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Mr. Hone was again acquitted on each charge three distinct juries taking the same view of the cases brought before them. The extraordinary powers of language and of argument displayed by Mr. Hone, in each defence, excited considerable sympathy in his behalf, and subscriptions were entered into and a handsome sum realised, which enabled him to remove from a contracted shop in the Old Bailey to a large house on Ludgate-hill, where he gradually withdrew from his political line of publication, and attempted to resume the business of a book auctioneer, but with less success than before.

In 1823 Mr. Hone published a very curious volume, entitled, "Ancient Mysteries described;" containing the results of his researches in the way of precedents when he had been called upon to defend bimself from the charge of blasphemy. It is only just to him to say that this work is strictly historical, and that, personally at least, he did not repeat the offence.

In 1826 he commenced the publication, weekly, of his very interesting and instructive miscellany, entitled, the "Every Day Book;" but though the sale was large, yet he did not derive sufficient to maintain his family, now comprising ten children, and he was arrested for debt and thrown into the King's Bench, where he finished the "Every Day Book," and then successfully carried on its sequels, the "Table Book," (for two years) 1827 and 1828, and the "Year Book," for one year, 1829, the whole of which, from their deep research and varied interest, have been generally admired, and called forth the warm commendations of Mr. Southey, the poet.

The difficulties under which Mr. Hone laboured once more aroused the energies of his friends, and he was enabled to take the Grasshopper coffee-house, in Gracechurch-street; but after a few years this speculation also failed, and he was thrown upon the resources of his mind; till, becoming acquainted with an Independent minister, the Rev. T. Binney, that gentleman persuaded him to try his powers in the pulpit, and he frequently preached in the Weigh-house Chapel, Eastcheap. At the starting of the Penny Magazine, he wrote the first article, and he likewise edited" Strutt's Sports," &c. In 1835, whilst at the above-mentioned chapel, he was attacked by paralysis, and had a renewal of it in 1837, at the office of the Patriot (which paper he sub-edited) in Bolt-court, and soon afterwards suffered a third attack. From this period nature has been gradually decaying, though his intellect remained unimpaired till within

a few hours of dissolution, when insensibility came on and prevented all further converse. His resignation under suffering was Christian-like, and his departure calm and tranquil. In society Mr. Hone was a cheerful companion, and his heart was never closed against the complaints of his fellow-creatures. Out of a family of twelve children, nine are still living, several of whom, with their widowed mother, we regret to say, are left almost wholly unprovided for.

LADY CALLCOTT.

Nov. 21. At Kensington Gravel-pits, the wife of Sir Augustus Callcott, R.A. Lady Calcott was the daughter of RearAdm. George Dundas. Few women had seen so much of the world, or travelled so much, and none, perhaps, have turned the results of their activity to more benevolent account. A great part of her early life was spent either at sea or in travel, and to the last no subject was more animating to her than a ship, and no hero excited her enthusiasm to so high a degree as Nelson.

She was born in the year 1788, and before she was 21 years of age she was travelling in India, the wife of Capt. Thomas Graham, R.N. According to the account in her travels, she went to India in 1809, and visited all the three presidencies, making acquaintances at all of them learned for Oriental knowledge and research. She visited the caves of Elephanta, the Island of Salsette, the excavations of Carli in the Mahratta mountains, and Poonah, the Mahratta capital. On her return to Bombay she voyaged along the coast as far as Negombo, afterwards visiting Trincomali on the east side of the island on her way to Madras. From Madras she went to Calcutta, which terminated her travels in India, as she only returned to the Coromandel coast to embark for England in the beginning of 1811. She published these travels in 1812, being then twenty-four years of age. Ten years afterwards she sailed with Captain Graham for South America. In the meantime she had resided in Italy, and published two works; one, Three Months in the Environs of Rome," 1820; a second, "The Memoirs of the Life of Poussin," in the same year. Captain Graham, who commanded the Doris, died on the voyage to South America, and his remains were carried into Valparaiso, and interred within the fortress. His wife was in Chili during the series of earthquakes, which lasted from the 20th of November, 1822, to January, 1823; and scarcely a day passed without receiving violent shocks. It was with difficulty she

