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and Mdlle. de Flahault, the Earl of Fowls, the Earl of
Hardwicke, the Earl De la Warr and Lady Arabella
West, Lady Clomentina Villiers, Lady Ruthven, Lady
Charlotte Egerton, Lord and Lady Radatock and the
lion. Miss as Waldegrave, Lady Shelley, Lord Redos-
dale, Lord and Lady William Powlett; Lady Caroline
Murray, Lady Georgiana Cathcart and the . Misses
Cathrart, Viscount and Viscountess Colchester and Lady
Colford, Lady Emily Drunimond and Miss Drummond,
Lady Mary Vynor and Miss Mary Vynor, Viscountess
Mahon and the Hon. Miss Curzon, Viscountess E9figlci,
and the Hon. Miss Byng,Viscount Somerton, Mr. Baron
Parke and Miss Parke, Lord and Lady Sondes and the
lachi. Misses Mills, Lady Frederick Sentinel.; Lady De
Dunstanville Lord and Lady Colborne, Viscount MA'
lion, Lord and Lady Sheffield, Lord Colville, Lady; Bel-
linghain Graham and Miss Graham, Lord Alexander
Lennox, Lady Brougham, Lord and Lady Foley, and
the Hon. Miss Foley, Lord Henry, Lennox, Sir Alex-
vetaonrildiaker)e-rWGaenonodedrfaolrd,. Lady and Miss Woodford, the At-
n Lady
Walker,Ladyaiad
Sir TEhdewsiigneHr,aitT La
Sir
dßaldwin
and Mr. Egerton, Right Hon. Sir George and Lady
Grey, Sir. Rowland and Lady Catherine Boyle, Sir
Thomas Herbert, Sir Walier Ridciel, Viscount Strut-
ford, Sir Phial!? and Lady Grey Egerton, Sir RarPla and
Lady Howard, Lady Harriet and Mr. Currie and Miss
Currie, Hun.' Mr. and Mrs James Stuart Wortley, Sir
Charles Hotham, Sir Richard Mayne, Sir. Charles Lo-
mond, 'Sir John End Lady Johnston and the Misses
Johnston, Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Baring, 'Mr.
and Lady Mary Stanley and the Misses Stanley, Sir
Jas. Mackerazie, Sir Jas. and Lady Weir Hogg, and the
Misses Hogg, the Very Rev. Dean of Norwich and Mr.
Fallon, -gr. 'William Nelson, 'Mr. Lyons, Mr. William
Rase, Mr. Arthur Russell, Mia Humphrey, Mr. and
Mrs. Cardwell, Mr. and Mrs.. Granville Vernon, Captain
Pelham, Mr. Sanderson, Mr. Liddle, Mr. Hallam, Cap-
tain Drummond, Mr. Henry Liddle, Mr. and Mrs.
Percy and Miss Percy, Mr, Dardon, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce,
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Jocelyn Percy and Miss Percy, and
Miss Littleton, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Gaskell, Mr. Repton,
Captain Milnes and Mrs. Milnes, Admiral Bowles, Mr.
Beaumont, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baring, Mr. Button,
Captain Hamilton, Mr. and Miss Sulivan, Mr. and• Miss
Neville, Mr. and Mrs. Cornewall Leigh, &c.

VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S ASSEMBLY.
On Saturday evening Viscountess Palmerstor: had an
assembly at her Ladyship's mansion, Carlton-gardens. It
was numerously and brilliantly attended by the members
of the corps diplomatigue and most of the aristocracy and
beau monde.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR W. A. MON

TAGU, C. 8., K.C.H.
