s Dr. John Harris, author
of many curious and literary productions much prized in tire religious
world.

February 23rd, at Hampstead, London, Joanna Baillie, the celebrated
authoress. She was the friend of Sir Walter Scott, who admired both
her poetic and dramatic genius exceedingly. Her plays, although open
to criticism as to selection of subject, plot, and stage effectiveness,
display the poetic power of her mind to great advantage.

April 28th, in London, aged eighty-one, Admiral Sir Edward Codrington.
He saw great variety of service as a naval officer, and displayed
professional skill and personal courage. In 1826, he received the
command of the Mediterranean fleet. He commanded the following year the
combined fleets of England, France, and Russia, in the destruction of
the Egyptian fleet, at Navarino. A son of this eminent and amiable man
subsequently commanded the British army in the Crimea, during a war of
England and her allies against Russia.

May 23rd, at Florence, where he officiated as British minister to the
court of Tuscany, the Right Honourable Richard Lalor Shiel. He was the
son of an Irish merchant, and was born in Dublin. His early education
was in the English Jesuit College, at Stonyhurst, a place which made
many bad Catholics by the excess of its ultra-montanism. Mr. Shiel was
afterwards a student of the Dublin University, where he distinguished
himself. He was called to the Irish bar in 1814. He wrote several plays
which had merit, and were for a time made popular by the acting of Miss
O'Neil. Mr. Shiel was never very successful as a lawyer, his taste
lying in the direction of dramatic literature and politics. He began
his political career at an early age; his first passionate oration, to
a Dublin Roman Catholic audience, was made at eighteen years of age. He
became one of the leaders of the Roman Catholic emancipation movement,
being second to O'Connell only as a leader of party and an orator; his
eloquence, however, was more refined than that of his more potential
colleague. His speeches were dramatic, rhetorical, and effective. Their
moral tone was offensive, vituperative, and vindictive. He was very
small of stature, ungainly and unprepossessing in appearance, and had a
strange squeaking voice; but in spite of these and other defects he was,
next to O'Connell, the most powerful agent in carrying Roman Catholic
emancipation. He was, however, never heartily trusted by O'Connell,
who saw his val