Rev. H. Thompson, Fobbing R. Essex. Rev. W. D. B. Bertles, to the Earl of Mountcashel. Rev. W. Huntington, to the Earl of Zetland. Rev. W. Sergison, to the Duke of Richmond. Rev. W. D. Veitch, to the Marquis of Bute. Rev. T. T. Champnes, to be the resident Chaplain at Rio Janeiro. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. Rev. T. Chambers, M.A. to be Head Master of the Royal Naval College. Rev. J. Langdon to be Master of Yeovil Free School. Rev. N. Germon to be Second Master of Manchester Grammar School. J. Hickman, B.A. to be Head Master of Wigan Grammar School. Rev. Mr. Poole to be Master of Mansfield Grammar School. BIRTHS. Aug. 27. At Amherstberg, Upper Canada, the lady of Lieut.-Col. Airey, 34th regt. a son and heir. Sept. 5. At Jamaica, the wife of W. C. Macdougall, esq. Advocate-general, a son.11. At Geneva, the wife of H. de Burgh, esq. a dau.-17. Át Landford House, Salisbury, the wife of Capt. W. H. Trollope, a son.18. At Albury, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. W. L. Addington, a dau.- -19. At Manston, Dorset, the wife of H. F. Yeatman, esq. a son and heir.-21. At Clifford Lodge, Warw. the wife of Arthur Annesley, esq. a dau.24. The wife of Robert Stewart, esq. M.P. a dau. -25. At Gosford, Ottery, the lady of Sir H. Fennington, Bart. a dau.- -26. At Spring-hill, near Stockport, Idonea, wife of Colonel Thomas, C.B. and M.P. a son.28. At Newbottle-abbey, the Marchioness of Lothian, a son. Lately In Ireland, the Viscountess Avonmore, a dau.-Lady Emily Richardson, a son and heir. -At Edenhall, Cumberland, Lady Musgrave, a dau.-The wife of Dr. Hook, Vicar of Leeds, a son.At Harmsworthhouse, Hants, Lady Eliz. Thackeray, a dau. At Penlanole, Radnorshire, the wife of H. Lingen, esq. High Sheriff, a son and heir. -At Vaynor Park, Montgomeryshire, the lady of Sir F. Knowles, Bart. a dau. Öct. 5. At Dalhousie Castle, near Edinburgh, the Countess of Dalhousie, a dau.6. At Baldooan-house, Lady Jane Ogilvy, a son. -8, At Dinton, Wilts, the wife of W. Wyndham, jun. esq. a son.-11. At Leamington, the wife of the Hon. Captain Somerville, R.N. a son.-12. At Forest-lodge, Berks, the wife of A. W. Wykeham, esq. a son.13. The wife of Edmund Jerningham, esq. a dau. -16. In Dover-st., Lady Jemima Eliot, a son.- -20. At St. Giles's, Dorsetshire, Lady Harriet Corry, a dau.-25. In Dean-street, Southwark, the wife of G. R. Corner, esq. F.S.A. a son. MARRIAGES. April 15. At Simla, Capt. J. W. Yerbury, 3rd Light Dragoons, youngest son of the late J. W. Yerbury, esq. of Belcombe House, near Bradford, Wilts, to Emma, second dau. of the late Thomas Webb, esq. of Ledbury, and niece of Major-Gen. Thackwell, C.B. and K.H. July 12. At the Cape of Good Hope, Morgan Witham Lloyd, esq. Madras Army, son of late Capt. W. Lloyd, R.N. of Cork, to Harriet, eldest surviving dau. of Edm. L. L. Swifte, esq. Master of the Jewel House. 16. At Pernambuco, Thomas Bernard Gunston, British Merchant, of Maranham, to Anne, fourth dau. of Edward Watts, esq. her Majesty's Consul. Aug 14. At the Cathedral, Waterford, the Rev. Jas. Mockler, Rector of Lismore, to Elizabeth Bolton, eldest dau. of the late Rev. Benj. Jeanes, of Charmouth.-At St. George's, Han.-sq. the Hon. F. D. Ryder, third son of the Earl of Harrowby, to Marian-CharlotteEmily, only child of Thos. Cockayne, esq. of Ickleford House, near Hitchin. 15. At St. George's, Han-sq. W. H. Ashurst, esq. of Waterstock, Oxon, to Lady Mill, widow of Sir Charles Mill, Bart. of Bury House, Hants. At the same church, the Rev. Lord Charles Hervey, son of the Marquis of Bristol, to Lady Harriet Ryder, dau. of the Earl of Harrowby.