The Earl of Eglinton and Winton has been installed
as Lord Rector of Marischal College and University,
Aberdeen.

Lord Edward Russell has been appointed to the
command of the Vengeance, now being refitted for
service at Portsmouth, and intended for the Mediterranean
station.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

JOANNA BAILLIE, a poet whose fame is indelibly inscribed on
the annals of our literature, died at her house at Hampstead on
the 24th ult., in the eighty-ninth year of her age, having been
born in the year 1762, in the manse of Bothwell, near Glasgow,
of which place her father was minister. Her elder sister, Miss
Agnes Baillie, survives her, at the age of ninety-two.

ALDERMAN SIR JOHN PIRIE, BART., died on the 28th ult., at
his residence, Champion Hill, Surrey.

The HON. MISS DE ROS, daughter of Lord and Lady De Ros,
and niece to the Duke of Richmond, died on the 21st ult., after a
short illness, in the twenty-fourth year of her age.

SIR W. OWEN BARLOW, BART., was seized with sudden
illness at the Reform Club, on the 24th ult., after dinner, and was
conveyed home to his chambers in the Temple, where he died
early the next morning. He was in his seventy-sixth year.

The DOWAGER COUNTESS OF CHARLEVILLE died at her
residence, No. 14, Cavendish Square, on the 25th ult., after a
long and painful illness, in her eighty-ninth year.

The REV. HENRY LORD BERNERS died at his seat, Kirby Cane,
Norfolk, on the 26th ult., in the eighty-ninth year of his age.

The EARL OF HARRINGTON died on the 3rd inst., at Brighton,
after a short illness, in his seventy-first year.

M. GEORGE BRENTANO, the oldest banker at Frankfort-on-the-Maine,
died lately in that city, aged eighty-eight. He was
brother of two persons well known in the world of letters,
M. Clement Brentano and the Countess Bettina d'Arnim, the
correspondent of Goethe.

LORD DE LISLE AND DUDLEY died on the 4th inst., at the
family seat, Penshurst, near Tunbridge, in his fifty-first year.

REAR-ADMIRAL COLIN CAMPBELL died on the 3rd inst., near
Uxbridge, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He had seen
considerable service afloat, and commanded the Minstrel sloop
at the capture of a convoy at Palamos in 1810. He had been a
commissioned officer forty-five years.

The COUNTESS OF ATHLONE died on the 4th inst., at her
residence in South Street.

SIR ALEXANDER HOOD, BART., of Wootton House, Somerset
and member for the Western Division of that county, died in
London, on the 7th inst., in his fifty-eighth year.

MARIA, COUNTESS DOWAGER OF SEFTON, died in Arlington
Street, on the 9th inst., in her eighty-first year.

MRS. CHARROTT died on the 9th inst., at Stoke, Guildford, in
her ninety-fourth year.

SIR EDMUND WALLER, BART., died on the 9th inst., after a
long illness, at Brighton, in the fifty-fifth year of his age.

The EARL OF ALBEMARLE died on the 15th inst., in his fifty-
seventh year.

The EARL OF MEATH died on the 15th inst., at Great Malvern,
in his eightieth year.

DR. JAMES ALLAN, Deputy Medical Inspector of Hospitals
and Fleets, in commission at the Royal Naval Hospital at
Haslar, died on the 18th inst., aged fifty-eight.

PROFESSOR OERSTED, the well-known Danish natural philosopher,
died at Copenhagen, on the 9th inst., in his seventy-fourth
year.

SIR STAFFORD HENRY NORTHCOTE, BART., died at his seat.
Pynes, in Devonshire, on the 17th inst., in his eighty-ninth year.

The MARCHIONESS OF LANSDOWNE died at Bowood Park, on
the 24th, after a severe illness.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

THE interest of all other colonial intelligence is absorbed by the sudden breaking out of  another Caffre
war at the Cape. This is the fifth similar outbreak since we had possession of this miserable dependency,
and these five revolts have had to be suppressed at a cost far more than we are likely to realise by the nett
revenue of the settlement for the whole of the next century. People naturally shake their heads at such a
balance-sheet as that! Nor is it quite clear that the present rebellion and its immediate predecessor have
not, in a great degree, been provoked by our own indiscreet administration. Admitted ignorance of Caffre
habits has certainly been evinced in the policy adopted to the savages; and in dealing with the original Dutch
settlers (a class that may be said in some respects to resemble the Orangemen of Ireland), we have so
managed matters as to render them thoroughly indifferent, if not disaffected, to our rule. It will be well to
inquire into these matters when the present war shall have been brought to a close, and the bill of charges
for it comes to be discussed.

The news from India by the overland mail which
left Bombay on the 17th February are unimportant.
—In the British territory, tranquillity prevails. Lord
Dalhousie is occupied with education in the Punjaub,
and meets with warm and efficient support from the
inhabitants. It is stated that 450 miles of canals are now
under construction in that province. The Bombay
journals state that the fort of Dharoor, which revolted
against the Nizam, had been reduced by a British
contingent under Brigadier Beatson; and they report that
a large slice of the Nizam's dominions is about to be
ceded in satisfaction of the £600,000 due to us for the
pay of our contingent.

The city of Rangoon, in Burmah, was almost wholly
destroyed by fire on the 28th of December. A man
engaged in boiling some oil went out to see a Burmese
ship-of-war just then arrived in harbour; he forgot his
charge, the oil boiled over, and the house was in a
moment in flames. The fire spread instantly through
the streets, the bulk of the houses being of wood.
Several ships in the harbour were burnt to the water's
edge. The property destroyed is valued at £300,000.

The West India Mail brings accounts from the
different colonies down to the end of last month. In
Jamaica the cholera had ceased to exist on the south
side of the island, but on the northern shores and in all
the seaport towns it continued to add fresh victims,
daily to swell the catalogue of death; it even went up
the hills of St. James's as far as the military garrison
of Maroon town, where several were attacked. In some
of the rural districts where the epidemic had committed
great ravages it was feared that the crops (which are
very fine) would not be cut down in time; and, therefore,
a considerable deficiency of sugar is anticipated.
An election took place for a member of Assembly for
the parish of Portland on the 24th ult., when a brown
man named Christopher Walters, who has gained a vast
influence over the constituency, was elected. Mr.
Walters is a shoemaker, and known to the political
world as the "political cobbler." He was elected by a
majority, over two opponents, far exceeding the number
of votes polled by either of them.

In British Guiana, the session of the Combined
Court opened on the 20th with a speech from Governor
Barkly, which had given much satisfaction in the colony.
So flourishing were the finances that his Excellency had
recommended to the Court a bold and comprehensive
measure for the reduction of those burdens which press
most heavily on the poorer classes of society. The
speech suggested to the Court an immediate reduction
in taxation to the extent of 200,000 dollars, which it
was thought could be effected without danger. The
colony was very healthy, and the weather had been
favourable to the planters. The accounts from Trinidad
and the other islands contain nothing remarkable.

The accounts from the Cape of Good Hope are of a
painful nature. Another Caffre war has begun. It
will be remembered that Sandilli, the great Caffre chief,
was lately deposed by Sir Harry Smith, in consequence
of his absence from the assembly of chiefs summoned