This gallant and distinguished officer died at his resi
deuce, Ryde, on Saturday last, deeply regretted by en
extensive circle of naval and other friends. He had
served afloat for 23 years, but principally during the
war. He entered the navy Sept. 4, 1796, on board the
Glatton, 50, Captain Henry Trollope, under whom he
continued employed on the home station as midshipman,
in the Russell, 74 (part of the victorious duet in the
action off Camperdown, Oct. 11, 1797), and juste, 80,
until transferred, about the close of 1800, to the Sirius,
36, Captain Sir Richard King. In that ship he witnessed
Jan. 27,1801, the surrender of the French 36-g an frigate
La Dedaigneuse. After a servitude of four ye ars in the
East Indies, he was successively confirmed lieutenant
and commander by commission dated Nov. 3.4,
and Oct. 31, 1805; he was then nominated, June 8,
1807, acting captain of the Terpiscbore frigate. In
March: of the following year Captain Montagu, whose
ship mounted but 28 guns and had only 180 men on board,
fell in with, fought, and (with a loss to him telf of 21
men killed and 22 wounded) fairly beat off the French
frigate Semillante of 40 guns and a crew of at beast 300
men. Being soon afterwards appointed to the Corn-
wallis ,of SO guns and 335 men, he assisted, in '.the early
part of 1810, at the reduction
of the island of Anboyna.
About the same period Captain Montagu succeeded in
effecting the capture of the Dutch corvettes ildandarin
and De Ruyter. In the following November he was in-
trusted. with the command of the naval brigade landed
to assist at the reduction of the Isle of France during
the operations connected with which, particularly OH the
occasion of the defeat of the French troops before St.
Louis, Dec. 1, his zeal and exertions were such as to
call forth the sincere acknowledgments of Major- General
Abercromby..His last appointments were, Septa 8, 1812,
to the Niobe, 40, employed until June, 1814, on the
Channel, American, and Lisbon stations; Oct. 29, 1819,
to the Phaeton, 46, which ship he commanded: on ser-
vice at; Halifax until put out. of commission in Sept.,
1822, and July 25, 1834, to the Malabar, 74, fixting for
the Mediterranean, where, and off Lisbon, lie con-
tinued until ordered home at the close of 183 T, for the
parpone of being ;paid off. 11014atained flag-rank Nov,
23, 1841. The Res pilhidadital (a detytitledieuttrnantler
the county of Huntingdon) was nominated a 0.8., Dec.
8, 1815; a K.H., Oct. 5, 1830, and a K.C.H. (accom-
panied: -with the honour of knighthood) in Jan. 1832.
He eat irried, August 26, 1823, Anne, third daughter of
the late Sir Geo. Wm. Leeds, Bart., of Croxton Park,
Cambridgeshire.
By the death of Sir Wiliam Montagu the following
promotions take place:-
Rear. Admiral W. Bowles, C. 8., M.P., becomes Vice-
Admiaal of the Blue; John B. Pasco becomes Rear-Ad-
miral of the Red; and Robert Wtiuchope Rear-Admiral
of the- White.

Captain Donat Henchy O'Brien (1821), orve of the
most dit.tinguished officers in the list, who, during 20
years' svivice in the war, suffered shipwreck, captivity,
and imprisonment, and made one of the most desperate
escapes from his captors on record, after 'three unFuc-
cesatulattempts—who was second-lieutenant of the Am-
phion Ist the celebrated action off Lissa, and was Sir W.
Iloste's;..first-lieutenant in all his most brilliant cutting-
out exploits in the Adriatic.--This officer not having
had intierest enough to procure employment as a captain
is ther,slay ineligible for active flag rank, and obtains his
promotion only to the reserved half-pay list. Hear-Ad-
miral O'Brien is about 67 years of age..
Captain Edward Lloyd, K.H. (1821), next in seniority
to the ,11;bove officer, is also in the same position. He has
been u arable to procure employment as a captain since
his prisitotion, although he served 15 years afloat during
the we r--in fact, from his first entry into the service to
1815 11,e, served almost continuously; and we have beard
that for seven years he was never ashore in Eagland
once. Ile was at the landing in Egypt, and in the sub-
sequent betties ashore. He commanded a party at the
attack tst Buenos Ayres and Monte Video; was with Sir
Willoughby Nesbit iu many of the desperate exploits at
the Isl s of France; he also served at the attack of Mau-
ritius, mild subsequently with the army during the Javese
campafcn.

