favour of the Tory interest. In the last debate on the Reform Bill he replied with considerable energy and vigour to the Earl of Shrewsbury; but, with this exception, he scarcely ever made a set speech. In fact, though a clear thinker and fluent writer, he was but a second-rate orator at the best. It should be mentioned, however, that he was a supporter of the proposition for disfranchising boroughs, when proved to be corrupt in the exercise of their electoral rights.

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In religious matters, though a sound and attached Churchman, he observed a safe and cautious line, as his easy and open nature probably inclined him; his favour, however, was generally shewn to the High Church rather than the Evangelical party, whose influence at Bristol, Clifton, Cheltenham, and other places in his diocese, occasionally proved to him a source of discomfort. could be firm, however, when he thought that the occasion required it, as he shewed when in 1841 he severely censured Mr. Williams' Tract for the Times on "Reserve in Communicating Religious Knowledge." We also find his name added to those of several of his right rev. brethren when in 1848 they presented a respectful protest to Her Majesty against the proposed appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford. He subsequently gave a guarded and qualified approval to the formation of the Bristol Church Union, though it is well known that he deeply regretted the fierce polemical line which it ultimately adopted. He steadily, however, supported their demand for the revival of Convocation. To all works of charity he contributed largely, and for many years regularly devoted a tithe of his income to the augmentation of small livings in his diocese. He contributed, also, considerable sums towards the restoration of churches. the building of parsonages, and of parochial and diocesan schools. For many years before his death he was a sufferer from partial blindness, which of late years he felt to be a sad impediment to him in the discharge of his episcopal duties, and for the last six months he had suffered under almost total prostration of the physical energies.

By his wife, who survives him, his Lordship has left three daughters and an only son, who graduated some years since at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has published a volume of travels in Turkey and the East, under the title of "The Golden Horn." He is a barrister-at law, and succeeded the late Dr. Phillimore as Chancellor of Bristol in 1855.

SIR WILLIAM OGLE CARR April 24. At Ceylon, aged 53, Sir William Ogle Carr, Knight, Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court at Ceylon.

He was the third son of William Thomas Carr, Esq., of Frognal, Hampstead. He became a student of Gray's Inn in 1820, and was called to the bar by the society of that Inn on the 26th of April, 1826.

Going to Ceylon, he was admitted King's Advocate there, and in December, 1839, he was appointed second Puisne Judge of the colony. In April, 1854, he was made Chief-Justice of Ceylon, and created a Knight. Sir William Ogle Carr married Miss Clement, the daughter of Colonel John A. Clement, of the Royal Artillery.

SIR EDWARD TIERNEY, BART.

May 11. At Dublin, aged 76, Sir Edward Tierney, Bart., of Churchtown and Kanturk, county of Cork, for many years Crown solicitor for the North-West Circuit of Ireland.

Sir Edward Tierney was the second baronet, having succeeded his brother, Sir Matthew Tierney, one of the physicians of George IV., and who died without issue Oct. 28, 1845. The deceased was enormously wealthy, his estates in the county of Cork and elsewhere being, it is said, of the value of 16,000l. a-year. He married in 1812, Anna Maria, daughter of Henry Jones, Esq., and by her had issue Matthew Edward, the present baronet, who succeeds to his title and estates, and who until very recently held the rank of captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Coldstream Guards, in which corps he served during the earlier part of the war in the Crimea. Sir Edward's only other child is a daughter, married, and residing in England. The late baronet held for many years the office of Crown Solicitor for the North-West Circuit, comprising six counties, the emoluments pertaining to which are little short of 3,000l. per annum. office is virtually in the gift of the Attorney-General. He attended in his professional capacity the Special Commission at Cavan, where he caught a severe cold, which ended in bronchitis, from the effects of which he never wholly rallied. The office of Clerk of Assigns, in the Rolls' Court, is also vacant by the death of Sir Edward Tierney.

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SIR ALEXANDER CRICHTON, M.D., F.R.S.

June 4. At his residence, the Grove, near Sevenoaks, aged 93, Sir Alexander Crichton.

