LORD VISCOUNT FORBES. We regret to announce the death of Lord Viscount Forbes, eldest son of the Earl of Granard. His Lordship was Lord Lieutenant and M.P. for the County of Longford, which he represented since 1806, with a very slight interruption, when Messrs. Halpin and Rorke sat for the county, but were turned out on petition. He was also Custos Rotulorum, and Colonel of the Militia. He was in his 52nd year, hav. ing been born in May 1785. He married, about five years ago, Frances, daughter of the late Territt, formerly Judge of the Admiralty Court at Bermuda, by whom he has left two sons, the eldest of whom, George Arthur, now Viscount Forbes, is in his fourth year. He died at Noel House, Kensington Gore, the residence of his aunt, the Dowager Marchioness of Hastings. His Lordship was a Major-General in the army. He entered the service June 21, 1794, in the 108th Foot, and was appointed one of the Aides-de-Camp to George III. in February 1811. LIEUTENANT MURPHY. Died at Bassorah, on the 9th of August, of typhus fever, Lieutenant Hastings FitzEdward Murphy, of the Royal Engineers, astronomer to the Euphrates expedition. It is with sincere regret that we have to record the death of another valuable othcer (Lieutenant Murphy, of the Royal Engineers) who was attached to the expedition under Colonel Chesney, for exploring the navigation of the Euphrates river. The loss of this officer is deeply to be lamented, on account of his high scientific attainments and indefatigable perseverance, which rendered him peculiarly fitted to perform the duties of astronomer to the expedition, for which he had been so judiciously selected, having for several years previously been employed upon the scientific branch of the Ordnance Trigonometrical Survey, under Colonel Colby. The estimable character and amiable manners of Lieutenant Murphy had endeared him to all his companions embarked in this hazardous and laborious enterprise; and, although his loss in so remote a country cannot readily be replaced, it is satisfactory to learn, from Colonel Chesney's and Captain Estcourt's letters, that his astronomical observations had been brought to a conclusion; so as to form, when reduced, a series of true positions, from the Bay of Scanderoon, in the Mediterranean, to Birdjeck, on the Euphrates, and thence down the river to Bassorah. Previously to the lamented death of Lieutenant Murphy, he, Captain Estcourt, Mr. Ainsworth. Mr Thompson, and Mr. Staunton, had completed a trigonometrical survey of the Great River. Ali Pasha was still at war with the Kurdish chief, Roomandooge, and, as his officers and agents purchase their appointments, they commit every oppression and outrage to repay themselves, which greatly adds to the confusion and misrule in these parts, and, consequently, to the difficulties in traversing the country. Annah was the only part on the river where the females did not dye their lips a purple colour. The natives everywhere else did so, but the Annah ladies wore rings through their right nostrils and on their great toes! So much for fashions! At Jubbee, Lieutenant Murphy made some curious observation on the extensive bitumen springs. He tested the waters under the bitumen, and found them salt, bitter, and acrid, and the temperature 88° and 93°, while the atmosphere in the shade was 97°.-Lit. Gaz. EARL OF DUNMORE. Intelligence has been received at Edinburgh of the decease of the Earl of Dunmore, who was found dead in his bed. His Lordship was born on the 30th of April 1762, succeeded in 1809, and was married in 1803 to Lady Susan Hamilton, third daughter of Archibald, ninth Duke of Hamilton, by whom, who was born July 1774, he had issue Alexander Edward, Viscount Fincastle, and two other sons. His Lordship was brother to Lady Augusta D'Ameland, who, as Lady Augusta Murray, was married at Rome in April 1793, and at St. George's, Hanover Square, the December following, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, which marriage was declared null in the Prerogative Court, in August 1794. GEORGE COLMAN, ESQ. Who for so many years occupied a large portion of public attention, as a literary man and the critic of dramatic literature, died, aged seventy-four, and has been in terred at Kensington. It is too early to attempt even a sketch of his career. He was the son of George Colman, the translator of Terence, and well-known author. His education was begun at Westminster school, whence he was transferred to Christ Church, Oxford, and thence, for