- --At St. Peter's, Dublin, Edward O'Brien, third son of the late Sir Edw. O'Brien, of Drumoland, Clare, Bart. to Louise, fifth dau. of the late J. H. Massey-Dawson, esq. of Ballinacourte, Tipperary. At Charlton King's, the Rev. George Royds Birch, of Paris, to Sophia, fourth dau. of Sir W. Russell, Bart. of Charlton Park, Glouc.--At Ancaster, Francis Capper Brookes, esq. of Ufford Place, Suffolk, to Juliana, dau. of Chas. Allix, esq. of Willoughby Hall, Linc.--At Walcot church, Bath, Wm. Morse Crowdy, esq. of Chiseldon, Wilts, to Sarah, relict of of the late P. W. Vaughan, esq. of Clifton.At Cambridge, Augustus, son of the late John Tilden, esq. of Ifield Court, Kent, to Anne, eldest dau. of H. Balls, esq. Panton House, Camb.--At St. James's, Westminster, Arthur Connell, esq. Advocate, Edinburgh, to Elizabeth-Camilla, dau. of the late James Connell, esq. of Glasgow.- -At St. Pancras, Harry Buckland Lott, esq. of Tracey House, Devon, to Eleanor, dau. of David Chambers, esq. Comm. R.N.- -At St. Thomas's, Liverpool, Lieut. George Jackson, R. N. to Ann, third dau. of the late John Shaw, esq. of Idenshall Hall, near Tarporley. 16. At Portsea, the Rev. Lancelot C. L. Brenton, only son of Rear-Adm. Sir Jahleel Brenton, Bart. K.C.B., to Anna-Maria-Mary, dau. of the late Major-Gen. Chester. 17. At Kensington, James John Ormsby, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Catharine-ElizabethSarah, only child of the late John Philipps, esq. of Lampeter, Pemb.-At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Henry Nichols, esq. of the Middle Temple, to Mary-Francklyn, eldest dau. of Thos. B. Williams, esq. formerly of Gower-st. and now of Jamaica. 20. At Olney, Bucks, the Rev. E. L. Smith, A.M., Perp. Curate of Barton-with-Chetwode, Bucks. (only son of the late Rev. Edward Smith, of Folkingham, Linc.) to Elizabeth, third surviving dau. ; and at the the same time, William Mozart Russell, esq. of Upper Clapton, (only son of the late W. Russell, esq. Mus. Bac.) to Sarah-Maria, fourth surviving dau. of the late Rev. Henry Gauntlett, Vicar of Olney. At St. Marylebone, by the Rev. R. Cattermole, B.D. George Cattermole, esq. to Clarissa-Hester, third dau. of the late James Elderton, esq. of Brixton-hill.-At Worcester, Thomas Warren Kempthorne, esq. solicitor, Sherborne, Dorset, (third son of the late Rev. John Kempthorne, B.D., Rector of St. Michael's, Gloucester,) to Mary Beaufoy, third dau. of Mr. Palmer.At Richmond church, the Rev. Peter-Charles Marshall, A.M. Wokingham, Berks, to Selina-Maria, second of dau. of the Rev. Thomas Hale, D.D. of Richmond, Surrey.- -At Ipswich, P. F. O'Malley, esq. of the Middle Temple, (third son of Chas. O'Malley, esq. of Lodge Mayo,) to Emily, second dau. of Wm. Rodwell, esq. -The Rev. M. W. Foye, M.A. to Mary, only dau. of John Greensall, esq. of Edgbaston, Warw. 21. At St. George's, Han.-sq. by his father the Rev. Sir William Murray, of Hill-head, North Britain, Bart., Robert Murray, esq. late of 42nd Highlanders, to Susan-Catherine Saunders, widow of Adolphus Cotton Múrray, esq. and dau. of the late John Murray, esq. Commissary-gen. of Ardeley Bury, Herts.At Dover, the Rev. T. T. Bazeley, Rector of All Saints, Poplar, and Fellow of Brasenose, to Julia, youngest dau. of John Shipdem, esq. -At Tamworth, Henry Allsopp, esq. of Burton-on-Trent, to Elizabeth, second dau. of Wm. Tongue, esq. of Comberford Hall, Staffordshire.At Sculcoates, the Rev. W. J. Newman, of Tankersley, to Anastasia, second dau. of M. T. Prickett, esq. of Hull. 22. At Clapham, Alfred Hall, esq. to Elizabeth, youngest dau. of the late S. Rixon, esq. -At St. Andrew's, Holborn, Lieut. Henry F. Gustard, Madras Army, to Eliza, eldest dau. of Stafford Northcote, esq. of John-street, Bedford-row. 24. At Great Yarmouth, Thos. Brightwen, esq. to Hannah-Sarah, fourth dau. of Dawson Turner, esq. -At Torquay, Hugh Colquhoun, esq. of Calcutta, to Anna, youngest dau. of the late Arthur Hogue, esq. of Barrow House, Som.