Alderman, and for several years a member of the Board of Water Commission

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May. In Newark, N. J., Asa Whitehead, Esq., aged 66. He was a native of New Jersey, studied law, and was frequently a member of the State Legislature. Feb. 16. In New York city, Stephen Whitney, aged 83, one of the richest men in that city.

Aug. 25.-In Poughkeepsie, N. Y., William Wilson, aged 58. He was a native of Scotland, and before coming to this country was a contributor to the periodical literature of Great Britain, and in this country has written poetry of merit for some of the leading magazines.

April 2. In Society Hill, S. C., John Dick Witherspoon, aged 82. He was a native of South Carolina, and graduated at Brown University in 1797. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1800, and became known as "Honest Jack Witherspoon." He served in both branches of the State Legislature, and was a Commissioner for revising the Statutes of that State.

March 18. In New York city, George Wood, one of the oldest and most successful lawyers of that city. He began practice in New Jersey, where he become eminent as a Chancery lawyer. He had been of the New York bar for twenty years. His knowledge of law was extensive and thorough, his judgment was sound, and his sagacity was almost unerring.

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In Yazoo City, Miss., George S. Yerger, Esq., aged about 60, one of the most eminent lawyers of Mississippi, and a man of cultivation, refinement. and piety.

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Dec. 24. In England, Robert Baker, aged 66, the father of the protection societies, author of a prize essay of the Royal Agricultural Society, on the farming system of the country, and the editor of a valuable edition of Bayldon.

Sept 14.In London, Eng., Isambert Kingdom Brunel, aged 54, a distinguished engineer. He constructed many of the most important railways in Great Britain, several tubular and suspension bridges, some mammoth ocean steamers, including the Great Eastern, the Tuscan portion of the Sardinian railways, and the hospitals on the Dardanelles during the Crimean war. In 1857 the University at Oxford gave him the degree of D. C. L.

Dec. 5. In London, Eng., Sir Richard Budden Crowder, aged 64, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas.

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In England, Sir Francis Sacheveral Darwin, aged 74, last surviving son of the celebrated Dr. Darwin.

Dec. 8. In Edinburgh, Scotland, Thomas De Quincey, aged 74, known as "the English Opium-Eater." He was the son of a Manchester merchant, and was educated at Oxford At the age of forty, he published in the London Magazine his "Confessions of an Opium-Eater," and afterwards, although with feeble health and uncertain spirits, he prepared various contributions to periodicals. "While yet a very young man, he adopted the baneful practice of opium-eating, and thus made shipwreck both of a high intellect and a good fortune."

Nov. 20.

Near Limpsfield, Surrey, Eng., Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, aged 81, distinguished for his great civil services in British India, and the author of a History of India," published in 1841.

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Sept. 8. In Warwickshire, Eng., Major-General Sir William Eyre, aged 53, late commander of the English forces in Canada, and one of the heroes of the Crimean war.

Oct. 15. In London, Eng., Sir Thomas Tassell Grant, aged 64, late Comptroller of the Victualling and Transport Service in the Admiralty. His application of steam machinery to the manufacture of bread and biscuits for the navy proved of extensive utility in the Crimean war. He was also the author of an apparatus for distilling fresh water from the sea.

Oct. 1.In Birmingham. Eng., Rev. John Angell James, aged 75, author of many popular religious works, and one of the most esteemed ministers of the Independent denomination. He was pastor of Cavis Lane Chapel for 56 years.

Dec. 28. In London, Eng., Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay, the distinguished essayist and historian, aged 59. He was born in Leicestershire, graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the bar in 1826, and in the same year published his essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. He was for a time member of Parliament, and in 1839, and again in 1846, was a member of the Cabinet. In 1831 he accepted a judicial appointment in India, and prepared a new code for India, which it has not even been attempted to put in practice. He was raised to the peerage in 1857. Of his History of England, two volumes were published in 1849 and two in 1855.

Sept. 19 In Glasgow, Scotland, John Pringle Nichol, LL. D., Professor of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow, aged 55. He was educated for the Church and licensed as a preacher, but abandoned his profession and devoted himself to literature and science. He was the author of various popular works on astronomy, as "The Architecture of the Heavens," "The Solar System,” &c., and delivered lectures on the same class of subjects.

Sept. 10. In Nutgrove, St. Helens, Lancashire, Eng., Dr. Thomas Nuttall, aged 73. He was born in Yorkshire and brought up a printer. He came to the United States in early life. He devoted his leisure time to the study of botany and geology, published the "Genera of North American Plants," the "Birds of the United States." and other works, and was Professor of Botany in Harvard College from 1822 to 1834. He travelled in California, and published several papers on the shells and plants of that region. He returned to England to enjoy an estate devised to him on condition that he should reside upon it.

