Northampton.

Rev. F. Litchfield, Great Linford R. Bucks. Rev. D. F. Markham, Great Horkesley R. Essex.

Rev. John Pearson, Suckley R. Worc.

Rev. D. Rees, Aberavon V. Glouc.

Rev. J. T. Robinson, St. Andrew's, Holborn, R.
Rev. G. Stevenson, Dickleburgh R. Norfolk.
Rev. W. Stratton, Gressingham P.C. in the
parish of Lancaster.

Rev. W. Thomas, Manaccan V. Cornwall.
Rev. W. Tomlinson, Granard V. co. Longford.
Rev. J. Le P. Trench, Castlebar R. co. Mayo.
Rev. W. H. P. Ward, Compton Valence R.
Dorset.

Rev. J. Watson, Doddington V. co. N'pton.
Rev. D. Wheeler, Goole C. co. York.

Rev. F. H. White, Blakesley V. co. N'pn.
Rev. J. M. Wilder, Thornham with Allingham,
V. Kent.

Rev. R. C. Windham, Felbrigge and Melton

with Aylmerton R.R. Norfolk.
CHAPLAINS.

Rev. C. Daniel to the Marquis of Sligo.
Rev. R. C. Lane to the Marq. of Queensberry.
Rev. R. Lowe to Viscount Boyne.

Rev. R. W. Scurr to Lord Muskerry.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Hay Cameron, Esq. to be fourth ordinary member of the Council of India.

The Duke of Devonshire elected President of the Horticultural Society.

Rev. Herbert Kynaston, M.A. to be High Master of St. Paul's School, and Mr. C. C. Roberts, B.A. to be Assistant Master.

Mr. Bateson (second master) to be third Master Leicester Coll. School.

T. H. Gooch, esq. M.A. to be Assistant Master of West Riding School, Wakefield.

R. H. Smith, esq. B.A. to the Master of Andover grammar school.

BIRTHS.

May 4. The wife of the Rev. R. A'Court Beadon, Vicar of Cheddar, a dau.-13. In Great Queen-st. Westminster, the wife of E. S. Stephenson, esq. a dau.-18. At Beech Hill Park, Herts, Lady Barnes, a dau.-19. At Sharnbrook, Beds. the wife of the Rev. John Brereton, a son.--21. At Holwell, Hertf. the wife of the Rev. Charles Delmé Radcliffe, a dau.-22. In the New Village, Isle of Wight, the wife of the Rev. Charles Wors

ley, a son.-25. In Eaton-sq. the Lady Agnes Byng, a dau.--26. The wife of John Garratt, esq. of Bishop's-court, Devon, a dau.-28. In Wilton-crescent, Mrs. Tollemache, a son. --31. In St. James's-sq. Lady Georgiana E. C. Grey, a dau.

Lately. At Wyfold-court, Oxfordshire, Mrs. Arnot, a son.-In Dublin, the lady of Sir E. R. Borough, Bart. a son.--Lady Courtenay, a dau. At Brighton, Lady Jane Knox, a dau.

June 1. In Park-place, the Duchess of Beaufort, a dau.--2. In Portland-place, the wife of J. Wigram, esq. a son.--3. At Filton House, Glouc. the wife of the Rev. A. A. Daubeny, a son. At Jennings, Kent, the wife of E. B. Curteis, esq. a son and heir.--4. At Redlynch House, the wife of Thomas William Coventry. esq. a son. The wife of the Rev. F. J. Courtenay, Rector of North Bovey, Devon, a son. 5. The wife of the Rev. Montagu Oxenden, Rector of Eastwell, Kent, a son.-7. At Longden, near Lichfield, the wife of the Rev. Stuart Majendie, a dau.-8. The wife of the Rev. Dr. Graham, Master of Christ's College, Camb. a dau.-12. At Garsington, Oxf. the wife of the Rev. W. B. Pusey, a son.

MARRIAGES.