-At Brompton, John Rigge, esq. of Hunter-st. to Honoria, dau. of David Rigge, esq. 26. At Marlow, Capt. Bishop-Culpeper, 14th light drag. to Alicia Charlotte, eldest dau, of Col. Sir Wm. Robt. Clayton, Bart. M.P.At Canterbury cathedral, by his Grace the Archbishop, Major Hutchinson, 20th regt. eldest son of Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Hutchinson, K.C.H. to Mary, dau. of the Rev. John Russell, D.D. Preb. of Canterbury, and Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate.At Eythorne, Kent, Thomas Poynter, esq. of Doctors' Commons, to Miss Harris, great-niece of the late Lady Sewell, of Cumberland-street and Wick-hill House, Berks.At All Souls, J. Forbes Royle, M.D., Vice-Pres. R. Soc., to Annette, youngest dau. of Edward Solly, esq. late of Curzon-street. 27. At Cheltenham, the Rev. Chas. Bushe, second son of the Chief Justice of Ireland, to Emmeline-Egerton, second dau. of Capt. Sir Josiah Coghill, Bart., R.N.At Northaw, the Rev. J. A. Trenchard, of Stanton House, Wilts, to Mary-Elizabeth-Jane, only dau. of the Rev. S. Davies, of Northaw, and Rector of Llanelly, Carm.-At Acton, Frederick-Clinton, third son of Lieut.-Gen. and the Hon. Mrs. Mundy, to Juliana-Elizabeth, youngest dau. of the Rev. W. Antrobus, Rector of Acton. At Gloucester, Joseph Heath, esq. of Chesham, Bucks, to Harriette Louisa, youngest dau. of the late Rev. S. Langston, Rector of Little Horwood, Bucks.At St. James's, Westminster, the Rev. John F. Colls, B.D. Curate of St. John's, Hampstead, to ElizaAdams, only child of the late W. H. Wilson, esq.- -At High Wycombe, William Rose, esq. jun. to Anne-Susannah-Shrimpton, youngest dau. of John Carter, esq.At St. Clement Danes, the Rev. Joseph Knox, M.A. Chaplain, Madras, to Helen-Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Peter Young, esq.- -The Rev. Charles Boys, Rector of Wing, co. Rutland, to Caroline Goodrich, 4th dau. of the late Capt. Dobbie, R.N. of Saling hall, Essex. 28. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. B. D'Israeli, esq. M.P. of Bradenham, Bucks, to Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, of Grosvenor-gate, and Pantgwynlais, Glamorganshire.At St. George's, Bloomsbury, George Nicholson, esq. of Surinam, to Jannette-Reid, second dau. of Alex. Campbell, esq. of Jamaica, and Woburnplace. At Frankfort, the Hon. Mary Stuart, third dau. of Gen. the Lord Forbes, to CharlesBenjamin Lee, esq. of the Abbey, Knaresborough; and at the same time, the Hon. Isabella Drummond, fifth dau. of Lord Forbes, to the Baron Ernest de Poellnitz, of Saxe Coburg. At Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire, the Rev. John Sutton, Vicar of Repham, Linc. third son of Robert Sutton, esq. of Rossway, Herts, to Emma Eleanor, eldest dau. of the Rev. Thomas Fardell, Rector of Boothby Pagnell. 29. At Marlborough, Devon, George-Howard Vyse, esq. Capt. 2nd Life Guards, to Lizzy, sixth dau. of the late Rear-Adm. Sir Michael Seymour, Bart. K.C.B.-At St. George's, Hanover-sq. H. P. Gordon, esq. to Lady Mary Ashburnham, youngest dau. of the late Earl of Ashburnham.- At Walton Park, Kirkcudbrightshire, Boyd Macdonald, esq. of Glasgow, to Anne-Cunningham, second dau. of Major J. Campbell, E.I.S.