the British flag was hoisted in that country," is only in accordance with the universal opinion of his merits.

Shortly after Sir John's arrival in England, in 1831, he was returned to Parliament for the borough of Launceston, and took an active part in the proceedings upon several important questions, particularly the Scotch Reform Bill. He frequently addressed the House at length; and his speeches were characterized by an intimate knowledge of the history and constitution of his country, though neither voice nor delivery were much in his favor with that assembly, at once so popular and so fastidious. Upon the dissolution of Parliament, in 1832, Sir John became a candidate for the Dumfries district of burghs; but being too late in entering the field, and finding a majority of the electors had promised their votes, he did not persevere. He was then solicited to become a candidate for the city of Carlisle, and complied; but it was at the eleventh hour; and being personally unknown to the place, the result of the first day's poll decided the election against him. Sir John then retired to his seat, near Windsor, and employed himself in writing his work upon the Government of India, which was published a few weeks ago, with the view of elucidating the difficult questions relating to the renewal of the East India Company's Charter. His last public act was his able speech in the General Court of Proprietors of East India Stock, and the introduction of his resolutions relative to the proposals of government respecting the charter,- which resolutions were, after several adjourned discussions, adopted by a large majority.

As an author, the name of Sir John Malcolm will occupy no mean place in the annals of his country's literature. His principal works are, A Sketch of the Sikhs, a singular nation in the province of the Penjamb, in India; the History of Persia, from the earliest period to the present time; Sketches of Persia; a Memoir of Central India; and his last work on the Administration of British India. Sir John had also been engaged for some time past in writing a Life, and editing the papers, of Lord Clive; and we trust the work will yet be given to the public.

Sir John married, on the 4th of June, 1807, Charlotte Campbell, daughter of Sir Alexander Campbell, Baronet, who was Commander-in-Chief at Madras, by whom he has left five children, viz. Margaret, married to her cousin, the present Sir Alexander Campbell; George Alexander, a Captain in the Guards, whose regiment is now in Ireland; Charlotte Olympia; Ann Amelia; and Catherine Wellesley.

[From "The New Monthly Magazine, No. 152.”]

THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K. G.

[The Duke of Sutherland, having been so lately elevated to that rank in the peerage, may be better known to some of our readers as the Marquis of Stafford.

He was distinguished by his wealth, being perhaps, the richest nobleman of Great Britain, and by his famous collection of pictures, one of the most valuable ever owned by an individual. An account of this collection is given in the "Stafford Gallery," a work containing nearly 300 etchings of different paintings, in 2 volumes royal quarto. - EDD.]

The Duke of Sutherland died on the 19th July at his seat, Dunrobin Castle, in the county of Sutherland. His Grace had labored under an infirm state of health for several years, but up to his departure for the North, on the 2d of July, he was better than he had been for many months. George Granville Leveson Gower, Duke of Sutherland, Marquis of Stafford, Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, Baron Gower of Sittenham, and a Baronet, K. B., Recorder of Stafford, and (jure uxoris) High Sheriff of the county of Sutherland, succeeded his father Granville, the late Marquis, K. G., Oct. 26, 1803. The Marquis was called up to the house of Lords during the lifetime of his father, and placed in his barony of Gower of Sittenham; he married, September 4, 1785, Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland and Baroness of Strathnaver (in her own right); and has issue, first, George Granville, Earl Gower, born August 6, 1786; married, May 28, 1823, Harriet, third daughter of the present Earl of Carlisle; second, Charlotte, born June 8, 1788; married, December 27, 1814, Henry, Earl of Surrey, only son of Bernard Edward, Duke of Norfolk; third, William, born June 4, 1792, and died in 1793; fourth, William Leveson, died June 17, 1804; fifth, Lord Francis, born 1799; married Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr. and Lady Charlotte Greville, by whom he has a family of six children; sixth, Elizabeth, married, Sept. 16, 1819, Richard, Viscount Belgrave, now Earl Grosvenor. - The family of Gower has some pretensions to be considered of AngloSaxon origin. The object of the creation, in Queen Anne's time, is thus stated by Burnet: -"Finch, Gower, Granville, and young Seymour, were made Peers in 1702, to create a majority in the Upper House, while Harvey was advanced at the same time through private favor." On the death of the Duke's uncle, Francis, the last Duke of Bridgewater, in 1803, he became the heir general of that nobleman, and acquired the whole income of the Bridgewater Canal and the Worseley estate, which latter is entailed on his youngest son, Lord Francis Leveson Gower. Thus, for life, by the Stafford, the Sutherland, and the Bridgewater possessions united, his Grace was regarded as enjoying one of the largest incomes in Europe, report affirmed that it exceeded 300,000l. per annum. The Duke expended that income nobly and munificently. From the late Duke of Bridgewater, and by his own extensive purchases, his Grace possessed a superb collection of paintings, ancient and modern, which, during a certain portion of the year, he was accustomed to open to the public, at his late residence in Cleveland-row. Subsequently to his occupation of Stafford-house many pictures have been removed thither; but the Bridgewater part of the collection remains in Cleveland-row.

