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Oct. 19.-WILDEY, THOMAS, the founder of the order of Odd Fellows in this country, died at his residence in Baltimore. He was a native of England, but came to this country at an early age. He was the first Grand Sire of the Grand Lodge of the United States, serving in that capacity from 1825 to 1833, and received every honor it was in the power of its members to bestow. His funeral, which took place on the 22d, was attended by delegations of the order from all sections of the country which could reach Baltimore in season to participate in the services.

Oct. 20.-WOODBRIDGE, WILLIAM, ex-Governor of Michigan, died at his residence in Detroit aged 84. He was a native of Connecticut, but had resided in Michigan about 50 years. He was elected Governor of the State in 1840, and in 1842 United States Senator for 6 years. At the close of his senatorial term he returned to his home in Detroit, where he subsequently lived in quiet and retirement. He was a man of many estimable qualities.

Oct. 21.-BAKER, General EDWARD D. (See BAKER.)

Oct. 22.-PUTNAM, WILLIAM LOWELL, a lieutenant of volunteers in the United States army, born in Boston, July 9, 1840, the grandson of Rev. Dr. Charles Lowell and Judge Samuel Putnam, educated partly in France, where he resided from 1851 to 1858, and subsequently trained in law and science in Harvard University; entered the Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in 1861; was called to the field in Sept., and on the 21st of Oct., at the disastrous battle of Ball's Bluff, received a mortal wound while leading on his battalion to the rescue of a wounded officer. When borne to the hospital tent he declined the surgeon's assistance, bidding him go to those whom his services could benefit, as his life could not be saved. He died from his wound the next day. He was a young man of extraordinary genius, and of most lovely and blameless life, and the vast assembly who gathered in Boston to do honor to his last remains, responded most feelingly to the eloquent and touching portrayal of his character by his pastor, Rev. Dr. Bartol, and Rev. James Freeman Clarke.

Oct. 23.-DICKENS, ASBURY, aged 83, for many years Secretary of the Senate of the United States.

Nov. 18.-CHETWOOD, JOHN J., an eminent lawyer of New Jersey, born at Elizabeth, N. J., Jan. 18, 1800. He was a descendant of Judge Chetwood, one of the early judges of the N. J. Supreme Court, and was for 14 years surrogate of Essex Co., the first prosecutor of Union Co., and a member of the Council before the adoption of the present Constitution of the State. He was identified with the great railroad enterprises of New Jersey, and active in the promotion of education and in the support of reliHe was a man of generous gious institutions. and genial disposition. He died at Elizabeth. Nov. 18.-SNYDER, Capt. GEORGE W., died at

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Washington, D. C., aged 28 years. He was born in 1836, in New York. In 1852 he was appointed from the State of New York a cadet in the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated with high honor, holding the rank of first captain. On leaving the academy he was appointed a second lieutenant of engineers, the highest promotion accessible to a recent graduate. He was attached in 1859 to the board of engineers under the presidency of Col. Thayer, of Boston. In the following year he was acting assistant professor of military and civil engineering at West Point. When trouble was anticipated at Charleston he was sent to that station as first engineer, assistant to Capt. Foster, and through the hardships consequent upon the siege of Fort Sumter, contracted the disease which ultimately proved fatal.

Dec. 10.-JACKSON, JOHN P., Vice-President and Superintendent of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, died at Newark, N. J., aged 56. Mr. Jackson was connected with that company from its organization to the time of his death. He was educated for the bar and held a high position in the legal profession; was twice elected to the Legislature of the State, and twice elected clerk of the county of Essex, a very lucrative office.

he After his connection with the company, abandoned active participation in the pursuits of political life, and devoted all his energies and talents to its service. He was distinguished for his benevolence and charity, as well as for integrity and honesty of purpose.

Dec. -WILLIAMS, THOMAS SCOTT. (See WILLIAMS.)

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Dec. 13.-WENDELL, JOHN L., died at Hartford, Conn. He was a native of New York, born in 1784, and for many years a resident of Albany, and a member of the Albany bar. He was for a long time the reporter of the Supreme Court, and the author of the long series of law reports bearing his name.

Dec. 14.-WILKINSON, Commodore JESSE, United States navy, died at his family residence near Norfolk, Va., aged 77 years. He was a native of Virginia, and entered the navy July 10, 1805. He was in the service of the Government fifty-four years and five months.