- -At Sherborne, Francis Jackson, esq. M.D. eldest son of the Rev. J. L. Jackson, Rector of Church Knowle, Dorset, to Mary Beadon, eldest dau. of Edw. Turner, esq.At South Repps, Norf. the Rev. Rich. Daniel, M.A. F.S.A. Rector of Combs, Suff. to Marian Alicia, dau. of the Ven. Archdeacon Glover. 31. At Sowerby, Yorkshire, William-Henry Kitchingman, esq. to Elizabeth, only dau. of Capt. W. R. Ward, R.N.-Richard Edward Turner, of the Inner Temple, esq. to Frances, widow of James Turner, of Powis-place, esq. -At Brompton, John Dangerfield, esq. of Connaught - square, to Frances-Susannah, youngest dau. of the late Walter Trevelyan, esq. of Netherwitton Hall, Northumberland, grand-dau. of the late Sir G. Trevelyan, Bart. -At Arreton, the Rev. Stafford Brown, Curate of Gatcombe, Isle of Wight, to Caroline, third dau. of the late Capt. Macgregor. Lately. At Bangor, Ireland, James Hamilton Ward, esq. Comm. R.N., son of the late Right Hon. Robt. Ward, of Bangor Castle, to the Hon. Elizabeth Dorcas Blackwood, dau. of Lord Dufferin and Claneboye.At St. George's, Hanover-sq. George Laurie, of Han.-sq. to Charlotte, dau. of the late Sir Geo. Nayler, Garter King of Arms. -The Hon. Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M.P. youngest son of the late Earl of Berkeley, to the Hon. Mrs. Talbot. -At Northam, North Devon, the Rev. Beridge Jebb, son of Joshua Jebb, of Walton Lodge, Derbyshire, esq. to Charlotte, eldest dau. of the late Richard Dann, esq. -At Edinburgh, the Rev. R. W. Stewart, of Erskine, to Graham, dau. of Lord Cockburn. Sept. 2. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Dr. Morton, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, to Miss Payne, of Portman-place. -At the same church, Lord Kilmaine, to Mary, dau. of the Hon. C. E. Law, Recorder of London. 3. At Oddington, Glouc. the Rev. Edward Bankes, Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty, to Miss Maria Rice, third dau. of the Hon." and Very Rev. the Dean of Gloucester, and niece to Lord Dynevor.At Great Baddow, Essex, Thomas Webb Greene, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Anna-Lucy, eldest dau. of the late John M'Lachlan, esq. of Baddow hall.-At Plumstead, Kent, Henry Richardson, esq. of York, .A.M, to Amelia, youngest dau. of the late Rev. R. Dallin, of Shooter's Hill.-At Walton-on-the-hill, Lanc. the Rev. Thomas Clerk, M.A., Incumbent of Christ Church, Preston, 4. At St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Captain Charles Stuart, nephew of Lord Stuart de Rothsay, to Georgiana, eldest dau. of the late Vice-Adm. Sir John Gore, Maid of Honour to the Queen Dowager.At Wilton, T. B. Curling, esq. to Frances-Sophia, eldest dau. of John Swayne, esq. Clerk of the Peace for Wilts. At Scole, Norfolk, the Rev. J. W. S. Donnison, M.A., son of the late Rev. W. S. Donnison, of Felixkirk, Yorkshire, to Elizabeth-Mary, youngest dau. of the late Rev. T. Whitaker, of Mendham.- -At Jersey, Edm. Talbot, esq. Bengal Army, fourth son of the late Rev. T. S. Talbot, Rector of Twitshall, Norfolk, to Anna-Margaret, youngest dau. of the late Rev. Wm. Perry, Vicar of Stone, near Aylesbury. 5. At the Royal Chapel, Whitehall, John Cotes, esq. of Grosvenor-st., to Lady LouisaHarriet Jenkinson, youngest dau. of the Earl of Liverpool. At Dublin, Irwin James Vesey Davoren, esq. eldest son of the Rev. A. Davoren, Incumbent of Miltown Malbay, co. Clare, to Eliza, fourth dau. of the late Wm. Kelly, esq. At St. John's, Paddington, William Nelson Beechey, esq. to Maria, second dau. of J. W. Liddiard, esq. of Hyde Park-st. At St. George's, Hanover-sq., Edward, eldest son of M. L. Welch, esq. of Wyndhamplace, to Margaret, youngest dau. of James Gibbs, esq. of Jermyn-st.