7. That it is expedient that so soon as provision shall have been made by law to be passed by the Legislature of the said province of Lower Canada for the discharge of lands therein from feuderal dues and services, and for removing any doubts as to the incidents of tenure of land in free and common soccage in the said province, a certain Act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, King George the Fourth, commonly called The Canada Tenures Act; and so much of another Act passed in the year of his said late Majesty's reign, commonly called The Canada Trade Act,' as relates to the tenures of land in the said province, should be repealed, saving nevertheless to all persons all rights in them vested under or by virtue of the said recited Acts. "8. That for defraying the arrears due on account of the established and customary charges of the administration of justice and of the Civil Government of the said province, it is expedient that, after applying for that purpose such balance as shall on the 10th April, 1837, be in the hands of the Receiver-General of the said province, arising from his Majesty's hereditary, territorial, and casual revenue, the Governor of said province be empowered to issue from and out of any other part of his Majesty's revenues in the hands of the Receiver-General of the said province such further sum as shall be necessary to effect the payment of the before-mentioned sum of 142,160l. 14s. 6d. 9. That it is expedient that his Majesty be authorised to place at the disposal of the Legislature of the said province the net proceeds of his Majesty's hereditary, territorial, and annual revenue arising within the same, in case the said Legislature shall see fit to grant to his Majesty a Civil List for defraying the necessary charges of the administration of justice, and for the maintenance and unavoidable expenses of certain of the principal offices of the Civil Government of the said province. ་་ 10. That great inconvenience has been sustained by his Majesty's subjects inhabiting the provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada from the want of some adequate means for regulating and adjusting questions respecting the trade and commerce of the said provinces, and divers other questions wherein the said provinces have a common interest; and it is expedient that the Legislature of the said provinces respectively be authorised to made provision for the joint regulation and adjustment of such their common interests." After much discussion the House adjourned. March 7.-Mr. Grote again brought forward his sessional motion for leave to bring in a Bill to secure the taking of votes for Members of Parliament by ballot.— The House divided-For the motion, 153; against it, 265; majority against the motion, 112. March 8.-After much debate, and lengthy arguments, the Committee divided, as it was understood, on Mr. Leader's amendment, that the Legislative Council of Ca nada be an elective body. The numbers were-for it, 56; against it, 318; majority in favour of Ministers, 262. March 9. A great deal of railroad business was done.-Mr. T. Duncombe moved for leave to bring in a Bill "to repeal that portion of the Reform Act which requires the payment of rates and taxes in cities and boroughs as the condition of registration." After a few words, a division took place. The numbers were-For bringing in the Bill, 49; against it, 38. March 10.-Nothing of consequence. March 13.-There was a great deal of lengthy debate on the subject of the Abolition Church-rate Bill.-Sir R. Peel spoke eloquently and ably on the subject, and in a speech of unexampled argument, combated the arithmetical details of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. March 14. Some railroad Bills were thrown out.-The adjourned debate on the Church-rate resolutions was then re-opened by Sir William Follett. The Hon. Gentleman, in a most luminous speech, went at length into the history and antiquity of the rates, and showed that so far back as the 13th of Edward the First they had been by Act of Parliament placed under the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts. Sir William proceeded in his arguments to a great length. He was replied to by the Attorney-General.-Many members spoke, and the debate was kept up till a late hour. March 15.-The adjourned debate on the Church-rate was resumed.--Lord Stanley, in a speech of great animation and power, defended his consistency against the charges of the Attorney-General and other Hon. Members, and entered into a review of the measure before the House, which he resisted as calculated to bring ruin upon the Establishment.