He was the son of Alexander Crichton, Esq., of Newington, and grandson of Patrick Crichton, of Woodhouselee and Newington, Mid-Lothian. Sir Alexander was for many years Physician in Ordinary to Alexander I., Emperor of Russia, and also physician to the household of the late Duke of Cambridge. He was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Fellows of the Royal Society, having been elected in He was a member of various other

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British and Foreign learned societies, and was a Knight of one Prussian and two Russian orders; and received permission to wear those orders in England, on his return, in 1820. He was also created a Knight-Batchelor in 1820. Sir Alexander Crichton was the author of some valuable medical works, particularly of a book on "Mental Derangement." He married, in 1800, Miss Dodwell, only daughter of Edward Dodwell, Esq., of West Moulsey, Surrey.

SIR M. H. NEpean, Bart.

June 4. At Lee-hall, near Hexham, aged 72, Sir Molyneux Hyde Nepean, second baronet, of Bothenhampton, and Loder's Court, in the county of Dorset.

He was the eldest son of the first baronet, the Right Hon. Sir Evan Nepean, many years Under-Secretary of State, and M.P. for Queensborough and Bridport, by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Captain William Skinner. He was born September 20, 1783, and succeeded to the family title and estates in Dorsetshire on the death of his father, October 2, 1822. Sir Molyneux was for nearly thirty years clerk to the Supreme Court in Jamaica. He married, first, August 30, 1813, Char

lotte, youngest daughter of Philip Tigheman, Esq., by whom (who died June 26, 1838,) he had three sons and six daughters, of whom survive two sons and one daughter. He married, secondly, May 30, 1852, Lydia Clark, eldest daughter of William Clark Wright, Esq., of Mustonhouse, Northumberland, by his wife, Charlotte, daughter of Joshua Parr, Esq.,

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of Pentree Paer, Carmarthenshire. Molyneux by his second marriage had one daughter, who only survived her birth a few weeks. Sir Molyneux is succeeded by his eldest son, Molyneux Hyde, now the third baronet, who was born July 2, 1813, and married, April 27, 1841, Isabella, only daughter of Colonel Geils, of Dumbuck, county Dumbarton.

GENERAL SIR GEO. POWNALL ADAMS, K.C.H.

June 10. At Temple-hill, East Budleigh, Devon, aged 77, General Sir George Pownall Adams, K.C.H., Colonel of the 6th Enniskillen Dragoons.

He entered the army in 1795, and having shewn considerable ability in the Irish rebellion of 1803, obtained the command of the 25th Light Dragoons, in the East Indies. He served in India under General Lake, and particularly distinguished himself at Mysore in 1809; he also received the thanks of the Governor

General in council on more than one occasion. He obtained the colonelcy of the 6th Dragoons in 1840, and the rank of full general in 1851. By his second wife, who was a daughter of the late Sir William Elford, Bart., M.P. for Plymouth, we believe that he has left a family.

SIR GEORGE DUCKETT, BART. June 15. In Gloucester-gardens, Hydepark, aged 78, Sir George Duckett, Bart.

He was the son of Sir George Jackson, Bart., formerly Secretary to the Admiralty, and Judge-Advocate, and many years M.P. for Colchester and Weymouth. He assumed the name of Duckett in 1797, after his maternal grandfather, G. Duckett, Esq. of Hartham-house, Wilts. The late baronet, who succeeded to his father's title in 1822, and represented Lymington from 1807 to 1812, was a deputy lieutenant for Hertfordshire, and at one time commanded the West Essex Militia as Colonel. He was said to be able to trace his descent in the female line up to Gundreda, daughter of William the Conqueror, and wife of the Earl Warren. He was twice married: first in 1810, to Isabella, daughter of Stainbank Floyd, Esq.; and secondly, in 1846, to Charlotte, daughter of E. Seymour, Esq., of Crowood-park, Wilts. He is succeeded in the title by his son, George Floyd, now third baronet, a major in the army, who is married to a daughter of General Sir Lionel Smith, G.C.B., and is well known in the world of letters as the author of a "Technological French, and German," for which he reDictionary of Military Terms, in English, ceived gold medals from the Emperors of Austria and France, and the King of Prussia.

CAPTAIN THOMPSON, C.B.

June 13. At the residence of his mother, in Gloucester-road, Pimlico, Henry Langhorne Thompson, one of the noble defenders of Kars.

