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OBITUARIES. 



fifth and Seventieth regiments and in a light 

 infantry battalion in the West Indies during the 

 expedition under Sir Charles Grey, and on the 

 staff in Gibraltar, Malta, and Sicily ; was ap- 

 pointed inspector-general of army hospitals in 

 1816 ; was knighted by "William IV. on his re- 

 turn from Gibraltar in 1823, where he had vol- 

 unteered his services during the prevalence of 

 a destructive fever ; was the author of a trea- 

 tise on yellow fever. 



March 22. VERNON, Gen. HENRY CHARLES 

 EDWARD, an English officer of engineers, born 

 Sept. 28, 1779 ; made Companion of the Order 

 of the Bath in 1831, and attained the rank of 

 general in 1859. 



March 28. STAUDIGL, JOSEPH, eminent as a 

 bass singer, born in 1807. He had also distin- 

 guished himself as a painter and chemist. He 

 died in the lunatic asylum in Vienna. 



March 31. BARRINGTON, SIR MATTHEW, an 

 Irish baronet, born in Limerick, Ireland, May 

 21, 1788 ; was crown solicitor for the province 

 of Munster from 1832 to the time of his 

 death. 



March 31. BURY, LADY CHARLOTTE, an 

 English authoress, born in 1775. She was the 

 daughter of the fifth Duke of Argyle. Her first 

 husband was Colonel John Campbell, to whom 

 she was united in 1796, and who died in 1809. 

 In 1818 she married Rev. Edward John Bury, 

 who died in 1832. It was not until her second 

 widowhood that she commenced writing to any 

 considerable extent for the press. Her princi- 

 pal works, all of which have met with remark- 

 able success, and have mostly been translated 

 into French and German, are : " Marriage in 

 High Life," 1836 ; " Memoirs of a Peeress, or 

 the Days of Fox," 1837; "The Divorced," 

 1837; "Love," 1838; "Family Records," 

 1841, &c., fec. 



April 2. TAYLOR, J. J., an English civil en- 

 gineer, born in 1804. 



April 4. ANDERSON, SIR JAMES CALEB, born 

 in Waterford, Ireland, July 21, 1792. 



April 4. KOLOWRAT, LIEBSTEXSKY, FRANZ 

 ANTON, Duke of, an Austrian statesman, born 

 in Prague, Jan. 31, 1778. In the early part of 

 this century he was a prominent nobleman and 

 officer of the Government in Bohemia, and 

 founded, in 1818, the Bohemian National Mu- 

 seum at Prague. In 1826 he was called to Vi- 

 enna, where he became a Minister in the Met- 

 ternich Cabinet, and was active in the promo- 

 tion of education in the empire for many years. 

 His library of 40,000 volumes he bequeathed to 

 the Bohemian National Museum with an en- 

 dowment for its preservation and increase. 



April 4. ROBERTSON, Rear-Admiral WIL- 

 LIAM, an officer of the English navy born in 

 1786, entered the service in 1803 ; attained the 

 rank of rear-admiral in 1857. 



April 10. VICAT, Louis JOSEPH. (See Vi- 

 CAT, L. J.) 



April 12. BERWICK, RICHARD NOEL, NOEL 

 HILL, fifth baron, born at Betton, Salop, Eng., 

 Nov. 21, 1800 ; educated at Rugby. 



April 14. APLIN, Vice- Admiral JOHN G., an 

 officer of the English navy, born 23d April, 

 1790, entered the service in 1801 ; attained the 

 rank of vice-admiral in 1860. 



April 19. PASLEY, Gen. SIR CHARLES WIL- 

 LIAM, born 1780 ; entered the army as second- 

 lieutenant in the artillery, 1797 ; changed to 

 the engineers, 1798 ; served at the defence of 

 Gaeta, 1806 ; at the battle of Maida, at the 

 siege of Copenhagen, and at Comnna; was 

 twice wounded before Flushing, in 1809 ; was 

 chief engineer in the Marquis of Huntly's divi- 

 sion ; became a lieutenant-general in 1851, and 

 colonel commandant of royal engineers, Dec. 

 1853 ; created D. C. L., Oxford, 1844; received 

 the peninsular medal ; was inspector- general 

 of railways ; invented some improvements in 

 pontoon bridges, and was the author of a trea- 

 tise on " Military Instruction," and " An Essay 

 on the Military Policy and Institutions of the 

 British Empire." 



April 19. REPINGTON, Gen. CHARLES A. A. 

 COURT, C. B., an officer of the British army, 

 born 17th June, 1785 ; entered the service in 

 1801 ; made Companion of the Order of the 

 Bath in 1831 ; obtained the rank of general in 

 1856. 



April 22. BAKER, Miss ANNE ELIZABETH, an 

 English topographer and archa3ologist, born in 

 1787. 



April 23. COTBON, Lieutenant-General SIB 

 MASK, an officer in the East India Company's 

 service ; created knight in 1856 ; was lieuten- 

 ant-general in the Indian army, and commis- 

 sioner for the government of the Mysore. 



April 24. WILLIAMSON, SIR HEDWORTH, 

 born at Whitburn, Nov. 1, 1797; succeeded his 

 father as baronet in 1810 ; was educated at St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated 

 M. A. ; in 1819 was deputy-lieutenant of Dur- 

 ham ; was elected mayor of Sunderland for 

 1841-'2, and again for 1847-'8, and member 

 of parliament for Sunderland from 1847 to 

 1852. 



April 28. SHAW, Lieut.-Gen. SAMUEL, an 

 officer of the East Indian army, born in 1786 ; 

 entered the service in 1804 in the presidency 

 of Bengal ; obtained the rank of lieutenant- 

 general in 1859. 



May 2. JACKSON, SIR GEORGE, born in 

 1785 ; was attached to the mission at Berlin in 

 1802 ; made secretary of legation there, 1806 ; 

 secretary to special mission to Spain, 1808 ; 

 secretary of legation at Berlin, 1813 ; commis- 

 sioner at Washington, 1823 ; commissary judge 

 at Sierra Leone, 1828 ; and subsequently in the 

 same capacity at Rio de Janeiro, Surinam, and 

 Loanda. 



May 6. BRETT, Major-General RICHARD R. 

 W., an officer in the British army, born in 1798 ; 

 entered the service in 1813 ; became major- 

 general in 1858. 



May 8. SCOTT, Rear-Admiral EDWARD H., 

 an officer in the British navy, born in 1788 ; 

 entered the service in 1798 ; attained the rank 

 of rear-admiral in 1857. 