- At St. Leonard's, near Exeter, Thomas Fenn Addison, esq. of Gloucester, to Hannah, third dau. of the late Ebenezer Sheldon, esq. of Green-st., Grosvenor-sq.At St. Mary's, Fulham, William V. Pettigrew, M.D., of Saville-row, to Elizabeth, only dau. of the late John Cross, esq. of Bottesford, Leicestershire. 6. At Eastwood, Essex, Samuel Chapman, esq. to Mary Ann, youngest dau. of W. Weld Wren, esq. of Eastwood Bury. 7. Át Cheltenham, the Rev. Robt. Hamilton, Rector of Hale, Hants, to Grace, youngest dau. of the late Ambrose Harvey, esq. Dublin.At St. George's, Hanover-sq., Samuel Mason, esq. of Finsbury-square, to Merville-Caroline, only dau. of Nath. Simmons, esq. of Croydon. -The Rev. Spencer Thornton, M.A. Vicar of Wendover, to Caroline-Adelaide, dau. of James Du Pre, esq. of Portland-place, and Wilton Park, Bucks. 9. At Marylebone Church, Augustus Abraham, esq. barrister-at-law, to Caroline, fourth dau. of Henry Howard, esq. R.A. 10. At St. Mary's, Bryanstone-sq. C. L. Rosenthal, esq. of Connaught-terrace, to V. M. M. Lawrence, relict of R. J. G. Lawrence, of Montagu-sq.-At Clifton, B. Herschel Babbage, esq., eldest son of C. Babbage, esq., to Laura, third dau. of Eden T. Jones, esq. -At Romsey, the Rev. Wm. Vaux, Preb. of Winchester, and Vicar of Romsey, to Elizabeth-Jane, eldest dau. of Rear-Adm. Sir J. W. Loring.- -At St. Luke's, Chelsea, Capt. G. Acklom Smith, B.N.I., only son of the Rev. Richard Smith, of Sutton, Sussex, to Anna-Maria, only dau. of the late Major Chalmers, 55th Regiment.-At Camberwell, Geo. Chenevix, esq. surgeon-major Coldstream guards, and of Ballycommon, King's co., to Mary-Sophia, dau. of Charles Baldwin, esq. of Grove-hill.- -At Godmanchester, Edward Charrington, son of the late Nicholas Char rington, esq. of Mile End, to Georgiana, second dau. of T. T. Baumgartner, esq. 11. At Eastbourne, the Rev. George Baker, M.D., of Bemerton, near Salisbury, eldest son of the Rev. C. W. Baker, Rector of Tellisford, Somerset, to Eliza, eldest dau. of John Beatson, esq. of Peckham.- -At Upminster, John B. Bonham, esq. Capt. 50th Regt. to Matilda-Frances, only surviving dau. of the late Col. Bulkeley, of Huntley Hall, Staff.At Tickhill, the Rev. R. W. Otter, Curate of Bromholme and North Carlton, Linc. to Emma, youngest dau. of the Rev. T. H. Marshall, Vicar of Pontefract. -At St. George's, Hanover-sq. James Bonar, esq. of Kimmerghame, Berwickshire, to Mary, eldest dau. of the late Hon. Sir Patrick Murray, Bart. of Ochtertyre, Perthshire, a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland. At the same church, C. J.Tottenham, esq. 2nd Life Guards, eldest son of Lord Robert Tottenham, Bishop of Clogher, to the Hon. Isabella Maude, dau. of Visc. Hawarden. -At Clapham, Holdsworth Hunt, esq. of the Inner Temple, youngest son of Dr. Hunt, of Dartmouth, to Ellen, youngest dau. of Joseph Barber, esq.-At Downton, the Rev. John Emra, Perp. Curate of St. Mary's, Redlynch, to Frances-Anne, dau. of Mr. Ŵ. W. Atkinson, of Charlton. 12. At Manchester, James Kelso, esq. of Blackburn, to Anne, only dau. of late Thos. Johnson, esq, of Smedley.-At Hammersmith, Rev. Aaron Thomas, M.A. of Leominster, to Mary, fourth surviving dau. of the late Morris King, esq. of Vigo-st.- -At Croydon, G. F. P. Sutton, esq. to Emma, youngest dau. of the late Col. Edw. Kelly, K.S.A.St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, Edward Lake, esq. Lieut. R.N., to Clara, third dau. of Sir W. Johnston, Bart. of Hiltown, Aberdeenshire. Át At Meldon, Sydney Streatfield, Major 52nd Regt. second son of late Richard Streatfield, of the Rocks, Sussex, to Sarah-Jane, third dau. of Isaac Cookson, esq. of Meldon Park, Northumb.