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and for various machines connected with a cannon foundry then being established in the state of New York. About the year 1799 he had matured his plans for making ship-blocks by machinery, and determined upon visiting England to offer his plans for this purpose to the British government. After much opposition to his plans, for a very powerful interest was arrayed against him, not lessened in that day by his being a Frenchman, he was employed to execute them in Portsmouth Dockyard. To perfect his designs and to erect the machinery was the arduous labour of many years. The block machinery was finished in the year 1806, and has continued ever since in full operation, supplying our fleet with blocks of a very superior description to those previously in use, and at a large annual saving to the public. A few years afterwards he was employed by government to erect saw-mills, upon a new principle, in the dockyards of Chatham and Woolwich. Several other inventions were the offspring of his singularly fertile mind about this time-the circular saw, for cutting veneers of valuable woods, and the beautiful little machine for winding cotton thread into balls, which greatly extended its consumption. About two years before the termination of the war Mr. Brunel, under the countenance of the duke of York, invented a machine for making shoes for the army, the value and cheapness of which were fully appreciated, and they were extensively used. Steam navigation also at that time attracted his attention. He was engaged in building one of the first Ramsgate steam-boats, and introduced the principle of the double engine for the purpose. He also induced the Admiralty to allow him to build a vessel to try the experiment of towing ships out to sea, the possibility of which was then denied. The visit of the Emperor Alexander to this country, after the peace, led Mr. Brunel to submit to the Emperor a plan for making a tunnel under the Neva, where the accumulation of ice, and the suddenness with which it breaks up on the termination of winter, rendered the erection of a bridge a work of great difficulty. This was the origin of his plan for a tunnel under the Thames, which had been twice before attempted without success. In 1824, however, a company was formed, and

supported by the duke of Wellington, who took from first to last a deep interest in the work. The work was commenced in the same year. It was stopped more than once during its progress by the breaking in of the river, and more effectually at last by the exhausted finances of the company, which never extended beyond the command of 180,0007. At length, after the suspension of the work for many years, by a special act of parliament a loan was sanctioned, the Exchequer Loan Commissioners advanced the funds necessary for the completion of the work under the river, and, notwithstanding many weighty professional opinions were advanced against the practicability of the work, from both the loose alluvial nature of the soil through which it had to be constructed, and the superincumbent flood of water, it was finished and opened to the public in 1843. During lord Melbourne's administration Mr. Brunel received the honour of knighthood, on the recommendation of the late earl Spencer, then lord Althorp.

13. At Naples, aged 71, sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, the tenth bart., of Skirling, co. Peebles (1628), a deputy lieut. of that county. He was the second son of Alexander Gibson, of Durie, in Fife. His paternal grandmother was the hon. Helen Carmichael, sister to John, fourth earl of Hyndford, who, at his death in 1787, left the estate of Skirling to his great-nephew John Gibson, descended from sir Alexander Gibson, lord president of the Court of Session, who was created a baronet in 1628, and succeeded to the baronetcy on the demise of sir Robert, his distant cousin. On the death of sir John Gibson Carmichael without male issue, in 1803, he was succeeded by his next brother, Thomas, now deceased, who also, in conformity with the entail, assumed the name and arms of Carmichael.

14. At his residence, Harrington-sq., aged 38, Edward Doubleday, esq., F.L.S. and F.Z.S. Mr. Doubleday was the descendant of an old and well-known Quaker family, long resident at Epping, and many of whose members are distinguished for their attachment to science. The deceased and his brother Henry first became known in the scientific world on account of the extent and beauty of their collections of British birds and insects. In 1835 Mr. Doubleday, in conjunction with

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Mr. Foster, another member of the Society of Friends, paid a visit to the United States of America, and returned with large collections of specimens in all branches of natural history, which he distributed to the British Museum and various local institutions. Owing to his great knowledge of natural history Mr. Doubleday was appointed assistant in the zoological department of the British Museum. His time in this institution was chiefly spent in the arrangement of the entomological collections, more especially in the classification and delineation of the various species of Lepidopterous insects. Under his persevering superintendence the collection of butterflies and moths in the British Museum has become one of the most complete in existence. At the time when he was suddenly seized with the disease which has terminated his existence, he was engaged in the publication of a catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, as well as a magnificent work on the genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.

14. At Dublin, aged 84, the rev. Willoughby James Peter Burrell, rector of Belleau with Aby, Lincolnshire, nephew of lord Willoughby d'Eresby.

At Brúnn, the archduke Ferdinand d'Este. His Highness died of typhus fever, communicated by the infectious air of the Military Hospital at Obrowitz.

