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1861.

The year which has just closed has been fatal to
more than ordinary numbers of distinguished per-

sons. The following is a list of some of the most

prominent among them :

On the 6th of January Dr. Noble, M.P. for Lei-
cester, and Dr. William Pyper, Professor of Hu-
manity at St. Andrew's University ; on the 13th
Lord Elphinstone ; on the 14th Sir Richard Paull
Jodrell ; on the 17th Sir Geo. Scovell, the Very
Rev. T. H. Lowe, Dean of Exeter; Mr. A. B. Cor-
ner, the Queen's Coroner ; Lola Montez, the
" Countess of Lansfeldt ;" on the 18th Mr. J. Heath-

coat, late M.P. for Tiverton ; on the 19th Lady
Elizabeth Wathen ; on the 20th Rear-Admiral R.

W. Parsons; on the 21st Sir John Hall, Sir Hugh
Lyon Playfair, and Rear-Admirals Chappell and
Radford ; on the 24th General Welsh ; on the 25th

Dr. G. R. Rowe, F.S.A., and the Rev. Charles

Webb le Bas, Prebendary of Lincoln, and formerly
Principal of the East India College, Haileybury ;
on the 28th Dr. Baly, F.R.S., Physician Extraor-

dinary to the Queen; on the 29th they of Guild-

ford, General Alex. Fair, and Mrs. Gore, the cele-

brated authoress ; and on the 31st the Duchess

Dowager of Cleveland.
On the Ist of February Lady Sykes ; on the 8d
Major-Gen. Gairdner ; on the sth General De la

Motte ; on the 6th Sir John Owen, M.P. for the
Pembroke district of burghs, and theßev. Bulkeley
Bandinel, D.D., late Librarian of the Bodleian; on.
the 9th Admiral Sir George Mundy ; on the 11th

the Dowager Countess of naddingto ; on the 16th
the Dowager Lady Congelton, Sir Wm. Burnett,

ate Director-General of the Medical Department

of the Navy, and Sir Wm. Henry Clerke; on the
20th General Dyson, Mr. Seeker, the police magis-
trate, and Sir W. Ogilvie ; on the 22d Baron Bray-

brooke ; on the 24th the Hon. Charles Alexander

Wrottesley ; on the 25th the Countess of Roden;

on the 27th Lady Mon& ; and on the 28th the
Duke of Sutherland.

On the sth March Mr. J. M. Maddox, for many
years lessee of the Princess's Theatre ; on the Bth
General H. J. Riddell ; on the 9th Sir Archibald
Maclaine; on the 10th Lady Kinloch ; on the 11th
Sir Lovell B. Lovell ; on the 14th Sir Wm. Beau-
champ Proctor; on the 15th Lord Lilford ; on tho
10th her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ; on
the 19th Sir William Pym and Sir Jas. Dalrymple
Hay ; on the 23d the Right Hon. Richard Wilson
Greene, ex-Baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer;
and on the 27th Lady Jane Peel.
On the 4th of April the Bishop of Madras and
Sir J. C. Anderson ; on the sth Lady Fleming and.
Mr. Robert Jamieson, eminent for his philan-
thropic endeavours to benefit the native races of
Africa ; on the 12th Lord Berwick ; on the 14th the
Dowager Lady Forbes and Vice-Admiral Aplin ;
on the 19t1 Sir Charles W. Pasley and General
Charles Ashe A, Court Re,pington ; on the 20th Mr.
David Pugh, M.P., for Montgomeryshire ; and on
the 24th Sir Hedworth Williamson.
On the 2d. of May Sir George Jackson ; on.
the Bth the Hon. Thomas Edward Mostyn Lloyd
Mostyn, M.P. for Flintshire ; on the 13th Lady
Elizabeth Tollemache ; on the 14th the Duke of
Bedfcrd ; on the 16th Sir Thomas Henry Estridge
Durrant ; on the 19th Lady St. Leonard's ; on the
23d the Rev. E. Cardwell, D.D., Principal
of St. Alban's Hall and Camden Professor of
Ancient History ; on the 26th Vice-Admiral C.R.
Moorsom ; on the 28th the Yen. J. W. Foster,
LL. D., Treasurer and Vicar-General of Limerick,
Archdeacon of Aghadoe, and rector of Aghadoe and
Tankardstown, Killarney; and on the 29th Sir
George Maclean.
Oa the 3d of June Vice-Admiral the Hon,