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escaped from her house, which was partly laid in ruins. The first shock of this series left but twenty houses and one church standing in all the large town of Quillota. "The market-place," (quoting from her Diary) was filled with booths and bowers of myrtle and roses, under which feasting and revelry, dancing, fiddling, and masking were going on, and the whole was a scene of gay dissipation, or rather, dissoluteness. The earthquake camein an instant all was changed. Instead of the sounds of the viol and the song, there arose a cry of Misericordia! Misericordia! and a beating of the breast, and a prostration of the body; and the thorns were plaited into crowns, which the sufferers pressed on their heads till the blood streamed down their faces, the roses being now trampled under foot. Some ran to their falling houses, to snatch thence children, forgotten in the moments of festivity, but dear in danger. The priests wrung their hands over their fallen altars, and the chiefs of the people fled to the bills. Such was the night of the nineteenth at Quillota." During her stay in South America Mrs. Graham became the instructress of Donna Maria.

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afterwards she married Mr. Callcott, the Royal Academician, and with him again visited Italy. Among the published fruits of this tour may be mentioned Lady Callcott's account of Giotto's Chapel, at Padua, a privately printed work, with exquisite outlines-remembrances drawn by Sir Augustus Callcott-and a kind contribution to the illustrated edition of the Seven Ages of Shakspeare. Lady Callcott also published a History of Spain," in 2 vols. in 1828. And after the commencement of her illness, arising from the rupture of a blood vessel, she published "Essays towards the History of Painting," 1836, which involved so great an amount of labour, that her declining health and strength obliged her to abandon it before completion.

After eleven long years of suffering, the death of this lady took place at Kensington Gravel-pits, in the house which the family of the Calcotts has made celebrated for nearly a century. For many years Lady Calcott can hardly be said to have left her chamber, which her taste, her kindly and enlarged associations, had made one of the most interesting of rooms. In it was accumulated an immense variety of all kinds of beautiful and sympathetic objects calculated to render less irksome her painful confinement-a confinement the more painful to a temperament so active and excitable. Her spirit yearned to be about and stirring, whilst illness kept her body a close

prisoner. Prints, choice and rare as works of art or associated with loved objects, covered the walls, unless otherwise occupied by paintings or sculptures, memorials of Wilkie and Chantrey, and others. Books and portfolios filled a large space of the room. Curiosities of natural history abounded on all the ledges. A little bed was placed in a recess, close to a window against which vines had been trained as natural blinds, and living arabesques were made among the shoots and branches by the mice and birds, as they came, half tamed, to take the meals which Lady Callcott daily placed for them; a sort of pensioner bird, too feeble to sing or to hop, was a constant companion and an object of her kind solicitude, and a noble hound was a privileged visitor at all times. None will feel Lady Callcott's loss more than the little children, who were always encouraged as loved and welcome guests, and for whom her kindness had always prepared some little present of a doll. Not a small part of this lady's last years was spent in providing amusement and instruction for them, and successfully, too, as proved by the many editions of "Little Arthur's History of England," and a delightfully simple and natural tale "The Little Brackenburners."

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last work was a "Scripture Herbal," recently published.

A few words only can now record her character. Noble, direct, generous, forgiving, quick, sensitive, kind, sympathetic, and religious, all that knew her will hold her memory in affectionate remembrance. Her acquirements and knowledge were extensive. She was an artist both in feeling and in practice, an excellent linguist, and her memory was extremely accurate and tenacious. Her remains were buried at Kensal-green Cemetery. (Athenæum.)

MR. JOHN VArley.

Nov. 17. At the house of a friend in the neighbourhood of Cavendish-square, in his 64th year, Mr. John Varley.

Mr. Varley, one of the patriarchs of our school of water-colour painters, was one of the earliest members and original founders of the Water-colour Society, of whose exhibitions his drawings continued to the last to be among the chief attrac tions. Some of his finest works, indeed, were the productions of the last two years. In the outset of the society, he was perhaps its greatest support, contributing as many as 60 pictures at a time to one exhibition. Of all water-colour painters, none preserved greater freshness, purity, and simplicity of colouring than Mr. Varley; he surpassed, in this

respect, even Turner and Girtin; and, even amid the temptations of modern practices, seems steadily to have esehewed the lavish use of body-colour, that rock on which water-colour painting seems destined to split. The range of his imagination was not very large, and oftentimes his treatment verged on mannerism; yet a fine classical feeling and grandeur pervaded his compositions, at times not unworthy of Gaspar Poussin himself. Unfortunately, his circumstances obliged him to work much for the dealers, and therefore down to the low level of a certain class of purchasers. No one was more prolific in what artists call "bread-and-cheese" drawings, as all print-shop windows testify.

