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CHRONICLE OF EVENTS FOR 1836. 



January 1, 1836. Marriage, by proxy, 

 of Ferdinand Augustus, Duke of Saxe- 

 Coburg, to Donna Maria, Queen of Por- 

 tugal. 



At the beginning of the year, Sir Charles 

 Pepys, M.P., and Master of the Rolls, 

 was created Lord Cottenham, and received 

 ihe seals of office as Lord Chancellor. 

 Henry Bickersteth, Esq., was created Lord 

 Langdale, and appointed Master of the 

 Rolls. 



About the same time pensions were 

 granted by Lord Melbourne to Mr.Banim, 

 author of " Tales of the O'Hara Family," 

 of 150/. a-year, and to Mr. B. Thorpe, the 

 translator of Rask's Anglo-Saxon Gram- 

 mar (since dead), of 100/. a-year. Lord 

 Melbourne also directed 150/. to be paid 

 out of the Royal Bounty Fund to the 

 widow of the Ettrick Shepherd. 



29. Lord Stowell, elder brother of the 

 Earl of Eldon, died at Early Court, Read- 

 ing, in his 91st year. 



30. The trial of Fieschi, the person who 

 fired the " Infernal Machine," and his 

 accomplices, commenced this day before 

 the Chamber of Peers at Paris. After a 

 long trial, the prisoners received their 

 sentences on the 15th February. Three 

 of them were guillotined on the 19th. A 

 fourth was condemned to twenty years' im- 

 prisonment. 



February 2. Died, at Rome, Madame 

 Maria Laetitia Bonaparte, mother of the 

 Emperor Napoleon. She was born at 

 Ajaccio, Corsica, August 24th, 1750. 



4. Parliament was opened by the King 

 in person. 



Death of Sir William Cell, at Na- 

 ples, aged 59. 



8. A message from the President of 

 the United States to Congress announced 

 the acceptance of the mediation of Great 

 Britain ;in the quarrel between France 

 and the United States respecting the non- 

 payment of American claims. 



20. The Rev. Dr. Hampden gazetted 

 as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, 

 in the room of Dr. Burton, deceased. His 

 appointment created considerable excite- 

 ment at Oxford, his theological opinions 

 having been asserted not to be orthodox. 



22. Announcement of a new French 

 ministry, of which M. Thiers was the 

 head, as President of the Council, and 

 Minister of the Interior. 



March 22. Lord John Hay, the Com- 

 mander of the British squadron stationed 



off the northern coast of Spain, intimated 

 to General Cordova (the Spanish Com- 

 mander-in-Chief acting against Don Car- 

 los) that he had received orders from the 

 British Government to aid the operations of 

 the Spanish army on that part of the coast. 



April 5. The " Moniteur" stated that 

 the new arrangement entered into between 

 the French and English Postmasters- 

 General was signed in Paris, on the 29th 

 of March, by the French Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs and Lord Granville. 



7. Death of William Godwin, aged 

 81, author of "Political Justice," " Caleb 

 Williams," "History of the Common- 

 wealth," &c. 



16. A duel was fought between Senors 

 Isturitz and Mendizabal at Madrid, in 

 consequence of altercation in the Chamber 

 of Procuradores. No harm was done, and 

 Senor Isturitz retracted certain expres- 

 sions deemed offensive by Mendizabal. 



24. Death of M. Firmin Didot, the ce- 

 lebrated Parisian printer, member of the 

 Chamber of Deputies, &c., &c. 



May 15. M. Mendizabal, Prime Minis- 

 ter of Spain, having required the Queen 

 Regent's sanction of the dismissal, which 

 was refused, of Generals Quesada, Espe- 

 lata, and San Roman, in consequence of 

 alleged inactivity in the civil war, resigned, 

 along with his colleagues, and next day 

 M. Isturitz was made head of a new 

 ministry. 



2i. The experimental expedition under 

 Colonel Chesney, despatched by thejBritish 

 Government, for ascertaining the practica- 

 bility of steam-communication with India 

 by the Euphrates, met with a severe ac- 

 cident. The two steam -boats were sud- 

 denly caught in a violent hurricane, and, 

 before they could be moored on the bank 

 of the river, one of them was upset, and 

 21 individuals perished. 



28. The House of Assembly of Upper 

 Canada dissolved by Sir Francis Head, in 

 consequence of the measures which it 

 adopted in stopping the usual grants or 

 supplies. 



June 1 . A meeting of the friends of Mr. 

 O'Connell was held at the Crown and 

 Anchor, for the purpose of setting on foot 

 a subscription to pay his expenses in de- 

 fending his seat for Dublin. Nearly 3000/. 

 were subscribed at the meeting. The sub- 

 scription ultimately reached nearly 9000/. 



20. Death of the Abbe Sieyes, at Paris, 

 aged 88. 



