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the Madras Presidency, where he served against the Mahrattas, and in 1827 he became lieutenant-colonel in the 2nd Queen's Royals, which he brought into so high a state of discipline as to elicit warm praise from the various inspecting officers. His regiment was often pointed out as a model one, and as a reward he was, in 1838, made a C.B. In the following year he was placed in command of the Bombay column of the army of the Indus, in which he served under Sir John Keane during the whole Affghan campaign. He was present at the siege of Ghuznee, where he earned the K.C.B., and commanded the force that captured the fortress of Khelat, in November, 1839. For this brilliant exploit, performed by a coup de main, with little more than a thousand men, against a stronghold of immense strength, garrisoned by thrice that number of one of the most determined races in the East, he was made a baronet and received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. These were also extended to his troops, but their leader thought this insufficient, and he therefore wrote several letters (which have since been published) to the Horse Guards and the India Board on the subject, entreating that a medal might be bestowed for Khelat, as medals had been given for the subsequent actions fought in the Punjaub; he was, however, unsuccessful.

At the conclusion of the Affghan war in 1840, Sir Thomas Willshire, when in command of the Poonah brigade, was struck by a coup de soleil whilst travelling in a palanquin; this brought on a serious illness with partial paralysis, which obliged him to resign his command and embark for England in October, 1810.

His health having been restored after a short residence in England, the command of Chatham was offered to him, and he discharged the duties of that position for five years, with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of every

one.

During the period of his command at Chatham, his attention having been ac

cidentally drawn to mesmerism, it was found that he possessed powers as a mesmerist that have been seldom equalled; but he considered this as a valuable gift of the Almighty, and would ment or experiment, but reserved it for never employ it for purposes of amusethe relief of pain and disease, and with testify. a success that many still living can

Sir Thomas resigned the command of of major-general, after which time he Chatham in 1847, on attaining the rank was not actively employed. He married, in 1848, Annette Letitia, daughter of Captain Berkeley Maxwell, R.N., and in 1849 was appointed to the colonelcy of the 51st Light Infantry. During the remainder of his life, for a period of in Buckinghamshire,-where four of his several years, he lived at Riching's-park, five surviving children were born,—and subsequently took up his residence at Hill-house, near Windsor. began to fail in 1859, and the infirmiHis sight ties of age told gently though perapparently in good health, from attendceptibly upon him, till, on his return, ing Divine service, on Sunday, April 27, he was suddenly struck down by an attack of serous apoplexy, from which he slightly rallied, but finally sank to beloved, and lamented by all who knew his rest on the 31st of May, honoured, him-for in private life he was a sincere and a stedfast friend; whilst England Christian, a tender husband and father, and her army have to mourn a great, gallant, and successful soldier, who rose fame, who has added to England's past by his own merit to a high pinnacle of glories, and whose whole energies were ever devoted to the public weal, and to the moral and physical improvement of those under his command.

A rigid disciplinarian in the fullest neglect of duty or a military offence, sense of the term, he never overlooked parent severity emanated from a conwhether in officer or man; but this apby the strictest justice, for favouritism scientious sense of duty, and was guided was unknown under his command, and

his kind heart often throbbed at the stern dictates of the law".

The military decorations of the deceased were the Peninsular medal with seven clasps, the Grand Cross of the Bath (with which he was invested in 1861), a silver medal for Ghuznee, and the first-class star of the Dooranee Empire, conferred upon him by the sovereign of Affghanistan; whilst it was a source of regret, more to his friends than to himself, that the order of the Star of India was not bestowed upon one whose name was so intimately connected with our Eastern empire, and who had there so often fought his country's battles with such gallantry and success. From the United Service Magazine.

MARSHAL COUNT CASTELLANE. Sept. 16. At Lyons, aged 74, Marshal Count Castellane, long Governor of the city.

