travel became his warmest friends. He was selected as one of the commissioners for the distribution of the Irish Famine Fund in 1847-8, and assisted to promote the emigration of many impoverished families to Australia. The Government, in consideration of his valuable services during the famine in Ireland, nominated him in 1848 a Companion of the Bath, and further rewarded him in 1869 by creating him a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1853, was a D.C.L., and a member of several of our learned societies.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL G. A. VETCH.

Lieut.-Col. George Anderson Vetch, of the old Bengal Infantry, who died on October 10, at Haddington, N.B., belonged to the 54th N.I. After serving for three years in the Haddington Local Militia, G. A. Vetch sailed for Bengal in the year 1807, and for three years played a not unimportant part in the stormy scenes through which the great Company's power consolidated into the Indian empire. Lieut. Vetch was present at the siege of Kumaon, at the storming of which he was severely wounded; he was subsequently present with his regiment on the heights of Jeytuck, and in other engagements during the Nepaul war, and distinguished himself at the capture of a mosque in a manner which in these days would have earned for him the Victoria Cross. Lieut.-Col. Vetch retired from the service in 1836, and has since resided on his patrimonial estate, Caponflat, in the immediate proximity of Haddington. On his return to his native land, Lieut.-Col. Vetch embodied his Eastern reminiscences in a tale called "Gregory's Gong," and about twenty years ago published a dramatic poem, "Dara; or, the Minstrel Prince," both of which works possess considerable literary merit. He died at the ripe age of 87.

the Newcastle Scholarship in 1833, and soon afterwards was elected to an open scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. At the University he obtained, among other distinctions, the Newdigate Prize for English verse, and took his Bachelor's degree in Michaelmas Term, 1836, as a "double first class," his name standing in the same class list with the present Dean of St. Paul's (Dr. Church), the late Rev. William Adams, the late Rev. F. W. Faber, and Mr. Arthur Kensington. He was called to the bar in 1840; was appointed in 1868, in succession to Sir William M. James, Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster; and in 1871 he succeeded Sir John Stuart as one of the Vice-Chancellors of England.

November.

MR. T. BARING, M.P.

Mr. Thomas Baring, the leading partner in the great mercantile firm of Baring Brothers and Co., and M.P. for Huntingdon, died on Nov. 18, at Fontnell Lodge, Bournemouth, whither he had gone with the view of recruiting his shattered health. The late Mr. Baring was the second son of Sir Thomas Baring, second baronet, of Stratton Park, Hants, by Mary Ursula, eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Seely, of Calcutta ; and was born Sept. 7, 1800, so that he had recently entered upon his 74th year. The hon. gentleman, who was a bachelor, was brother of Francis Thornhill, third baronet, created Lord Northbrook, and of the Right Rev. Charles Baring, Bishop of Durham, and nephew of Alexander, first Lord Ashburton. He was educated at Winchester, and entered Parliament in 1835 as member for Great Yarmouth, which borough he sat for till 1838, but was unsuccessful at the ensuing election. In 1843 he unsuccessfully contested London, his opponent being Mr. James Pattison. The result was that, after a severe struggle, Mr. Pattison polled 6532, and Mr. Baring 6367. In April 1844 he was first elected for Huntingdon, in the place of Sir Frederick Pollock, on his appointment as Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, which borough he had sat for ever since. He was a Conservative in politics, and a supporter of the late Lord Derby's Government, but declined to take office under him in March, 1852, and was a general supporter of Mr. Disraeli's policy. He was opposed to the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy, and paired against the disestablishment

and disendowment of the Irish Church in 1869. The late Mr. Baring had filled some important posts of honour in the commercial centre of London, having been a director of the Bank of England, and for nearly forty years chairman of Lloyd's; he was also a director of the East and West India Dock Company. He was one of the Neutrality Laws commissioners; was a trustee of the National Gallery; a fellow of the Royal Society (elected in 1860); a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; a vice-president of the Society of Arts; a vice-president of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum; a member of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851; a trustee of Morden College; and a governor of Wellington College, besides a liberal supporter of many of the charitable institutions of the metropolis.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE BOVILL.

