born in Virginia, and was graduated at Yale College in 1812. He began his law studies at Litchfield, Conn., but suspended them in order to serve as captain of a company in the war with England, then in progress. He completed his professional studies with Mr. William Wirt. He removed to New Orleans, and rose to high distinction in the legal profession, and was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, which office he sustained at the time of his death. He was killed by the explosion of the boiler of the St. James, on Lake Pontchartrain, near New Orleans.

Aug. 7.-In Washington, D. C., Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr., member of Congress from the second district in Massachusetts, aged 47. Mr. Rantoul was born in Beverly, Mass., August 13, 1805; graduated at Harvard University in 1826; studied law in Salem with Hon. John Pickering, afterwards with the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, and commenced practice in Gloucester, in bis native County, in 1829. He was elected Representative to the General Court from Gloucester in 1834. In 1837 he was appointed a member of the Board of Edu cation. In 1843 he was made Collector of the Port of Boston; and in 1845, by President Polk, he was appointed District Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. In 1851 he was elected Senator in Congress during the remainder of the term made vacant by Mr. Webster's resignation, and in the same year was elected to Congress from the second district by the combined votes of the Democrats and Free-Soilers.

June 15. — In Philadelphia, Pa., Dr. James B. Rogers, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.

June 20.-In Elizabeth City, N. C., Hon. William Biddle Shepard, aged 51. He was born in the town of Newbern in the year 1799, of a family distinguished for talents, himself the most distinguished. He was distinguished both as a lawyer and politician, but was most known to the public in the latter capacity, having been from 1827 to 1837 a member of Congress from the Edenton District. April 28. In Cumberland, Md., David Shriver, aged 84. He was a native of Frederick (now Carroll) County, and early devoted himself to engineering, which he selected as his profession. He located, superintended the construction of, and disbursed the money for, the great national road from Cumberland to Wheeling, and, on its completion, was appointed one of the Commissioners of Public Works of the General Government. He planned and constructed other public and private works.

Aug. 1.In St. Louis, Mo., Henry Shurlds, Esq. He emigrated from Gloucester County, Va., and was a student of William Wirt. He successively filled the posts of Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Judge of the Circuit Court, and Cashier of the State Bank.

June 3.In Connecticut, Hon. Perry Smith, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1837 to 1843.

May 14. In St. Louis, Mo., Josiah Spaulding, Esq. He was a native of Connecticut. He graduated at Yale College, and afterwards became a Tutor in Columbia College, Ñ. Y. In 1820 he emigrated to Missouri, where he commenced the practice of the law, and for a time edited the St. Louis Republican. Afterwards he devoted his whole attention to his profession, and rose to the highest rank at the bar, and at one time occupied a seat on the bench.

Jan. 4. — In Andover, Mass., Rev. Moses Stuart, D. D., aged 71. He was born at Wilton, Ct., March 26, 1780, and was graduated at Yale College in 1799. He was admitted to the bar in Danbury, Ct., November, 1802. About the same time he became Tutor in Yale College, and continued in office about two years. Soon after entering on the Tutorship, he determined to leave the legal profession, and engaged with great zeal in the study of theology. In March, 1806, he was or dained Pastor of the First Church in New Haven, and here continued about four years. In February, 1810, he was inaugurated Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., which station he filled with distinguished usefulness and success during most of the remainder of his life. He also published numerous commentaries and theological treatises, which have had a wide circulation at home and abroad. He was a man of uncommon ardor, industry, and enterprise.

June 17. In Harrison County, Ky., Hon. John Trimble, aged 69. He was born in Clarke County, Ky., in 1783; studied law with his brother, Robert Trimble, late Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; was a Circuit Judge, and also a Judge of the new Court of Appeals of Kentucky; he was an able lawyer and an upright man.

Jan. 28.-In Staunton, Va., Rev. Joseph Dennie Tyler, aged 48. He was born in Brattleboro', Vt., and was graduated at Yale College in 1829. He was a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, but for about fifteen years past he had been Principal of the State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Staunton, Virginia.

Aug. 24. At his residence, near Alabama, Ohio, Hon. Joseph Vance. He was an old resident of the State, had served in the Legislature, was a Representative in Congress from 1821 to 1835, and was Governor in 1836.

April 23. In Albany, N. Y., of apoplexy, General Solomon Van Rensselaer, aged 78.

