GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

7. Knighted, J. J. Reid, esq., chief justice of the Ionian Islands.

10. The right hon. C. P. Thomson, governor-general of her majesty's provinces of North America, created baron Sydenham, of Sydenham, co. Kent, and of Toronto; in Canada.

The earl of Lovelace to be lord-lieut. of the co. of Surrey.

11. Timothy Yates Brown, esq. to be consul for the Duchy of Genoa.

Sir James Clark, bt. M.D. F.R.S., and Henry Holland, M.D. F. R. S., to be physicians in ordinary to his royal highness prince Albert; John Forbes, M. D. F. R. S., and Theodore Gordon, M.D., to be physicians extraordinary; sir Benjamin Brodie, bart., F.R.S., Benjamin Travers, esq. F.R.S., and Charles Aston Key, esq. to be surgeons in ordinary; and Alexander Nasmyth, esq., M.R.C.S., to be surgeon-dentist.

13. Captain H. Smith, R. N. to be a companion of the Bath.

15. Knighted, captain James Edward Alexander, lieut.-col. in the Portuguese service, and knight of the Lion and Sun.

fleet-To be vice-admirals of the Blue, John Chesshyre, esq. and B. R. Littlehales, esq.-To be rear-admirals of the Red, Charles Wollaston, esq., Charles Tinling, esq., sir Gcorge Mundy, Rich. Peacocke, esq., Nicholas Tomlinson, esq., and James Katon, esq.-To be rearadmirals of the White, Richard Poulden, esq., Peter Ribouleau, esq., Matthew Buckle, esq., John Allen, esq., James Noble, esq., F. H. Coffin, esq., Jeffery Baron de Raigersfeld, C. J. W. Neshain, esq., John Wight, esq., H. F. Edgell, esq., William Butterfield, esq., William Young, esq., Jacob Walton, esq., B. M. Praed, esq., Samuel Motley, esq., Edward W. Browne, esq. J. R. Smollett, esq., hon. William Le Poer Trench, Edward S. Clay, esq., Charles Carter, esq., William H. B. Tremlett, esq., Samuel Butcher, esq. To be rear-admirals of the Blue, Matthew Godwin, esq., sir Salusbury Davenport, knt. C. B. and K. C. H., Francis Temple, esq., Henry Gordon, esq., J. S. Carden, esq., J. W. Holland, esq., John Impey, esq., H. M. Ommaney, esq,, Archibald Duff, esq., and the hon. major Jacob Henniker.

20. Lord visc. Falkland to be lieut.governor of the province of Nova Scotia.

The right hon. John lord Keane, G.C. B., and his descendants, to bear to the armorial ensigns of his family the honourable augmentation following, viz. "On a chief, a representation of the strong and important fortress of Ghuznée," and a crest of honourable augmentation, "On wreath, a representation of the Cabool gate of the said fortress of Ghuznée."

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25. The right hon. Charles Baron Sydenham to be governor of the province of Canada.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Maziere Brady, esq. to be chief baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland.

David Pigot, esq. to be attorney-general, Ireland; Richard Moore, esq. solicitor-general, Ireland; Dr. Stock, serjeant at law.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Cavan County.-H. J. Clements, esq. Louth County.-Thomas Fortescue, esq.

Surrey (West).-John Trotter, esq.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

5. Robert Nicholas Fynn, esq. to be chief justice of Tobago.

15. John Jeremie, esq. to be governor of Sierra Leone, and Owen Flintoff, esq. chief justice of the same colony.

16. Miles Thomas Stapleton, of Carlton, co. York, esq. summoned by writ to the house of peers, by the title of baron Beaumont, he being the sole heir of Joan Lovel lady Stapleton, eldest daughter of Joan sister of William viscount and baron Beaumont, in whom the barony of Beaumont was vested by descent from his father, John Baron Beaumont, who sat in parliament in the reign of Henry VI,

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James Carey, esq., to be registrar of deeds at the Cape of Good Hope.

