born in Biddeford, Me., Nov. 25, 1794, graduated at Harvard College in 1812, and removed to Salem in 1819, where he continued in the practice of his profession with great honor until his untimely death.

July 3. In Somerville, Mass., Hon. Samuel Putnam, aged 85. He was born in Danvers, May, 1768, graduated at Harvard College in 1787, and commenced the practice of law at Salem in 1790. He was State Senator for Essex County in 1808 and 1809, and in 1814 was appointed by Governor Strong Judge of the Supreme Court. This office he resigned Jan. 26, 1842.

July 29. In Aurora, Cayuga County, N. Y., Hon. Jonathan Richmond, aged 79, one of the pioneers of Western New York. In 1813 he was United States Revenue Collector, and in 1818 a member of the United States House of Representatives. For forty years he was laboriously engaged in aiding the rising fortunes of his section of the State.

July 24.In Piermont, Rockland County, N. Y., Hon. Hezekiah C. Seymour, aged 42, late Engineer-in-Chief of the State of New York. Mr. Seymour's name is prominently associated with the New York and Erie Railroad, and with the Ontario, Huron, and Lake Simcoe Railroad in Canada, of both of which he had been chief engineer.

June 23. In Stonely, Md., Rev. Daniel Sharp, D.D., of Boston, aged 69. Dr. Sharp was born in Yorkshire, England, Dec. 25, 1783, and at the age of 19 came to the United States, where he engaged in business at New York as a commission merchant. Relinquishing this business, he studied theology with Rev. Dr. Staughton, of Philadelphia, and was first settled at Newark, N. J. He was installed as pastor of the Charles Street Baptist Church in Boston, on the 29th of April, 1812. Through the forty-one years of his ministry he was active in every cause of religion and benevolence, and was looked up to by his parishioners and the public of Boston with a feeling akin to veneration, awakened by his long service, his exemplary life, his fervent piety, and devotion.

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Jan. 23. In Astoria, N. Y., Dr. Junius Smith, aged 72. He was born in Plymouth, Ct., and graduated at Yale College in 1802, studied law, and soon after went to London, and there resided many years, engaged in commerce. He devoted a considerable portion of his life to the two great public enterprises, the establishment of Transatlantic Steam Navigation, and the Naturalization of the Tea Plant in the United States. To the first he early directed his attention, maintained its practicability, and sought to apply to it the test of experiment, long before it came to be regarded as a regular efficient auxiliary of foreign commerce. During the last years of his life he assiduously engaged in the propagation and nurture of the Tea Plant at Greenville, S. C., and considered that he had secured for it a thrifty growth upon American soil. While devoted to the prosecution of this enterprise, he received, in February, 1852, an injury which resulted in his death.

March 16. In East Hartford, Conn., Anthony Dumond Stanley, aged 42, Professor of Mathematics in Yale College. He was born at East Hartford, April 2, 1810, entered Yale College in 1826, where he was graduated in 1830, was appointed Tutor in the same institution in 1832, and Professor of Mathematics in 1836, which office he held at the time of his death. He was the author of a treatise on Spherical Trigonometry, a revised edition of Day's Algebra, and a valuable set of mathematical tables. He was profoundly versed in his chosen field of study and teaching, and had made preparation for a series of valuable publications, which would have placed his name high among the contributors to mathematical science.

Aug 18. At his residence in Virginia, Hon. John Taliaferro, aged 85, member of the United States House of Representatives from 1824 to 1831, and again from 1835 to 1843. For the last three years he was Librarian in the Treasury Department at Washington.

June 19. In Tahlequah, Ark., Richard Taylor, Second Chief of the Cherokee Nation. He commanded under Jackson in the Creek war.

Aug. 4. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., Judge J. B. Wallace. He was born in Edgefield District, S. C., and, after removing to Alabama, held many important public

offices.

Feb. 27. On his plantation in South Carolina, Hon. Joshua John Ward, aged 53, Lieutenant-Governor of the State.

