ing friendship he inspired. Although fond of the world, he was not worldly-his heart teemed with benevolence; he was not dazzled by brilliancy, but he loved goodness, and the simple and unobtrusive had sure claims on his attention and interest. Real affection he appreciated, and returned it with all the guilelessness of a child; and no one ever came to him for advice without feeling that his judgment was as correct as his feelings were tender. When to all these valuable qualities is added a natural love and talent for music, which, had it been more sedulously cultivated, would have made him an excellent performer as well as an admirable critic, it will be conceded that few persons were more calculated to adorn private life. Thus, although he might not attain that distinction--the reward only of unusual acquirements, he must ever live in the memories of those of his social circle who knew how to appreciate private virtues and intellectual superiority, and whose days and hours he has gilded by his playful humour and the cheerful kindness of his disposition.

DR. JAMES BROWNE. April 15. At Edinburgh, Dr. James Browne.

His name is well known in the literature of his country, for the extent of his learning and research, and the rhetorical and argumentative energy with which he brought his acquirements to bear on the many subjects which, during a life of almost ceaseless literary exertion, he discussed. He was for several years editor of the Caledonian Mercury; but he is perhaps more widely, and will be more permanently known for the many valuable articles he communicated to the "Encyclopædia Britannica," particularly on the more abstruse branches of early history, grammar and etymology, the arts of war, and biography. His acquirements as an investigator of Egyptian history and hieroglyphics are also widely known. He possessed a powerful fund of eloquence, which he was always ready to devote to the cause of humanity and liberal opinions -often with more regard to his feelings as a public man, than to his interests as an individual. He carried like qualifications into social life, where his conversation was distinguished by much eloquence of sentiment and brilliancy of wit. It is unusual on occasions like the present, to talk of failings; but those of Dr. Browne were not unfrequently the subject of rallying remarks with his best friends, because they were not of a character for which they had occasion to blush. They were those of a warm heart, and, perhaps,

somewhat excitable temperament, and in all quarters they were admitted to have no leaven of selfishness or malignity. For about a year Dr. Browne enjoyed a small pension from Government.

FRANK HALL STANDISH, ESQ. Dec. 21. At Cadiz, in his 42nd year, Frank Hall Standish, esq. of Duxbury Hall, in the parish of Chorley, co. Lan

caster.

This gentleman, who was well known by his Life of Voltaire, and his elegant taste for the arts, was the only child of Anthony Hall of Flass, in the county of Durham, esq. and grandson of Anthony Hall, of Flass, by Margaret his wife, sister of Sir Thomas Standish of Duxbury, Bart. who died in 1756, leaving an only son, Sir Frank Standish, Bart. upon whose death, unmarried, in 1812, the dignity became extinct, and as he died intestate his ancient inheritance devolved upon the subject of this notice as cousin and heir at law, when he by royal license, in Dec. 1814, assumed the name and arms of Standish in addition to Hall. (A pedigree of the family of Standish will be seen in Baines's History of Lancashire, vol. iii. p. 519, and of Hall of Flass in Surtees's Durham.)

On the death of Sir Frank the third and last Baronet in May 1812, one Thomas Standish of Blackrod, assuming himself to be the heir, and adopting the proceedings of elder centuries, took possession of Duxbury Hall by turning out the servants, and kept possession for several days. They were at length finally ejected by the magistrates of the district, and committed to Lancaster castle; and at the following summer assizes the pretender, and five others, were brought to trial, charged with stealing wine, &c. and, pleading guilty, were severally sentenced to twelve months imprisonment.

Embued with classic lore in his youth, Mr. Hall Standish extended his attainments by foreign travel, and visited every place in Europe interesting to the scholar or virtuoso. Hence, he acquired very superior information on literary subjects and antiquities, and an exquisite taste and judgment on the productions of the painter, sculptor, and architect. His researches in South Italy, and more recently in Spain, are replete with valuable information, and will continue standard books in our literature.

Mr. Hall Standish, dying unmarried, has devised his estate, subject to certain charges, to his right heir, William Standish Carr, esq. of Cocken, co. Durham, descended from Anthony Hall, of Flass, and Margaret Standish; and that gentle

man has, under the royal license, assumed the name and arms of Standish in pursuance of the direction of his kinsman's will.

