was a learned, although in many respects a singular man ; and the author of various pamphlets, &c. His principal writings, however, are Mohamed, an apology for the Life of the Prophet; Hora Sabbaticæ, endeavouring to show that Sunday is a human and not a divine institution; and The Celtic Druids. Of this latter work, the Rev. Mr. Hunter, in his History of South Yorkshire, when describing Skellow Grange, the residence of Mr. Higgins, says "Skellow Grange, will be remarked hereafter as the house in which Mr. Higgins followed those trains of thought which led to the production of his work entitled Celtic Druid's,' and of a still more profound work, now nearly completed, to which he professes to give the title of 'Anacalypsis, or an attempt to draw aside the Saitic Veil of Isis.' In both these works he descends into the very depths of antiquity, the times long before the commencement of written history, and when the only traces of human existence are certain rude and mighty works, gigantic pillars, wide circles, edifices uncemented, and, more elaborate than the rest, the Pyramids. In the Celtic Druids' we have a most valuable collection of prints, exhibiting many of these remains; and we have also the part of his great system in which the British nation is more particularly interested; for he regards the Druids and our druidical system as a fragment of a mighty sovereignty of priests, and as a relic of that state of high civilization which he supposes to have existed in the earliest ages of society, when there was one great empire reaching from the eastern to the western ocean, the seat of government being in north India, from about the 35th to the 45th degree of latitude. These are researches which make

the antiquities of such a work as this but mere modern inventions, and the inquiries after manors and churches but matters of less than insignificancy. Still there is a stability when we feel that we are proceeding by the light of the written contemporaneous record, which may compensate for the nearness and the narrowness of our view.

The active mind of Mr. Higgins has also been directed upon objects of great local utility. In the exercise of his magisterial duties he became acquainted with what was the state of the Asylum at York for the reception of Lunatics; and to his persevering exertions it chiefly is owing that a great reform was accomplished in that establishment. This led him to other views of the possibility of improving the condition of such unfortunate persons in a lower rank of life, and to him is principally to be attributed the erection of the House for the Pauper Lunatics of the West Riding, erected near the town of Wakefield, where, under the very able superintendence of Dr. Ellis, every expectation from it has been fully satisfied."

The second important work mentioned by Mr. Hunter, Mr. Higgins had not completed at the period of his death.

10. ST. LAWRENCE, MARTYR, A. D. 258.

13, 1792. QUEEN ADELAIDE BORN.

15. AssumPTION OF THe Blessed VIRGIN MARY. 21, 1765. KING WILLIAM IV. BORN.

24. St. BARTHOLOMEW, MARTYR.

24, 1833. ADRIAN HARDY HAWORTH DIED. An eminent Entomologist and Botanist, Fellow of the Linnæn and Horticultural Societies, of the Cæsarean

Society of Natural History at Moscow, and of the Horticultural Society at Pays Bas. He was born at Hull, but resided nearly the whole of his life at Chelsea; where he wrote his Lepidoptera Britannica; Miscellanea Naturalia; Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarem; Narsis sinearum Monographia, and various other scientific works.

28. ST. AUgustin died, A. D. 430.

29. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST BEHEADED. 1832. WILLIAM COOKE DIED, AGED 75. A bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and a King's Counsel. In 1785 he published a volume called The Bankrupt Laws, which was long considered the best book on the subject. In 1790 he was called to the bar, and afterwards made a Commissioner of Bankrupts. In 1816 he was appointed King's Counsel, and afterwards formed part of the commission to Milan to collect evidence against Queen Caroline. His practice in cases of bankruptcy and conveyancing was very great.

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1. ST. GILES DIED, A. D. 750.

1. 1832.

BARON DE ZACH DIED, AGEd 79. François Xavier, Baron de Zach, an eminent astronomer, and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, was born at Pesth, in Hungary. His taste for astronomy was decided at the early age of fifteen, by the interest which he took in the observation of the comet of 1769, and by the transit of Venus over the disc of the sun in the same year, a memorable event which served to make more than one convert to the science. After travelling through different countries of Europe, and residing several years in England, where he acquired for our manners and institutions an attachment which continued throughout his life, he settled at Gotha in 1716, in the family of the Dake of Saxe Gotha, who charged him with the construction of the observatory at Seeberg, over which he continued to preside for a considerable period. He published at Gotha, in 1792, Tables of the Sun, with a Catalogue of 381 Stars, and subsequently many other important astronomical tables,

particularly those on Aberation and Nutation. He became in 1800 the editor of the " Monatliche Correspondents," a German periodical work on astronomy and geography, which was re-published in French under the title of Correspondence Astronomique, &c. upon his removal to the south of France in 1813, and subsequently to Genoa in Company with the Duchesse de Saxe Gotha. This was a most valuable journal, containing records of the progress of astronomy in every country in Europe, and contributing more than any other publication to the great impulse which has been given for many years to the cultivation of astronomical science in Germany. In 1814 he published his very interesting work on the Attraction of Mountains. For many of the later years of his life he suffered severely from the stone, and he had established himself at Paris for the purpose of being constantly under the care of Dr. Civiale, and experiencing relief by the operation of lithotrity, when he died from a sudden attack of cholera.

The Baron de Zach was a most zealous friend to astronomy, and throughout his long life contributed to its progress by his numerous publications, and by maintaining a most extensive and laborious correspondence with the principal astronomers in Europe.

2, 1666. LONDON BURNT.

7. ST. EUNERCHUS.

7, 1833. HANNAH MORE DIED, AGED 87. This distinguished lady was born in 1744, at Stapleton, in Gloucestershire, and was the youngest of five daughters of a clergyman, who resided at Hanham, near Bristol. Her sisters had for some time conducted a small school, in which they acquitted themselves with so much propriety