Mr. Varley published some manuals of his art, which, though technical, are suggestive and useful.

He notoriously indulged in astrological vagaries, which must have tended to distract his attention from his art: indeed, his first thought seemed to be about “nativities," and his second about his pictures. Many are the stories told of the visits of fashionable young ladies to him, made ostensibly to buy a picture, but in reality to have their nativities cast. In season or out, Mr. Varley was always ready for an astrological talk. He was known as a Sidrophel in all the Bayswater omnibuses. He died of some affection of the kidneys, from which he had been lately suffering. He ventured out too early, and was seized with a relapse before he could return home. There was something touching and kind in his death; he was perfectly conscious of its approach, bade his surgeon farewell, named his friends one by one, and sent them his affectionate remembrance. (Athenæum.)

MR. JAMES EGAN.

Oct. 2. At Pentonville, aged 43, Mr. James Egan.

This excellent engraver in mezzotint was a native of the county of Roscommon, and was undoubtedly the best artist in his particular department of the arts which Ireland has produced. He was of humble parentage, and entirely the architect of his own fortunes. In 1825 he was in the service of the late Mr. S. W. Reynolds, in a menial capacity, and being employed occasionally in laying mezzotinto grounds for his master, he thus received his first lessons in art, which he was subsequently enabled to carry out in a manner that supplied proof of the natural energy and ability of his mind. He soon quitted his employment, which was little better than that of an errand-boy, and commenced his career as a ground-layer for engravers,

"without a shilling or a friend." Of the latter, however, he obtained many before the close of his brief life; and, had he lived but a few years longer, he would have been recompensed by abundant occupation and corresponding wealthwealth, that is to say, to a man of very moderate expectations and desires. His intense application and earnest desire to learn, interested all who knew him. He worked on, willingly enduring hard labour and severe privations; but, at all times, with the proud spirit that distinguishes his countrymen, concealing his necessities from his acquaintances, and looking forward, with hope, to the acquisition of independence by his own unaided efforts. Alas! this exertion and this endurance was followed by the too common result. About eight years ago consumptive symptoms began to manifest themselves; other bodily ailments assailed the over-wrought mind. His health sunk gradually under their influence; but in spite of sickness he laboured on with the same earnestness as ever, when periods of temporary relief permitted him to do so, until death terminated his sufferings, and gave "the weary rest."

His latest plate, and undoubtedly his best, is English Hospitality in the Olden Time," after Cattermole, finished under circumstances and in a state of health frightful to contemplate; and when to this consideration is added the fact that the engraving was from a drawing, it may be safely classed among the most successful achievements of modern art.

Mr. Egan married when very young; he has left three children without a protector, for whom a public subscription is in progress, received at the principal print-sellers.

JOHN HARPER, ESQ.

Oct. 18. At Naples, from the effects of malaria fever, John Harper, esq.

Mr. Harper was born at Dunken Hall, near Blackburn, Lancashire, on the 11th Nov. 1809. He had been for some years resident in the city of York, where he practised, with flattering success, the profession of an architect; and, even in a very brief career, he has left behind him many permanent examples of his classical genius in architecture, both in Yorkshire and in his native county of Lancashire. Of these may be mentioned a few of the' most striking. The Roman Catholic chapel at Bury, in Lancashire, which is noticed with just eulogy in the Companions to the Englishman's and the British almanacs of 1841. The Freetown church at Bury, and Elton church, Bury. In the first-named of these structures a pe

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culiar arrangement, in the erection of a rich and beautiful octagonal lantern tower upon the massive gable of the building, has been adopted with happy effect. know but one example of the kind in our older architecture, the church of St. Helen's in York, which, however, has none of the boldness of design displayed in the chapel at Bury. The York Col

legiate School is another of Mr. Harper's works, and is one of the best specimens that has risen during the late revival of the ancient English architecture. Its centre compartment, which is very light and elegant, combines, in an eminent degree, originality of conception with fidelity to the character of the rich Tudor style. The design of the Yorkshire Agricultural Bank at York, and the mansion of Edward Taylor, esq. at Kirkham Abbey, in Yorkshire, in the Italian style, are also works that demand much admiration.