He was the son of a gentleman who held an important official appointment, as Receiver-General for Crown rents for the northern counties, was educated at Eton, and in 1845 entered the military profession, of which he became so early an ornament. He was appointed to an ensigncy in the 68th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry in that year. On Fe bruary 12, 1850, he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and in the second Burmese war received a wound, from which he had not recovered when he returned to England, after nearly ten years' service, in the

autumn of 1854. When the demand was felt for Indian officers to aid in the proposed campaign in Asia against the Russians, Lieutenant Thompson, his wounded arm still in a sling, volunteered, and after visiting the seat of war in the Crimea returned to Constantinople, and proceeded to Erzeroum and Kars. In consequence of his gallant behaviour at Kars, he was appointed, in the winter of last year, a captain (unattached) of the royal army, and it recently pleased her Majesty to confer on him, as well as his valorous comrades, a Companionship of the Bath.

His conduct under the command of General Sir Fenwick Williams is matter for history, and must command the eulogies which even history is slow to pronounce on those not holding high command. It is perhaps fortunate for the memory of this brave young officer, cut off in his early prime,-for he had only reached his 27th year,-that he was one of "a small band of heroes." His name will be for ever associated with those of Williams and Lake, and Teesdale and Sandwith, and other gallant men. On the memorable 29th of September, he succeeded with great tact and energy to get a heavy gun into position on the heights of Karadagh, and materially assisted in winning that victory by the deadly fire which he poured into the Russian ranks. Between him and his brother officers there seems to have existed a feeling of more than fraternal friendship.

On the surrender of Kars, Mouravieff generously returned him his sword, in admiration of his noble and devoted courage, and as a mark of honour and respect. This will doubtless be preserved as a precious heirloom.

The following letter from General Williams will shew the estimation in which he was held by his gallant chief:

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Tiflis, Sunday, March 24. "My Dear Thompson,-One little line, to beg you to give my love to Lake, and to thank you for your letter written en route.

"I am, thank God, quite well again, and start for Riazon on Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock, having every hope thatpeace or war-we shall all meet at Moscow as soon as I report myself from Riazon to Petersburg. Teesdale sends love to you both. Wherever my fortunes may fall, there I hope to see you by my side.—Affectionately yours,

"F. W. WILLIAMS."

Captain Thompson reached Hull only on the 7th inst., in company with Col. Lake, amid the cheers of its citizens. He

was then suffering from sore-throat, but no fears were entertained till the day preceding his lamented decease. It is pleasing to add that her Majesty, with that kindness which is so distinguishing a feature in her character, sent an autograph letter to the mother of Captain Thompson, condoling with her on her bereavement, within very few hours after the sad event happened.

THE HON. OGDEN HOFFMAN.

May 1. At New York, aged 62, the Hon. Ogden Hoffman, late AttorneyGeneral for the State of New York.

He was the son of Josiah Ogden Hoffman, one of the most eminent lawyers, and at one time Attorney-General of New York. Mr. Hoffman graduated at Columbia College in the year 1812, just after the declaration of the war against Great Britain, and at once enrolled himself in the navy of his country. He received a midshipman's warrant, and was attached to the command of Commodore Decatur during the period while the United States frigate "President," which, after evading the blockade, put out to sea and was pursued by a British fleet. A bloody and gallant running fight, extending through long hours, followed, which was finally determined against the American, and the "President" was captured. The young midshipman, becoming thus a prisoner of war, was taken to Bermuda, and remained there for some months, until an exchange of prisoners of war effected his release. After peace was declared, Mr. Hoffman again sailed with Commodore Decatur in a United States frigate to the Mediterranean, and was engaged in the brief and bloody conflict which broke the Algerine power in that sea. During his continuance in the navy, Mr. Hoffman became a great favourite with his gallant commander, who made him one of his aids, and took great pride in him as a promising young officer. But the peace service of the navy had not sufficient attractions for the active spirit of young Hoffman; he resigned, and entered upon the study of the law. On being admitted to the bar, he practised in Goshen, Orange county, N. Y., until the year 1826, when he removed to New York city, and in 1828 represented it in the Legislature of the State. He afterwards held the office of District Attorney for the city, also District Attorney of the United States for the district of New York. He also represented the city in Congress from 1837 to 1841. In November, 1853, he was elected AttorneyGeneral of the State of New York, his

