19. At Paris, aged 51, M. de Balzac. Honoré Balzac was originally a journeyman printer at Tours, his native place. Having devoted himself to authorship, he published several works anonymously, which obtained great success; when, therefore, his name was openly avowed in 1849, he stepped at once into a high place in fame not in France alone, but all over Europe. His success was almost as brilliant as that of Sir Walter Scott himself; and his different works, being more laboured, are of more equal merit than those of the Laird of Abbotsford. What Scott has done for the past, Balzac may be said to have done for the present. In addition to his romances, Balzac wrote some theatrical pieces, and for a while edited and contributed a good deal to the "Revue Parisienne." But it is only in his romances that unquestionable evidence of his great genius appears. His last work was the "Parens Pauvres," a powerful and almost terrible description of Parisian society-a complete, almost revolting, dissection of that brilliant monde which is so fair to the eye, and so agreeable to mix with, and yet which is all rottenness and vice within. Since the Revolution cast a fell blight on literature, Balzac published nothing, but was engaged in visiting the battlefields of Germany and Russia, and in collecting materials for a series of volumes, to be entitled "Scènes de la Vie Militaire." He leaves behind several MS. works, partially or wholly completed. His design was to make all his romances form one great work, under the title of the "Comedie Humaine," the whole being a minute dissection of the different classes of French society. Only a little while before his death, he stated that in what he had done he had but half accomplished his task. The body of M. de Balzac was interred at the cemetery of Pere la Chaise with great pomp, and was attended by most of the public and literary celebrities of the French metropolis. The funeral oration was spoken by Victor Hugo. A marble bust of M. de Balzac will be placed in the Gallery of Celebrated Men of the Nineteenth Century, at Versailles.

In Oxford-terrace, Hyde Park, aged 37, Robert Clarke Edwards, esq., M.D.

19. At Brighton, after a long and severe illness, in his 81st year, Sir Martin Archer Shee, knt., President of the Royal Academy and of the Birmingham Society of Artists, an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and of the Academies of New York, Charleston, and Philadelphia, and F.R.S. Sir M. A. Shee was the second son of Martin Shee, esq., of Dublin, by the eldest daughter and coheir of Francis Archer, esq., of the same city, and was a cousin of Sir George Shee, of Dunmore, co. Galway, bart. He came from Ireland introduced by the illustrious Edmund Burke to the notice of Sir Joshua Reynolds and some other distinguished persons; and became a student at the Royal Academy. Mr. Shee contributed to the exhibition of the Royal Academy for the first time in the year 1789, and continued for successive years to exhibit portraits of great merit, which gained him considerable reputation; so that he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1798. The same year, on Romney's withdrawal from London, he removed to the house which that artist had built for himself in Cavendishsquare; and in this he continued as Romney's successor to reside until age and growing infirmities compelled him to retire to Brighton, and abandon his pencil. In 1800 Mr. Shee was elected a full Royal Academician and of his thirty-nine brethren by whom he was chosen he was the last survivor. Mr. Shee continued for years to produce numerous portraits with amazing readiness of hand. People of all ranks in life, with money to spend in perpetuating their faces on canvas, came to Cavendish-square; and for a time Shee was in greater request than either Beechey or Hoppner, though not so much as Lawrence, or even as Owen or Phillips somewhat later. Lord Spencer was the first nobleman who sat to Mr. Shee; and his example was soon followed by the Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Leinster, the Marquis of Exeter, and other noblemen. The ladies flocked less readily around him; for Lawrence had then, as he continued to have, the entire artist monopoly of the beauty of Great Britain. Much to the surprise of his friends, and to the infinite wonder of some of his brethren in the Academy, Mr. Shee made his appearance as a poet by the publica

Mr. Shee also published a tragedy, entitled Alasco," but which was never acted. On the death of Lawrence, in 1830, Shee was elected President of the Royal Academy, and immediately knighted. As a portrait-painter Sir M. A. Shee was eclipsed by several of his contemporaries, by Lawrence and by Hoppner, by Phillips, Jackson, and Raeburn. He had a fine eye for colour; while his leading want was proportion, more especially in his heads. His name will descend in the history of painting as a clever artist with greater accomplishments than have commonly fallen to the class to which he belongs,--and as the painter who has preserved to us the faces and figures of Sir Thomas Munro, Sir Thomas Picton, Sir Eyre Coote, Sir James Scarlett, Sir Henry Halford, and Moore.

20. In Carlton-terrace, the Right Hon. Maria dowager Lady Wenlock, sister to the late William Joseph Denison, esq., M.P. for Surrey, and to Eliza beth dowager Marchioness of Conyngham.

21. Aged 84, Sir Charles Blois, the fifth baronet of Cockfield Hall, Suffolk (1686), a Deputy-Lieutenant of Suffolk. He succeeded his father Jan. 17, 1810, and was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 18. At his residence, Richmond-terrace, Whitehall, John Henry Ley, esq., of Trehill, Devonshire, Deputy Clerk of

the Parliaments, a Bencher of the Middle Temple, and a magistrate for Devonshire. Mr. Ley was educated at Westminster School, and at Christ Church College, Oxford, and was called to the bar on the 10th of June, 1803. Mr. Ley's connection with the House of Commons dated from the 2nd of July, 1801, when the House resolved that, in consideration of the increase of the

public business, "the clerk of this House be permitted to appoint an additional clerk to assist at the table." Mr. Hatsell offered this appointment to the subject of this notice, in consequence of the valuable services of his uncle, Mr. Ley, who was at that time acting as deputyclerk of the House. Mr. J. H. Ley performed the duties of second clerkassistant until 1814, when, upon the death of his uncle, the deputy-clerk, and the promotion of Mr. Dyson to that office, he succeeded to the office of clerk-assistant, the duties of which he performed until the death of Mr. Hatsell, in 1821. Mr. Ley then received his appointment to the patent office of Under Clerk of the Parliaments, to attend upon the House of Commons, or, as the office is usually designated, the Clerk of the House of Commons; the duties of which he has executed for a period of twenty-nine years, having altogether served the House of Commons without intermission upwards of fortynine years. He married in 1809, Lady Frances Dorothy Hay, second daughter of George seventh Marquis of Tweeddale.

