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Recorders.-For Penzance, Walter Coulson, esq.; Chester, John Cottingham, esq.; Oxford, Andrew Amos, esq.; Ludlow, John Romily, esq.; Carmarthen, John Wilson, esq.; Lichfield, Thomas Jervis, esq.; Great Yarmouth, Nathaniel Palmer, esq.; Hereford, Geo. Chilton, esq.; Worcester, John Buckle, esq.; Dartmouth, P. Stafford Carey, esq.; Barnstaple and Bideford, W. Mackworth Praed, esq.; Scarborough, C. P. Elsley, esq. VOL. LXXVIII.

MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Essex (Southern Division).-George Palmer, of Nazeing-park, esq.

JULY.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Merioneth County.-R. Richards. esq. Warwickshire (Southern Division).— Evelyn John Shirley, esq.

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The duke of Cleveland, lord-lieut. of the co. of Durham, to be custos rotulorum of the same.

R. Armstrong, esq., to be recorder of Hull.

Sir W. Hamilton to be professor of logic in the University of Edinburgh. University. Dr. Maltby, bishop of Examiners of the new metropolitan Durham; Henry Warburton, esq., of law in the University of London; M.P.; Andrew Amos, esq., professor the East India College; Dr. Roget; W. Empson, esq., professor of law in J. Shaw Lefevre, esq.; rev. Dr. Arnold; rev. R. Sheepshank, fellow of Trinity College Cambridge; rev. Connop Thirlwall, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; G. B. Airy, esq., astronomer-royal; J. W. Lubbock, ciety; Nassau Senior, esq., and Michael esq., vice president of the royal soFaraday, esq., F.R.S.

Rev. Thomas Worsley, M.A., to be master of Downing College, Cambridge.

19. Knighted, Charles Lyon Herbert, M.D.

John Parkinson, esq., to be consul in Mexico; Chas. Thaddeus O'Gorman, esq., to be consul at Bahia; John Hesketh, esq., to be consul at Para.

20. James Stewart, esq., to be in spector of factories.

22. Knighted, John Graham Dalzell, esq.,

William Blamire, esq., Thomas W. Buller, esq., and the rev. Richard Jones, M.A., to be tithe commissioners

England and Wales.

Rear-adm. sir C, Paget, G.C.H., to command the squadron at Spithead ;

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne.-J. Hodgson,

esq.

Sheffield,―John Parker, esq.
Warwick.-Hon. C. J. Canning.

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Rev. J. Carr, D.D., to be bishop of
Bombay.

SEPTEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Major-gen. sir Alex. Woodford, to be governor and commander-inchief of Gibraltar.

George Cornwall Lewis, esq., in addition to John Austin, esq., to be commissioner of inquiry at Malta.

Lord Seymour, lord Ashley, Mr. R. Gordon, Mr. R. Vernon Smith, Mr. J. Abel Smith, col. Clitherow, lieut.col. W. H. Sykes, lieut.-col. Edward Clives, Mr. E. Halswell, Mr. George Acklom, the rev. Dr. G. Shepherd, Mr. J. W. Mylne, Mr. Bryan, Waller Proctor, Dr. Thomas Turner, Dr. John Bright, Dr. Henry Herbert Southey, Dr. J. R. Hume, and Dr. E. J. Seymour, to be the metropolitan commissioners in lunacy, during the space of one year.

10. Lieut.-gen. lord Aylmer, K.C.B., to be G.C.B.

13. Joseph Phillimore, D.C.L.; H. W. Tancred, esq.; Edgar Taylor, esq.; the rev. Dr. Rees, LL.D.; John Bowring, esq.; John Nicholl, D.C.L.; Robert Winter, esq.; Samuel Gale, esq.; John Parker, esq.; S. March Phillipps, esq.; T. H. Lister, esq.;

1. Felix Bedingfield, esq., to be secretary and clerk of the council, in the island of Montserrat.

8. Lieut.-col. Henry George Macleod, to be lieut.-gov. of the island of St. Christopher.

17. Chas. Shaw Lefevre, esq., lieut.col. Chas. Rowan, and Edwin Chadwick, esq., to be his majesty's commissioners for inquiring as to the best means of establishing an efficient constabulary force in the several counties of England and Wales.

18. Major-gen. sir L. Smith, K.C.B., to be governor-in-chief of the island of Jamaica; col. sir E. J. Murray M'Gregor, bart., to be governor of the islands of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Grenada, Tobago, and their dependencies; major-gen. sir H. F. Bouverie, K.C.B., to be governor of the island of Malta; major-gen. sir James Carmichael Smyth, bart., to be governor of British Guiana and its dependencies.

19. Thomas Drummond, esq., col. John Fox Burgoyne, Peter Barlow, professor of mathematics at the military academy at Woolwich, and Richard Griffith, esq., to be commissioners for considering and reporting upon a general system of railways in Ireland. 21. Stephen Henry Sulivan, esq.,

to be secretary to his majesty's legation at Lisbon.

27. Charles Kemble, esq., to be examiner of all plays, tragedies, comedies, or any other entertainment of the stage.

28. Brevet, lieut, col, Alex Macdonald, R.A., to have the rank of colonel at the Honduras only.

Henry Richardson, of Ryde, gent., to take the name of Cornfoot only.

