Master of the Rolls, £7,000; Sir R. T. Kindersley (b. 1792, ap. 1851), Sir John Stuart (b. 1793, ap. 1852), Sir William Page Wood (b. 1801, ap. 1853), Vice-Chancellors, £5,000 each. Court of Appeal in Chancery.— Rt. Hon. Sir James L. Knight Bruce (b. 1791, ap. 1851), Rt. Hon. Sir George James Turner (b. 1798, ap. 1851), Lords Justices, £6,000 each. Court of Queen's Bench.— Sir Alexander J. E. Cockburn, Bart. (b. 1802, ap. 1859), Lord Chief Justice, £8,000; Sir Wm. Wightman (b. 1784, ap. 1841), Sir Charles Crompton (b. 1797, ap. 1852), Sir Hugh Hill (b. 1802, ap. 1858), and Sir Colin Blackburn (ap. 1859), Judges, £5,000 each. Court of Common Pleas.—Sir William Erle (b. 1793, ap. 1859), Lord Chief Justice, £7,000; Sir Edw. Vaughan Williams (ap. 1847), Sir James Shaw Willes (b. 1814, ap. 1855), Sir John Barnard Byles (b. 1801, ap. 1858), and Sir H. S. Keating (b. 1804, ap. 1859), Judges, £ 5,000 each. Court of Exchequer. - Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick J. Pollock (b. 1783, ap. 1844), Lord Chief Buron, £7,000; Sir Samuel Martin (b. 1800, ap. 1850), Sir George W. W. Bramwell (b. 1808, ap. 1856), Sir James P. Wilde (ap. 1860), and Sir William Fry Channell (b. 1804, ap. 1857), Barons, £5,000 each, Court of Probate, and Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes. — Rt. Hon. Sir Creswell Creswell (b. 1794), Judge Ordinary. Admiralty Court. — Judge, Rt. Hon. S. Lushington (b. 1782, ap. 1838); Queen's Advocate, Sir J. D. Harding (b. 1809, ap. 1852); Admiralty Advocate, Dr. R. J. Phillimore. - Court of Bankruptcy. — Lords Justices of Appeal, Sir J. L. Knight Bruce, Sir George J. Turner; Chief Registrar, W. H. Whitehead. Insolvent Debtors' Court. · Chief Commissioner, William John Law; Commissioner, William Nichols; Chief Clerk, Charles Dance. Scotland. Court of Session : Inner House.—1st Division. Rt. Hon. Duncan McNeill, Lord Colonsay (b. 1794, ap. 1852), Lord President, £4,800. James Ivory, Lord Ivory (b. 1792, ap. 1840); John Marshall, Lord Curriehill (ap. 1855); Sir George Deas, Lord Deas (b. 1804, ap. 1855), Judges, £3,000 each. Inner House: 2d Division. - Rt. Hon. John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, (b. 1810, ap. 1858), Lord Justice Clerk, £4,500. Alexander Wood, Lord Wood (ap. 1842); John Cowan, Lord Cowan (b. 1798, ap. 1851); Hercules J. Robertson, Lord Benholme (b. 1796, ap. 1853), Judges; £3,000 each. Outer House: Permanent Lords Ordinary. — Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves (b. 1800, ap 1854); James Craufurd, Lord Ardmillan (b. 1805, ap. 1855); Thomas Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie (b. 1807, ap. 1855); William Penney, Lord Kinloch (b. 1801, ap. 1858); Hon. Charles Baillie, Lord Jerviswoode (b. 1804, ap. 1859); £3,000 each. James Moncrieff, Lord Advocate, £2,500 and fees. Edward Francis Maitland, Solicitor-General, £1,000. Court of Justiciary. Lord Justice General, Rt. Hon. Duncan McNeill; Lord Justice Clerk, Rt. Hon. John Inglis; Commissioners, Lords Ivory, Cowan, Deas, Ardmillan, and Neaves. There is no division of common law, equity, civil law, or admiralty; but the whole business, civil and criminal, original and appellate, is discharged by the Court of Session. Ireland. Court of Chancery. - Rt. Hon. Maziere Brady (b. 1796, ap. 1859), Lord Chancellor, £8,000; Rt. Hon. T. B. C. Smith (b. 1797, ap. 1846), Master of the Rolls, £4,300. Court of Queen's Bench. - Rt. Hon. Thos. Lefroy (b. 1776, ap. 1852), Lord Chief Justice, £5,074. Rt. Hon. James O'Brien (ap. 1858), Rt. Hon. Edm. Hayes, Rt. Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald (b. 1815), Judges, £3,688 each. Court of Common Pleas. - Rt. Hon. James Henry Monahan (b. 1804, ap. 1850), Lord Chief Justice, £4,615; Rt. Hon. Nicholas Ball (b. 1791, ap. 1839), Rt. Hon. William Keogh (b. 1817, ap. 1856), and Rt. Hon. Jonathan Christian (ap. 1858), Judges, £3,688 each. Attorney-General, Rt. Hon. Richard Deasy. Solicitor-General, Thomas O'Hagan. Court of Exchequer. — Rt. Hon. David R. Pigott (b. 1805, ap. 1846), Lord Chief Baron; Rt. Họn. F. Fitzgerald, Rt. Hon. H. G. Hughes, Rt. Hon. Richard W. Greene (b. 1790, ap. 1852), Barons, £3,688 each. Ecclesiastical Courts. - Rt. Hon. R. Keatinge (b. 1793, ap. 1843), Judge of Court of Probate. Joseph Radcliff, Vicar-General. Court of Admiralty. - T. F. Kelly, Judge. Joseph Radcliff, Surrogate. Court of Appeal. — Rt. Hon. Francis Blackburne, Lord Justice (b. 1782, ap. 1856). PARLIAMENT. The Parliament of Great Britain consists of a House of Lords and a House of Commons. The present is the 18th Imperial or 8th Reformed Parliament. The House of Lords has 462 members. The present House of Commons, John Evelyn Denison, Speaker, was elected in June, 1859. It numbers 654 members, being 467 English, 29 Welsh, 53 Scotch, and 105 Irish. Sept. 21. In Boston, Mass., George Bethune, aged 89, one of the oldest native citizens of Boston, and connected, on his mother's side, with Mr. Peter Faneuil, the donor of Faneuil Hall to the town of Boston. Dec. 31. In Washington, D. C., Hon. Isaac Blackford, aged 64, senior Justice of the Court of Claims. He was a native of New Jersey, but in early life removed to Indiana. