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ant to most people in trade, as it prevents them from making contracts by customary weights, declaring them void altogether. The magistrates in quarter sessions are to provide imperial standards, and to appoint inspectors. All articles, except gold, silver, platina, diamonds, and drugs, by retail, are to be sold by avoirdupoise weight.

Oct. 10. The most ancient revenue department in the State, the Receipt of Exchequer, with all its complicated machinery and checks-such as Auditor, Clerk of the Pells, Tellers, Deputy Tellers, Examiners, &c., terminated on the various accounts of the last quarter being made up, and the new establishment came into practice the next day. The Comptroller's Department will, for the present, be carried on in the old building in New Palace-yard. The Paymaster's Department is at the Treasury, where all pensions and moneys for the public service will in future be disbursed by cheque on the Bank of England. In lieu of the revenue being received at the Exchequer, the different receivers will pay it into the Bank of England, to the public account,

a new office having been established there for this purpose. The expense in salaries, &c., of the Old Exchequer was about 45,000l. per annum. The follow

ing is the scale of the new departments: New Exchequer - Comptroller, the Right Hon. Sir John Newport, 2,0007.; Assistant - Comptroller, Arthur Eden, esq., 1,000l.; Chief Clerk, Ashburnham Bulley, esq., 8001.; Accountant, 500l. to 5501. First Clerk, 250l. to 3001.; Second Clerk, 2001. to 2501.; Third Clerk, 150l. to 2007.; Fourth Clerk, 1251. to 1754.; Fifth Clerk, 1007. to 150. Exchequer Bill Office-Senior Clerk, 6004.; Assistant Clerk, 2104.; Junior Clerk, 1301. Weights and Measures-Senior Clerk, 6501.; Second Clerk, 1007. Paymaster of Civil Services, Treasury-W. Sargent, esq., Paymaster, 1,5001.: S. Beltz, esq, Deputy-Paymaster, 8001; E. Saunders, esq., Cashier, 6004.; E. W. Cleere, esq., Accountant, 6001. Senior Clerks, 1st Class, 4007. maximum, after 25 years' service. Clerks, 2d Class, 3501. maximum, after 25 years' service. Junior, Clerks, 2001. maximum, after 25 years' service.

PROMOTIONS, PREFERMENTS, &c.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Sept. 24. Royal Artillery, Major-Gen. G. Salmon, to be Colonel Com.

Sept. 26, Capt. H. Prescott, R.N., to be Governor of Newfoundland and its dependencies. 4th Reg. foot, brevet Major J. H. Phelps, to be Major.

Sept. 29. Sir Charles C. Pepys, Knight, to be Master of the Rolls. Richard Baker Wingfield, esq., to be his Chief Secretary, and James A. Murray, esq., to be Under-Secretary and Secretary of Causes.

Oct. 3. 74th Reg. foot, Capt. Thos. Mannin to be Major.-Brevet, Major W. Wylde, R.A. to have the local rank of Lieut.-Col. while employed on a special service in Spain.

Dublin, Oct. 4. Mr. Crampton to be a Judge of the King's Bench: Mr. O'Loughlin to be Solicitor-general; and Mr. R. W. Green to be a Sergeant.

Oct. 8. Knighted, Lieut.-Col. Thos. S. Sorrel, K.H., Consul-general for the Austrian States in Italy.

Oct. 10.

Adm. Sir John Wells, to be G.C.B. -Rear Adm. Edw. Brace, to be K.C.B.7th Dragoon Guards, Major Fred. Brownlow, to be Major.

Sir Geo. Shee, Bart, to be his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia.

Oct. 14. 31st Foot, Lieut. Gen. Sir Edward Barnes, K.C.B. to be Colonel.-78th Foot, Major-Gen. Sir Lionel Smith, K.C.B. to be Colonel. -96th Foot, Major-General William Thornton, to be Colonel.

Oct. 18. Rear-Adm. Charles Adam, to be a Lord of the Admiralty, vice Dundas, dec.

