who represented the state of the farmer and his wife, and the extraordinary noises, to have arisen from the "widow's curse," and the enchantinent put upon them, through her instrumentality, by wizards living at Longton, Burton-on-Trent, and Derby. More money was required to remove the enchantment and to pay the expense of the journeyings to the wizards. Charlesworth freely parted with his money to the amount of £30, but the farmer and his wife derived no benefit from the expenditure. Tunnicliff at length went to live on the farm, and resided with the farmer and his wife several inonths, during which period he was engaged at intervals in making crosses on all the doors with

witch-hazel, and in burning blue and other lights to overcome the power of those who had bewitched the farmer and his wife. Things went on in this way from April, last year, until February last, when at length the suspicion arose that Tunnicliff was contributing to their illness by drug ging then, and that the extraordinary noises about the premises were occasioned by him. Ultimately Tunnicliff was sent about his business, and in the end brought before the magistrates on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences; and on being tried at the Lent Assizes at Stafford, was found guilty, and this day sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour.

GAZETTE PREFERMENTS, &c.

Oct. 31. George Jackson Eldridge, esq., to be Consul at Kertch.

Feb. 18. Wm. Robert Ward, esq., to be Secretary of Legation at the Hague.

Augustus Paget, esq., to be Secretary of Legation at Lisbon.

Feb. 20. Charles Alison, esq., to be Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople.

Feb. 22. Lord Cremorne to be one of the Lords-in-waiting.

Feb. 23. Charles John Bayley, esq., to be Governor of the Bahamas.

Humphrey Sandwith, esq., C.B., to be Colonia Secretary, Mauri ius.

Feb. 27. Rev. Thos. Wetherherd Sharpe, M.A., to be Assistant-Inspector of Schools.

Feb. 28. Thos. Carlyle, esq., to be one of the Trustees for the formation of the Gallery of Historic Portraits.

March 2. Sir John Fiennes Crampton, K.C.B., to be Envoy Ext. and Min. Plenip. to the King of Hanover.

March 6. Lieut.-Col. John Henry Lefroy to be Inspector-General of Army Schools, vice Rev. G. R. Gleig.

March 7. Richard Pattinson, esq., to be Lieut.Governor of Heligoland.

Frederick Alexander Forth to be Treasurer of Hong-Kong.

March 14. Dr. Robert Ferguson to be Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty.

March 18. The Rev. Henry Alford, B.D., to be Dean of Canterbury.

March 20. Lord Milton to be Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The Earl of Burlington to be Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire.

The Earl of Elgin to be Plenipotentiary to the Court of Pekin.

The Duke of Rutland to be Lord-Lieutenant of Leicester.

Charles Henry Alderson, esq, M.A., and J. R. Morell, esq., to be Inspectors of Schools, and the Rev. B. J. Binns to be Assistant-Inspector.

Robert Thorley King, esq., to be Consul at Moscow.

March 23. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre, late Speaker of the House of Commons, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotton, by the name, style, and title of Viscount Eversley, of Heckfield, in the county of Southampton.

Members returned to serve in Parliament

Colchester, John Gurdon Rebow, esq.
Glasgow, Walter Buchanan, esq.

Kent, Western Division, Charles Wykeham Martin, esq

Leicester, North, Lord John Manners. Londonderry, James Johnstone Clarke, esq. Sussex, East, Viscount Pevensey.

Tipperary, Th. O'Donoghoe.

GENT. MAG. VOL. CCII.

EARL AMHERST.

March 13. At Knowle-house, near Sevenoaks, the Rt. Hon. Earl Amherst, aged 83. William Pitt Amherst, Earl Amherst of Aracan, in the East Indies, Viscount Holmesdale, county of Kent, Baron Amherst of Montreal, county of Kent, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was eldest son of Lieutenant-General William Amherst, brother of Jeffrey, first Lord Amherst, by Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Thomas Patterson. He was bor on the 14th of January, 1773, and succeeded to the barony on the death of his uncle Jeffrey before named, in August, 1797. The late earl was twice married: first, in 1809, to Sarah, daughter and co-heir of Andrew, se ond and last Lord Archer, and widow of the fifth Earl of Plymouth, who died in May, 1838, by whom his lordship had surviving issue Lady Sarah, married to Sir John Hay Williams, Bart., and Viscount Holmesdale (now Earl Amherst); and secondly, on the 25th of June, 1839, Lady Mary Sackville, eldest daughter and co-heir of John Frederick, second Duke of Dorset, widow of Other Archer, sixth Earl of Plymouth, by which lady, who survives him, he leaves no issue.