July 24.In Philadelphia, Pa., John Price Wetherell, Esq., an eminent citizen of that place.

March 9.-In Rutland, Vt., Hon. Charles K. Williams, aged 71. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 24, 1782; graduated at Williams College in 1800; was State's Attorney for the county of Rutland in Vermont, in 1814 and 1815; Judge of the Supreme Court in 1823 and 1824; Collector of Customs for the Vermont District from 1325 to 1829; from 1829 to 1846 again Judge of the Supreme Court, the last thirteen years of which he was Chief Justice. From 1850 to 1852 he was Governor of the State. He was an able lawyer and an upright man.

Feb. 21. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Lieutenant Clarendon J. L. Wilson, of the First Regiment of Dragoons. He distinguished himself in the conflicts at El Embudo and Taos in New Mexico, for which he was brevetted First Lieutenant.

March 1.-In Panama, Captain J. D. Wilson, of the steamer Sierre Nevada. Jan. 14. In Washington, D. C., Hon. William Upham, aged 56. He was United States Senator from Vermont from 1843 till his decease.

FOREIGN OBITUARY

For the Years 1851 and 1852, comprising the most prominent persons deceased, chiefly in the Old World."

[Derived from the Annual Register, Gentleman's Magazine, and London Examiner, and chronologically arranged.]

1851.

Jan. 17. Hon. Spencer Compton, second Marquis of Northampton, at his seat, Castle Ashby, England, aged 61; in some degree known as a politician, but much more so in the sphere of reform, as well as in that of science; though nominally a Tory, associated with Wilberforce in the Antislavery cause, and with Mackintosh as a criminal law reformer. He succeeded the Duke of Sussex, in 1838, as President of the Royal Society.

Jan. 24. Signor G. L. P. Spontini, in the Roman States, near Ancona, the celebrated dramatic composer, in the line of opera. His life was chiefly spent under the patronage of either the French or the Prussian court; but while at Berlin, "Spontini was in hot water continually." He was born in 1784.

Feb. 1.-Mary Wolstonecraft, widow of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, and daughter of William Godwin, at her residence, Chester Square, London, 53 years of age; an accomplished person, as well as her husband, and known in authorship by her Travels, and still more her imaginative works, more especially "Frankenstein."

Feb. 5. Rev. John Pye Smith, D.D., &c., in his 77th year, at Guildford, Surrey, Principal for near upon half a century of the Dissenting College at Homerton, and, for most of that interval, having charge also of a congregation. Five or six works, almost wholly controversial, have come from his pen; but the largest and best known is "The Scripture Testimony to the Messiah." Feb. 8.Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, at his seat, in Kent, at the age of 85. Trained to the bar, he was made known, in early life, by various financial tracts, which attracted much attention; became M. P. for Hastings in 1796, and for the celebrated Old Sarum in 1802, which he retained for ten years. In 1801, Mr. V. went to Denmark, as Minister Plenipotentiary, with the view to divert that power from the Northern Alliance: he was Secretary to the Treasury, once and again; in 1812, became a cabinet minister, succeeding Mr. Percival as Chancellor of the Exchequer; on retiring from which, in 1823, he was raised to the peerage, as Baron Bexley. The Vansittart family was of German (Dantzic or Hamburg) origin.

Feb. 23. Joanna Baillie, the distinguished dramatic writer, at Hampstead,

aged 89; born in the Manse of Bothwell, near Glasgow, of which her father was incumbent. Beside her "fugitive poetry," (being altogether minor pieces,) her dramas number, perhaps, as many as twenty-five, of which she has been far most successful in tragedy. "Basil," and "De Montfort," in particular, assert for her the first place of the age in that walk of literature. Her sister, Agnes B., survived her, at the great age of 92.