Naval Promotions.-To be Captain, Hon. George Grey.To be Commanders, B. W. Walker, W. H. Jervis, W, Shallard, and Geo. St. Vincent King.

Doctor John Dodson to be his Majesty's AdvoCate-general.

GENT. MAG. VOL. II,

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Joseph Allen, D.D. to be Bp. of Bristol.
Rev. H. Douglas, to be a Preb. in Durham Cath.
Rev. E. Moore to be Canon of Windsor.
Rev. J. Ball, St. Lawrence V. Reading, Berks.
Rev. J. Bates, Crowland R. co. Lincoln.
Rev. F. C. Beresford, Layston St. Margaret P.C.
Suffolk.

Rev. W. M. Blencowe, Shawell R. co. Leicester.
Rev. G. B. Blomfield, Stevenage R. co. Hertford.
Rev. T. Collyer, Bungay V. Suffolk.
Rev. H. Cooke, Black Notley R. Essex.
Rev. T. Cox, Kimcote R. co. Leicester.
Rev. A. F. Daubeny, Bourton-on-the Water R.
Gloucestershire.

Rev. J. G. Dowling, St. Mary de Crypt R.
Gloucester.

Rev. J. Eade, Witton-le-Wear P.C. Durham.
Rev. J. Edmeades. Sharncot R. Wilts.
Rev. J. M. Hodgson, Gidley R. Devon.
Rev. H. F. Hutton, Gate Burton R. co. Lincoln.
Rev. A. Johnson, St. George's P.C. Wolverhampn.
Rev. A. Lane, St. Thomas P.C. Pendleton, Lanc.
Rev. T. F. Laurence, E. Farndon R. co. North-
ampton.

Rev. A. M'Creight, Castleterra R. co. Cavan.
Rev. E. G. Marsh, Waltham R. co. Lincoln.
Rev. J. Mickle, South Leverton V. Notts.
Rev. G. Park, Hawkshead V. co. Lancaster.
Rev. J. Penleaze, Black Torrington R. Devon.
Rev. Sir G. Prevost, Stinchcombe P.C. co. Glouc.
Rev. A. J. Ram, Towcester V. co. Northampton.
Rev. E. Squire, Ashen R. Essex.

Rev. J. Smith, Ealing V. Middlesex.
Rev. J. Taylor, St. John's P.C. Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.

Rev. F. Thompson, Heyworth R. cc. Nottingm,
Rev. C. Tomblin, Langtoft V. co. Lincoln.
Rev. T. Webster, St. Botolph's R. Cambridge.
Rev. G. Whitefoord, Whitton R. Suffolk,
Rev. C. W. Whiter, Clowne R. co. Derby.
Rev. J. R. Whyte, Okehampton V. Devon.
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Rev. G. Williams, Wichenford V. co. Worcester.
Rev. W. Williams, Llyswen R. co. Brecon.
Rev. C. Wright, St. Peter's V. Derby.
Rev. R. Taylor, Chap. to Earl Nelson.

BIRTHS.

Sept. 19. At Beckingham, near Gainsborough, the Lady of Sir Joseph Rudsdell, Knt. a son and heir. 20. At Highenden Vicarage, Bucks, the wife of the Rev. F. Vincent, a son.-21. The wife of the Rev. Peter Spencer, of Folkstone, Kent, a son. At Tunbridge Wells, the wife of Major Scornes, late of the 81st reg. a son.22. At Errol Park, Perthshire, the Lady Henrietta Allen, a dau.-23. The wife of Lieut. Col. Rolt, a dau.-27. The Lady of Sir Peregrine Palmer Fuller Palmer Acland, Bart. of Fairfield, co. Somerset, a son and heir.-In Cornwallterrace, Regent's park, the wife of Patrick Cruik shank, esq. a son and heir.-28. The wife of Geo. H. Rogers Harrison, esq. of the Heralds' College, a son and heir.-The wife of Spencer Perceval, esq., a dau.

Lately. The Lady of the Hon. Philip Stourton, a dau.

