For a considerable time past he had been in a feeble state of health, but attended to business as long as he was able to quit his residence, for few have bore up against severe physical sufferings with greater resolution. It had, however, been long too evident to his friends that he was marked out for a comparatively early dissolution.

MRS. JUDSON.

June 1. In America, aged about 40, Mrs. Emily C. Judson, a popular au. thoress, first known to the public by her nomme de plume of Fanny Forester."

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She was born in the interior of the State of New York; and she has celebrated her birthplace by the name of Alderbrook. Her maiden name was Chubbuck; and after the completion of her own education, she was for some years a teacher in the Female Seminary at Utica, New York. She commenced her literary career by contributing several poems to the Knick erbocker Magazine; and soon after wrote some little works, illustrative of practical religion, for the American Baptist Publication Society. She afterwards contributed to several other periodical publications; and on commencing to write for the New Mirror, published in New York, she assumed the name of Fanny Forester. Mr. Willis, the editor, was liberal in his praises, and confirmed the writer's predilection for literary employment.

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two or three years' devotion to her pen, however, the health of Fanny Forester was found to fail; and on that account she repaired to Philadelphia, to pass the winter of 1845-6 in the house of the Rev. A. D. Gillette, a Baptist minister. It was there she met the Rev. Adoniram Judson, a missionary in India. He was already a second time a widower, and much older than Miss Chubbuck; but from admiration of his Christian heroism, and a desire to assist in the education of his orphan children, she determined to leave her own friends and share the perils of his lot. Dr. Judson and Miss Chubbuck were married in July 1846, and they immediately repaired to his former station at Moulmein, in Burmah, where they continued to reside, the reverend missionary devoting himself to the completion of his great work on the Burman language, while his wife was the guiding angel of his children. Towards the close of 1847 Mrs. Judson gave birth to a daughter, and her newlyawakened maternal tenderness is beautifully expressed in her poem My Bird." Her domestic happiness was not to endure. Dr. Judson's health failed; and on a voyage to the Mauritius he died at sea, on

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the 12th April 1850. His widow and children returned to the United States.

Mrs. Judson's works are, "Alderbrook: a Collection of Fanny Forester's Village Sketches and Poems," in two volumes, Boston, 1846; and a Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Sarah B. Judson, Dr. Judson's second wife, published in New York, 1849. Some specimens of her composition will be found in "Woman's Record," by Mrs. Hale, 1853, together with her portrait.

EDWARD WILLIAMS.

Lately. At the workhouse of Pen-ybont, Glamorganshire, aged 80, the well known Welsh bard and writer, Edward Williams (Iolo Fardd Glas).

He had graduated as a bard in conformity to the custom and privilege of the bards of the Isle of Britain; and was one of the most laborious writers, considering his station in life, of any age and any country. By trade he was a cooper, and, as long as he could, adhered to it as a means of gaining his livelihood; and when old age and infirmity prevented his doing so any longer, his celebrity as a Welsh writer could not help him to a crust of bread. He commenced a Geographical Dictionary, and proceeded with it as far as the letter L; but it was discontinued, probably for want of support. He afterwards brought out an Explanatory Dictionary, in Welsh, of considerable size, which was printed at Brecon. About twelve years ago he published a volume of poems. He gained many prizes at Eisteddfodau for compositions in prose and verse, and wrote a Welsh stanza when an inmate of a workhouse, for which another obtained the prize and honour at an Eisteddfod. He thus ended a laborious life, deserving of a better fate than the prison-house of poverty. It was two miles from the degrading scene of his deathbed to the place where the old bard was to take his final rest, and thither he was taken in a cart, and in Caety churchyard, among the paupers of Pen-y-bont workhouse, lies the once celebrated Iolo Fardd Glas!-Chester Courant.

MR. SAMUEL NIXON.

Aug. 2. At Kennington place, Kennington Common, aged 51, Mr. Samuel Nixon, sculptor.

