MARRIAGES. 5. At Giggleswick, West Riding of Yorkshire, the Rev. John Stansfeld, B.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, youngest son of Robert Stansfeld, esq., of Field House, near Halifax, to Eliza beth, eldest daughter of John Birkbeck, esq., of Auley House, near Settle. At Derby, the Venerable John Rushton, Archdeacon of Manchester and Incumbent of Newchurch, Whalley, Lancashire, to Henrietta, eldest daugh ter of William Leaper Newton, esq., of Leylands. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Macdonald Bourchier, esq., R.N., eldest son of Capt. Bourchier, R.N., to Mary Eliza, eldest daughter of the late RearAdmiral Hancock, C.B. 6. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Charles, son of Baldwin Duppa Duppa, esq., of Hollingbourne House, Kent, to Ellen Pink, daughter of Major-Gen. Faunce, of Caledonia Place, Bath. 7. At St. John's Church, Oxfordsquare, the Rev. J. George Venables, M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, to Caroline, widow of the late James H. Hosken, esq., of Ellenglaze, Cornwall, and youngest daughter of the late Lieut.Col. Sandys, of Llanarth House, in the same county. At St. George's, Hanover-square, John Goodrich Dick, esq., Commander R.N., eldest son of Rear-Admiral Dick, to Harriett, only daughter of the late Rev. Charles Baker, Rector of Tilman stone, Kent. At Fawley, Hants, Com. Graham Eden William Hamond, R.N., youngest son of Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, Bart., K.C.B., of Norton Lodge, Isle of Wight, to Lucia, only daughter of L. Dodds, esq., of Hythe House, Hants. 9. At St. James's Church, Piccadilly, William Barwick Hodge,esq., of Charlesstreet, St. James-square, to Penelope Sarah, eldest daughter of Henry Porter Sinith, esq., of the Crescent, New Bridge Street. 11. At Fulford Church, near York, George Charles Parkhurst Baxter, esq., of Catesby Abbey, Northamptonshire, to Frances, second daughter of Capt. Graves, of Heworth. 12. At Links Place, Leith, the Rev. David Thorburn, A.M., to Jane, daughter of the late John Hay, esq., Leeds. At St. John's Church, Paddington, Frank Somerville Head, esq., eldest son of Sir Francis B. Head, Bart., to Mary Jane, eldest daughter of Robert Garnett, esq., of Wyreside, Lancashire. 13. At Lydiard Tregoz, the Rev. Henry Drury, M.A., Rector of Alderly, Gloucestershire, to Amelia Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Rev. Giles Danbury, Rector of Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts. 14. At Holyrood Church, Southampton, William, second son of William Betts, esq., of Southfield House, Leices ter, to Cecilia, eldest daughter of George Laishley, esq., of Shirley. At Leckhampton, G. J. Philip Smith, esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, to Elizabeth Curtis IIayward, youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Adey Curtis, Vicar of Bitton, Gloucestershire. At Weymouth, the Rev. Francis Daubeny, of Mepal, near Chatteris, to Sophia, fourth daughter of the late Williain Jones, esq., Woodhall, Norfolk. 16. At St. Peter's Church, Antigua, George Fenton Fletcher Boughey, esq., Capt. in Her Majesty's 59th Reg., third son of the late Sir John Fenton Boughey, Bart., of Aqualate Hall, to Matilda Elwin, fourth daughter of the Hon. George Weatherill Ottley, of Parry's, in the island of Antigua. 18. At Lamerton, near Tavistock, Devon, the Rev. George Martin, M.A., Rector of St. Pancras, to Harriet, eldest daughter of the Rev. William Cowlard, B.A., Perpetual Curate of Laneast, Cornwall. 19. At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, to Mrs. Vaughan, of Belle Hatch House, Oxfordshire. At St. John's, Liverpool, the Rev. G. F. Thomas, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, to Lydia, daughter of the late Rev. R. Loxham, Rector of Halshall, Lancashire. At Warden Church, A. Coulson, esq., R.N., of Blenkinsopp Castle, to Miss Wastell, only daughter of the Rev. Henry Wastell, of Newbrough, near Hexham. 21. At St. Marylebone Church, James Grierson, esq., late of the Hon. East India Company's Service, to Harriet, DEATHS-1842-3. eldest daughter of Major-Gen. James Alexander, Bengal Army. At Maidstone, John Adams, jun., esq., Barrister-at-law, eldest son of Mr. Sergeant Adams, to Emily, third daughter of the late Sir John Buchanan Riddell, of Riddell, Bart. At Castlepark, Robert King Piers, esq., only son of Edward Piers, esq., of Gloucester-street, Dublin, to Henrietta Caroline, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Baron Richards. 