systematic warfare of the streets, in which the French have of late had so much practice. Barricades were thrown up after the memorable fashion of 1830; nor was it till the garrison troops had driven the insurgents into the narrow streets, the mouths of which they blockaded, that the victory remained with the law. But it was not till the 11th that tranquillity was completely

restored.

PORTUGAL.

The Pope has excommunicated Don Pedro; and, in order to counteract the effects of this awful denunciation of his Holiness, Don Pedro has issued a decree, depriving the King, his brother, of all his titles, honours, privileges, and pre-eminence, and confiscating to the State all the property of the Infantado.

POLAND.

A Russian paper gives the following statement of the Polish army during the war, and of its wreck at the present time. There is, however, a manifest desire to lessen the numbers of those who were really engaged in that glorious struggle:-At the commencement of the struggle, the Polish army had in actual service 30 generals, 224 superior officers, 1,898 officers, and 388 divers officers attached to the army as medical officers, commissaries, &c.-total, 2,540. During its progress there were killed, or died of their wounds, or of disease, in all 263. After the triumph of Russia, there remained in Poland, or have since returned, 1,811, including 17 generals, and 153 superior officers: 40 (of whom 7 are generals) entered the Conqueror's service. Of those who passed the frontier with detachments of Poles, and did not accept the amnesty, there went from Austria to France 50, from France to Switzerland 46. There remain 4 generals, 17 superior officers, 290 officers, and 19 employes, in all 330, whose residence is unknown. Thus, of the total of 2,540 officers and employes of the ci-devant Polish army, 1,811 are in Poland, 40 in Russia, and on service; 263 are killed or died; 96, according to certain information, are in France or Switzerland, and it is not known what has become of the 330 others. Among the latter are included those who disappeared during the war, as well as those who were killed, or who died in the ranks of the Polish army since the attack of Warsaw, respecting whom no official information can be obtained.

BELGIUM.

Some serious riots, arising out of the following circumstance, have taken place at Brussels. At the period of the revolution, among other things taken possession of by the new Government, were several horses belonging to the Prince of Orange, which, until recently, were kept in possession of the Belgian authorities. It was, however, resolved to dispose of them, which was done publicly, by auction, a short time since, and they were bought by a subscription entered into by several of the Flemish noblesse, for the purpose of being presented to the Prince of Orange. The horses, four in number, we are informed, were bought for 7000 francs, and they have been sent to the Hague. Among the principal Orange nobility who took part in this proceeding, were the Prince de Ligne, the Duc de Chernay, and others; and they subsequently issued an advertisement, calling upon the adherents of the House of Nassau to join in the subscription, in order to make the amount up for which the horses had been purchased. The populace having thus obtained information as to the individuals who had taken part in this proceeding, on the 5th instant commenced an attack upon the houses of the Prince de Ligne, the Duc d'Ursal, and several other individuals of the Orange party. The destruction of furniture and other property was continued during the next day, but little interference having taken place on the part of the government. An attempt was subsequently made by the troops, headed by King Leopold, with an escort of several officers, to quell the disturbances, his Majesty being received with the loudest acclamations by the people. At length, after the riots and pillage had lasted two days, the populace were appeased, and something like order restored.

BIOGRAPHICAL PARTICULARS OF CELEBRATED
PERSONS, LATELY DECEASED.

THE MARQUIS OF BREAD ALBANE.

THIS nobleman died at Taymouth Castle, after a short illness. His Lordship was Marquis of Breadalbane, Earl of Ormelie, and Baron Breadalbane in the peerage of the United Kingdom; also Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Viscount of Tay and Pentland, Lord Glenorchy Benedearalock, Ormelie, and Wick in the Scottish peerage, and a Baronet of Nova Scotia. He was also a Lieut.-General in the army, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He married, in 1793, Mary Turner, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the late David Gavin, Esq., by Lady Elizabeth Maitland, of Lauderdale, by whom, besides the present Marquis, he has left two daughters, Lady Elizabeth, married to Sir John Pringle, Bart., and Lady Mary, the Marchioness of Chandos. His Lordship, who was in his 72d year, was of retired and unostentatious habits, devoting much time to the improvement of his princely estates, which, together with the titles, devolve upon his eldest son, John, Earl of Ormelie.

THE EARL OF GALLOWAY.

Admiral, the Earl of Galloway, entered the naval service at an early period of life, and, at his decease, was an Admiral of the Blue, which rank he attained 22d of July, 1830. His Lordship traced his family to Alexander the Steward, great grandfather of Robert II., King of Scotland. The Scotch honours go back, the Barony to 1607, the Earldom to 1623. The English Barony was conferred on the late Earl in 1796. He formed a matrimonial alliance, 1797, with Lady Jane Paget, second daughter of Henry, first Earl of Uxbridge, and sister of the Marquis of Anglesea, by whom he has left a surviving family of two sons and three daughters, one of whom, the eldest, married the Marquis of Blandford, her first cousin. His Lordship was in his 67th year.

