LADY MARY KNOX, so well known in Dublin for her
evangelical piety, died on the 29th of August, at the age of ninety-
four. She was sister to the late Earl of Meath, and the widow
of Arthur Knox, Esq., who died in 1798.

SIR WILLIAM PARKE died at his seat, Dunally, in the county
of Sligo, on the 1st inst., after a protracted illness, aged 73 years.
He for many years filled the office of Deputy-Lieutenant and
Justice of the Peace for the county of Sligo, and was formerly
Lieutenant-Colonel in her Majesty's 66th Regiment.

THE REV. THOMAS TIERNEY died lately, at the age of 72. He
was one of the celebrities of the memorable year 1843, having
been included in the monster indictment against O'Connell and
his brother repealers.

Mr. CHARLES KÖNIG, for nearly fifty years keeper of the
mineralogical department of the British Museum, died suddenly
on the 29th of August, at the age of 78.

Dr. JOHN KIDD, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, died
on the 17th, after a few hours illness. He was the author of
various important works on science, particularly the Bridgewater
Treatise "On the Adaptation of External Nature to the
Physical Condition of Man."

Mrs. FINDLAY, widow of Mr. Robert Findlay of the Excise,
died lately at Greenock. She was Miss Markland, one of "the
six Mauchline belles," celebrated by Bums.

Mr. JAMES RICHARDSON, the enterprising African traveller,
died on the 4th of March last, at a small village called Unguruata,
six days distant from Kouka, the capital of Bornou.

Mr. WILLIAM NICOL, F.R.S.E., died in Edinburgh on the
2nd inst., in his 83rd year. Mr. Nicol's contributions to the
"Edinburgh Philosophical Journal" were various and valuable;
but his most important contribution to physical science, and
with which his name will ever be associated, was his invention
of the single image prism of calcareous spar, known to the
scientific world as Nicol's prism.

Miss SHIEL, sister to the late Right Hon. Richard Lalor Shiel,
died suddenly at Waterford on the 6th inst., after an illness of
but two hours. Like that of her distinguished brother, the
death of Miss Shiel was quite sudden and unexpected.

Mr. T. ANSTEY, of Van Diemen's Land, died in March last,
at Anstey Barton, his seat in that colony, and where he had
settled for some years. He was father to Mr. Chisholm
Anstey, M.P. for the borough of Youghal.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

THE principal feature of the month's colonial news, in its good and evil aspect, is elsewhere spoken of.
What remains for allusion here has a pure unmitigated character of evil, with not an element in it of
countervailing good. A large batch of dispatches from Sir Harry Smith relates a series of successes of the British
army against the Kaffir savages of a kind so peculiar that another such batch would be tantamount
to a total defeat. Sir Harry carries triumphantly every manœuvre he projects, and then finds himself
simply in the position of having a great many more manœuvres to execute, each as ingenious, as successfull,
and as profitless as its predecessor. The character of the country precludes the possibility of fully
occupying it with troops, and the multitude of our enemies seems as effectually to prevent their defeat in
any other way. In such a state of things the ordinary usages of war are no match for those of robbery and
murder. The Kaffirs have clearly the best of it, and the prospect of any termination to the struggle is
more distant than ever. In India the affair of the Nizam of Hyderabad has passed off very quietly, as we
ventured to predict. A sum so substantial has been lodged for the present towards the overdue arrears,
and such good security has been given for partial liquidation of the rest, that the actual confiscation of
the territory is suspended; but what has taken place in so many other similar cases cannot, of course, be
avoided in this, and the British government has only to wait its time.

The latest arrival from India brings news from
Calcutta to the 7th of August. An arrangement has been
made with the Nizam, according to which he is to pay
to the government 40 lacs of rupees, the remainder in
one year, and give security for the regular payment of
his contingent. None of his provinces have been
occupied. It would seem that there is still a chance of
preserving the integrity of his territories, and satisfying
for a time, at least, the claims of the British government.
Among other means to which the Nizam has
been obliged to resort, is that of pledging the Hyderabad
jewels, for which it is said negotiations are still pending.
The private soldier of her Majesty's 10th regiment who
was tried by court-martial for the murder of a Sikh
colonel, has been condemned to death, but recommended
to the mercy of the commander-in-chief, who, however,
was deaf to the appeal, and Rosney has been left for
execution. The ex-Dewan Moolraj left Calcutta at the
end of last month for Allahabad, under a strong guard,
commanded by a European officer; he was very unwell,
and in a state of extreme debility.

The accounts from Hongkong speak of still nearer
impending danger to the reigning dynasty at Pekin. It
was reported that the insurgents had captured and
sacked Kwei-lin, the capital of Kwang-sei, and that they
had shown themselves in the Toong-koon district, mid-
way between Hongkong and Canton. A letter has been
addressed by the Superintendent of Trade at Hongkong
to the chairman of the Canton British Chamber of
Commerce, acquainting him, for the information of the
mercantile community, that the Chinese Imperial
Commissioner had refused the demand on the part of her
Majesty's plenipotentiary there to abolish the duties,
charges, and restrictions on tea, but that he had
consented to transmit her Majesty's plenipotentiary's note
on the subject to the Imperial Cabinet at Pekin. A letter
has also been received from her Majesty's consul at Canton
to the Chinese Superintendent of Customs, informing
him that in future all interference on the part of the
consulate in the collection of duties will cease, and that
British merchants will therefore be allowed, like other
foreigners, to arrange their business with his Excellency's
officers through a linguist. A similar notification will,
no doubt, be made by the consuls at Shanghai and the
other ports.

The West India Mail brings dates to the end of last,
and the beginning of this month. On the 17th of
August, a dreadful hurricane was felt in the West
Indies, from St. Thomas along the whole line of islands
to the northward of St. Lucia. The hurricane was felt
severely at St. Kitts. All the small craft were destroyed.
At Antigua several mills were upset, and others injured,
but no lives were lost, and the shipping almost escaped.
At Montserrat, Dominica, and Martinique, several
vessels were wrecked, or run ashore.

The crops in most of the Windward Islands may be
said to be finished, and in all have been better than
those of last year. The weather on the whole has been
favourable, for the hurricane has not done much damage
to the crops. Barbadoes and Trinidad escaped it
altogether.

In Trinidad the weather had been rainy, so much so
as to have retarded vegetation in certain localities, but
generally the young canes were promising. The greater
part of the Trinidad coolies were in the city of Port of
Spain, claiming either their passage back to the East
Indies, or a further bounty of 50 dollars, on condition
of fulfilling five years of additional agricultural servitude
in the colony. The crop was over throughout the
island, and the amount of produce shipped to date was
—sugar, 27,439 hhds., 3,393 tierces, 7,538 barrels, and
10,342 puncheons; cocoa, 4,342,392 lbs.; coffee, 61,861
lbs. The market was well supplied with all sorts of
American provisions.

In Barbadoes the influenza had prevailed to such an
extent, that the House of Assembly had been unable to
meet.