Colonel Jolliffe received his commission as Second Lieutenant in 1807; and shortly after joined H.M.S. Theseus, and was in her when she formed part of the squadron under Lord Gambier in the Basque Roads, and also when she accompanied the expedition to Walcheren.

In 1811 he was appointed to the Africaine, and served in that ship about five years on the East Indian station. On her being paid off (having previously been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant), he was placed on the half-pay peace establishment and retired to Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight, where he devoted his time to agricultural pursuits by taking the farm which had long been in the possession of his family. From this secluded life he was again (in 1826) called into active service, and ordered to join the Portsmouth division, subsequently serving in the Victory and the Britannia, in the latter ship with Vice-Adm. Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Mediterranean. In 1834 he was promoted to the rank of Captain, and in 1837 joined the Edinburgh at Lisbon, and went in her to the West Indies and back to the Mediterranean, and landed at D'Jouni in command of her detachment of marines. He was present, with the other marines of the fleet, during the whole of their arduous services in the Syrian campaign, in conjunction with Omar Pacha, who commanded the Turks.

Captain Jolliffe was also present, in the Edinburgh, at the bombardment and surrender of St. Jean d'Acre. He remained in the Edinburgh until she was paid off in 1841. In 1846 he was promoted to the rank of Major, and in 1851 to that of Lieut.-Colonel, and appointed to the Woolwich division. Here, in November, 1853, his services were suddenly closed by what was called by his medical advisers erratic rheumatism, which for a long twelvemonth kept him in constant and severe pain, mitigated only by the assiduous devotion of his wife and daughters.

No officer perhaps was ever more beloved by his brother officers and respected by his men than Colonel Jolliffe. A strict disciplinarian, and sensitively alive to every call of duty, he could tolerate nothing that bore the aspect of negligence or remissness. But, duty done, the men ever found him anxious for their comfort, and incessant in promoting it in every rational way. His gentlemanly and companionable manners gained him everywhere the affection of his comrades; and many a subaltern has found in Colonel Jolliffe a sincere friend as well as an able adviser.

Colonel Jolliffe married Mary, the second daughter of the late John Smith, esq. of Landguard, Isle of Wight. He has

left three daughters, and four sons, William, Captain R.M. of the St. George, in the Baltic Fleet; John, surgeon of H.M.S. the Pandora, surveying New Zealand; Joseph, Captain R.M. now on home service; and Charles, Lieut. R.M., now at Balaklava.

Colonel Jolliffe was buried in the family vault at Brading, I.W. His funeral was private, being attended only by two of his sons, his son-in-law (Mr. H. Cradock), and his brothers-in-law, Captain Smith, R.M., Mr. John Smith, and Mr. Roach Smith. The coffin was carried by some of his old servants at Shanklin, who had volunteered their services.

LIEUT.-COL. C. C. ALEXANDER. Oct. 19. Before Sebastopol, Lieut.-Colonel Charles Carson Alexander, commanding the Royal Engineers.

Colonel Alexander owed his first sword to H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, and his commission as Second- Lieutenant was dated July 20, 1813. From that time his life was one of active service, in Canada, at the Cape, St. Helena (where he was charged with the duty of superintending the exhuming the body of Napoleon), in the West Indies, and the Channel Islands, where he was on duty when selected for service in the East. On the death of Brigadier General Tylden he succeeded to the command of the Engineers and the superintendence of the engineering operations, and devoted himself with such unrelenting zeal to his duties that he seriously injured his health. He died of apoplexy in his tent, where he had flung himself on his bed, without undressing, for a short sleep, after his return from the trenches. His death was no doubt due to over-exertion; to mental and bodily wear and tear in the formation of those trenches and batteries, constructed under singular difficulties of ground, but which, tested by the Russian artillery as fieldworks never were before, have so stoutly and successfully stood the trial.

He has left a widow.

LT.-COL. JAMES HUNTER BLAIR, M.P.

Nov. 5. In the battle of Inkermann, aged 37, James Hunter Blair, esq. Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards, M.P. for the county of Ayr, and a Deputy Lieutenant of the same..

