally from John May, the historian and nell, Esq. of Derrynane, great-grandfather poet. He married in 1819 the only child of the late Mr. O'Connell, raised a of Robert Broff, Esq., formerly governor company of foot for the service of James of Bencoolen, Sumatra, and at his decease II., signalized himself at Derry, the was in his 67th year.

Boyne, and Aughrim, and at length Merrivale, Juliana Lavinia, relict of the late retiring with his shattered regiment to

Rev. Alexander F. Merrivale, 8th May. Limerick,was included in the capitulation Mill James, Esq., Lieut. on half-pay of the of that city. He died in 1741, leaving,

40th Regiment, in which Corps : he by Elizabeth his wife, dau. of Christopher served in the principal campaigns of the Conway, Esq., of Clahane, two sons, Peninsula, and was severely wounded at

Maurice (whose grandson Maurice O'ConWaterloo, at Southsea, 7th May.

nell was Captain in Berwick's Reg. Milnes, the Hon. Mrs. wife of Robert

in the service of France), and DANIEL. Milnes, Esq. 1st May.

The second son, Daniel O'CONNELL, Morrel, The Rev. Henry Cox, at Swilland Esq., who inherited Derrynane, married vicarage, Ipswich, 9th May.

Mary dau, of Duffe O'Donoghue, Esq. Montmorency, Major de, Bengal N.I. 10th of Anwys, co Kerry, and had twenty two March.

children, of whom four sons and eight Murray, Georgiana Caroline. 5th dau, of daughters arrived at maturity. Of the

John Murray, Esq. of Whitehall-place, former, the youngest Daniel,Count O'Con. 11th May.

nell, was a highly distinguished officer Munro, John Boscawen, Esq., of the Middle in the French eervice, and held the comTemple, at Madeira, 19th April.

mand of the 6th Irish Brigade. The O'Connell, Daniel, Esq. Q. C., M.P. for the eldest son Maurice O'Connell, Esq. of

county of Cork, at Genoa, on the 13th { Derrynane, survived until the year 1825, May. To this distinguished man may be when he died without issue aged 97; and applied the words of a recent biographer the third son, Morgan, who resided at of Pym :-“ His name was in the mouths Carhen, left at his decease in 1809, three of all, whether of the residents of palaces sons and six daughters, viz :

DANIEL, the eminent lawyer and orator, whose Towards 3 p.m. on Saturday he called his death occasions these remarks.

own man, and, taking him warmly by both John, of Grena, co. Kerry, father of Morgan hands to acknowledge the rare fidelity with

John O'Connell, Esq. M.P. for Kerry. which he had served him, he said, 'As yet 1 an James, of Lakeview, who is married and has not dying;' but two hours later he calied for the issue.

Rev. Dr. Miley (his chaplain), to whom he said, Mary, m. to Jeremiah M'Cartie. Esq.

when he had bent down over him, the better to Honora m. to Daniel O'Sullivan, Esq.

hear his fast sinking voice,-'I'am dying, my Catherine, m to Humphrey Moyneham, Esq. dear friend!' Ellen, m. to Daniel O'Connell, Esg.

“The physicians were still in attendance; but Bridget, m. to Myles M, Sweeny, Esq.

from that moment the prayers and other offices Alicia, m. to William Finn, Esq.

of religion, which had not been interrupted from Mr. O'Connell succeeded to Derrynane the preceding night, were pursued with redoubled at the decease of his uncle, Maurice. He

earnestness by his friends and the chief members

of the clergy. At first his voice was united in married in 1802 his cousin, Mary, dau, of

the prayers and responses ; but, as it became less Edward O'Connell, Esq. M.D. of Tralee, and less distinct, his bands clasped in fervour, -and leaves four sons and three daus., viz : his eyes, his countenance revealed how his soul Maurice, M.P. for Tralee.

responded to the litanies for the dying, which Morgan, late M.P. for Meath, and now Assist

they were mingling with their tears around his

bed. ant Registrar of Deeds. John, M.P. for Kilkenny.

Occasionally, during this, his last illness, as

the brain became more and more invaded, there Daniel, M.P. for Dundalk. Ellen, m, to Christopher Fitz Simon, Esq.

was a momentary wandering of the mind, from Catherine, m. to Charles O'Connell, Esq.

which, however, the slightest word recalled him, Elizabeth, m. to Nicholas Joseph French, Esq.

