1852. BARON KEMENYI, a Hungarian chief, eminent for his patriotism and exploits in the struggle with Austria and Russia, died aged 53. 1853. CHARLES W. MORGAN, an American commodore, died, aged 63. He was a nephew of Gen. Morgan of the revolution, and distinguished himself in the action between the Constitution and the Guerriere. 1853. Revolution in Mexico; Gen. Arista resigned, and Cevallos elected president ad interim. 1854. The steamer San Francisco, which had withstood a heavy gale, was foundered at sea. Of 700 persons on board 247 had been washed overboard before assistance arrived. 1855. Gen. CASTILLA defeated Pres. Echenique and entered Lima in triumph. 1855. The entire Victoria bridge across the St. Lawrence, carried away by the ice. JANUARY 6. 1402. Birthday of JOAN OF ARC. 1540. HENRY VIII married Anne, daughter of John, duke of Cleves. This was his fourth wife. He had asked her hand in marriage after having seen a portrait of her by Holbein; and becoming disgusted with her in six months bestowed upon her the epithet of _Flanders mare_, and sent her home. She retired, not much disconcerted, to her own country, where she died 1557. 1649. ANNE OF AUSTRIA, queen regent of France, obliged to fly from Paris to St. Germain. 1698. Birthday of METASTASIO, the celebrated Italian poet. 1711. CHRISTOPHER BATEMAN, a noted English bookseller, died. He suffered none to open a book in his shop till it was bought. 1724. The bishop of London preached a sermon against masquerades, which produced a decree that no more than six masquerades, the number already subscribed for, should be held. 1725. Pope BENEDICT XIII, in great state and measured ceremony, opened with a golden hammer the _holy gates_ of the four great churches which had been shut 25 years, for obtaining indulgences, &c. 1734. JOHN DENNIS, an English dramatist and critic, died. He was the son of a saddler, born in London 1657, and liberally educated. His first play appeared in 1697, and was followed by many dramatic pieces and poems which were sufficiently worthless to procure their author an imperishable notoriety in the _Dunciad_, where Pope has gibbeted him. He squandered a fortune which had been left him by an uncle, and not being able to subsist by his pamphlets and criticisms for the magazines, depended upon his friends for a living; and even those whom he had made his enemies joined in the benefit for him at the Haymarket theatre, after he had become blind and partially insane. One of his plays, which was condemned, is famous for a new kind of thunder introduced in it; a few nights after its representation, the players made use of the contrivance in Macbeth, when the author rose in the pit and with an oath claimed it as his thunder. His _thunder_ is said to be that still used in the theatres.