Dec. 17.-RUFFNER, Rev. HENRY, D.D., LL. D., died at his residence in Kanawha, Va., in the 73d year of his age. He was for many years President of Lexington College, Va., and was distinguished for his learning and logical ability. His last published work was a pamphlet issued from the press last autumn, arguing against the continuance of slavery in Virginia.

Dec. 21.-TURNER, Rev. SAMUEL H., D. D., an American clergyman and professor, born in Philadelphia, Jan. 23, 1791. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1807, studied theology under Bishop White, ordained deacon in 1811, became rector of the Episcopal church at Chestertown, Md., in 1812, left Maryland on account of his health in 1817, and in 1818 was appointed professor of historic theology in the

General Theological Seminary at New York. In 1821 he was appointed professor of Biblical Learning and Interpretation of the Scriptures in the same seminary, and continued to fulfil the duties of these professorships, and, since 1881, the added labors of professor of Hebrew in Columbia College, until his death. He was also the author of a number of commentaries and other works illustrative of the subjects of his instructions, which were highly esteemed for their critical scholarship and their catholic spirit.

Dec. 22.-SCOTT, Rev. WILLIAM M., D. D., professor in the N. W. Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church at Chicago, died at Princeton, N. J. He was born in Ohio in 1817, graduated at Jefferson College, Penn., studied law in Kentucky for a year, and then entered Princeton Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1846. In 1847 he was elected professor of languages in Centre College, Danville, Ky., and subsequently pastor of the First Presbyterian church in that place. In 1856 he was called to the pastorate of the Seventh Presbyterian church in Cincinnati, and on the organization of the new Theological Seminary in the Northwest in 1859, was chosen by the General Assembly one of its professors.

Dec. 26.-COCKE, Gen. PHILIP ST. GEORGE, an officer of the Confederate army, died in Richmond, Va., aged 53 years. Holding the State rights views of some of the leading men of Virginia, at the commencement of the present war he volunteered his services in the Confederate army of the Upper Potomac, and served as captain, colonel, and general. Upon the field of Bull Run he was commander of the Fifth Confederate Brigade. After a campaign of eight months he returned to his home, shattered both in mind and body, and in a paroxysm of insanity put an end to his life.

Dec. 26.—VAN WYCK, THEODORE C., an eminent New York physician, died at his residence in Bloomingburgh, N. Y., aged 74 years.

Dec. 27.-MCCLURE, WILLIAM B., a distinguished Pennsylvanian jurist, born at Carlisle, but removed to Pittsburgh, where he died. For ten years past he had been President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Alleghany Co., Penn. Few men in the State were more widely known or respected.

Dec. 28.-LEGRAND, JOHN C., late Chief-Justice of Maryland, died in Baltimore.

RUSSELL, DAVID, a native of Massachusetts, died at his residence in Salem, Washington County, N. Y., in the 81st year of his age. He was appointed District Attorney of the northern district of the State in 1814, and was elected to the Assembly the next year, and subsequently reelected. He was a member of the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses, where, during several sessions, he was Chairman of the Committee of Claims, and has fulfilled many other important public trusts,

SCRANTON, GEORGE W., died at his residence in Scranton, Luzerne County, Penn., aged about 50. He was a native of Madison, Connecticut, but removed to New Jersey and afterwards to Pennsylvania, engaging in his business of iron manufacturer in the heart of the coal and iron region, where a large town has grown up which will perpetuate his name. In 1858 he was elected to Congress by a large majority, and being reëlected in 1860, served until his death.

WATMOUGH, JOHN G., died at his residence in Philadelphia. He was born in Delaware Dec 6, 1793, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He served in the army as a lieutenant of artillery in the war of 1812-14, and was wounded at the battle of Erie. He afterwards served as aid to General Gaines, whom he accompanied to the Southern frontier. In 1830 he was elected to Congress, and served for two terms as the representative of the then third district of Pennsylvania. He was subsequently high sheriff of Philadelphia City and County, and surveyor of the port in 1841.

TILTON, Commander EDWARD G., of the United States navy, died in Washington, He entered the service in 1822 as a midshipman, and was commissioned as a commander in 1853. His last cruise was in command of the sloop-of-war Saratoga, in the home squadron, from which he returned in April, 1857. Subsequently, he was assigned to duty as a member of the Light-house Board, in which capacity he was engaged at the time of his death.

