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sank , at the early age of forty-five . Though still in the prime of life , Mr . A'Beckett had been before the public as an author for many years , having , we believe , yielded his pen when less than eighteen ;—not , by the way , an uncommon thing in these days of early development . It must , we think , be five or six-andtwenty years since he started a comic journal called Figaro in London , which , together with , other ventures of the same kind with which he was connected , may be looked on as -the faint precursors of Punch . Mr . A'Beckett was one of the projectors of , and earliest writers in , that periodical , where his grave humour , and apparently unconscious doubles ententes , formed for many years some of tho most delightful features of those witty pages . George Gruikshank ' s Table Bool :, started in 1845 , and the Almanack of the Month , in 184 G , were also periodicals w 5 th which he was closely concerned . He was likewise .-the author of several separate works , such as , " The Comic Blackstone , " " The Comic English
before bun , and bus son iuherits the famil y tendency Having studied in Italy , where ho gained high honours * he returned to London , and soon acquired an extensive reputation . In 1 S 05 , he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy ; in 1816 , he -was advanced to be K . A . Several statues by him adorn St . Paul ' s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey ; and ho was the designer of tho Achilles statue in Hyde Park , the statue of Nelson at the Liverpool Exchange , ana , together with Flaxmau and Bailey , a portion of the figures on the frieze of the Marble Arch , not -to speak of several minor works . His latest production - \ vas the sculptured pediment of the British Museum . He was knighted , as an acknowledgment of his merits , in 1837 . In 1827 , he succeeded Flaxrnan as Professor of Sculpture in the Royal Academy , and held that appointment until his decease : he had not , however ,, exhibited since 1839 .
Grammar , ' * " The Comic Histories of England and Home , " &c . ; and . his farces and burlesques for the theatres are out of number . For a long period he was a constant writer-in the ZYmes , where he particularly distinguished himself by his leaders on the cruelties practised at the Andover workhouse—a subject on which he was peculiarly competent to write , as lie had himself conducted the official inquiry ^ and had prepared a report of great lucidity and comprehensiveness . Coming of a legal family , Mr . A'Beckett was ^ himself a lawyer ; and about eight years ago he was appointed as a magistrate , first at the Greenwich , and afterwards at the Southwark police courts . His duties he discharged with the most uniform good sense ; and we do not recollect that lie was ever iaxed with one wrong decision ,. or that he at any time indulged in those foolish remarks which are not uncommonly spouted forth by the occupants of ' the bench . ' Eroni this , indeed , his fineTvit would save him . His death will be greatly regretted .
Lieutenant Hugh Fleming , Military Knight of "Windsor . —This old and gallant officer died at his residence , the Upp « r Foundation , Windsor Castle , last Saturday . Lieutenant Fleming had seen much service , having been iu the campaigns of Flanders in . 1793 , 1791 , and 1795 , in Holland , iu 1799 , in Germany in 1805 , at Copenhagen in 1 SO 7 , and in the Peninsula from 1809 to 1 . 814 . He was wounded several times , and . was- taken prisoner at Placentia on the 2 nd of August , 1809 , but escaped ten days afterwards , and rejoiued the army . He has received the war medal with eight clasps .
Sik John Rosa . —We regret to announce the death of R ear-Admiral Sir John . Ross , K . C . B ., which occurred on Saturday morning last at . 43 , < Jillingham-street , Pimlico . This gallant Arctic voyager entered the navy as far back as 1786 , and daring the late war was constantly engaged actively . His most important services were Tendered in the Arctic regions , where in 1818 he went with Sir W . E . Parry .. In the Driver , lie proceeded , for tlie purpose of exploring Baffin ' s Bay , and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage . The results of his investigations are detailed by Captain Boss , in his " Voyage of Discovery , " published in 1819 . Ho -was afterwards , from May , 1829 , until October , 1833 , einploj-ed in the Victory steamer ,- on a frosh expedition , to the Arctic regions , equipped at the
expense of the present Sir Felix Booth . He received tlie honour of knighthood , together with the Companionship , of the Bath , December 24 , 183-1 . On March 8 , 1889 , ho was appointed consul at Stockholm , where he remained several years . During the war Sir John lloss , in three different actions , was thirteen times wounded . Among other works , Sir John wrote Letters to Young Sea Officers , "" Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord do Saumarez , " and a " Treatise on Navigation by Steam . " By his death , a good service pension lies at the disposal of tho First Lord of the Admiralty . —Globe . Hit . Yaurell , the naturalist , died a few clays ago . Mr . Edward Jesse , writing to tho Times , gives a fow particulars of tl » e deceased gentleman ' s life . Ho states that be " was formerly an extensive newspaper ngent , but at the same time he was ono of our best naturali 3 ta .