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term of office expiring last January. In all offices which he has filled, Mr. Hoffman shewed, in a marked manner, his eminent fitness, commanding the respect and honour of political opponents as well as friends, for his unimpeachable integrity, his brilliant talents, and the straightforward course which he pursued. It was, however, in the practice of his profession as a lawyer that Mr. Hoffman more particularly shone. For years his name had been as familiar as a household word, for all that is beautiful, harmonious, and persuasive in human eloquence. This reputation was well deserved. He was a giant before a jury, as many of the great cases in which he had been engaged fully prove. As a friend and companion, Mr. Hoffnan was most attractive, while in the higher relations of man, citizen, husband, father, he inspired the deepest affection. Hoffman was twice married. His first wife was the daughter of Jonathan Burrall, Esq., Cashier of the first United States Bank. His second wife, who survives him, is the daughter of the late Samuel D. Southard, formerly Secretary of the Navy. The funeral took place on Saturday last, at the Church of the Annunciation, the Rev. Dr. Seabury officiating. The remains were afterwards carried to St. Mark's Church, where they were deposited in a vault belonging to the family. Gen. Winfield Scott, Robert Emmet, Francis B. Cutting, John Anthon, Com. Matthew C. Perry, Hon. Chas. King, Hon. Moses H. Grinnel, Jas. Foster, officiated as pall-bearers, and the hearse was followed by the officers and members of the St. Nicholas' Society, with badges of mourning, the family of the deceased and chief mourners, and a large concourse of friends.

LIEUT.-GEN. MACDONALD, C.B. May 31. At Aix-la-Chapelle, Lieut.Gen. Macdonald, Royal Artillery, C.B.

The deceased was present at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, in 1806, and proceeded thence on the expedition to Buenos Ayres, where he was twice severely wounded and taken prisoner. He served in the Peninsula and south of France from June, 1809, to July, 1814, including the battles of the Coa and Busaco, affairs of Redinha, Pombal, Condeixa, and Foz d'Arouce, battles of Fuentes d'Onor and Salamanca, affair of San Munos, battle of Vittoria, siege of San Sebastian, battles of the Pyrenees, affairs of the Gave d'Oleron and Aire, and battle of Toulouse. He also served in the campaign of 1815, including the battle of Waterloo, where he was severely wounded--and capture of

Paris. He received the silver war-medal with eight clasps.

GEORGE BENNETT, Esq., Q.C.

May 26. At his residence, Sodylt-hall, Shropshire, aged 77, George Bennett, Esq., Q.C.

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He was called to the bar in Ireland in 1800, and became a Queen's Counsel there in 1822. He was a distinguished advocate during a period when the Irish bar abounded in great names: his practice was for many years unrivalled, both in the equity and the common law courts. was the friend and intimate of nearly all his illustrious contemporaries, and was himself one of the last remaining types of a great legal era. He filled for a long period the office of leading Crown Prosecutor for Munster, and was for some time the "father" of the Munster bar. In politics he was strongly and firmly attached to Protestant principles. Mr. Bennett quitted the bar about seven years since, and went to live at his seat in Shropshire, where he spent the close of his life in domestic retirement.

MR. GEORGE WATTS.

Recently, at Stoke Bishop, near Westbury, Mr. George Watts, a person in humble life.

He was formerly a day-labourer in that parish, but having, by dint of his own honest exertions, raised himself in the social scale, he amassed sufficient funds as a potato-dealer to purchase several cottages, some situated in Stoke Bishop, others in the neighbouring parish of Westbury, and the remainder on Durdham Downs. Latterly Watts had retired from business, and lived on the income arising from the rent of his houses. Punctually every Monday the old man called on his tenants to receive his rent, and was always represented by them as a kind and considerate landlord. He recently died, leaving neither "kith nor kin;" and upon opening his will it was found that each tenant had his own little cottage left to him as a legacy from his landlord—a legacy which, we need not add, was exceedingly welcome, and occasioned much joyful surprise to the fortu nate recipients.-Bristol Mirror.

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL. Recently, in America, aged 60, James Gates Percival, a poet of some eminence.