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The Right Hon. Sir William Bovill, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, died at Coombe House, near Kingston-on-Thames, at noon Nov. 1. For some weeks past he had been suffering from impaired health, but it was thought he was steadily recovering from his illness. The learned Chief Justice was one of the younger sons of the late Mr. Benjamin Bovill, of Wimbledon, Surrey, whose death took place in 1864. He was born in the year 1814, was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1841, and chose the Home Circuit, on which he became one of the acknowledged leaders. He obtained a silk gown in 1855. At the general election of 1857 he was returned in the Conservative interest as M.P. for Guildford. In 1865 he was appointed Solicitor-General, his party being then in office; and in the following year he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, succeeding to the seat up to that time occupied by Sir William Erle, who has now lived to witness the death of his successor. Sir William was a Bencher of his Inn and a Fellow of the Royal Society; he was also for many years a magistrate for Surrey. He was created an honorary D.C.L. at Oxford in 1870. Sir William married, in 1844, Maria, eldest daughter of Mr. John Henry Bolton, of Lee Park, Blackheath, Kent, by whom he has left a large family.

THE HON. F. R. FORBES.

Intelligence has been received at the Foreign Office of the death at Geneva, on Nov. 5, of the Hon. Francis Reginald

Forbes, second son of George, sixth Earl of Granard (grandfather of the present peer), by his wife, Lady Selina Rawdon Hastings, fourth daughter of John, first Earl of Moira. He was born Sept. 17, 1791, consequently he had entered his 83rd year. The hon. gentleman was a bachelor. He was an old diplomatic servant of the Crown, having been appointed by Lord Castlereagh an attaché to the Embassy at St. Petersburg in July, 1812, whence he was transferred to Vienna in 1814, where he became Secretary of Legation in July, 1817. Afterwards—namely, in December, 1822-he was Secretary at Copenhagen, and in November the following year was appointed to a similar post at Lisbon, and became secretary of the Embassy there in September, 1824. In March, 1828, he again served as secretary of the Embassy, and was Minister, ad interim, from July, 1831, to February, 1832. In November that year he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Dresden, where, in 1857, he was raised to the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. In 1858 he went as Minister to Rio Janeiro, but was there only a short period, as he retired in November, 1859, upon a pension of 900l. a year.

MRS. JANET HAMILTON.

The Scotsman announces the death of "the Coatbridge poetess," whom it describes as one of the most remarkable Scotch women of the present century. Janet Hamilton was the daughter of a working shoemaker, and although without education, the mother of a large familyshe married at thirteen-and for many years towards the close of her life totally blind, yet contrived amid circumstances seemingly so adverse from first to last not only to store her mind by self-culture, but to produce poems and various other writings of no ordinary merit. About two months ago a number of Mrs. Hamilton's admirers, among whom were Lord Dalhousie, Lord Home, Sir W. StirlingMaxwell, and Sheriff Bell, proposed to raise 1007. to present to Mrs. Hamilton, but her death has rendered fruitless the kind design, except in so far as it has shown how many and warm friends she possessed. Mrs. Hamilton was in her 78th year.

LORD LYVEDEN.