But it was not to that branch of the arts which belonged more peculiarly to his professional pursuits, that Mr. Harper confined his exertions. Possessing an intuitive perception of every thing that was beautiful and true in nature and in art, and with a hand prompt to execute the inspiration of his mind, he was a most indefatigable and successful sketcher and draughtsman, and his portfolio has concealed treasures which his modesty alone has prevented from acquiring that public appreciation which they deserve.

On the 5th June last Mr. Harper left England to proceed on a tour intended to embrace Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily, and he had already visited the attractive portions and cities of the north of Italy, Verona, Vicenza, and Florence, and the picturesque scenery betwixt that place and Rome, Terni and its falls, Narni and other spots, accumulating sketches on his route with a rapidity almost incredible. He reached Rome on the 3d September, where he was soon after seized with fever, from which he rallied sufficiently to proceed to Civita Vecchia, and thence to Naples, his ardent spirit not suffering him to indulge in that repose which his weakened health demanded, and being predisposed by illness to the effects of malaria, and suffering severely from a rough passage to Naples, on his arrival in that city he immediately sank under deadly sckness, and breathed his last within two days afterwards.

The following tribute to the character and ability of the subject of this memoir is, we believe, from the hand of an eminent artist, an intimate friend of the deceased: "As a draughtsman, his sketches of scenery, antiquity, architecture, and views, would do honour to any, and are

inferior to none in accuracy and beauty of detail, in tasteful, light, and facile execution. Art in him was intuitive, and his soul was absorbed by it to that excess that he unfortunately neglected those precautions which prudence would urge for the preservation of his invaluable health, in so intense a climate, and he fell an untimely victim."

In conjunction with his attached and intimate friend, W. Etty, R.A. and other public-spirited individuals, Mr. Harper had contributed much towards encouraging a taste for and cultivation of the fine arts in York, and especially in the formation, under the patronage of government, of a School of Design in that city, of which he was an honorary secretary.

MR. JAMES TUDOR.

Oct. 14. At Manchester, suddenly, Mr. James Tudor, Barrack-master of the first class in the Ordnance Depart

ment.

He was born on the 5th of July, 1775, and purchased his Ensign's commission in the second or Queen's regiment, in Feb. 1793. In 1794 his regiment was embarked to do duty as marines in the Channel fleet, the company in which Ensign Tudor served being on board the flag-ship. After the action of the 1st of June, the surviving officers of the company were, by special permission, presented at the naval levee held by his majesty George III. at Portsmouth, in compliment to Earl Howe and the officers of the fleet. Lieut. Tudor purchased his company in the 117th, a newly-raised corps, the strength of which being afterwards draughted into other regiments he volunteered for active service in the West Indies, where he was severely wounded. His health being much impaired by his wounds and the effects of the climate, he quitted the army and accepted an appointment in the barrack department, in which he served nearly 36 years. The arduous duties of his station were so greatly increased in consequence of the late disturbances as to have produced an intense and overwhelming anxiety, and thereby to have occasioned a rupture on the brain, followed by instantaneous death. His sword, indeed, was in the sheath, but he died in the service of his country. This lamented officer was the last survivor of the quarter-deck of the Queen Charlotte.

CLERGY DECEASED.

At Cheltenham the Rev. Roger Hesketh Formby, fourth son of the late Rev. Richard Formby, of Formby Hall, Lan

cashire. He was of Jesus college, Cambridge, B.A. 1818.

Aged 62, the Rev. Thomas Reader Gleadow, M.A., Rector of Frodesley, Salop. He was formerly Fellow of Queen's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1804, as 4th Wrangler, M.A. 1807; and was instituted to Frodesley, which was in his own patronage, in 1826.

Aged 51, the Rev. James Hoste, Rector of Ingoldesthorpe, and Perpetual Curate of Longham, Norfolk. He was of Christ's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; was presented to Longham in 1824 by the late Lord Leicester of Holkham, and to Ingoldesthorpe in 1831 by the Rev. L. Cooper.

Aged 61, the Rev. Thomas Lewis, M.A. Rector of Merthyr, and Perpetual Curate of Llanstephen and Llangunnoch, Carmarthenshire. He was instituted to

the latter churches in 1815.