He was born at Milton in Ayrshire on the 22d March, 1817, the eldest son of Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. of Blairquhar, co. Ayr, by his first wife, Dorothea, second daughter of the late Edward Hay Mackenzie, esq. of Newhall and Cromartie (brother to George seventh Marquess of Tweeddale). He was educated at Eton, and

entered the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1835. He became Lieutenant and Captain in 1838; and Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in 1848. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Ayrshire in 1845; and was returned to parliament for that county at the last general election in July 1852, after a contest with Edward Cardwell, esq. in which he polled 1301 votes, and Mr. Cardwell 1200. Colonel Hunter Blair entered the senate as a Conservative, and a general supporter of Lord Derby's administration.

He was unmarried; and the next heir to the baronetcy is his only brother, Edward Hunter Blair, esq. of Dunskey, Wigtonshire, late of the 93rd Highlanders.

CAPTAIN NOLAN.

Oct. 25. In the cavalry charge at the battle of Balaklava, Capt. Lewis Edward Nolan, acting on the staff of Brigadier Airey, Quartermaster-general.

He was the son of the late Major Nolan, formerly of the 70th regt. and some time Vice-Consul at Milan. He first entered the military profession in the service of the Emperor of Austria, under the auspices of one of the Imperial Grand Dukes, who was a friend of his father. After a short service in Hungary, and on the Polish frontier, he obtained a commission at home, as Ensign in the 4th Foot, March 15, 1839, and in the following month was transferred to the 15th Hussars, then stationed in Madras. His talents soon attracted the notice of Sir Henry Pottinger, the Governor of that Presidency, and he was appointed an extra Aide-de-camp on his Excellency's staff. In addition to the knowledge which he already possessed of the French, German, Italian, and Hungarian languages, Lieut. Nolan, during his residence in India, became master of several of the native dialects, and entered actively into all the details of the military system in the East. Apart from these engagements he found leisure also for the sports of the field, and was several times a successful competitor in some of the most severely contested steeple-chases on the Madras turf.

The 15th Hussars being ordered home, Captain Nolan, having previously obtained his troop, returned to Europe before the regiment on leave, and proceeded on a tour in Russia; and having visited some of the most important military posts in that empire, as well as in other parts of Northern Europe, he published at the close of last year a work on the Organization, Drill, and Manoeuvres of Cavalry Corps, which had added very materially to his military reputation.

Long before the British expeditionary force to the East left our shores, the au

thorities at the Horse Guards selected this officer to proceed to Turkey to make arrangements for the reception of our cavalry, and for the purchase of horses. The government of the Sultan had honourably acknowledged his aid.

After having produced the work we have mentioned, it is remarkable that he should have fallen in a cavalry charge unprecedented in modern times, and the victim of a mistake! Captain Nolan was the bearer of a message from Lord Raglan to the commanders of the cavalry, which directed them to pursue the enemy under certain conditions. It was interpreted as an absolute order, and led to the gallant but deadly charge in which Captain Nolan and so many other officers were slain. The error, however, was not his, for the order was a written one.

Captain Nolan has left a widowed mother, who had already lost two sons in the service, to mourn the early fall of the last, who was her only pride and hope. His portrait has been published in the Illustrated London News of Nov. 25, from a picture painted in India.

COLONEL UPTON.

Among our memorials of the gallant destroyers of the fortifications of Sebastopol, it may be interesting to give some record of their principal constructor, an Englishman, who died about a year ago.

Colonel Upton, who resided for many years at Daventry, was the surveyor of the Dunchurch and Stratford road, and his name frequently appears in the Parliamentary reports of the Commissioners of the Holyhead road, between the years 1818 and 1826. All the greatest improvements on the above line were made under his superintendence; and Mr. Telford, who was the engineer of the Holyhead road, had the highest opinion of his acquirements, and took every opportunity of stating his opinion of him to the Commissioners. Mr. Upton got into a course of expensive living unwarranted by his means, and was induced to commit many gross frauds on the trustees of the road. Those frauds were discovered in the month of April, 1826, and, on inquiry by a competent person employed, it was discovered that he had trespassed on the funds of the trustees to an amount exceeding 2,0007. Evidence was taken at the time of the facts, and he was held to bail to appear at the July assizes following to answer the charge. He appeared at the assizes, and answered when called upon to plead. The trial did not come on the first day of the assizes. He had been given to understand by his solicitor that he would be merely indicted for a fraud, but he obtained in

formation which he could not doubt that he would be indicted for forgery, and, if found guilty, would probably be hanged. He slept at Northampton, got up about seven o'clock, said he was going to take a walk, and should return to breakfast. He did not, however, appear again, and, as it seemed, went that morning to London. In addition to his numerous forgeries and frauds, he had obtained upwards of 3,0001. of the money of his wife's relations, not one farthing of which did he repay. He had held the post-office at Daventry for a year, and at the end of it was a defaulter of nearly 3007. which one of his sureties was obliged to pay.