April 19. William Dowton, the veteran comedian, at Brighton Terrace, Brixton, in his 88th year. He first appeared on the London boards in 1794, and during that interval was, as to very many characters, a conspicuous, and in some the best, representative of his time.

April 28.- Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, in London, aged 81; he bore a part (in various grades of service) in Lord Howe's action, June 1, 1794, in Lord Bredport's, 1795, and in the battle of Trafalgar; but his name is chiefly preserved by the famous action of Navarino, October 20, 1827, when the fleet of the Pacha of Egypt was annihilated by the combined squadrons of Great Britain, Russia, and France, Sir Edward being then in chief command.

April 29. Hon. C. C. Pepys, Earl of Cottenham, on his 70th birthday, in the Duchy of Lucca, Italy; who was called to the English bar in 1804, and after passing through almost all the other honors of the law, became, in 1836, Lord Chancellor, which he held to 1841, and again from 1846 to 1850.

May 23.- Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil, at Florence, in his 59th year, the minister of Queen Victoria at the court of Tuscany; and having some distinction both as a statesman and a dramatist.

June 10.- Hon. Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville, aged 80; at different periods for very many years in the English ministry, especially as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1812-1827, and shortly after resuming it for three years. He was an intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott, and son of the Viscount Melville who was the subject of the memorable impeachment by the House of Commons, in 1805. June 14.Thomas Moule, Esq., in London, aged 67; a well-known writer, to the extent of many volumes, on topographical and heraldic antiquities. July 2. Caroline Amelia Halsted, in Yorkshire; by which, her maiden name, (for she was afterwards married,) she is best known as the author of three or four works, of which the principal, perhaps, is a "Life of King Richard the Third," 2 vols. 8vo, 1844.

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July 2. William Berry, at Bristol, England, at the age of 77, the author of various works in genealogy and heraldry.

July 6.-- David Macbeth Moir, at Dumfries, Scotland, the "Delta" of Blackwood's Magazine, to which he was long a contributor, and in whose pages first appeared (1824) the "Autobiography of Mansie Wauch, the Tailor of Dalkeith," which went through several editions, at home, as well as in America and France; and which was, most oddly, long ascribed by many to Galt, (of whom it is a most happy imitation,) in despite of the dedication, which at once contradicts that assertion. Mr. M. was 53 years of age.

July 3. Edward Quillinan, Esq., at Rydal, Westmoreland, son-in-law of the poet Wordsworth, and himself accomplished, particularly in Portuguese literature. He is the author of a single work; his lady (whose death preceded his own) wrote a "Journal of a Residence in Portugal and the South of Spain," 2 vols., 1847.

July 13.

Rev. John Lingard, at Hornley, near Lancaster, the well and widely known Roman Catholic historian of England, in his 82d year.

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July 28. Horace Sebastiani, at Paris, in his 80th year; who bore a part in most of the great battles during Napoleon's career, and was created a Marshal of France in 1840. He was in the ministry under Louis Philippe's régime, and also ambassador both at Naples and London. The Marshal was born in Corsica. June or July. - Christian Frederick Tieck, Director of the sculpture gallery of the Royal Museum (of Prussia) at Berlin, aged 75; of the highest eminence in that art, and a brother of Ludwig Tieck, the celebrated poet and critic.

June or July. - Madame Javouhey at Paris, the venerable mother of the Order of St. Joseph Cluny, which she founded; an order of working nuns, a novelty till then unknown in France, but now extended over the empire. The first company of the sisters gave themselves to the colony of French Guiana as their field of labor.

Aug. 1.- Harriet Lee, at Clifton, England, in her 95th year, the last of the two sisters, Sophia and Harriet L., who were the authors, either jointly or sepa

rately, of various works, chiefly novels or dramas. Harriet was almost the exclusive author of the Canterbury Tales, 5 vols., 1797, perhaps the best known of their labors. Aug. 6. - Rev. Charles Gutzlaff, the well-known Chinese missionary, mostly under British auspices, for twenty years, in that great empire, at Victoria, Hong Kong, aged 48. Three or four works have appeared, the fruits of his enterprise, or of his researches into the history of China.

