Jan. 10. At his residence in the Harrow-road, Paddington, aged 84, Matthew Cotes Wyatt, esq., the eminent sculptor.

Mr. Wyatt was born in the year 1777, and was educated at Eton. At the age of nineteen he was employed, under the immediate patronage of King George III., in the execution of several works of art at Windsor Castle; but his first public work was the memorial erected at Liverpool in honour of Lord Nelson, from his design. Mr. Wyatt also executed the cenotaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, to the memory of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. He was successful in many equestrian statues, including those of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Field Marshal the Marquis of Anglesey, and lastly, His Grace the Duke of Wellington. One of Mr. Wyatt's most celebrated statues is that of a charger encountering a dragon, which was commissigned by King George IV. for a group of the patron saint of the Order of the Garter, and was placed by His Majesty's command, in St. George's Hall at Windsor. The horse for the equestrian statue of King George III. at the east end of Pall Mall was designed and executed by him. Mr. Wyatt also executed the monumental group erected to the memory of the Duchess of Rutland in the family mausoleum near Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. But perhaps in no single subject did Mr. Wyatt ever succeed more thoroughly than in his statue of "Bashaw," the favourite Newfoundland dog of the late Earl of Dudley, and the subject of Lord Byron's well-known lines.

June 22. At Cefn, St. Asaph, aged 40, Lieut.-Col. Herbert Watkin Williams Wynn, M.P. for Montgomeryshire, Major of the Flintshire Rifle Volunteers, second son of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, by Lady Henrietta Antonia, the eldest daughter of the first Earl Powis. In 1850, he was returned for Montgomeryshire, being elected on the death of his uncle, the Right Hon Charles W. Williams Wynn, who represented the county from 1797 till 1850.

April 15. At the British Legation, Athens, aged 70, the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wyse, K.C.B., H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Athens. The deceased was the eldest son of the late Mr. Thomas Wyse, of the manor of St. John, near Waterford, and was born in 1791. He

graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained honours. He afterwards entered as a student of Lincoln's Inn, but was not called to the Bar. He represented Tipperary in Parliament from 1830 to 1832, and Waterford City from 1835 to 1847; was a Lord of the Treasury from 1839 to 1841, and Joint Secretary to the Board of Control from 1846 to 1849, in which latter year he was appointed H.M.'s Minister at Athens, and was at the same time made a Privy Councillor. In 1857 he was created a Civil Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. The deceased was known in the literary world as the author of "Walks in Rome," "Oriental Sketches," and other works. He married, in 1821, the daughter of Prince Lucien Buonaparte, from whom he was separated in 1828.

May 20. Aged 78, Sir Wm. Walter Yea, bart., of Pyrland Hall, co. Somerset.

April 26. At Fremington, North Devon, William Arundel Yeo, esq., Deputy-Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Devon and Cornwall.

May 18. At Simla, Col Keith Young, C.B., Judge-Advocate-General of the Bengal Army.

Oct. 29. After a few days' illness at the Rectory, Pett, aged 34, Ann, wife of the Rev. Frederick Young, and eldest daughter of the Venerable W. H. Hale, Archdeacon of London.

July 18. Suddenly, at Tipton, aged 71, Mr. Thomas York, a well-known inhabitant of that town.

Nov. 4. At his residence, Hare Hatch Lodge, Berks, aged 81, John Adolphus Young, esq.

CENTENARIANS.

Oct. 1. At Glasgow, aged 101, Isabella Davidson. She was present with her husband and child at the battle of Waterloo.

Dec. 3. At Culky, near Enniskillen, aged 108, Thomas Kerrigan. He fought in the Twenty-seventh Regiment at the battle of Waterloo.

March 19. A negro, named Micajah Phillips, has recently died in Ohio, United States, aged 125 years.

Feb. 14. At Winkfield, Berks, Mrs. Esther Strike, who had reached the advanced age of 103 years. She possessed all her faculties to the last. She leaves three sons, aged respectively 79, 77, and 75 years, twenty-four grandchildren, fiftyone great-grandchildren, and two greatgreat-grandchildren.

See also pp. 348, 370.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officers and Non-commissioned Officers, whose claims to the same have been submitted for Her Majesty's approval, on account of acts of bravery performed by them in India, as recorded against their several names:

FEBRUARY 25.