He never murmured, though his internal suffer The following letter from Genoa, gives an

ings, at times at least, must have been great. interesting account of the last moments of Mr. Every one was struck with his serenity, his recol. O'Connell .

lection and fervour in receiving the last rites of Genoa, May 18, 1847.

religion. The adorable name of Jesus, and the “Intent on visiting the tombs of the apostles,

prayer of St. Bernard to our Blessed Lady, and paying his homage as a Catholic, to Pius

mingled from time to time with verses from IX., O'Connell was interrupted at this stage

the Psalms, and the most learnest and contrite of his pilgrimage by fatal illness, and expired at

aspirations, were almost perpetually upon his the Hotel Feder, in this city, about an hour

lips. Up to a few moments before he expired he and a half after sunset on Saturday, the 15th

continued to recognize his confessor, and to instant.

respond to his suggestions. “His life is for history, which will take care

• Far from surprising him, he had been long, of it, but this memorandum of what occurred

long familiarized with the contemplation of his since his last illness seized him will be received,

last end, prepared for it perfectly, and almost perhaps, with some interest, were it only for its

eager for its advent. When that spirit, so complete exactness. It has been read for the mighty, which seemed to glory in and to sway approval of Mr. O'Connell's friends and the

the tempests which agitate our being took its physicians who attended him ; they sanctioned fight, there was no more trace or sign of pain or it as correct.

struggle than when the babe in smiling sinks to For two days after his arrival here from

slumber upon the mother's breast. Marseilles by the Lombardo steamer, the friends

“It will be a lasting, though still a sorrowful of the illustrious pilgrim observed with joy that

consolation, for his friends and family, that no the improvement in his health, which they began resource of skill or climate calculated to prolong to date from Avignon, went on increasing ; but

the existence of this extraordinary man has been on Saturday, the 8th, it became necessary to have

left untried. The professional advice obtained recourse to the same aperient remedies which had for him was always the best that could be probeen for some time past adopted to relieve him,

cured and always with complete success. Diarrhæa,

“His body is to be embalmed and conveyed to however, set in some time after the remedies Ireland. His heart he bequeathed to Rome. applied on Saturday night had produced the

The autopsy demonstrated singularly the correct. desired result, and as it still continued on ness of the view taken of his case, and how Monday morning (after a partial cessation on wonderfully successful had been the remedies Sanday), it was deemed expedient to call in recommended in postponing the fatal event. additional medical aid. The English physician "His obsequies commenced from the moment resident here, Dr. Duff, and Dr. Berretta, of this

of his decease, and are still continued with city, met in consultation with Dr. Lacour, the princely pomp in the church of our Blessed physician who had accompanied O'Connell from Lady delle Vinge. They are to elose to-morrow Lyons. The diarrhaa was regarded as rather

with a grand requiem mass, at which bis Excel. fortunate than otherwise, as helping to relieve the lency the Governor-General, the foreign Consuls, head, where they were of opinion the chief

and Mr. R. Cobden are invited to be present." danger was to be apprehended.

Pemberton, Eleanor, widow of the late Dr. “With this view (which coincided exactly with

Pemberton, and sister of the late Lieut.that taken of O'Connell's case from first till last by the most eminent physicians of France), their

Gen. Sir John Hamilton, Bart., at her remedies were mainly directed to check the con residence, 4, Glocester-road, Old Brompgestion, which they judged to have been gaining ground in the brain from a period considerably Pocklington, Lieutenant-Colonel, late of

ton, in the 76th year of her age, 7th May. distant. The success with which their efforts were attended was not lasting. However, even

the Notts Militia, and of Carlton-house, after a fourth physician, Dr. Voviani, was called Notts, at Leamington, in the 720 year of in on Friday, there still were hopes. Neverthe

his age, 25th April. less, it was judged prudent to be prepared for the worst; and on Friday night the last rites of the Pococke, John Blagrave, Esq., formerly church were received by the illustrious sufferer Major in the Berkshire Militia, and a with a serenity and a fervour of piaty which pro- Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of duced upon the menibers of the clergy and his friends who surrounded his bed the most pro.

Berks, at Colne-cottage, Twickenham found and edilying impressione.

aged 71, 24th April.

