Bishopric of Hereford, died on the 4th at the Vicarage, Madley.
He was about 54 years of age.

Sir Archibald GALLOWAY, Chairman of the Hon. East India
Company, died on the 6th, in Upper Harley Street, aged 74,
after a few hours' illness. He transacted business at the India
House on the 4th, and presided at the banquet recently given
by the directors of the East India Company to Lord Gough.
His chairmanship would have expired on the 12th.

Madame GRANDIN, the widow of M Victor Grandin, representative
of the Seine Inférieure, who died about seven or eight
months since, met with a melancholy end on the 6th, at her
residence at Elbœuf. She was confined to her bed from illness,
and the women, who had been watching by her during the night,
had left her but a short time, when the most piercing shrieks
were heard to proceed from her room. Her brother ran in alarm
to her assistance, but unfortunately he was too late, the poor
lady had expired, having been burnt in her bed. It is supposed
that in reaching to take something from the table, her nightdress
came in contact with the lamp, and thus communicated to
the bed.

Rear-Admiral HILLS died on the 8th, at his seat, Askerhill,
Essex, aged 73. He became a lieutenant in 1798, and a
post-captain in 1814. The deceased was a midshipman of the
Eclair at the occupation of Toulon, and was lieutenant of the
Amethyst at the capture of various prizes during the late war.

Dr. PROUT, F.R.S., expired in Sackville-street, Piccadilly, on the
9th, at an advanced age. He was till lately in extensive practice
as a physician, besides being a successful author.

The Rev. William Lisle BOWLES, canon of Salisbury, and
rector of Bremhill, Wilts, died in the Close, Salisbury, on the
7th, at the age of 89. He once enjoyed a high reputation as a
poet and a critic; in the former capacity he is best known by his
sonnets, in the latter by a controversy with Lord Byron. He
was the intimate friend of Moore, Rogers, Crabbe, and Southey.

Captain SMITH, R.N., the Admiralty superintendent of packets
at Southampton, died on the 8th unexpectedly. He was
distinguished as the inventor of paddle-box boats for steamers, and
of the movable target for practising naval gunnery. He entered
the navy in 1808, and saw a good deal of service till the close of
the war.

Madame TUSSAUD, the well-known exhibitor of wax figures,
died on the 10th, in her 90th year. She was a native of Berne,
but left Switzerland when but six years old for Paris, where she
became a pupil of her uncle, M. Curtius, "artiste to Louis XVI.,
by whom she was instructed in the fine arts, of which he was an
eminent professor. Madame Tussaud prided herself upon the
fact of having instructed Madame Elizabeth to draw and model,
and she continued to be employed by that princess until October,
1789. She passed unharmed through the horrors of the
Revolution, perhaps by reason of her peculiar ability as a
modeller; for she was employed to take heads of most of the
Revolutionary leaders. She came to England in 1802, and has from
that time been occupied in gathering the popular exhibition now
exhibiting in Baker-street. She has left a large family of children
and grand-children in this her adopted country.

Lieut.-General Sir James BATHURST, K.C.B., died at Kibworth
Rectory, Leicestershire, on the 13th, in his 68th year. When he
entered the army in 1794, if his age be correctly stated, he could
have been only twelve years of age. He served at Gibraltar
and in the West Indies, the capture of Surinam, the campaign
in Egypt of 1801, in the expedition to Hanover, and in the
actions fought for the relief of Dantzic, as well as in those of
Lomitten, Deppen, Gutstadt, Heilsberg, and Friedland. Subsequently
ho served at Rugen and at the siege of Copenhagen. In
1808 and 1809 he served with the army in Portugal and Spain
as assistant quartermaster-general, and as military secretary to
the Duke of Wellington. The appointment of governor of
Berwick, of the annual value of £568, which he held, will not be
filled up.

Madame DULCKEN died on the 13th, in Harley-street, aged 38.
She was the sister of the celebrated violinist, David, and had
been for many years resident in this country, where she held a
conspicuous position among the most eminent professors of the
pianoforte.