Aug. 10. M. Daguerre, the inventor of the Daguerreotype, at Petit Brie, near Paris, in his 63d year. His peculiar process was published by him in the autumn of 1839, and the French government awarded him a pension of 6,000 francs for his discovery.

July or Aug. Dr. Lorenz Oken, at Zurich, aged 73, Professsor of Natural History in the University of Zurich, of high reputation in that science, and who has published, beside his " Physico-Philosophy," his greatest work, several others on Mineralogy, Zoology, and Botany.

July or August. - Dr. H. E. G. Paulus, the celebrated Orientalist and critic, at Heidelberg, aged 90. Dr. P. was for 37 years Professor of Church History and Biblical Exegesis in that University, having for a few years previously been at Jena and Wurzburg. His wife was the daughter of Wilhelm Schlegel. Sept. 17. Professor John Kidd, at Oxford, aged 76; successively Professor of Chemistry (1803), Regius do. of Medicine (1822), and Librarian to the Radcliffe Library (1834). He was the author of one of the best of the Bridgewater Treatises, beside three or four works of reputation in the departments, severally, of medicine, mineralogy, and geology.

Sept. 22. Mary Martha Sherwood, widow of Capt. Henry S., at Twickenham, in her 77th year; an old, valued, and popular writer, chiefly for youth; her works of all sizes and of all kinds (though, with slight exception, confined to fiction) number more than half a hundred. Of these, the tale of "Little Henry and his Bearer" has had much celebrity.

Sept. 30. Richard Jones, the favorite comedian of the last generation, in London, in his 73d year. He first appeared at Covent Garden in 1807, retired from the stage in 1833, and then devoted himself, with great success, as a teacher of elocution, especially for the pulpit. He is too the author of some petit pieces for the stage.

Oct. 4. Don Emanuel Godoy, the once noted Prince of Peace, the minister of Charles VI. and Ferdinand VII. of Spain, at Paris, in the 87th year of his age. Oct. 12. Samuel Beazley, Esq., at Tunbridge Castle, aged 66; a distinguished architect, as seen in numerous structures; a dramatic compiler also; having indeed a double connection with the stage, as the designer of more theatres than any other modern architect. His early life, on the other hand, was military,, and even very romantic.

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Oct. 26. Richard Cowling Taylor, Esq., at Philadelphia, about 60 years of age; but who removed from England hither only some twenty years since. known by his labors and writings as an antiquary as well as naturalist. His latest work was the "Statistics of Coal," large 8vo, 1848, with illustrative maps and diagrams.

Oct. 27. William Wyon, at Brighton, England, in his 57th year; the celebrated medallist and die-sinker, in which line his uncle Thomas, and his cousin of that name, were also eminent, though in less degree. They were of German origin. The Great Seals for England, Scotland, and Ireland were the work of this family.

Nov. 18. - His Majesty Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover, at his Palace of Henenhausen, in his 81st year; he was the fifth son of George the Third, and succeeded to the crown of Hanover on the decease of William the Third (1837). Prince Ernest's military career on the Continent, from 1793 to 1795, gained him distinction.

Nov. 26. Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, at his chateau of Soult-Berg, in France; born in the memorable 1769, the birth-year of Napoleon and Wellington, of Ney and Lannes, of Mehemet Ali, Lord Castlereagh, Mackintosh, Baron Alexander Humboldt, Baron Cuvier, and Chateaubriand. His long career, the first half military, the latter civil, is familiar to most.

Nov. 26. Herr Priessnitz, the founder of the modern, and not yet well-established (though noted enough) system of Hydropathy, at Graefenberg, Bavaria, aged 52.