Oct. 1. At Hoydon rectory, the wife of the Rev. Evan Nepean, a son.-At Purley House, Reading, the wife of Thomas Fitzgerald, esq. a son. At Gloucester, the wife of J. A. Forbes, esq.. Bombay Civil Service, a son.-2. In Grosvenor-place, the lady of Sir James Graham, Bart. a dau.- At Oatlands, Lady Francis Egerton, a son. 3. At Horfield Parsonage, the wife of the Rev. H. Richards, a dau.-4. Mrs. Burder, of Parliament-street, a dau.-Lady Henry Cholmondeley, a son. At Charlton, the wife of Capt. Saunders, R.A. a son.-6. At Gillibrand Hall, Lancashire, the wife of H. H. Fazakerley, esq. a son. In Park-st. Grosvenor-sq. the wife of C. W. Puller, esq. a son.-7. The wife of W. Clarkson, esq. barrister-at-law, a son.-8. The Hon. Mrs. Martin, wife of Capt. Fanshawe Mar. tin, R.N., a son.-At Kirkby Rectory, Nottinghamshire, the Hon. Mrs. John Vernon, a son.

11. At Rempstone, Dorset, the Lady Caroline Calcraft, a son. At Fulham, the wife of the Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, a son.-14. At Chertsea, the wife of Capt. Edw. Dyer, a son.

-At Great Haseley, the wife of the Rev. W. Birket, a son.-16. At Leamington, Lady Ed. monstone, a dau.-17. At 49, Berkeley-square, Mrs. Wyndham Portman, a dau.-In Connaught-sq. the wife of James Renshaw, esq. a son.

-18. At Brighton, the wife of J. Newton Wigney, esq. M.P. a dau.-19. At the Royal Hospital, Dublin, the wife of Lieut. Col. Arbuthnot, a dau.-21. At Ryhope, Durham, the wife of Christopher Davison, esq. of a son.

MARRIAGES.

Sept. 2. At Marylebone Church, Joshua S. Crompton, esq. M.P., Sion Hill, Yorkshire, to Mary, dau. of the late Claud. Alexander, esq. of Bailochmyle, Ayrshire.-6. At St. Pancras New Church, James Pater, esq. second son of the late Lieut. Gen. Pater, to Rosa, second dau. of John Croft, esq. Brunswick-row, Queen-square.-9. At Oakley, Suffolk, Capt. Baldwin Wake Walker, R.N., to Mary Cath. Sinclair, only child of Capt. John Worth, R.N.-10. At Ladykirk, David Marjoribanks, esq. of Dulwich, Surrey, youngest son of the late Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart. to Miss Robertson, of Ladykirk, eld. dau. of Sir T. Haggerston, Bart., of Ellingham.-11. At St. Mary's Marylebone, M. Thackeray, esq., Vice Provost of King's College, Camb. to Augusta, dau. of the late J. Yenn, esq. of Gloucester-pl. Portmansq.-13. At Brighton, W. R. H. Browne, esq., of Upper Stamford street, to Ann, relict of the late Lieut. Col. Staunton.-15. At Canterbury, the Rev. E. Dix, Rector of Truro, Cornwall, to Martha, only dau. of the Rev. J. Dix, B.D.,

Vicar of Feversham, Kent.-16. At St. James', Westminster, Dugdale Stratford Dugdair, w Merivale, Warwick, esq., to Lady Sykes, witə of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, of Sle-Imar, Bart. At Chesterfield, the Rev. T. W. Stark, to Mary Anne, dau. of Joshua Jebb, ega Walton Lodge.-At Selling in Kent, W. A Muan, esq. only son of the late Lieut. Col, B Munn, to Eliz. eldest dau. of H. Hilton, eq = Sole Street House.-18. At Carmarthen, Barn Parr Squance, esq. of Albion-street, Hyde-pari, to Julia, dau. of Thomas Morris, of Llaastept Castle, esq., High Sheriff for the County of Ca marthen. At Enfield, Geo. Burrows, M.D. u Elinor, dau. of the late Joha Aberuethy, mu