SIR EDWARD THORNBROUGH.

At his seat in Devonshire, of which county he was a native, Admiral Sir Edward Thornbrough, in the 80th year of his age, being born in 1754. Having entered the navy at the usual period, he became lieutenant of the Falcon sloop, one of the ships appointed to cover the attack on Bunker's-hill in 1775. He was wounded in an attempt to bring out a schooner from Cape Ann Harbour, and assisted in taking La Nymphe, by the Flora frigate, in 1780. He was made commander for his bravery on this occasion, and promoted to the rank of post-captain in 1781.

Being chief officer of the Blonde frigate, he was wrecked while endeavouring to take a captured ship to Halifax. The crews, having reached a desolate island on a raft, underwent great privations, but were fortunately picked up by some American cruisers, who landed them at New York, in return for Captain Thornbrough's kindness to his prisoners. He was next appointed to the Hebe, one of the finest frigates in the service, on board of which ship Prince William Henry (his present Majesty) served for some time as lieutenant. Captain Thornbrough afterwards commanded the Scipio, 64.

At the beginning of the war with France, in 1793, Captain Thornbrough was appointed to the Latona frigate, in which he made several captures. On the glorious 1st of June, 1794, the Latona was one of the repeating frigates in that memorable conflict; and on the autumn following he removed to the Robust, 74, then attached to the Channel fleet. He was placed under Sir J. B. Warren, to intercept the French fleet destined to invade Ireland, in 1798; and on the 12th of October they fell in with the enemy off Loch Swill, and after an engagement of four hours, L'Hoche, 76, (now called the Donegal,) struck to the Robust. In 1799, he had the Formidable, 98, which

he commanded until January, 1801, when he received his flag, which he hoisted on board the Mars, 74. He subsequently served in the North Seas, off Rochfort, and on the coast of Sicily. He was appointed Commander-inChief on the Irish station in 1810, and to that of Portsmouth in 1815. In the same year he was constituted a K.C.B.; and has since been made K.G.C., Admiral of the Red, and Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom.

Sir Edward was twice married, and had several children by his first wife. His second, to whom he was united in 1802, and who died in December, 1813, was the daughter of Sir Edwin Jacques, of Gloucester.

FRANCIS DOUCE, ESQ.

This respected antiquarian died at his house in Gower-street. Few men wrote so much, and published so little. With the exception of “Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners; with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare;" on the collection of popular tales, entitled Gesta Romanorum;" and on the "English Morris- Dance;" the exquisitely beautiful volume, published a few months back by Pickering, in Chancery-lane, illustrating the "Dance of Death, exhibited in elegant engravings on wood; with a dissertation on the several representations on that subject, but more particularly on those ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein," we are not aware of any other work to which he has prefixed his name. He was a contributor to the volumes published by the Society of Antiquaries, and, during many years, an active correspondent of his old friend, Sylvanus Urban, in the "Gentleman's Magazine."

Mr. Douce was, we believe, once in the Six Clerks' Office; subsequently he was appointed a curator in the British Museum, from which situation he retired rather in disgust, in consequence of some extra demands made upon his time by the late Lord Colchester, who was one of the trustees. In politics, Mr. Douce was a determined Whig of the old school: in manners and appearance he was singular and strange; rough to strangers, but gentle and kind to those who knew him intimately. In appearance, he was of the old school, wearing a little flaxen wig, an old-fashioned, square-cut coat, with what Mr. Jacob calls " quarto pockets." He was short and stout, somewhat near-sighted, not fond of public society, but very heartily enjoying the private and unreserved conversation of select literary friends. The late Mr. Douce, accompanied by his wife, visited Oxford about the year 1830, on which occasion many of the heads of Colleges and learned Professors, especially the curators of the libraries, paid the renowned bibliographer and antiquary marked attention. This incident is supposed to have produced the magnificent bequest of his extremely curious library to the Bodleian.

MRS. BURNS.

On the 26th of March, died Jean Armour, the venerable relict of the poet Burns. She was born at Mauchline in February, 1765, and had thus entered the 70th year of her age. The alleged circumstances attending Mrs. Burns' union with the bard are well known. To the poet, Jean Armour bore a family of five sons and four daughters. The whole of the latter died in early life, and were interred in the cemetery of their maternal grandfather in Mauchline churchyard. Of the sons two died very youngviz., Francis Wallace and Maxwell Burns, the last of whom was a posthumous child, born the very day his father was buried. Of the said family of nine, three sons still survive, Robert, the eldest, a retired officer of the Accountant-General's department, Stamp Office, London, now in Dumfries, and William and James Glencairn Burns, captains in the honourable the East-India Company's service.