Mr. Hall Standish by his will has evinced his esteem for the French nation by a very munificent bequest, made in the following terms: "I give and bequeath to his Majesty the King of the French all my books, manuscripts, prints, pictures, and drawings at my mansionhouse at Duxbury Hall, or elsewhere in Great Britain, or abroad, either to and for the sole private use of his said Majesty, or for the use of any public institution which his said Majesty may think proper; in token of my great esteem for a generous and polite nation, one that is always ready to welcome the traveller and relieve the stranger, and one that I have ever gone to with pleasure and quitted with regret." This will is dated July 14, 1838, but the same bequest is said to have been contained in a former will made in 1831. The collection thus bequeathed to the King of the French contains several paintings of high price. Among them, besides the fine Murillos, are some by Zurbaran and other masters of the Spanish school, and a great many of the Italian, Flemish, and French schools. Most of the books are valuable, and they are upwards of 4,000 in number. It has been stated that Louis Philippe has accepted the legacy, but has signified his intention to replace all the principal pictures with others of equal value. The wife of the present Mr. Standish has been requested by his Majesty to retain any picture she liked best; and she has in consequence selected a fine Ecce Homo, by Murillo, valued at 8007. With regard to the library, Louis Philippe declines taking any of the French works, and will supply the places of the others.

The remains of Mr. Hall Standish were conveyed to England, and deposited with his ancestors of the Standish family at Chorley.

The titles of his works were as follow: The Life of Voltaire : with interesting particulars respecting his death, and characters of his contemporaries. 1821, 8vo.

The Shores of the Mediterranean. 8vo. vol. i. 1837, vol. ii. 1838.

who died in the course of last year, has been published in the Annual Report of the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Francis Bramah was the second son of the late Mr. Joseph Bramah, whose numerous inventions, perfection of workmanship, and genius in the mechanical arts, have rendered his name so widely and justly celebrated. The opportunities afforded to the son were ardently embraced by a mind of no ordinary powers, deeply imbued with the love of knowledge. Although his attention was in early youth more particularly directed to branches of minute mechanical construction, his acquaintance with the principal departments of professional knowledge and general science was very extensive. His attachment to the arts and to science was deep and sincere, and among many proofs of this may be particularly mentioned the valuable and essential services which he rendered to your late honorary member, Thomas Tredgold, both in his professional pursuits, and in the prosecution and verification of his theories and calculations. Mr. Bramah being professionally engaged at Buckingham Palace, in connexion with some other engineers, difference in opinion existed, and discussion arose as to the true principle upon which the strength of cast-iron beams to resist stress and flexure ought to be estimated; and with the view of verifying the principles laid down by Tredgold, he instituted a very extended series of experiments, on the deflection and strength of cast-iron beams. These he presented to the Institution, and they are published in the second volume of your

Transactions.' Several important works were executed under his direction, among which the iron work of the Waterloo Gallery at Windsor Castle, the cranes, the lock-gates, and their requisite machinery, at the St. Katharine's Docks, and the massive gates at Constitution-hill and Buckingham Palace, may be particularly mentioned. Mr. Bramah was an early and deeply attached member of this Institution; his constant attendance at the meetings, the information which he communicated, and his unwearied zeal as a member of the Council, cannot be too highly estimated, and his loss will be deeply felt and regretted within these walls. The variety of his attainments, his refined taste in the arts, his amiable character and the warmth of his affections, had secured to him the respect and esteem of a most extensive circle of friends, by whom, as indeed by all in any way connected with him, his loss will be most deeply and sincerely felt."