23. At Longton, Staffordshire, Mr. Thomas Sharp, of Trinity College, Dublin, and one of the Masters of the City of London School, to Mary Ann, second daughter of the Rev. Dr.Vale, Rector of Longton. At Llandyrnog, Denbighshire, James Beech, esq., of Brandon Lodge, Warwickshire, to Emily Charlotte, fourth daughter of the late John Madocks, esq., of Glanywern, Denbighshire. 26. At St. Mary's Church, Woolwich, Alexander Gillespie, esq., eldest son of the late George Gillespie, esq., of Biggar Park, Lanarkshire, to Marion Holmes, second daughter of Col. Paterson, Royal Artillery. 27. At St. Mary's Church, Cheltenham, Samuel Martin Colquitt, esq., Captain in the Royal Navy, to Frances Rachael, daughter of the late Rev. James Wiggett, Rector of Crudwell, Wilts. At Jesus Chapel, near Southampton, Charles Francis Trower, esq., of the Inner Temple, and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, youngest son of John Trower, esq., of Weston Grove, Hants, to Frances Mary, eldest daughter of the late Capt. Bradly, R.N. At St. Philip's Church, Liverpool, Charles Melhuish, esq., to Emily Martha second daughter of the Rev. Edward Hull, M.A. At Longhope, Gloucestershire, William Cameron Irving, esq., of Christ's Hospital, to Maria Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Rev. William Gwynne, Rector of Denton and St. Michael's, Sussex. At Ticehurst, Sussex, Francis Henry, eldest son of Anthony Rich, esq., Welbeck-street, London, to Frances Ricarda, second daughter; and at the same time, Charles E. Hayes, eldest son of Charles Newington, esq., of Highlands, Sussex, to Eleonora, third daughter of the Rev. Richard Wetherell, of Pashley House, in the same county. 28. At Axminster, 'the Rev. William Bruce, Rector of St. Nicholas, third son of J. Bruce Pryce, esq., of Duffryn, Glamorganshire, to Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of the Rev. W. D. Conybeare, Vicar of Axminster. At St. Helier's, Jersey, the Rev. Charles Robinson, to Anne Jessy, eldest daughter of Henry P. Bruyeres, esq. 31. At St. Pancras, William Birkmyre, esq., South Down, to Margaret Jane Yeamons, second daughter of John Wrixon, esq., of Walsheston House, co. Cork. DEATHS. 1842. OCTOBER. 3. At Wellington, New Zealand, of fever, William Vernon Evans, late of Eton College, in his 20th year. He was in attendance on the Bishop of New Zealand in his first visitation tour. DECEMBER. 23. At Bangor, Lovell Edgeworth, esq., of Edgeworthstown, Ireland, in his 67th year. 27. At Port Nelson, New Zealand, Francis, third surviving son of Dr. Greenhow, of North Shields, and one of the earliest settlers at Nelson. He was drowned whilst bathing in the river Mailai, in his 23rd year. 29. John Grant, esq., of Leighton Buzzard, in his 91st year. 30. Major-General Sir Charles Deacon, K.C.B., of Great Berkhampstead. 1843. JANUARY. 1. At his residence in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Major-General Percy Drummond, C.B. This officer entered the service as Second Lieut. on the 1st January, 1794, and consequently had been forty-nine years an officer of the corps. He was promoted to be First Lieutenant, August 14, 1794; and in 1795 he performed, in addition to his other duties, that of Quartermaster of DEATHS-JAN. his battalion. He was gazetted Captain on the 7th October, 1799; Major on the 4th June, 1811; Lieut.-Col. on the 12th August, 1819; Col. on the 13th October, 1827; and retired from connection with a battalion on being promoted to be Major-Gen. on the 10th January, 1837. At that period he was Lieut.