Dec. 4. George Crabbe, barrister at law, at Hammersmith, near London, then just completing his 73d year; the well-known author of English Synonymes, 8vo, a Technological Dictionary, 2 vols. 4to, an Historical Dictionary, 2 vols. 4to, all of them near thirty years ago, besides half a dozen works (chiefly books of reference, so called) of later date.

Dec. 4. Professor George Durham, (of the University,) at Edinburgh, in his 78th year; author of an esteemed "Greek and English Lexicon," and several other works in the province of philology.

Dec. 19.-J. M. William Turner, at Chelsea, England, aged 76; the unrivalled landscape-painter of the last generation, eclipsing indeed all his predecessors at home, Wilson and Gainsborough among them: with the shade on his own portrait, however, of miserly habits, and of other great eccentricities.

Dec. 26. Hon. Ward Chipman, in his 64th year, at St. John, N. B., the son of a Massachusetts loyalist, (in which State he was born,) and a graduate of Harvard College (1805), Chief Justice of the Supreme Bench of New Brunswick. His father, of the same name, was one of the first judges on that bench, constituted after the Peace of 1783.

Dec. 27. Basil Montagu, Esq., styled "Queen's Counsel," at Boulogne, aged 81. He was the natural son of John, fourth Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, and by him educated. Mr. M. was the author of numerous works, was the editor of the latest and most approved edition of Lord Bacon's Works, with a Life, and one of the earliest, most prominent, and most zealous advocates of a mitigated penal code in the law of England.

1852.

Jan. 1. General Sir Frederick Philips Robinson, at Brighton, aged 88-9, of which he had been scarcely less than 75 within the military ranks. He was son of Colonel Beverly R., an American loyalist, whose house, on the North River, near West Point, was the scene of a large part of Arnold's intrigues preparatory to his treason. Sir F. P. R. was born in the Highlands, received an ensigncy in February, 1777, served five years, to the peace, and again in the war of 1812-15; was sent to his native land, having the command of two brigades intended for the attack of the works at Plattsburg, on Lake Superior, September, 1814. Jan. 4.- - Eliot Warburton, Esq., perished in the lamentable destruction by fire of the Amazon steamship, near the Scilly Isles, on her way from Southampton to the West Indies. Mr. W. had loomed up into the knowledge as well as estimation of the public, as a writer, within the short period of ten years, perhaps, by his "Convent and the Cross," "Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers," (3 vols. 8vo,)" Darien," &c.; and also by "Hochelaga," and "The Conquest of Canada," (in an editorial capacity,) works of his brother, Capt. Warburton.

Jan. 5. Eugene Levesque, at Paris, author of Travels in America, aged 81. Jan. 5.-- Benjamin Laroche, at Paris, French translator of Shakespeare and Lord Byron, aged 54.

Jan. 5. Baron Kemenyi, an Hungarian commander, eminent for his patriotism and exploits in the late struggle with Austria and Russia, aged 53. Jan. 14.-T. Hudson Turner, aged 37, one of the ablest British archæologists, author of the "Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages," &c.

Feb. 17. William Thompson, at Belfast, Ireland, at the age of 46, whose researches as a naturalist include the whole extent of zoology and botany; but whose "Birds of Ireland" have, as yet, alone appeared, as a part of his projected "Natural History of Ireland."

Feb. 26. Thomas Moore, the distinguished poet and last survivor, among the literati, of a former generation, at Sloperton Cottage, Wiltshire, his residence for the last thirty years, and built for him expressly by his friend, the Marquis of Lansdowne. As with Southey, and, in a measure, with Scott, his mental pioneered his bodily decay. Four volumes of his "Life and Correspondence," by Lord John Russell, another intimate friend, have appeared. He was born in Dublin, 1779.

Feb. 18.- Rev. Christopher Anderson, at Edinburgh, aged 73; known by his "Annals of the English Bible," (2 vols. 8vo, 1845,) and one or two other works. He was of the Baptist church.

Feb. 18. Victor Falck, at Stockholm, the distinguished French ornithologist.