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written for nearly every theatre in and about London. Among his productions we may enumerate " Helen Oakleigh," "The Merchant and his Clerks," "The Queen of the Abruzzi," "The Signal," "Valsha," "Presented at Court," "The Hope of the Family," "The Old Château," "The Secret Agent," "The Man of Many Friends," The Lost Pleiad," My Wife's Daughter," "Every Body's Friend," "The Love-Knot,' "Black Sheep," "Nothing Venture Nothing Win," "Pets of the Parterre," "Fraud and its Victims," 33 66 Angel or Devil," "The Woman in Red," "The World of Dreams," &c. Mr. Coyne's popular farce "How to Settle Accounts with your Laundress," originally produced at the Haymarket in 1847, was translated into French and acted at one of the Parisian theatres, under the title of "Une Femme dans ma Fontaine." It has also made its appearance on the German stage. In the long list of Mr. Coyne's dramas we find scarcely illustration of Irish character, the most finished being introduced in a farce called "The Tipperary Legacy," produced at the Adelphi in 1847. For a number of years he was the dramatic critic of the Sunday Times, and a contributor to other London newspapers. He also is the author of The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland," and of some minor works of Ection. In 1856 he became Secretary to the Dramatic Authors' Society, which post he still fills. Mr. Coyne was jointly with Mr. Mark Lemon and Mr. Henry Mayhew, one of the projectors and original proprietors of Peach.

CRAIG, ISA, is a native of Edinburgh, and was born about the year 1830. Early left an orphan, she was reared by a grandmother, who was in far from affluent circumstances. By Occasional poetical contributions to the Einburgh Scotsman, she gained the notice of Mr. John Ritchie, the Pprietor of that journal, who employed her in the literary department. in 1856 she published, with Messrs. Blackwood, a collection of her poetry,

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under the title of "Poems by Isa." She was also a poetical contributor, under the signature C., to the National Magazine. In 1857 her services were engaged by Mr. Hastings in organizing the National Association of Social Science, to which she acted as a literary assistant for some years. In 1859 she won the first prize for her Ode recited at the Burns Centenary Festival, against 620 competitors.

CRAIG, THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM GIBSON, BART., is the eldest son of the late Sir James Gibson, Bart., of Riccarton, Midlothian. He was born in 1797, and educated at Edinburgh, where he was called as an Advocate to the Scottish bar in 1820; he is a magistrate for Midlothian, for which county he sat in Parliament from 1837 to 1841, when he was returned M.P. for the city of Edinburgh, which he represented till 1852. He was a Lord of the Treasury from 1846 to 1852, and was appointed one of the Board of Supervision for the Poor in Scotland in 1854, Lord Clerk of her Majesty's Rolls and Registers in Scotland 1862, and sworn a member of the Privy Council in the following year.

CRAIK, GEORGE LILLIE, LL.D., is the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Fife in 1799. He was educated for the Church of Scotland at the University of St. Andrew, but did not take a license as a preacher. After lecturing on poetry in Scotland, in 1824 he came to London, and devoted himself to literature. He was long employed by the Society for the Diffu sion of Useful Knowledge and Mr. Charles Knight. The work by which he was first favourably known,-the "Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties," was written for the "Library of Entertaining Knowledge," and published anonymously; the "Pictorial History of England," and his other works, were produced under his own superintendence. In 1849 he was appointed Professor of History and English Literature in Queen's College, Belfast. He is the author, besides the

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works mentioned, of "Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Accession of Elizabeth," 6 vols.; the "History of British Commerce from the Earliest Times," 3 vols.; "Spenser and His Poetry," 3 vols.; "Outlines of the History of the English Language," the " English of Shakespere," 1 vol.; and the "Romance of the Peerage," 4 vols.

CRAMPTON, SIR JOHN FIENNES TWISLETON, BART., K.C.B., eldest son of the late Sir Philip Crampton, Bart. (an eminent surgeon), was born in Dublin in 1807, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Dublin. Entering the diplomatic service, he rose by successive steps, until, in 1852, he became minister at Washington. This post he was obliged to vacate in 1856, through an arbitrary demand of the United States government, who accused him of having violated the sovereign rights of the States by attempting to enlist recruits for the British army. In the following year he was sent in the same capacity to Hanover, whence he was transferred to St. Petersburg in 1858, and to Madrid at the close of 1860.

CRANWORTH, THE RIGHT HON. ROBERT MONSEY ROLFE, LORD, is the eldest son of the late Rev. Edmund Rolfe, of Cranworth, by a daughter of William Alexander, Esq., brother to the earl of Caledon, and was born in 1790. His grandfather, the Rev. Robert Rolfe, of Hillborough, married Alice Nelson, the aunt of the great Admiral Nelson. Of this lady Lord Cranworth's father was the eldest son. Lord Cranworth was educated, first at Bury St. Edmunds, afterwards at Winchester, and subsequently at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1812 he took his B.A. degree, and was elected a Fellow of Downing College in the same year. In 1816 he was called to the Bar, where his perseverance and the soundness of his judgment soon secured for him considerable practice. He represented Penryn in the Liberal interest from 1832 till his elevation to the Bench.