15. At Copt Hall, Luton, Beds, aged 74, the rev. William M'Douall, M.A., canon of Peterborough, and vicar of Luton.

16. Aged 78, Mrs. Honywood, relict of the rev. Dr. Honywood, rector of Honiton.

At Trevandrum, aged 49, John Caldecott, esq., F.R.S., astronomer to his Highness the Rajah of Travancore. Mr. Caldecott had the charge of planning, erecting, furnishing, and afterwards working, the astronomical and meteorological observatory founded by that enlightened Indian prince, to whose service he was introduced about the year 1832. When, in 1836, the admirable system of sir John Herschel was promulgated, under the name of a report of the South African Association, the astronomers at Madras and Trevandrum resolved to carry out the scheme of connected inquiry by means of hourly observations, at least one day every

month, to its fullest extent. Mr. Caldecott had now taken a conspicuous place amongst the scientific men of India, and his name speedily became as well known in Europe as it had for some time been in the East. He contributed several papers on meteorology generally, and on temperatures underground in particular, to the British Association. He had from 1841, when the general scheme of magnetic and meteorological research was commenced all over the world, set himself with his usual zeal to the working out of the plan. It was not until 1845 that the Royal Society determined on the best mode of publishing the vast mass of matter that had up to this time been collected; and the Rajah of Travancore, scarcely appreciating the importance of economy of time, and little apprehending the calamity that was at hand, was naturally anxious that a mass of facts that had been gathered together at his own expense, and under his own directions, should reach the world through his own press. Mr. Caldecott had now become deeply engaged in preparations for publication, when he was obliged to relinquish his task through failing health.

17. In South Audley-street, Mary, relict of gen. Isaac Gascoyne.

18. Aged 75, Benjamin Sewell, esq., of Blackheath Park, and Chathamplace.

19. At Dawlish, aged 20, Mary Alexandrina, youngest daughter of the late rev. Alex Nicoll, D.C.L., canon of Christ Church, and regius professor of Hebrew.

Aged 51, Charles O'Malley, esq., of Lodge, Mayo, one of Her Majesty's counsel.

At Boulogne-sur-Mer, aged 68, lady Ouseley, relict of sir William Ouseley, LL.D., the eminent oriental scholar.

20. At Dewchurch Vicarage, Herefordshire, aged 61, the rev. William Hassall, M.A.

At Hampstead, Middlesex, aged 66, the ven. Philip Jennings, D.D., archdeacon of Norfolk, rector of Coston in that county, and perpetual curate of St. James's, Marylebone.

At the Brook House, Old Sodbury, Miss Vassall, sister of Leonard Vassall, esq.

21. At his seat, Salston, Ottery St. Mary, co. Devon, aged 60, the right William Hart Coleridge, D.D.,

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warden of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury; and formerly bishop of Barbados and the Leeward Islands. Bishop Coleridge was the only son of Luke Herman Coleridge, esq., of Thorverton, Devonshire, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he greatly distinguished himself. After a short tutorship in the Hope family he became one of the curates of St. Andrew's, Holborn. Nothing could exceed the zeal with which he performed the duties of this laborious office. A vacancy occurring in the secretaryship of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, he was appointed to that post, and was preacher of the National Society's chapel in Elyplace. In 1824, when in his 35th year, he was consecrated bishop of Barbados. He filled the duties of that sacred charge with great zeal and assiduity for sixteen years, and resigned it in 1841, on account of the failure of his health. Upon the establishment of St. Augustine's College, at Canterbury, he was induced by the late primate to take the charge of that important missionary school, to the conduct of which he devoted himself with great energy. Having left the college for the Christmas vacation, he arrived on Thursday, the 20th December, at his residence near Ottery St. Mary, apparently in perfect health. Early in the afternoon of Friday, he went out to walk in his grounds, when he was suddenly taken ill; he was at once assisted into the house, where he expired a few moments after, with three deep sighs, before medical help could be procured. Bishop Coleridge married, in 1825, the eldest daughter of the very rev. Thomas Rennell, D.D., dean of Winchester, and master of the Temple, and grand-daughter of the celebrated sir William Black

stone.

22. In Portland-place, in his 82nd year, the right hon. John Colville, tenth lord Colville of Culross (in the peerage of Scotland, 1609), a representative peer for Scotland, adm. of the White, and an extra lord of the bedchamber to H.R.H. Prince Albert. He was born March 15, 1768, the fourth but eldest surviving son of John the ninth lord. He entered the navy, Dec. 12, 1775, as captain's servant, on board the Isis 50; and was in June, 1781, midshipman of the Conqueror 74, which was one of sir George Rodney's fleet in his victory

