1818. WILLIAM HARROD, an eccentric bookseller in Leicestershire, died. 1823. The French language abolished in the law courts of Holland, where it had long been in use, and was prevalent in society. 1825. Great Britain acknowledged the independence of the South American republics. 1835. CHARLES LAMB died. He was the author of the beautiful stories of _Elia_, which are universally admired. His exquisite humor, fancy, feeling and wit, have given an endurable character to his essays. The bettering of the condition of mankind was his great aim, and he was in the esteem of every philanthropist. 1835. First daily paper in Buffalo, New York. 1837. SAMUEL HULSE died at Chelsea Hospital, England, of which he had been governor since 1820, aged 90. He entered the British army in the year 1761, and at the time of his death had been upwards of three quarters of a century in the military service, and was then field marshal. 1837. Saphet in the Holy Land nearly destroyed by an earthquake. It is said that this and a subsequent shock were both predicted by a Walachian almanac maker. 1848. Girard college opened with appropriate ceremonies at Philadelphia. 1848. The state of Maryland repudiated repudiation, and resumed payment of interest on her debt at the Chesapeake bank, Baltimore. 1852. FREDERICK PHILIPS ROBINSON, an American officer, died, aged 89; he had been scarcely less than 75 years in the military ranks. 1854. Great fire at Constantinople destroyed 400 houses; among which were those of the Greek patriarch, and the patriarch of Jerusalem. JANUARY 2. 17. TITUS LIVIUS died at Padua. His history of Rome, to which he devoted twenty years, rendered him so celebrated, that a Spaniard is said to have gone from Cadiz to Rome for the purpose merely of seeing him. His history was written in 140 books, of which only 35 are extant. Five of these were discovered at Worms 1731, and some fragments are said to have been since found at Herculaneum. Few particulars of his life are known, but his fame was great even while he lived, and his history has made him immortal.