Not one in a thousand, perhaps, of the vast multitude that is daily entering the city from London Bridge, thinks of the sculptor of the fine statue of William the Fourth that faces the bridge at the junction of Cannon Street and Gracechurch Street;

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and the city is so sparingly adorned with similar works of art, that this statue, from its conspicuous position, is a striking and imposing object. Examined closely it will be found a masterpiece of its kind. The sculptor was Samuel Nixon; and wonders that a hand so clever, which executed so fine an ornament, was not employed by the Corporation to execute other statues, particularly of some of those great benefactors to the city of whom no monuments are yet to be found. Mr. Nixon, indeed, was employed to sculpture a statue of John Carpenter, who, in the reign of Henry the Sixth, left 9007. per annum for the purpose of educating and maintaining four poor boys, a bequest which, a few years since, led to the establishment of the City of London School, in which the statue of Carpenter is placed. For this statue Nixon was paid, we understand, 150. What he received for the more pretending one of King William we do not know. But it is well known he and others considered he was not only inadequately remunerated, but that even his expenses were not paid. We understand that he contracted to execute the statue for a certain sum, which no doubt was duly paid; but the statue was sculptured in Scotch granite, a material difficult to work, and the expenses attending the conscientious execution of the contract severely crippled the artist. He himself said he never thoroughly recovered from the losses he sustained by the execution of a work which is one of the chief ornaments of the City of London, and which is admired by all who are capable of appreciating artistic genius.

Mr. P. Hardwick, R.A., the architect of Goldsmiths' Hall, employed Nixon to execute the decorations of that building. The choice does great credit to the judgment of Mr. Hardwick, for not only are all the exterior embellishments done in good taste, but the " Four Seasons" which stand at the foot of the principal staircase, a work of the highest merit, were both designed and executed by Nixon. Here again we cannot but regret that a mind which could conceive and a hand which could execute such beautiful personifications, should have been so little employed. The reason is no doubt partly to be sought in the retiring manners and unselfish character which usually accompany true genius. These characteristics Mr. Nixon possessed in an eminent degree; his time and talents were expended on works far incommensurate with his capabilities. sculptor who could achieve such productions as the "Four Seasons" and the granite statue of William the Fourth is not properly employed in mere mechanical operations. He had recently been em

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ployed principally in sepulchral sculpture, and had executed numerous works of a superior character in that class, many of which have been sent to Canada.

Of Mr. Nixon's parentage and early life we know nothing: but we believe that Mr. Nixon, an excellent painter in glass, is his surviving brother. His workshop, and, we think, his residence for some time, was in White Horse Yard, Bishopsgate. He was much respected by those who knew him.

MR. G. B. SOWERBY, F.L.S. July 26. Aged 64, Mr. George Brettingham Sowerby, F.L.S.

Mr. G. B. Sowerby was a son of the well-known James Sowerby, engraver, and proprietor of Sir James Smith's English Botany, and himself author of several works of high repute in natural history, British mineralogy, exotic mineralogy, British fungi, &c. He applied himself more particularly to conchology. In 1818 he contributed a valuable paper to the Linnean Society, on Brachiopodous Mollusca, and in 1822 he commenced the publication of The Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells, which continued to upwards of forty numbers, but was never completed. The engravings of this important work, nearly two hundred in number, were executed by the author's elder brother, Mr. James De Carle Sowerby, the well-known Secretary of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent's Park. In 1825, Mr. Sowerby helped to establish and publish a Zoological Journal, which was carried on with much spirit through the united exertions of the leading zoologists of the day, and was continued for ten years. In 1830, Mr. Sowerby commenced the publication of a work on species of shells, entitled Species Conchyliorum, but only one part appeared. A second part was prepared, but not published.