His lordship had been a Lord of the Bedchamber to Kings George III. and IV. and William IV. He was one of the Canada Commissioners, and early in 1816 was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the Emperor of China. He left England in the "Alceste" in February of that year on his mission. On reaching the precincts of the imperial palace at Pekin, and refusing to submit to the humiliating ceremonies of the Emperor's court, he was refused admission to the presence of the Emperor, and his mission was thus rendered useless. On his retura in the "Alceste," Captain Murray Maxwell, he was wrecked off the island Pulo Leat, from which he proceeded, accompanied by the late Right Hon. Sir Henry Ellis, in the boats of the wrecked ship, to Batavia, then recently conquered by the British under Lord Minto. He and his shipwrecked companions there met with a safe asylum, and the remainder of the crew were rescued from the island on which the ship had been lost. In 1817, on his return to England, he visited the Emperor Napoleon at the island of St. Helena, and was honoured with several interviews by that illustrious captive. He subsequently was appointed Governor-General of India, and for his services there was, in 1826, created Earl Amherst and Viscount Holmesdale. The deceased peer was afterwards selected as Governor-General of Canada, but never proceeded on his mission. Since his second marriage, in 1839, his lordship has led a retired life, rarely interfering in politics, chiefly directing his attention to the welfare of the poor on his estates in Kent.

The late earl was made a Privy Councillor in 1815, and in 1834 nominated a Grand

Cross of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover. By his death a pension of 3,000l. a-year, which he enjoyed for his public services, ceases.

The late peer is succeeded in the family honours and estates by his only son, William Pitt, Viscount Holmesdale, born 3rd of Sept., 1805, and married in July, 1834, to Gertrude, sixth daughter of the late Bishop (Percy) of Carlisle, by whom he has a family; his eldest son, William Archer (now Viscount Holmesdale), a Captain in the Guards, having served at the battle of the Alma, where he was dangerously wounded.

THE EARL OF HAREWOOD.

Feb. 22. At Harewood-house, near Leeds, aged 59. the Rt. Hon. Henry Lascelles, third Earl of Harewood.

The deceased was born on the 11th of June, 1797. He married in July, 1823, Lady Louisa Thynne, second daughter of the second Marquis of Bath. Her ladyship and a large family of sons and daughters survive him. The noble earl was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the army before he was 18 years of age, having obtained an ensigncy in the Grenadier Guards in April, 1814. He was at the battle of Waterloo, and was slightly wounded there. He retired on half-pay in 1820, and from the standing army in 1831; but while he was on half-pay, and for several years afterwards, he held a commission in the Yeomanry Cavalry Corps, called the Yorkshire Hussars, from 1826 to 1831. As the Hon. Mr. Lascelles, he represented the borough of Northallerton for some years in Parliament. He was a Conservative in politics. His lordship succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father, the second Earl of Harewood, at the close of 1841, and was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding on the death of Lord Wharncliffe, in 1846. His lordship died 28 days and a half after suffering a fracture of the skull and other injuries from his horse falling while following the Bramham-moor foxhounds. For many years he had been noted as a careful rider, and at the time of the accident was passing through an opening in a hedge which separated two fields, but not observ ing a sheep-net that was affixed to the bottom of the opening, the hind feet and legs of the horse became entangled in the net, the animal was thrown down, and in its struggles to get free it kicked or struck him on the head, inflicting a compound fracture of the skull. Immediately after the accident, medical and surgical assistance was procured; and although the worst results were apprehended from the first, his lordship progressed favourably for three weeks. The Countess of Harewood, the sous and daughters of the noble earl, and other near kindred of his lordship, were present when his lordship expired.

The late earl was an excellent landlord,

and did much to promote the moral, social, intellectual, and religious interests of his humbler fellow-beings by encouraging and supporting schools, mechanics' institutes, and churches.

It is somewhat singular that the deaths of the last two Earls of Harewood were both connected with following foxhounds: the one died at the age of 73 years, from natural causes, he was returning to Harewoodhouse after hunting; and the death of the other was caused under the circumstances mentioned above.

