1827. JAMES CHAMBERS, an eccentric poet, died in misery at a farm-house in Stratbroke, England. From the age of 16 to 70 he wandered about the country, gaining a precarious subsistence by selling his own effusions, of which he had a number printed in a cheap form. His compositions were mostly suggested to him by his muse, during the stillness of the night while reposing in some friendly barn or hay-loft. When so inspired, he would arise and commit the effusion to paper. He continued through life in hopeless poverty, and was a lonely man and a wanderer, who had neither act nor part in the common ways of the world. 1835. Thermometer 40 deg. below zero, at Lebanon, N. Y., the mercury becoming solid. It was severely cold throughout the United States. 1843. STEVEN THOMPSON MASON, formerly governor of Michigan, died at New York, aged 31. 1845. BENJAMIN RUSSELL, chiefly known as the conductor of the _Columbian Centinel_, died at Boston. 1849. SAMUEL JENKINS, a negro died at Lancaster, aged 115. He drove his master's provision wagon over the Alleganies in Braddock's expedition, and was supposed to be the last survivor of that expedition. 1849. The town of Moultan in India, after a long siege was taken by the British, but with great loss. 1852. ELIOT WALBURTON, an author of considerable note, perished in the Amazon steamship, on his way from Southampton to the West Indies. 1853. Mr. INGERSOLL, the American envoy to England, was feted by the chamber of commerce at Liverpool. 1854. Albion college, Michigan, destroyed by fire. 1856. JEAN PIERRE DAVID, a celebrated French sculptor, died at Paris, aged 65. JANUARY 5. 62. B. C. LUCIUS SERGIUS CATILINE, the Roman conspirator, killed in Etruria. The history of his life unfolds a series of most revolting crimes; but there is reason to believe that some of them are unreal. Murder, rapine and conflagration, were the first pleasures of his life. Pompey, Crassus and Cæsar favored his schemes with a view to their own aggrandizement. Only two Romans remained determined to uphold their falling country--Cato and Cicero. The speeches of the latter in the Roman senate on the crisis of affairs are imperishable monuments of eloquence and patriotism, and produced the overthrow of the conspirators. Five of them were put to death, and Catiline being surrounded by the army under Petreius resolved to die sword in hand. The battle was fought with desperation, and the insurgents fell, with their leader at their head. 1066. EDWARD the Confessor, king of England, died. He was called to the throne 1041. He was not the immediate heir, but his claim was supported of Godwin, earl of Kent, whose daughter Editha he married. He was a weak and superstitious prince, and acquired the title of _Saint_ or _Confessor_, by abstaining from nuptial connection with his queen. He was the first English monarch who undertook to cure the _king's-evil_ by touching the patient. With him ended the Saxon line of kings.