Mr. Sowerby possessed a very extensive knowledge of shells, and assisted largely in naming the eminent collection formed by Mr. Hugh Cuming; he also traded largely in shells and minerals, and was always held in high repute as a thoroughly honest dealer. He was greatly respected among connoisseurs, and his opinion as to the rarity and value of a specimen was always to be depended on. Mr. Sowerby has left a large family, all more or less interested and employed professionally in natural history, and his name is honourably perpetuated in the works of a son, no less distinguished for his conchological writings than for his drawings. -Lilerary Gazette.

Caledonia 120, the flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, in 1814, he witnessed the fall of Genoa. Altogether he served more than thirty-six years on full pay: yet he had only recently obtained the rank of a retired Commander, and the Greenwich out-pension. He married in 1831 Harriet, widow of Diggles Bayley, esq. of Cape Coast Castle.

May 12. Aged 42, John Kiinnell, esq. surgeon, of Warwick.

May 15. Aged 83, widow Ann Brown, better known as "Mrs. Aston," for about half a century a practising midwife in Coventry.

May 17. On board the screw-steamer Mauritius, Lieut. Aubone Stewart Surtees, 41st Madras N. I. May 18. At Knightsbridge, aged 86, Edward Wakefield, esq. author of "Ireland, Political and Statistical."

May 19. In London, in his 80th year, Henry Revell Reynolds, esq. late Chief Commissioner of the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.

May 23. At Panwell, Lieut. George Grant Murray, 3d Bombay European Regt.

May 29. At Monghyr, Capt. Henry Tanner, Bengal Invalid Estab. Capt. 1806, Inv. 1815.

June 1. At Meerut, aged 26, Lieut. George Richard Smith, 52d Bengal N. Inf.

June 4. At Kilbride, by falling from his horse, when riding from dining with Lord Walter Butler at Garryricken, George W. Stevenson, esq. a magistrate of the co. Kilkenny, eldest son of the Rev. C. B. Stevenson, Rector of Callan.

June 6. At Kamptre, Lieut.-Col. William Bremner, 41st Madras N. Inf. cadet 1820, Lt.-Col. 1846. June 11. At Kirnedy, aged 24, William Henry Clarke, esq. 26th Madras N. I. fourth son of the late Robert Clark, esq. of the Rookery, Lower Tooting.

At Goondra, near Decsa, Major John Watkins, 23d Bombay N. Light Inf. cadet 1819, Lieut.-Col. in the army 1846, in the regiment 1853.

June 16. At Nusseerabad, Surgeon Malcolmson, 3d Madras Cav.

June 17. At Ahmednugger, of cholera, Lieut. H. M. Marshall, Bombay Art.

June 18. In Guernsey, aged 73, Sir Win. Collings, Colonel of the Royal Guernsey Militia. He was the second son of John Collings, esq. by the dau. of Philip Mauger, esq. In 1822 he was appointed Jurat of the Royal Court, and for his services in that office he received the honour of knighthood in 1838. He married in 1811 the fourth dau. of John Lukis, esq. of the Grange, Guernsey.

June 24. At Clarmont, in the Mauritius, Edward Chapman, esq. a Member of Council in that island.

At Rangoon, aged 35, John William Firminger, assistant surgeon 19th Madras N.I., youngest son of Thomas Firminger, esq. LL.D. of Edmonton.

June 26. At Barrackpore, Bengal, aged 24, Ensign Fredk. Duncan Tulloch, 48th Bengal N. Inf. sixth son of Major-Gen. John Tulloch, C.B.

June 28. At Palamcottah, aged 43, BrevetMajor Thomas Back, 2d Madras N. Inf.

June 29. At Jakatalla, in the Nielgherry-hills, aged 23, Lieut. John Charles King, II.M.'s 74th Highlanders.

July 3. Suddenly, of apoplexy, on the railway platform at Bristol, aged 64, Frederic Axford, esq. of Weston-super-Mare, to which place he had been a great benefactor. He was formerly a timber-merchant at Bridgwater, and for many years an alderman and magistrate of that borough, of which he was mayor, once before, and twice after, the passing of the Municipal Reform Act. At the first election of town-councillors he was elected at the head of a list of twenty-four. He has left a widow and children.