rliis was shown in his beautiful and valuable works on British birds and British , fishes , and in several valuable and interesting ; papers in the Transactions of the Linnasan and Zoological Societies , Itfr . Yarroll , as an ichthyologist , in conjunction with tho writer of this notice , solved the problem which hail perplexed naturalists from tho days of Pliny , as to the history of the eel , Ho cloarly proved that they -were oviparous , had scales , and bred for tho most part in the brackish waters at tho mouths of rivers—thua removing many doubts and difficulties on this curious subject . Mr . Ynrrcll has left behind him an interesting museum , chiefly of British natural history , and a valuable collection of books on that subject , much of which wo should bo glad to bco transferred to the British Musuum . " Mr . Jcsso also speaks warmly of tho excellence of Mr . Yarrell ' s private character . Slit KtciiAitD WifflMtACOTr , R . A . —Tlio week has been fcrtilo in deaths of eminent mon . In addition to those already mentioned , wo have now to record tho demise of Sir Richard Wostmacott , tho sculptor , which took pluco on Monday . Ho was a nativo of London , wkcro ho was born iu 1775 . His father wag a sculptor
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further bruised ' by the horse falling on . him . After tyJDg for some hours , the beast expired in great agony * Colonel Hamilton is not considered in . danger .
IRELAND . The Chops . — -The crops in the south and west have not suffered to any great degree by the recent weather : on the contrary , they present a very flourishing appearance . The potato disease has undoubtedly appeared , but the roots are said net to have suffered , and in many instances the plants which were attacked have recovered . Turnips now promise a fair crop . Farm labourers are receiving excellent wages , ranging from 4 s . to 7 s . Gd * . a day for reapers asid mowers . The recent order with respect to the destruction of roadside weeds is being actively carried into effect .
The Circumlocution Office . —One of the gravest instances of the difference betwixt tweedledum and tweedledee has just been brought to light in a communication addressed to the Marquis of Londonderry by the Under-Secretary of State for Ireland . This official broch-ure refers to a correspondence relative to the proper designation of the two regiments of militia for the county of Down , and of so grave and complex a natuTe was the question , that the Executive deemed it discreetest to submit it to the consideration of the law officers of the Crown , " with the various statutes which relate to the militia of Ireland . " How long those same law officers took to deliberate does not transpire , but the result Colonel Larcom announces to be that in thenopinion " the two regiments of militia for the county of Down should he called respectively ' North Down ' and ' South Down , ' and not by the titles of ' North Dowjishire and ' SoutTi Downshire . ' "—Times .
Electric Go-JiiiiiNicATio ^ r with Ajierica . —There is now lying at anchor off Queenstown the American screw steamer Arctic , the vessel which was sent to the Polar regions to the rescue of Dr . Kane , and previously in the unsuccessful attempt to discover Franklin . She has now just crossed from Newfoundland , and taken soundings of the whole Atlantic , from St . John's to Valencia , with . a view to testing the practicability of laying down au electric cable to connect the two shore 3 . Captain Berriman reports that the soundings indicate that the telegraph ruay be laid down with the most porfeet ease . The bottom , composed of shells , is veiy soft and smooth , and there appears to be an absence of currents and of any vast pressure . " Each sounding , " says tho Cork Constitution , " shows not only the depth , but the
nature of the bottom , which , is brought up in five quills , and the temperature of the -wator , the latter being given by the expansion or contraction of metallic spiral ribbons placed round a centre pin , fixed at the top , ami attached t bottom to a needle and indicator , the latter remaining fixed after the first has ceased to act , showing the exact variation between the surface and tho bottom . The company have already obtained the sole grant for erecting telegraphs through tho whole of Newfoundland , and have already some 1700 miles at work , or will have in a few days , which is in connexion with tlie American lines , Tho di Ificulties and trials of temper in taking those soundings have been tremendous . Repeatedly after ' paying out' tons of thousands of fathoms of line , and getting all up within some sixty or eighty , it was snapped , and all had to he done again . "
Tub Couiit-Maiitial AiNiiXAGii . —Tlio official finding of the court-martial was promulgated on Friday week , and is as follows : —Four men sentenced by courtmartial to transportation for lifo commuted to twentyone years , and two men sentenced to twenty-or * B yours ' transportation commuted to fourteen years each ; two , sentenced to t-vclvc years' transportation , commuted to four years' penal servitude . One of the prisoners tried was found Not Guilty . Tho sentenco of death passed upon Patrick Burns , North Tipporary Militia , by Judge Moore , at lost Nenagh Atmizoa , for tho murder of a soldier of tho 41 = it Rcgimont , has been commuted to transportation for lifo . Tho live men of tho North Tippernry Militia who were sentenced at Nonagh Assizes to iiftoun years' transportation each , have bud their sentences commuted to ton yours' pcnul servitude