Major Richard Hart Keatinge, Bombay Artillery (now of the Staff Corps)

For having rendered most efficient aid at the assault of Chundairee in volun

tarily leading the column through the breach, which was protected by a heavy cross fire. He was one of the foremost to enter, and was severely wounded in the breach. The column was saved from a serious loss that would probably have resulted but for Major Keatinge's knowledge of the small path leading across the ditch which had been examined during the night by himself and a servant, who declined, when required, to lead the Having column without his master.

cleared the breach, he led into the fort, where he was struck down by another dangerous wound. The Commander-inChief in India states that the success at Chundairee was mainly owing to this officer, whose gallantry, really brilliant, he

considers was equalled by his ability and devotion. Major Keatinge was at the time a political officer with the 2nd brigade of the Central India Field Force.Date of act of bravery, March 17, 1858.

Captain James Blair, 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry,

For having on two occasions distinguished himself by his gallant and daring conduct. 1. On the night of the 12th of August, 1857, at Neemuch, in volunteering to apprehend seven or eight armed mutineers who had shut themselves up for defence in a house, the door of which he burst open. He then rushed in among them, and forced them to escape through the roof. In this encounter he was severely wounded. In spite of his wounds he pursued the fugitives, but was unable to come up with them in consequence of the darkness of the night. 2. On the 23rd of October, 1857, at Jeerum, in fighting his way most gallantly through a body of the rebels who had literally surrounded him. After breaking the end of of his sword on one of their heads, and receiving a severe sword cut on his right arm, he rejoined his troop. In this wounded condition, and with no other weapon than the hilt of his broken sword, he put himself at the head of his men, charged the rebels most effectually, and dispersed them.

Lieutenant Charles George Baker, Bengal Police Battalion,

For gallant conduct on the occasion of an attack on the rebels at Suhejnee, near Peroo, on the 27th of September, 1858, which is thus described in this officer's own words:"The enemy" (at the time supposed to have mustered from 900 to 1000 strong in infantry, with 50 cavalry) "advanced. Without exchanging a shot I at once retired slowly, followed up steadily by the rebel line for 100 yards clear of village or jungle, when, suddenly wheeling about my divisions into line, with a hearty cheer, we charged into and through the centre of the enemy's line, Lieutenant Broughton, with his detachment, immediately following up the movement with excellent effect from his position upon the enemy's left. The rebel right wing, of about 300 men, broke at once, but the centre and left, observing the great labour of the horses in crossing the heavy ground, stood, and receiving the charge with repeated volleys, were cut down or broke only a few yards ahead of the cavalry. From this moment the pursuit was limited to the strongest and best horses of the force, numbering

some sixty of all ranks, who, dashing into and swimming a deep and wide nullah, followed the flying enemy through the village of Russowlee, and its sugar cane khêts, over two miles of swamp and 500 yards into the thick jungles near Peroo, when, both men and horses being completely exhausted, I sounded the halt aud assembly, and collecting my wounded, returned to camp at Munjhaen, about 6 P. M." The charge ended in the utter defeat of the enemy, and is referred to by Lord Clyde "as deserving of the highest encomium, on account both of conception and execution." It is also described as having been " as gallant as any during the war.'

Lieutenant William Francis Frederick Waller, 25th Bombay Light Infantry,

For great gallantry at the capture by storm of the fortress of Gwalior, on the 20th of June, 1858. He and Lieutenant Rose, who was killed, were the only Europeans present, and, with a mere bandful of men, they attacked the fortress, climbed on the roof of a house, shot the gunners opposed to them, carried all before them, and took the fort, killing every man in it.

Lieutenant John Charles Campbell Daunt, 11th (late 70th) Bengal Native Infantry, and

No. 2165, Serjeant Denis Dynon, 53rd Regiment,

For conspicuous gallantry in action, on the 2nd of October, 1857, with the mutineers of the Ramgurh Battalion at Chota Behar, in capturing two guns, particularly the last, when they rushed at and captured it by pistolling the gunners, who were mowing the detachment down with grape, one-third of which was hors-de combat at the time.

He was

Lieutenant Daunt is also recommended for chasing, on the 2nd of November following, the mutineers of the 32nd Bengal Native Infantry across a plain into a rich cultivation, into which he followed them with a few of Rattray's Sikhs. dangerously wounded in the attempt to drive out a large body of these mutineers from an inclosure, the preservation of many of his party, on this occasion, being attributed to his gallantry.