19. Ogle Carr, esq. to be first puisne judge, James Stark. esq., second puisne judge, Arthur Buller, esq, queen's advocate, and Christopher Temple, jun. esq. deputy queen's advocate, all in the Island of Ceylon.

Richard Boynton Wood, esq. to be surveyor-general and civil engineer in the colony of Sierra Leone.

Robert Schomburgh, esq. to be her majesty's commissioner for surveying and marking out the boundaries of British Guiana.

20. The Earl of Clarendon, G.C.B. to be chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

Admiral sir J. Ommaney, to be second in command in the Mediterranean.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Carlow County.-Henry Bruen, esq. Mayo County.-Mark Blake, esq.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. R. Daly to be dean of St. Patrick's.

Rev. G. P. Burney, D.D. to be archdeacon of St. Alban's.

Rev. F. B. Twistleton, D.C.L. to be a canon residentiary of Hereford.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

The duke of Northumberland, to be chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

The rev. P. Wynter, D.D. to be vicechancellor of the University of Oxford.

Dr. Williams (master of Winchester), to be warden of New College, Oxford.

Ald. Thomas Johnson, to be lord mayor of London (after a contest, in which the return of the livery was, ald. Harmer, 2294; Ald. Johnson, 2713; Ald. Pirie, 2741.

Mr. Ald. Gibbs and Mr. Farncomb, to be sheriffs of London and Middlesex.

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NOVEMBER.

GAZETTE PREFERMENTS.

5. Knighted, John Jeremie, esq., captain-gen., and governor in chief of Sierra Leone.

9. The hon. W. H. A. Fielding to be a page of honour to the queen dowager.

11. Lt.-gen. sir A. F. Barnard, G.C.B. and G. C. H. to be clerk marshall to the queen dowager.

12. The undermentioned retired rear admirals transferred to the active list of flag-officers; to be admiral of the White, sir R. Barlow, K.C.B.; to be admirals of the Blue, W. Shield, esq., and F. Watkins, esq.; to be vice-admirals of the Red, D'Arcy Preston, esq., Joseph Buller, esq.; vice-admirals of the White, H. Evans, esq., the hon. sir C. Boyle, K.C.H., G. J. Shirley, esq., and J. K. Shepard, esq.; vice-admirals of the Blue, sir R, L. Fitz-gerald, K.C.H., G. Barker, esq., and H. Garratt, esq.

16. Right hon. J. A. Stewart Mackenzie, to be lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands.

17. Lieut.-general sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., to be governor and commander-in-chief of Ceylon.

17. Sir Woodbine Parish, K. C. H., and Stephen Henry Sulivan, esq., to proceed to Naples as her majesty's commissioners, to liquidate certain claims of her majesty's subjects against the Sicilian government arising out of the late sulphur monopoly.

20. John Hobson, esq., capt., R. N., to be governor and commander-in-chief of the Islands of New Zealand.

Lieut.-col. Richard Doherty to be lieut.-governor of the island of St. Vincent.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS,

Lord Lyndhurst to be high steward of the University of Cambridge (after a contest, lord Lyndhurst, 923, lord Lyttleton, 457).

Lord Francis Egerton, M. P., reelected lord rector of the University of Aberdeen.

Rev. John Graham, D. D., master of Christ's College, to be vice-chancellor of Cambridge.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

4. Commodore Charles Napier to be K.C.B.

7. Sir George Rose, knt. to be one of the masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery, vice lord Henley.

9. Master Herbert Lowther Wilson to be page of honour to her majesty. 11. Colonel William Wylde, R. A. to be C.B.

14. John Hamilton, earl of Stair, to be keeper of the seal appointed by the Treaty of Union, to be made use of in place of the great seal of Scotland.

15. George Grey, esq. to be governor and commander-in-chief of the province of South Australia, and resident com. missioner of public lands.

16. Robert Power, esq. to be surveyor-general in the island of Van Diemen's Land.

DEATHS.

1839.