Feb. 19.-In Cambridge, Mass., Rev. William Ware, aged 54. He was a son of Rev. Henry Ware, D. D., and was born in Hingham, August 3d, 1797. He was ordained Pastor of the Unitarian Church in New York City, December 18, 1821, where he continued till 1836. He was, in December, 1843, settled at West Cambridge, where he continued for two years. During the remainder of his life, as his health permitted, he devoted himself to literary pursuits. He was the author, among other works, of Probus and Letters from Palmyra, which made him eminent as a pure, easy, graceful, and vigorous writer. He also wrote and delivered many interesting lectures on topics connected with literature and art. Feb. In Natchez, Miss., Hon. George Winchester, aged about 59. He was born at Salem, Mass., and was graduated at Yale College in 1816. He resided many years at Natchez, Miss., in the practice of the law, and was chosen Judge of the Supreme Court of that State.

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July 17.In Portland, Maine, Greenleaf White, Adjutant-General of the State of Maine.

June 26. - In Utica, N. Y., Rear-Admiral Ralph Wormley, of the British Navy, for some time resident of Boston, being retired from active service on the half-pay list.

May 8.In Memphis, Tenn., Robert J. Yancey, Esq., aged 46. He was for many years connected with the press of Tennessee, having published a paper at Lagrange as early as 1855-36. He afterwards edited and published the Reporter at Somerville for a number of years. From Somerville, he removed to Memphis, in the spring of 1848, and assumed the editorship of the Eagle and Enquirer, in which position he remained until the autumn of 1850, when he established the Southerner. After the suspension of that journal, he became again connected with the Eagle and Enquirer, as associate editor. Failing health, however, early last autumn, compelled him to give up his active occupation.

April 23.- In New York. N. Y., Hon. John Young, Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, aged 49. He was member of Congress from 1841 to 1843, and was Governor of the State from 1847 to 1849.

CHRONICLE OF EVENTS.

1851.

Aug. 29. A convention of twenty-five delegates assembles in Lewis County, Oregon, and appoints a committee to prepare a memorial to Congress to procure a division of the Territory and the organization of a separate Territorial govern

ment.

Aug. 30.-The United States war-steamer Mississippi arrives at Constantinople.

Sept. 1.The inauguration of the railway between St. Petersburg and Moscow takes place.

Sept. 3. J. M. Canales, and other citizens of Guerrero, in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, issue a pronunciamiento against the general government of Mexico.

Sept. 7. The Mississippi sails for the Dardanelles. 10th, she receives Kossuth and his suite on board, he having arrived at the Dardanelles from Gemilk in a Turkish steam-frigate. 11th, the Mississippi sails for Smyrna. 21st, she

touches at Spezzia, where Kossuth meets Commodore Morgan and requests to be sent to England in the Mississippi, which request is refused. 25th, the Mississippi arrives at Marseilles, and Kossuth is permitted to land and remain at a hotel. 27th, Louis Kossuth, on board the Mississippi in the roads at Marseilles, addresses a note to the prefect of Marseilles, in which he demands of the gov erninent of the French Republic a free passage and protection through France on his way to England, which he is intending to visit. The prefect having communicated with the Minister of the Interior by telegraph, informs Kossuth, through the American Consul, that his request cannot be granted. In conse quence of this refusal, Kossuth publishes an address to the citizens of Marseilles on the 29th, dated on board "the frigate Mississippi of the United States."

Sept. 9. The funeral obsequies of the Spaniards and Cubans who fell in the contests with the forces of Lopez, are celebrated with great pomp at the cathedral in Havana. $70,000 are subscribed by the inhabitants of Havana, for the benefit of their widows and children.

Sept. 10. The steamer Pampero is seized by the United States revenue officers, at Dunn's Lake, Florida, for her connection with the expedition of Lopez. She is subsequently condemned.

Sept. 11. A riot, with loss of life, occurs at Christiana, Lancaster County, Pa., upon the attempt being made to arrest a fugitive slave. Mr. Gorsuch, a citizen of Maryland, the owner of the slave, is killed, and his son is mortally wounded. The United States Marshal and his attendants are driven from the ground by armed negroes. The fugitive slaves are not arrested. The negroes had received intelligence of the coming of the officers, and were prepared to resist.

Sept. 16.-J. M. Carvajal issues a pronunciamiento on the Rio Grande against the Mexican government.

Sept. 18 or 19. --The battle of Camargo is fought between Carvajal's forces and those of the Mexican government. The former are victorious.

Sept. 21.The stores of some of the Spanish residents at Key West, Fla., are attacked, and their contents destroyed.

Sept. 22. Louis Kossuth and thirty-five of his countrymen are sentenced to death in contumaciam at Pesth, for not appearing after citation.

Sept. 23. The cable telegraph wire between Dover and Calais is laid this day. Sept 30.-The Advance, one of Mr. Grinnell's vessels sent in search of Sir John Franklin, arrives from her expedition, in New York. Officers and crew all well. The Rescue arrives Oct. 8th.

