who has been appointed a Lord of Session, in the
vacancy caused by the death of Lord Dundrennan.

Obituary of Notable Persons

CAROLINE HENRIETTA SHERIDAN, daughter of Colonel Callander
of Craigforth and widow of Thomas Sheridan, Esq., died at
the house of her daughter, Lady Dufferin, on the 9th inst. Mrs.
Sheridan was the author of several literary works of merit.

Sir J. GRAHAM J. DALZELL, BART., died on the 7th inst., at his
residence in Edinburgh, aged seventy-seven years. The deceased
was well known in the literary and scientific world. He was
president of the Society for promoting Useful Arts in Scotland,
vice-president of the African Institute of Paris, and author of
several works on science and history, and of various articles in
the "Encyclopædia Britannica."

THE ARCHDEACON OF DUBLIN, DR. JOHN TORRENS, died, after
a long illness, on the 9th inst., in the eighty-third year of his
age.

VISCOUNT MELVILLE, died on the 10th inst.. at Melville
Castle, near Lasswade, in the county of Edinburgh.

THOMAS MAITLAND, LORD DUNDRENNAN, one of the Scottish
judges, died on the 10th inst., at his residence, George Street,
Edinburgh.

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES MALCOLM, died at Brighton on
the 14th inst., in the sixty-ninth year of his age.

SIR DAVID SCOTT BART., K.H., died on the I8th inst., at
Gloucester Place.

SIR CHARLES BANNERMAN of Elsick, died on the I8th inst.
He was the eighth baronet of the family, which is of considerable
antiquity, being descended from the hereditary banner-
bearers of the Kings of Scotland in the 10th and 11th centuries.

We have to record the death, at the age of eighty-eight, of
Mr. THOMAS WRIGHT HILL, one of the great improvers of education
during the present century. Hazelwood School, near
Birmingham, established by Mr. Hill, was the most successful,
as it was the first, large experiment made in this country, as to
the practicability of governing boys by other principles than
that of terror, of extending the range of scholastic acquirements
beyond a superficial knowledge of the learned languages, and of
making the acquisition of sound knowledge not only a duty but
a delight.

THE RIGHT HON. RICHARD LALOR SHEIL, British Minister at
Florence, died there on the 25th of May, of gout in the stomach.

THE EARL of SHAFTSBURY died on the 2nd inst., at his seat in
Dorsetshire, in his eighty-third year.

LIEUT-GEN SIR JOHN GARDENER, K.C.B., Colonel of the 6th
Regiment, died at his residence in Eaton Place, on the 6th inst.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

THE rebellion at the Cape does not appear to have yet received any decisive check, though such successes as
are reported are invariably on the side of the regular troops; but the step taken by the home government
in sending out a commisson of inquiry to the Colony itself, not simply with reference to the present, strife
and its causes, but to decide how far such calamities and losses may be avoidable in future, is generally
admitted to be a sound act of policy. The only other prominent subject in the month's news from our
distant dependencies is the remarkable trial, at Agra, of the Hindoo agent and contractor, Jotee Persaud; which,
in its bearing on the existing government of India, is worth study for the curious points of resemblance as
well as contrast which it presents to those famous cases against the government of Warren Hastings, which
the imperishable eloquence of Edmund Burke preserves still in all the most vivid colouring of their time.

The latest intelligence from India and China is of no
political interest. Tranquillity prevails in every part of
India. The Governor-General was to be at Simlah by
the 12th of May, and was expected to proceed thence to
Kunawar, in the Himalayahs, and on the return of cold
weather to Calcutta. Sir William Gomm has purchased
a house at Simlah, where he intends to reside during
his term of service in India.

Oil the western frontier of the Punjaub the robberies
and murders continue to be committed by the hill tribes.
The payment of black mail, on some parts of the
immense line open to their depredations, has only served
to encourage their system of aggression. A hope had
been entertained that decided operations would have
been determined on by the Governor-General during his
stay at Peshawur; but matters appear to be nearly in
the same position as six months ago.

There has been another case of ship burning at
Calcutta, attended with a dreadful sacrifice of human life.
The country ship Kurramany, proceeding down the
river, bound to Mauritius with upwards of 350 Coolie
emigrants on board, was burnt to the water's edge on
the night of the 6th of May, when off Kedgeree. The
captain (Hogg), the chief mate, and the pilot, together
with about one-half of the crew and a few of the
emigrants, have alone been saved. Upwards of 300
unfortunate people perished by drowning and in the flames.
There seems to be no doubt that this was the work of
incendiaries.

A great sensation has been produced by the trial, in
the criminal court at Agra, of Jotee Persaud, a wealthy
Hindoo banker, on the charges of Swindling and
Perjury. He had held contracts for supplying the
commissariats of the Indian armies during the campaigns in
Cabool and against the Sikhs, and his claims against the
government reached the sum of £570,000. After the
restoration of peace, he was unable to obtain any settlement
of his accounts, and at length, after repeated
postponements and vexatious delays, he gave notice of a
civil action against the government in the supreme
court of Calcutta. This was met by a cross action
against him on the ground that his accounts contained
fraudulent overcharges; and as his agent had sworn to
the correctness of his impeached accounts, he himself
was indicted for perjury committed through the medium
of his servant. After a trial of twelve days the utter
groundlessness of every charge against him was fully
established, and a verdict of acquittal was given, with
the unanimous concurrence of public opinion.

There is little news in the West India papers. The
cholera still lingered in Jamaica, and had appeared in
several places hitherto exempt. At Mountain Valley
the people had refused to bury their dead. The Jamaica
and Trinidad papers speak in high terms of the state of
the weather and the prospects of the crops.

Advices from the Ionian Islands state that the Lord
High Commissioner has prorogued the parliament to
the 8th of October next.

The Canadian Parliament met at Toronto on the 20th
May. The Governor-general stated in his speech that
the revenue from customs and canals is increasing; that
the alteration of the Post-office rates has been followed
by a great increase in letters; and that the change in
the Imperial Navigation-laws has increased the resort
of foreign shipping to Canadian ports; but that the
Emigration act provokes complaint, as unfavourable to
the import trade of the colony. The arbitrators
appointed to settle the boundary dispute with New
Brunswick have reported. A measure will be
introduced for reducing the civil list, and an increase in
Parliamentary representation is recommended; also
amendments in the school and municipal laws of Lower
Canada.

On the 23rd, the Government suffered a defeat: it
resisted a motion to introduce a bill for preventing the
expenditure of public money not authorised by the
Parliament, and was outvoted by 26 to 25.

There are advices from the Cape of Good Hope to the
2nd of May. The most important intelligence is the
defection of Kreili, a powerful chief, who has openly