22. At Dublin, Richard Farrell, esq., one of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court.

At Dawlish, aged 85, Jane, relict of William Shield, esq., Admiral of the White, who died in 1842.

23. At Ilfracombe, Devon, the Rev. John Allen, P.C. of Upper Arley (1824), Staffordshire, caused by injuries sustained by the overthrow of a carriage.

At Torquay, in his 45th year, the Right Hon. Charles Pierrepoint, Viscount Newark, eldest son of the Earl of Manvers. Lord Newark represented the borough of East Retford in the Parliaments of 1830, 1831, and 1832. His Lordship was an elegant classical scholar, and a poet of some merit. He married, in 1832, the Hon. Emily Littleton, second daughter of Lord Hatherton, but has left no issue.

24. At Tunbridge Wells, aged 69,

George Richard Robinson, esq., M.P. for Poole, and late Chairman of Lloyd's. Mr. Robinson was a native of Wareham, and from a very early period was engaged in commercial pursuits, chiefly in the Newfoundland trade, and ultimately became the head of one of the most respectable firms in the city of London. In 1826 he first entered Parliament as Member for Worcester, which city he continued to represent till 1837. On the retirement of Mr. Alderman Thompson, in 1834, he succeeded that gentleman as Chairman of Lloyd's. In 1841 he unsuccessfully contested the Tower Hamlets, and in 1847 he was elected for Poole. His politics were Liberal. He chiefly distinguished himself in Parliament by his motions for a commutation of taxes and the substitution of property-tax in their place. He was a director of the British American Land Company and of the National Bank of England.

23. At Weymouth, Sir William Lewis George Thomas, the fourth baronet, of Yapton-place, Sussex (1766).

Aged 66, Lieut.-Col. Edwin Cruttenden, R.A.

25. At his father's, Sir Robert Campbell, bart., Argyll-place, aged 49, Sir Edward Alexander Campbell, knt. and C.B., late of the Bengal Military Service. He was knighted in 1838, and was a Colonel in the Bengal cavalry.

At Yarmouth, aged 60, John Prescott Oxley, esq., formerly sheriff of Norwich.

26. At Muggerhanger House, aged 83, Stephen Thornton, esq.

At Babraham, the Hon. MatildaAbigail, widow of Henry John Adeane, esq. She was the sixth daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley.

At Wiseton, aged 31, H. Riddell, esq., barrister-at-law, of the Middle Temple.

26. At Claremont, Surrey, in his 77th year, Louis Philippe, late King of the French, and a Knight of the Garter.

Louis Philippe was born at Paris on the 6th of October, 1773, and was the eldest son of Philippe Joseph, Duc d'Orleans "Egalité" and of Marie, daughter and heiress of the Duc de Penthiêvre. His youth was committed to the wise and judicious training of Ma dame de Genlis. Under the care of this celebrated lady, the young Prince, with his brothers and his sister Adelaide, became well accomplished in most of

the modern languages, in many arts and sciences, in the belles lettres, and developed great amiability of disposition, and noble traits of character; and became exceedingly popular among all classes. During the early days of the Duc de Chartres (the title borne by the eldest son of the House of Orleans) the revolutionary fever was gradually drawing to its crisis. The Duc d'Orleans was the acknowledged head of the popular movement; partly, no doubt, from the hereditary opposition of his House to the elder branch of the Bourbons. The young Duc de Chartres naturally took part with the liberal leaders, little anticipating the fatal consequences to his family and country; and when the movement became too violent to be checked, sought occupation at the head of his regiment, the 14th Dragoons. In August, 1791, the Duc de Chartres quitted Vendôme with his regiment, bound for Valenciennes; and in April, 1792, war being declared against Austria, the Duke made his first campaign. He fought at Valmy, at the head of the troops confided to him by Kellerman, on the 20th September, 1792, and afterwards, on the 6th of November, under Dumourier, at Jemappes. During the period in which the Duc de Chartres was engaged in his military operations the Revolution was hastening to its crisis. The decree of banishment against the Bourbon race alarmed the mind of the Duke, who earnestly besought his father to seek an asylum on a foreign shore, urging the impossibility of staying the flood, the guilt of his sitting on the approaching trial of Louis XVI, and the improbability of himself or his family ultimately escaping the same doom. The Duc d'Orleans paid no attention to these remonstrances, and, finding that his persuasions were of no avail, the Duc de Chartres returned to his post in the Army. His sagacity was too speedily verified. The Duc d'Orleans sat on the judgment-seat of his Sovereign and the head of his family, and voted for his death-the King was executed-and a few short months afterwards, Egalité himself perished by the guillotine. He was put to death on the 21st of January, 1793.

Seven months after the death of his father, the Duc de Chartres and General Dumourier were summoned before the Committee of Public Safety, and, know. ing the sanguinary nature of that tri