Walter Blake, of Menlo, Bart., in his 88th year.

At Reading, Lieut.-Col. Archibald Cameron, formerly of the 87th Royal Irish Fusileers; in his 68th

year.

At Cheltenham, Eleanor Caroline, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Robert Annesley, and niece of the late Earl Annesley.

In his 90th year, after a somewhat long illness, the Rev. John Clayton, senior, formerly Pastor of the Weigh house Independent meeting. He was brought up in an apothecary's shop, but removed thence to Trevecca, one of the Lady Huntingdon's colleges in Wales, and became a methodist preacher. About 1796 he joined the Independents as minister of the King's Weigh-house chapel near London Bridge, which he held for many years, but at length relinquished in consequence of increasing age and infirmities.

23. At his residence, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, after an illness of some months, Mr. Richard Usher, Clown at Astley's Amphitheatre. For the last half century no man had contributed more to the amusement of the public. Notwithstanding he had borne for many years the appellation of "Old Dicky Usher," he had scarcely reached his 58th year.

His father was the proprietor of a mechanical exhibition, and about the end of the last century was well-known over the north of England and Ireland. "Little Dicky" at a very early age was a conspicuous person, and contributed by his activity and shrewdness to the success of "the concern." A spirit of adventure induced him to start on his own account, and in company with a friend he collected a considerable quantity of coppers" in the towns of Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, &c. On one of these occasions he was fortunate enough to attract the notice of Mr. Banks, proprietor of the Liverpool Amphitheatre, who immediately offered him an engagement, which Dicky joyfully accepted, and made his first bow to a Liverpool audience at the Christmas of 1807. His success there was prodigious-his readiness in the circle supplied a stock of jokes for the universal public, and no contrivance, however extravagant, was considered impossible for his invention. His fame reached the ears of the managers of

peared in London under the management of Mr. John Astley. He forthwith became a favourite, and for many years Usher's benefit was an occasion on which an extraordinary performance would take place, both in and out of the theatre. The most remarkable of these feats was the announcement of his intention to sail from Westminster to Waterloo-bridge in a washing-tub drawn by geese, and to proceed thence to the Coburg Theatre in a car drawn by eight tom cats. The first part of this journey he performed in safety; but, although the mousers were regularly harnassed, so great was the crowd in the Waterloo-road that it was impossible to proceed; in consequence several "jolly young watermen' shouldered Usher and his stud, and bore them in triumph to the theatre. Increased years, however, had not added to his elasticity of limb, and latterly he confined himself to invention and design.

At Oxford, aged 95, Mr. William Dupe. He was born Jan 1st. 1749, at Stoney Stoke, near Wincanton, Somerset; in which neighbourhood he served an apprenticeship to a smith; and when a very young man he could, by his superior vigour, and the weight of the hammer he wielded, produce twice as many nails in a given time as any other competitor. He went to Oxford upwards of sixty years ago, and more than half a century since fixed the copper globe on the summit of the Observatory. He possessed the inventive faculty in a high degree; and was also exceedingly curious and persevering in his inquiries into vegetable organisation. In the spring of the present year he might have been seen several miles from Oxford collecting specimens. For many years he wrought as a gunsmith, and enjoyed a high reputation in his trade; but he was essentially a projector; continually devising some new thing, from the culture of the potato to some of the most difficult tasks of the mechanic and engineer. At different times he obtained no less than ten patents for various useful inventions.

At Kilbride, Wexford, the Rev. Robert Owen, sixty-two years Rector of the Union of Camolin, in the diocese of Ferns; in his 87th year.

Professor Bell, Professor of Scotch Law in the University of Edinburgh. 24. On his passage from Madras to

of his health, Sir John David Norton, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Madras.

At Southampton, aged 59, the Right Hon. James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie, M.A., of Glasserton and Seaforth, N.B. He was the eldest son of Admiral the Hon. Keith Stewart, second son of the sixth, and brother of John seventh Earl of Galloway, by Georgina Isabella Sinha d'Aguilar. He married in 1817 the Hon. Mary Mackenzie, eldest daughter and co-heir of Francis last Lord Seaforth, and widow of Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, Bart. K.C.B., and assumed by sign manual the name of Mackenzie on his marriage. He was Commissioner of the India Board from 1832, until November, 1834. In 1831 he was elected member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty, which he represented until 1837, when he was appointed Governor and Commander-inChief of Ceylon, and sworn a member of the Privy Council. He remained there until 1840, when Sir Colin Campbell succeeded to the Governorship:

On

leaving Ceylon the deceased proceeded to Corfu as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, in which he was succeeded a few months back by General Lord Seaton, the present Commissioner. By the lady already mentioned, he left issue two sons and a daughter.