-At Salperton, Glouc. the Rev. Charles Richard Pettat, Rector of Whitcombe, youngest son of the late Rev. T. Pettat, of Southron House, to Anne-Caroline, dau. of John Browne, esq.-At Grantham, the Rev. P. W. Worsby, Rector of Little Ponton, only son of the Rev. Rev. Ralph Worsby, Rector of Finchley, to Charlotte-Helena, second dau. of the Rev. William Potchett.Long Ashton, Som. Edward Sampson, jun. esq. only son of Edw. Sampson, of Henbury, Glouc. esq. to Belinda, fourth dau. of the late Benj. Way, esq. of Denham-place, Bucks, niece of Sir John Smyth, Bart. of Ashton Court. -At 15. At Lamerton, Devon, the Rev. John Samuel Scobell, Rector of St. Kew, eldest son of John Scobell, esq. of Holwell House, to Elizabeth, eldest dau. of T. Robins, esq. of Venn. 16. At Corsham, Wilts, Gabriel Goldney, esq. of Chippenham, to Mary-Anne, only dau. of R. H. Alexander, esq.-At Lewisham, R. E. Van Heythuysen, esq. to Caroline, eldest dau. of Thomas Bayley, esq. Wandsworthroad. 17. At Preston, Lanc. the Rev. W. M. Farish, Minister of St. Peter's, Preston, to Harriet Montgomery, eldest dau. of the late W. Neville. esq. of co. Down. 26. At Hawkshead, Lancashire, the Rev. George Kennard, M.A. of Clapham, to MaryJeanette, only child of John Jackson, esq. of Lancaster, and grand-dau. of the late Robert Preston, esq. of Liverpool and West Derby, in the county of Lancaster. RUNJEET SINGH. OBITUARY. June 27. At Lahore, after a protracted illness, in his 60th year, Maha Rajah Runjeet Singh, chief of Lahore and Cachmine. The career of this extraordinary chieftain developed the character of a man born to change, or materially influence, the destinies of a vast portion of mankind. Proud, restless, ungovernable, impatient of restraint, he ruled with despotism over twenty millions of people; and from a licentious love of power, and unbounded ambition, aided by the fertile powers of his mighty genius, he rose from a common thief to be a conqueror of princes! Possessed of a considerable and well-disciplined army, numerous foundries and arsenals, a regular government, and a wealthy exchequer, he became the friend and ally of the British government in India! Runjeet Singh is represented as having had no education in any branch of learning or science. He could not read or write in any language; he did not value knowledge for its own sake, but he had the sense and discretion to appreciate, and apply for his own advantage, that of others. He was in the habit of hearing papers read in Persian, Punjabee, and Hindoo. He was the chief adminis. trator of justice in his kingdom; and was easily accessible to any of his subjects. He displayed perspicuity in his appreciation of character; and the power of tracing the motives of others' actions, gave him a command and influence over all who approached him. His observations and remarks were given ordinarily in short, terse, incoherent phrases, or in the shape of interrogatories. He had great power of dissimulation; and, under the utmost frankness of manner and even familiarity of intercourse, could veil subtle designs and treachery. In action he was personally brave and collected; but his plans displayed no boldness or adventurous hazard. His fertility in expedients was wonderful. His uniform career and conduct through life prove him to have been selfish, sensual, and licentious in the extreme, regardless of all ties of affection, blood, or friendship, in the pursuit of ambition or pleasure. He plundered and reduced to misery, without the slightest feeling of remorse, widows, orphans, and families; but he was not blood-thirsty, for he has never taken life, even under circumstances of great aggravation. Indeed, his laws prohibit the punishment