Richard Saunders Dundas and Admiral James
Patteson Stewart; on the 7th Lady Dorchester
on the 16th Major-General Sir Eaton Monies; on

the 19th Rear-Admiral the Hon. John Frederick
Fitz Gerald De Ros ; on the 20th General William.*
Hallett Connolly ; on the 21st Rear-Admiral the
lion. Frederick Pelham ; on the 22d Mr. Braid-
wood, superintendent of the London Fire Brigade ;
on the 23d Lord Campbell, and on the following
day his brother-in-law Lord Abinger ; on the 25th
Lady Georgiana Bourke; and on the 28th Sir J.
Patteson.
On the 6th of July Sir Francis Palgrave, De-
puty Keeper of the Public Records ; on the 12th
Mr. S. More, LL.D., Professor of the Law of Scot-
land in the. University of Edinburgh; on the 13th
Sir Godfrey John Thomas; on the 21st the Right
Hon. Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, for 20 years
member for the borough of Lambeth ; on the 22d
the Countess of Belmore ; on the 23d Sir James
Cosmo Melvill and Mr. John James Wilkinson,
Accountant to the House of Commons; on the 27th
Sir George Robert Barker ; on the 28th Lady Jane
Ogilvy and A dmiral the Hon. Sir F. B. R. Pellew ;
and on the 29th the Duke of Buckingham.
On the 2d of August Lord Herbert of Lea and

the Earl of Traquair ; on the 3d Admiral Sir
Barrington Reynolds ; on the 4th the Dowager
Countess of Newburgh and Vice-Admiral Sir
Thomas Herbert ; on the Bth the Venerable E. J.
Burrow, Archdeacon of Gibraltar; on the 9th the
Bishop of Durham ; on the 11th Madame Catherine
Hayes-Bushnell, the songstress; on the 20th Prof.
Quekett, the distinguished microscopist ; on the 22d
Gen. Francis Moore and Mr. Richard Oastler, " the
factory king ;" on the 28th the Marchioness of
Breadalbane ; and on the 30th Mr. John Francis,
the well-known sculptor.
On the 3d of September the Earl of Mount-Edg-
cumbe and Lady Mary Ashley ; on the 14th Earl
Fortescue ; on the 17th Sir Win. White and Gen.
G. R. Kemp; on the 19th Sir Samuel Home Stir-
ling and Gen. Dennis Herbert; on:the 22d Sir George
Dashwood ; on the 24th Mr. Wm. Farren, the co-
median ; on the 25th Sir Thomas Blaikie ; and on
the 28th Sir James Miles Riddell,
On the 2d of October Lord Ponsonby ; on the 4th
the Earl of Eglinton and Mr. Vandenhoff, the tra-
gedian ; on the Bth Viscount Forth ; on the 10th Sir
James Hamlyn Williams ; on the 11th the Dowager
Marchioness Conyngham ; on the 12th Lady Rose,
mother of Sir Hugh Rose; on the 13th Sir Wm.
Cubitt, the engineer, and Major Waldo Sibthorp,
m.p. for Lincoln ; on the 16th Sir Wm. Keith
Murray ; on the 17th Mr. Sharman Crawford, for-
merly M.P. for Dundalk, and for many years the
champion of tenant right ; on the 21st Sir Claude
Martine Wade ; on the 25th Sir James Graham; on
the 29th Sir Henry Bridges ; on the same day Sir
Richmond Shakespear ; and on the 30th Sir Wm.
Miller.
On the 2d of November Lord C. Beauclerk ; on
the Bth Sir Thomas Butler ; on the 9th Sir Howard
Douglas; on the same day Sir John Ceesar Haw-
kins; on the 10th the Rev. James Cumming, Pro-
fessor of Chemistry at Cambridge ; on the 13th Sir
John Forbes, Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P. for Fins-
bury, and Mr. J. H. H. Foley, M.P. for East Wor-
cestershire; on the 18th Lady Canning ; on the 22d
Lady Stephenson ; on the 24th Lady Charlotte
Chetwynd; on the 26th the Dowager Countess
Grey; on the 27th Lady Robert Kerr; and on the
29th Sir Chaloner Ogle.
On the Ist of December Sir Wm. Richards ; on
the 2d Mr. F. H. Crowe, her Majesty's Consul at
Cairo, General Alexander Armstrong, and Lady
Georgiana Fitzroy ; on the 3d Sir Peter Laurie ;
on the sth Sir William Gordon ; on the 10th Dr,
Southwood Smith, "the father of sanitary ieform;,'
on the 14th his Royal Highness the Prince Consort;
on the same day Sir Edward Bowater, one of the
Grooms in Waiting to the Queen ; Lord Rivers-
dale, Bishop of Killaloe ; on the 19th Mr. George
Granville Harcourt, M.P. for Oxfordshire ; on the
20th Mr. John Bagshaw, formerly M.P. for Har-
wich ; on the 26th Lady Frances Knox ; and on
the 28th Admiral J. L Hollinworth.

THE MERSEYI DOCK BOARD ELECTIONS.—A
meeting of the Mersey Dock Board was held yesterday
(Wednesday), for the purpose of electing members to supplY
the places of the retiring members—Messrs. Lockett, Run-
kin, Holme, Arnold, Henderson, and Langton. Air. Bower
moved, and Mr. W. P. Campbell seconded the nomination,
of Mr. Thos. Bouch, late chairman of the Liverpool Cham-
ber of Commerce ; and Mr. Adam Gladstone and Mr. G. P
Forwood seconded the nomination of Mr. Fernie, of the
firm of Fernie Brothers. In opposition, Mr. Patterson
members, and spoke
proposed the nomination of the retiring
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in deprecatory terms of the efforts which were being made
to disturb the harmonious and highly efficient representa-
tion which had hitherto existed The Polling will take place
to-day (Thursday).