MAY, WILLIAM, commander of the United States navy, died at his home in Maryland, aged 46 years. He was a native of Washington, D. C. In May, 1831, he entered the navy. He was an officer of the exploring expedition to the South Sea, and was wrecked at the Navigator Islands while surveying its dangerous reefs, narrowly escaping with his life. Com. May was engaged in the battle with the Fiji Islanders after the murder of our seamen and navy officers. He was the executive officer of the brig Porpoise during the Mexican war, and saved the vessel, when thrown upon its beam ends by a violent storm off Vera Cruz. He was at the capture of Tobasco by Com. Perry in the Mexican war, and from his wounds, received at that time, never entirely recovered. His last cruise was as first lieutenant of the frigate Congress, and through his arduous duties in midwinter he contracted a fatal disease of the lungs.

CONDICT, SILAS, died in Newark, N. J., aged 84. He held, during the course of his life, numerous offices of importance, having been a member of the State Legislature, a Representative in Congress from 1831 to 1833, and a member of the Convention which formed the present Constitution of New Jersey, and an elector on the Fillmore ticket in 1856. He was a man of unblemished private character.

OBITUARIES, FOREIGN.-Jan. 1.-FREDERICK WILLIAM IV. (See FREDERICK WILLIAM IV.)

Jan. 3, BERTHOLD, ARNOLD ADOLPH, a German naturalist, born Feb. 26, 1803, at Soest, in Westphalia. He was professor at Göttingen, councillor royal of the Court of Hanover, and author of numerous works on natural history. Jan. 4.-BAUR, FERD. CHRISTIAN. (See BAUR, F. C.)

Jan 4.-FAIRBAIRN, SIR PETER, C. E., born at Kelso, Scotland, in 1799; was a distinguished civil engineer, a magistrate for Leeds, and mayor for that city in 1858-'9, during the queen's visit, on which occasion he was knighted.

Jan. 6.-PYPER, Dr. W, a distinguished professor in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Jan. 13.-COUNT MONTEMOLIN, DON CARLOS LUIS MARIA FERNANDO DE BOURBON, prince of Asturia, born Jan. 31, 1818, at Madrid, son of Don Carlos and the Portuguese Princess Maria Francesca d'Assis. He attempted, but unsuccessfully, in April, 1860, to overthrow the Government of Spain, to the throne of which he pretended, on the ground of his father's claims. Defeated in this effort, and compelled to leave Spain, he and his brother, who had been associated with him, made a public retraction at Cologne, in June, 1860. The count and his countess died at Trieste, within two days of each other.

Jan. 13.-JOHN ELPHINSTONE FLEMING, Baron Elphinstone, of the county of Stirling, Scotland, a lieutenant-colonel in the English army, born Dec. 11, 1819, succeeded his first cousin, Baron Elphinstone of Elphinstone, in the peerage of Scotland, July 19, 1860.

Jan. 14.-JODRELL, SIR RICHARD PAUL, born in Marylebone, 1781, graduated at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1804; was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1803; was deputy-lieutenant of Derbyshire and of Norfolk.

Jan. 14.-MONTEZ, LOLA, MARIA DOLORES PORRIS Y MONTEZ, Countess of Landsfeld, a woman of remarkable career and adventures, born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1824, died in New York. She was partially educated in England; when very young married an officer named James, who took her to India, but, treating her cruelly, she left him and returned to England. In 1840 she appeared as a dancer at a theatre in Paris, became the mistress of Dujarrier, editor of the Presse, and, after his death in a duel, appeared as a witness in the trial which ensued; found her way to Munich; appeared as a danseuse, and fascinated King Louis, over whom she exerted a powerful influence, occasioning the overthrow of his ministry. The king, in 1846, made her Countess of Landsfeld, but she soon became involved in difficulties, and was obliged to leave the country. She next went to England and married an Englishman by the name of Heald, but her first husband being alive, she was prosecuted for bigamy, and es

caped to Spain. In 1850, James and Heald having both deceased, she was freed from the danger of prosecution. In 1852 she came to the United States, and performed in the Eastern States, and subsequently in California and Australia, as a dancer, and on her return to the United States and England, lectured on a variety of subjects. In 1859 she came again to New York, and soon after was affected with partial paralysis. She was the author of three works of no great ability.

Jan. 17.-EXETER, Very Rev. THOMAS HENRY LOWE, Dean of, born Dec. 21, 1781, graduated at Oxford, appointed Dean of Exeter in

1839.