25. At Matson House, near Gloucester, the residence of his son-in-law Edwin Maddy, esq., D.C.L., in the 76th year of his age, Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., of Hatherley House, in the same county, Alderman of London, and one of the four Members of Parliament for the City. Sir Matthew Wood was the eldest of the ten children of William Wood and Catherine Cluse (who were married in 1766), and was born 2nd June, 1768. William Wood carried on the business of a serge maker at Tiverton, and his son Matthew was educated at Blundell's Free Grammar School, in that town. At a very early age he assisted his father in collecting the serge from the cottages where it was manufactured. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to Mr. Newton of Exeter, his first cousin, who then carried on an extensive business as chemist and druggist in Fore-street, in that city. At 19 he was engaged as a traveller by Mr. Waymouth, a whole

was near Mr. Newton's, and who had thus opportunities of observing the talent and industry of the apprentice whom he selected. It is singular that at this time Mr. Gibbs, father of Sir Vicary Gibbs, resided next door to Mr. Waymouth's house of business; whilst Doctor Walcott (better known as Peter Pindar) and Mr. Baring, the father of Lord Ashburton, were frequent visitors at Mr. Waymouth's residence at Topsham. Before he had attained twenty-two Matthew Wood had attracted notice by his ability and integrity as a traveller, and was invited by Messrs. Crawley and Adcock, of Bishopsgate-street, London, to accept a situation in that capacity under their firm, and he accordingly went to London early in 1790. After about two years a partnership was formed by one of the Messrs. Adcock and Messrs. John and Thomas Price, into which, by their offer, Mr. Wood was admitted, and they carried on business as druggists in Devonshire-square. This partnership was not of long continuance. Upon its dissolution, he carried on business on his own account, in Crossstreet, Clerkenwell. In 1796 he married Maria, the daughter of Mr. John Page, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, surgeon and apothecary, with whom Crabbe the poet was at one time apprenticed. In 1801 he removed to Falcon-square, Cripplegate, and carried on business alone until the year 1804, when he formed a partnership with the late Colonel Edward Wigan, as hop merchants. In 1802 he was elected one of the four Common Councilmen for the Ward of Cripplegate Without, on which occasion Mr. Wood was returned at the head of the poll. He soon was appointed Deputy to Sir William Staines, the then Alderman of the Ward, and in 1807, while absent on a tour of pleasure in Ireland, he was elected Alderman of the Ward on the death of Sir William Staines. In 1809 he served the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex with Alderman Atkins, and was called upon to discharge the duty of arresting Sir Francis Burdett on a Speaker's warrant, when he in vain implored the government to abstain from calling in the military. At the general election in 1812, he became a candidate for the representation of the city in Parliament, together with Mr. Waithman (not then an Alderman); but both were at that time unsuccess

to the mayoralty, in which he distinguished himself not merely by an unwonted hospitality, but far more by an energy and ability as a magistrate, which may fairly be said to have been unrivalled. The critical state of the country in 1816, the Corn Bill having been passed in 1815, and the great scarcity, and consequent distress and dissatisfaction, which then existed, rendered it most important to select for chief magistrate of London a person upon whose firmness reliance could be placed; and many of those who professed opposite political opinions voted for the re-election of Alderman Wood as Mayor. He was consequently returned, with Alderman Combe, by the Livery to the Court of Aldermen, it being understood that the latter gentleman was too unwell to accept of the office, and for the first time for several hundred years the civic chair was filled during two consecutive years by the same individual. The manner in which the formidable Spa Fields riot was quelled by the personal exertions of the Lord Mayor, with the assistance of Sir James Shaw and one or two other determined magistrates, fully justified the confidence of his fellowcitizens. During his second mayoralty he also at once terminated, by his presence and decision, a serious riot in Newgate; and he in the same year rescued three unfortunate Irishmen from execution, who were the victims of a conspiracy of police officers, for which he received the thanks of the corporation of Dublin. In 1817, on the termination of the second year of his mayoralty, he was again returned by the Livery, but was not selected by the Court of Aldermen. During his second mayoralty, in 1817, on the retiring of Alderman Combe, he was returned without opposition as representative of the city of London in Parliament; and at the general election in 1818 he was again returned to Parliament for the city of London, together with Alderman Waithman and Thorp, and Thomas Wilson, esq., to the exclusion of the old city members, Sir William Curtis and Alderman Atkins. So fully did Sir Matthew Wood retain his civic popularity, that at every subsequent election-and there have been six contests, he not only kept his seat, but was generally returned at the head of the poll. On one occa