Oct. 1.The Mississippi leaves Marseilles, and October 5th arrives at Gibraltar. October 15th, Kossuth, his wife, and three children, with his suite, consisting of eleven persons, leave the Mississippi at Gibraltar and go on board the Madrid, an English passenger steamer, which sails the same day for Southampton, England, as does also the Mississippi for New York.

Oct. 3-5. A heavy gale commences on the afternoon of the 3d and continues until the night of the 5th, along the coast of Prince Edward's Island, doing great damage to the American fishing fleet on that coast.

Oct. 8. The Hudson River Railroad through to Albany, is opened.

Cct. 20-The Southern Convention, so called, for the division of the State of California, meets at Santa Barbara

Oct. 20.- Monday, General J. M. Carvajal, the leader of the insurrectionary forces on the Rio Grande, arrives with about 800 men, chiefly cavalry, and one brass four-pounder, takes possession of, and establishes his head-quarters at Fort Paredes, within a mile of Matamoras, which is held by the Mexican general, Avalos, with a force of 600 men, with nine six and nine pound guns. Attacks are made on the 21st, and following days. On the 30th, he commences a retreat, his troops disperse, he reaches Reynosa with a remnant of his men, and there estab lishes himself. During the siege the American troops at Brownsville, opposite Matamoras, are constantly occupied in keeping people from crossing the river to aid the assailants.

Oct. 22.-President Fillmore issues his proclamation against a military expedition which there is reason to believe is about to be fitted out in the United States for the purpose of invading the Mexican republic, with which this country

is at peace.

Oct. 27. A meeting is held in Faneuil Hall, Boston, this evening, to take measures to request the government of the United States to mediate with the British government in behalf of Smith O'Brien and his fellow-exiles.

Oct. 28. A cotton-planters' convention, numbering about 300 members, meets at Macon, Ga., and adjourns October 31st. The object of the convention is to prevent fluctuations in the price of cotton. Little harmony of views or concord of action is manifested.

Nov. 3.-The Circuit Court of the United States, at Philadelphia, in the telegraph case, sustain the Morse patents, and decree an injunction upon the Bain line.

Nov. 10.- The United States steamer Mississippi arrives in New York with the exiled companions of Kossuth, forty-two in number.

Nov. 18.-The "natives" attack Bassa Cove (now Buchanan), Liberia. They had a few days before massacred some of the citizens near Fishtown.

Nov. 20. In consequence of a panic arising from the alarm that the building is on fire, the children in an upper story of the Ninth Ward School, New York city, rush for the stairway; the passage is blocked up, the banisters give way, the children fall in a mass upon the lower floor, and forty-two perish from suffocation and injuries, and many others are more or less injured.

Nov. 24.-Castner Hanaway, one of the Christiana rioters, is put upon his trial for treason, in Philadelphia, before the Circuit Court of the United States, Judges Grier and Kane upon the bench. After a trial of several days, he is acquit ted, Judge Grier ruling that the acts, if proved, would not constitute treason.

Nov. 25. A battle is fought at Cerralvo, between Carvajal, with 350 men, and Jarregui, the Mexican general, with 320 men and two pieces of artillery. Jarregui is driven with loss into a store-house, which he holds until aid arrives, and Carvajal's troops are dispersed.

Dec. 2. Louis Napoleon decrees, in the name of the French people, that the National Assembly and Council of State are dissolved, that universal suffrage is reestablished, that the first military division is in a state of siege, and that the French people are convoked in the electoral colleges from December 14th to December 21st. The decree is dated at the palace of the Elysee, is signed by Napoleon, and countersigned by De Morny, Minister of the Interior. Napoleon also publishes an appeal to the people, complaining of the Assembly, appealing to the entire nation, and submitting to their suffrages as the basis of a constitution, a responsible chief for ten years, ministers dependent upon the executive alone, a council of state, a legislative corps, and a second assembly. He promises, if he does not receive a majority of votes, to summon a new assembly and yield his power to it. The French people are called upon to accept or reject by their vote, upon the 14th of December, the following plebiscite: :-"The French people wills the maintenance of the authority of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and delegates to him the powers necessary to frame a constitution on the basis proposed in his proclamation of the 2d of December." All Frenchmen aged 21, and enjoying their civil and political rights, are permitted to vote. The public places are filled with troops at an early hour. The chief leaders of the Assembly are arrested, as are also the principal Red Republicans and Socialists. The representatives attempting to hold a session of the Assembly are dispersed, after having first decreed the déchéance of Napoleon, absolved the officers of the army, &c. from their oath of obedience to him, and convoked the High Court of Justice to judge the President and his ministers. Collections of people in the street are at once dispersed.