The latter earl had twice previously narrowly escaped serious injury or death. In the battle of Waterloo he was carried off his legs by the bursting of a shell, but suffered no permanent injury; and about six years after that he was shooting sea-fowl off Cowes, Isle of Wight, when a gun burst in his hands, and did serious injury to three other persons, but little or none to his lordship. The noble earl is succeeded by his eldest son, Henry Thynne, Viscount Lascelles, who was born in 1824, and married, in 1845, Jady Elizabeth Joanne, eldest daughter of the present Marquis of Clanricarde. Her ladyship died in 1854, leaving several children. The present erl is now a widower. Of the other children of the deceased earl, the Hon. George Edward Lascelles is married to the daughter of the Earl of Mansfield; the Hon. and Rev. James Walter Lascelles is married to the daughter of Mr. W. Miles, M.P.; the Hon. Egremont William is married to the daughter of Mr. Neill Malcolm; Lady Susan Charlotte Lascelles is married to Lord Wharncliffe; and Lady Louisa Isabella Lascelles is married to Mr. Henry Mills.

THE VERY REV. WILLIAM ROWE LYALL, D.D., DEAN OF CANTERBURY.

Feb. 17. Aged 69, the Very Rev. William Rowe Lyall, D.D., Dean of Canterbury.

He was the son of John Lyall, Esq., of Findon, co. Sussex, and a younger brother of the late George Lyall, Esq., for many years one of the representatives in Parlia ment of the city of London, and for some time Chairman of the East India Company. He was born in London on the 11th of February, 1788. At the age of seventeen he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Scholarship; and he graduated as B.A. in 1810, (the year in which his friend and brother in-law, Mr. T. S. Brandreth, attained the rare and almost unprecedented distinction of being First Chancellor's Medallist and Second Wrangler). He was ordained in 1812 to the curacy of Fawley, in Hampshire, under the late Lord Walsingham, then Archdeacon of Surrey, and was admitted to priest's orders in 1814.

During his residence at Fawley he became a contributor to the Quarterly Review,"

and was the author of two articles on the Philosophy of Dugald Stewart, which obtained unusual attention, from the ability and learning which they evinced. Two or three years subsequently he removed to London, and soon after succeeded Mr. Ren

nell in the conduct of the "British Critic." In 1817 he was appointed Chaplain to St. Thomas's Hospital. and not long after was nominated Assistant- Preacher at Lincoln's Inn.

In the same year he married Catharine, youngest daughter of the late Joseph Brandreth, Esq., M.D, of Liverpool, who survives him, and by whom he has left no issue.

In 1820 Mr. Lyall was applied to by the late Archbishop Howley, then Bishop of London, and by Mr. (afterwards Bishop) Blomfield, to undertake the management of the " Encyclopædia Metropolitana," a literary work of no inconsiderable interest, which, from various causes, had fallen into complete abeyance. He performed this task with great ability and with characteristic zeal, and having laid the foundations of its success on a solid basis, he transferred the management of the undertaking to Mr. Smedley. In 1822 he was appointed Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London, and in the following year was inducted to the small living of Weeley, in Essex.

On his appointment to the archdeaconry of Colchester, in 1824, Mr. Lyall quitted London, and only returned to it for the delivery of his Warburtonian Lectures on the Prophetical Evidences of Christianity. He resided at Bradfield, in Essex, till 1827, when he removed to Fairsted, in the same county. The charges which he delivered to the clergy of Ess x at this period were not only signal for their ability, but remarkable for the tone of wisdom and conciliation which pervaded them.

In 1833, in consequence of the ill-health of his friend Mr. Hugh J. Rose, he exchanged the livings of Weeley and Fairsted for the cure of Hadleigh, on the borders of Suffolk; and in that disorganised and neglected district he largely contributed, by his advice, assistance, and example, to allay animosities, to heal dissension, and to promote the moral and material welfare of all within his reach. In 1840, the last year of his residence at Hadleigh, he published the first edition of his "Propædia Prophetica," an admirable work, which elicited from Archbishop Howley, and from many other competent judges of its merit, the strongest and warmest testimonies of admiration and approval.

In 1841, at the earnest solicitation of the Archbishop, by whom he was regarded from the period of their first connection with en tire and unvarying confidence, and with an affection that was almost parental, he accepted the archdeaconry of Maidstone, which had then just been constituted. He did so without the least hesitation, but with great reluctance, from his natural unwillingness to relinquish the archdeaconry of Colchester, and resign the pastoral superintendence of a district where his usefulness, his influence, and his popularity were all unbounded.