a finish, or rather, perhaps, to prevent a finish, to King's College, Aberdeen. On his return to town he entered at the Temple, but soon evinced a more decided predilection for poetry than for law; and the literary path being opened to him by his father's malady in 1789, he assumed his theatrical shoes, and in 1794, at his death, succeeded to his patent. So early as 1784, he had produced "Two to One," the songs of which were, we believe, his first publication. Other minor dramatic and lyric compositions followed, till "Inkle and Yarico" was brought out with immense success in 1787. In 1788, "Ways and Means" appeared, and other popular productions extended the fame of Colman, in something like this routine: Sylvester Daggerwood," and "The Mountaineers," in 1795; " Iron Chest," (with its famous dispute with J. Kemble,) in 1796; "Night-gown and Slippers," volume of comic poetry, 1797; Blue Beard," 1798; "Broad Grins," an enlarged edition of "Night-gown and Slippers," 1802, and the " Poor Gentleman;" in 1805, "John Bull," and "Who wants a Guinea!" in 1806, "We Fly by Night;" in 1808, "Battle of Rexbam," "Surrender of Calais," "Heir at Law," "Blue Devils," "The Review," "" Gay Deceivers," "" Africans," "Love Laughs at Locksmiths," en suite; in 1812, "Poetical Vagaries ;" and, before and since, several other works would complete this prolific list. But it is not, as we have said, the time for remark; and we shall only add, that, on his decease, the Lord Chamberlain appointed Mr. Charles Kemble his successor, as Licenser of Plays; an appointment so discriminating, that we never knew of another which gave such universal satisfaction. JOHN BANNISTER, Esq. Another "junior" has soon followed his compeer for half a century, the " younger" Colman. Jack Bannister died, at his residence in Gower Street, in the 77th year of his age. He had long retired from the stage, of which he was one of the greatest comic and natural ornaments,-for he was not more eminent for his lively humour than for his touching pathos. With a countenance remarkably fine and expressive, an eye of extraordinary beauty, a good person, an excellent voice, and every other requisite for the stage, he ran through a long list of parts in our sterling comedies; he plunged with irresistible comicality into travesty and farce, and he imaged forth with exquisite simplicity and truth the tenderest feelings of humanity, in a manner which raised him to the head of his profession. Never can we forget his last appearance, when, taking leave of the stage, his Walter, in the Babes of the Wood, left scarcely a dry eye in the theatre. We will not even allude to his other most popular performances, nor to his delightful social qualities, nor to his honourable estimation as a private citizen. These are not, and cannot be forgotten, though years of absence from the public arena have taken from the event some of that sorrow which would otherwise have eclipsed the harmless gaiety of nations. During these years Mr. Bannister has been a martyr to gout, and we have heard that the too free use of the eau medicinale, to mitigate its pains, probably hastened the lamentable catastrophe it was meant to protract. Be that as it may, he has died beloved by his nearest connexions, and esteemed and respected by all who knew him. Married.-At Twickenham, the Hon. Thomas Barnewall, only son of Lord Trimlestown, to Margaret Randalina, daughter of the late Philip Roche, Esq., of Donore, in the county of Kildare, sister of the Right Hon. Lady Louth, and niece of Lord Dunsany. At Dover, the Hon. James Butler, fifth son of the Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, to Emily, only daughter of Sir William Fitzgerald, Bart., of Carrigoran, county Clare. At Ashford, in Kent, the Hon. Lady Louisa Finch Hatton, only daughter of the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, to Mr. Turner, a wealthy commoner. Died.-In York Street, Portman Square, At Penn House, near Amersham, the At Bath, in the 85th year of her age, Lady Sydney, relict of the Right Hon. Sydney Cosby, Lord Sydney of Leiz. M. Malibran, the former husband of the celebrated songstress, died at Paris in his 54th year. In Hanover Square, Capt. James Green, R.N., of Wallington, Hants, aged 68 years. O Waken Lady, 448. Old Cotter's Lament for the Ettrick Shepherd, 140. Old Maid's Petition, 241. On the Origin of the Egyptian god, Anubis, and Twelve Months of the Year, 97. Poetry-September, 19; Serenade, 20; To Weimar, on the Death of |