July 4. At Rhodes, on his way from Beyrout to Constantinople, after visiting Upper Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, James Edward Winterbottom, esq. of East Woodhay, Hants, member of several scientific societies.

July 5. At Ceylon, Lieut. G. E. Hunter, H.M.'s

15th Regt. third son of J. A. Hunter, esq. of Ormsby Lodge, Ham, Richmond.

July 11. At Galaha Estate, Kandy, Ceylon, John Leven Bell, esq. coffee-planter, second son of the late Dr. Bell, Dundee.

July 13. On Malabar-hill, near Bombay, Capt. Eliot Tottenham Peacocke, 1st Grenadiers Bombay N.I., and Acting Deputy Quartermaster-Gen. of the Army, second son of the late Col. Stephen Peacocke, Scots Fusilier Guards.

July 14. At Varna, William, third surviving son of the late James Eddowes, esq. of South Shields.

July 15. At Beechwood villa, near Selkirk, James Murray, esq. of Philiphaugh. He was the last surviving son of John Murray, esq. M.P. for Selkirkshire, and grandson of John Murray, esq. M.P. Heritable Sheriff of the same county, by Eleanora, dau. of Lord Basil Hamilton, son of William Duke of Hamilton. He married in 1809 Mary-Dale, dau. of Henry Hughes, esq. of Worcester, and has left, with other issue, a son and successor, John Nesbitt Murray, esq. now of Philiphaugh.

July 18. At Washington, aged 55, Colonel the Hon. George C. Washington, of Rockville, Maryland, formerly member of Congress for Montgomery county; one of the few remaining relatives of the great Washington. In 1852 he was nominated by the native Americans for Vice-President, as a competitor with Daniel Webster, but he declined the nomination.

July 20. At Washington, Major-General Nathan Towson, Paymaster-general of the army of the United States.

July 23. At sea, on board the Bengal steamer, off Ceylon, aged 24, Harry C. Saunders, esq. of the Bengal Civil Service, second son of Charles A. Saunders, esq. of Westbourne Lodge.

July 24. At La Chine, near Montreal, aged 33, Anne, wife of Edward M. Hopkins, esq. eldest dau. of Capt. Ogden, Sheriff of Three Rivers, Canada.

July 25. At Quebec, of cholera, Lieut.-Col. George Hogarth, C.B. of H.M. 26th Regt. He was appointed Ensign 1825, Lieutenant 1829, Captain 1839, Major 1846, Lieut.-Colonel 1846. He served in the China campaign in various actions, and commanded the left wing of the 26th at the assault of the city of Chin Kiang Foo. He had the China medal.

July 26. At Hamburg, aged nearly 19, UlyssesBorr, only son of Edward Digby, esq. R.N. of Osberston House, Kildare, and Plymouth, Devon.

At Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, aged 27, Henry, fourth son of John Melhuish, esq. of Upper Tooting.

At Nice, in her 67th year, Mary Sabilia, wife of Vincent Novello, esq.

July 31. On board H.M. ship Furious, in the Black Sea, aged 29, John Walrond Cleave, esq. R.N. At Darlington, Canada West, aged 33, JohnHenry, third son of the late William Holmes, esq. of Brookfield, near Arundel, Sussex.

At the British Camp, Light Division, in Turkey, of cholera, Charles Henry Massy, esq. 77th Regt. eldest son of John Massy, of Kingswell House, Tipperary.

