en to endeavour to fish and shoot, I went forward with the
others, and crossed Garry Bay, passing inside a number of islets.'

"The party returned to their snow hut on the 25th, where, says the
report--' The men we had left here were well, but very thin, as they
had neither caught nor shot anything eatable, except two marmots. Had
we been absent twelve hours more, they were to have cooked a piece of
parchment skin for supper.' The whole party returned safe and well to
York Factory on the 6th of September last."

During the year 1847, several eminent men were called away from the
sphere of their earthly honour and usefulness. Among these was Mr.
Gurney, of Norwich, a man who attracted a considerable share of public
attention by his talents, energies, and benevolence. As a member of the
Society of Friends, he became very influential in that body, and was
recognised as one of the most enlightened of their ministers. He took
part with his sister, the celebrated Mrs. Fry, in prison visitations.
His interviews with M. Guizot concerning negro slavery were very
influential with that statesman. Mr. Gurney was an author, especially on
Biblical and polemical topics. He also wrote on scientific subjects, but
chiefly in their relation to theology. As a writer he was more scholarly
than elegant, more learned than profound, more discursive than logical.
He lived and died an eminently good man.

On the 13th of February, in the 66th year of his age, Sharon Turner,
the historian of the Anglo-Saxons, departed this life. He was a
distinguished archaeologist and historian.

On the 22nd April, Thomas B. Martin, Esq., M.P. for Galway, died. He was
the largest landed proprietor in Ireland, and a very noted man in the
political and social affairs of that country.

The 27th of April witnessed the death of a very remarkable man, Lord
Cowley, in the 75th year of his age. He was the youngest son of the
first Earl of Mornington, and consequently youngest brother of the Duke
of Wellington. Mr. Henry Wellesley began professional life as aprecis
writer in the Foreign Office. After serving for two years there,
he accompanied the embassy of Lord Malmesbury to Lisle. In 1797 he
accompanied his brother, the Marquis Wellesley to India, as private
secretary. He was, after twelve months' service in that capacity,
appointed one of the commissioners to Mysore. In that office he showed
not only talent but genius. Subsequently he was sent to Oude, on an
espe