April 23. At Florence, the Duke de St. Leu, ex-King of Holland, to the Signora Strozzi. -24. At St. Pancras, Stephen Hall, esq. M.D. of Kennington, to Ann, second dau. of the late Charles Cooper, esq. of Edmonton and Great St. Helen's. At Fryern Barnet, Francis Wm. Stanley, esq. of Newcastle on-Tyne, to Constance Louise, eldest dau. of George Crawshay, esq. of Colney Hatch. At St. James's, Westminster, James Kerr Ewart, esq. Bengal Civil Service, to Georgiana, eldest dau. of the Rev. Edward Repton. At St. James's, the Rev. Chas. Clarke, eldest son of Sir Chas. M. Clarke, Bart. of Durham Lodge, Norfolk, to Rosa Mary, eldest dau. of H. Alexander, esq. of Cork-st. At Diddington, the Rev. John Pardoe, B.A. to Frances, third dau. of George Thornhill, esq. M. P.-25. At St. George's, Han.-sq. Viscount Galway, to Henrietta Eliza, only dau. of Robert Pemberton Milnes, esq. of Frystone Hall, Yorkshire. At Newbury, the Rev. Thos. Child, youngest son of Thomas Child, esq. of East Woodhay, to Mary, dau. of J. Fielder, csq. At Fulham, Thomas Paris Fenner, esq. jun. B.A. to Mary Anne, youngest dâu. of the late G. O. Ross, esq. of the Cape of Good Hope. At Saint Marylebone, Thomas Williams, of Berbice, esq. to Matilda, eldest dau. of S. J. Pittar, of Southill, co. Dublin, and Bentinck-st. esq. barrister-at-law. --The Rev. J. C. Allen, B.A. to Julia Louisa, only dau. of the Rev. G. A. Lamb, D.D. Rector of Iden, Sussex.-26. At St. Marylebone, the Rev. H. T. Parker, Vicar of Blandford, Dorset, to Jane, youngest dau. of the late Rev. George Sayer, of Pett, co. Kent. -At Christchurch, Marylebone, Capt. Harry Eyres, R.N. to Ellen Jane, dau. of the late W. Parker, esq. of Dorset-sq. William Tasker, esq. of Hawley, near Dartford, to Elizabeth, dau. of the late Robert Talbot, esq. of Stone Castle. At Bray, Berks, F. P. Harford, esq. late of the 3d Guards, to Louisa-Eliza-Bourke, second dau. of the late Rev. R. F. Hallifax, and grand-daughter of Samuel formerly Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. At Brading, Isle of Wight, Col. Noel Harris, to the Countess Dowager of Huntingdon. At Paris, William Webb, esq. of Dedham, Essex, to Sarah Maxwell, widow of the Rev. Robert Faithfull, of Berks.-27. At Kilberry, Queen's Co. the Earl of Clonmel to the Hon. Annette Burgh,

PRINCE TALLEYRAND.

May 17. At his hotel in the Rue de Florentin, at Paris, in his 84th year, Prince Talleyrand.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord was born at Paris in 1754. He was descended from one of the oldest and most illustrious houses of France, which, during the middle ages, were lords of the district of Quercy; and at an early age, as a younger brother, was destined for the church. His ecclesiastical education was formed at the seminary of St. Sulpice, and his talents for public business were already so strongly developed, that in 1780 he was named Agent-General for the clergy. In 1788 he was consecrated Bishop of Autun, and the year after was elected deputy of the clergy of his diocese to the States-General. At that momentous period Mirabeau perceived the extent of his abilities, and signalized him as one of the most powerful and versatile of the men of genius who then abounded in Europe. He proposed several important measures to the States, among others the suppression of tithes and the appropriation of the property of the clergy to the wants of the public treasury. In 1790 he was named President, and in the same year officiated at the altar in the Champ de Mars on the day of the National Federation. He subsequently consecrated the first constitutional Bishops, and for this was excommunicated by Pope Pius VI. His resignation of the bishopric of Autun, and his election as a member of the directory for the department of Paris, followed soon after. He was left by Mirabeau as one of his executors, and in 1792 was sent into England on a secret mission, together with M. Chauvelin, the ambassador. The English administration under Mr. Pitt, after favourably receiving the French envoys, subsequently ordered them to leave the country within twenty-four hours. M. de Talleyrand returned to Paris, the day after the 10th of August, and was indebted to Danton for a narrow escape from assassination. He then left France for the United States, and remained there, engaged, it is said, in commercial speculations till 1796, when he was recalled by a decree of the Convention. In 1797, after the 18th Fructidor, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, and supported with the most imperturbable sang froid the attacks made against him by all parties. Two years afterwards the 18th Brumaire occurred. Napoleon became First Consul, and M. de Talleyrand continued as