At Ipswich, W. B. Clarke, M.D. to Mer dau. of W. D. Jennings, esq. of Doctors' Com mous.-20. At West Thurrock, James Burors, esq., bank agent and solicitor, Stonehaven, u Harriet, dau. of Geo. Curtis, esq.-At Dese Capt. Chas. Sturt, to Charlotte, Christiana, exte dau. of the late Col. Greene, Auditor-general « Bengal. -22. At Ricarton, Biggs Andrew, Barrister-at-Law, esq., to Helen, sixth daa.a Sir James Gibson Craig, of Riccarton, BetRich. Plowman, esq. of Queen-sq. Bloomsbury to Catherine, dau. of the late Rev. Rich, Jara Hay.-25. At All Souls', Marylebone, Charts H. Pennel!, esq. of the Adiniralty, to Ham, second dau. of P. Francis, esq. of St. James's square. Walter Paton, esq. of Chariots 4. Portlaud-pl. to Mary, relict of the late Mem Campbell, 3d Guards.—At Byfield, Northamp tonshire, the Rev. H. Fred. Hutton, Rector d Gate Burton, co. Lincoln, to Louisa, eldest da of the late Rev. H. J. Wollaston.-27. At be kenhead, co. Chester, G. D. Vipout, of Pearaa, to Caroliina Julia, eld. dau. of the late Sir L O'Brien Pryce, Bart., of Newtown-hall, Mecgomeryshire.-30. At Woodchester, Capt. ar Hon. M. F. F. Berkeley, R.N., to the Hon. Char lotet Moreton, dau. of Lord Ducie.At W@ chester, W. Erle, esq. to Amelia, eldest dau the Rev. Dr. Williams, Head Master of Wische ter College.At Stepney, Mr Robert Settany of Stationers'-court, to Eliza, youngest dau. Mr. Pattison, E. I. Co's service.

Lately. At Poutefract, the. Rev. H. Miles Ast ley, Rector of Foulsham, Norfolk, to Dulede à 2d dau. of Col. W. Gooch.-At Tivertas, de Rev. J. Dudley Oland Crosse, Rector of Powi near Bridgewater, to Margaret, dau. of the r J. Browne, of Silverton.

Oct. 2. At Hampstead, Rich. Heathfeld, es. Barrister-at-law, to Miss Helen Hetherington — At St. Margaret's, Westminster, Rt. Wallace, 19architect, of Parliament-street, to Louisa (7% tina, dau. of the late John Vassar, esqdi St. George's Southwark, J. C. Addison, of Che ton-hall, Suffolk, esq., only son of Leet-Com Addison, to Anna, dau. of F. Brewin, of the Kent-road, esq.4. At Edinburgh, Jobe O'Halloran, esq., Bengal Army, son of Brig Ger O'Halloran, to Elizabeth, dan. of the late Gen J. Pringle.-6. T. Noel Harris, esq., SOS Lieut.-Col. N. Harris, to Mary, only child cể the late Reginald Alleyne Ellcock, of Barbadoes— 7. At St. George's Church, Hanover q Falcon, R.N., to Louisa Cursham, widow of the late Capt. Cursham.-8. At Cambridge, the Rev. Thos. Ilderton, to Mary Susan, oriy chả of the late W. Francis. esq., of Chesterthe. —— At Milbrook, R. Bell, esq., Collector of Customs for the Port of Southampton, to Miss Hardima dau. of Capt. Hardiman, R.N., of Hol Va 11. At St. Pancras Church, Capt. Chas. Engish, R.N. to Jemima Georgiana, only dau. of the late J. Carden, esq. of Bedford-sq.-13. At Ba stoke, the Rev. Harris Jervoise Bigg Wicher, Rector of Worting, Hants, to Eliza Harriet, dia of W. Apletree, esq., of Goldings. The Rev. W. Fallowfeild, of Old Pancras Church, v Helen, dau. of J. Bowden, esq.

OBITUARY.

DONNA FRANCISCA OF SPAIN. Sept. 4. At Alverstoke rectory, Hampshire, aged 34, Donna Maria Francisca de Asis, titular Queen of Spain.