over the Comte de Grasse, April 12, 1782. In July 19, 1793, he was promoted into the Santa Margaretta 36, in which he assisted as first lieut. at the capture, in 1794, of the French West India Islands, and the apparent destruction near the Penmarks of the French 36-gun frigate Voluntaire, and corvettes Espion and Alert. He commanded in 1795 the Star sloop, employed chiefly on the home station, where he took a privateer, Le Coup d'Essai, of 2 guns and 28 men; and on Dec. 6, 1796, was advanced to post rank. His next appointments were, March 16, 1799, to the Penelope 36, in which he served as senior officer at the ensuing blockade of Havre; Aug. 15, 1800, to the Ambuscade 36, which frigate was sent soon afterwards with convoy to the West Indies; in 1803 to the command of the Sea Fencibles on the coast of Cumberland; Oct. 13, 1804, to the Romney 50, which ship, owing to the ignorance of her pilots, was wrecked in the Texel, Nov. 19 following; in 1805 again to the Sea Fencibles at Margate; March 23, 1807, to the Hercule 74, in which he attended the expedition against Copenhagen, and in 1808 accompanied home from Lisbon the surrendered Russian fleet; in Sept., 1811, after three years of half-pay, he was appointed to the Queen 74. Previously to paying off this ship, Sept. 21, 1814, lord Colville, after serving for some time on the home station, proceeded to the West Indies, whence he escorted to England a fleet of 370 sail of merchantmen, the last convoy of the war. Lord Colville served in many other ships, and on all occasions was remarkable for the energy with which he sought every enterprise which could tend to promote the glory of the British flag. Lord Colville succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father, March 8, 1811. He was elected a representative peer for Scotland in 1818, and had continued to hold that position during ten successive Parliaments. His lordship was twice married: firstly, Oct. 14, 1790, to Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Ford, esq., of the Leas, in Barbados; and secondly, Oct. 15, 1841, the hon. Anne Law, fourth daughter of Edward, first lord Ellenborough; which lady survives him, without issue.

22. At her house in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 78, Louisa Anne,

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relict of William Dilke, esq., of Maxtoke Castle, co. Warw.

22. George Horrocks, esq., of Preston, leaving property valued at 100,000l. Of this sum, 6000l. will be divided in equal portions among the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews.

23. At Montague House, Hammersmith, in her 32nd year, Emma Onebye, wife of Thomas Griffiths, esq., surgeon, and second daughter of John Bowyer Nichols, esq., F.S.A.

25. At Billingbear Park, aged 88, John Thomas, esq.

At Prideaux, aged 2, Robert Williams, third son of sir Colman Rash leigh, bart.

At Cheltenham, accidentally burnt to death by her clothes catching fire, lady Pynn, wife of gen. sir Henry Pynn.

26. Aged 85, the wife of George Basevi, esq., of Brighton, and mother of the late eminent architect.

27. Mr. J. F. Lalor, whose writings on the land question in the "United Irishman," and subsequent productions as editor of the "Felon," caused him to be put in prison in 1848.

28. In Upper Albany-street, Ponsonby Tottenham, esq., barrister-at-law, fourth son of lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham, lord bishop of Clogher.

At Hackney, aged 73, William Loddiges, highly distinguished for his knowledge of botany and natural history.

Aged 68, baron Walther, one of the most eminent medico-chirurgical celebrities of Germany, formerly professor at Bonn.

29. At Highgate, lieut-col. Archibald Irvine, C.B., director of engineering and architectural works of the Admiralty. Colonel Irvine's life was chiefly spent in the service of the Hon. East India Company's engineers, in which his career was an arduous, gallant, and most distinguished one. He served in many sieges and storms, in which he was severely wounded, and personally led one or two forlorn hopes. As a military engineer his talents were highly prized in India. He filled there many very important and responsible situations, and finally wound up his services in that part of Her Majesty's dominions by distinguishing himself as an engineer officer in the great battles under lord

Hardinge. In India his engineering skill and ability introduced him to the late lord Auckland when governor-gen., who, on col. Irvine's return to England, appointed him successor to the late col. Brandreth, R.E., as chief of the Admiralty engineering and architectural department at Somerset House.

29. At Smart's Hill, Penshurst, aged 72, Mrs. Isabella Barclay, widow of lieut.-col. Robert Barclay, of H.M. 52nd regt., and brigadier-gen. in the Portuguese service.

At Sundridge Park, aged 81, Anne, relict of the late sir Samuel Scott, bart.

Arthur Burgh Crofton, esq., of Roebuck Castle, co. of Dublin.

30. At Albrighton Hall, the dowager lady Puleston.

In Dublin, Sophia, widow of the hon. Robert Otway Cave, and eldest daughter of the late sir Francis Burdett, bart.

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Aged 78, Peter Thompson, esq., treasurer of the county of Kerry.

Lately. At Gloucester, aged 33, Margaret, only daughter of John Nickolls, esq., banker, of Bewdley.