'This is a plain and honest memorial

from a scientific body, conversant with the later years of Francis Bramah. Our recollections of him, and his also deceased brother Timothy, are of other days; when their father triumphed "over locks, bolts, and bars," uprooted trees by the then little known or little used force of hydraulic pressure, and occupied in every way a prominent place in the progress of mechanical invention, which has grown to so mighty a power. They were fine intelligent fellows, of gentle temperament and happy dispositions; full of ardour in the pursuit of knowledge. They were, alas! members of a very different association from that as one of which Francis died; an association bounded in numbers to about a dozen,—young, hopeful, enthusiastic, the world before them, and the very nature of their courses in it as yet undetermined. Yet of this small band, who essayed, discussed questions, and enjoyed the friendly intercourse of a little beyond mere boyhood together, in stimulating each other to intellectual exertion, and, for a season, habitually meeting in close companionship to test their respective advance, it may, perhaps, be worthy of remark, that the late Tory Attorneygeneral, Sir F. Pollock; the present Whig Solicitor-general, Sir Thomas Wilde; the eminent Queen's counsel, Mr. David Pollock; Mr. Archer Wilde, undersheriff of London; and others cut off in the midst of not unhonoured careers, were (with the Bramahs) its youthful and emulous constituency. — (Literary Gazette.)

MR. RICHARD DAGLEY. Lately. At Earl's Court Terrace, Brompton, Mr. Richard Dagley.

Himself and two brothers were left orphans when very young, and he was placed, by the kindness of friends, in Christ's Hospital. Having a decided taste for fine art, and being a delicate child, he was apprenticed to Mr. Cousins, jeweller and watchmaker, which business then included gold-chasing and the painting of ornaments and miniatures for bracelets. He married one of his master's daughters before he was of age, and it was, undoubtedly, with his consent, though it could hardly have been the result of his judgment, since Dagley could have no provision for a matrimonial home; and as this union produced ten children, and the most of whom lived for several years, (though one alone remains,) unquestionably there was experienced by them long seasons of anxiety, and painful prospects of poverty; but, whatever might be the trials of the times, perfect confidence, unceasing industry,

and untiring affection bore them through all. Mrs. Dagley was cheerful, gentle, of active kindness and sound understanding, and therefore well calculated to endure the evils inseparable from the wife of an artist; and such, from the time he left Mr. Cousins, our friend desired to be considered.

At that time he was very intimate with the late Mr. Bone, R.A., and they were alike employed in enamelling views for the backs of ladies' watches, eyes for rings and brooches (then a reigning fashion, and extremely profitable), together with small elegant designs (of mythological subjects principally) for bracelets. In pursuing these branches of art, Mr. Daglay became a good water-colour artist; but oil always foiled his attempts. and rendered many excellent designs, on various subjects, absolutely nugatory as works of art, the execution annulling the value of the conception. He read much and thought much, and thoroughly understood the style and merits of the painter he studied, whether ancient or modern. He became also a good medallist, and published a work on Gems, 4to. 1804, which brought his name advantageously before the public; and it was soon still better known from his designs "Flimflams," a work of the elder D'Israeli, of great attraction at the time.

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That he should pursue fortune in some line distinct from that which had hitherto been his support, was, in a few years, absolutely necessary, for fashion had decreed that ladies might neither wear bracelets and watches, nor the eye of beauty beam from the hand of a beau; and it was thought a desirable thing at the time, when he formed an engagement at Doncaster, with a lady who had a very excellent school, to become a drawingmaster, and to which was shortly added pupils from the establishment of a D.D., who prepared a few young men for the university. He brought hither one daughter, the sole survivor of his little train, and, together with his wife, her younger sister, Miss Cousins; and a more cheerful, contented, unassuming, and intellectual family circle I have never known. Mr. Dagley's society was much courted; his employers were generous and hospitable; but, alas! they were more willing to give than pay, and the artist found it more difficult to live (according to his own ideas of honesty and regularity) now he was in possession of a regular, and what he deemed an handsome income, than he had been when soliciting employment for the exigencies of the day; and after the first four or five years had gone bye, as difficulties increased with the ex

travagant, so did their consequences press upon the prudent and innocent; and it was only by keeping up a perpetual warfare that he could gain bread for his fami, in accepting small portions of large bills. He, however, acted firmly and wisely, and finally escaped with but little loss in the year 1815, being the only creditor of either party who caine off even tolerably; and returned to London.