Oct. 27. In London, Eng., Lady Peel, widow of the late Sir Robert Peel. Sept. 28. -In Berlin, Prussia, Karl Ritter, the distinguished German geographer, aged 80. He began his literary career in 1805, by the publication in two volumes of "Europe: a Geographical and Historical Picture." In 1819 he became professor in Berlin. In 1821 he published the first volume of his “Erd Kunde" (Earth Knowledge), of which the twenty-fourth volume appeared but a fortnight before his death.

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October. In Hesse Cassel, Dr. Louis Spohr, the distinguished musical composer, aged near 80.

Sept. 15.-- In Coblentz, Sir James Stephen, formerly Under Secretary for the Colonies, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, aged 70. He succeeded William Smyth in the professorship in 1849.

Oct. 12. In London, Eng., Robert Stephenson, aged 56, the most eminent engineer of his time. He was early skilled in the building of locomotive engines; was engaged in the construction of the principal railways in Great Britain; was consulted as to the system of railways in several foreign countries; displayed especial skill as an engineer in tunnels and bridges for railway purposes, among which are the Kilsby Tunnel, the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits, and the Victoria Bridge over the St. Lawrence. Nor were his labors as an engineer confined to railways. His liberality and benevolence were unlimited, "He was as good as he was great, and the man was even more to be admired than the engineer."

Nov. 22. In Edinburgh, Scotland, Dr. George Wilson, Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh, and Regius Keeper of the Industrial Museum.

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Aug. 25. In Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England, Edward Acton, surgeon, aged 54. He was a man of comprehensive attainments, a conchologist, fossilist, antiquary, and numismatist.

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May 18. In Cambridge, Eng., Andrew Amos, aged 66. He was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1813; was called to the bar in 1818; was at different times Recorder of Oxford, of Nottingham, and of Banbury, and was one of the commissioners for the amendment of the criminal law. He succeeded Lord Macaulay as legal member of the Supreme Council in India. After his return to England he became Professor of Law in the University of London, and for the last few years of his life, held the Downing Professorship of Common Law in the University of Cambridge. He was the author, with Mr. Ferrard, of the treatise on "The Law of Fixtures and other Property," &c.

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Feb. 1. In London, Eng., Dr. Thomas Alexander, Director-General of the Army Medical Department. He had charge of the Light Division throughout

the Crimean war, and was never absent from his duty a single day. He received the appointment of Director-General in 1858.

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Jan. 29. In Bonn, Ernst Moritz Arndt, aged 91, a poet, historian, journalist, patriot, and statesman.

Jan. 22. In Loudon, Eng., Rt. Hon. Mathew Talbot Baines, aged 61. He was the son of the editor of the Leeds Mercury, graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1825. He was long a member of Parliament for Leeds; was for ten years Recorder of Hall; was a Dissenter and Liberal, and was more than once a member of the Cabinet.

May 12.-In Clapham, Eng., Sir Charles Barry, aged 64, the architect of the new House of Parliament, and of other noted architectural structures.

June 24.- Near Paris, France, Jerome Bonaparte, aged 75, ex-king of Westphalia, and Governor of the Hotel des Invalides, the last surviving brother of Napoleon I.

Jan. 28.- In Ayrshire, Scotland, General Sir Thomas Macdougall Brisbane, aged 87. He was Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1826, and that colony improved greatly under his administration. He devoted much time to the study of astronomy, and generally established an observatory wherever he had a permanent residence, among these was the observatory at Paramatta, the result of which is the Brisbane catalogue of Southern stars. He succeeded Sir Walter Scott as the President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His name was on the army list sixty-seven years, and during that time he had fought in fourteen general actions, and twenty-three other battles, and had assisted in eight sieges. Jan. 12. In Chichester, Eng., William Henry Brooke, aged 88, a distinguished artist. He designed the vignettes of many illustrated works.

April 23.—In Vienna, Baron de Bruck, aged 61, the Austrian ex-Minister of Finance. He was appointed Minister of Finance in 1855, and continued in office until the day preceding his death. Suspected of complicity in gigantic frauds connected with his office, he was temporarily removed, and committed suicide. May 16.- In London, Eng., The Rt. Hon. Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron, Baroness Wentworth, the widow of Lord Byron, aged 67.

July 30. In England, F. Augustus Carrington, Esq., aged 57, the author of several series of law reports, in connection first with Mr. Payne, then with Mr. Marshman, and afterwards with Mr. Kirwan.

