Obituary of Notable Persons.

JOSEPH BAILEY, ESQ., M.P. fur the county of Hereford, died
on the 31st August, in Belgrave Square. The hon. gentleman
was a Conservative in politics, and identified with the Protectionists.
Mr. Bailey seldom spoke in the House of Commons,
but on all great political struggles he invariably attended and
recorded his votes against the present Government.

The Right Hon. C. W. W. WYNN, M.P. for Montgomeryshire,
died on the 2nd inst. in his 75th year, at his residence in Grafton
Street. He was the oldest member of the House of Commons,
having sat for Montgomeryshire since 1797, and for about a year
previously for Old Sarum.

SIR GEORGE HAMILTON, Minister Plenipotentiary of England
at Florence, died in that city on the 3rd.

MRS. EGERTON, the actress, a lady not surpassed by any upon
the stage in a particular line of parts—witness her Meg Merriles
and others—died at Brompton on the 3rd, at the age of 57.

LORD WILLIAM CLINTON, fourth son of the Duke of Newcastle,
attached to the British mission at Athens, died there on the 3rd
in his 35th year.

COLONEL WILLIAM ELPHINSTONE HOLLOWAY, C.B,, commanding
officer of Royal Engineers at Plymouth, died on the
4th, after a protracted illness, the severity of which was much
increased by the wounds he had received in the service of his
country. Colonel Holloway was in the Peninsular campaigns
of 1810, 1811, and 1812; he was wounded in the trenches before
Badajoz, and shot through the body on the 26th of the same
month whilst storming the same works.

BARONESS ROTHSCHILD died at Gunnersbury Park on the 5th,
in her 68th year. She was the widow of Baron Rothschild, the
celebrated capitalist, who died in 1836; by whom she leaves
four sons and two daughters. Baron Lionel, Sir Anthony, Baron
Nathaniel, Baron Meyer, Baroness Anselm, and Mrs. Fitzroy.

The Rev. DR. INGRAM, President of Trinity College, Oxford,
and Rector of Garsington, died at Trinity College on the 5th.
Dr. Ingram is the author of "Memorials of Oxford," a work of
great antiquarian research.

The Right Hon. JOHN DOHERTY, Chief-Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas in Ireland, died on the 8th at Beaumaris, a
short time after his lordship had retired to rest: his death was
the result of a disease of the heart.

The Right Rev DR. STOPFORD, Bishop of Meath, died at the
Palace, Ardbraccan, on the 17th. His lordship was a member
of the Privy Council in Ireland.

VISCOUNT NEWARK, the eldest son of Earl Manvers, died on
the 23rd, at Torquay, in his 45th year.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S formal resignation of the command in India, and the official appointment of his
successor, leave us still in the dark as to the cause of dispute. Some light has been thrown by the last
arrival, however, and not of the pleasantest kind, on the state and discipline of some portions of the Indian
army. The whole question will doubtless be opened up on the arrival in England of the late Commander in
Chief. It may, meanwhile, not be inconsistent with a high admiration for the great qualities of all the Napiers,
to express a wish that this remarkable family were better provided with what the world commonly agrees
to call discretion and prudence; and that they could bring themselves, when out of office, to be something
less of the democrat, and, when in office, something less of the tyrant.

Of positive news from any other of our dependencies or colonies the month has furnished none. But we have
thriving accounts from Jamaica of a proposed vigorous effort at cotton cultivation in that island; and from
other quarters we hear generally not unfavourable accounts of material prosperity. The agitators are the men
that don't thrive, though very possibly for reasons making their agitation not unjustifiable. When we
received our last news of Doctor Lang, who has been moving heaven and earth for the establishment into an
independent republic of all the Australian Colonies, on the plan of the United States, he had been flung into
prison for debt. But he is out again by this time; and his political energies, however unwisely directed for
the present, need not in their issue be unproductive of good. Such irritants are not ill medicine for the
present malady of the Colonial Office.

The Overland Mail has brought dates from Bombay
to the 5th, Calcutta the 7th, and Madras the 13th of
August.

Colonel King, Committed suicide at Wuzeerabad, near
Lahore, on the 6th of July. He commanded the
14th Light Dragoons, at the battle of Chillianwalla,
where the corps retreated from before the enemy,
got into momentary confusion, and overset a couple
of our own guns, thereby causing them to be captured
by the Sikhs. The affair was passed over at the
time, and in a short time probably all would have
been forgotten, had not Sir C. Napier, in a speech to the
corps some months back, alluded to the matter by saying
that such a corps as the 14th would go anywhere, or do
anything, if properly commanded. This taint acted
powerfully on the over-sensitive mind of Colonel King,
and he became the prey of a settled melancholy, which
he never seems to have been able to throw off. In June,
some of his men were taunted at the theatre by the
artillerymen with being cowards, which was of course
resented, and a row ensued. Shortly before this, a man
of the corps, named M'Lean, was taken before Colonel
King for some crime, and on being sentenced to punishment,
called him a coward. For this he was tried by a
court-martial, and sentenced to corporal punishment,
which he underwent on the 20th March; and the man,
on being taken down from the halberts, walked towards
Colonel King, and again called him a coward, using, at
the same time, grossly abusive language. M'Lean had
managed before coming out for punishment to get
enough liquor to make him shortly after tipsy, hoping
thereby to deaden his feelings to the cat-o'-nine tails;
and it was while under the influence of tlie liquor, and
the pain caused by the flogging, that he again committed
himself as above. He was now ordered to be
tried by a general court-martial, which took place on
the 3rd of June last. He was found guilty of outrageous
and insubordinate conduct, and sentenced to transportation
for seven years. This sentence, having been transmitted
to the Commauder-in-Chief, was returned by
him with the following remarks;—

"Revised—In revising the proceedings of the court, I am
obliged to call its attention to some facts which demand the
most serious notice.—1st. The prisoner was allowed to get
drunk in the guard-room of Her Majesty's 14th Light Dragoons,
when under sentence of a court martial,—2nd. The prisoner was
brought drunk to the parade.—3rd. Assistant-Surgeon Fasson,
whose business it was closely to have examined the state of the
prisoner who was about to suffer corporal punishment, did not
examine him, and did not perceive that he was intoxicated, till
drink and the pain of punishment had made him so furious, that
the assistant-surgeon's own words are "I thought he was either
mad or drunk."—4th. Adjutant Lieutenant Apthorp, equally
unobserving with the assistant-surgeon, did not find out that
the prisoner was drunk till after he had received punishment.—
5th. The consequence was that this soldier was flogged when in
a state of intoxication, and all this took place in the presence of
Lietenant-Colonel King, the commanding otficer of the regiment.
—6th. When freed from the triangles, the prisoner, infuriated
by having drunk nearly two bottles of arrack and some beer in
the guard room, as proved before the court, became outrageous
and abusive, as might have been foreseen.—7th. I ask the court,
therefore, to reconsider and to mitigate its sentence, for however
disgraceful and insubordinate the conduct of the culprit may
have been, it was certainly as much produced by the neglect of
duty in others, as by the drunkard himself. The sentence
appears to me to be severe beyond all proportion to the crime, in
the peculiar circumstances above stated.
                                   "(Signed)                C.J.NAPIER,
                                            Commaner-in-Chief, East Indies."

The court-martial accordingly reconsidered their sentence,
and re-transmitted it to the Commander-in-Chief,