l Military College and
Asylum, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Arts.

George Frederick, his only son, and only surviving child, succeeds to
the throne of Hanover, but his blindness has suggested the precaution of
swearing in twelve councillors, who, to attend in rotation, two at a
time, will witness and verify all state documents to be signed by the
king. "The new king," says the _Morning Post_, "entirely lacks the
Parliamentary experience by which his father so largely profited; and we
greatly fear that his education in the strictest school of English High
Churchmanship is more calculated to insure his blameless life in a
private station, than to fit him for the arduous career of a king in the
nineteenth century."

The _Times_ sketches the character of the deceased in dark colors,
declaring that he "never concerned himself to disguise his sentiments,
to restrain his passions, or to conciliate the affections of those who
might possibly have been one day his subjects. Relying on the victory
which had been apparently declared for absolutism, inflexible in his
persuasions, and unbending in his demeanor, the Duke treated popular
opinion with a ferocity of contempt which could scarcely be surpassed at
St. Petersburgh or Warsaw. In his pleasures he asserted the license of
an Orleans or a Stuart, and although in this respect he wanted not for
patterns, yet rumor persisted in attaching to his excesses a certain
criminal blackness below the standard dye of aristocratic debauchery. It
is but reasonable to presume, that a man so universally obnoxious should
have suffered, to some extent, from that calumny which the best find it
difficult to repel, and practical evidence was furnished in certain
public suits, that the probabilities against him fell short of legal
proof. The impartial historian, however, will be likely to decide, that
there was little in the known character of Prince Ernest to exempt him
from sure suspicions touching what remained concealed."

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The Chevalier LAVY, Member of the Council of Mines in Sardinia and of
the Academy of Sciences in Turin, and described as being one of the most
learned of Italian numismatists, died early in November. He had created
at great cost a Museum of Medals, which he presented to his country, and
which bears his name.

THE HON. AUGUSTA MARY BYRON, better known as the Hon. Augusta Leigh,
died near the end of October, at h