The death is announced of Lord Lyveden, which occurred on Nov. 10 at

Farming Woods, his seat in Northamptonshire. The deceased peer, Robert VernonVernon, Baron Lyveden of Lyveden, county Northampton, was son of Mr. Robert Percy Smith, of Cheam, Surrey (formerly Judge-Advocate-General in India), by his wife Caroline, second daughter and coheir of Mr. Richard Vernon (descended from the Vernons of Hilton Hall, county Stafford), and grand-daughter of Evelyn, Countess of Upper Ossory. He was born in February, 1800, and married, July 15, 1823, Lady Emma Mary FitzPatrick, daughter of John, the second and last Earl of Upper Ossory. His lordship received his early education at Eton, and afterwards proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was second class in classics in 1822. He commenced his parliamentary career in 1829, when he was returned for Tralee, and was re-elected at the ensuing election. In 1831 he was first returned for Northampton, which borough he represented uninterruptedly up to 1859. On the formation of Earl Grey's Administration the deceased peer, then Mr. Robert Vernon-Smith, was appointed one of the Junior Lords of the Treasury, and held the same post during Lord Melbourne's short Administration from July to Dec. 1834. On Lord Melbourne again resuming office in 1835, he was appointed Secretary of the Board of Control, and remained in that post to 1839, when he was made Under-Secretary for the Colonies, the functions of which office he discharged till the break-up of Lord Melbourne's Government in 1841, when he was created a Privy Councillor. He was Secretary at War for a few weeks in Feb. 1852, and in March, 1855, succeeded the present Lord Halifax (then Sir Charles Wood) as President of the Board of Control, which office he held till Feb. 1858. In 1846 he obtained a royal licence for his children to bear the name of Vernon only, in lieu of Vernon-Smith, and a similar licence for himself on being raised to the peerage in June, 1859. His lordship is succeeded in the family honours by his eldest son, the Hon. FitzPatrick Henry Vernon, born in 1824, and married on April 27, 1853, to Lady Albreda Elizabeth Wentworth Fitzwilliam, sister of the present Earl Fitzwilliam. He leaves two other sons-the Hon. and Rev. Courtenay John Vernon, and the Hon. Greville Richard Vernon. The present peer was educated at Eton and Durham, and was formerly in the diplomatic service, having been appointed attaché at Madrid from 1846 to 1848, when he was transferred to Hanover, and to Berlin in 1849. private secretary to Lord Seymour (now Duke of Somerset) when First Commis

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sioner of Woods and Forests, in 1850; and subsequently, in 1852, to his father when Secretary for War; and again from March, 1855, till Feb. 1858, when the late lord was President of the Board of Control. He unsuccessfully contested Northamptonshire in Dec. 1857, and again in 1859. He was appointed a deputy-lieutenant of the county of Northampton in 1854.

MR. J. G. NICHOLS.

The death is announced of Mr. John Gough Nichols, F.S.A., the well-known antiquary, which occurred in his 67th year, at Holmwood, near Dorking, on Nov. 13. Besides editing the "Gentleman's Magazine" for many years, he edited the "Collectanea Topographica," and the

Topographer and Genealogist," and in 1862 commenced the "Herald and Genealogist," which is still in course of publication. In addition to numerous papers in the various antiquarian journals, he was the author of many separate works. He was one of the founders of the Camden Society, and of the hundred and odd volumes illustrative of our national history, issued by that Society, several were edited by him. Mr. Nichols was the grandson of the author of " Literary Anecdotes" and the "History of Leicestershire."

December.

PROFESSOR AGASSIZ.

From New York we learn of the death of Professor Agassiz on Dec. 14. He was born in the parish of Mottier, between the Lake of Neufchatel and the Lake of Morat, in 1807, and received his early education at the gymnasium of Bienne and the Academy of Lausanne. He afterwards studied medicine and the experimental sciences at Zurich, Heidelberg, and Munich. He afterwards published several works on natural history, and a work entitled "Studies of Glaciers," which gave him a European reputation. M. Agassiz left Europe for America in 1846, and in 1847 was appointed Professor of Zoology and Geology in the Scientific School at Cambridge, Massachusetts, which post he retained til his death. He has since explored every portion of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, the valley of the Mississippi, and the great plains at the base of the Rocky Mountains. He also accompanied an exploring expedition to Brazil, and superintended an investigation

of the deep-sea bottom of the Gulf Stream. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him their prize, and offered him a scientific chair, which he declined, and he also received the cross of the Legion of Honour.

SIR J. COWEN, M.P.