Oct. 11. Drowned in an attempt to reach the shore from the wreck of the Sunda, off the north coast of Hainan, in the China Seas, aged 55, James Ilbery, esq., of Clement's-lane, and Doughtystreet. Also, in the same wreck, James Macpherson, esq., with his wife, and in

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21. At Dumpledale, near Haverfordwest, Charles Phillips, esq., a post-captain R. N. and F.R.S. Captain Phillips was a son of the late Dr. George Phillips, of Haverfordwest. He entered the

royal navy at an early age, and was engaged in active service, with scarcely any interval, up to the year 1812. In 1817, captain Phillips submitted to the admiralty a plan for propelling ships by the capstan; and, in 1819, another, for increasing the power of that machine by wheelwork, which was the basis of the improved capstan now bearing his name, and for which he had a patent. He was likewise the inventor of a method of suspending ship's compasses, so as to prevent their being affected by the firing of guns in action, or from any other concussion, and to ensure their preserving a horizontal position in all sorts of weather. In 1827 he applied the hydrostatic principle, of water rising to its own level, to the pumpdales of ships, by which they may be cranked under the lower deck, so as to free it from such a serious incumbrance, and yet to allow the water to deliver itself from the same height as before. The pumpdale of the Asia 84, was the first placed according to this plan. These inventions led to captain Phillips' appointment successively to the Spey, and the Ariadne, and orders have been issued for constructing all the power capstans in the royal navy according to his method.

Nov. 1. At his seat, Richings-lodge, near Coln-brook, aged 90, the right hon. John Sullivan, a privy councillor and formerly a commissioner of the Board of Control.

18. At Brighton, aged 75, Robert Rolles, esq., rear-admiral of the Red.

20. At Arromanza, one of the New Hebrides, being murdered by the natives, the rev. J. Williams, missionary, author of a volume of Missionary Travels; and Mr. Harris, missionary to the Marquesas.

26. At the Ryalls, near Seaton, De vonshire, aged 45, William Henry Baptist Prohy, esq., commander R. N.

Lately. At King George's Sound, Western Australia, Sir Richard Spencer, knt., K.C.II. and C.B., governor of that settlement, and a captain R. N.

Dec. 12. Drowned in crossing the Indus, from the upsetting of a boat during a heavy gale, captain William Hilton, 16th dragoons; together with nine privates of the same regiment.

At his residence in the Royal Crescent, Bath, admiral sir William Hargood, G.C.B. and G.C.H.

19. In Dublin, aged 48, lieutenant

colonel Stephen Holmes, K.H. unattached, deputy inspector-general of constabulary in Ireland.

Lately. At Columbo, in Ceylon, in his 69th year, sir Charles Wyndham Burdett, the fifth baronet, of Acomb, co. York (1665); formerly a lieut.-col. in the army, and C.B.

30. On board his flag-ship the Wellesley, at sea in the vicinity of Bombay, in his 63rd year, rear-admiral sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, K.C.B., commander-in-chief in the East Indies. Sir Frederick Maitland was the third son of rear-adm. the hon. Frederick Lewis Maitland, of Rankeillour, (sixth son of Charles sixth earl of Lauderdale,) by Margaret Dick, heiress of Rankeillour and Lindores in Fife. He was born at Rankeillour, 1779; commenced his naval career at an early age, and was present in the Southampton at the memoable actions of May 29 and June 1, 1794. He accompanied earl St. Vincent as his flag-lieutenant to the Mediterranean in 1799, and was appointed by him to the rank of commander in the Cameleon sloop, with which he made several captures; and in December 1800, was promoted by lord Keith to the Waassenaar 64; but as that ship was lying at Malta, unfit for service, he obtained his lordship's permission to accompany the expedition then preparing against the French in Egypt, where his conduct in command of the armed launches employed to cover the landing of sir Ralph Abercromby's army, and in the subse quent battles of March 13 and 21, 1801, obtained him the thanks of the naval and military commanders-in-chief. In 1802 captain Maitland was appointed to the Loire, of 46 guns, and in Novem ber 1806, was transferred to the Emerald, a 35 gun frigate. During his command of these vessels he distinguished himself by the capture of a great number of the enemy's privateers. In March 1815, on the return of Napoleon Buonaparte from Elba, captain Maitland was somewhat suddenly appointed to the Bellerophon of 74 guns; and was soon after sent to watch the motions of two French Frigates and two corvettes, lying at Rochefort, off which place he detained a transport, having on board nearly 300 soldiers from Guadaloupe. When Buonaparte, after the battle of Waterloo, fled to Rochefort, and there formed numerous plans for his escape by sea, the whole of them were happily

