Yorkshire, and Capt. in the 7th Lancashire Rifles.

At the house of her son-in-law, the Rev. D. Coleridge, Principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea, aged 75, Mary, relict of John Pridham, esq., of Plymouth.

At the Hawthorns, Twyford, Berks, Dorothy, widow of the late John Henry Whitmore Jones, esq., of Chastleton-house, Oxfordshire.

Feb. 3. Very suddenly, aged 74, George Lamb, esq., late Physician-General at Calcutta. At Edinburgh, aged 50, Alexander Stuart Logan, esq. Mr. Logan was called to the bar in 1835, and was in 1854 appointed to the office of Sheriff of Forfar, in succession to Mr. Sheriff L'Amy. Mr. Logan had long held a prominent position at the bar, and was a very able pleader, not unfrequently enlivening the tediousness of forensic subjects by his lively humour. He had also considerable practice in the Ecclesiastical Courts. In politics Mr. Logan was a Liberal, but was attached to the Church of Scotland, although himself the son of a dissenting minister.

At Gibraltar, aged 15, Hugh Mackinnon, Naval Cadet of H.M.S. "Amphion," second son of Capt. Mackinnon, of Ham-common.

Feb. 4. At Oxburgh, Norfolk, aged 62, Sir Henry Richard Paston Bedingfeld, Bart. He was a lineal descendant from Henry Bedingfeld, the first baronet, created in 1660, who sustained great pecuniary losses in consequence of his ardent attachment to the cause of Charles II. The late baronet (the sixth) was born in 1799. In 1826 he married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Edward Paston, esq., last of the Pastons (formerly Earls) of Yarmouth. He succeeded his father in 1829, and in 1830 assumed the additional name of Paston. In 1858 he was declared by the House of Lords one of the co-heirs of the Barony of Grandison, in the peerage of Ireland. In politics the late baronet was a Conservative, and in religion a Catholic. He is succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Henry George, who was born in 1830, and who was formerly in the Austrian Cuirassiers.

At Straloch, near Aberdeen, aged 24, Leonora Sophia, wife of John Ramsay, esq., of Barra, and only dau. of the Rev. Nathaniel Bond, the Grange, Dorset.

At Morden College, Blackheath, aged 94, John Perrin, esq.

At Leamington, aged 86, Mary, widow of the Rev. Wm. Raine.

At Hythe, Miss Neame, late of Luton-house, Selling.

At Stoke-next-Guildford, aged 26, Julia Jeannetta, eldest and beloved dau. of the late Col. Melville Browne.

Aged 88, Jean Baptiste Biot, the celebrated French sarant and man of letters. In 1800 he was appointed to the chair of Natural Philosophy in the College of France. He pursued many important scientific researches in conjunction with Arago, and in company with that astronomer visited Spain, and afterwards the

Hebrides, for the purpose of extending the French arc of meridian, but his life was otherwise uneventful. In 1840 the Royal Society of Great Britain awarded Biot the Rumford medal for his researches on the polarisation of light. M. Biot s other scientific researches, and his treatises upon them, were numerous; and he also wrote an éloge of Montaigne, and another of Gay Lussac. His remarks on education in this country attracted much attention some years ago.

Feb. 5. At his residence, Ibstone - house, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, aged 54, Major.-Gen. Sir Thomas Harte Franks, K.C.B. He was the second son of William Franks, esq., of Carrig Castle, near Mallow, co. Cork, by Catherine, eldest dau. of William Hume, esq., many years M.P. for the county of Wicklow, and aunt of Fitzwilliam Hume, esq., the present member. His services in India, and especially his gallant conduct, in 1858, at Lucknow, were rewarded by the thanks of Parliament, and the Order of the Bath.

In Queen Anne-street, aged 83, Sir John Croft, Bart., of Cowling-hall, Yorkshire, and Doddington, Kent, K.T.S., D.C.L., F.R.S., Dep. Lieut. of the co. of Kent, Baron da Serra da Estrella in the kingdom of Portugal. The deceased baronet was appointed in 1811 by the Marquis of Wellesley, then Foreign Secretary, to distribute the Parliamentary grants to the Portuguese. In 1815 he was appointed by Mr. Canning Charge d'Affaires at Lisbon. Sir John is succeeded in his title and estates by his son Frederick Croft, who was born in 1828.

At Market Drayton Vicarage, Bessie, wife of the Rev. George Chute.

At his residence, Robert-st., Hampsteadroad, aged 76, Mr. Thomas Brittain. He was for nearly forty years the clerk of Fitzroy Episcopal Chapel, St. Pancras.

At the Vicarage, Mitcham, Katherine Reeve, wife of the Rev. D. F. Wilson, and dau. of Edw. Leathes, esq., of Normanstone, Lowestoft. At the Parsonage, Watton, Yorkshire, Harriott, wife of the Rev. Henry Jennings.

Feb. 6. Aged 73, M. Martinez de la Rosa, President of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies. The deceased began his political life when quite young, and took part in the struggles which marked the reign of Ferdinand VII. After having contributed to the establishment of the constitution of 1812, being unwilling to follow the revolutionary current, or to countenance the King's absolutist tendency, both equally dangerous for the liberties of the nation, he did not accept the presidency of the Council in 1822 without reluctance. In 1823, after the throne had been restored by French arms, he was exiled by Ferdinand VII., and went to Paris, where he remained eight years, and made himself many friends. He was recalled in 1833, and in the following year became the head of a Cabinet which lasted only a few months. In 1839 he again withdrew to Paris, and while there was appointed ambassador by the Regent Espartero. After the

restoration of Queen Christina, he joined the Narvaez Ministry, and left it only with Narvaez in 1846. From 1847 to 1851 he was again ambassador to Paris. He became First Secretary of State in 1857, and in the following year was appointed President of the Council of State. M. Martinez was not only an eloquent speaker, but an author and a poet, and leaves numerous works of which Spain may well be proud.-Galignani.