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of that State from 1818 to 1852, and published eight volumes of reports of its decisions. Dec. 18. In Kentucky, Hon. Linn Boyd, from 1835 to 1837, and from 1839 to 1853, member of Congress from that State. Sept. 21. In California, David Colbreth Broderick, aged 40. He was born in Washington, D. C. His father was a native of Ireland, and a stone-cutter. The family removed to New York during his tender years. His father died in 1837, and soon after, his mother and only brother. He acquired a large political influence in New York city, and in 1846 was a candidate for Congress. In 1849 he was in California. In 1850 he was elected to the Senate of California, and in 1851 was chosen president of that body. In 1852 he was again elected State Senator. In 1856 he was chosen a Federal Senator, and took his seat in March, 1857. "The distinguishing trait in his character was his strong and unbending will. His high moral deportment begat universal respect, and in private life he bore the character of the most exemplary of men. His generous heart and open hand attracted and attached to him a host of devoted friends, who delighted to honor him with public and private confidence." Sept. 8. In Philadelphia, Pa., Rev. George Washington Burnap, D. D., of Baltimore, Md., aged 56. He was born in Merrimac, N. H., November 30, 1802; graduated at Harvard College in 1824; was ordained pastor of the Unitarian Church in Baltimore, April 23, 1828, and continued its pastor until his death. In 1849 he received the degree of D. D. from Harvard College. He was a member of the Maryland Historical Society, and one of the Trustees of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. He published several volumes, and contributed to periodicals. Some of his volumes were, "Lectures to Young Men on the Cultivation of the Mind," &c., "Lectures to Young Women," &c.," Lectures on the History of Christianity," "Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered and Answered." Sept. 19. In Rochester, N. Y., Rev. George Bush, aged 63. He was born in Norwich, Vt., in 1796; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1818; was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and was for four years a missionary in Indiana. In 1831 he was elected Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature in the University of New York. The next year he published a Life of Mohammed, and the year following a treatise on the Millennium. About the same time he compiled a volume of Scriptural Illustrations." In 1835 he published a Hebrew Grammar, and in 1840 began the issue of a series of commentaries on the Old Testament. He edited, in 1844, the "Hierophant," a monthly magazine. In the same year he published his "Anastasis." This work attracted much attention, and he answered the many attacks which were made upon it in a treatise entitled the "Resurrection of Christ." In 1845 he connected himself with the Swedenborgian Church, translated from the Latin the Diary of Swedenborg, and afterwards, in numerous addresses and short treatises, and as editor of the "New Church Repository," labored to develop and maintain the principles of that philosopher. In 1847 he published a work on the higher phenomena of Mesmerism. Personally he was distinguished for his simple manners and the geniality and kindness of his disposition. He was a man of marked character, and of as distinctly marked personal appearance. Oct. 31. In Johnstown, N. Y., Hon. Daniel Cady, aged 87. For fifty years he was one of the leading lawyers of the State. In his seventy-fifth year, he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court, but resigned in 1855. He continued to practise his profession until struck with blindness in April last. Oct. 13.In St. Joseph, Mo., John Calhoun. He had been Surveyor-General of Kansas and Nebraska, and was President of the Lecompton Constitutional Convention. Dec. 22.