Aug. 22-In Paris, France, Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, aged 57, one of the most celebrated painters of the modern school.

June 12.-- In Paris, France, Admiral Parseval Deschênes, aged 61.

Jan. 26. In Coburg, Wilhelmina Schroeder Devrient, aged 55, a distinguished singer and a famous actress in the German theatres.

Feb. 20.

In Guilford, Eng., Henry Drummond, aged 73. He was educated at Oxford, where in 1825 he established the professorship of Political Economy. He was member of Parliament from West Surrey from 1847 until his death.

Aug. 14.- -In Paris, France, André Marie Constant Duméril, aged 86, a celebrated naturalist, and author of works on natural history.

May 20. In London, Eng., Sir Fortunatus Dwarris, aged 73. He was bred to the bar; was colonial law commissioner, and upon the passing of an act of Parliament for the reform of the Colonial Court, founded upon his report as commissioner, received the honor of knighthood. He was the author, among many other literary productions, of a work entitled "A new Theory as to Junius," and is known to lawyers by his excellent treatise upon Statutes, their rules of Construction, and the proper Boundaries of Legislation and Judicial Interpretation." a work of much merit, and an authority upon the construction of statutes, and in reference to the practice of Parliament.

April 13..

--In London, Eng., John Finlaison aged 76, a distinguished actuary, and author of New Tables of Life Annuities and other works.

Feb. 2 In Brussels, Dr. Thomas Forster, aged 70, a distinguished and voluminous author of medical and scientific works.

Jan 21.--In England, by drowning, Captain William Harrison of the steamship Great Eastern, aged 46.

March 31.-In Paris, France, The Abbé Evariste Regis Huc, aged 46, the author of "Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China," published in 1852, and translated into English. He also contributed articles to periodicals concerning China and the Chinese, and Christianity in China.

May 11.

- In Edinburgh, Scotland, David Irving, LL. D., aged 80, the author of

a series of biographies of Scottish authors," Elements of English Composition," and other works. He was Librarian of the Faculty of Advocates from 1821 to 1848.

May 9. In Venice, G. P. R. James, aged 59, the well-known novelist, and the British Consul-General at that place.

March 17. In Ealing, Eng., Mrs. Anna Jameson. aged 64. Her maiden name was Murphy, and she was born in Dublin, in 1796. She married Robert Jameson in 1823, but the marriage was soon practically dissolved. Her first work, The Diary of an Ennuyée," appeared in 1825, and since that time she has published many volumes of great merit.

Feb. 26. In Hadley, Eng., Thomas Jarman, aged 60, a distinguished lawwriter; the author of treatises on Wills and Conveyancing.

March 16.- -In Paris, France, M. Jullien, the distinguished musical composer and conductor, aged 48. He was born in France, in 1812. At the age of five, he performed on the violin in concerts. He became director of concerts in Paris. In 1839 he went to London, and for 15 years was a celebrity there. In 1856 he came to this country, and gave in the principal cities a series of monster concerts Latterly, he experienced pecuniary reverses, and he died in a lunatic asylum. Jan. 6. In Brighton, Eng., Lieut.-Col. William Martin Leake, aged 83, the well-known author of many works upon the topography of Greece.

May 21. In Edinburgh, Scotland, Professor Lizars, of the Royal College of Surgeons, and the author of " Anatomical Plates," and other medical works.

Near February.--In Rome, Italy, Padre Marchi, a Jesuit, and an eminent archæologist, principally known as keeper of the Kircherian Museum. To him we are indebted for much that is known of the history of the catacombs about Rome, and the early Christian cemeteries.

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May 4. .--In London, Eng., Rev. Thomas Musgrave, Archbishop of York, aged

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Feb. 12. In London, Eng., Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, aged 74. He was a distinguished soldier, but is best known by his literary labors, the principal of which are the "Conquest of Scinde" and "The History of the War in the Peninsula."

June 11.-In London, Eng., Rev. Baden Powell, aged 63, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, and the author of several excellent works on science and the connection of science with theology.

Jan. 28. In Munich, Caroline Richter, aged 84, widow of Jean Paul Richter. March 2. In Paris, France, Honoré Charles Michael Joseph, Count Reille, aged 84, the senior Marshal of France.

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In London, Eng., George Rennie, late Governor of the Falkland

January. In England, Sir William C. Ross, aged 65, the distinguished painter. He was knighted in 1839.

April 2. In Paris, France, M. Sauvageot, a collector of curiosities, and Honorary Conservator of the Imperial Museums.