In Arlington-street, aged 60, Major Charles Barton, of the 14th Light Dragoons.

At Asherne-house, near Dartmouth, Devon, aged 83, George Coulson, esq.

At Ham, Surrey, aged 84, John Forbes, second son of the late William Forbes, esq., of Skellater and Balbithan, N.B.

At Bromley College, Kent, aged 77, Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. Thomas Arthur Jones, Rector of Vere, in the Island of Jamaica.

Aged 28, George Bambury, younger son of Wm. Gascoyne, esq., of Bapchild-court, Kent. In Park-pl., Regent's-pk., Emma, relict of Lieut.-Col. Edward Thomas FitzGerald, K.H., late of Turlough-pk., co. Mayo.

Feb. 7. At Tunbridge Wells, aged 78, Lydia, Countess Dowager of Cavan.

At Windermere, aged 53, Major G. H. Bellasis, H.M.'s Bombay Army, retired.

At his residence, Barfield-lodge, Ryde, aged 89, John Vaux, esq.

At Grove-hill, Tunbridge Wells, Laura, youngest dau. of the late Rev. John Sikes Sawbridge, Rector of Welford, Berks.

Feb. 8. In London, aged 70, Major-Gen. Norcliffe Norcliffe, K.H., of Langton-hall, near Malton, Yorkshire. See OBITUARY.

At Durham, aged 60, Col. John Chaytor, Royal Engineers. The deceased entered the above scientific corps as second lieutenant March 15, 1826; became first lieutenant, Feb. 16, 1830; captain, Nov. 23, 1841; major, June 20, 1854; lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 20, 1854; and colonel, Oct. 20, 1857.

At Edinburgh, Charlotte, wife of the Right Rev. Bishop Terrot.

At his residence, Great Cumberland-place, Hyde-pk., aged 89, Hans Busk, esq., J.P. for the county of Radnor, and youngest son of the late Sir Wadsworth Busk. "He has left few survivors possessing higher classical attainments, a truer love for literature, or endowed with sounder general erudition. As a linguist he had not many equals; having travelled much, he conversed fluently in most of the languages of Europe. In early life he resided for some years in Russia, and was at one time a member of the Empress Catherine's celebrated Chevalier Guard-an honour few Englishmen have shared. It was at that time accorded only to those who could trace their pedigree, in an unbroken line, through ten descents. He had been on terms of intimacy with most of the literary and political celebrities who flourished in the earlier part of the present century, and he had shared the

friendship of Burke, Sir Philip Francis, Fox, Sheridan, Canning, Perceval, Wilberforce, and Wyndham, as well as that of Byron, Moore, Scott, and of many others whose minds were similarly attuned to his own. Since he attained his eightieth year, he commenced and completed a very remarkable paraphrase of the Psalms, entitled "Hebrew Lyrics"-a work that has elicited much attention in the literary world from the thorough knowledge it evinces of the idiom as well as of the spirit of the original. His son, Capt. Hans Busk, is the well-known originator of England's Volunteer army."-Athenæum.

At Cliffe Rectory, near Rochester, aged 79, Jane Elizabeth, widow of William Lee, esq., formerly of H.M.'s Customs.

In Craven-st., Strand, Major William Henry Gerald Fitz Gerald, late 2nd Battalion 60th King's Royal Rifles, and Paymaster of the Southern District, Ireland.

Aged 72, George Harrison, esq., of Carltonhouse-ter., and late of the East India House.

Feb. 9. At Cheltenham, aged 78, Eliza, widow of A. B. Higgins, esq., late of the Royal Regt., and sister of the late Dr. Hodgkinson, ViceProvost of Trinity College, Dublin.

Feb. 10. In St. George's-road, aged 67, Capt. Charles Farquharson, R.N., Elder Brother of the Trinity House.

Feb. 11. Aged 50, Henry Hobhouse, esq., of Hadspen-house, cò. Somerset.

Feb. 12. In Belgrave-road, Belgravia, Letitia Sarah, widow of Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, G.C.B. and G.C.H., dau. of the late John Crickitt, esq. Feb. 13. At Oriel Cottage, Helensburgh, the Dowager Lady Campbell, of Barcaldine.

Feb. 14. At Southsea, aged 57, Capt. J. M. Langtry, R.N.

Feb. 15. In Eccleston-square, aged 34, Julia Emily Augusta, wife of Lord Henley, M.P.

Feb. 16. At Hull, aged 39, Harriet, wife of Charles T. S. Kevern, esq., Staff-Surgeon Royal Navy, late H.M.S. "Cornwallis," and dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. John Murray, formerly Lieut.-Governor of Demerara.

Feb. 17. At his residence, Tremedden-ho., Liskeard, William Fillis Pearce, esq. He was a county and borough magistrate, and was formerly in extensive practice as a solicitor at Camelford, but retired from business a few years ago and came to reside at Liskeard, where he took an active and very useful part in borough matters; and at the death of Sir William Trelawney he was elected to fill his place as chairman of the Board of Guardians.

Feb. 18. At Epperstone, Notts, aged 77, Lieut. William Clarke, Retired Full Pay, Royal Marines. He had served in many desperate cutting-out affairs during the French war, and had lost his right leg in a skirmish with the French fleet off Toulon in 1813. He was placed on half-pay in 1816, and on retired full-pay in 1850, and had received a medal and two clasps.