Church. Mr. Wilberforce was formerly Fellow of Oriel
College, Oxford, and for some time tutor of his college,
conjointly with Dr. Newman, and up to a very recent
period he was one of the select preachers of the University.
He is known to the public as the author of "The
Five Empires," the "History of Erastianism," and a
work on "The Incarnation," as well as his more recent
treatises on "The Eucharist," and "The Royal Supremacy,"
the latter of which must be taken as expressing
the reasons which induced him to abandon the English
Church. He is the second son of the late celebrated
William Wilberforce, and elder brother of the Bishop
of Oxford.

Lord Raglan has been raised to the rank of Field
Marshal, his commission bearing the date of the 5th of
November, the day of the battle of Inkerman. Since
the death of the Marquis of Anglesey, no officer of the
British army has enjoyed this high rank as a reward for
actual service, our only field marshals having been
Prince Albert and the King of the Belgians. This is
the first instance in which the new warrant regulating
promotions for distinguished merit has been carried into
effect. Formerly it would not have been possible to
raise Lord Raglan to the highest rank in the army
unless he should outlive all his seniors of the rank of
general.

The letter of condolence addressed to Madame de St.
Arnaud, by the Emperor of the French, caused a
considerable sensation. The letter contained a statement
that the Marshal "associated his name with the military
glories of France on the day when, having decided upon
landing in the Crimea, in spite of timid counsels,
[timides avis], he gained, with Lord Raglan, the battle
of the Alma, and opened to our army the road to Sebastopol."
The phrase "in spite of timid counsels" was
eagerly caught up and canvassed, and much surmise was
spent in conjecturing upon whom the Emperor meant
to reflect. At length the matter was set at rest by the
publication of the following paragraph in the Moniteur:
—"The words 'resistant à de timides avis,' contained
in the Emperor's letter to Madame de St. Arnaud, have
served as a text to erroneous interpretations. Their
only aim was to throw out in stronger relief the energy
of Marshal de St. Arnaud, by contrasting it with those
very natural differences of opinion which on the eve of
so important a decision had manifested themselves in
the councils of the French army and fleet."

The Admiralty have transmitted to the journals a
report of the Safe Arrival of Captain Collinson at Port
Clarence. Captain Collinson's ship, the Enterprise,
was released from her position at Wollaston Land in the
summer of 1852. She passed the following winter in
Camden Bay, 78° 8' North, 145° 30' West; and was not
again released from the ice until the 15th July, 1854.
Baffled by southerly winds and calms, she did not reach
Point Barrow until the 9th of August, Port Clarence
until the 21st. The Rattlesnake has been sent to meet
her; and the Plover had left Point Barrow a few days
before for the same purpose. The Rattlesnake at once
put out of port to recall the Plover; which would afterwards
proceed to Valparaiso, while the Rattlesnake
proceeded to Hong-kong. The officers and crew of the
Enterprise were all well, having lost only three men
during the whole voyage.

The proceedings in regard to the Perry Defence and
Testimonial Fund have been brought to a sudden stop.
On the 4th inst., an order was presented to the London
and County Joint Stock Bank from Mr. Perry, directing
payment of £1500 to his credit to Charles du Buits, in
Paris. No intimation of Mr. Perry's intention had been
communicated to the treasurer of the fund, and
consequently that gentleman has put an advertisement in the
papers, announcing that, "but for this circumstance,
the petitions to her Majesty would have been forwarded
to the proper quarter," but now requesting that no
further subscriptions be sent in. The treasurer has
deposited £2000 with the Windsor bankers, at interest, in
the joint names of himself and Mr. Perry, and "there
he intends it to remain until a better investment can be
made."

Pierrard, the "trembleur," died lately, at Lyons,
upwards of ninety years old. Pierrard was a drummer
in the Republican army; as drum-major he was present
at the execution of Louis the Sixteenth, and had to direct
his men to roll their drums, by order of Santerre, to
prevent the king from making a speech on the scaffold.
Every time that mournful event was referred to, Pierrard
was seized with a trembling fit: hence his name of "the
shaker."