In 1832 he was appointed a King's Counsel, and, in 1834, SolicitorGeneral. Resigning in consequence of a change of ministers in that year, he was re-appointed in 1835, and continued to hold that office until 1839, when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchequer. He was one of the Commissioners for holding the Great Seal after the resignation of Lord Cottenham; was appointed Vice-Chancellor in succession to Sir Lancelot Shadwell in 1850; raised to the Peerage by the title of Baron Cranworth in December of the same year; and named one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal Chancery in 1851. In 1852 he was appointed High Chancellor of Eng land, by Lord Aberdeen. Under his chancellorship some useful reforms passed, the principal of which were the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, which commenced that session, and the Charitable Trusts Act of 1855. Since his retirement from the chancellorship in 1858, Lord Cran worth has been constant in his attendance on the judicial business of the House of Lords, and has also given attention to any measures of social cr legal reform which have been pro posed. He has taken a particular interest on behalf of the admission of Dissenters to the benefits of endowed schools, hitherto deemed to belong exclusively to the Church of England.

CREASY, SIR EDWARD SHEPHEZO, M.A., is the son of the late Mr. Edward Hill Creasy, auctioneer of Brigh ton, and founder and part proprietor of the Brighton Gazette. He was born at Bexley, in Kent, in 1812, and was educated on the foundation at Eton, where he obtained, in 1831, the Newcastle scholarship; and whence he was elected Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, in 1832, and Fellow of the same college in 1834. He was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1837, and was for several years a member of the Home Circuit. He was appointed Professer of Modern and Ancient History in the

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CROMPTON, SIR CHARLES, one of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, is a native of Derby. He is a son of Dr. Peter Crompton, of Eton House, near Liverpool, and was born in 1792, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he won considerable distinction. Becoming a student of law in London, at the Inner Temple, he was, when about twenty-six, called to the Bar, and went the Northern circuit. While pursuing his professional avocations with success as a junior counsel and able pleader, he was, in 1836, appointed Assessor of the Court of Passage at Liverpool, and, in 1851, put on the commission nominated to inquire into the proceedings, practice, and jurisdiction of the Common Law Courts. In the following year, having previously been elected a Bencher of the Inner Temple, he was invested with judicial functions as a puisne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, and honoured with the rank of knighthood, though he had not previously attained the rank of Queen's counsel.

CROSLAND, MRS. CAMILLA, better known under her maiden name of CAMILLA TOULMIN, was born in Aldermanbury, London, June 9th, 1812. She was the daughter of a solicitor, who died during her childhood, and granddaughter of the eminent physician Dr. William Toulmin. A love of reading and quickness of intellect supplied the place of a systematic course of training in the earlier years of her life; and when the death of her father, and subsequently of her brother, threw her entirely upon her own resources, she adopted literature as a profession. Miss Toulmin's first production was a short poem, published in the "Book of Beauty" for 1838. Since that time she has contributed largely to periodicals; among which may be especially mentioned Chambers's and the People's Journal. She also edited for some years the Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine, and has published successively the following works:"Lays and Legends illustrative of

English Life;" "Poems;" "Partners for Life, a Christmas Story;" "Stra tagems, a Tale for Young People;" "Toil and Trial, a Story of London Life;" Lydia, a Woman's Book;" "Stray Leaves from Shady Places;" "Memorable Women;" and "Hil. dred, the Daughter." The themes chiefly selected by her are the trials of the poor and the political and social progress of the people, a subject to which Mrs. Crosland was one of the first to direct public attention. In 1848 she married Mr. Newton Cros land, a merchant of London, who has contributed to various periodicals, and published in a separate form an essay on 'Apparitions." In April, 1854, Mrs. Crosland commenced the investi gation of those singular phenomena known as "spiritual," and in 1857 she published the result of her labours in a book entitled "Light in the Valley: my Experiences of Spiritual ism."

In May, 1862, she published a successful novel in 3 volumes, en titled "Mrs. Blake."

CROSSLEY, SIR FRANCIS, BART son of John Crossley, Esq., an enter prising carpet manufacturer of Halfax, was born in 1817, and at an early age entered his father's business, of which he became joint-partner along with his brothers, Messrs. John & Joseph Crossley. These gentlemen have been great benefactors to the town of Halifax; they employ over 4.000 workpeople, and have recently erected and partially endowed an Orphanage for the maintenance and education of 400 children, besides ¦ contributing munificently to other benevolent undertakings. Sir Fran cis Crossley presented to his native town, in 1857, a handsome park and pleasure-ground, and he has also built a row of almshouses for aged people, whose support is provided for by endowment. He represented Halifax, as an advanced Liberal, from: 1852 to the general election of 1859, when he was returned by the import ant constituency of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in January, 1863. was made a baronet.