Jan. 17.-SCOVELL, Gen. SIR GEORGE, born in London, 1774; entered the army in 1798; received a cross and clasp for his services at Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse; was at Waterloo, for his services at which battle he received the order of St. Wladimir, 4th class; was appointed Governor of the Military College at Sandhurst, 1837, resigned in 1856; was colonel of the Fourth Dragoons from 1848 to his death; received the rank of general in 1854.

Jan. 20.-PARSONS, Rear-Admiral ROBERT W., born in 1783.

Jan. 21.-HALL, SIR JOHN, born at Stannington, Yorkshire, 1779; was appointed, in 1807, consul and agent for the maritime seigniory of Papenburgh and East Friesland. In 1809 was made chairman for regulating convoys, and for the protection of British commerce and navigation to and from the ports between the Elbe and Calais; in 1816 appointed consul-general for Hanover in the United Kingdom; in 1817 was high sheriff of Essex; was a deputy-lieutenant and magistrate of Middlesex and of Essex; honorary treasurer and secretary of the Society of London Merchants, and secretary to the St. Katharine's Dock Company.

Jan. 21.-PLAYFAIR, SIR HUGH LYON, born at Meigle, Angusshire, 1786; educated at the Dundee Grammar School, University of St. Andrews, and at Woolwich; served for several years as an officer of the Bengal Artillery, which corps he entered in 1805; retired from the service in 1834; was provost of St. Andrews from 1842 until his death.

Jan. 21.-RADFORD, Rear-Admiral Samuel, born in 1784.

Jan. 21.-CHAPPELL, Rear-Admiral SIR EDWARD, born August 10, 1792.

Jan. 22.-TIEDEMANN, FRIEDRICH, an eminent German physiologist and anatomist, born in Hesse Cassel, Aug. 23, 1781, died at Munich.

Jan. 23.-LINDSAY, THOMAS, an English landscape painter in water colors, born in 1793.

Jan. 24.-MÜLLER, HIERONYMUS, a German classical scholar and writer on education, born June 7, 1785.

Jan. 24.-WELSH, Gen. JAMES, an officer of the Indian army, born in 1774, promoted general in 1854.

Jan. 25.-LE BAS, Rev. C. W., formerly principal of Haileybury College.

Jan. 29.-GORE, Mrs. CATHARINE GRACE, (FRANCIS,) an English authoress, born in 1799 in Nottinghamshire. She received a superior education, but did not commence her career as writer till 1822, the year of her marriage to Capt. Charles Gore. Her first work, "Therese Marchmont, or the Maid of Honor," is said to have been written in a week. In 1824 this was followed by "The Bond," in 1827 by the "Lettre de Cachet," in 1828 by the "Hungarian Tales," and in 1830 by "Women as they are," ," and "Mothers and Daughters." Within the following thirty years she published more than fifty distinct works, all, with four or five exceptions, either novels or dramas, and most of them possessing superior merit. The best of her works are "Women as they are," "Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination," "The Woman of the World," "Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb," "Greville, or a Season in Paris," ," "The Banker's Wife," " Self," and "The Queen of Denmark."

Jan. 29.-GUILFORD, Rev. FRANCIS North, Earl of, born 1772; educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he graduated 1797; was rector of Alresford and St. Mary's, Southampton; was master of St. Cross hospital, Winchester, from 1808 to the time of his death.

Jan. 30.-BURFORD, ROBERT, an English painter, the introducer of panoramas, born 1792. Jan. 30.-PICKERSGILL, H. W., R. A., an eminent English portrait painter.

Feb. 5.-DE LA MOTTE, Gen. PETER, C. B., born 1781, made Companion of the Bath, 1831; general in the Indian army, 1860.

Feb. 6.—OWEN, SIR JOHN, born at Pembroke about 1776; was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1800; was lord-lieutenant of Pembroke, and governor of Milford Haven; was M. P. for Pembrokeshire from 1806 to 1841, and sat for the Pembroke district from 1841 to the time of his death.

Feb. 9.—MUNDY, Admiral Sir George, born at Shipley Hall, in the parish of Heanor, Derbyshire, 1777; became admiral of the red in 1857; served at the taking of Corsica, and distinguished himself in the battles of St. Vincent, the Nile, &c.; represented Boroughbridge in parliament from 1819 to 1831.

Feb. 9.-DANBY, FRANCIS, A. R. A., an eminent English historical painter, born near Wexford, Nov. 16, 1793. His paintings rank among the best in their class of the painters of our time. He died at Exmouth.