Accident to Colo > icl Hamilton , —A serious accident hna lmpiicncd to Colonel Hamilton , the commanding oliicer of tho second battalion of tho Gruitadicr Guards noiv stationed iu Dublin . His horse took fright , ran away , and Anally dashed his head against a wall with such fearful ¦ violence as to destroy ono eye . Tho animal then reeled an . il fell ; and the Colonol , who had already boon a good , tloul hurt on . tho arm l > v tho shock , was
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to all troops conveyed between Liverpool and Alderahott or between Liyerpool and "Woolwioh , although the distance travelled be , under two hundred and fifty , miles , provided the men are not billeted and the journayis performed in connexion with an embarkation or dis--embarkation at Liverpool . " Court-Martial . — The proceedings of . the courts martial held at Chatham Barracks on private George Smith , 10 fh Regiment , who was tried on a charge ofhaving , while in a state of intoxioation , loaded bja musket and drawn his bayonet , which he threatened , to . run through , any one wbo attempted to arrest him , have been made known . The prisoner was sentenced to receive fifty lashes , and further to . bo imprisoned at 3 ? ort Clarence for three hundred and sixty-five days . On the finding of the court being submitted to the Duke of Cambridge , his Royal Highness , on account of the man ' a previous good conduct , was pleased to remit the corporal
issued NAVAL AJtfD MILEDAJtr ., Travelling Allowance to Thooes . — -On : the recommendation of the Commander-in-Chief , a . circular lias been issued io all officers commanding regiments ,, intimating that Lord Panmure has approved of a further extension of the full marching allowance under ; these conditions : — . " ¦ If the journey exceed . tvro hundred and . fifty miles in one day and night , a second marching * allowance may be issued , and a third issue of the said allowance if the journey exceed four hundred , miletf . " The circular likewise states that " his lordship has aJaa been pleased ., to sanction the second allowance being
punishment , and also a portion of th « imprisonment to which he -was sentenced . The Board of Admiralty at Portsmouth ,: —TIio Admiralty state yacht Osborne , Commander Bower , arr ived at Portsmouth on Friday week from Plymouth with tho Board of Admiralty . The members are Sir Charles Wood , Sir M . F . F . Berkeley , Rear-Adnural Sir Henry Eden , . Captain Sir Baldwin W . Walker , Colonel Greene , Director of Engineering and Architectural Works , and Mr . Bedford , private secretary . The first business of importance their Lordships transacted was to appoint Captain the Hon . Henry Keppe ] , C . B ., of Her Majesty ' s ship Colossus , to he Commodore of the second class and second in command of the fleet on the East India and China station , vice the Hon . C . G . J . B . Elliot . Commodore Keppel will hoist his broad pendant in the fine first-class sailing 50-gun frigate Raleigh , at Portsmouth . ' ... ¦
Loss o : f the Ship Ben Avon . —The loss of this vessel , Captain Scott , has been reported at Lloyd ' s . Sho sailed from London on the 10 th of March , and . arrived off Amoy on the 16 th-of June ,, when she was caught in a typhoon of almost unexampled violence , and was eventually totally wrecked onHoe-Loo Point , a placo about thirty miles northward of Amoy . Tho captain ' s wife , the owner ' s son , and several passengers ^ vere drowned ; the survivors arrived at Amoy on the 21 tli of June , on board a lorcha . Tlie c ;> rgo , which was valued at about 30 , OQOL , was nearly all washed on shore aud conveyed into tho interior by the natives .
The Belgian Transatlantic Mail Steajiers . — -The steamship Belgiquc , Captain Tack , belonging to the Belgian Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company , sailed on Saturday for Antwerp . This steamer put hack to Southampton from an attempted voyage to New York last January , and lias ever since uccsn under repairs at Southampton . She is now pronounced to bo in a . sound and seaworthy condition . An examination into tho state of the vessel proved her to bo more extensively faulty tlirvn was even at lirst reported , tho defect being in tho primary construction of the ship . Tho repairs which have been eu ' ecteil by Messrs , Summers and Day have been of the most extensive and costly nature .
Mb . Iiiancis s Floating Metallic Pontoon Waq-« on , winch was tested in various ways some timo back , has been , again . submitted' to sonio most severe trials Enormous weights wore placed upon it , and every effort was mado to cause it to upset ; but in vain . It was lifted out of tho water by menus of a crano , cleared out , and again thrown into the wator . It was then rowed about , rolled and rocked , and struck with a sledgehammer some twenty or thirty blows on one spot , without . 'my visible- efl'ect on the rivets or joints . . After being carefully oxumincil , it was mountod on its carriage , and dragged up to the practising butt . An artilleryman , standing at a range of one hundred yards then fired a
couple of MiniC ritle balls through tho sides . In each case , the * ball traversed , without splintering , clean throngli tho body , currying with it a portion , of the metal . Tho success of tins experiment was considered of great importance , as considerable injury results in many enscs from the scattered splinters of tha carriages in present use . Mr . Francis then got into tho waggon and closed tho jinrforationa witli a few blows of a hanunor , leaving only the spots which had been carried uwny by the balld . Those , he' explained , ciauld bo repaired in the most simple mimncr by any ono " with any bit of metal and two or three old nails . " iSoLWEits' Wiviss . — " Humauitas " writes to tho
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1856, page 847, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2157/page/7/
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