of death, GENT. MAG. VOL. XII. A criminal sometimes had his nose or his ears cut off, but never his head. It was also not uncommon to cut off the hands of criminals; but in serious cases, and where the culprit had again committed the crime for which he had been once already punished, the tendon Achilles was cut through. With the aid of his confidential officer, General Allard, he brought his army into the finest state of skill and subordination; but his troops still wear the turban. He was attached to the chase; and had an ardent passion for precious stones and fine horses, to procure which he has often undertaken a disproportionate military expedition. His jewels are said to be the richest and finest in the world; and the riches and magnificence of his court and palace, the splendour of his travelling equipage, and of all his equipments, exceeded all that we hear of among oriental princes. His stature was low, and the loss of his left eye from the small-pox took away from his appearance, which, however, was still far from being unprepossessing, for his countenance was full of expression and animation, and set off with a handsome flowing beard, grey, at fifty years of age, and tapering to a point below his breast. He was latterly so emaciated and weak as to be compelled to adopt a singular method of mounting the tall horses on which he loved to ride: a man knelt down before him, and he threw his leg over his neck, when the man rose with the Maha Rajah mounted on his shoulders. He then approached the horse, and Runjeet Singh putting his right foot in the stirrup, and holding by the mane, threw his left leg over the man's head and the back of the horse into the stirrup on the other side. A portrait of the Maha Rajah is given in Mr. Princep's work on the Origin of the Sikh Power, &c. Among the remarkable incidents connected with the death of Runjeet Singh, none is more worthy of being recorded and noted than the fact of four princesses, his wives, and seven slave girls, having been permitted to burn themselves on his funeral pyre. The description of Arvalan's funeral (in Southey's Curse of Kehama), the burning of his two queens, and the train of female slaves, becomes, with a very trifling adaptation, the historical record of the real obsequies of the late monarch of Lahore. On the 2d of July his ashes were removed towards the sacred Ganges, at 3 Z Hurdwar. The procession left the palace at about an hour after sunrise, and moved through the city of Lahore in the following order. One squadron of Sikh lancers, one by one, on account of the narrowness of the streets, followed by five gold cloth flags carried on foot; a golden khassah or palkee, containing the ashes of the late Maha Rajah; the premier, Rajah Dehan Singh, on foot to the left, bearing a peacock feather chowry, and driving away the flies; and on the right Jamahdar Khoossial Singh, also on foot, bearing a golden punkah; on the left was the late Maha Rajah's principal chutry bearer, carrying a golden chutry, and immediately behind came his personal servants, such as dressers, chowry walla, cup bearer, &c. A little behind came four khassahs, containing the ashes of the four ranees, burnt with him, followed by a fifth, containing the ashes of the seven slaves also burnt with him, and immediately behind marched his favourite horses, covered with gold; about 50 paces behind them came the heir to the throne, Kurruck Singh, on an elephant, dressed in plain white muslin, followed at a short distance by the whole court in the same dress, without any kind of arms, and mounted on elephants. On arriving at the Delhi Gate, the procession