-The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied, and his speech under ordinary circumstances, would have closed the debate: a supplementary discussion, however, sprung up among the Members who had not succeeded in speaking before, in the course of which Lord D. Stuart, Mr. G. F. Young, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Hind, Mr. A. Trevor, &c., strongly protested against the measure. At length a division took place, and the numbers were-For the resolution, 273; against it, 250; majority for the resolution, 23. Mr. Clay (in a very thin House) brought forward his promised motion regarding the Corn Laws, to consider the expediency of having fixed duties instead of the present graduated scale of duties. With respect to what ought to be the amount of fixed duty, he would leave that question to the Committee should it be granted, but he deemed it candid and right to name what was his plan. He should propose that there be fixed duties, to take effect June 30-namely 10s. per quarter on wheat; 8s. per quarter on barley; and 6s. per quarter on oats; and that, beginning June, 1840, there be permanently fixed duties-viz., 5s. per quarter on wheat; 4s. per quarter on barley; and 3s. per quarter on oats. He concluded with moving that the House resolve into a Committee of the whole House, "to consider of the propriety of permitting corn, grain, meal, and flour, the growth, produce, and manufacture of any foreign country, to be imported into the United Kingdom for consumption, on the payment of fixed duties regulated from time to time, according to the average price of British corn."-The House eventually divided on it. The numbers were-For the motion, 89; against it, 223; majority against the motion, 134. March 17.-Many railroad Bills were brought forward.-The seizure of the Vixen by the Russians was strongly commented on. MEMOIRS OF PERSONS RECENTLY DECEASED. THE RIGHT REV. THOMAS BURGESS, LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY. The Right Rev. Thomas Burgess, D.D., F.R.S., F.A.S., and formerly President of the Royal Society of Literature, was born in the year 1755, at Odiham, in Hampshire, where his father carried on a respectable business as a grocer. He received bis education at Winchester School, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; of which last he became a Fellow and Tutor. He took his degree of A.M. in 1782; B.D. in 1791; and D.D. in 1803. An early display of extraordinary literary abilities procured for him the friendship and patronage of Shute Barrington, Bishop of Salisbury, and afterwards Bishop of Durham, who, about the year 1790, gave him a prebend in Salisbury Cathedral; and on being translated to Durham, presented him also to a prebend in the Cathedral of that See. His next advancement took place under the administration of Mr. Addington (who had been his fellow-student at Winchester and Oxford,) and who, unsolicited, conferred on him, in 1803, the vacant See of St. David's. From the moment of his elevation to the Episcopal Bench, the learned Prelate displayed the most devoted and exemplary attention to the concerns of his diocese, and was unceasing in his efforts to benefit those placed under his jurisdiction. With this view, his Lordship planned and formed a Society for the foundation of a Provincial College within the diocese, for the instruction of Ministers for the Welsh Church, who have not the means to obtain a University education. The College at Lampeter now stands an imperishable monument to the activity and benevolence of his Lordship in the Principality. In 1825, upon the death of Bishop Fisher, Dr. Burgess, through the interest of the Bishop of Durham, exercised in his behalf with Lord Liverpool, was translated to the See of Salisbury, of which he took formal possession on the 6th of July, 1825-his predecessor having expired on the 8th of May. Throughout the twelve years during which his Lordship has presided over this diocese, he has laboured zealously to improve the means of Divine worship-to correct every approach to neglect or irregularity-and, in a word, to increase and nurture the flock committed to his charge. Nor have the temporal wants of deserving individuals who have been brought under his notice received less attention at his Lordship's hands, than their spiritual necessities: the extended range of his benevolence is attested not only in the munificence of his contributions to public works of charity, but in the unobtrusive deeds of private alms-giving. Although the studious and retiring habits of the estimable Prelate led him to take little part, personally, in public affairs, for some years past, it is scarcely possible for those unacquainted with him to form an adequate idea of his active business habits, and the facility of access at all times afforded by bis Lordship to those who had occasion to communicate with him on matters relative to the diocese; or to invoke his aid-that aid never solicited in vain-in the prosecution of any good and useful work. The same habits which induced a life of apparent seclusion in his Lordship, while engaged in the duties of his diocese, prevented him from taking any active part in the House of Peers; but his proxy was never withheld, when any measure affecting the interests of true religion and the Church, of which he was so