-Governor of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, which situation he retained until May, 1839, when he succeeded, on the death of Sir A. Dickson, as Director General of the Royal Artillery. MajorGen. Drummond was at the siege of Copenhagen in 1794-5; and at the capture of the Island of Walcheren, and siege of Flushing, in 1809. He was also present with his company in Portugal, with Sir J. Moore, until the embarkation of the troops at Corunna, and was engaged in the campaign of 1815, including the battle of Waterloo. Major-Gen. Drummond's father (Duncan Drummond) was a Commanding Officer of the Royal Artillery, and Director-Gen. of the Field Train Department, and was buried in the church-yard of Plumstead. At Dodington, Gloucestershire, the Hon. Lady Bethell Codrington, wife of Sir C. B. Codrington, Bart. The Rev. George Cardale, M.A., Rector of Millbrook, and Vicar of Flitwick, Beds., in his 83rd year. 2. At Croft, Yorkshire, aged 78, the Rev. James Dalton, Rector of that Parish, to which he was presented by the King in 1805. He was of Clare Hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790. Aged 69, the Rev. Stephen Puddicombe, Vicar of Morval, Cornwall, to which he was presented in 1803 by Lord Chancellor Eldon. He was returning from Morval to his residence at West Looe, in company with some friends, when he was taken suddenly ill, and died on the spot. At Yoxal Lodge, Mary, wife of the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, Prebendary of Durham; having nearly completed the fifty-ninth year of their union; in her 82nd year. 3. At Leamington, aged 65, Thomas Christopher Hofland, esq., landscape painter. He was born on Christmasday, 1777, at Worksop, in Nottinghamshire. Early in life he devoted himself to landscape-painting as a profession; but he never had the advantage of any instruction, save what he received in three months from Rathbone, then an artist of considerable celebrity; but, in consequence of these lessons, he produced two pictures, which were favourably hung at the Royal Academy. He did not exhibit for ten years afterwards, as he soon found that, by teaching alone, he could ensure the means of existence, for there was at that time no British Gallery for the disposal of pictures, and it is well known that the great exhibition was no place of sale. At this period every man was a volunteer, and young Hofland was in the King's Own Company at Kew; being fugleman, his singular agility and soldier-like carriage attracted the attention of the Sovereign, who, on learning his profession, desired the Rev. Dr. Willis to bring him and his drawings to the Palace, and he had the honor to receive His Majesty' commands to prepare a series of drawings of new plants and flowers then newly received for the Royal Gardens. The King rewarded him by an appointment to be His Majesty's draughtsman on board a vessel about to set sail on a voyage of discovery, but his mother's extreme distress prevented him from profiting by it, and he was superseded by W. Westall, esq., A.R.A. The King also designed him a commission in the army, which was lost to him by a mistake in the name, and fell to the lot of the late Colonel Haverfield, a brave officer and a good man. Having an opportunity of entering on a superior line of teaching at Derby, he availed himself of it, and resided several years in the country, where he married; but after visiting London, for the purpose of copying in the British Gallery, the desire of entirely devoting himself to painting became irresistible. The flame was so fanned in the following year, that he resolved on removal; and, after settling all his affairs, he arrived in town at the close of 1814. In 1814 he had the honour to receive from the Governors of the British Gallery the award of one hundred guineas for the best landscape, "A Storm off the Coast of Scarborough," purchased by the Marquess of Stafford. His lake views, painted about this time, were considered very excellent, and the copies he continued to make at the British Gallery of Claude, Wilson, Poussin, and Gainsborough, were purchased with avidity, being considered (particularly the Claudes) as perfect fac-similes of the originals. In 1816 he removed to DEATHS.