When, after the decease of the late Duke of York, it had been deemed advisable to dispose of the palatial residence erected for his Royal Highness in the Green-Park, we believe there was not an individual capable of forming an opinion on the subject who did not rejoice at its falling into the possession of its late noble owner. The purchase-money of the mansion was 75,000 guineas; but it must be borne in mind that its interior was then, and yet remains, incomplete. The Duke of Sutherland did not survive his elevation to a ducal coronet more than six months. He supported the present administration, and his proxy was given in favor of the Lord Chancellor's Local Courts Bill.

[From "The New Monthly Magazine, No. 152.”]

LORD DOVER.

George James Welbore Agar Ellis, Baron Dover, of Dover, county of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, died at his house in Whitehall, on the 10th of July. He was a Trustee of the British Museum and of the National Gallery, F. R. S. and F. S. A. ; was born January 14, 1797, and married, March 7, 1822, Lady Georgiana Howard, second daughter of the Earl of Carlisle, and niece to the Duke of Devonshire and the Countess Granville. His lordship was the only son of the present Viscount Clifden, by Lady Caroline Spencer, sister to the Duke of Marlborough. At the general election in 1818, he was returned for the borough of Heytesbury; and, at the age of twenty-one, took his seat in the Imperial Parliament, of which he was an efficient member,― seldom, indeed, taking a very conspicuous part in debates upon the great political questions which have been discussed; but while he maintained his principles upon these in a way not to be misunderstood, applying himself with more congenial and prominent zeal to every subject which involved the cause of learning, the fine or useful arts, charities, and the improvement of the people. Thus in 1824, when the sum of 57,000l. was appropriated to the purchase of Mr. Angerstein's collection of pictures for the public, as the foundation of a National Gallery, it must be recorded, to the lasting fame of Mr. Ellis, that he was the first person who suggested this illustrious design, and one of the most earnest and enlightened of its advocates whose energy led to the adoption of the measure. His lordship was a steady political adherent of the present Administration; and, on the change of government in November, 1830, he was selected by Earl Grey to succeed Viscount Lowther as Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. This office he, however, resigned a few weeks afterwards, on account of his delicate health, and he did not subsequently accept any other appointment under In the spring of 1831 his lordship was created a Brit

the crown.

ish Peer.

