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entered the navy in 1780, and distinguished 

 himself at Genoa, Toulon, Dantzi::, and Algiers. 

 He was captain superintendent of the R<yal 

 Xaval Hospital at Hasler, and of the Royal 

 Clarence Victualling-yard at Portsmouth from 

 1838 to 1841 ; was made K.C.B. in 1845. 



April 15. WYSE, Right Hon. Sir JOHN, 

 K.C.B., II. M.'s Envoy Extraordinary, and Min- 

 ister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Athens, 

 died at Athens, aged 70 years. He received his 

 education at Stonyhurst, and graduated with 

 honor at Trinity College, Dublin ; entered as a 

 student at Lincoln's Inn, but was not called to 

 the bar. He represented Tipperary in Parlia- 

 ment from 1830 to 1832, and Waterford city 

 from 1835 to 1847, was subsequently lord of 

 the treasury, and a privy councillor. He was 

 known in the literary world as the author of 

 Walks in Rome," '"'Oriental Sketches," and 

 other works. He married a daughter of Prince 

 Lucien Bonaparte, from whom he was sepa- 

 rated in 1528. 



April 15. HOPE, Rev. FBEDEEICK TV. (See 

 HOPE, Rev. F. TV.) 



April 18. WEST, Sir JOHN, G.C.B., Ad- 

 miral of the Fleet, died at his residence in 

 Eaton Square, aged 88 years. He was born at 

 Twickenham, entered the navy in 1788, as mid- 

 shipman, in the " Pomona," and after seeing 

 much service off the coast of Africa, West 

 Indies. Xorth America, the Mediterranean, and 

 the Channel, was promoted in 1793 to a lieu- 

 tenancy in the " Saturn." In the following year 

 he was appointed to the "Royal George," in 

 which ship he took part in Lord Howe's victory 

 of June, 1794, and subsequently was in the 

 action with the French fleets off the L'Orient. 

 In 1795 he proceeded to the West Indies in 

 command of the " Diligence," and returned to 

 England in 1798, in charge of a convoy of 150 

 sail. In 1808 he was detached with His Ma- 

 jesty's ship ' Excellent," and two bomb vessels, 

 to the Bay of Rosas, coast of Catalonia, and oc- 

 cupied the castle of Trinity, which he held, with 

 the assistance of the Spaniards, against repeated 

 attacks of the French. lu 1809 he was de- 

 tached with three sail of the line to the Adriatic, 

 to blockade the enemy's force lying under the 

 batteries of Trieste, and while in this service 

 captured a large convoy, proceeding from 

 Venice to Trieste, protected by six heavy gun- 

 boats. On his return from the Adriatic he was 

 sent with a squadron of six vessels for the de- 

 fence of the Island of Sicily. He afterward 

 conducted certain operations on the coasts of 

 Sardinia and Tunis, and still later joined the 

 channel fleet blockading the ports of Brest and 

 Toulon. In 1830 he was commissioned vice- 

 admiral, admiral in 1841, commander-in-chief 

 in 1845 : knight commander of the bath, 1840; 

 grand cross, 1860, and admiral of the fleet in 

 1858. 



April 22. KINCAID, Capt. Sir Joirs', died at 

 Hastings, aged 75 years. He was born at Dal- 

 beath. near Falkirk, entered the army in 1809, 

 and served throughout the Peninsular War with 



the Riflp Brigade, from which ho retired as 



captain in 1831. In is}.-,, upon tlie 



of a vacancy in one of tla- exnn>hip> <,f Ii 



Royal Body Guard, the appointmei;- 



ferred upon him by the Duke of Wi/llir. 



In 1852, on becoming senior was 



knighted, according to the iiMial custum. In 



1847 he was appointed Government 



of Prisons in Scotland, and in 1850 received the 



conjoined appointment of Inspector of P: 



and Factories. He was the author of "A 



tures in the Rifle Brigade," and ''Random Shots 



from a Rifleman." 



April 22. CAprA, CHARLES FERDINAND, 

 Prince of, died at Turin, aged 50 years. He 

 was the son of Francis I, King of the Two 

 Sicilies, and brother of Ferdinand II, who 

 banished him from the court, being displeased 

 at his marriage. Since the expulsion of his 

 brother, Francis II, from Naples, he resided 

 in Turin, being engaged in soliciting of King 

 Victor Emanuel and the Italian Parliament, 

 the restoration of his patrimony. 



April 27 LIVINGSTONE, MART, wife of Dr. 

 Livingstone, died in Central Africa. She was a 

 daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Moffat. and had ac- 

 companied her husband in many of his explora- 

 tions. She had joined him on the Zambesi as 

 he reached the coast from his adventurous 

 journey up the Shire to the Lake Xyassa, but 

 was soon attacked with fever, which, upon a 

 relapse, proved fatal. 



April 30. DICKSON. Mrs. ELIZABETH, died at 

 Tripoli, Barbary. in the 70th year of her age. 

 She was a daughter of Archibald Dalzell. 

 governor-general of Cape Coast Castle, and 

 widow of John Dickson, Esq., surgeon R.X. 

 When but sixteen years of age she made an 

 eloquent appeal through the leading English 

 journals, in behalf of the Christian captives 

 who were suffering such inhuman treatment in 

 Barbary, thereby arousing such a feeling in 

 Europe" as forced the subject upon the atten- 

 tion of the Government, and led to the final 

 overthrow of that system of piracy which had 

 so long been the disgrace of Europe. For her 

 labors in this benevolent cause, she wa> made 

 a member of the " Anti-piratical Society of 

 Knights and Xoble Ladies." receiving a gold 

 medal, and a unanimous vote of thanks for 

 her labors in that cause. The universal grief 

 at her death, among all classes of people in 

 Tripoli, is the best tribute to her benevolence 

 and worth. 



Mny 2. WOLFF. Rev. JOSEPH, D.D. (See 

 WOLFF, Rev. JOSEPH.) 



May 15. HAWES, Sir BENJAMIN, K.C.B., 

 Under Secretary of State for the War Depart- 

 ment, died at his house in Queen Square, v. 

 minster, aged Go years. He was lorn in Lon- 

 'don, educated in Dr. Carmalt's school :>t Putney, 

 and began life as a soap manufacturer. His 

 first public office was that of magistrate _ of 

 Surrey, in which capacity he took an active 

 part in the quarter sessions, and, by various 

 public services, acquired so much influence that, 



