Jan. 15. At Bishop's Penn, Jamaica, the wife of the Bishop of Jamaica, a son Feb. 8. At his Prebendal House, Canterbury, the wife of the Rev. J. Peel, a sou. 19. At Mersham-hatch, the lady of Sir Edw. Knatchbull, a son.-21. The wife of J. Cleveland Green, esq. of Hoopern Villa, Exeter, a dau.-22. At Waterford, the lady of Lieut.-Col. W. Vincent, E. 1. C., a son.- -24. In Harley-street, the wife of Capt. Berkeley Maxwell, R. N., a son.25. The lady of Capt. Sir J. Gordon Sinclair, Bart., R. N., of Stevenson, near Haddington,

a dau.. -26. At Badminton, the Right

Hon. Lady Isabella Kingscote, a dau.

Mar. 1. At Dunstable-house, Richmond, the lady of Sir H. Loraine Baker, Bart., a dau.. -At Brighton, the lady of Lieut.-Col. Baillie, a dau -At Brighton, Mrs. Jas. Hunter Hulme, a dau.

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At Calverton, near Stoney Stratford, the Hon. Mrs. Chas. Perceval, a dau.-5. At Serlby Hall, Notts. the Viscountess Galway, a dau -6. At Bushmead Priory, Bedford, the wife of Hugh Wade Gery, esq. a son and heir. -7. The wife of G. Heneage, esq. of Compton Bassett House, Devon, a son and heir.At the Ray, near Maidenhead, Lady Phillimore, a son -In Whitehall-place, Lady Henley, a sou. -The lady of Lieut.-Col. Alex. Stewart, E.I.C. a son.-At Sir Wm. Ouseley's, Foley-place, the wife of W. G. Ouseley, esq. of His Majesty's Legation in the United States, a son.-9. At Worthing, the wife of the Hon. Capt. A. R. Turnour, R. N., a son.-12. At Clifton, the lady of Sir S. Stuart, Bart. a dau.At Oakingham, the wife of Capt. Mayne, a son.-————18. At Paris, Mrs. W. S. Browning, a dau.

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Aug. 26, 1830. At Madras, T. Sharp, esq. 43d N. I., eldest son of Mr. Sharp of Coventry, to Isabella-Jane, 2d dau. of Arthur Brooke, esq. of the Civil Service.

Jan. 19. At Ashbourn, co. Derb. the Rev. John T. Flesher, of Great Easton, co. Leic. to Miss Eliza Spencer.- -Feb. 3. At Uppingham, co. Rutland, E.W.Wilmot, esq. fourth son of Sir Rob. W. Bart, to Augusta Matilda, only dau. of Cha. Champion, esq. of Beaumont Chase -At Aspley, co. Beds., John Marshall, esq. eldest son of Joseph M. esq. of Waldersea House, co. Camb., to Anne Penelope, youngest dau. of late Rev. Edw. Orlebar Smith, of Aspley House.- -17. In Devonshire, Alfred Lord Harley, heir apparent to the Earl of Oxford, to Eliza, dau. of the Marq. of Westmeath, and grand-dau. of the Hon. Mrs. Cavendish Bradshaw. At Fareham, Hants, the Rev. T. Wentworth Gage, to Lady Mary Douglas, 2d dau. of the Marq. of Queensbury,

-22. The Rev. H. Sneyd, of Stone, to Mary Ann, second dau. of Tho. Sneyd Kynnersley, esq., of Loxley Park, co. Staff.

23.

At Betley, G. A. M'Dermott, esq. H. P. Rifle Brigade, second son of Col. McDermott, to Eliz.-Burrowes, second dau. of Chas. Short, esq.-24. At Kilmaine, Capt. Portlock, Royal Engineers, to Julia, second dau. of Arthur Browne, esq. of Glencorrib, co. Mayo. At Ealing, Alex. Cobham Cobham, esq. of Shinfield House, Berks, to Jane-Halse, second dau, of Rich. Chambers, esq. of Cradley Hall, eo. Hereford.26. At West Teignmouth, the Rev. H. Woollcombe, Rector of Pillaton, Cornwall, to Sarah Baker, youngest dau. of the late Rev. Geo. Rhodes, Vicar of Colyton.- -26. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, J.R.Yglesias, esq, of San Sebastian, in Spain, to Louisa, dau. of the late Anthony Parkin,

esq. solicitor of the General Post-office. -At Goudhurst, co. Kent, Rev. W. Har ison, A. M. rector of Warmington, co. Warw. to Mary Anne, third surviving dau. of Rev. W. B. Harrison.- -At Trinity Church, St. Mary-le-bone, the Rev. S. Douglas, only son of the late Rear Adm. Stair Douglas, to Maria Edith, youngest dau. of Woodbine Parish, esq. of Upper Harley-street.In Dublin, W. H. Wilson, esq. 3d Dragoon Guards, to Louisa, youngest dau. of the late Rich. Lee Hunt, esq. of Artramon, co. Wexford.