At Exeter, the Rev. Francis Putt, late Vicar of Churchstowe and Kingsbridge, to which united churches he was presented in 1829 by the Lord Chancellor. He has left a widow and seven children.

Sept. 24. At the residence of the British Consul at Adalia, in Syria, of brain fever, in the prime of life, the Rev. Edward Thomas Daniell, M.A. of Balliol college, Oxford, late Reader at St. Mark's chapel, Grosvenor-square.

At Colleton estate, Barbadoes, aged 26, the Rev. Samuel William Hinkson, late Curate of Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire. He was of St. Catharine's hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1841.

Oct. 17. At Bradfield, Berks, aged 76, the Rev. Henry Stevens, M.A. Rector of that parish. He was of Oriel college, Oxford; and was instituted to Bradfield, which was in his own patronage, in 1806. He was brother-in-law of the late J. P. Tinney, esq. of Salisbury.

Oct. 20. Aged 85, the Rev. Nathaniel Philipps, D.D. of Moor-lodge, near Sheffield.

At Newton Longueville, in his 75th year, the Rev. Robert Wetherell, Rector of that parish, and a Prebendary of Hereford. He was son of the late Nathan Wetherell, D.D. Master of University college, Oxford; and a brother to Sir Charles Wetherell. He was formerly a Fellow of New college, Oxford, where he took the degree of B.C.L. in 1791, and was presented to the rectory of Newton Longue ville, in 1813, by that society.

Oct. 22. At Ipswich, the Rev. John Constantine Cooke, Vicar of Swilland, Suffolk, and Rector of King's Ripton, co. Huntingdon. He was formerly of Christ's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1797, as 4th Junior Optime, M.A.

1800. He was presented to both his livings by Lord Chancellor Eldon; to Swilland in 1806, and to King's Ripton in 1813.

Aged 79, the Rev. Joseph L'Oste, Rector of Postwick and Caister St. Edmund's, Norfolk. He was of Trinity hall, Cambridge, LL.B. 1788; was presented to Postwick by the Earl of Rosebery in 1817, and to Caister St. Edmund's in 1829, by Mrs. H. Dashwood.

Oct. 24. At Richmond, Surrey, aged 73, the Rev. George Roberts, Vicar of Gretton with Duddington, Northamptonshire, to which he was instituted in 1819.

Oct. 25. At Maizehill, near Blackheath, Kent, aged 26, the Rev. Robert James, M.A. of Clare hall, Cambridge, fourth son of the Rev. John James, D.D. Canon of Peterborough. He took the degree of B.A. 1839.

Oct. 27. At Theddingworth, Leicestershire, aged 68, the Rev. W. F. Major, Vicar of that parish.

Aged 60, the Rev. William Thompson, Perpetual Curate of Halstock, Dorset, to which he was presented by John Disney, esq. in 1826.

Oct. 29. At Darlaston, Staffordshire, aged 53, the Rev. Joseph Hugill, D.D. Rector of that parish. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, D.D. 1842.

Oct. 30. At Axminster, Wilts, aged 65, the Rev. William Wills, formerly of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1802.

Oct. 31. Aged 50, the Rev. Hugh Monckton, M. A. Rector of Seaton, Rutland, and Vicar of Harringworth, Northamptonshire. He was the seventh son of the Hon. Edward Monckton, (sixth son of the first Viscount Galway,) by the Hon. Sophia Pigot, daughter of George Lord Pigot. He was formerly Student of Christchurch, Oxford, and was presented to Seaton in 1816 by the Earl of Harborough.

At Mount Nebo house, near Taunton, aged 72, the Rev. Richard Winsloe, Rector of Minster and Forrabury, Cornwall, and Perpetual Curate of Ruishton, Somersetshire. He was of Magdalene hall, Oxford, B.C.L. 1796. He was instituted to all his churches in 1800, the last mentioned being in his own gift.

Nov. 2. At Chilmark rectory, Wilts., aged 47, the Rev. George John Majendie, B.D. Rector of Headington, Wilts., a Prebendary of Salisbury, and a Rural Dean. He was formerly Fellow of Magdalene college, Oxford, on the foundation of the county of Berks; was presented by the Earl of Pembroke to the vicarage of Stanton St. Bernard, Wilts; was collated to the prebend of Beaminster Prima, in the cathedral church of Salisbury, in

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