Captain B. M. Kelly (1821), the third on the active
list, is ;in the same position as. Messrs. O'Brien and
Lloyd. He served 17 years afloat, chiefly during the
war. lil:e was at the landing, in Egypt, was at the cap-
ture of :Rear-Admiral Perree a squadron, was at the re-
duction, of St. Domingo, and in rooting out the enemy's
private e)rs, and was senior officer for some time of the
African., squadron. Although incessant in his applica-
tians, the Elliots, Greys, Ellices, Granvilles, and Sy-
mondseer were preferred to this war officer, and eons&
quently -we shall see these favoured; family officers with
their fit ggs flying, when O'Brien, Lloyd,
Kelly, and
other distinguished men are consigned to the faded
yellow fist.
Capt s;in Armar Lowry Corry (1821), the fourth on
the list, having rendered himself eligible by service as 1
a captaii e becomes entitled to his promotion to the
active B.t :g list. He has server' afloat above 20 years,
and for the last 15 months has been serving as superin-
tendent; of packets at Southampton. Captain (now Rear-
Admir ,ii) Corry, according to O'Byrne's Biography,
entered the service in 1805, on board the Diadem, 64,
Captain Sir Home Popham; and, after assisting in the
operations against the Cape of Good Hope and Buenos
Ayres,
_Teturned to England in May, 1807, as midsb'n
man of the Sampson, 64. Joining
d 1808; re--
then the Leda, 1`-
Captai n R. Honyman, he assisted at the ensuing b 38,
bardna, ant of Copenhagen, and was afterwards
3l wrecked
near OW entrance of Milford Haven, Jan.
Impregnable,the Emperor
ceived Ids first commission April 28, 1812;1101
the Duke of igthilisneclosun
to have. been successively appointed to appears
and Moiatagu, 74, on the Brazilian star a Neruq, 32,
lOfl
is! f-
whichs hi p o fh he i
esscßoroteyadl
toli
Cla-
rence,l°trily;
of Russia% and the King of Prussia
Havireg been promoted to the rankl of commander,andto the Tay, 24,
13, 18 15, in 1820, was appointed to June
Sateli a?, 18, East Indies, where h the command cf the became, July 23, 1821 e
flag ca p fain in the Leander,
er, 60,
Sir Hilary Blackwood, - sto his old friend th© Hon.
with whom he continued
until February, 1822, when he invalided home on board
of the ;Barham, 50, sliming command, April 4, 1835,
Constt untinople, and conveyed the Earl of Durham to
while subsequently stationed in
charge of a squadron on the coast of Spain, received the
thanks, of the Queen, her Ministers, end the captains-
genert a of the
landir g with the various
provinces, for his exertions in
various ships' companies under his or-
ders, i tad preserving Majesty the towns of Barce-
lona ead Valencia. to her . .
The Barham being paid off in April,
1839, tt
. e commissioned, September 7, 1844, the Fire.
grand steam-frigate, and superintended the trial sailings
of exp E'litnental squadron of brigs; and on his return to
port se S transferred, Dec. 13, in the same year, to the
~apes),, 80, in which he took part in other trial cruises
l'a to Channel and Mediterraneae. Captain Corry
manic co, Sept.l, 10, 1842, Eliza Massy Dawson, widow of
the lal;e Eyre, Coote, Esq., of West Park, Fording-
bridge„ Hants.
In addition to the above promotions the following
c4ptei as on the retired list of 1846. being senior to Cap-
twin C orry, become entitled to their flag rank on the re-.
tired list, but without increase of pay
Capt ins Alexander Montgetnerie (Oct. 3, 1820),
John William Montague (Nov. 30, 1820), ' and Bon.
George Bryce Campbell (Jan. 27. 1821).
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., the second member
of the new Boad of Admiralty, is now senior rear-ad-
miral of the red for promotion. Captain Sir Edward
Perry (1821), superintendent of Clarence-yard and Has-
lar 11,,spital, is the senior on the active captains' list.
Captains J. O'Brien, H. Smith, C. 8., S. Lusbingtoe,
and J. N. Duntze (1829), will succeed to the senior half-
pay list; and Captains Crozier, Lord Clarence Paget,
R. 11. King, and R. L. Warren (183 e), succeed to the
12s half pay list.
• 6d. -
1 By the above promotions two good service pensions, 1