Mar. 1. At St. Mary's, Bedford, W. R. Mesham, M. D., of Woburn, to Anne, second dau. of Chas. Bailey, esq. of Bedford.

-The Rev. R. Antram, of Pentridge, Dorset, to Hannah-Burnaby, youngest dau. of T. B. Galloway, esq. of Corfe Castle.At Bath, the Rev. F. Duncan Gilby, Vicar of Eckington, Worcestershire, to Louisa, youngest dau. of W. Capper, esq. of Green Park Buildings.- 2. Mr. Wood, the vocalist, to Miss Paton, the divorced lady of Lord William Lennox.- 5. J. M. Bosville Durrant, of the Priory, Southover, Sussex, esq. to Fanny, second dau. of J. Hubbard, of Stratford, Essex, esq.-8. At St. George's, Hanover-sq., the Hon. W. Ashley Cooper, son of the Earl of Shaftesbury, to Maria Anne, eldest dau. of Col. Hugh Bailey, of Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square. At Brighton, Henry Sandham, esq. Royal Engineers, to Augusta Cath. Anne, youngest dau. of John White, esq. M.D. F.L.S. R.N.-9. The Rev. H. Demain, M.A. of Ashford, Kent, to Sarah Ann, only dau, of Mr. T. Alehorne, of West Brixton.- -At East Down, the Rev. O. H. Williams, youngest son of the late Sir J. H. Williams, to Mary Anne Eliz., eldest dau. of the Rev. Chas. Pyne Coffin.

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editor is not aware of any similar instance (excepting in the case of the Barony of Zouche of Haryngworth, but which is not precisely in point, because, though Sir Cecil Bisshopp was only the eldest coheir of one moiety of that Barony, no descendants could be traced of the coleir of the other moiety after the time of the Commonwealth,) of the grace of the Crown having been exercised in favour of a cobeir who did not

wholly represent one moiety of the dignity."

Lady de Roos was left a widow on the 8th of July, 1829; and as on that occasion we enumerated her numerous famly, in our memoir of Lord Henry Fitzgerald, vol. xcvi. ii. 174, we shall not now repeat them. Her eldest son, the Right Hon. Henry-William, now Lord de Roos, was born in 1792, and is at present unmarried.

LORD RIVERS.

Jan. 23 Drowned in the Serpentine river, aged 53, the Right Hon. Horace William Pitt, third Baron Rivers, of Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire (1802).

In our memoir of bis predecessor in that title, in our volume for 1828, part ii. p. 463, we took a brief review of the family of Pitt, one branch of which (in the male line) then became extinct. The Peer now deceased was the only son of Peter Beckford, of Stapleton in Dorsetshire, esq. by the Hon. Louisa Pitt, second daughter of the first Lord Rivers. As Mr. Horace Beckford he was for many years a distinguished member of the haut ton; and it was only after his succeeding to the title on the death of his maternal uncle, July 20, 1828, that he took the name of Pitt. The manors of Sudley and Wincombe, in Gloucestershire, were sold by auction in March 1829, for the sum of 74,8002. It will be remembered that Strathfield Say in Hampshire, from which the first Lord took the designation of his first Barony of Rivers (1776), was purchased by the nation some years ago for the Duke of Wellington.

Lord Rivers was first missed on the evening of Sunday Jan. 23. At the inquest held on his body, his footman deposed that his Lordship had on that day dined with his family, when he appeared much as usual, nothing being observed about him indicative of aberration of mind. On Tuesday the Serpentine river was dragged, and in the afternoon his Lordship's body was found at the east end, near the waterfall. John

See our memoir of the late Lord de la Zouche, in vol. xcıx. i. 86.

Ambrose, esq. his Lordship's steward at Mistley in Essex, deposed that he thought it extremely probable that his Lordship had fallen off the footpath into the river by accident, being very nearsighted; and a more unlikely person to commit self-destruction the witness had never seen than his Lordship, he seemed so remarkably happy and contented. It appearing also, from the testimony of the superintendant of the Humane Society's Receiving-house, that the path at that part of the river was so extremely dangerous, that no less than tep persons fell in one foggy night, a short time ago, and were with difficulty saved, the jury returned this verdict: "Found drowned near the public path at the bead of the Serpentine River, considered very dangerous for want of a rail or fence, where many persons have lately fallen in."-The rail has been since erected by direction of the Duke of Sussex, the new Ranger of Hyde Park.

Subsequently to the inquest, there has been considerable discussion in the newspapers regarding the cause of the occurrence; and it has been stated, with what truth we cannot say, that when the body was taken out of the water, his Lordshp's hat was secured with a bandkerchief under his chin, and that bis umbrella was found on the bank, both which circumstances are considered indicative that his immersion was intentional; and it is added that on the Saturday night he had lost considerable sums at a gaming-house; and that this passion for play had for some years so far possessed him, that his uncle bequeathed to him only 4000l. a year, leaving the bulk of his property, amounting to 40,000l. a year, to trustees for the benefit of his son, the present Peer.