Since then, he has lived in Earl'scourt-terrace, where Mr. Cousins, his father-in-law, joined him, a gentle, amiable old man, whose days, prolonged by the cares of his daughters, and him held dear as a son, exceeded 90. During the past 25 years, Mr. Dagley has been engaged in writing reviews of works of art, and in making designs for various publications. He produced another volume of Gems, enriched by the poetry of Dr. Croly, 1822, " Takings:" the illustrations of a humourous poem; "Death's Doings," 1826, a series of designs suggested by "Holbein's Dance of Death," each of which reached a second edition. He also wrote a Catalogue Raisonné of Mr. Vernon's splendid gallery of modern pictures; made designs for his daughter's pleasing books, and those of other writers; and was always alive to the interests of art and the welfare of artists, whom he assisted by judicious advice, friendly commendation, or valuable introduction. He could not draw from a full purse the means of relieving an impoverished widow, or finding an asylum for a deranged father; but he could and did (aged and shadowy as he was) walk miles and miles, taxing mind and means, to their utmost, to procure the aid required. In his humble dwelling there was but one heart, one mind; and the good which emanated thence, if it could be summed up, might surprise the dwellers in mighty mansions.

[We have extracted this article from an interesting paper communicated by Mrs. Hofland, to the Art Union for May, to which for further particulars we beg to refer.]

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

April 5. At Brompton-row, aged 58, William Smithyman, esq. late of the Bank of England.

W. E. Atkins, esq. Church-row, Fulham.

April 16. In her 75th year, Mrs. Mary Anne, the wife of George Woodfall, esq. of Great Dean's Yard, Westminster. This lady was a truly pious Christian, of simple manners, and aboundGENT. MAG. VOL. XV.

ed in good works. Without any pretensions to literary attainments, Mrs. W. kept up a constant correspondence with her family and friends; and her letters were written in such an easy and familiar style, containing so much interesting detail, that they were sought after with more than ordinary eagerness by all with whom she was in the habit of communication. Her benevolence, urbanity, and kindness secured her the friendship of every one who had the pleasure of her acquaintance; and her sudden decease, though it has plunged her family and friends into deep sorrow and affliction, yet has not left them without that consolation which is derived from the knowledge of the sure and heavenly reward inherited by the devoted and truly good Christian. Her loss to her husband is irreparable. We recorded her marriage in our magazine for November 1794.

April 20. Aged 64, John Evans, esq. of New Broad-street, and Barge-yard, Bucklersbury.

At Clapham-common, Richard-Walter, youngest son of the late Sir Walter Synnot, of Ballymoyer, co. Armagh.

April 21. At Brixton-hill, Horatio Lillie, esq.

April 22. At Upper Portland-place, Wandsworth-road, aged 61, Richard Curtis, esq.

At the house of her son-in-law, Peckham, aged 78, Mary Ann Clapham, relict of Captain Henry Whitehead.

April 24. In Torrington-sq. aged 66, Miss Emily Perrigal, of Berry Pomeroy, near Totness, Devon.

At Bermondsey, aged 64, John Quallett, esq. solicitor.

Aged 81, G. Forbes, esq. Sloane-street. In Montagu-place, aged 25, Florence Rose, dau. of the late Anthony Montonnier Hawkins, M.D. of Upper Brookst. and of the Gaer, co. Monmouth.

April 26. At Pentonville, aged 77, W. M. Elliott, esq.

April 27. At Canonbury-sq. Islington, aged 33, James Lane, esq. His body was buried at the Highgate Cemetery.

April 28. In Great Coram-st. aged 58, James Powell, esq. surgeon, late of the Royal Artillery, eldest son of the late Rev. James Powell, Rector of Church Lawford, Warw. His body was buried at the Highgate Cemetery.

In Harley-street, aged 77, Lady Hunter, widow of Sir John Hunter, formerly British Consul-general in Spain.

At Saville-place, Mile-End-road, aged 79, John Crush Rogers, esq.

At Chigwell-row, Luke Greaves Hansard, esq. of Bedford-square, one of the 4 Q

Printers of the House of Commons. He was the third son of the late James Hansard, esq. who for many years held that highly responsible office; and since his father's decease, has been the mostly engaged partner in carrying on that extensive concern. Mr. Hansard was much respected by his professional brethren; and has left a family of fourteen children to mourn their great loss.

In Gower-st. aged 67, Thomas Crosby Treslove, one of Her Majesty's Counsel, and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the bar May 12, 1803, and was formerly Recorder of Queenborough.