-JAN. Twickenham, and being engaged by the late Duke of Marlborough to paint a series of pictures intended to illustrate a description of his seat of White Knights, a residence in London seemed no longer strictly necessary. During several successive years he was principally engaged in this business-to his great loss in every sense of the word; for his health, always delicate, became decidedly bad, in consequence of his having (confiding in the Duke's assurances) given his own bills to different engravers, all of whom he was compelled to pay. In fact, no man could be more cruelly circumstanced than he was for many years. Driven by this circumstance back to London, he both painted much, and extensively engaged in teaching. In his 63rd year he set out for Italy, which he had long desired to visit with all the ardent solicitude so natural to an artist, being enabled to do so by the commissions given to him by the Earl of Egremont. He made at Naples, Castellamare, Pompeii, Rome, Tivoli, and Florence, between seventy and eighty beautiful sketches, but became at the latter city so exceedingly ill that he set out suddenly, in a hope, which appeared almost vain, of reaching home again. Happily as he passed through France the fever left him, but its ravages were terrible; and from this time to the period of his death, which took place at Leamington, he suffered greatly from bodily illness, though the energies of his mind remained unimpaired. Mr. Hofland, in conjunction with Mr. Young, originated the "General Benevolent Society of Artists." He afterwards, together with Mr. Linton, projected, and with the assistance of Messrs. Glover, Holmes, &c., carried into effect the building of the Gallery in Suffolk-street, by which many of his brother artists were much benefitted. One of Mr. Hofland's oldest and most accomplished friends has thus expressed his opinion of Mr. Hofland's professional reputation :-"With whatever peculiarities of manner the critics may charge some of his more recent works, when in the decline of health, there was an elevation both of style and thought which pervaded his larger compositions not unworthy of Poussin. His "Richmond Hill" is a bold and effective landscape, and will be esteemed as long as the material endures; his "Jerusalem" had a solemn and unaffected grandeur about VOL. LXXXV. it. Hofland was a man of reading, and did not confine all his hours to the drudgery of the easel; he had a high idea of his art, and sought to convey an impression of its mental power in all his compositions. He had very little value for little prettinesses, but aimed at a wellstudied and poetically-conceived whole. His conversations upon art were always highly intelligent, and he was ever an eloquent advocate of its claims on the respect of the educated and the refined, while no one could discourse more fairly and impartially respecting the deserts of his contemporaries. He was an enthusiastic lover of the angle, and a first-rate practitioner, and he invariably united his art with it in all his piscatory expeditions." At his residence, Judd-street, Brunswick-square, Thomas Ludford Bellamy, formerly of the Theatres Royal Covent Garden and Drury Lane, in his 74th year. At Appleton Manor House, Berks, Walter Rowland, the infant son of E. R. Strickland, esq. 4. At her son's residence, in Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, Hetty, relict of the late Rev. John Homfray, Rector of Sutton, Norfolk, whom she survived only ten days, in her 65th year. At Cyprus, Dr. James Lilburn, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul for that Island, second son of Captain Lilburn, of Dover, in his 40th year. 5. At Hickling, Nottinghamshire, aged 58, the Rev. Edward Anderson, Rector of that parish. He was formerly Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1807, as 9th Senior Optime, M.A. 1810, B.D. 1819; and he was presented to Hickling by that society in 1821. The Rev. Havilland Durand, M.A., Rector of St. Mary de Castro, Guernsey, and Chaplain to the Forces in that island; in his 44th year. 6. At the Castle, Parsonstown, the infant daughter of the Countess of Rosse. At Westwood Park, Worcestershire, Mary, wife of John S. Pakington, esq., M.P, 7. At Ditton, Cambridgeshire, the Rev. John Haggitt, in his 82nd year. 8. At Earlston, Stewartry of Kircudbright, Sir John Gordon, Bart., of Earl ston. 10. At his residence in Hampshire, Thomas Alexander, esq, Admiral of Q DEATHS.