frustrated by the vigilance of captain Maitland, and the detatchment under his orders. His hopes being at an end, Napoleon endeavoured to stipulate for his future treatment, but in vain; captain Maitland informing him that he had no authority whatever for granting terms of any sort; and that he could do nothing more than convey him and his suite to England, to be received in such a manner as the prince regent might think proper. Thus situated, the fugitive at length resolved to throw himself on the generosity of "the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of his enemies," and accordingly surrendered unconditionally to captain Maitland, on the 15th July. The Bellerophon arrived in Torbay in nine days after Buonaparte's surrender; and from thence proceeded to Plymouth, off which port he was removed to the Northumberland on the 7th August. Previous to his quitting the former ship he sent one of his attendants to her commander, proposing to present him with a gold box, containing his portrait set with diamonds, the value of which was said to be 3000 guineas; but the offer was declined by captain Maitland, who some time after addressed a letter to the Edinburgh Annual Register, correcting several misstatements contained in that publication respecting his prisoner. Captain Maitland was employed in the Vengeur 74, from 1818 to 1821, and sometime subsequently was appointed commander-in-chief in the East Indies, on which station he died. He was nominated a companion of the Bath in 1815; and a knight commander in 1830. He married in April 1804, Catherine, third daughter of Daniel Connor, esq., of Ballybricken, in the county of Cork, but had no issue.

31. At Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, aged 34, the rev. John Wordsworth, eldest son of the Master of Trinity college, and a Fellow of that society. Mr. Wordsworth was born at Lambeth; and after receiving at home the rudiments of his education, was sent in 1819 to Winchester school. He commenced residence as a student of Trinity college in 1824; a year subsequently distinguished by unusual success in the classical competitions of the University. In 1825 he was elected one of Dr. Bell's University scholars, and scholar of Trinity in 1826. In the same year he ob

tained the "Porson Prize" for an exercise pronounced by scholars to be one of more than ordinary merit; an extraordinary prize for a similar exercise was awarded to him in the following year, as well as honourable mention made of his "Greek Ode," which was ordered to be copied, together with that to which sir William Brown's medal was adjudged, into the public volume of University Exercises. He obtained also prizes for classical composition in his own college; and would undoubtedly have occupied a very high place in the classical honours of the Commencing Bachelors, if he had not been excluded from the competition by existing regulations. Mr. Wordsworth was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1830, and continued generally to reside in college till 1833, when he visited the continent. In this journey Italy was his principal object; and during a prolonged stay at Florence be collated the MSS. of Eschylus in the Medicean Library, with such diligence and success as led him to devote himself, on his return, more particularly to the study and correction of that poet, with hopes of giving a much purer text than had hitherto been obtained. Some foretaste of what he would have done in this department of criticism, is to be found in a Review by him of Wellauer's Eschylus, published in the first volume of the Philological Museum. Soon after his return from his travels, he was appointed to the office of Assistant Tutor, and when the design of publishing the unedited papers and correspondence of Bentley was undertaken by the college, the conduct of that publication was committed to Mr. Wordsworth. Mr. Wordsworth was ordained deacon in June, 1837, and priest soon after, by the bishop of Ely. In the meantime, habits of laborious study had injured his health; and this, added to the desire of devoting himself wholly to classical literature, induced him to resign his office in the Tuition. He continued, however, to prosecute the studies he had chosen, and to collect materials for some works he had undertaken, till within a few weeks of his death. The papers relating to the Bentley Correspondence are understood to be in a state of forwardness. He had made some progress in the preparation of a Classical Dictionary, and left behind him much that is likely to be highly valua ble to future editors of Eschylus, be