The deceased, who was the son of a deputy to the States General, was born at Paris, March 21, 1788. He entered the army in 1804, at the age of 16, and in 1806 was a sub-lieutenant of dragoons in the army of Italy. The following year he became lieutenant, and went to Spain with Count Lobau as his aide-de-camp. He afterwards served in Germany, and was in the Russian campaign, where, during the retreat, at the head of twenty-five lancers

The following anecdote, in illustration of this, has been told by a brother officer of the deceased: "I recollect an incident which gave me a high opinion of the great kindness

of heart of Sir Thomas Willshire. At Poonah the regiment had paraded to witness the sentence of a court-martial carried into effect; before the man had time to prepare, Sir Thomas called out, Is William Brown in the ranks? If so, let him fall out and go to the barracks,' This was a brother of the man about to receive corporal punishment; William Brown, however, was not on parade. I feel certain that no other officer of the regiment then present recollected the relationship of the two men, and, but for the thought'ul kindness of Sir Thomas, one brother might have suffered the distress of seeing the other receive the punish

ment of the lash.”

of the Imperial Guard, he started from Kroiskoi, crossed a vast extent of country occupied by the Russian troops, and found means, in the midst of countless dangers, to carry important orders from the Emperor to Colonel Bourmont. At the Beresina he excited the admiration of all his companions in arms by his energy and coolness. At the Restoration in 1815, M. de Castellane was for a while unemployed, but towards the end of that year he was charged with the organization of the hussars of the Bas-Rhin (5th Regiment). In 1831-32 he commanded the department of the Haute-Saône, and his gallant conduct at the siege of Antwerp procured him the rank of lieutenant-general. In 1837 he was raised to the peerage, after good service in Algeria. He was in command of the military division of Rouen when the Revolution of 1848 broke out; his firmness under those trying circumstances saved his division entire, and not a man was wanting when he handed it over to his successor. In 1852 he was appointed to the important post of Governor of Lyons, which he held until his death, much to the satisfaction of the Emperor, though not to that of his troops, as he was a rigid disciplinarian, and had beside a strong dash of eccen tricity in his character. According to accounts given of him, and generally received in France as true,

orderlies, out of his uniform, and many "He was never seen, even by his simple-minded recruits were very excusable for believing he slept in it. He was a great martinet, and led the troops under him a terrible life. He suffered greatly from want of sleep, but instead of turning and tossing about his bed, he generally took steps to make all his troops as uncomfortable as himself. Dozens of times has Lyons been roused at two in the morning by the bugles calling the troops under arms. The Marshal used to rouse up men and officers, assemble them in heavy marching order, lead them out against an imaginary enemy, and only allow them to return to their quarters long after daybreak. This system had nearly a fatal result, but he continued it nevertheless. At a sham fight he ordered a volley to

be fired by one particular regiment. One musket was fired a little before the rest, and the marshal's cocked-hat was knocked off by a bullet. He immediately galloped up to the corps and shouted, "If I knew who was the clumsy brute that fired so wide I would give him a week in the black hole to teach him not to miss a man twenty yards off.' He would not, moreover, allow the aflair to be enquired into.

"One of the Marshal's ideas was to improve the mode of effecting a rapid passage across rivers. In pursuance of a plan laid down and adopted by himself, he would dash his cavalry into a river, causing each trooper to take up behind him a foot soldier. At the last of his experiments of this kind, the stream to be passed ran with more than its ordinary strength, and in the transit from one bank to the other several of the infantry lost their hold and were drowned, and others sustained no small damage to their uniforms, necessaries, &c. The Marshal had, of course, to give an account of this campaign, and he was sentenced by the War Department to make good the government stores; this checked his ardour, but the loss of life was generally supposed to be a matter of indifference to him.

"His aides-de-camp led lives compared with which that of a galley-slave would seem paradise, and their committing suicide was generally expected. His manner to officers was singularly coarse and overbearing, and he was so punctilious in matters of detail that not an officer, whatever his rank, dared to shew himself in undress attire in the streets of Lyons after ten in the morning, lest the Marshal should be prowling about and place him under arrest for a week. It cannot be denied, however, that the discipline of the army of Lyons under his stringent rule was admirable, and that the corps that had spent six months under the Marshal were fit for

any work that might be expected of

them."

The Marshal's death took place after an illness of three weeks. He concealed his sufferings to the last as far as possible, and even gave the usual orders on the last morning of his life. About noon, feeling more fatigued than usual, he sent for M. Devienne, curé of the parish of St. François at Lyons, who administered the sacraments. He was sensible

to the last, and died regretting that he had not fallen in a field of battle.

THE DUCHESS DE DINO.