The remains of Madame Sontag are reported to have
been treated with great indignity. Her husband left
Mexico soon after her death. Her body, in a coffin, was
sent to Vera Cruz in carriers' carts, like an ordinary
package; and at the beginning of October it was thrust
into a deserted church outside the town, to await the
consent of some captain to bring it to Europe.

On the 21st of September last, Dr. Jacob, the head
master of the Blue Coat school, or Christ's Hospital,
preached a sermon in the church of the hospital, in
which he pointed out various faults in the system
of education and in the administration of the
establishment. A meeting of the committee of
almoners was held on the 7th inst., at which it was
resolved that, on account of this sermon, Dr. Jacob
"was unfit for the situation of head master of this
institution." At a special general court of the governors
and committee of almoners on the 21st inst., a motion
"that the thanks of the meeting be given to Dr. Jacob
for his sermon preached in the church of the hospital,
on St. Matthew's day past," was carried by 106 votes
against 74.

The following Munificent Bequests have been made
by the will of Mr. John Hinchcliff, of Notting-hill, who
died lately at the age of 98. Indigent Blind Asylum,
£1000; Journeyman Tailors' Institution, £1000;
Magdalen Hospital, £1000; Lock Hospital, £1000; London
Truss Society, £1000; Middlesex Hospital, £1000; St.
Mary's, Westbourne-terrace, £1000; Houseless Poor,
Broad-street, London, £500; Deaf and Dumb, £1000;
Westminster Hospital, £1000; London Fever Hospital,
£1000; Charing-cross Hospital, £1000; Asylum for
Idiots, £1000; Cancer Hospital, £1000; Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals Society, £500. The above are
payable after the death of the widow, now very aged.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

Lord CUNINGHAME died in Edinburgh, on the 27th ult., aged
seventy-two.

Vice-Admiral RICHARD ARTHUR, C.B., died at Plymouth,
on the 27th ult.

Rear-Admiral JOHN LEITH died at Blackford, Scotland, on
the 25th ult., aged sixty-six. Admiral Leith was the second
son of the late General Leith Hay, and brother of Sir Andrew
Leith Hay, M.P. for the Elgin district of burghs.

Rear-Admiral PATESHALL died at Hereford on the 20th ult.,
aged seventy-five. He entered the royal navy in 1795, and
was actively employed until 1816.

Mr, GEACH, M.P. for Coventry, died on the 1st inst.

The COUNTESS OF STRATHMORE has died at Florence. Her
ladyship was the eldest daughter of Viscount Barrington by
the daughter of Lord Ravensworth, and was married to the
Earl of Strathmore about four years ago. She was but twenty-
eight years of age, and leaves no issue.

Lieutenant-Colonel CHARLES C. ALEXANDER, of the Royal
Engineers, died of apoplexy before Sebastopol on October 19th.
He had been forty-one years in the service.

The COUNT DE SAINTE-AULAIRE died at Paris on the 13th
inst., at the age of seventy-seven. He was a member of the
Institute, and grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Under
King Louis Philippe he was successively member of the
Chamber of Deputies, peer of France, and ambassador at
Rome, Vienna, and for a long period at London.

General HUNTER, a distinguished Indian officer, who saw
service in the Scinde and Affghan wars, and who only retired
three years ago, died at the Bridge of Allan on the 11th inst.,
in his sixty-ninth year.

The Rev. Dr. JOHN HUME SPRY, Rector of Marylebone, died
on the 11th, at his residence in Devonshire-place. He was
presented by Lord Liverpool, when Prime Minister, to the
rectory of Marylebone, worth at that time upwards £2000
a-year, and in 1828 the Duke of Wellington appointed him a
canon residentiary in Canterbury cathedral, worth upwards
of £1000 a-year.

Lord DUDLEY STUART died at Stockholm on the 17th inst.

Dr. EDWARD FORBES, Professor of Natural History in the
University of Edinburgh, died on the 18th instant, in his
39th year.

Lord VISCOUNT LORTON died at Rockingham, his seat in
the county of Roscommon, on the 21st instant.

Mr. FREDERICK KNIGHT HUNT, the Editor of the Daily
News, died on the 19th inst., in his 41st year.