was reversed, owing to his declaration in favour of Roman Catholic Emancipation, on the eve of the election, and with a full knowledge of its consequences. In the year 1820, upon the decease of King George III., Alderman Wood was applied to by Queen Caroline (then abroad) for advice, and being fully persuaded of her innocence, with that straightforward decision and hatred of oppression which distinguished him through life, he at once exhorted her to face her accusers by returning to England. He met her on her journey at Montbard, in France, and at St. Omer acquiesced at once in her determination to reject the offer of 50,000l. a year on the degrading condition of renouncing her title, which offer was accompanied by a threat of prosecution if she returned to England. On arriving in London the Queen took up her residence for some time at the Alderman's house, in South Audley-street, subsequently removing to Brandenburgh House, Hammersmith. With consistent firmness Alderman Wood stood by the cause which he had espoused, regardless alike of the remonstrances of the timid and the attacks of a portion of the press; and it is not a little remarkable that his manly adherence to the cause of Queen Caroline attracted the attention of the maiden sister of the late Mr. James Wood, of Gloucester, who was an entire stranger to him, and whom he saw but once afterwards, for a few minutes during her life. She made him her almoner, and by her will left him a house in Gloucester; and when he attended her funeral Mr. James Wood, who was till then unknown to him, insisted on the Alderman sleeping at his house, and from that time paid him unceasing attention. On Mr. James Wood's death, in 1836, he constituted Alderman Wood one of his four executors, among whom he bequeathed the residue of his large property. On the death of Mr. James Wood his will was disputed by some of his next of kin, and by a sentence of Sir Herbert Jenner it was declared null; but on appeal to the Privy Council that sentence was reversed, and the will established, the judgment being delivered by Lord Lyndhurst.

At Hampton Court, Mr. John Weippert, of Soho Square, upwards of twenty years Director of the Orchestra at the Court Balls and at Almacks.

death will be found detailed in our CHRONICLE.

At the Vicarage, White Lackington, the residence of her son-in-law the Rev. F. C. Johnson, aged 70, Anna Maria, relict of Thomas Brooke, esq. for many years Senior Judge at Moorshedabad, in the Bengal Presidency.

26. In Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, Archibald Francis William Swinton, esq., of Warsash House, Hants; in his 75th year.

27. At Rajghin, near Messeerabad, of spasmodic cholera, seven days after his marriage, Lieut. Mathew Ward, 4th Bengal Cavalry Lancers, third son of William Ward, esq., of Connaught Terrace, late M.P, for the City of London; in his 25th year.

At Beacon Grange, near Hexham, Charles Jones, esq., Solicitor to the Admiralty; in his 77th year.

At Knockduffe House, Kinsale, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thos. Browne, K.C.H.; in his 72nd year.

In Waterford, Margaret Lucy Vincent, Relict of the Rev. Richard Vincent, Curate of Youghal; in her 90th year. At Ramsgate, Lieut.-Gen. Beevor, R.A.

At Leigh Street, Burton Crescent, Mrs. Shiers, only surviving sister of the late Captain Wilson, formerly of Enniskillen; in her 93rd year.

29. At Ashbourne, Derbyshire, William Webster, esq., a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieut. for that county; in his 72d year

30. At the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, Capt. Lugard, after forty years service as Adjutant and Secretary of that institution; in his 82nd year.

At Cambridge, aged 53, Alexan. der Scott Abbott, esq., for many years one of the surgeons of Addenbrooke's Hospital. He was the second son of William Abbott, esq., surgeon, of Needham-market, Suffolk, and was educated at the Grammar School, Bury St. Edmund's, under Mr. Beecher. At an early age he proceeded to London, and became a pupil of the celebrated Abernethy. About the year 1807, Mr. Abbott commenced his professional practice in Cambridge, and eventually became an alderman on the old corpora

At Newport, aged 53, Thomas Jones Phillips, esq., solicitor. He held for upwards of twenty years the situation of clerk to the magistrates in the borough of Newport, the division of Newport, the division of Bedwelty, and the division of Christchurch, and was clerk to the trustees of the Newport turnpike trust, and Under-Sheriff for the co. Monmouth during the Shrievalty of S. Homfray, esq.

Lately, At Topsham, Devon, Mrs. Folliott, widow of Capt. D. Folliott, R.N.; in her 92d year.

Charles Tottenham, esq., of Ballycurry and New Ross, cousin to the Marquess of Ely. He married Catharine, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Wigram, Bart., formerly M.P. for Wexford, and is succeeded in his extensive estates by his son Charles, who married Isabella, daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Airey, K.C.H.. by the Hon. Catharine Talbot, daughter of the Baroness Talbot of Malahide.