Horace Lord Rivers married, Feb. 9, 1808, Frances only daughter and heiress of Lieut.-Col. Rigby, of Mistley Hall in Essex; and by that lady, who survives him, bad issue two sons and two daughters: 1. the Hon. Fanny Pitt; 2. the Right Hon. George now Lord Rivers, born in 1810; 3. the Hon. Horace Pitt, lately appointed a Cornet in the Blues; and 4. the Hou. Harriet-Elizabeth, born in 1816.

There is a youthful portrait of Mr. Horace Beckford, at full length in a Vandyke costume, painted by R. Cosway, R.A. and engraved in stipple by John Condé, 1792.

It is stated that the present Lord Rivers, when he becomes of age, which will be shortly, comes into the Pitt property, upwards of 40,000l. a year, and the Beckford property (in the West Indies),

1831.]

THE BISHOP OF CORK.

Jan. 10. At the Palace, Cork, aged 55, the Hon. and Rt. Rev. Thomas St. Lawrence, D. D. Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross; uncle to the Earl of Howth and the Viscountess Dungarvon, and father-in-law to the Bishop of Elphin.

His Lordship was born in 1755, the second son of Thomas first Earl of Howth, by Isabella third daughter of Sir Henry King, Bart. and sister to Edward first Earl of Kingston. He was preferred to the Deanery of Cork in 1797, and promoted to the Bishopric in 1807.

His Lordship married Frances, eldest daughter and coheiress of the Rev. Hen. Coglan,D.D. by whom he had three sons and five daughters: 1. the Rev. Thomas St. Lawrence, a Prebendary of Ross, who married in 1816 Harriet, only daughter of Lt.-Gen. John Grey; 2. the Rev. Edward St. Lawrence, Archdeacon of Ross, and Prebendary of Cork; 3. Robert; 4. Emma, married in 1805 by the Rev. Wm. Lewis Beaufort, a Prebendary of Cork; 5. Isabella, married in 1808 to the Rt. Rev. John Leslie, D.D. now Bishop of Elphin; 6. Lætitia; 7. Caroline, who died in 1812; and 8. Frances.

BISHOP HOBART.

Sept. 12. At Auburn, in New York, which place he was visiting in the tour of his diocese, aged 54, the Right Rev. John Henry Hobart, for more than eighteen years Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in that State.

In 1825 be visited Europe, for the restoration of his shattered health, and was received in this country with great attention. The following eulogy is passed upon him in a New York paper:

"With him the dignity of his situation was no sinecure. Unwearied in his activity, and unwavering in his principles, he gave his life and soul to the promotion of the interests of the Church over which he presided. To her he dedicated the native strength of his mind, the treasures of his learning, and the power of his eloquence. She has lost a persevering friend and advocate, as well as an honoured Prelate."

SIR THOS. FRANKLAND, BART. Jan. 4. At Thirkelby, near Thirsk, aged 80, Sir Thomas Frankland, the sixth Baronet of that place, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. and F.H.S.

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He was born in September 1750, the eldest surviving son of Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland, the fifth Baronet, by Sarah Rhett, granddaughter of a Chief Justice of South Carolina. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he was created M.A. July 4, 1771. He was one of the representatives of Thirsk in the Parliament which sat from 1774 to 1780, and again in that which met in 1796; but before the close of that Parliament, he resigned the representation of the family interest in that Borough to his younger brother Colonel Wm. Frankland, who died in 1816.

Sir Thomas succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father, Nov. 20, 1784.

He married in March 1775, Dorothy, daughter of William Smelt, esq. and niece to Leonard Smelt, esq. Sub-Governor to the Prince of Wales; and by that lady, who died May 19, 1820, had two sons and three daughters, who all died young, excepting his successor Sir Robert Frankland, now M P. for Thirsk; he was born in 1784, and married in 1815 Louisa-Anne, daughter of the late Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David's, and sister to the present Bishop of Rochester, and the late Countess of Ilchester; by whom he has several children.

SIR R. WILLIAMS, Bart. M.P.

Dec. 1. At Nice, aged 65, Sir Robert Williams, ninth Baronet of Penrhyn, co. Carnarvon, for forty years Knight in Parliament for that county; half-brother to the late Lord Viscount Bulkeley. Sir Robert was born July 20, 1764, the elder son of Sir Hugh the eighth Baronet, by the Right Hon. Emma dowager Viscountess Bulkeley (widow of James the 6th Viscount), daughter and heiress of Thomas Rowlands, of Nant, co. Caernarvon, and Caeren in Anglesey, esq. He was educated at a school at Blackbeath; and then entered into the Guards, in which he was a Captain when first elected to Parliament for Carnarvonshire at the general election in 1790.

He succeeded his father in the Baronetcy Aug. 19, 1794; and married in June 1799, Anne, second daughter of the Rev. Edward Hughes of Kinmel, Carmarthenshire, one of the proprietors of the Paris mine; with whom he acquired a considerable addition to his fortune. He had issue by that lady, who survives him, three sons and seven daughters: 1. Harriet-Georgiana, married in 1826 to Brice Pearce, esq. of Barkham in Essex; 2. Sir Richard