31. Viscount Hawarden elected a representative peer of Ireland,

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Kullien Sing, a native chief, who was at the head of a considerable marauding force. On quitting Sylhet Mr. Lindsay proceeded to Dacca with a commercial appointment; and from thence, in 1811, to the 24 Pergunnahs. In these Pergunnahs he continued, with occasional intervals of absence through ill health, as assistant or agent in charge of the Company's salt monopoly, till the year 1834. In January, 1835, he went to Singapore for the benefit of his health, and there died.

Aug, 6. At Cheltenham, major-general George Prole, of the Bengal establishment,

28. At his residence, Brixton-hill, Surrey, in his 93rd year, sir William Blizard, knt,, F.R.S., London and Edinburgh, and F.S.A., Honorary Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, &c. He was born at Barnes in Surrey, being the youngest but one of the five children of

NOVEMBER.

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Visct. Arbuthnot to be lord rector

of King's College Aberdeen.

family were remarkable for longevity; his father and mother having both died at the age of eighty-six, and his maternal grandfather at the age of ninety. He had not the advantage of a classical education; having been articled to a surgeon and apothecary at Mortlake, named Besley. His studies in the

Rev. Gilbert Ainslie, D.D., master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to be vice-chancellor of that University. Rev. F. C. Plumptre to be master of University College, Oxford.

don Hospital, with which he was afterwards closely and constantly con. nected, under Mr. H. Thompson, a man of considerable talent and eminence in his day. At the same time, he assisted a surgeon practising in Crutched Friars, and attended the lectures of Pott and the Hunters. At an early period of his life, he was elected surgeon to the Magdalen, which he attended for several years, until his appointment, upon the decease of Mr. Thompson, to the London Hospital in 1780. During many years, he performed all the operations, and attended nearly to the entire duties of that hospital, for his colleagues Mr. Grindall and Mr. Weale. He connected himself with Dr. Maclaurin, a Scotch physician, well known at that time as a teacher of anatomy. They lectured together, first at a small place in Thames-street, and afterwards in Marklane, where Mr. Blizard resided; and in the year 1785 they founded the school at the London hospital, which was the first regular medical school connected with a great hospital. He was also partly the founder, and for many years

the chairman, of the Anatomical Society, which was instituted at once to advance the science of anatomy, and to protect the interests of the teachers. Of the Hunterian society he was the first president, the first honorary member, and delivered the first oration. In the year 1787, Mr. Blizard was appointed Professor of Anatomy to the old Company of Surgeons; and on the 3rd of July, 1788, he was unanimously reelected. In a few years after, he became an examiner. He and Sir Everard Home were appointed the two first professors to this chartered institution, now designated the Royal College of Surgeons. He served the office of president twice, and delivered the Hunterian oration three times. It was on the occasion of presenting an address to the King from the College of Surgeons, on the 16th of March, 1803, that sir William received the honour of knighthood. Besides the official situations already mentioned, he was, for some time, in early life, surgeon to St. Luke's hospital for lunatics; and also to the hon. Corporation of the Trinity-house, the hon. Artillery Company, and the Maritime School at Chelsea. He was consulting surgeon to the Deaf-andDumb Asylum, the Marine Society, the London Orphan Asylum, and the Clergy Orphan Asylum. He was also in 1796 one of the founders of the Sea Bathing Infirmary at Margate, and was a vice-president and senior surgeon of the London Medical Board till his death. Besides some political essays, sir William Blizard published the following works:-" New Method of treating the Fistula Lacrymalis," 1780; "A Lecture on the situation of the large Blood-vessels of the Extremities," &c., 1786, 12mo.; 2nd edition, 1786; 3rd edition, with an explanation of the nature of wounds from fire-arms, 1798, 8vo. Desultory reflections on Police, with an Essay on the means of preventing Crimes and amending Criminals," 1785; "Experiments and Observations on the danger of Copper and Bell-metal in pharmaceutical and chemical preparations," 1786, 8vo; "Experiments and Observations on the external use of Tartar Emetic," 1787; (London Medical Journal, vol. viii.); "Observations on the uses of Electricity in Deafness," 1790, (Lond. Med. Journ.); "Observations on some Epidemical Effects," 1792, (Medical Facts,

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vol. i.): "Suggestions for the improvement of Hospitals, and other Charitable Institutions," 1796, 8vo.; “The Hunterian Orations, delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons," 1815, 1823, 1828, 4to.; "Oration delivered before the Hunterian Society (in 1815) with supplementary observations and engravings ;" "An Address to the Chairman and Members of the House Committee of the London Hospital, on the subject of Cholera," 1831. The portrait of Sir William which is in the possession of the College of Surgeons, painted by Opie, (and engraved by S. W. Reynolds) is not so striking a likeness as the bust by Chantrey, or the smaller one by Rivers. Though the energy of constitution sustained the wear and tear of his extraordinary activity of mind and body to nearly his ninetieth year, it then began to yield. His sight failed him, and he became nearly blind with cataract. In his 92nd year, he determined to have it removed; and on the 25th September, 1834, the lens in the right eye was extracted by Mr. Lawrence. The result was per

fectly successful sir William was able to recognise his friends, and to write as well as ever; and he afterwards appeared in improved health and spirits. During the latter months of his life, he declined by a gradual decay; but he attended the Court of Examiners at the College of Surgeons, one week before his death.