After a lingering illness, the Rev. Joseph White Niblock, D.D. and formerly F.S.A., and M.R.S.L. We find Dr. Niblock was Curate of Hitchin, when, in Feb. 1820, he was appointed Master of the Free-school in that town. In Feb. 1823 he received a testimonial of respect, thus inscribed: "This piece of plate was presented by the teachers of the Hitchin Church Sunday School to the Rev. Joseph White Niblock, B.A., as a small tribute of their gratitude for his unremitting attention to the interests of the school during the time he filled the office of president." Some years after he took the degree of D.D. as a member of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and removed to London, and undertook the mastership of a private school near Tavistock-square, called the London High School. In this he failed. In 1837 he was licensed to the evening lectureship of St. Mary Somerset, Upper Thames-street. Dr. Niblock was the, author of a Classical Latin Dictionary. In 1827 he announced a Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and English lexicon of the Scripture proper names, with the penultimate quantities accurately marked and accentuated. He was also author of "Piety and Patriotism; or, the Church the Champion of Liberty." 1835, 8vo. He made a very extensive and curious collection of the various occasional forms of prayer which have been

to the mayoralty, in which he distinguished himself not merely by an unwonted hospitality, but far more by an energy and ability as a magistrate, which may fairly be said to have been unrivalled. The critical state of the country in 1816, the Corn Bill having been passed in 1815, and the great scarcity, and consequent distress and dissatisfaction, which then existed, rendered it most important to select for chief magistrate of London a person upon whose firmness reliance could be placed; and many of those who professed opposite political opinions voted for the re-election of Alderman Wood as Mayor. He was consequently returned, with Alderman Combe, by the Livery to the Court of Aldermen, it being understood that the latter gentleman was too unwell to accept of the office, and for the first time for several hundred years the civic chair was filled during two consecutive years by the same individual. The manner in which the formidable Spa Fields riot was quelled by the personal exertions of the Lord Mayor, with the assistance of Sir James Shaw and one or two other determined magistrates, fully justified the confidence of his fellowcitizens. During his second mayoralty he also at once terminated, by his presence and decision, a serious riot in Newgate; and he in the same year rescued three unfortunate Irishmen from execution, who were the victims of a conspiracy of police officers, for which he received the thanks of the corporation of Dublin. In 1817, on the termination of the second year of his mayoralty, he was again returned by the Livery, but was not selected by the Court of Aldermen. During his second mayoralty, in 1817, on the retiring of Alderman Combe, he was returned without opposition as representative of the city of London in Parliament; and at the general election in 1818 he was again returned to Parliament for the city of London, together with Alderman Waithman and Thorp, and Thomas Wilson, esq., to the exclusion of the old city members, Sir William Curtis and Alderman Atkins. So fully did Sir Matthew Wood retain his civic popularity, that at every subsequent election-and there have been six contests, he not only kept his seat, but was generally returned at the head of the poll. On one occa

was reversed, owing to his declaration in favour of Roman Catholic Emancipation, on the eve of the election, and with a full knowledge of its consequences. In the year 1820, upon the decease of King George III., Alderman Wood was applied to by Queen Caroline (then abroad) for advice, and being fully persuaded of her innocence, with that straightforward decision and hatred of oppression which distinguished him through life, he at once exhorted her to face her accusers by returning to England. He met her on her journey at Montbard, in France, and at St. Omer acquiesced at once in her determination to reject the offer of 50,000l. a year on the degrading condition of renouncing her title, which offer was accompanied by a threat of prosecution if she returned to England. On arriving in London the Queen took up her residence for some time at the Alderman's house, in South Audley-street, subsequently removing to Brandenburgh House, Hammersmith. With consistent firmness Alderman Wood stood by the cause which he had espoused, regardless alike of the remonstrances of the timid and the attacks of a portion of the press; and it is not a little remarkable that his manly adherence to the cause of Queen Caroline attracted the attention of the maiden sister of the late Mr. James Wood, of Gloucester, who was an entire stranger to him, and whom he saw but once afterwards, for a few minutes during her life. She made him her almoner, and by her will left him a house in Gloucester; and when he attended her funeral Mr. James Wood, who was till then unknown to him, insisted on the Alderman sleeping at his house, and from that time paid him unceasing attention. On Mr. James Wood's death, in 1836, he constituted Alderman Wood one of his four executors, among whom he bequeathed the residue of his large property. On the death of Mr. James Wood his will was disputed by some of his next of kin, and by a sentence of Sir Herbert Jenner it was declared null; but on appeal to the Privy Council that sentence was reversed, and the will established, the judgment being delivered by Lord Lyndhurst.

At Hampton Court, Mr. John Weippert, of Soho Square, upwards of twenty years Director of the Orchestra at the Court Balls and at Almacks.