ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD HAMILTON, BART., one of the most
distinguished officers in the navy, died on the 20th ult. His most
memorable action was in 1799, when as captain of the Surprise,
with the boats of that ship, he boarded and brought out from
under the batteries of Porto Cavallo the (late British) frigate
Hermione, of 44 guns and 390 men, in which service he was
severely wounded, and for which he was awarded a gold medal.

MAJOR-GENERAL PARKER, C.B., Royal Artillery, for many
years Lieut.-Governor of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich,
died on the 25th ult., after a short illness.

SIR GILBERT HEATHCOTE, BART.,of Normanton park, Rutland,
and of Durdans, county of Surrey, died on the 26th ult., aged
seventy-seven.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES CORNWALLIS MICHELL, K.H.,
K.B.A., K.T.S., late Surveyor-General at the Cape of Good
Hope, died on the 28th ult., at Eltham, Kent, aged fifty-eight,
after three years of acute suffering from disease of the heart,
contracted in his onerous official duties during twenty years in
that colony.

REAR-ADMIRAL JOHN TOUP NICOLAS, C.B., died on the 1st inst.,
at Plymouth, in his sixty-third year.

GENERAL SIR J. McLEOD, C.B., K.C.H., Colonel of the 77th
Regiment, died on the 3rd inst., after a long and painful illness.

LORD MONCRIEFF, one of the Scottish Lords of Session, died
in Edinburgh, aged seventy-five. He was almost the last of
the distinguished contemporaries of Jeffrey, Cranstoun, and
Clerk, in the Parliament house.

Mr JOHN DICKENS, of the Daily News, died on the 31st ult.,
at his residence in Keppel Street, Russell Square, in his 66th
year.

THE MARCHIONESS OF LANSDOWNE died at Bowood park,
Wilts, on the 3rd inst., in the sixty-sixth year of her age. Her
ladyship was the fifth daughter of the second Earl of Ilchester,
and was married to the Marquis of Lansdowne, then Lord Henry
Petty, in 1808.

THE HON. F. SAVILLE on the 3rd. inst., at Coblentz. He
was fifth son of the Earl and Countess of Mexborough, and
brother to Lord Pollington, late M.P. for Pontefract.

THE HON. CAPT. DUDLEY PELHAM, R.N., M.P., died on the
13th, at his residence in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, in
his thirty-ninth year. He was youngest son of the late, and
brother to the present, Earl of Yarborough.

VICE-ADMIRAL T. BROWNE died on the 8th inst., at the age of
eighty-three. He entered the navy in 1782.

COLONEL W. M. SLOANE, late of the British Auxiliary Legion
in Spain, and formerly in the 67th Regiment, in which he served
in India, died on the 10th inst.

PRINCE WITTGENSTEIN, Minister of the Royal House of
Prussia, died on the 11th inst., at Berlin, at the age of eighty-
one. He had been in the service of the State fifty-six years,
and had filled the post in which he died since 1819.

CAPT. JOHN DAVEY CUNNINGHAM, of the Bengal Engineers,
the eldest son of the late Allan Cunningham, whose "History
of the Sikhs," published in 1849, gave such offence to the home
authorities as to cause his removal from political employ at
Bhopaul, died in Bengal on the 28th February. He had been
from that time up to the present without any really remunerative
employment, but just before his death he had been posted
to the charge of the Meerut division of public works.

HENRY, LORD LANGDALE, late Master of the Rolls, died on
the 18th, in his 67th year.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

THE most recent news from the Cape is not of the most encouraging kind. While the Hottentots appear
to be taking a greater interest in the strife, and joining the Caffirs, the Boers and Burghers are growing
more and more indifferent to it, and turning off in apathy from both; nor is it very encouraging to us here
at home to see the significant statements thus early thrown out, to the effect that the losses of the colonists
generally must already be reckoned by hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling. It is not that the Caffirs
are not beaten whenever they come into direct collision with the troops; but that it is next to impossible to
force them into anything like regular engagements. The war is of the guerilla sort; and accompanied,
therefore, as such warfare always is, by the most frightful and unavoidable ravages of property. It is difficult
to see the end of such strife, and certainly the proclamations of Sir Harry Smith himself do not seem to be
at all sanguine of an early termination. It is lamentable to observe, turning to the colony of Van Diemen's
Land, that the differences and quarrels on the subject of convict and anti-convict settlements (each faction
now forming themselves into rival and contending "leagues") are manifestly and widely increasing.

The Overland Mail brings accounts from Bombay, to
the 17th of March. Major-General Sir Dudley St.
Leger Hill, K.C.B., commanding the Sirhind division
of the Bengal army, died suddenly at Umballa on the
21st of February. The gallant officer was walking in
his garden when he suddenly fell ill, staggered against
a tree, and, in a very short time, was no more.

From Peshawur there are accounts of a daring outrage
committed by some marauders of the hills on a Miss
Curling and Captain Grantham, of H.M. 98th, who
were out riding a few miles from the cantonment. A
few ruffians having emerged from their hiding-place
and laid hold of the young lady's horse, the captain
dismounted to make them let go, when they set on him with
their swords, and cut him down, and then threw him
into a ditch for dead, making off with the two horses.
The young lady returned on foot to the cantonments, and
related what had happened, when a party was sent out
in search of the wounded gentleman, whom they
discovered almost lifeless where he had been thrown.
He was by last advices out of danger, but one of his
hands had been obliged to be amputated.

The fine old Bombay ship the Buckinghamshire has
fallen a victim to incendiarism in the Hooghley: she
was destroyed by fire on the night of the 3rd of March,
a little below Diamond Harbour. She was bound for
London with invalids of her Majesty's service, and a
number of cabin passengers, besides a cargo valued at
£80,0007—both it and the vessel were fully insured. Two
invalids, and two of the crew were drowned. She had
thirty Bombay Lascars as part of her crew, who are
believed to be her destroyers. Everything on board
was totally destroyed, and the passengers left with
nothing but the clothes on their backs.

At Nepaul a conspiracy has been discovered for the
murder of Jung Bahadoor, the prince whose residence in
London excited so much attention lost year. The
murder was to have been committed on the 17th of
February, as the minister was on his way to the Durbar.
The conspirators were the Mahila Saihb, the Maharajah's
brother, General Budea Nar Sing, his brother. General
Jaie Bahadoor, the cousin of his intended victim,
together with Khurbeer Khutree, one of the chiefs who
accompanied the minister to Europe. The plot was
discovered through the treachery of one of the
conspirators near midnight on the 16th, and the plotters,
finding too much known for concealment, confessed the
rest.

The West India Mail has brought advices from the
different colonies to the end of last month. In Jamaica
cases of cholera were still reported.—A public meeting
of merchants and other inhabitants of British Guiana,
was held at George Town on the 8th of March, for the
purpose of considering the present state of the taxation
and expenditure of the Colony; when resolutions were
passed that a large reduction was urgently required, and
that the meeting desired to impress upon the Combined
Court, the necessity of effecting every practicable
reduction of taxation, by exercising the utmost possible
retrenchment in the public expenditure.—From the
other colonics there is no news of importance.

The Cape Town journals bring accounts from the seat
of war to the end of February. On the 23rd of that
month, a very important service was accomplished by
Colonel Somerset. Fort Armstrong, which we had