Lately. At Naples, aged 52, Zenaida Charlotte Julia Bonaparte, Princess of Canino. She was born at Paris July 8, 1802, the elder dau. of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, by Julia Maria Clary, sister of the present Queen Dowager of Sweden, the widow of Bernadotte. She was married at Brussels on the 20th June, 1822, to her cousin Charles, son of Lucien Prince of Canino, and to which title he succeeded in 1840. She had twelve children: eight of whom are still living, three sons and five daughters. The three elder daughters are the Marchioness of Roccagiovine, the Countess Primoli, and the Countess de Campello. The eldest son is the Prince de Musignano. The princess was a highly educated and accomplished woman, speaking Italian, Ger

man, and English equally well. Her charitable disposition, the goodness of her heart, and her mental abilities, rendered her society delightful.

Henry J. Baldwin, esq. Commissioner of the Insolvent Court in Ireland (salary 20007.). He was the law adviser of the Castle during the stormy period of the, State Trials in 1848-9, and at one time was named for the office of SolicitorGeneral.

Hugh Barton, esq. of Straffan, Kildare. He has died possessed of personalty estimated at 100,0007.

Georgiana, widow of the Rev. Nathaniel Dimock, of East Malling. She has bequeathed 1,000l. to the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, and the like sum to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

Mr. William Fontaine. During a very few years he established and successfully conducted no fewer than fifteen separate places of business in London, as a soap-maker, tallow-chandler, and oilman; and he has died worth 16,000l. personalty, which he has bequeathed to his widow.

Mary Anne, wife of Thomas Haire, M.D. of Lewes. She has bequeathed to the Blind Asylum 500l., to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum 2007., to the Sailors' Female Orphan Home Institution 2007., Royal Asylum for Destitute Females, 2007., Society for the Protection of Females, 2007., Infant Orphan Asylum, 2007., Philanthropic Society, 2007., Guardian Society, London, 2007., Sussex County Hospital, 2007., Society for aiding Foreigners in Distress, 1007. and the Lewes Mechanics' Institution, 807.

At Denny, co. Stirling, aged 91, Mr. Robert Kerr, who married six wives.

Grogan Morgan, esq. a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Wexford."

In George-st. Euston-sq. aged 29, Capt. Robert Hole Walters, 31st Regt. He entered the service in 1843, and in 1851 with the 73rd Regt. served in the Kafir war, where he was severely wounded on the 10th September.

Aug. 1. In Queen's-sq. Westminster, aged 74, Thomas Elde Darby, esq. He was educated at Cambridge; and, being one of the detenus at Verdun, was long a prisoner in France. He subsequently held an official appointment under our Ambassador at Paris; and for forty years few mixed more generally with all classes of public men. He enjoyed a pension for his services. Mrs. Eleanor Darby, author of "The Sweet South" and other poems, is left his widow, with four children.

At Toronto, the Hon. Robert Sympson Jameson, late Attorney-Gen. and Chancellor of Canada.

At Therapta, aged 51, Gilbert Farquhar Mathison, esq. of the Old Palace, Richmond.

Aug. 2. At Chudleigh, aged 23, FrederickWilliam, only son of the late Rear-Adm. Andrew, R.N., C.B.

At the Camp, Monastere, Turkey, aged 42, Major George Charles Rawdon Levinge, of the Royal Horse Artillery, next brother and heir presumptive to Sir Richard Levinge, of Knockdrin castle, co. Westmeath, Bart. He was the second son of the late Sir Richard, by the Hon. Elizabeth-Anne Parkyns, eldest dau. of Thomas-Boothby first Lord Rancliffe. He commanded the Royal Artillery during the whole of the Kafir campaign under Sir Benj. D'Urban in 1835. He died from an overdose of opium, administered by himself in an attack of diarrhoea.

At Toronto, Upper Canada, aged 31, David James Miller, formerly of Wapping-wall, shipbuilder. He was drowned by the capsizing of a yacht, in which he was sailing on the bay.

Aug. 4. At Varna, aged 32, George Potter, esq. Commander of the Australian Royal Mail Company's steam transport Sydney.

Aug. 5. At Durris House, near Aberdeen, aged 81, Anthony Mactier, esq.

Aug. 6. Of cholera, in the English camp at Kosliska, Turkey, aged 29, Serjeant Frederick GENT. MAG. VOL. XLII.

