ient
exertions, went to the moors, the seaside, and upon excursions of
pleasure at home and abroad, to prepare themselves for renewed labour.
Many went to Paris, to study the progress of the revolution there,
and the practical working of those recent changes which had shaken the
world. Probably that capital was never before, at one time, visited by
so many English senators.

Although tranquillity was not perfectly established in either England
or Ireland, and there was rioting in the former and assassination in the
latter, yet the executive was left strong to cope with any old or new
form of turbulence and crime, and the confidence of parliament and
people was firm, that the executive would be found equal to any
emergencies that might arise.

DEATHS OF EMINENT PERSONS.

Many persons celebrated in arts and arms were removed by death in this
eventful year. On the 6th of January the country lost the services of
Sir Thomas Usher, C.B., K.C.H., Rear-admiral of the White, and naval
commanderin-chief on the Irish station. This gallant sailor was born
near Dublin, in the year 1779, and was said to have been a descendant of
the great Archbishop of Armagh, whose name he bore. He was the officer
who, when a post-captain, brought the great Napoleon to Elba after his
abdication. The day following saw the decease of Admiral Sir Robert
Laurie, who had also seen much service.

On the 19th of January, at Bradenham House, Buckinghamshire, died
Isaac Disraeli, Esq., aged eighty-two. This gentleman was the son of a
Venetian merchant, who had long been settled in this country, and was
the father of Benjamin Disraeli, who occupies so important a place
in the politics and literature of the day. Mr. Isaac Disraeli was a
literary man of much eminence, his chief work, "The Curiosities of
Literature," having won for him a great reputation. In his day, literary
history and criticism were but little valued, and he conduced much to a
higher appreciation of that department of letters. He was the author
of many pieces of great merit in the periodicals of the day. He also
published many separate treatises which met with great public favour,
such as "A Dissertation on Anecdotes," "Essay on the Manners and Genius
of the Literary Character," "Miscellanies, or Literary Recreations,"
"Calamities of Authors; including some Inquiries respecting their Moral
and Literary Characters," "Quarrels of Authors, or some Memoirs for our
Literary History; inc