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May 22. In Fulham, Eng., Albert Smith, aged 43, latterly known as the author of the popular entertainment of "The Ascent of Mont Blanc," and "The Manners, &c., of the Chinese."

Jan. 6. In London, Eng., William Spence, aged 77, a distinguished entomologist, and one of the authors of the "Introduction to Entomology," first published in 1815, and which reached its 7th edition in 1858.

April 7.--In Great Malvern, Eng., Jelinger Cookson Symons, aged 50. He was born in 1809; graduated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1831, and was called to the bar in 1843. He edited the "Law Magazine" for several years, and was a voluminous writer of pamphlets and essays. He proposed and pertinaciously advocated the theory that the moon does not rotate upon her axis. In 1847 he was appointed one of the Inspectors of Schools, and held the office until his death. He was one of the chief leaders in educational and reformatory movements in England.

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April 23. Near Vienna, Count Stephen Szecheyni, aged 67, a distinguished Hungarian, and one of the leaders in 1848.

Jan. 30.-- In London, Eng, Dr. Robert Bentley Todd, aged 51, an eminent physician and medical author, and a leading originator of "King's College Hospital," and "St. John's Training Institution for Nurses."

March 13.--In Welshpool, Eng., while on the circuit, Sir William Henry Wat

son, aged 64, one of the Barons of the Court of the Exchequer. He was originally in the army, but entered as a student in Lincoln's Inn in 1817.

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April.- In England, William Wills, Esq., the author of the law treatise entitled, "Essay on the Principles of Circumstantial Evidence."

May 8.- In London, Eng., Horace Hayman Wilson, aged 74, Boden Professor of Sanscrit in the University of Oxford.

Aug. 11.-In Calcutta, Hon. James Wilson, Financial Member of the Indian Council in Calcutta, aged 55, the author of several political economical works, and the founder and for many years the editor of the Economist. His death is deemed a great public loss.

CHRONICLE OF EVENTS.

1859.

Sept. 2. - A public reception is given to Ex-President Pierce in Concord, N. H., on his return there from his foreign tour.

Sept. 5.

-The Board of Health of New Orleans declare officially that there is no yellow-fever in the city. Sept. 5.

An election is held in Kansas, and a vote taken upon the State Constitution and the Territorial Organization.

Sept. 7. The entire active volunteer militia of Massachusetts, about 5,000 rank and file, assemble in camp at Concord for three days' service, under the command of Governor Banks.

Sept. 7.-Gounib, the fortified stronghold of Schamyl, is captured by the Russians, and Schamyl taken prisoner.

Sept. 7. An election is held for Territorial officers in the territory (unorganized) of Nevada. A constitution, prepared in July, is adopted by the people.

Sept. 7.--The Great Eastern sails from London on her trial trip. Sept. 9, when off Hastings, a feed-pipe casing in the forward funnel explodes with great violence, tearing in pieces the grand saloon, and the lower deck cabins through which the funnels passed. Five firemen are killed or subsequently die of their wounds, and many others are wounded.

Sept. 9.A fire in Halifax, N. S., consumes fifty buildings in the business part of the city. It is said that property was destroyed to the amount of $1,000,000.

Sept. 10-14. A destructive fire in Constantinople, Turkey, consumes more than one thousand houses. It breaks out in the Jew-quarter of the city.

Sept. 11. The National Assembly of Parma votes by ballot unanimously the fall of the Bourbon dynasty and perpetual expulsion from the government of all princes of that house; and, Sept. 12, votes by ballot unanimously for annexation to Sardinia.

Sept. 12. The builders' strike in London is partially terminated by the shops of the master builders being opened to the men. About 3,000 men return to work on the new conditions.

Sept. 12. The Fair of the National Agricultural Society opens at Chicago, Ill., and ends Sept. 17.

Sept. 13. David C. Broderick, Senator in Congress from California, is mortally wounded, near San Francisco, in a duel, by David S. Terry, who resigned the office of Chief Justice of California to fight the duel, and Sept. 16 dies.

Sept. 14-16 An unusually cold term prevails in Massachusetts. Ice is formed in the vicinity of Boston. In the western part of the State snow falls for fifteen minutes. It is said that ice is formed in the vicinity of Chestertown, Md.

Sept. 16-18.-There is a violent storm from the northeast. There is a freshet on the Potomac, and damage is done to the grain crops of Virginia and Maryland.

Sept. 16-18.-There is a riot among the laborers, 400 in number, upon the Bergen Tunnel of the Erie Railroad. They hold possession of the track at Jersey City until they are dispersed by the military.