1837. THOMAS BURGESS, bishop of Salisbury, died. He was the son of a grocer, and rose by his own merits. He was a man of extensive learning, and a voluminous author; was instrumental in founding the royal society of literature; and St. David's college founded by him for the education of Welsh ministers, is an enduring monument of his benevolence. To this institution, he bequeathed the whole of his extensive library. 1843. MICHAEL J. QUINN, well known to general readers as the author of _A Visit to Spain_, &c., died at Boulogne-sur-mer, France. 1844. GILBERT, a servant of Washington at the great battle of the Monongahela, died at Stanton, Va., aged 112. He was also with the general at the surrender of Cornwallis, and was accustomed on holidays to appear in regimentals during his life, to the great edification of the boys. 1852. WILLIAM WARE, an eminent unitarian scholar and divine, died at Cambridge, Mass., aged 54. 1856. The ship John Rutledge from Liverpool to New York encountered an iceberg and sunk. Of five boats which left the ship, only one was picked up, with but one living man on board, the survivor of thirteen who had died one by one of cold and starvation. FEBRUARY 20. 1413. THOMAS ARUNDEL, archbishop of Canterbury, died. He was consecrated bishop of Ely at the age of 21, and became infamous by the severity of his conduct towards the reformers. 1437. JAMES I, of Scotland, murdered, at the age of 44. He fell a martyr to his attempts to abolish the anarchy and disorder which prevailed throughout his kingdom. He was the first of the Stuarts, and stands on the catalogue of royal authors. (Is also dated 21st.) 1494. MATTEO MARIE BOIARDO, count of Scandiano, died. In his _Orlando Innamorato_ he immortalized his own peasants and the charms of the scenery at Scandiano in the persons of his heroes and the beauties of nature. 1571. LEWIS CASTELVETRO, an Italian critic, died. He was famous for his parts, but more famous for spleen and ill nature. He distinguished himself chiefly by his _Commentary upon Aristotle's Poetics_, where, Rapin assures us, he always made it a rule to find something to except against in the text. 1579. NICHOLAS BACON, an English statesman, died. He was appointed lord keeper of the great seal on the accession of Elizabeth, and was an able and judicious counsellor of that queen during 20 years. 1579. DRAKE, after many profitable captures in the Pacific, arrived at Lima, where he plundered all the ships in the harbor, in one of which was found a chest full of reals of silver, and a good store of silks and linen cloth. 1648. THOMAS DAMME buried at Minshull, England, "being of the age of seven score and fourteen" (154 years).