Sir Joseph Cowen, the Radical member for Newcastle-on-Tyne, died at his seat, Stella Hall, Blaydon-on Tyne, on Dec. 19, in the 73rd year of his age. Sir Joseph Cowen belonged to the old Radical party, but he was held in high esteem by men of all parties for the singular consistency and purity of his political life. Sir Joseph Cowen served his time in his youth as a chainmaker in the factory of the firm of Sir Ambrose Crowley and Co., a great London house which had factories at Winlayton and Swalwell, on the Tyne, other great north-country coalowners and manufacturers as well as Sir Joseph having in their youth commenced life in Crowley's factory, which had a great reputation for turning out able men. He subsequently, however, joined his brother-in-law as a firebrick maker, and at the time of his death Sir Joseph was at the head of one of the largest firebrick and gas retort works in the kingdom, besides being concerned in coal mining and other extensive industrial enterprises. Sir Joseph Cowen will be best known as chairman of the River Tyne Improvement Commissioners. Under his presidency the Commissioners have completed a series of the most extensive river works in the kingdom. Without any assistance from the Government, except in the way of loans, Mr. Ure, their engineer, also made the Tyne a harbour of refuge, the only one between the Humber and Leith Roads. Hundreds of vessels seek its shelter every winter in gales of wind, which otherwise would be cast ashore and their crews drowned. The Government, in acknowledgment of Sir Joseph Cowen's twenty years' gratuitous services to the trade of the country as chairman of the River Tyne Commissioners, conferred the honour of knighthood upon him about three years ago.

GENERAL SIR P. E. CRAIGIE, K.C.B.

General Sir Patrick Edmonstone Craigie, K.C.B., who died on Dec. 13, at his residence, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, was the son of Mr. Laurence Craigie, by Margaret, daughter of Mr. John Hall Max

well, of Dargavel, Renfrewshire. He was educated at Glasgow School and College, and entered the army in 1813, being then in his 18th year. He had seen much active service during his career in the army. Sir Patrick served with the 2nd batt. 52nd Light Infantry in the campaign of 1813-14 in Holland, under Lord Lynedoch, including both attacks on the fortified village of Merxem, in the latter of which he led the advance party of MajorGeneral Sir Herbert Taylor's brigade; also in the subsequent bombardment of Antwerp. In May, 1841, he embarked at Calcutta, in command of the 55th Regt., for China, and served with the expeditionary force under Lord Gough till the end of the war, being senior field officer serving with the force in the field, and was consequently second in command from the period of its sailing from Hong Kong in August, and during the whole of the active operations which took place during the following five months. He commanded a brigade or column of attack at the assault and capture of the fortified cities of Amoy, Chusan (second capture), on which occasion it happened that the whole engagement of the land force devolved upon his brigade and Chinhae. Subsequently when the head-quarters of the force proceeded to Yang-tze-Kiang, he was appointed by Lord Gough to the responsible command of the Island of Chusan, which he held for eight months until the return of the force, after the treaty of peace had been signed at Nankin. For his conduct on the above occasions (as stated in Lord Gough's despatches) he was promoted to the rank of colonel, appointed an aide-de-camp to the Queen, and a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was afterwards, in 1854, appointed to command a division of the Madras army, and during the Indian mutiny, in 1857, he commanded the Mysore division, which he retained till the fall of Delhi. On relinquishing his command at Madras, in 1860, he received the thanks of the Governor in Council, and also of the Commander-in-Chief, for his conduct at the above command. Sir Patrick was appointed colonel of the 31st Foot in 1859, and transferred to the 55th (Westmoreland) Regt. of Foot in June, 1862. In 1867 he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, in further recognition of his distinguished military services. The venerable general obtained his first commission as ensign June 3, 1813, and became general in Jan. 21, 1868. Sir Patrick was twice married, first, in 1827, to Bell, daughter of Mr. Henry Williams, of Falmouth (she died in 1833), and secondly, in 1838, to Mary

Jane, eldest daughter of General Trewman, of the Madras army, who died in 1870.

