1815. Confirmatory pact signed at Vienna, by which the allied powers solemnly united their forces to maintain the treaty of Paris against Bonaparte. 1815. RICHARD DOWELL, the famed organist at Dulwich college, died. 1820. ALEXANDER of Russia banished all Jesuits from his dominions, because they interfered with the government and the peace of families. 1836. HENRY ROSCOE died, near Liverpool, England. He was distinguished for his legal and various abilities and learning, and was the author of several professional and other works. 1843. Ceremony of opening the Thames tunnel. Its length is 1200 feet, its cost about two and a half millions of dollars, and it was 18 years in building, under Brunel. The number of persons who visited it during the two following days was about 50,000, at a revenue of one penny each is nearly $1000. 1849. GEORGE COOKE, an artist of some note in the south, died of Cholera at New Orleans. 1852. JANE WEST died, aged 93; a very fruitful authoress, in the beginning of the present century, of poems, tales and novels, long since forgotten, though much in vogue for a time. 1855. An unsuccessful attempt at revolution made in San Domingo with the intent to recall ex-president Paez. MARCH 26. 1546. THOMAS ELYOT, an eminent English scholar, died. He published the first _Latin and English Dictionary_ in that country. 1602. BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD sailed from England in a shallop with 32 persons to effect a colony in the northern part of Virginia. He was the first Englishman who came in a direct course to this part of America, instead of making the circuit by the Canaries and the West Indies. After a passage of 7 weeks they made land in 43 degrees. 1630. CHARLES I renewed the patent granted by his father to Ben Jonson, as poet laureate. The pension was augmented from 100 marks to 100 pounds, with the grace cup of "one tierce of Canary Spanish wine," to be delivered annually from the royal cellars at Whitehall. 1644. The English parliament made an ordinance to enjoin every family one meal per week, and to contribute the value thereof to the kingdom. 1649. JOHN WINTHROP, first governor of Massachusetts colony, died at Boston, aged 63. He came out to America 1630, as governor of the colony; to which he continued to be re-elected, with a few years intermission, till his death. He kept an accurate journal of the events of the early colony from its foundation to the time of his death, two volumes of which were published at Hartford 1790; and the third, which had been a long time lost, appeared in 1826. 1662. BRIAN DUPPA, an English bishop, died. He was distinguished for his learning and virtues, and the firmness of his adherence to the cause of the Stuarts during their misfortunes.