She was born April 12, 1800, the second daughter of John, the late King of Portugal, by Louisa Carlotta, Infanta of Spain.

She quitted the land of her birth at an early age, when King John VI. withdrew to Brazil, whence she and her sister, Donna Maria Isabel, proceeded to Spain; the one to be espoused to the late King Ferdinand VII., and the other to the Infante Don Carlos. Her marriage took place on the 29th of Sept. 1816.

She was a woman of undaunted courage, never having evinced the smallest symptoms of dismay, even when within the hearing of her pursuers. Besides Rodil's two first irruptions into Portugal, one on the 1st December to Miranda de Douro, and the other on the 4th of the same month to Braganze, with a view to put the royal family to death, smugglers were hired to waylay and murder them. After they had lost their baggage, on one occasion it actually happened that the late Queen had only thirty rials in her pocket, whilst flying through an impoverished country, where with difficulty they found even bread and wine. Bivouacking in the open air, or only sheltered in an unfinished hovel, she more than once cooked the dish of ham and rice which was to serve for the suppers of the King and Infantes. She kept a diary of her adventures, and had recently been beguiling her exile with the revision of its contents.

She had been about ten weeks in England. Her illness commenced with a cold, and terminated with a bilious fever, aggravated by the intense anxiety which she felt for the situation of her husband. On the first symptoms of her illness the Bishop of Leon proceeded to Portsmouth, and never quitted the bedside of his royal mistress until she ceased to breathe. He administered to her the sacraments, and penned her last wishes in the form of a will. The Queen left to all some token of remembrance, and directed that her mortal remains, instead of being deposited in the Royal Pantheon of the Escurial, should, when a seasonable opportunity offered, be conveyed to Orihuela, an episcopal city in the province of Valencia, four leagues from the Mediterranean, and thirty from the capital, where she had founded and endowed a convent for forty nuns, on the principle of that of Las

Silesas, in Madrid, where young ladies of distinguished families are educated, or find an asylum either from the misfortunes of the world, or the tyranny of an obdurate parent wishing to marry his daughter from mere views of interest or ambition. It appears that soon after her arrival in Spain she formed this plan, and accordingly allowed her pin-money and other funds which she derived from her own private sources, to accumulate. In her undertaking she was encouraged by her husband, as well as by her sister, the Princess de Beira, and when a sufficient sum had been raised, it was laid out under her immediate directions by M. de Plazaola, the confidential secretary of Don Carlos. The church and buildings are in the first style of taste and elegance; three years ago, when a dreadful earthquake desolated a part of Valencia, and was severely felt at Orihuela, it was by the inhabitants of the place deemed a miraculous circumstance that every stone of the new building was left unhurt.

She has left three sons, who, together with her elder sister the Princess of Beira, attended on her last moments; and have since removed to London, to a house in Hanover-square.

The body was laid in state for several days in the principal room of the rectory. On the coffin was engraved the following inscription:

Maria Francisca Asis Regali ex progenie
Braganza et Borbon,
Joannis VI. Lusitaniæ Fidelissimi filia
Regis,

Caroli V. Hispaniarum quoque Regis
Conjux amantissima,
Sti Francisci a Sales Monialium fundatrix
Regalis Monasterii Civitatis Orio-
lensis pia et religiosa,
Pridie nonas Septembris anni millesimi
octingentesimi trigesimi quarti,
ætatis suæ incœpto trigesimo quinto,
Alverstokii parvo Magnæ Britanniæ
oppido,

obdormivit in Domino.

R. I. P.

His Majesty sent to the Princess of Beira a letter of condolence by the hands of Sir H. Taylor. Adm. Sir Thomas Williams and Gen. Sir Thos. M'Mahon, visited her Royal Highness to offer their condolence in their own names, as well as in that of the government; the Admiral also assured the Princess that he had a letter from the Duke of Sussex, expressing his deep regret at her recent loss, as well as at his own inability to visit her in

person; adding that he never could forget the marked attentions which he himself had experienced from the Braganza family in Lisbon.