Feb. 10-DONALDSON, JOHN WILLIAM, D. D., an English philologist born in 1811; was for many years head master of the Grammar School of Bury St. Edmunds, and subsequently removed to Cambridge, where he acted as private tutor. He was the author of "The New Cratylus," "Varronianus," &c.

Feb. 12.-LESLIE, Lieutenant-General JOHN, an English army officer, born in 1790; attained the rank of lieutenant-general, 1858.

Feb. 13.-ATCHINSON, Vice-Admiral ROBERT, an English navy officer born in 1797.

Feb. 16.-CLERKE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, born in London, 1793; high sheriff of Flintshire, 1848; entered the army in 1811; served with the Fifty-second in the Peninsula, and was also at Waterloo; retired from the armly with the brevet of major in 1858.

Feb. 16.-BURNETT, SIR WILLIAM, M. D.. K. C. B., K. C. H., born at Montrose, Scotland. in 1779; entered the navy as assistant-surgeon in 1795; was promoted to the rank of surgeon in 1799; appointed physician and inspector of hospitals to the Mediterranean fleet in 1810; became medical commissioner of the navy in 1822, and in 1832 was appointed director-general of the medical department of the navy, which post he held till his death. He was physician in ordinary to William IV. He served in the Goliath, 74, in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and the Nile; and in the Defiance in the action off Ferrol and in the battle of Tra falgar, and received four war medals for his meritorious conduct in these battles.

Feb. 18.-MÜGGE, THEODORE, & German nov elist and editor, born at Berlin, Nov. 8, 1806. He was the founder and for 12 years editor of the National Zeitung or Gazette. He was the author of twenty-four or five novels, one of which, Afraja, was well known in this country.

Feb. 20.-DYSON, Gen. JERRY F., an officer of the East Indian army.

Feb. 20.-OGILVY, SIR WILLIAM, born 1810; claimed the baronetcy of Banff, a Scotch peerage created in 1642, and dormant since the death of William, eighth baron, in 1803.

Feb. 20.-SCRIBE, EUGÈNE. (See Scribe, EtGÈNE.)

Feb. 21.-HEIDEGgger, Karl WilheLM, a dis tinguished Bavarian general, died at Munich st the age of 73 years.

Feb. 21.-MODENA, GUSTAVO, an Italian sculptor, died at Turin, aged 58 years.

Feb. 22.-BRAYBROOKE, RICHARD CORNWAL LIS NEVILLE, fourth Baron of, born March 17, 1820, educated at Cambridge, and prosecuted with great zeal archeological investigations, for which he inherited a strong predilection from his father. He was hereditary visitor of Mag dalene College, Cambridge, and high steward of Wokingham.

Feb. 27.-ARENBERG, PROSPER LUDWIG, Duke of, born at Schlosser, in Hennegau, April 28, 1785, died at Brussels.

Feb. 27.-RIETSCHEL, ERNST, an eminent German sculptor, born in Pulsnitz, Saxony Dec. 15, 1804. He entered the Academy of Arts in Dresden in 1820, and after a brief course of study executed a statue of Neptune, which was reproduced in iron and excited general admiration. In 1826 he repaired to Berlin and became a student under Ranch, and in 1827 the Saxon Government furnished him the means of visiting Italy. After a year's journ there, he returned to Dresden and exe cuted a colossal statue of Frederic Augustus 11,

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king of Saxony. In 1832 he was appointed professor in the Dresden Academy. Since that time he has produced numerous statues and groups of high merit, and has received titles and orders in abundance from most of the crowned heads of Europe. His "Mary weeping over the body of Christ," "Love taming a Panther," "Love borne by a Panther," and "The Four Hours of the Day," are his most celebrated works.

Feb. 28.-CROSS, JOHN, an English historical painter.

Feb. 28.-COUPER, SIR GEORGE, born 1788; was principal equerry and comptroller of the household to the Duchess of Kent; accompanied the Earl of Durham to Canada in 1838; attained the rank of colonel in the army in

1837.