Foreign Minister. In 1802 a brief from Pius VII. released the ex-Bishop of Autun from his ecclesiastical ties, and he shortly after married Madame Grandt, of Hamburgh. The rivalry of Fouche and M. de Talleyrand then followed, and to the ultimate advantage of the latter, who, on Napoleon becoming Emperor in 1806, was elevated to the rank of Prince of Benevento, and Grand Chamberlain of the Empire. The next year be was succeeded as minister by M. de Champagny, Duke de Cadore, and was named ViceGrand Elector; but from this period his alienation from Napoleon may be dated ; he disapproved of the Emperor's aggressions in Spain; and in 1814 was appointed president of the provisional government of France, until the arrival of the Comte d'Artois. He was French Commissioner at the Congress of Vienna, and on the final return of Louis XVIII. in 1815, he resumed the portfolio of Foreign affairs as President of the Council, but resigned before the end of the year, from his disapprobation of the tendencies of the government. From this period he remained near the person of the Sovereign in virtue of his title as Chamberlain, and ultimately became the leader of the opposition in the Chamber of Peers. The revolution of 1830 found him, though advanced to a venerable age, not too old for the service of his country, and he proceeded to London as Ambassador, where he remained till 1835. After this time the Prince has rested under the shadow of his diplomatic laurels, ample enough to include within their branches the treaties of Amiens, of Luneville, and of the quadruple alliance.

The nature and the great gift of Talleyrand was to perceive where power and influence were likely to centre. Even in the turmoil of revolution he was still the courtier, aiming at effecting nothing himself, by either study, or eloquence, or labour, but secking to fasten on the greatest personal character of the moment, in order through him to wield influence. He first attached himself to Mirabeau, whose executor he became. His secret mission to England, under Chauvelin, followed. But the times became far too menacing and troubled for such spirits as Talleyrand, possessed of more finesse than force, to live or prosper in; and he wisely turned his back upon Europe until the combat of brute force should have terminated, and the stage be left once more open to those qualities and powers which he possessed. He returned to France under the Directory. The utter instability of an executive without talent, honesty, or honour, soon induced him to look out for one of those master-spirits under the shadow of whose success he might hold more durable and honourable influence. He chose Napoleon, and contributed by his councils to the revolution of the 18th Brumaire. From that period M. de Talleyrand was Foreign Minister of France, during seven or eight of the most important years that ever occupied diplomacy. He was the obedient, the approving minister of the Emperor, until the latter had reached the utmost height that arms and policy could bestow. Talleyrand then would have had him rest, telling the Emperor that the ascent was over, that he had reached the mountain-top of his fame and power, and that further progress must be descent. The restless spirit of Napoleon disliked and spurned the advice. Talleyrand was overthrown, and the first difficulty which the Emperor experienced immediately after from the resistance of Spain was pronounced by his ex-minister to be the commencement of the end.

His

At a moment when the military fame of the empire gave way, all eyes turned to M. de Talleyrand in his retreat. eminence proceeded from his standing almost alone as a French statesman, Bonaparte having extinguished the class and the race. Could Napoleon, indeed, have trusted him, regained his confidence, and so far yielded his imperial will as to enter into his views, France might have concluded other treaties than those of 1814 and 1815. But Talleyrand soon flung himself into the other scale, and was, more than any other person, influential in bringing about the Restoration. Except, however, in the negociations which followed immediately the triumph of the allied powers, the Prince was able to recover no permanent position or authority.

From time to time, indeed, he made his influence felt, and showed himself in that prominent light which he was ambitious to appear in. But every one perceived, and he perceived himself, that he was unfit to be the minister of a constitutional government, for which he wanted alike the habits, the character, and the peculiar talents. Considerable obloquy fell on the French government after July for appointing him ambassador to London. For, whatever might be the purity of his conduct and intentions, Prince Talley. rand was considered as the representative of that school of duplicity and selfishness which admits all means to be allowable, provided they obtain their object.

It is remarked in the Constitutionnel that "M. de Talleyrand was as eminent

for firmness of character as for a comprehensive mind. His powerful influence having been exercised in varying situations, and over destinies the most opposed to each other, and he was naturally charged with having been as changeable as the events of his time. Nevertheless, in the apparently fluctuating character of his existence, one prevailing sentiment may be remarked-an unalterable attachinent to the revolution of 1789, and a deep feeling of nationality, for few men have felt so strong an interest in their country's greatness. On the important occasions on which he was employed, his constant study was to derive some advantage for France from the difficult situations which were not his own work, and no man was more capable of turning them to better account. His rare firmness of character, and his imperturbable sang froid, enabled him to assume over others at least some portion of the empire which he exercised over himself. It was impossible to exert more influence over an assembly of diplomatists than that for which Talleyrand was indebted to his superior mind, his infinite resources, and the elegance of his language. To give an idea of the effect produced by his style, which after him will probably find no efficient imitator, we may compare his conversation to the prose of Voltaire. He frequently gave way to a natural nonchalance, and on such occasions spoke but little; but when he at length shook off this mental indolence, his conversation was enchanting. His habitual chit-chat tone was one of graceful levity that skimmed lightly over the surface of every subject, but which, when serious business was the theme, gave way to an extraordinary depth and force of reasoning. It has been often imagined that he lived, as it were, only intellectually, and that his heart found no room for the feelings of affection; but those who were admitted to his intimacy know that his kindness was unequalled, and that its expression not unfrequently penetrated even through the immoveable features which disconcerted so many able negociators."

