DEATHS.
On the 20th May, drowned, at sea, from on board the Cossepore, on her passage from New Zealand to Manilla, George Augustus, eldest surviving son of the late Captain George Walter Story, formerly of the 4th Dragoon Guards.
At Seetapore, in Oude, (supposed on the 3d June last,) Henry Bensley Thornhill, Esq., Assistant-Commissioner, youngest son of the late John Thornhill, Esq., Director E.I.C.; and, at the same time, Emily Heathfield, wife of the above- named H. B. Thornhill, youngest daughter of Frederick Lock, Req.; and Catherine, their only child ;-all murdered in the mutiny at the above station. During the siege of Cawnpore, some time before the capitulation in June last, shot in the intrenclunents,Arthur Jenkins, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, Assist- ant-Commissioner in Onde, third son of the late Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B:; in his 24th year. At Lucknow, shot through the body on the 8th July, and died of cholera on the 20th, the Rev. Henry Stedman Polehampton, Garrison Chaplain, and late Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford; in his 33d year. On the 12th October, at Lucknow, J. Hensley Thornhill, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, of wounds received on the 26th September. He nobly headed a party to bring in the wounded that were left behind on the 25th, and received his death- wound when taking the eldest son of General Sir Henry Havelock into a place of safety when he was wounded.
On the 24th, at sea on board the ship Storm Cloud, Henry Edward Gleig, the infant son of Lieutenant H. L. Gleig, Sad Bengal NJ. • aged 3 years and three months. Also, on the 3d December, off St. Helena, on board the ship Stamboul, Louisa, his wife; in her 27th year. And, on the 22d January, in the Downs, Mary Mowatt, his infant daughter; aged 3 months and 21 days. On the 21st November, from the effects of a wound, received at Lucknow, Lieu- tenant-Colonel John Lionel Stephenson, C.B., Commanding the 1st Madras Fusiliers; in his 47th year.
On the 14th December, while gallantly leading his regiment against the mutineers of the 34th Regiment, the Hon. Robert 13yng, brother of Viscount Torrington. On the 7th January, at the Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen Tailors, Haverstock Hill, after a residence there as a pensioner for many years, Archibald Stewart, a native of Scotland ; in his 95th year. On the 29th, in Cumberland Place, Bayswater, Robert Baldwin, Esq., formerly of Paternoster Row ; in his 78th year.
On the 30th, at Sevenoaks, Colonel Holcroft, late of the Royal Artillery ; in his 80th year. On the 1st February, at Dover, Captain Sir John Hamilton, Kt., and Chevalier of the Order of Leopold ; in his 934 year.
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