The Duchess of MARLBOROUGH was confined with a still-born
infant some five weeks ago, and was considered to be rapidly
progressing to recovery. A severe mental shock, however, which
she unfortunately experienced about a fortnight ago, took such a
powerful hold of the nervous system, that her Grace never
rallied, and finally sank under its baneful influence at an early
hour on the 20th. The Duchess, it will be remembered, had a
taste for the sports of the field— was a bold and graceful horse-
woman, and a good shot.

William WORDSWORTH died at his residence of Rydal Mount,
Windermere, on the 23rd inst., in his eightieth year, having been
born at Cockermouth in 1770. He was distributor of stamps for
Westmoreland and Cumberland; and appointed Poet Laureate
on the death of Southey. As the author of the "Lyrical Ballads"
and "The Excursion," his name will descend to posterity as one
of the best English Poets.

              COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES

THE Foreign possessions of Great Britain have furnished no startling items of intelligence this month—
a circumstance to be regarded as of excellent augury. The adage that "no news is good news," has an
especial application to our Asiatic possessions, for there it means peace; and peace implies, in these days of
commercial enterprise, prosperity. The East Indies furnish accounts of a small exception to the general
tranquillity; some of our troops having had an unsuccessful encounter with a wild tribe in the Kohat hills.

From the West Indies, little is to be learned; but that little appears cheering. Jamaica promises to
rise out of her ruin by the help of cotton; the experiment of cultivating that plant having succeeded
in some instances beyond expectation.

The Australian Colonies (our pen-and-ink journies are more rapid than Puck's, for we "put a girdle round
the earth" in less than "forty minutes") are alive with excitement about the new Bill, now in discussion at
Westminster for their better government.—There is great rejoicing at the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town
is blazing with illuminations, and mildly letting off its joy in fireworks, after successfully resisting the
Colonial Office in its design of sending convicts thither. In this case, as in many others, we are naturally
visited with the consequences of old misconduct. We cannot reasonably wonder, knowing what we have
done in New South Wales, that our colonists elsewhere should have a horror of convict contributions from
the mother country.

The two Overland Mails from India which arrived
during this month brought dates from Bombay up
to March 16, Calcutta, March 7, and Madras, March 13.
There had been some fighting in the newly acquired
territories. On the 2nd of February a body of Affredies,
inhabitants of the Kohat hills, about a thousand strong,
attacked the camp of a party of our sappers, employed in
making a road in a pass between Peshawur and Kohat.
Twelve of our men were killed, six wounded, and the camp
was plundered. To avenge this massacre a strong force
under Colonel Bradshaw, Sir Charles Napier himself,
with Sir John Campbell accompanying him, marched
from Peshawur on the 9th. The mountaineers made
a stand in every pass and defile; but although our
troops destroyed six villages and killed a great number
of the enemy, they were obliged to return to Peshawur
on the 11th without having accomplished their object.
On the 14th February another force was sent to regain
the passes and to keep them open for a larger armament.
A letter from an officer in the 60th Rifies gives details
of the expedition; here are some extracts;—We had to
march to a large village, by name Kohat, about 40 miles
away to the hills, by forced marchs. When we arrived
there, we found that the robbers had betaken themselves
to the hills, with all their property and families, while
they were shooting at our party and attacking our
pickets, who crowned the hills, without our being
able to molest them in return. We burned all their
villages, spoiled their crops, destroyed their water, and
did all the harm we could. But the day we left, we
and the 31st Bengal Native Infantry regiment were
descending the hills when the robbers came to the heights
and killed and wounded a hundred of us. Poor Lieutenant
Sitwell, of the 31st Regiment, was, before we
could come to his rescue, cut to pieces before our eyes.
He was a most dear friend of mine, and a very handsome
fellow. Lieutenant Hilliard, of 23rd Regiment, was shot
through the lungs; many native officers were killed.
The pass we had to go through was a very difficult and
dangerous one, and Sir Charles Napier himself had some
most providential escapes, as also myself, for my horse
was shot under me by a matchlock ball. Several artillery-