M. J. A. GALIGNANI.

The well-known Paris journal, Galignani's Messenger, announces the death of M. John Anthony Galignani, aged 77, the elder of the two brothers who many years back, by their talent, energy, and perseverance, raised the newspaper which bears their name to so high a point of prosperity. But it was not merely as an able journalist (says the Messenger) that the deceased gentleman was distinguished, for, possessing a warm heart and genial nature, he had soon collected around him an extensive circle of distinguished friends, and, extending the kindly feeling which animated him to suffering humanity, he founded near Paris that most useful establishment known as the 66 Galignani Hospital," intended specially for indigent English subjects; and, in addition, conjointly with his brother, defrayed the whole expense of building, in the vicinity of their country residence, the present large hospital of Corbeil, in a most healthy situation, and with extensive grounds attached. The deceased had, after the late war, retired into private life.

SIR R. A. GLASS.

Sir Richard Atwood Glass, Chairman of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, died on the 22nd inst., at Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton. He was born at Bradford, Wilts, in 1820, the son of Mr. Francis Glass, of that town, by his wife, Mary Canning, of Marlborough, and received his education at King's College, London. Largely engaged in wire-rope making, he supplied half the first Atlantic cable, and the whole of that employed in the cable of 1866, and was knighted for his services in connexion with that great international undertaking. From 1868 to 1869 he sat in Parliament for Bewdley. Sir Richard married, in 1854, Anne, daughter of Thomas Tanner, Esq.

VICE-ADMIRAL W. GORDON.

In the person of Vice-Admiral William Gordon we have lost one of the oldest naval officers, his services reaching back nearly seventy years. He entered the Royal Navy in 1804, and saw much active service. While still a boy, he shared as a midshipman on board the Kingfisher" (Captain N. D. Cochrane)

in the attack on San Domingo in 1806, and subsequently served under the flag of Lord Cochrane (the late Earl of Dundonald) in most of his brilliant operations on the Spanish coast while in command of the Impérieuse" in 1808-9. Having taken part in the unfortunate expedition to Walcheren, he attained the rank of lieutenant in 1812, and was actively employed on the Baltic, Home, and Mediterranean stations. He subsequently was engaged in the operations connected with the attack on New Orleans. Having obtained his second promotion in 1815, and having commanded the "Pandora" for about two years on the Newfoundland station, he was presented with a post commission in 1841, and soon afterwards went on half-pay. At his death he was a Vice-Admiral on the Retired List.

THE O'GRADY.

The head and chief of one of those ancient "septs" or clans of Ireland which claim a Milesian descent far more venerable and illustrious than that of any of the members of the Irish peerage, except, perhaps, the O'Briens, died this month at the age of 57. The late William de Courcy O'Grady, known in Ireland as "The O'Grady," was the eldest son of "The O'Grady," J.P. and D.L., and formerly High Sheriff of the county of Limerick, who died in 1862. He was born in the year 1816, and was educated at Winchester and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the usual degrees, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1840. He married, in 1841, Anne Grogan, daughter of Mr. Thomas De Rinzi, of Clobemon Hall, county Wexford, by whom he had, with other children, a son, Thomas De Courcy, born in 1844, who now becomes "The O'Grady." According to Sir Bernard Burke, the Milesian family of O'Grady is one of the most ancient in the far west of Ireland.

MR. MARK PHILIPS.

Mark Philips, Esq., of Snitterfield and Welcombe, in the county of Warwick, J.P. and D.L., High Sheriff in 1851, died, on the 23rd, at his seat, near Stratfordon-Avon. He was born, Nov. 4, 1800, the eldest son of the late Robert Philips, Esq., of the Park, near Manchester, by Anne, his wife, daughter of Matthew Needham, Esq., of Nottingham, and was grandson of Nathaniel Philips, Esq., of Stand, Prestwich, Lancashire, whose elder brother, John Philips, Esq., of the Heath House, in the county of Stafford, repreL