-In Caseyville, Kentucky, Samuel Casey, aged 70. He was appointed Treasurer of the United States by President Pierce, and held that office at the time of his death. - Dec. 15. In Bristol, R. I., Dana P. Colburn, aged 37, Principal of the State Normal School of Rhode Island. He was instantly killed by being thrown from a carriage. Dec. 14. In East Granville, Mass., Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley, aged 87. He was born in East Granville, graduated at Yale College in 1792; studied theology, and was licensed to preach in 1795; was ordained in East Granville in 1796, and continued to perform the full duties of pastor until 1854, when, in his eighty-second year, a colleague was settled with him. Soon after his settlement, he opened a classical school in his house, and continued it most of his life. More than eight hundred youths were there taught by him. He was for fiftyseven years a member of the Board of Trustees of Westfield Academy, and for forty-seven years, of Williams College. Several of his sermons and addresses have been printed. Nov. 9. In Lawrence, Mass., Robert Cross, Esq., aged 60. He was born in Newburyport, in 1799; graduated at Harvard College in 1819; was one year usher in the Latin School, Boston; studied law, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1823. He was a member of both branches of the State Legislature. He resided in Michigan from 1844 to 1849, when he returned to Massachusetts and established himself in his profession at Lawrence. Dec. 12. In Montgomery Co., N. C., Edmund Deberry, a highly respected member of the House of Representatives in Congress, from 1829 to 1831, 1833 to 1845, and from 1849 to 1851. Oct. 20. -- In Brunswick, Me., Hon. Robert P. Dunlap. He was President of the Senate of Maine, from 1827 to 1829, and from 1831 to 1833; was Governor of the State from 1834 to 1838, and a member of Congress from 1843 to 1847. Nov. 23. In Nashville, Tenn., Major Elbridge Gerry Eastman, aged 46. He was born in Bridgewater, N. H., in 1813, and afterwards resided in Concord, in that State. He was for a time a clerk in one of the departments in Washington. About 1840 he removed to Knoxville, Tennessee, and established the "Argus." In this he was unsuccessful. He returned to Washington, and afterwards went to Nashville, where for many years, and at the time of his death, he was the principal editor of the "Union and American," in that city. He was for a time Secretary of the House of Representatives of Tennessee, and of the Agricultural Bureau of that State. Sept 3. In Paris, France, Charles B. Fairbanks, of Boston, Mass., aged 32. He was a young man of ability, attainments, and promise, and had already acquired a considerable literary reputation. Dec. 28. In Philadelphia, Pa., John Frost, LL. D., aged 59. He was born in Kennebunk, Maine, graduated at Harvard College in 1822, and became a teacher, and a maker and compiler of school-books. His works were principally historical and biographical. He was the author of a "Pictorial History of the United States." It is said that his compilations amount to upwards of three hundred volumes. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him in 1845 by Marshall College, Pa. Nov. 22. In Lexington, Ga., George R. Gilmer, aged 70. He was Governor of Georgia from 1837 to 1839, and a member of Congress from that State from 1821 to 1823, from 1827 to 1829, and from 1833 to 1835. Oct. 24.In Boston, Mass., Benjamin Apthorp Gould, aged 72. He was born in Lancaster, Mass., June 15, 1787, but removed when quite young, with his father's family, to Newburyport, Mass. He graduated at Harvard College in 1814. His proficiency in the Latin and Greek languages was so great, that in his senior year he was appointed Principal of the Public Latin School in Boston, and held the place fourteen years, during which time, by his unwearied and vig orous exertions, the school acquired its distinguished reputation. He then successfully engaged in mercantile business. When the Latin School Association was formed, he was unanimously elected its President, and held the office by successive re-elections until his death. He was the brother of Miss Hannah F. Gould, the accomplished poetess. Nov. 21.- In Worcester, Mass., John Gray, aged 61. He was born in Boston in 1798; graduated at Brown University in 1823; studied law in Connecticut and began the practice in Brooklyn, Windham County, in that State. He also edited the "Windham County Telegraph." He removed from Brooklyn to Newburyport, Mass., where he kept a bookstore. Thence he removed to Worcester, where he was the Librarian of the "Young Men's Lyceum and Library Association." Nov. 18.