The first symptoms of the complaint which carried Prince Talleyrand off, appeared six days before his death, when he was seized with a shivering fit attended by repeated vomitings. He underwent an operation at the lower part of the loins with great fortitude, merely once saying, "You give me great pain." He was perfectly aware of his danger. Having asked his medical men if they thought they could cure him, they rightly estimated his strength of mind, and told him at once that he ought to put his affairs in order, that he might have nothing to do but to attend to his health. It is said that he had for some time written and addressed to the Popea retractation of his conduct at the famous ceremony of the Federation, where he forgot his episcopal ordination, and condescended to bless that democratic and somewhat heathen ceremony. The Courrier Francais states, that the retractation made by the Prince was in the form of a letter, addressed to the Pope, which had been written six months. In it he retracted the part which he took in the constitutional mass, celebrated on the day of the Federation in the Champ de Mars; and this with a copy was inclosed by him to the Archbishop of Paris, who, according to this journal, did not visit the Prince. When the arrival of the King and Madame Adelaide was announced to the dying courtier, he said, "This is the greatest honour my house ever received." He then presented to his Majesty his physician, surgeon, and valet in attendance. At three o'clock the Abbé Dupanloup, who had not left the Prince for several days, administered the sacrament of extreme unction. The France mentions that, after his death had taken place, Count Molé was admitted into the room, and that he kissed the hand of the corpse. Another journal says, that M. Royer Collard remained by the bedside of the sufferer until he expired.

"We are assured," says the Messager, "that the statement of Prince Talleyrand having drawn up his letter to the Pope three months ago, is incorrect. The truth is, that he did not yield till after three days' resistance, and only on the day of his death, to the solicitations and tears of his family. At this time there were in his chamber only the Abbé Dupanloup, the Duchess de Dino and her daughter, the Duke de Valençay, Dr. Cuveilhier, Dr. Cogny, his physician in ordinary, and M. de Bacourt, a friend of the family."

Thus, after a long and eventful life, expired Prince Talleyrand, in the full possession of all those wonderful faculties with which he was endowed, and which had been called into exercise under circumstances more extraordinary than, perhaps, have fallen to the lot of any human being to encounter. With some deduction upon the score of his sincerity, which was always questionable, he survived many trials with a high private character; and his personal advantages, the excellence of his temper, clearness of his views, suavity of manners, and, above all, the brilliancy of his wit and quickness of his repartee, have been universally acknowledged, and are almost proverbial.

The Prince's funeral took place on Tues

day, May 22, at the church of the Assumption. As he belonged to an ancient sovereign family, and had been a dignitary of the church, the accustomed draperies of black and silver were not used, but the mourning was in violet. The colours of his family liveries and escutcheons, with all the quarterings of his alliances, were displayed both in the church and at the hotel. The whole was arranged with the strictest observance of etiquette. The coffin lay in state for an hour before its removal to the church. The private friends of the deceased, and deputations from the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, from the Institute, and other public bodies of which the deceased was a member, with nearly all the ambassadors and other personages of the corps diplomatique, &c. assembled soon after ten o'clock. At five minutes past eleven o'clock the cortege began to move in the following order :

A Detachment of Hussars.
Municipal Guards.
Sappers.

Music of

the 16th, playing solemn airs, and the drums muffled. A Detachment of the 7th Regiment of

Infantry. The Hearse, drawn by six black horses, richly and superbly caparisoned, with silver ornaments, as well as the Hearse, with plumes, &c. and the pall supported by Marshal Soult, Baron Pasquier, Count Molé, and the Duke de Broglie. After which

Deputations from the Institute, the Peers,

Ministers, Duputies, Ambassadors,
and different corps.
Servants in Royal Livery.
A Detachment of the 16th of the Line.

The Prince's Carriage.
Six Mourning Coaches.
The Duchess of Dino's Carriage,
followed by

Four Mourning Coaches,
Seven Royal Carriages,
Thirty Private Carriages in Liveries,

closed by a

Detachment of Municipal Guards
on foot and horseback.

The hearse arrived at the church at halfpast eleven, when the funeral service immediately commenced. The body was lowered into a vault, where it will remain a month, and then be transported to Valençay, together with the bodies of the brother and the great-nephew of the deceased. His brother, the Duke Archambault de Talleyrand Perigord, and the father of the Duke de Dino, died on the 28th of April, at St. Germaine, aged 76.