year. Many no donbt are familiar with his name as the early
friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey.

GENERAL HOWARD VYSE died at Stoke Court, near Windsor,
on the 8th inst., at the age of sixty-nine.

MR. JAMES HARMER, of Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent,
well known as Mr. Alderman Harmer, died on the 12th inst.,
at Cricklewood, in Middlesex, in the seventy-seventh year of
his age.

COUNT FRANCIS STADION died at Vienna on the 9th inst., of
a paralytic affection, brought on by the excessive anxiety and
fatigue which, as Minister of the Home Department, he underwent
in the year 1848.

MR. MAURICE O'CONNELL, M.P., the eldest son of the late
Daniel O'Connell, died suddenly on the 18th inst.

THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY died on the 17th inst., in his
ninety-second year.

              COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The Overland Mail brings advices from Bombay to
the 23rd of May. The most important article of
intelligence is, that the Nizam had consented to cede
Berar to the British government, in lieu of his debt and
annual payment. Berar is an extensive tract of
country, and the great cotton district of India.

The accounts from Hong-Kong are to the 22nd of
April. The city of Nankin is reported to have fallen
into the hands of the rebels. The British authorities
at Shanghae had declined to lend any assistance in the
defence of Nankin, or to take any part in the war
except such as may be necessary for the protection of
British property.

The intelligence from Jamaica is of an unpleasant
character. The governor and the colonial legislature
are in a state of hostility. On the 17th of May he
opened the session with a speech to both houses. He
pointed out that by the lapse of the revenue bills, and
the want of provision for the expenses of government,
the demands on the treasury, if the present state of
things continue to the 10th October, will amount to
£100,000; that only some £20,000 would be forthcoming
to meet legitimate demands; and that therefore the
remaining £80,000 would form an augmentation of the
debt of the island. But as some of the creditors
could not wait for the satisfaction of their claims, he
intended to discharge the female convicts—then the
male convicts—and dismiss the police; as it was a delusion
to suppose that the governor has authority to
resort to the Commissariat or Imperial Government for
assistance. He stated, that in one week not less than
£11,000 had been lost to the revenue by the lapse of
the Import and Rum Duties Act; and he strongly
reprobated the conduct of the Assembly in attempting,
under cover of providing for the principal supplies, so
to appropriate its grants as to defeat former permanent
appropriations. He concluded with these recommendations
—"Therefore, whensoever and in whatsoever
manner opportunity and leisure may be found or
created, I recommend that your attention should be
given, first, to a regulation of the civil and ecclesiastical
establishments, by reductions which shall either be
prospective or shall be made upon the basis of a fair
and moderate compensation for existing interests;
secondly, to the provision of a permanent fund for the
payment of the reduced establishments; thirdly, to the
enabling of the governor, for the time being, to employ
ministerial officers, holding seats in the Assembly, to
bring forward Government measures in that House."

The advices from Canada give accounts of serious riots
at Quebec and Montreal, in consequence of Father
Gavazzi's lectures upon the abuses of the Church of
Rome. At Quebec the disturbance terminated without
fatal results. A violent attack was made upon the
chapel in which he was lecturing by a mob assembled
outside, who burst into the chapel and attempted to
force their way to the pulpit; but he was protected by
a body of police till the arrival of the military, by whom
he was safely escorted to his hotel. At Montreal the
riot was unfortunately attended with bloodshed. The
disturbance began by a conflict within the chapel in
which Gavazzi was lecturing, between the rioters and
the police, in which several persons were severely
injured. When the lecture was concluded, and the
people were leaving the chapel, another collision took
place with the military, who had been called in. It
appears that they were compelled, in self-defence to
fire, and the consequence was that seven persons were
killed on the spot, six mortally wounded, and ten more
seriously injured. Great excitement prevailed at the
date of the accounts.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION.

The Female Colonisation Society has received from
the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales a grant
of £10,000 to promote emigration. One of the objects
of this Society is to help emigrants (by a judicious
system of loans) to pay the cost of their passage. The
society was established in May, 1850, and up to July,
1852, it sent out seven ships, with a total of 1,221 adults,
505 children, and 68 infants; the total advances to whom
were £3,272 10s. 9d; since then, owing to resolutions of
the committee, only 11 families were sent out, at a cost
of £158 to the society, and above £9,000 was received in
remittances from Australia, by means of which 289
persons have gone out, or are about to sail. The society's
books show a balance of £3,060. The donations since its
establishment amount to £8,442, of which £3,820 has
been lent to 2,237 individuals. The report adds, that
although the loans are for two years from the day of
landing, £512 16s. 6d. has been already returned, and
£155 more has been advised, and other sums are doubtless
in course of transmission. Under these
circumstances, and with the grant of £10,000 the society met
on the 7th inst., to determine on future operations. Mr.
S. Herbert presided. Lord Shaftesbury, Messrs. R.
Lowe, M.P., S. Donaldson, Chance of Birmingham,
Mrs. Chisholm, and Count Streletzki were present.
Mrs. Chisholm stated that the operations had extended
beyond the powers of any committee, actuated by
benevolence, to manage; and after some discussion, it
was arranged to re-constitute the working of the society,
and to appoint a paid secretary. The office expenses are
to be defrayed from the balance of £3,060, and the
colonial grant is to be strictly applied to the "assisted
passages." Mrs. Chisholm stated that on her lists there
are 300 adults ready with £15 each, out of the £20
required for the voyage; 150 with £12, and 600 with £5.
each, showing how economically the funds can be
administered. By advancing £5 to each individual,
£1,000 would enable 200 persons to emigrate, and a new
act of the Legislative Assembly provides stringently for
the recovery of the loans.—A very large emigration still
continues from various districts in the south of Wales.
Large bodies of Mormonites, principally from
Carmarthenshire and Glamorgan, still continue to leave their
native land for the banks of the Salt Lake. Labour is
now scarce in most parts of Wales.

The Female Emigration Fund, established under Mr.
Sydney Herbert's presidency, has determined on very
widely extending its scale of operations. It will be
recollected that this fund was established in the winter
of 1849, for the purpose of affording assistance to
distressed London needlewomen who were desirous to
emigrate. Upwards of 1,200 of this class have been sent
out to the colonies, and £24,000 has been usefully
expended in the work of emigration upon this plan. It
is now found that the class for whom the advantages
of the fund were originally intended are better employed,
and consequently less desirous to emigrate. At the same
time, the funds of the Association are at so low an ebb,
that it appears impossible to continue any system of free
emigration on a scale sufficiently large to be generally