By some means he procured a recommendation to the Russian authorities in London, received the appointment of engineer, and was, in a few days, on his way to the Crimea. When Mr. Upton arrived at Sebastopol the harbour was in a very inefficient state, and several engineers had in vain endeavoured to improve it. There was great difficulty in getting the water into it so as to admit large ships. He procured immense iron works at Birmingham, and by dint of science, labour, and expense, he made it what it is. For the whole time of his residence in the Crimea he had been engaged in the fortifications in the Black Sea, and had been for some years the chief engineer at Sebastopol. The Emperor was so pleased with him that he gave him the rank of LieutenantColonel in the army, and he was received at the palace at St. Petersburg.

HENRY STUART, ESQ. M.P. Oct. 26. At Kempston, near Bedford, aged 50, Henry Stuart, esq. M.P. for Bedford.

He was born on the 5th April, 1804, the younger son of the Most Rev. William Stuart, Lord Archbishop of Armagh, (fifth son of John third Earl of Bute, K.G.) by Sophia-Margaret-Juliana, daughter of Thomas Penn, esq. of Stoke Pogeis, co. Bucks.

He was first returned for the borough of Bedford in the Conservative interest in 1837, but was unseated on petition, and Mr. Samuel Crawley took the seat until 1841, when, after a close contest with Mr. William H. Whitbread, Mr. Stuart was again returned. At the subsequent general election in 1847, he was returned with Sir Harry Verney, his old colleague Captain Polhill being rejected; and at the last general election in 1852 he was again returned with Mr. Samuel Whitbread, Mr. Chisholm Anstey being the unsuccessful candidate.

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ford, which was named after him, and left at his usual time for his residence. When in the act of alighting from his carriage he was seized with a convulsive fit, and died in ten minutes after he was carried into the house.

He was not married.

CHARLES GEACH, ESQ. M.P. Nov. 1. Aged 46, Charles Geach, esq. M.P. for Coventry.

Mr. Geach was a native of St. Austell in Cornwall. At the age of seventeen he obtained a clerkship in the Bank of England, and three years afterwards he was sent to Birmingham as junior clerk in the Branch bank then lately established in the town. His strict application to business, and his diligent study of the theory of banking, made him a very efficient servant of that establishment. In 1836 he attained the position of second clerk; but, having little prospect of further preferment before him, at the age of twenty-eight he transferred his services to the Birmingham and Midland Joint Stock Bank, of which he became the manager. Under his auspices this bank attained an amount of prosperity that might have been envied by the most successful establishments of the kind.

Mr. Geach was always a Liberal in politics, and a friend of free trade; and when the Anti-Corn Law League was set on foot he formed one of the deputation from Birmingham to Manchester on that subject. At the incorporation of Birmingham in 1838 Mr. Geach became a town councillor, subsequently an alderman, and in 1848 he filled the office of Mayor, when he preserved the peace of the town during a period of much political disquietude.

During his intercourse with the mercantile classes in Birmingham, Mr. Geach unavoidably acquired considerable acquaintance with the iron trade, and his enterprise naturally led him to take part in some speculations connected with it. He was a partner in the patent for the railway axletree, a lucrative monopoly, which, though the patent has expired, has continued a large source of wealth to the two proprietors. He was also the principal and active partner in one of the most extensive manufactories of machinery in Staffordshire. His habits of business and personal industry were extraordinary, and his extensive commercial operations were all conducted with singular regularity and prudence. Mr. Geach was a director of the Crystal Palace Company, of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, and of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham railways, and he was a large contractor for working power.