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Poole, Charlotte Ruth, wife of W. W. Poole, at New College, Oxford. He was a Fel

Esq., and dau. of Anthony Dickson, Esq., low of New College. In 1821 he gained of Edrington, Berwickshire, aged 26, the Bachelor's Prize, for an essay “On 3rd May.

the Study of Moral Evidence," a work Price, Sir Charles, Bart., at Spring Grove, which displayed vast theological know

Richmond, Surrey, he was in his 71st ledge and great powers of argument. year, 26th April. By Mary-Anne, his Mr. Shirley was ordained in 1821, and, wife, dau, of William King, Esq., of after being Master of the Schools, at OxKing-street, Covent-Garden, he leaves ford, in 1826, he, in 1828, succeeded his three sons (the eldest the present Sir father in the Rectory of Woodford, on Charles Rugge Price, Bart.), and four the nomination of his cousin, Earl Ferdaughters-viz. Mary, married to William In 1841 he was appointed a PrePött, Esq.; Harriet ; Eliza - Albinia, bendary of Lichfield Cathedral, and married to Ralph Charles Price, Esq. of Archdeacon of Derby. On the 17th Sydenham; and Emily Harriet, wife of December, 1846, he received his degree Henry Curry, Esq. His father was the of Doctor of Divinity from the Univerthe late Sir Charles Price, Alderman of sity of Oxford ; on the 10th January, and M.P. for London, who filled the 1847, he was consecrated Bishop of Sodor Civic chair in 1803, and was created a and Man: and now his demise has ocBaronet in the following year.

curred within little more than three Price, Lady, relict of the late Sir Charles months from the time of his elevation to Price, Bart., aged 71, 9th May.

the episcopal dignity. Dr. Shirley be Raikes, Fanny Louisa, 3rd dau, of the late longed to what is termed the “ Evangelis

George Raikes, Esq. of Felbridge, Surrey, cal Party" in the Established Church, 7th May.

but he held no extreme views either with Read, Mr. John, of Regent-circus, Picca- respect to doctrine or discipline. His

dilly, inventor of the stomach pump, modest retiring demeanour, and his ex. and other valuable patented inventions tremely amiable disposition, endeared for medical and agricultural purposes, in him to all who knew him, and his untimehis 87th year, 3rd May.

ly loss is most generally deplored. Ricardo, Joseph, Esq., at East Dulwich, Scotland, Maria, wife of Thomas Scotland, aged 76, 24th April.

Esq., of Bishop's Sutton, Hants, 12th May. Ridgway, Rebecca, dau. of Capt. Ridgway, Sleath, Rev. John, D. D., F.R.S. rector of formerly of the Rifle Brigade.

Thornby, Northamptonshire, Chaplain in Rokeby, Lord, Edward Montague, 7th May. Ordinary to the Queen, Prebendary of

His lordship was eldest son of Matthew St. Paul's, Sub-Dean of Her Majesty's Montague, Esq., who succeeded to the Chapel Royal,and late High Master of St. Barony at the decease of his brother, Paul's School, at his residence, in HertMorris Robinson, third Lord. At the ford-street, in his 80th year, 30th April. period of his decease he had completed Smith, Isabella, dau, of the Rev. Richard his 59th year. He was never married, Smith, of Sutton Rectory, Petworth, and is, consequently, succeeded in the 15th May. the title by his brother, the Hon. Col. Solly, Samuel, Esq., F.R.S. of Upper Gow. Henry Montague. The first peer of the fa- er.street, 11th May. mily was the most Rev. Richard Robinson, Stebbing, Harriet Amelia, wife of W. Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Stebbing, Esq., and granddaughter of the all Ireland, created Baron Rokeby in late flon. George Kinghorn, of Kingston, 1777. His Lordship was a very eminent Jamaica, 8th May. Churchman, and held, under the Lieu. Stephen, Anne Sibella, youngest dail, of tenancy of the Duke of Northumberland, Mr. Sergeant Stephen, 12th May.

the dignified office of Lord Almoner. Surtees, Mrs. Elizabeth,of Redworth House, Robinson, Henry F.S. only son of the Rev. co. Durham, 8th May.

John Robinson of Widmerpool, Notts, Sutherland, Captain George Mackay, of 5th May.

Abararder, Invernesshire, North Britain, Russell, Constance Mary, dau. of J. D. at Shibden-hall, near Halifax, 220 April.

Watts Russell, Esq. M.P., 22nd April. Thorpe, Mrs. Mary, relict of Captain J. Shirley, The Right Reverend Walter Augus- Thorpe, at Goff's Oak,Cheshunt, 26th Apl.

tus, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man, Tooney, Thomas, Esq., at King's Langley, was the son of the Rev. Walter Shirley, Herts, 8th May. Rector of Woodford, Northamptonshire, Wathen, George, Esq. of the Grange, near and was born at Westport, in the county Stroud, 26th April, of Mayo, on the 30th May, 1797. lle Wilson, George S. Esq., Barrister at Law, was educated at Winchester College, and

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