-In Hopkinsville, Ky., Hon. Ninian Edwards Gray, aged 51. He was a native of Kentucky; graduated at Yale College in 1831; studied law at Lexington, Ky., and became eminent in his profession. He represented the county and district in both branches of the State Legislature, and was a member of the last Constitutional Convention in Kentucky. He was for many years a prosecuting attorney, and subsequently a judge of the Circuit Court. - Sept. 6. In Hartford, Conn., Samuel Green, aged 91, said to be the oldest printer in that State. He was born in New London, and was during certain periods the publisher of the " New London Gazette," and "The Register," known for many years as "Green's Register." - Aug. 28. In Little Rock, Ark., Major David B. Greer, Secretary of State of Arkansas. Sept. 5. In Staten Island, N. Y., George Griswold, aged 83. He was born in Lyme, Connecticut, and commenced business with his brother Nathaniel, in New York city, in 1794. For more than sixty years he held a conspicuous and honored place among the merchants of New York, and was known also for his benevolence and charity. He was one of the Whig Presidential Electors in 1848, but beyond this never held any public office. His death called forth unusual expressions of regret and respect. Oct. 25. In Newark, Ohio, Horatio J. Harris, Esq., U. S. District Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi; a faithful, efficient, and competent officer, a member of the City Council of Vicksburg, and formerly Auditor of Public Accounts in the State of Indiana. Sept. 16. In Mt. Lebanon, La., Rev. Jesse Hartwell, D. D., aged 65. He was born in New Marlborough, Mass., in 1794; graduated at Brown University in 1819; taught school, and studied theology; preached and taught at the South, and in 1855 became President of Mt. Lebanon University. He received the degree of D. D., in 1845, from the University of Alabama. June 14. In Columbia, Mo., William Wilson Hudson, aged 52. He was born in Prince Edward County, Va., in 1808; graduated at Yale College in 1827, and devoted himself to the business of instruction. He was a professor in a college in Virginia; in Lagrange College, Tenn., and in the University of Alabama. În 1341 he was made Professor of Mathematics, &c. in the University of the State of Missouri, at Columbia, which office he held until 1856, when he was elected President of the Institution, and so continued until his death. Nov. 28. In Tarrytown, (Sunny Side,) N. Y., Washington Irving, aged 76. He was born in the city of New York, April 3d, 1783. His father was William Irving, a Scotch emigrant, and his mother was an Englishwoman. At the age of sixteen he began the study of law, but did not enter upon the practice of the profession. Three years afterwards he wrote a series of articles under the signature of Jonathan Oldstyle, which were published in the Morning Chronicle, a paper of which his brother, Peter Irving, was editor. In 1804 he went to Europe for the benefit of his health, and returned to New York in March, 1806, completely restored. The first number of his Salmagundi appeared in January, 1807, and the last was published in January, 1808. In December of the following year he published his Knickerbocker's History of New York. During the war of 1812-14 he edited the Analectic Magazine. In May, 1815, he again went to Europe, where he resided for some years. In 1818 he began the papers of the Sketch-Book, which were sent from London to New York for publication. One volume of them was published in England in February, 1820, and a second volume by Mr. Murray, in July of that year. After a residence of five years in England, he removed to Paris in August, 1820, and remained there until July of the following year, when he returned to England, and published his Bracebridge Hall, in London and New York, in May, 1822. The following winter he passed in Dresden, returned to Paris in 1823, and went to London in May, 1824, to publish his Tales of a Traveller, which appeared in August of that year. In August he returned to Paris, and in the autumn of 1825, visited the South of France. In February, 1826, he went to Madrid, where he remained two years. Here he wrote his Life of Columbus, which appeared in 1828 In the spring of 1828, he made a tour to the South of Spain, and made a rough sketch of the Chronicles |