The funeral took place on the 16th of September. The ships of war in port hoisted the Spanish ensign, half-mast high, at the main. The batteries did the same, and fired minute guns from the time the corpse left the house till the ceremony was over. A guard of honour received the body at the Rectory, and was relieved by another at Gosport chapel, two miles distant. That building was so small, that it was found necessary to enlarge it, and seats were allotted to 140 persons, who paid 21. each for their tickets.

At an early hour in the morning an immense concourse of spectators surrounded the Rectory House. Two companies of infantry, with a regimental band of music, arrived by water from Portsmouth. The procession left the Rectory at eleven o'clock, in the following order:

Beadles with staves covered with crape, two and two. The Undertaker, and ten men, with cloaks and hatbands. Mourning coach and four, with velvets bearing the ciphers and royal crown of Spain, conveying Donna Francisca's private secretary, and medical attend

ants.

Two others, conveying the pallbearers. Two mutes on horseback, in silk furniture. The state lid of black plumes, with silk pendants, having the royal crown of Spain emblazoned thereon. The state horse, with appropriate housings, ornamented with the royal ciphers and crown of Spain, rode by a gentleman of the household, uncovered, and carrying the royal crown of Spain on a crimson velvet cushion and gold tassels; the horse being led by two grooms in silk velvet caps, and attended by two pages in silk furniture. The Body, in a hearse drawn by eight horses, covered with plumes, and velvets ornamented with armorial bearings of the Royal houses of Spain and Portugal. Mourning coach and six, and seven mourning coaches and four.

The Bishop of Leon, Lord Stuart de Rothesay, and Baron Capelle, had seats in the first mourning coach; in the others were the magistrates of Gosport and Alverstoke, the Spanish and English physicians, the several members of the late Princess's household, and various Spanish and Portuguese military officers and civil functionaries.

The hearse reached the chapel door at a quarter past twelve. The body was placed on a platform raised in the centre of the building, with burning tapers around. After the first part of the ceremony was over, an impressive and appro

priate funeral oration was pronounced ar English, in which the orator dwelt some length on the virtues and charitatir disposition of the late Princess, En rating various acts and endowments whe had endeared her to the poorer class of Spaniards, giving his hearers to unde. stand what might have been expertet from her if she had obtained the throne He also spoke of the undaunted courg which she had displayed in Port The service ended at half-past four when the body was deposited, at 2 temporary resting-place, in a small va purposely constructed at the foot of the altar.

The names of the young Princes if by Donna Francisca, are Don Carice Louis-Marie, born 31 Jan. 1818; De John Carlos Marie, born 15 May 1, and Don Ferdinand-Marie, born 30 02. 1824.

MR. JUSTICE JEBB.

Sept. 3. At Rosstrevor, near Newn the Hon. Richard Jebb, one of e Judges of the Court of King's Bext 3 Ireland.

He was born at Drogheda, the elde son of John Jebb, esq., Alderman that city, by his second wife Alicia Furs ter; and was the only brother of the late learned Bishop of Limerick, of whom a memoir will be found in our number ter February last, together with some part culars of the Jebb family.

The late Judge was named after by second-cousin Sir Richard Jebb, MI Physician in Ordinary to King Geors the Third, who left him his heir, whe he was a student at Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the Irish bar in the ver 1787. In 1799 he published, “A Rep to a pamphlet intituled, Arguments f and against a Union." After baving acted for several years as one of his Ma jesty's Counsel; he was successively appointed Third and Second Serjeant; and in Dec. 1818, fourth Justice of the Court of King's Bench.

His

In Judge Jebb, society has lost a valuable member-the bench, an ornamentand Ireland a firm, though humane and impartial judge. During his residence at Rosstrevor, he was beloved, respected, and almost venerated, by all classes. death was an unexpected event. It was reported to have been occasioned by a very rapid attack of cholera; but subsequent and more credible accounts attrbute it to a very different cause—the explosion of a soda-water bottle which be was shaking preparatory to opening. fragment of the glass entered his thumb and some efforts were made to extract

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it. This brought on a serious nervous excitement, to which the Judge was habitually subject, and in the course of a few hours it became so violent as to terminate his existence. It is not decidedly stated whether the attack partook more of tetanus or paralysis. His body was carried for interment to the family vault at Drogheda.