efficient a member, called for the exercise of his Parliamentary privilege. During the whole of his long ministerial life, the laborious and powerful pen of Bishop Burgess was constantly employed in advancing the cause of his heavenly Master, and the true interests of mankind. His first publication appeared in 1780; and within a few months only of his death, the venerable Prelate wrote and published a letter to Lord Melbourne, on the Irish Spoliation measure: the vigorous tone of which letter affords no indication of a decaying mind. Indeed, we believe it may be with truth affirmed, that almost up to the last hours of his existence, the extraordinary mental faculties of the deceased remained unshaken. Full of years and of honour, this faithful servant of the Lord is now called to inherit a fairer portion than this world could bestow; and, while we deplore his loss, not only as a local bereavement, but as a national deprivation, we may find consolation in the reflection, that the accumulated fruits of his many years' labour remain to us-a bright beacon and example to all. In the year 1796, the late Bishop (then Mr. Burgess) married Miss Bright, of Durham, half-sister of the Marchioness of Winchester, who still survives his Lordship. The marriage was not productive of any issue. SIR HENRY TUCKER MONTRESOR. Sir Henry Tucker Montresor, K.C.B. and G.C.H., died at his seat, Downe Hill, near Canterbury. Sir Henry was appointed lieutenant in the 23rd foot in September 1779; the other regiments with which he served were, the 104th, the 18th at Gibraltar. He served in Corsica, and on the surrender of Calvi was appointed its commandant. In September 1795, he succeeded to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 18th foot, and in May next year was removed to the Anglo-Corsican Corps. In 1801 he commanded the Royal Irish (the 18th) on the landing in Egypt, and was present at all the actions in that country. He was during that period appointed commander of Rosetta. In July, 1804, he was appointed brigadier-general, and marched the Royal Irish from Scotland, 2,000 strong, to Ramsgate, to encamp on Barham Downs. His next appointment was that of brigadier-general in the Windward and Leeward Islands. On his passage to Jamaica he was captured by the L'Orient squadron, and landed at St. Jago on parole of not serving again. He next served in Jamaica in the command of the Western district. On his return home be was appointed on the staff of the Sussex district, and was then removed to the Kent district, stationed at Canterbury. In 1809 he served in the Walcheren expedition. In 1810 he received the rank of major-general. His subsequent services were on the Western district, Ireland, at Limerick, at Messina, and Corsica. He was knighted in April, 1818, by the Prince Regent. He was appointed general in the last brevet, having got the colonelcy of the 11th foot in July, 1823. Married.-At Lambeth Palace, William Kingsmill, of Sydmanton, Esq., in the County of Hants, to Anne Jane, daughter of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. At St. George's Church, Hanover Square, the Hon. James Hope, M.P., second son of the late Earl of Hopetoun, to Lady Mary Frances Nugent, youngest daughter of the late Earl, and sister of the present Marquis of Westmeath. At Taunton, D. Godfrey, Esq., of Abingdon, to Helen, youngest daugher of Sir Robert Seppings, F.R.S., late Chief Surveyor of his Majesty's Navy. At Benendon Church, Edward Barrett Curteis, Esq., M.P., second son of the late Edward J. Curteis, Esq., of Windmill Hill, Sussex, to Charlotte Lydia, youngest daughter of Thomas Law Hodges, Esq., M.P., of Hemsted, Kent. Died.-Lady Cauning, widow of the Right Hon. George Canning. At Erskine House, Renfrewshire, Lient.-General the Hon. William Stuart, late of the Grenadier Guards. At Coodrich Court, Herefordshire, Llewellyn Meyrick, Esq., LL.B. and F.S.A., one of the Equerries of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, in the 33d year of his age. Colonel Robert Pringle, late of the 51st Regiment. J. Bolton, Esq. of Liverpool, At his bouse in Bryanston Square, Willian Miller, Esq. late of the Island of Jamaica. At his house in Park Crescent, after a long and painful illness, Ralph Carr, Esq., in his 68th year. At Richmond, Surrey, Sophia Maria Court, aged 71 years. INDEX TO VOL. XVIII. ORIGINAL PAPERS. Absent Poet to his Mistress, the, 111. Ad Mortuam, 92. Ardent Troughton, 55, 206, 310, 419. Autobiographical Sketches, 93, 301. Autobiography of an Actress of our own Times, 291, 427. Paris in Light and Shade, 196. Poetry ;-To a Lady, 13; England and America, 31; Dream, the, 54; Policy of Insolvent Debtors' Law, 122. Poor Man's May, 112. Sailor's Reverie, 73. Sketches of Bohemia, &c. 349. Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend, 1, 113, 225, 377. Some Reflections on this new Plague, the Plague of Papers, 248, Sonnet on first meeting Southey and Wordsworth, 129. Stoic, the, 418. Supposed Incident, 247. |