Sept. 19. At Sagan, in Prussian Dino, once a lady of much celebrity. Poland, aged 69, Dorothea, Duchess de

The deceased was the youngest daughter of Peter, the last Duke of Courland, was born August 21, 1793, and married Talleyrand-Perigord (the nephew of the on the 22nd of April, 1809, Edmond de celebrated statesman), then a LieutenantGeneral in the service of France, who bore the titles of Duke of Talleyrand, and of Dino in Calabria. Her marriage time of the Congress of Vienna she had was not a happy one, and before the separated from her husband, and taken up her residence with his uncle, with whom she continued for the remainder of his life, and to whom her talent for diplomacy was of inestimable value. She accompanied him to the Congress of Vienna, and many years after to London, where he held the post of French Ambassador from King Louis Philippe. She was alike remarkable for wit, accomplishments, and beauty, and was in all these particulars considered the superior of the Princess Lieven, who exerted her fascinations on the side of the ground against the apt pupil of TalleyNorthern Courts, but failed to hold her rand. On the death of that minister the Duchess retired from public life, and in 1845 the King of Prussia erected Sagan into a principality for her, where the rest of her life was passed, and where she employed herself in literary pursuits, the chief of them being the compilation of her Memoirs, which it is Bâcourt, an intimate friend, with a view understood she has bequeathed to M. de to their eventual publication along with the MSS. of Prince Talleyrand which have been for several years in his hands. Castellane, and a grandson, to whom She leaves a daughter, the Marquise de the estate and principality of Sagan descend.

SIR T. N. REDINGTON, K.C.B. Oct. 11. In London, aged 46, Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington, K.C.B.

The deceased, who was born at Kilcornan, co. Galway, in 1815, was the only son of Captain Christopher Redington, by the daughter of Henry Dowell, Esq., of Cadiz, a descendant of the family of Dowell, of Mantua, co. Roscommon. He received his education at Oscott, and at Christ's College, Cambridge, and from 1837 to 1846 represented Dundalk in parliament. He served as a member of the Occupation of Land Commission (Ireland), of which the late Earl of Devon was chairman. In 1846 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Ireland; in 1847 a Commissioner for Education (Ireland), and ex officio an Irish Poor Law Commissioner. As a member of Sir John Burgoyne's Relief Commission in 1847 he rendered much active service, and in consequence of his great and unremitting civil services he was in 1849 nominated a Knight

Commander of the Civil Division of the

Bath, immediately after Her Majesty's

first visit to Ireland. Sir Thomas served as Secretary to the Board of Control from December 1852 to 1856, when he accepted the post of Commissioner of Inquiry respecting Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. In 1812 he married the eldest daughter and coheiress of Mr. John H. Talbot, M.P., of Talbot-hall, co. Wexford, by whom he leaves a large family.

GEORGE ELD, ESQ.

May 22. At Coventry, aged 70, Geo. Eld, Esq., Alderman, a man of literary and antiquarian celebrity.

The deceased, who was the only son of Mr. George Eld, a wealthy baker in the Cross-Cheaping, Coventry, was born in 1791. He was also the nephew of Mr. Joseph Eld, of Foleshill Mills, and succeeded him there in his business of a miller, which he conducted for many years. About 1840 he removed to Coventry, and commenced as a silk-dealer, but afterwards joined an old-established dyeing firm, with which he remained

connected until his decease. He was the editor of the "Coventry Standard" for about twenty years, and he served a variety of city offices, being chamberlain in 1827, sheriff in 1829, and the last mayor of the old corporation in 1834-5. He was also a member of the new municipal body, a Church Charity trustee, and the hon. secretary of the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital.

During his mayoralty, Mr. Eld restored the interior of the "Mayoress' Parlour," in St. Mary's Hall, Coventry, a venerable architectural relic of the fourteenth century, which had been desecrated by the lath and plaster of an age of vandalism; the three original lights of painted glass having been destroyed by the substitution of a large Venetian window in 1785. Mr. Eld replaced this by a new window of five lights, with Perpendicular tracery; the ceiling was again covered with square panels, each crossed by two diagonal ribs, with a boss at the junction; the

doors were also ornamented with carved

panelling; chairs provided in imitation of ancient models; and a stone fireplace erected in accordance with the style of the building. Over this fireplace (which for many years displayed an equestrian painting of John Neale, Esq., of Allesleypark, near Coventry, who represented the city in Parliament from 1727 to 1741) Mr. Eld placed the original portrait of John Hales, founder of the Coventry Free Grammar-school in 1545. This picture had been long laid aside in a lumberroom, and lost sight of until discovered by Mr. Eld. But this "Mayoress' Parlour," which he so commendably restored, has been used of late years for a justice-room, - a circumstance the more to be regretted as it was totally uncalled for, the "Mayor's Parlour," situated in the Cross-Cheaping, which had been the city police-office from 1573 to 1840, being all that was required for that purpose; or, at any