His lordship was a liberal patron of British art. The judgment exhibited in the collection which adorned the walls of his mansion in Spring Gardens proclaimed the connoisseur as well as the amateur; and almost every picture is a gem, which one would be tempted to choose as the best specimen of the artist extant, always to be referred to as a pleasing example of his style and execution. Among these, the celebrated composition of the "Queen's Trial," by Hayter, is memorable as an historical document, and a gallery of distinguished portraits such as has rarely been produced; while the works of Lawrence, Collins, Jackson, Newton, Landseer, Callcott, and other eminent contemporaries, add to the treasures of this selection, no less distinguished by its uniform taste and feeling, than by the grace, beauty, and interest of its component parts. In literary pursuits, similar discrimination and refinement have marked the career of Mr. Ellis. As an author, he has published within a short time, "The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask, extracted from documents in the French archives;" "Historical Inquiries respecting the Character of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor of England; ""The Ellis Correspondence," in two octavo volumes, illustrating a remarkable period of the annals of England, from the letters of the editor's family. He also wrote the "Life of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia." His last work was, "Correspondence of Horace Walpole with Sir Horace Mann," published from the originals in the possession of Earl Waldegrave. Mr. Ellis also, in 1822, produced a Catalogue Raisonné of the principal pictures in Flanders and Holland, which was printed, but not published; and he was the writer of some able reviews, both in the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, as well as of articles in Magazines, Annuals, and other periodicals, which reflect great credit upon his fancy and talents.

Lord Dover has left an infant family of six children, the eldest, the Hon. Henry Agar Ellis, (the present peer,) being in his ninth year only. His lordship was a personal friend of the late King, and of the King of the Belgians, who stood sponsor for one of his children in 1829. A writer in the "Times" thus speaks of the noble lord: "If length of days were to be commensurate with personal merit, his life would have been one of no ordinary duration. Amiable and exemplary in all his private relations, an upright, zealous, and intrepid supporter of his political opinions, he will long be regretted by his family and his party; add to this his elegant accomplishments as a man of society, and his various and extensive attainments as a man of letters, and it would be difficult to find, in the whole range of English gentry and nobility, a personage who will be so severely missed. He possessed, in his family, and fortune, and character, every motive which can make life desirable; but he had discharged his various duties, both domestic and social, so conscientiously and honorably, that, short as his life has been, it has been long enough to establish a reputation,

which there are few men past or present, who, having lived to the greatest age, would not be proud to enjoy."

DANIEL VON COELLN — FRANZ PASSOW.

[The Intelligenzblatt (No. 27.) of the Allgemeine LiteraturZeitung for April, presents a striking lesson of the uncertainty of life. The first article is a biographical notice of Daniel von Coelln, Professor of Theology at Breslau. He was born the 21st of December, 1788, and died the 20th of last February. He was the author of various theological works; but they relate in great part to the existing state of opinion in Germany, and are not likely to be read with interest out of that country.

The notice to which we have referred is an affectionate tribute to his memory by his friend, the distinguished philologist, Passow. The article which immediately follows is an official annunciation by Schultz, the Rector of the University at Breslau, of the death of Passow himself, who was professor of Ancient Literature. He had finished the article upon his friend but two days before he himself was suddenly taken away, on the 11th of March. He was born the 20th of September, 1786. He is principally known out of Germany by his Greek Lexicon, of which the first edition was published in 1821, and the fourth in 1830. A further account of him may be found in the Intelligenzblatt, No. 31. — Edd.]

DEATHS.

At Lausanne, December 28th, 1832, the celebrated novelist, MADAME DE MONTOLIEU, in her 82d year. She was born May 7th, 1751. Her original works and translations are said to fill 105 volumes.

At Paris, January 9th, the great mathematician, LEGENDRE, at a very advanced age.

At Reval, January 20th, MADAME MARA, the famous opera singer, nearly 84 years of age. In the year 1830, on her eightysecond birth-day, Goethe addressed to her some complimentary verses, as he had done 60 years before.

At Paris, February 6th, the naturalist, LATREILLE, the fellowlaborer of Cuvier in his " Règne animal." He died in his 71st

year.

April 11th, the Rev. ROWLAND HILL, long distinguished as an eccentric preacher in London. He was born in August, 1744. May 15th, EDMUND KEAN, the celebrated tragedian. He was born in 1788.

At London, July, in the 74th year of his age, William WilberFORCE, Esq.