has ordered that the profits arising from the publication
shall be given to some public institution for the education
of the working classes. He has confided the task
of preparing these memoirs to Lord Mahon and Mr.
Cardwell. The will has been proved, and duty paid on
personal property under £500,OOO.

Sir William Gomm, K.C.B., has been appointed
Commander in Chief of the Presidency of Bombay. A
grand banquet was given by the East India Company in
honour of his appointment on the 10th, at the London
Tavern.

Sir George Anderson has been appointed Governor of
Ceylon, in the room of Lord Torrington, who is recalled;
and Sir George is to be succeeded in the Government of
the Mauritius by Mr. Higginson, now Governor of the
Leeward Islands.

Her Majesty has appointed Mr. Henry Hardwicke,
architect, to be Treasurer of the Royal Academy, in
place of Sir Robert Smirke, who has resigned in
consequence of ill health.

Dr. Nicholas Wiseman having been elected a Cardinal,
and on the eve of proceeding to Rome to be installed in
his new dignity, delivered a farewell sermon at St.
George's Cathedral in Westminster Road on Sunday
the llth. A great concourse of the Roman Catholic
nobility and gentry were present in the morning, when
high mass was celebrated, and the cardinal elect
delivered an address, expatiating on the success of Romanism
throughout the world, and extolling the zealous
labours of the clergy in his own district. In the evening
he delivered a second sermon, when many clergymen
of the Church of England were present.

Accounts have been received at the Admiralty,
from Captain Austin, commander of the Arctic
Expedition, dated on board the Resolute, Whale Fish
Islands, 23rd of June. No information had been
obtained respecting the missing vessels; and the
expedition was about to proceed northward to pursue the
search. Each ship was provided with provisions, stores,
and warm clothing, for fully three years, and the
tenders had on board coals to the amount of 310 tons
each. The dispatch concludes; "The vessels composing
the expedition may be considered in every way efficient;
and it is with much pleasure and satisfaction that I
report, that excellent health and spirits, goodwill, and
unanimity prevail throughout."

The election for the County of Mayo terminated on
the 27th of July, when Mr. Ouseley Higgins was
returned by 141 votes; his competitor, Mr. Isaac Butt,
polling 93.

On the 6th the Election for Lambeth terminated in
the return of Mr. William Williams, by 3,834 votes.
His competitors, Sir Charles Napier and Mr. Hinde
Palmer polled, the first 1182, and the second 585 votes.

Mr. Fox Maule was elected, on the 1st instant, one of
the Governors of the Charter-house, in room of Sir Robert
Peel. Mr. Maule was educated at that seminary.

Obituary of Notable Persons

LOUISE PHILIPPE, the ex-king of the French, died at Claremont
on the 26th. He had been made aware on the preceding day of
his approaching dissolution, and died with great calmness and
Christian resignation. A little before his death he dictated a
conclusion to his Memoirs, which illness had compelled him to
suspend tor some months. He was born on the 6th of October,
1773, and was the eldest son of Philippe, Duke of Orleans, known
by the name of Egalité. During his youth he struggled with
adversity, and was for some time a teacher in an academy in
Switzerland. By the revolution of 1830 he obtained the crown
of France, which he lost by the revolution of 1848. He has ever
since lived in retirement in England.

CAPTAIN NEWBOLD, one of the most distinguished of our Indian
geographers, died at Mahebuleshwar on the 29th of May.

LIEUT.-COL. T. ROBINSON, the political agent at Meywar, died
at Neemuch on the I8th of June, in his 63rd year.

SIR JOHN PENISTON MILBANKE, BART., died on the 27th ult.,
at Halnaby, in Yorkshire. He was son of Mr. J. Milbanke,
(second son of the fifth baronet), and was born on the 20th of
August, 1775. In March, 1826, he succeeded his uncle, Sir
Ralph, whose only daughter married Lord Byron.

The EARL OF DUNRAVEN died on the 6th inst., at Adare Abbey,
county Limerick, in the 69th year of his age. His lordship's
malady was chronic suppurative disease of the windpipe. He is
succeeded by his son. Viscount Adare, M.P. for Glamorganshire.

SIR LAUNCELOT SHADWELL, Vice-Chancellor of England, died
on the morning of the 10th, in his 71st year. His death was
caused by an attack of paralysis, under which he laboured for a
month.

THE HONOURABLE CHARLES EWAN LAW, Recorder of the
City of London, died on the 13th, in his 58th year. He was the
second son of the first Lord Ellenborough, and brother to the
present Earl. He had represented the University of Cambridge
in parliament for seventeen years.

PERCIVAL WELDON BANKS, M.A., barrister-at-law, died on the
13th. He was a man of much accomplishment, of great taste in
literature, to which (in the various periodicals of the last fifteen
years) he had largely contributed, and he was making progress
in his profession.

M. DE BALZAC, the popular novelist, died at Paris on the 18th.

Mr. ROBERT HENRY HUNT, the elder brother of Mr. Leigh
Hunt, died on the 15th, at his apartment in the Charterhouse.
He had lately received Her Majesty's nomination to the brotherhood
of that foundation, and had only resided there for a few
weeks. He was in his 77th year, and had for some time been
quite helpless, owing to his having been accidentally run over
about a year ago.

SIR MARTIN ARCHER SHEE, President of the Royal Academy,
died, at Brighton, on the 19th, in his 80th year. He was elected
to the above office in 1830, on the death of Sir Thomas Lawrence,
when he received the honour of knighthood. He retired in 1845
from the active duties of the office, which have been since
performed by Mr. Turner.

MR. J. H. LEY, Clerk of the House of Commons, died on the
21st. He was appointed an assistant-clerk of the house in
1801, and raised to that of principal clerk in 1821; so that he
has been in the service of the House of Commons without
intermission for forty-nine years. He was a Bencher of the Middle-
Temple, and a magistrate for the County of Devon.

COLONIES MD DEPENDENCIES.

HARDLY any thing of interest transpires from India or the Colonies this month, except that Sir Charles
Napier returns home in October, and that the Canadian House of Assembly has adopted a series of
resolutions against the Clergy Reserves Act. The effect of them, if carried out, will be to separate Church
and State in Canada. They affirm the equal religious rights of all classes; denounce the influence of
Church Establishments and Ecclesiastical Endowments; and declare the necessity of an immediate resumption
by the State of the Clergy Reserves, and their appropriation to the general education of the people, or
other useful secular purposes. This is a noticeable colonial fact in connection with the new Canterbury
Settlement proposed by a batch of settlers to New Zealand, who have consented to pay three times as much
for their land as is paid in the Government colonies, that they may have the peculiar satisfaction of forming
au inalienable fund for the support of a regular Church out there, and of taking across seas with them
a full-fledged bishop.

The Overland Mail has brought dates from Calcutta,
July 2nd; Madras, July 9th; Hong-kong, June 23rd;
and Alexandria, August 7th. The most remarkable
article of intelligence is the resignation of Sir Charles
Napier, the Commander in Chief, who is to leave India
in October. The cause is said to have been a misunderstanding
with the Governor General. Sir Charles had
issued some general orders respecting military arrangements
without previously consulting the government; a
dispute ensued which ended in the Commander in
Chief's resignation. It is supposed the matter will be
brought before parliament. Both the Governor General
and Sir Charles Napier were at Simla.—The whole of
British India remains quite tranquil; and the public
attention in all presidencies is much occupied with the
subject of railways; various new lines being in agitation.