Mr. Justice Jebb married Jane-Louisa, eldest daughter of John Finlay, esq., M.P., for co. Dublin in several Parliaments before the Union, and had issue five sons and one daughter.

RT. REV. DR. DOYLE. June 15. At Carlow, the Right Rev. James Doyle, D.D. Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin.

This celebrated polemical divine was descended from an ancient family. He was educated in the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, from whence he was transferred to the Professorship of Theology in the College of Carlow, and, in the year 1819, was appointed Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, being then the youngest man who had ever obtained a similar rank in the Irish Catholic Church. At that period religious controversy was very rife in Ireland; and Dr. Doyle came to the assistance of his co-religionists with a zeal and devotion which nothing could tire. For some years he merely signed the letters J. K. L. (James Kildare and Leighlin) to his productions, and it was under this signature that he first attacked the late Archbishop of Dublin (Dr. Magee) on the subject of that Prelate's celebrated Visitation Sermon about twelve years ago. In that sermon his Grace warned the Clergy to keep a watchful eye on two enemies which threatened to undermine the Established Church, which enemies he designated as " A church without religion, and a religion without a church." This antithesis brought down a host of assailants, both Roman Catholics and Dissenters, on the Archbishop's head, but among them all none shone so conspicuously as J.K.L. Affecting the greatest humility, he displayed extensive erudition and, in a masterly letter, in which all the subtleties of dogmatic theology were clothed in the most powerful and argumentative language, he took a review of the Reformation, tithes, pluralities, the appropriation of Church property, and, finally, denounced the Church itself as a usurpation, and the Bishops as usurpers, maintaining that the Apostolical right of succession could never be transferred from the Catholic Church to the Protestant. From this period he

continued at intervals to publish various letters and pastoral addresses. He was a strong advocate for the introduction of a well-regulated system of poor laws into Ireland, and succeeded in bringing over Mr. O'Connell to his opinions; but, that gentleman having subsequently changed his mind on that subject, Dr. Doyle addressed a most severe and sarcastic letter to him, pointing out his inconsistencies, and proving both from the Sacred Writings and from general history that a man capable of so constantly changing his opinions, was not fit to be intrusted as the leader of a great party, and ought not to possess the confidence of his countrymen. It was in answer to this letter that Mr. O'Connell denounced consistency as a "rascally doctrine."

It is surprising that a prelate so eminently gifted should have been the first to promulgate the Hohenlohe miracles in this country, in the existence of which he appears to have placed implicit belief: in. deed, were it not for the powerful influence of Dr. Doyle's name, it is thought that, even among the Roman Catholics, few believers in the Hohenlohe miracles would have been found.

A grand cathedral was built at Carlow under the auspices and by the exertions of Doctor Doyle. For many years he laboured to collect funds and contributions for this magnificent object of his ambition, which he lived to see completed. He lies buried in its aisle. No ecclesiastical structure of equal splendour aud extent has been raised in Ireland within the present century. Near the town is Braganza House, a handsome residence, which the public bought for Dr. Doyle and his successors in the see of Leighlin. It was built by Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, now the Governor of St. Lucie, who is a native of Carlow. He it was who gave it the name of Braganza, in honour of the Royal Family of Portugal, in whose service he reaped laurels and dollars during the Peninsular war. Doctor Doyle furnished the house at his own expense, and, at his death, bequeathed the furniture, books, and every thing else of value which it contained, to his successor.

Dr. Doyle died after a long and painful illness. A correspondent of the Standard says-"I have just come from seeing the remains of Dr. Doyle. The body was lying as he died, on a narrow truckle bed not six inches wider than his body apparently, and with only a straw mattrass beneath him; thus it would seem that bodily penance was added to: ating illness." In the Gloř that Dr. Doyle had neve of money, and died not

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