Dec. 3-7.- All attempts to oppose the assumption of power by Napoleon are unsuccessful. A few barricades are erected, but are soon torn or battered down. All combatants at the barricades are put to death, and crowds in the streets are fired upon.

Dec. 4. The decree of Louis Napoleon of December 2d is modified, so that the vote is to be by secret ballot, and on the 20th and 21st December another decree is promulged, appointing a "consultative commission" of from 80 to 100 members.

Dec. 8. A battle is fought at Longomilla between the government troops of Chili, under General, late President, Bulnes and the rebels under General Cruz, in which General Cruz is entirely defeated and his troops dispersed.

Dec. 8. Napoleon publishes a manifesto that "insurrectionary troubles have ceased," and order from this time reigns in Paris. There are opposition and fighting in several of the departments, but they are put in a state of siege, and in all the friends of Napoleon are successful.

Dec. 17. Henry Clay, by letter of this date at Washington, to the General

Assembly of Kentucky, resigns his seat in the Senate, his resignation to take effect September 6th, 1852.

Dec. 24. The principal room of the library of Congress is destroyed by fire, together with paintings, statuary, medals, and about 35,000 volumes of books. The fire was occasioned by the timbers which formed the alcoves being inserted in the chimney-flues.

Dec. 5. Kossuth arrives at Staten Island from Southampton. 6th, be reaches New York as the guest of the city, and reviews the troops, and there is a large military and civic procession in his honor. 8-10, numerous deputations from cities and societies wait upon Kossuth at his rooms. 11th, the city corporation give him a banquet at the Irving House. 12th, he publishes a card, stating his "leading principle" to be," not to mix and not to be mixed up with domestic concerns or party questions." 15th, the banquet of the press is given to him at the Astor House. 16th, the military of New York, between 5,000 and 6,000 strong, receive him at Castle Garden. 18th, the citizens of Brooklyn receive him in the Church of the Pilgrims. 19th, the bar of New York give a banquet to him. 20th, he gives a farewell address in New York before the ladies at Tripler Hall. 24th, Kossuth arrives in Philadelphia, and is received by the city corporation and escorted through the principal streets by a military and civic procession, and a banquet is given him in the evening. 27th, Kossuth is received with great parade by a military and civic procession in Baltimore. 30th, Kossuth arrives in Washington. 31st, Kossuth and his suite wait upon President Fillmore, and Kossuth reads a short address, to which the President briefly replies.

Dec. 26-27.-The town of Lagos, on the coast of Africa, is destroyed by an English force, with a loss of 30 killed and 69 wounded, because the native chief refused to sign a treaty for the effectual suppression of the slave-trade in bis dominions. The chief is deposed and another substituted in his place.

Dec. 26-28. A large portion of the Chinese part of Hong Kong is destroyed by fire. From 470 to 500 houses are destroyed, and many lives are lost. All the printing-offices are destroyed, and the finest edifices and public buildings in Hong Kong.

Dec. 30.- Barnum's Philadelphia Museum is destroyed by fire.

Dec. 31. By joint resolution of this date, the Governor of Georgia is authorized and requested to withdraw the block of marble contributed to the Washington Monument by the resolution of the General Assembly of February, 1850, with the inscription, "The Constitution as it is, the Union as it was," and to cause another to be prepared of Georgia marble, with the State arms thereon, and be sent to the monument.

1852.

Jan. 5. Kossuth visits the Senate of the United States. 7th, he visits the House of Representatives, and a Congressional banquet is given him. 9th, he waits upon Henry Clay. 12th, he arrives and is formally received at Annapolis, Md. 13th, he is received by the Legislature. 14th, he reaches Harrisburg, Pa., and is presented to a convention of the two Houses of the Legislature, which is disturbed by a riotous crowd. 15th, he visits the Senate and the House. 16th, a banquet is given him by the citizens. 24th, he addresses the citizens of Pittsburg, Pa., and again on the 26th.

Jan. 8. General Urquiza, commander of the liberating army, completes the passage of the Parana, with 28,000 men, 50,000 horse, and 50 pieces of artil lery, and prepares to approach Buenos Ayres.

Jan. 10.--Lord Granville, by his note to the American minister, of this date, in relation to the firing into the American steamer Prometheus, at Georgetown, by the British man-of-war Express, states to Mr. Lawrence, for the information of his government, that Her Majesty's government "entirely disavow the act of violence committed by the commander of the Express, and also the requisition from Her Majesty's consul, under which the commander acted, so far as he acted by any authority derived from the British Crown. Under these circumstances, Her Majesty has no hesitation in offering ample apology for that which they consider to have been an infraction of treaty engagements."

Jan. 15.

President Roberts, of Liberia, with his troops, attacks the native