In 1842 he was instituted to the rectory of Great Chart, near Ashford, which he held for a period of ten years. In 1845, on the translation of Dean Bagot to the bishopric of

Bath and Wells, he was appointed to the deanery of Canterbury, upon the recommendation of Sir Robert Peel. The offer of this preferment was conveyed to him in a letter which did equal honour to the motives and to the discrimination of that great statesman

The death of Dean Lyall resulted from a paralytic seizure in 1852; and he had borne the trials and privations consequent upon that attack with the most touching fortitude and resignation. For the last few months of his life he had lost the power of speech, and had sunk into a state of complete physical debility; but his final summons did not come till the 17th of February, a few days after he had entered upon his 70th year.

The funeral took place on the 26th, and the ceremony was a most solemn and most impressive one. The beautiful cathedral, which he had loved so well, and in which he had ministered so often, was crowded to overflowing; the vast majority of those assembled were attired in mourning, the sorrow was universal, and the stillness was al nos oppressive, except when broken by the faltering voice of the Vice-Dean (Archdeacon Harrison), or by the deep, thrilling tones of the organ. A part only of the service was performed in the cathedral, owing to the recent order in council, which has prohibited intramural burial; when that portion of it was over, the procession moved from the middle of the rave to the great western entrance, and from theuce to the village churchyard of Harbledown, of which his brother, who was chief mourner, is the Rector. It was followed by a great concourse of people, and there all that was mortal of Dean Lyall was consigned to its final resting place, amidst touching manifestations of respect and sympathy. His life had been spent in the constant and energetic discharge of every known duty, and "his works have followed him."

"The religious actions of the just Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust."

The reverence and affection in which he was held at Canterbury, the grief that pervaded all classes at the period of his first prostration, and the more recent sorrow that prevailed at the period of his death, are things too well known to make it necessary to recall them here; while the purity of his life, the wisdom of his counsel, the generosity of his nature, the simplicity of his tastes, the warmth of his hospitality, the heartiness of his welcome, the genial courtesy of his manner, and his utter forgetfulness of self, whether in small things or great, are i npressed upon the memories and graven upon the hearts of all who knew him.

It was the happiness and privilege of the writer of this notice to live for many years on terms of affectionate and familiar intercourse with this most excellent and able man, and it is a mournful satisfaction to him now to pay this tribute to the memory of one so lamented and so beloved.

The intellectual qualities of Dean Lyall were of a very high order, combining great

dialectical skill with great acuteness, great quickness of apprehension with great powers of analysis, great justness of observation with great accuracy of thought; so that he was enabled to bring to the discussion of controversial questions a mind admirably qualified to sift and to weigh the value of opposite arguments and conflicting evidence. His scholarship was sound and classical, his acquaintance with ancient and modern literature was intimate and extensive, and his knowledge of divinity was remarkable both for depth and accuracy.

His manner in the reading-desk was most devotional; in the pulpit it was peculiarly impressive. His sermons were for the most part eminently practical, and very many of them were addressed to country congregations. They were composed in terse and manly English, and were replete with wisdom and good sense.

In the humble, trusting, fervent piety of Dean Lyall, there was no tinge of harshness, no taint of asceticism or pride; but, while it was never paraded for a moment in public view, its spirit was impressed upon every thought, and word, and action of his daily life.

He had one of the rarest of all gifts in an unsurpassed degrec-never rebuking without tenderness, and seldom without effect; so giving counsel as to impose a sense of obligation, and so appealing to the understanding as to touch the heart.

Amiable, attractive, and engaging in private life, he exercised no inconsiderable influence even upon those with whom he was casually brought in contact, while all who had the privilege of his familiar acquaintance were strongly and affectionately attached to him. His temper was cheerful and buoyant, while at the same time it was mild and equable. He had a keen sense of the ridiculous, and a large share of humour, but this last was so invariably tempered with kindliness and good-breeding, that no word of discourtesy ever passed his lips.

Such is a fe ble outline of some among the virtues and the graces which adorned his character, an imperfect but a faithful tribute to the moral, the intellectual, and the social qualities he possessed-qualities of which it may be said with truth, that "they were rare in their separate excellence, and wonderful in their combination."

THE REV. JOHN COLLINSON, M.A.

Feb 17. At Boldon, aged 75, the Rev. John Collinson, Rector of Boldon, and Hou, Canon of Durham.

Mr. Collinson was educated at Winchester, where he highly distinguished himself as a cla-sical scholar, and obtained the gold medal for composition. He was then entered at Queen's College, Oxford, of which society his uncle, Dr. Septimus Collinson, the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, was at that time Provost. He took the degree of b.A. in 1803, and M.A. in 1806, and was afterwards chosen one of the Select Preachers, and ap