Lately. Miss Outhwaite, of Bradford. Her will contains the following legacies: Queen Anne's Bounty Fund, in augmentation of the stipend of St. Jude's Church, 10007.; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 5001.; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 5007. The following donations have been made by her representatives: Ripon Diocesan Church Building Soeiety, 507.; Ripon Board of Education, 251.; Society for Employing Additional Curates, 211.; National Society for the Education of the Poor, 217.; Society for Building and Repairing Churches, 217.

Lately. At Vienna, aged 53, Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, titular bishop of Sardica and grand provost of Groswarelling. It will be remembered that, about twenty years ago, the prince was celebrated as a miracle-monger.

Lately. At Brussels, at an advanced age, M. Verbeyst, the most celebrated book collector in Europe, or perhaps in the world. He had founded a very curious establishment, consisting of a house of several stories, and as high as a church, and disposed so as to contain about 300,000 volumes, arranged according to their subjects.

PROMOTIONS.

1849.

JANUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

PROMOTIONS.

1. Matthew Talbot Baines, esq., to be a Poor Law Commissioner for England, vice Buller, deceased.

4. Samuel Gaskell, esq., of Lancaster, to be a Commissioner in Lunacy, vice Dr. Prichard, deceased.

10. John Bowring, esq., to be Consul in the city and district of Canton.The earl of Harrowby, the very rev. W, R. Lyall, D.D., dean of Canterbury, William Page Wood, esq., Robert Baynes Armstrong, esq., John George Shaw Lefevre, esq., C.B., and the rev. Richard Jones, M.A., to be Commissioners for inquiring into Episcopal and Capitular estates.

13. Arthur James, earl of Fingal, to be Lord-Lieut. and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Meath.

15. The right hon. sir Francis Thornhill Baring, bart., to be First Lord of the Admiralty.

23. The hon. George Sulyarde Stafford Jerningham (now secretary of lega tion at Madrid), to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy to the Ottoman Porte. Daniel Blair, M.D., to be Surgeon-General for the colony of British Guiana.-George Marsh, esq., to be Resident Magistrate at Mossel Bay, in the Cape of Good Hope.

27. William Drury Holden, esq., of Locko Park, co. Derby, eldest son and heir of Robert Holden, late of Nuttall Temple, co. Notts, by Mary Anne, only child and heir of William Drury Lowe, esq., of Locko Park, to take the name of Lowe only, and bear the arms of Lowe, quarterly, with his own arms.

31. Knighted, Elkanah Armitage, esq., late Mayor of Manchester.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

15. Royal regt. of Artillery, brevet col. W. Wylde to be Colonel; brevet major B. Cuppage to be Lieut.-Col.

19. Brevet, capt. Charles William Tyndale, of the 55th Foot, to be Major in the army. Hospital Staff, Montague Martin Mahony, M.D., to be Inspector

Gen. of Hospitals. James French, M.D., to be Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals in Canada, vice Mahony.-Charles Maclean, M.D., to be Deputy Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals, vice French.

NAVY PROMOTIONS.

24. Rear-adm. H. M. Ommanney to be Vice-Adm. of the Blue; capt. W. F. Carroll, C.B., to be Rear-Adm. of the Blue.

To be Captains.-John T. Talbot, Adolphus Slade, William Peel, James J. M'Cleverty.

To be Commanders.-Lazarus Roberts, John Hains, Thomas Thompson, Edward P. B. Von Donop, T. H. Lysaght, Alan Henry Gardener.

To be retired Commander.-Thomas Hills.

Appointments.-Capt. R. Fanshawe, C.B., to be Commodore of the first class and Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa, vice Sir C. Hotham.-Comm. Charles Hillyar to the Centaur; comm. Thomas Heard to the Bellerophon; comm. R. B. Crawford to the Polyphemus steam-sloop; comm. James Rawstorne to the Apollo troop-frigate.Lieut. Willoughby J. Lake to be FlagLieut. to commodore Fanshawe, C.B., on the coast of Africa; lieut. W. K. Joliffe to command the Pluto steamcruiser; lieut. R. A. Powell to the Janus steam-gun-vessel.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. G. Clark, to be a Canon of Hereford.

Rev. E. Eliot to be a Canon of Salisbury.

Rev. T. Hillyard to be a Canon of Chester.

Rev. W. Calvert to be a Minor Canon in St. Paul's Cathedral.

CHAPLAIN.

Rev. T. Protheroe, to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, at Osborne.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Joseph Shaw, B.D., to be Master of Queen's College, Cambridge.

John H. Hay, esq., to be Chief Clerk of the Board of Admiralty, vice Amedroz, retired; J. H. Briggs, esq., to be clerk of the first class: Thomas James, esq., to be clerk of the second class; Clarence Braddyll, esq., to be clerk of the third class.

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