Obituary For 1878.

Blomefield , Sir Thomas S . Dyer , Sir James Milne Innes , Sir Frederick L . Arthur , Sir Francis H . Goldsmid , Sir William Stirling-Maxwell , Sir John Wemyss , Sir Leopold Oust Sir Murray HoAvell-Murray , Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy , Sir John Powlett Orde , Sir George Grant-Suttie , Sir George Hill , Sir Richard A . 6 'Donnell , Sir Francis Wheler , Sir George Clay , Sir Gerald G . Aylmer , Sir John A . Cathcart , Sir John Ennis , the Hon . Sir Edward Oust , Sir James Buller East , Sir Stapleton T . Mainwaring , Sir Henry 0 .

Montgomery , Sir Richard Sutton , Sir William Gibson-Craig , Sir Frederick W . Frankland , and Sir William Hayter . Of the above' baronetcies those of East aud HoAvell-Murray appear to have become extinct . The folloAA'ing Knig hts of A ' arious orders have paid the debt of nature : —Sh Thomas My ddelton-Biddulph , K . C . B ., Sir James J . Chalk , Sir George . B . L'Estrange , Sir Hastings R . Yeh'erton , G . C . B ., Sir William Snagg , Sir Michael Galway , K . C . B

Sir Alfred T . Wilde , K . C . B ., Admiral Sir William J . Hope-Johnstone , K . C . B ., General Sir John Garvock , G . C . B ., Sir John W . Awdry , Sir George Back , Sir Francis Grant , P . R . A ., Sir 0 . J . Readymoney , Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy , Sir James Carter , Sir Wdliam O'Grady Haly , K . C . B ., Sir James Coxe , the Hon . Sir Frederick William Grey , G . C . B ., Sir Henry J . W . Bentinck , K . C . B ., Sir William Grey , K . C . S . I ., Admiral Sir William Hutcheon Hall , K . C . B ., Sir George Biddlecome , C . B ., Sir Philip M . N . Guy , K . C . B ., Sir William Yardley , ancl Sir Thomas S . Sadler .

The following deaths have caused vacancies in the present House of Commons : — Sir William Stiiiing-MaxAvell ( Perth ) , Mr . Richard Bright ( East Somersetshire ) , Mr , Alexander 0 . Sherriff ( Worcester ) , Mr . James Sharman-CraAA'ford ( county DOAVU ) , Sir Francis H . Goldsmid ( Reading ) , the Right Hon . Russell Gurney ( Southampton ) , Mr , Phili p Wykeham-Martin ( Rochester ) , Mr . Henry W . Ferdinand Bolckow ( Middlesbrough ) , Mr . Peter Ellis Eyton ( Flint ) , Mr . George H . Whalley ( Peterborough ) , Sir

Frederick Martin Williams . ( Truro ) , Mr . John Dunbar ( NBAV ROSS ) , Professor Richard Smyth ( county Londonderry ) , the Hon . Eliot C . Yorke ( Cambridgeshire ) , ancl Colonel Jaines Duff ( North Norfolk ) . The following ex-Members of Parliament haA'e died during the past tAvelve months : —Lord Montagu William Graham , Mr . William Vansittart , Mr . Edward King Tenison , the Right Hon . Sir William G . Hayter , Mr . Henry BroadAvood , Mr .

Edward Bolton-King , Sir W . Gibson Craig , Mr . George Moffat , Mr . Allan Eliott-Lockhart , Mr . Robert Hollond , Mr . Samuel Carter , Mr . John Forster , Mr . George Duncan , Mi-. Edward R . Rice , Mr . Henry T . Prinsep , Mr . John ToAvneley , the Right Hon . William F . Tighe , Mr . William M'Cormick , Colonel W . T . Po ' well , Mr . Nicholas Kendall , Mr . Richard Bremridge , Mr . Charles H . FreAven , Mr . Robert J . Bagshaw , Sir John Ennis , Mr . Charles H . Barham , Mr . S . S . Dickinson , Mr . Reginald J . Blewitl , Sir George Colthurst , Mr . George Thompson , Mr . John W . Miles , Mr . John Dove Harris , Sir James B . East , Lord J . F . Gordon Hallyburton , Mr . T . B Horsf ' all , and Mr . Michael Sullivan .

Iu the legal profession Ave shall miss the names of Chief Justice Monaghan ; Judge Keogh ; ex-Chief Justice Creasy , of Ceylon ; Sir James Carter , late Chief Justice of New BrunsAvick : Mr . C . W . GoodAvin , Assistant Judge at Shanghai ; Mr . T . Ohitty , the eminent special pleader ; Mr . W . G . Lumley , Q . C . ; Mr . J . T . Schomberg , Q . C : Mr-Henry Prendergast , QC ; Lord Chelmsford ; Mr . Joseph Kay . Q . C . ; Mr . John W . Carleton , Q . C . ; Sir William Yardley , formerly Chief Justice at Bombay : Sir James B , East , author of the " Term Reports , " " East Reports , " etc . ; Sir John W . AAvdry ,

formerly Chief Justice at Bombay ; Sir James Jell Chalk , late Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; Mr . Russell Gurney , Q . C , Recorder of London ; Mr . Thomas M'Donnell , Q . C . ; Mr . John Murphy , Q . C . ; and Sir William Snagg , Chief Justice of British Guiana . Among the clergy we have lost Dr . Selwyn , Bishop of Lichfield ; the Bishop of Cork , Dr . Gregg ; Bishop Mackenzie , ex-Suffragan of Nottingham ; the Rev . P 1 ' . Mozley , Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford ; the Rev . Echvard CasAA'all ; Dr-Williams , ex-Bishop of Waiapu , New Zealand : Dr . Saunders , Dean of Peterboroug h - the Bishop of Ossory and Ferns ; the Archbishop of Rennes ; Dr . B . P . Synions , ex-