He was born in Kensington, Connecticut, on Sept. 15, 1795, and was the second son of Dr. James Percival, a physician of

that place, who, dying in 1807, left his three sons to their mother's care.

At the age of sixteen Percival entered Yale College, and in the course of four years was at the head of his class; during his course he frequently excited the commendation and interest of President Dwight. At this time he wrote a tragedy, "Zamor," which formed part of his college exercises. He had previously begun his poetical career by the composition of a few fugitive verses, and, it is said, had written a satire while in his fourteenth year. In 1820 he published his first volume, containing the first part of "Prometheus," a poem in the Spenserian stanza, with a few minor pieces, which were well received. In the same year, having been admitted to the practice of medicine, he went to Charleston, in South Carolina, with the intention of following this profession. There he engaged in literature, and in 1822 published "Clio," a pamphlet of about a hundred pages, made up mostly of verse, to which a few essays were added. A second part followed, which was entirely of verse. The idea of this publication appears to have been borrowed from Irving's "Sketch-book."

In 1824 Dr. Percival was appointed an assistant-surgeon of the United States Army, and Professor of Chemistry at the West Point Military Academy, which in a few months he resigned, as the duties were more onerous than he had anticipated. He was next appointed a surgeon in connection with the recruiting service.

The attainments of Percival were exceedingly varied. While at college he was inferior to none of his classmates in mathematics, yet his inclinations led him rather into the fields of classical literature. He made himself a profound philologist, and acquired a critical knowledge of most of the languages of modern Europe, especially those of the northern nations; he wrote poems in the Danish, Hungarian, and other tongues. He assisted materially in the compilation of "Dr. Webster's Dictionary of the English Language," for which his extensive linguistic and scientific knowledge eminently fitted him. While engaged in the study of medicine, he applied himself with ardour to botany, and to natural history generally. An ardent lover of nature, in his frequent communings with her he became a geologist, and, in conjunction with Professor Shepherd, made a survey of the mineralogy and geology of Connecticut, his native state, his report of which was published in 1842. In 1854 he was appointed State Geologist of WisGENT. MAG. VOL. XLVI.

consin, and published his first Annual Report in 1855. He translated "Maltebrun's Geography," the last portion of which appeared in 1843.

Percival is much less known to fame than he deserves to be, which may be attributed to the nature of his studies and the modesty of his nature; he never sought popular applause, but rather shrunk from it. In manners simple and gentle as a child, he was shy and timid as a maiden, and could rarely be induced to mingle in society. The companionship of one congenial mind was all he sought-was all he could endure. His habits were secluded, and called eccentric; his happiness seemed all concentrated in the study of nature and of his favourite authors. Devoted to science and song, his life was passed in the acquisition of knowledge and in poetic reveries. Having but few personal acquaintance, he will scarcely be missed from the ranks of living poets; for few of his country's authors were less known to his contemporaries.

Percival was a true poet, endowed with a profound sympathy for nature and humanity. His themes were liberty, love, and contemplation of nature, treated with enthusiasm, tenderness, truthfulness, and sympathy. Had his lot been cast among the oppressed peoples of Europe, rather than among the more favoured of his own country, his genius would have found vent in effusions that might have ranked with those of Beranger, Heine, or our own Thomas Hood. As is usual in such natures as his, a delicate vein of humour mingled with his tenderness; while he had a tear for the suffering, he had a smile for the mirthful. His productions will ever be popular with refined tastes, for they appeal to the sources of our best feelings, and are unsullied with affectation or egotism: we could wish them more numerous;-the capacity for production was unlimited, had the necessary stimulus been applied.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Jan. 9 At Ballarat, Australia, the Rev. Charles Nash, Perp. Curate, late Governor and Founder of the Oriental Reformatory for Adult Male Criminals, 9, Great Smith-street, Westminster.

April 25. At Lima, Peru, aged 35, the Rev. Francis John Biddulph, B.A. 1843, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Chaplain to the British Legation and residents there.

May 6. Aged 67, the Rev. George Griffith Vicar of Abernant w. Convil (1851), Carmarthenshire.

May 11. At Bulwell-hall, Notts, aged 69, the Rev Alfred Padley.

May 23. At Worcester, aged 30, the Rev.

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