Lately. Suddenly in Mansfield-street, aged 28, in prematurely giving birth to a son, still-born, Augusta, wife of the Hon. Craven F. Berkeley, M. P. She was formerly Miss Augusta Jones, the reputed daughter of Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart., was married first in 1829 to the Hon. George Henry Talbot, half-brother to the present Earl of Shrewsbury, by whom she has left issue a son, (heir presumptive to the Earldom of Shrewsbury) and a daughter. He died in June 1839, and she was remarried in Sept. following to Mr. Craven Berkeley.

Sarah, widow of Francis Eyre, esq. of Warkworth-castle, co. Northampton.

At Bayswater, aged 82, Mrs. C. E. Cotton, relict of the Rev. W. Cotton, of Chicheley, near Newport Pagnel, Bucks.

In Sion-row, Twickenham, aged 79, Juliana Dorothea de Starck, spinster.

Aged 73, Major Stirling, who wrote the series of leading articles on the Reform Bill in the Times Newspaper, which excited much attention at the time.

In Manchester-sq. aged 71, Adam Gordon, esq. late of the Colonial-office.

At Brompton, aged 48, Mr. James A. O'Connor, landscape painter. He was born in Dublin, where his father was an engraver, to which profession the son was bred, but left it for the easel. His works were distinguished by a deep feeling, and were executed in a bold and massive Ruysdael-like style.

May 1. At Clifford's-inn, aged 48, William Foxton, esq. of the Queen's Remembrancer's Office.

In Woburn-place, aged 30, Reginald Merivale, late of the Registrar's Office in Chancery, third son of John Herman Merivale, esq. Commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy, and of Barton-place near Exeter.

May 2. Aged 71, R. Gullan, esq. of Queen's-buildings, Brompton.

At Peckham, William Mutrie, esq.
At the Vicarage, Chiswick, Judith

Anne, wife of the Rev. T. F. Bowerbank,

May 3. Mrs. Sarah Scott, of the Lower Mall, Hammersmith, sister to George Scott, esq. of Ravenscourt.

Aged 57, James Campbell Francis, esq. of Fenchurch-buildings.

At Hammersmith, Frances Emelia, relict of James Wilson, esq. of Jamaica.

May 4. At Kensington, aged 91, Mrs. Anne Stevens, widow of the Rev. William Stevens, D.D.

Aged 71, J. Brundrett, esq. of the Inner Temple.

In Brook-st. St. James's, aged 37, Capt. Cortland Skinner Barberie.

In Portland-place, aged 76, Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, esq. a Director of the East India Company.

May 5. At Highgate, aged 33, J. W. Goldfinch, esq. eldest son of the late Major Goldfinch, of Chewton Priory, Somerset.

Alexander Edington, esq. of Upper George-st. Bryanston-sq.

In Devonshire-place, Isabella, second dau. of the late Hon. A. F. Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, Senator of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland.

In John-st. Bedford-row, aged 75, Alexander Henry, esq.

May 6. Mary, relict of Capt. R. Williams, R. N. aged 89.

May 9. In King-st. Portman-sq. aged 85, Mrs. Warden.

At Clapham, aged 74, Mr. Joseph Lawford, son-in-law to the late Sir T. Wiseman, Bart. of Northfleet, Kent.

May 10. At Coombe Lodge, near Croydon, aged 72, T. Taylor, esq. late Controller-gen. of her Majesty's Cus

toms.

May 11. Aged 18, George, youngest son of the late Robert Remmett, esq. of Bedford-sq.

Thomas Tupper, esq. late her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Riga.

In Berkeley-st. aged 90, Mrs. Euphemia Richardson, formerly of Bombay.

May 13. In Hamilton-pl. North Brixton, aged 64, Elizabeth, widow of Charles Bedford Young, esq. of Baltimore, United States.

At Clare House, Hampstead, aged 40, James Hope, esq. M.D. F.R.S. of Lower Seymour-st. one of the Physicians to St. George's Hospital. His body was interred at the Highgate Cemetery.

BERKS.-April 28. At Reading, aged 79, Sarah, relict of the Rev. William Milton, of Heckfield.

May 2. Mrs, Curties, of Albion-pl. Reading,