The Press.
London, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

Obituarg.

THE MARQUIS OF QUEENSBERRY died at Edin-
burgh on Friday week. The deceased, John Don-
clas, Marquis and Earl of Queensberry, Viscount of
Drumlanrig, and Baron Douglas of Hawick and
'libbers, in the peerage of Scotland, and a baronet of
Nova Scotia, was third son of Sir William Douglas,
Bart., of Kellhead, descended from the Hun. Sir
William, second son of the first Earl of Queensberry.
Ho was born in 1780, and married, 16th July, 1817,
his cousin Sarah, third daughter of Ala:or James
Sholto Douglas, who survives him, and by whom he
has left issue a son and daughter, namely, Viscount
Drumlanrig, ALP., and Lady Georgians Douglas.
The late peer succeeded to tho family honours on
the death of his elder brother Charles, fifth marquis,
the 3rd Dec., 1837. The deceased marquis is now
succeeded in the marquisate by his only son, Archi-
bald William Viscount Drumlanrig.
GENERAL THE HON. WILLIAM HENRY GARDNER,
colonel commandant of the 10th Battalion of the
Royal Artillery, died on the 15th instant at his seat
in Devonshire. The venerable general was eldest
surviving son of Alan, first Baron Gardner, and Ras
born 6th October, 1774, so that he had entered I is
eighty-third year, and married, in February, 1803,
Eliza Lydia, third daughter of Lieut.-General Wil-
liam Fyers, by whom he leaves numerous issue. The
military services of the deceased general commenced
in September, 179:1. He took part in the Wal-
cheren expedition, and was present during the sit go
and capture of Flushing.
REAR-ADMIRAL SIR HENRY HART, one of the
Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, died on Mon.
day morning, shorly attar seven o'clock, at his resi-
dence at the hospital. The gallant deceased was in
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on board the Indefatigable.4B, Capt. Sir E. Pellew, and
served throughout the old French war with nisiin-
guished gallantry. In 1818 he was engaged in protecting
she British interests at Porto Bello, at the time when
that place was attacked by a force under Sir Grew s
WGregor, in unison with the Mexican patriots; and
was next intrusted with • mission to the Governor-
General of South America, who had been driven from
Mexico to Carthagena. In September, 1831, he was
appointed flag captain to the Melville, 74, to Sir J.
Gore, then just appointed Commander-in-Chief in
the East Indies. Captain Hart, while on that stations
was appointed to the temporary command of the
Imogene, 28, and specially deputed to conduct an
important negotiation with the Imaum of Muscat.
At the termination of this successful mission he
went to Bombay with a ship of 74 guns, intended as a
present from the Itnaum to the late King William
IV., who added her to tl • British navy, under the
name of the "Imaum." He returned in the Melville,
with the Earl of Clare, in 1835. Shortly after his
return to England—viz., in January, 1836—he was
nominated a K.C.H., and in the February following
he received the honour of knighthood, in acknow-
ledgment of his naval services. In April, 1842, he
received the captain's good-service pension; and in
1845 was appointed a commissioner of Greenwich
Hospital. In October, 1846, he was made a real
admiral on the retired list. The gallant admiral was
descended from the ancient Harts of Lullingston,
Kent.

MR. HENRY GEORGE KUPER, the British consul
at Baltimore, died from suffocation during a large
fire in that city. The unfortunate gentleman was
attached to the consular department of the Foreign-
office in 1826, and in a few mouths was appointed •
attache to the British Legation at Frankfort, and wt
subsequently selected as Charge d'Affaires to the
Germanic Diet. In March, 1844, he was appointed
consul at Elsinore, and removed to Baltimore in
August, 1852.
MR. CHARLE3 JAMES H. HAMILTON, another
diplomatic servant of the Crown, died a few days
since at Brighton. The deceased gentleman had
seen much service during his hom-urable official
career. He was attached to the mission at Lisbon
in January, 1810, and in December, 1815, was ap-
pointed Secretary of Legation at Stuttgardt, and in
December, 1825, was appointed Secretary to the
Embassy at Paris. In 1833 he was for a few months
accredited Minister Plenipotentiary to the French
Court, and in July the following year he was selected
as Minister Plenipotentiary to Buenos Ayres. While
there, he was sent twice on special missions to Monte
Video. He was appointed in October, 1835, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Rio
Janeiro, which post he held till February, 1847, when
he quitted the Brazils, and retired on a pension.
THE REV. DR. HARRIS, Principal of the New
College, St. John's-wood, shied on Sunday last, in the
fifty-third year of his age. Dr. Harris was a gentle-
man of great eminence and influence among the
Nonconformists. He was a native of Ugborough, in
Devonshire, and was educated in tho Independent
College, then existing at Hoxton, but afterwards re-
moved to Highbury, and finally merged in the New
College, of which he was principal at the time of his
death. He was brought to public notice by being
the successful competitor for a prize of a hundred
guineas, offered by Dr. Conquest, for the best essay
against covetousness. This production, under the
title of " Mammon," gained extraordinary popularity,
and drew the attention of the religious world strongly
towards the author. His services as a preacher were
in great request. In 1837 he became professor of
theology in Cheshunt College ; and when, in 1850
the various Independent colleges in and about the
metropolis were consolidated into one, under the
designation of New College, he was invited to pre-
side over the institution. Besides the prize essay to
which we have referred above, Dr. Harris was the
author of several other works, displaying far greater
compass and maturity of thought than " Mammon."
One of these was the " Great Commission," also the
result of a literary competition, in which he boss
away the first prize. But, besides these, he pub-
lished the " Great Teacher" (his earliest work),
" Man Primeval," " The Preadamite Earth," " Pate-
orchy," tc. Some of these works display a lari.e
amount of profound and patient thought, in the
department of metaphysical theology, conveyed in a
style of singular clearness.
Ma. Hucat M taxa, the well-known writer on geolcgy
and eili,or of the Witness newspaper. was found on
Wcdre=dly morning lying dead on the floor of his
bedroom, in Edinburgh, shot through the heart with
a pistol bullet. That he died by his own hand there
seems to be no doubt, but the circumstances under
which the melancholy event happened do not lead to
the supposition that his death was an act of inten-
tional suicide. For some time past Mr. Miller had
been in a somewhat indifferent state of health,
brought on, we believe, by over-study in the prepara-
tion of a new work on geology. He auftWel eon.
siderably from nervous excitement, and, though at
all times a man of ecceuttio ;limners, 413 %MOW;