For sixteen years at the least, Mrs. Burns enjoyed an income of 2007. per annum-a change of fortune which enabled her to add many comforts to her decent domicile, watch over the education of a favourite grandchild, and exercise on a broader scale the christian duty of charity, which she did the more efficiently by acting in most cases as her own almoner.

The term of Mrs. Burns' widowhood extended to thirty-eight years, in itself rather an unusual occurrence-and, in July, 1796, when the bereavement occurred, she was but little beyond the age at which the majority of females marry.

When young, she must have been a handsome, comely woman, if not indeed a beauty, when the poet saw her for the first time on a bleach-green at Mauchline, engaged, like Peggy and Jenny, at Habbie's Howe. Her limbs were cast in the finest mould; and up to middle life her jet black eyes were clear and sparkling, her carriage easy, and her step light. The writer of the present sketch, (we extract this notice from the Dumfries Courier') never saw Mrs. Burns dance, nor heard her sing; but he has learnt from others that she moved with great grace on the floor, and chanted her "woodnotes wild " in a style but rarely equalled by unprofessional singers. Her voice was a brilliant treble, and in singing Coollen,' 'I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen,' and other songs, she rose without effort as high as B natural. In ballad poetry her taste was good, and range of reading rather extensive. Her memory, too, was strong, and she could quote, when she chose, at considerable length, and with great aptitude. Of these powers the bard was so well aware, that he read to her almost every piece he composed, and was not ashamed to own that he had profited by her judgment. In fact, none save relations, neighbours, and friends, could form a proper estimate of the character of Mrs. Burns. In the presence of strangers she was shy and silent, and required to be drawn out, or, as some would say, shown off to advantage, by persons who possessed her confidence, and knew her intimately.-Peace to the manes, and honour to the memory, of bonny Jean!

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

Married.]-At her house, in Green-street, Grosvenor-square, Lady East, to the Hon. John Craven Westenra, third son of Lord Rossmore, Capt. and Lieut.-Col. in the Scots Fusileer Guards.

At Woburn, the Lord Charles James Fox Russell, sixth son of the Duke of Bedford, M.P. for the county of Bedford, to Isabella Clarissa, daughter of the late Wm. Davies, Esq. of Penylan, county of Carmarthen, and granddaughter to the late Lord Robert Sey

mour.

At Rome, the Baron de Lepel, Major-Gen. in the Prussian service, and Aid-de-Camp to his Royal Highness the Prince Henry of Prussia, to Frances, daughter of the late Wm. Agnew, Esq., of the East India Company's service.

At St. Luke's, Chelsea, Lieut.-Col. Gummer, Madras Army, to Elizabeth, daughter of H. Woodfall, Esq., of Chelsea.

At Marylebone Church, Samuel Marindin, Esq., of the 2d Life Guards, to Isabella, daughter of Andrew Colville, Esq., and niece of Lord Auckland.

Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart. to Mary Anne, relict of Sir John Hayford Thorold, Bart., of Syston Park, in the county of Lincoln.

Lieut. Col. Kelly of the Hon. East India Company's service, to Mrs. Charlotte Gray.

Died.]-In St. Christopher's, the Hon. R. W Pickwood, late Chief Justice, and Speaker of the House of Assembly.

At Exeter, Lady Jane Hope, youngest daughter of the late Earl of Hopetono.

At Fetteresso Castle, N.B., Colonel Duff, of Fetteresso, Vice-Lieut. and Convener of Kincardineshire.

At York-place, Chelsea, Mary Ann, wife of P. M. Hurst, Esq., and granddaughter of George, first Viscount Torrington.

At the Deanery, Lichfield, Hugh Dyke Ac land, Esq., second son of the late Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, of Killerton, Devon, Bart., and son-in-law of the late Dean of Lichfield.

At Wormington Grange, Josiah Gist, Esq., High Sheriff of Gloucester.

At Clifton, aged 91, Ann, widow of the late George Home, Esq., R.N., and aunt to Fowell Buxton, Esq., M.P.

At Port Antonio, Jamaica, the Rev. P. Humphreys, rector of Portland, nephew of the late celebrated Dr. Doddridge.

At Brussels, the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte A. C. Fitzgerald.

At Brussels, in his 70th year, the Rev. C. Powlett, rector of High Roding, Essex.

At Cheltenham, the Very Rev. Sir George Bisshopp, Bart., Deau of Lismore.

At Laveno, in Italy, the Rev. Sir Harry Trelawny, in his 78th year.

At Rome, the Rev. Augustus W. Hare, Rector of Alton Barnes.

Lieut.-Gen. Calcraft, half brother of the late Right Hon. J. Calcraft, M.P.

At Lisbon, the Chevalier Francis Oliveira, of London, and Penha da Franca, in the island of Madeira, eldest son of the late Dominick Oliveira, Esq., of Great Cumberland-street, and nephew of the Marechal Oliveira, of Gloucester-place.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES

IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.