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He was first returned to parliament for Coventry in April, 1851, on the present Sir George James Turner becoming a Vice-Chancellor. His competitor was the Right Honourable Edward Strutt, who polled 1104 votes, Mr. Geach having 1669.

On the last general election his return, and that of Mr. Ellice, was unopposed. His death is deplored by his constituents of every grade of politics. He was elected by the more Radical section of the electors, but his course in parliament was independent and temperate. He professed himself to be attached to the doctrines of the Established Church.

Mr. Geach married, in 1832, a daughter of Mr. John Skully, of Handsworth, near Birmingham.

His portrait was given in the Illustrated London News of Nov. 6, 1852.

JAMES HALL, Esq. F.G.S.

Oct. 26. At Ashesteil, co. Selkirk, in the house of his sister Lady Russell, aged 57, James Hall, esq. advocate, F.G.S.

He was the third son of the late Sir James Hall, Bart. of Dunglas castle, co. Haddington, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and M.P. for St. Michael's, by Lady Helen Douglas, second daughter of Dunbar fourth Earl of Selkirk; and was brother to the present Sir John Hall and the late Capt. Basil Hall, R.N.

Mr. Hall was the author of some speculative letters on Binocular Perspective, published in the Art Journal. He was well known to artists, as an old student and occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and was the friend of Wilkie, Collins, Gordon, Allan, &c. He possessed many of the works and sketches of Wilkie; and was an active promoter of the testimonial statue of that artist now placed in the hall of the National Gallery: he presented the pallette (a favourite with the author of the "Blind Fiddler ") that now graces the pedestal of the figure. Mr. Hall was a liberal donor to the funds of the British Institution, and an occasional exhibitor, though hardly ever thoroughly successful in his works. Had he given his individual attention to art, he might have attained some eminence. He had sittings from the Duke of Wellington, and painted a full-length of Sir Walter Scott, whose MS. of "Waverley" he gave to the Advocates' Library, at Edinburgh. He commissioned Mr. Joseph for the bust of Colonel Gurwood, which now forms part of the collection at Apsley House. The President of the Scotish Academy, Sir John Watson Gordon, used to set up his easel in the studio of his friend Hall, for a short time in the season, at 40, Brewer Street, Golden Square.

At the general election of 1841 Mr. Hall was a candidate for the borough of Taunton, when 281 and 218 votes were polled respectively by Mr. Wilberforce and himself the Conservative candidates, but the former members, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere and Mr. Bainbridge, were elected by 430 and 419. On Mr. Bainbridge accepting the stewardship of the Chiltern hundreds in the following February, Mr. Hall again contested the borough, and polled 337 votes, but was defeated by Sir Thomas Edw. Colebrooke with 394.

Mr. Hall was unmarried.

THOMAS MARSLAND, ESQ.

Nov. 11. At his seat, Henbury hall, Cheshire, in his 78th year, Thomas Marsland, esq. a magistrate for the counties of Chester, Lancaster, and Derby, and Major of a local Cheshire Regiment.

Major Marsland was one of the two first members for his native town of Stockport, after its erection into a parliamentary borough in 1832: and he was re-elected in 1835, together with his namesake (but no connection) Mr. Henry Marsland, who maintained Liberal politics, his own being Conservative. They were again returned together in 1837, defeating Mr. Cobden; but in 1847 Mr. Cobden was successful, and Major Marsland did not venture to the poll. In December 1847, on Mr. Cobden electing to sit for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Major Marsland again came forward, but was defeated by Mr. Kershaw.

His intimate acquaintance with the commercial interests, the wants and wishes of his constituency, and his excellent private character, most richly entitled him to this high and important post. His extensive liberalities to all the public charities of Stockport, particularly the national school and the infirmary, his bountiful contribu tion to the erection and endowment of the new church at Henbury, and, in short, to every public charity or institution which had the most attenuated claim on his bounty, were well known and appreciated. When to all this is added his ready ear and open hand to every case of private distress, where the amount of his liberality was neither blazoned in subscription lists, nor in the columns of a newspaper, it will be generally admitted that there have been few more liberal almoners, or faithful stewards of the riches entrusted to them, than Major Marsland. The Major served the office of High Sheriff for Cheshire in 1851.