-JAN. the Blue. This officer was appointed a Lieut. in 1790; commanded the Hope sloop of war at the capture of a Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay in 1796; and subsequently the Carysfort frigate in the East Indies, where he captured l'Alerte French corvette of sixteen guns. His post commission bore date December 27, 1796. He was afterwards appointed in succession to the Sceptre 64, Sphynx, a 20 gun ship, and Braave frigate. On the 23d August, 1800, the Braave, in company with the Centurion, Dedalus, and Sybille, the whole under the orders of Capt. H. L. Ball, entered the Batavia Roads, captured five Dutch armed vessels, and destroyed two merchant ships, fourteen brigs, five sloops, and one ketch. Some time previous to this affair, Capt. Alexander had intercepted la Surprise, French vessel of war, bound to Europe with two ambassadors from Tippoo Sultaun, whose treachery, while he was expressing a desire to receive an ambassador from Lord Mornington, the Governor-General, was fully established by the papers taken at Seringapatam. Capt. Alexander being obliged to resign the command of the Braave on account of ill health, came home a passenger in P'Imperieuse frigate, and arrived in England, June 12, 1802. His next ap pointment appears to have been to the Renown of 74 guns, which ship he left in the summer of 1808; and soon after joined the Colossus, of the same force, the command of which he retained until the peace. On the 19th August, 1815, he was appointed to the Vengeur, stationed as a guard-ship at Portsmouth; and on the 12th August, 1819, advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral. He became Vice-Admiral, 22nd July, 1830, and Admiral of the Blue, 23rd Nov., 1841. He was a brave officer, a man of the highest honour and integrity, distinguished by his benevolence, and universally respected. Aged 66, the Rev. William Stephen Goodenough, Rector of Yate, Gloucestershire. He was of St. John's College, Oxford, M.A. 1801; and was instituted to the rectory of Yate in the same year, it being in his own patronage. 12. At Weymouth, aged 79, General Gore Browne, Colonel of the 44th Reg. He was the third son of a private gentleman of good descent in Ireland, and originally intended for holy orders; but, having a strong predilection for the army, he was sent to Lochee's, the then fashionable military academy, from which, in 1780, he obtained a commission in the 35th. On the breaking out of the French war he raised a company in the 83d, in which he afterwards purchased a majority. With this regiment he served throughout the Maroon war, being second in command to General Walpole. On his return the Duke of York gave him a Lieut.-Colonelcy in a black regiment at Dominica, in 1796, from which he was recalled by an appointment to the 40th. In command of the latter regiment he accompanied the Duke of York to Holland, and was present at the battles of the 10th and 19th of September and the 2d of October, 1799. During this campaign Col. Browne received a six-pound ball through his hat, and had several hairbreadth escapes, such as a shell coming down the chimney, and passing between Gen. Spencer and himself, without injuring either. After this he was ordered with his regiment to Egypt, and, on his return thence, accompanied Gen. Auchmuty's force in South America. On its landing in January, 1807, the General advanced on Buenos Ayres, leaving a sufficient force under Col. Browne for the attack of Montevideo. This fortress was vigorously defended, but a breach having been effected, Colonel Browne stormed at the head of his regiment, and by sunrise all was in possession of the British, except the citadel, which soon surrendered. Such was Browne's care for the conquered, and so good the discipline of his men, that by six o'clock in the morning the shops were all opened, and business quietly transacted, as if nothing had happened. Gen. Auchmuty appointed Col. Browne Governor of the city, and when it was afterwards, at the command of Gen. Whitelock, given up to the Spanish, so much had his generous conduct won their respect, that the Spanish Governor and Council accompanied him to the boat with their heads uncovered. his return from America he joined the force for Walcheren, and shortly after landing received a ball through his cheek, which broke his teeth and jaw, but without disfiguring him. After this he had the command of the western district as Major-Gen., and was appointed Governor of Plymouth. The latter post he resigned on his promotion to the rank of Lieut.-Gen. in 1819. In 1820 he Col. On |