Feb. 28.-SUTHERland, George GRANVILLE SUTHERLAND LEVESON GOWER, Duke of, born Aug. 8, 1786, in London. The duke was from one of the oldest families of Scotland, which had been raised to the peerage in 1703, under the title of the barons of Gower. In his youth he was known as Lord Gower Stafford, and under that title was educated at Oxford, from which university he received, in 1841, the honorary degree of D. C. L. From 1815 to 1820 he held a seat in the House of Commons, and in 1826, during the lifetime of his father, was called to the House of Lords as Baron Gower, and succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1833, and his mother in the titles of Earl Gower and Baron Strathnaver in 1839. He was lord-lieutenant and keeper of the rolls of Shropshire till 1845, when he resigned; lordlieutenant of Sutherlandshire till his death. He was a liberal patron of science and literature, and President of the British Institution and of Kings College Hospital for many years. In 1841 he was created Chevalier of the Garter. On his vast estates in Scotland he had introduced all the improvements of the age in agriculture, and was especially distinguished among agriculturists for his efforts to improve the breeds of his cattle and sheep.

March 3.-BISCHOFF, CHRISTIAN HENRY ERNST, a German medical professor and author, born at Hanover, Sept. 14, 1781, died at Bonn. March 4.-CHRZANOWSKI, ADALBERT, an exiled Polish general, died at Paris aged 72 years; born in the palatinate of Cracow, was educated in the military school at Warsaw, and served as an artillery officer of the French army in most of Napoleon's great battles. On his return to his own country he was appointed lieutenant in the new Polish army, and attached for eight years to the staff of the Russian General d'Auveray. In 1828 he was on the staff of Gen. Diebitsch in the Turkish campaign of that and the following year; distinguished himself at Varna, and was sent to announce the peace to the Grand Duke Constantine at Warsaw. In 1830 he joined in the revolutionary movement, commanded the fortress of Mödlin, and was afterwards made chief of the general staff by

Skryznecki, the Polish generalissimo. He defended the passes of Wieprz against the Russians; defeated Gen. Thieman at Kotz; checked the advance of Rudiger in Podalia; won the battle of Minsk, July 14, 1831, and made a masterly retreat from Zamosk to Warsaw. For his services he was made general of division, but having lost his confidence in the success of the revolution, he was suspected of sympathy with the Russians, and while Governor of Warsaw took such measures as paralyzed the defence of the city by the Poles. After the entry of the Russians into Warsaw he continued to reside there unmolested for several months, and finally went to Paris, where he was received with disfavor by the Polish emigrants. He lived in obscurity until 1849, when he was called to Italy by Charles Albert and intrusted with the re-organization of the Piedmontese army, but was again suspected of treason, though not punished, for the defeat at Novara, which was believed to have been partially caused by his misconduct. In May, 1850, he left Turin and remained the rest of his life in Paris.

March 4.-MADRAS, Right Rev. THOMAS DEALTRY, third Bishop of; born at Knottingley, near Pontefract, 1795; graduated at Catharine Hall, Cambridge, in 1828; created archdeacon of Calcutta in 1835; and held that office until consecrated Bishop of Madras, 1849; had published sermons on various occasions.

March 9.-MACLAINE, SIR ARCHIBALD, born 1783; entered the army in 1795; served in several important battles and at the capture of Seville; was knighted for his defence of Fort Matagorda for 55 days with only 155 men against Marshal Soult, who had a force of 8,000 men under his command; received the Order of Charles III. of Spain in 1816; became general in the army in 1855.

March 11.-LoVELL, Gen. SIR LOVELL BENJAMIN, entered the army in 1805; attained the rank of major-general in 1854; was appointed colonel of the Twelfth Dragoons 1856; served at the taking of Monte Video, and subsequently in the peninsula, including ten general actions, forty minor affairs, and seven sieges.

March 14.-PROCTER, Admiral SIR WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, an officer of the British navy, born at Langley Park, Eng., Oct. 14, 1781; succeeded his father as baronet in 1827; served in the expedition to Egypt; was at the bombardment of Havre in 1804; in the naval campaign of 1808 in the East Indies, and attained the rank of admiral in 1857.

March 15.-LILFORD, THOMAS ATHERTON Powys, third Baron of, born Dec. 2, 1801; succeeded his father in 1825; educated at Christ Church, Oxford; was a lord in waiting to the queen; resigned Sept. 1841.

March 16.-KENT, DUCHESS OF. (See KENT.) March 19.-HAY, SIR JAMES DALRYMPLE, born at Dunragit, Scotland, 1789; was a deputy-lieutenant of Wigtonshire.

March 19.-PYM, SIR WILLIAM, born at Pinley, Warwickshire, 1776; served in the Thirty

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