He was twice married, and left issue by his first wife three sons; 1. the Rev. George Marsland, M.A. who was presented by his

father, in 1837, to the Rectory of Beckingham, co. Lincoln; 2. Edward; 3. Charles; and a daughter, married to Alexander Lingard, esq.

JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, Esq. Nov. 25. At Abbotsford, in his 60th year, John Gibson Lockhart, esq. D.C.L., Auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Mr. Lockhart was the second surviving son of a Scotch clergyman, of gentle descent and old family, in the county of Lanark. He was born, 1794, in the manse of Cambusnethen, whence his father was transferred, 1796, to Glasgow, where John Lockhart was reared and educated. The inheritance of genius (as in many other instances) would appear to have come from his mother, who had some of the blood of the Erskines in her veins. His appetite for reading, even as a boy, was great. Though somewhat idle as regards school study, he yet distinguished himself both at school and college, outstripping his more studious competitors, and finally obtaining, by the unanimous award of the Professors, the Snell Exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford, where he was entered, 1809, at the early age of 15. Dr. Jenkyns, the present Dean of Wells, was his tutor. At Easter in 1813 he took hononrs as a first-class man in literis humanioribus. He graduated B.C.L. 1817, and was created D.C.L. in 1834. After a sojourn in Germany sufficiently long to enable him to acquire its language and a taste for its literature, he was called to the Scotish bar in 1816; but, though endowed with perseverance and acuteness sufficient to constitute a first-rate lawyer, he wanted the gift of eloquence to enable him to shine as an advocate. His wit, his learning, and extensive reading found, however, a ready outlet through his pen.

In May 1818, he first met Sir Walter Scott, who was pleased with his conversation, and shortly after recommended him to the Ballantynes, as likely to afford useful aid in their literary undertakings. They employed him to write the historical part of the "Edinburgh Annual Register," which Scott had previously compiled, but for which other more profitable avocations left him no leisure. Soon after this he received a message from Scott to come to Abbotsford, along with John Wilson, to meet Lord Melville of the Admiralty, son of the famous Henry Dundas, who had more political power than any Scotchman since the days of Lord Bute, and to whom the young Tories of the north transferred the humble reverence and keen expectation with which they had looked to the father as the dispenser of patronage and places.

From the interview with Lord Melville no immediate result ensued in Lockhart's case, but it is well known that political influence had the main share in the election of Wilson to the chair of Moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. The appointment turned out far better than had been anticipated; but at the time it was felt to be too strong an exertion of political influence, to thrust into the chair of Dugald Stewart a young poet, who had not turned his attention to ethical studies, and whose literary attainments were chiefly known from his light contributions to Blackwood's Magazine. Lockhart was at this time a most intimate friend of Wilson, and his ablest coadjutor in Blackwood, which, though only started in 1817, had already become a considerable "power," both in literature and politics. Those who wish to learn more about the public and the private history of the Scotish notables, Whig and Tory, of that time, may read Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk," published (anonymously) by Lockhart in 1819, and if any contemporary citizen of Edinburgh can be found to explain the many personal hints and allusions, so much the more satisfactory will be the perusal.

In 1820, the same year that Wilson commenced his professional duties, Lockhart was married to Sophia, the eldest daughter of Walter Scott, "the one of all his children who in countenance, mind, and manners most resembled himself, and who, indeed, was as like him in all things as a gentle innocent woman can ever be to a great man deeply tried and skilled in the struggles and perplexities of active life." For a few years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart lived, under the shelter of the wing of the Great Unknown, at Chiefswood, a cottage within easy reach of Abbotsford. All who know the story of Scott as told in his Life by his son-inlaw, will remember with pleasure what Lockhart has related, of his home at Chiefswood, in which the laird of Abbotsford took so deep an interest.

Among Lockhart's earliest contributions to Blackwood's Magazine were his Spanish Ballads, which were afterwards collected, and have almost become classical among the lovers of ballad poetry. In 1820 he published without his name, his first novel, "Valerius, a Roman story;" which is one of the best fictions founded upon classical manners. This was followed by "Reginald Dalton," in which there are some bright pictures of university life and by Adam Blair, which was no less remarkable, as a domestic story of intense passion. Early in 1825 appeared his "Life of Burns," in Constable's newly commenced Miscellany of cheap and popular literature. He