See a Correspondence on the subject of

a portrait of John Hales, in GENT. MAG. for 1854, May, p. 493; June, p. 562; July, p. 43; August, p. 155.

rate, might readily have been made so by rebuilding. During his mayoralty, Mr. Eld purchased on behalf of the Corporation, from the late Mr. William Reader, the historian of Coventry, two pieces of ancient tapestry, which he had acquired at the sale of the mansionhouse belonging to the Hopkins family, in Earl-street, in the year 1822, which he placed in St. Mary's Hall, where they now form a screen at the lower end, beneath the Minstrels' Gallery, and constitute an appropriate ris-à-vis to the celebrated tapestry at the upper end of the hall. He also placed in the lobby, on the east side of the court-yard, in 1835, a stone statue of King Henry VI. (who constituted Coventry and its surrounding hamlets an independent county in 1451), which anciently adorned the magnificent cross of the city-presented to the corporation by the late Mr. T. Sharp.

Mr. Eld was engaged by the Corporation, in 1835, in conjunction with Mr. Grimaldi (a London barrister), on the occasion of a law-suit respecting the boundaries and privileges of the city in connection with its county, to arrange the city archives, consisting of royal letters, charters, deeds, acts of leet, &c., for which he received a handsome acknowledgment.

Mr. Eld married, April 30, 1815, Miss Mary South, a heiress and a ward in Chancery, of Coventry, who died in 1853, by whom he had a family of five sons and one daughter:-1. Sarah, who mar

In November, 1605, the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I. (afterwards Queen of Bohemia), then on a visit to Lord Harrington, at Combe Abbey, lodged one night in this mansion. On September 1, 1687, James II. lodged in this house, then belonging to Richard Hopkins, Esq., and "held a very full court of the nobility, and the neighbouring gentry and their ladies," and from which he wrote to his natural daughter Lady Waldegrave. (See Ellis's Royal Letters.) In 1688 the Princess Ann also lodged here, and in 1690 Prince George of Denmark. From these circum

stances, this mansion, which has successively been appropriated as a school, a public-house, &c., has for many years borne the name of "the Palace."

GENT, MAG. VOL. CCXIII.

ried a Mr. Baly, of Warwick, but who afterwards settled at Lichfield, and died a few years since. This lady inherited her father's taste for drawing, and in 1840 published a series of the "Ancient Gates of the City of Coventry," in folio, price one guinea, lithographed by Hullmandel, of London. 2. George, the eldest son, died whilst a student of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 3. Joseph, died whilst a student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, aged 20. 4. The Rev. James Henry Eld, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. 5. Thomas W. Eld, of the firm of Hennell, Adams, and Eld, ribbon manufacturers, Coventry. 6. The Rev. Francis J. Eld, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School, Wor

cester.

Mr. Eld possessed considerable taste and ability as an amateur artist, both in water-colour and oil, also in etching, and his walls and portfolios were adorned with many good specimens of his artistic zeal for the preservation of mementos of the fast-disappearing timber-architecture of ancient Coventry.

THE REV. W. MONKHOUSE, B.D., F.S.A.

June 14. At Goldington Vicarage, near Bedford, aged 57, the Rev. Wm. Monkhouse, Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and Vicar of Goldington.

The deceased was born on May 10, 1805, in the Chapelry of RaughtonHead, Cumberland, of which his father was incumbent. In 1807 his father removed to the Rectory of Ormside, Westmoreland; and in 1811 to the Vicarage of Morland in the same county. Here his son William was sent to the village school, taught by a good classical scholar; and then to the grammar-school at Appleby, where he received the ch'ef part of his education, first under the Rev. John Waller, and afterwards under the Rev. William Thompson, both of Queen's College, Oxford. His schoolfellows remember him as excelling in athletic sports and feats of strength and agility. He was afterwards placed at 4 H

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