William Cave, of the 75th Regt. third son of Mr George Cave, auctioneer, Wisbech.

At Castellamare, near Naples, aged 24, William Fowler Jones, esq. Capt. 57th Regt. youngest son of the late William Fowler Jones, esq. of Ashhurst Park, Kent.

At Leckie, the widow of Charles Alex. Moir, esq. of that place.

At Munich, Daniel Solomon, Baron de Salis Soglio.

Aug. 7. At Montreal, Canada East, aged 38, John William Johnstone, Capt. 26th Regt.

At Biarrits, near Bayonne, aged 18, Harriet Cecilia, eldest dau, of the Rev. Fred. J. H. Reeves, of East Sheen.

Aug. 8. At St. Louis, Mobile, in America, Mr. Henry Lynne. He served under Macready during his management of Drury-lane Theatre, and subsequently starred at the Princess's with Miss Cushman and Mr. Wallack. Latterly, he has been successful in America. He was a man of intelligence, and at one time edited a Hampshire paper.

At Stockton-on-Tees, aged 60, D. Fraser, esq. C.E. late of Islington, London.

At Charmouth, Miss Hull, sister of Dr. Hull. At Tunbridge-wells, George Hope Skead, esq. R.N. Secretary to the R.N. Benevolent Society. At Brixton, aged 48, Frances-Sarah, eldest dau. of William Stevens, esq.

Aug. 9. On board H.M.S. Royal George, in the Baltic, aged 23, Lieut. Thomas Mallock Frampton Bond, R.N. second son of the late Charles Bond, esq. of Axminster. Whilst on the island of Nargen, with a party of his shipmates, he was accidentally and mortally wounded by a shot from a pistol in the hands of a companion.

At Bournemouth, James Bryden, esq. of Cleveland-terrace, Hyde Park.

At Deptford parsonage, aged 17, Henry Waller, second son of the Rev. W. H. P. Bulmer, incumbent of Deptford.

At Langley, Bucks, at the Rev. Henry Fyffe's, Mary-Ann, widow of J. F. Edginton, esq.

At Brighton, of apoplexy, while bathing, the wife of Robert Lewis, esq. of Maddox-st.

At Tiverton, aged 21, Henry Stuart, 5th son of the late William Stillman, esq. surgeon, of Steeple Ashton, Wilts.

Aug. 10. At Egham, aged 74, Miss Ann H. E. Allport.

At Brighton, aged 80, Anne, widow of Charles Bayley, esq. only dau. of John Gaunt, esq. of Denham Mount, Bucks.

At the residence of Thomas Robinson, esq. aged 85, Ann, widow of Alexander Hutchison, esq. of Clapton and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

At Kreuznach-on-the-Rhine, aged 63, Frederick Henry Lindsay, esq. First Assistant to the Military Secretary at the Horse Guards.

At New Brighton, aged 48, Edward Rogers, of Stourbridge, youngest son of the late Daniel Rogers, esq. of Wassel-grove.

Aug. 11. Aged 65, Elizabeth, relict of W. J. Ebden, gent. of Fressingfield.

In Chester-terrace, Eaton-sq. Major Henry Gordon, 38th M.N.I. son of the late Col. Rt. Gordon, 23d Light Dragoons. He was a cadet of 1826, Captain in the Madras army 1842, in his regiment 1845.

Aged 33, Maria, wife of the Rev. John Lockwood. At Dawlish, Eliza, wife of the Rev. John Martin, M.A.

At Portici, near Naples, of cholera, aged 53, the Chevalier Macedonio Melloni. He was born at Parma, and appointed Director of the Meteorological Observatory on the suunmit of Mount Vesuvius in 1839, on the recommendation of Arago and Humboldt, but dismissed from political motives. He had received the gold Rumford medal from the Royal Society of London, and was well known to Professor Faraday, Dr. Brewster, and other scientific men in England.

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