received a salute of eleven cartridges per gun from Captain Ford's, Elli Bukh's, Emamsha's, and Sooltan Mamood's artillery (amounting to about 26 pieces), and proceeded through a street, formed of a squadron of the body guard, Captain Ford's, and Mr. Steinbach's two battalions of infantry, at a slow pace; and receiving the salute of those two regiments, turned towards Hamb (a favourite barrah durry of the late Maha Rajah, about six miles from Lahore,) being the first march. The Sikh troops, accompanying the remains, are said to be in a high state of discipline and order, and do great credit to their different commanders, especially a squadron of the lancers under Captain De la Roche's command, who are a remarkably fine body of men, and well equipped. A few days before the Maha Rajah died, he gave away to fuckeers gold and silver howdahs, elephants, horses, saddles, and bridles of the most costly articles covered with jewels and precious stones of all kinds and descriptions, gold and silver plates, precious stones, shawls, cows, buffaloes, hard cash, in gold and silver, &c. amounting, people say, to a crore of rupees. The late Maha Rajah, from the day of his illness to that of his death, must have given away to fuckeers, brahmins, &c. nearly three crores of rupees, including what he sent to Gaya Gaya and Juggernaut. Runjeet Singh has left the celebrated diamond, called the "Khah-i-noor," or Mountain of Light, which has so long been coveted by all the princes of India, as a legacy to be worn by the chief idol of Juggernaut. THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE, K.T. Sept. 13. At Thirlstane castle, co. Berwick, aged 80, the Right Hon. James Maitland, ninth Baron Maitland of Thirlestane (1590), eighth Viscount of Lauderdale (1616), Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount Maitland, and Lord Thirlstane and Boltoun (1624), all dignities in the peerage of Scotland; Baron Lauderdale of Thirlestane, in the peerage of the United Kingdom (1806); a Baronet of Nova Scotia (1672); K.T. ; a Privy Councillor, Heritable Standard-bearer and Marshal of the Queen's Household in Scotland, &c. &c. His Lordship was born at Hatton, co. Edinb. on the 26th Jan. 1759, the second but eldest surviving son of James the seventh Earl, by Mary Turner, only daughter of Sir Thomas Lombe, Knt. Alderman of London. He was early placed under the superintendence of the learned Andrew Dalzel, LL.D. afterwards Professor of Greek in the university of Edinburgh: he also studied at the College of Edinburgh and at Glasgow, where he attended the judicial lectures of Professor Millar, and he completed his education at Paris. Returning home, his Lordship was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1780; was chosen member of parliament for Newport, in Cornwall, at the general election, same year; and for Malmesbury, 1784; rendering himself conspicuous in the House of Commons by his opposition to Lord North's administration, and attaching himself to Mr. Fox, the friendship of whom his Lordship considered as the honour of his private life, and a steady adherence to his political principles, as the sole merit of his public character.* He was an energetic supporter of Mr. Fox's India Bill, and one of the managers of Hastings's impeachment. Succeeding his father, 1789, his seat in the House of Commons became *It is a singular coincidence, that Mr. Fox and Lord Lauderdale, two of the most intimate friends that ever lived, were born on the same day (24th January) and died on the same day (13th September).-Mr. Fox was ten years older than Lord Lauderdale, and Lord Lauderdale survived Mr. Fox 33 years. |