Sept. 1. In Great Ormond-street, Jabez Henry, esq. barrister-at-law, conveyancer for the Dutch colonies. He was the first English president of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, in 1813; and was the first supreme judge of the Ionian Islands after their occupation by the English, and framed the procedures for their new constitution. He published many legal works and pamphlets, of which the principal were: Points on Manumission, and Cases of Contested Freedom, 1817; Report on the Criminal Law of Demerara, and in the ceded Dutch Colonies, 1821; Foreign Law, including the Judgment of the Court of Demerara in the Case of Odwin v. Forbes, &c.; and a translation of Vander Linden's Institutes of the Laws of Holland, 1828. Only a few days before the stroke which caused his death, he had published a pamphlet, "Manifesto of a Neutral," which ran through three editions.

7. At Tobago, major-general Henry

Charles Darling, lieut.-governor of that island.

Oct. 20. At Halifax, Novia Scotia, aged 28, in consequence of drinking cold water, whilst over-heated in the pursuit of moose deer, the hon. Charles Francis Norton, captain 52nd regiment, assistant military secretary to sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., the governor of Nova Scotia, and brother to Lord Grantley.

23. At Bruges, aged 62, Thomas Anthony Trollope, esq., barrister-at-law, cousin to sir John Trollope, bart. He was formerly Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, May 11, 1804. His widow is Mrs. Trollope, the authoress.

Nov. 1. In Eaton Place, of apoplexy, aged 49, the hon. sir Henry Duncan, C.B. K.C.H., a post captain in the royal navy, and naval aide-de-camp to the King; only brother to the earl of Camperdown. He was the younger son of Adam the first viscount Duncan, the victor of Camperdown, by Henrietta, second daughter of the right hon. Robert Dundas, and niece to Henry first viscount Melville.

2. At Keston Lodge, Kent, at a very advanced age, colonel Sweney Toone, formerly an officer in the service of the East-India Company, on their Bengal establishment, and latterly a member of the Court of Directors of that company.

3. At Newington, near Edinburgh, lieut.-colonel Farquharson, late of the 42nd regiment, and lieut.-governor of Carlisle.

5. At Chawton, Hants, Benjamin Clement, esq., a post captain R.N.

7. At Paris, admiral Rigny, who commanded the French squadron at the battle of Navarino.

8. At his residence, Hayle cottage, near Maidstone, in his 90th year, Theophilus Jones, esq., senior admiral of the White.

15. At Tralee, Francis Edward Collingwood, esq., commander, R. N.

He served as midshipman on board the Victory, at the battle of Trafalgar, and being stationed on the poop, shot the man who inflicted the mortal wound on Nelson.

16. In Dorset-square, after a few days' illness, aged 57, colonel Thomas Duer Broughton, of the East-India Company's service, M. R.A.S. He published "Letters from a Mahratta

Camp," and "Selections from the popular Poetry of the Hindoos," 8vo., 1814; and was honorary secretary of the royal Asiatic Society.

17. Aged 53,

lieutenant-colonel James Tod, of the hon. East-India Company's service. As the annalist of Rajpootana, he has left to the world a noble memorial of his services in the "land of his adoption," as he always termed it: while his indefatigable spirit of research, and his zeal to benefit the people for whom he laboured, are to be traced in every line of his work. To him also belongs the praise of having set one of the first examples of the study of Indo-Grecian antiquities, which is now prosecuted with so much diligence and success in India, and promises to open a new avenue into the history of nations which united the Asiatic with the European races. His disquisition on Greek, Parthian, and Hindoo medals, illustrated with unknown coins discovered in the course of his researches, is a monument of learned investigation, which has merited the applause of scholars. He for some time officiated as librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society.

He was attacked by apoplexy on the morning of the 16th, while transacting business at his bankers', Messrs. Robarts and Co.; and after the first fifteen minutes, he lay speechless and without consciousness for seven-and-twenty hours, and expired in the afternoon of the following day.

18. At Gibraltar, in his 56th year, the right hon. George Charles Venables Vernon, fourth lord Vernon.

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Aged 46, sir John Ely Parker, bart., a captain in the Royal Artillery.

23. At Nantes, aged 41, lady Maria Caroline Anne, countess de Mondreville, eldest daughter of the marquess of Ailesbury. She was married in 1819.

26. At Hessel, Yorkshire, aged 63, Mr. Isaac Wilson, formerly a bookseller in Hull, for thirty years editor, and many years proprietor, of the Hull Advertiser. He was the author of a volume of "Miscellanies, in prose and verse," consisting of the "Inspector," a series of essays, and other compositions occasionally inserted in that paper.

27. At Walton hall, Lancashire, aged 67, sir Henry Philip Hoghton, the seventh baronet, of Hoghton Tower in that county.