truth existed, may have contributed to its own accomplishment. The married life of Lord Byron-or rather the period during which Lord and Lady Byron lived together-was a year and some few days. They were married in January 1815. On the 10th of December, in the same year, Ada, their only child, was born; and, in January 1816, the husband and wife separated for ever. When her mother removed her into Leicestershire, and when her father saw her for the last time, Ada was a month old. The solitary poet's feelings would seem to have clung to his child; and the third book of 'Childe Harold'written in 1816, immediately after the separation -is dedicated as it were to the father's love...... Ada Byron never looked consciously into the face of her father. Whatever wholesome and ennobling joys his wayward 'nature' might have found in watching the growth of his young daughter's mind, it was not reserved for the poet ever to know. How far the voice of the illustrious father did blend with the future visions of the orphan girl-how far the echoes of his harp and of his heart did 'reach into her heart'-how far the token and the tone from her father's mould had part in her after-musings-the world perhaps has no right to inquire. Still, many will find it pleasant to learn that by her own desire the remains of Ada Byron were to be laid yesterday

where they will mingle with her 'father's mould' -in Hucknall Church......Lady Lovelace cared Like her father's Donna

little about poetry. Inez, in 'Don Juan'

Her favourite science was the mathematical. Mr. Babbage is said to have conducted her studies at one time,-and Lady Lovelace is known to have translated from Italian into English a very elaborate Defence of the once celebrated Calculating Machine of her mathematical friend...... Lady Lovelace has left three children,-two sons, and a daughter. Her mother is still alive,—to see perhaps with a softened spirit the shade of the father beside the early grave of his only child. Ada's looks in her later years-years of suffering, borne with gentle and womanly fortitude-have been happily caught by Mr. Henry Phillips,whose father's pencil has preserved to us the best likeness of Ada's father."

The death of Prof. Empson, editor of the Edinburgh Review, is noticed on the 18th of December. He had died on the 10th inst., at the East India College, Haileybury, in his sixty-third year. "He became an Edinburgh Reviewer in 1823,-married Francis Jeffrey's only child, — and through Jeffrey's influence, succeeded the late Mr. Macvey Napier as editor of the great Whig Review." In the following week it is announced that Mr. George

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Cornewall Lewis-long the Whig financial secretary at the Treasury-is to be the new editor.

The chief expedition of the year in search Sir John Franklin. for Sir John Franklin was that under Sir Edward Belcher, and the Athenæum for April Belcher. 3rd refers to the active efforts to complete its equipment, provisions being taken for three years. "The greatest exertions will be made to pierce the neck of ice, should it be still found to bar the entrance to Wellington Channel." On April 24th the sailing of the expedition is recorded, and, "bearing in mind the determination and energy of its commander and his officers, we are warranted in anticipating happy results."

Proposed

Some of the Arctic officers in the British service were desirous that a testimonial should testimonial be presented to Mr. Grinnell as a recognition to Mr. Grinnell. of the noble share he had taken in the search for our lost countrymen by means of an expedition fitted out at his own expense. Mr. Grinnell, Letter from however, in a letter which appeared on April 3rd, says: "I beg to transmit by the first steamer my grateful sense of the feelings which have dictated the movement, and to request most earnestly that you will dedicate to the recovery of the missing navigators any sums you may have collected for the purpose. I

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claim no merit for my Expedition; the cause of Sir John Franklin is the cause of universal humanity, and my country would have reaped as much advantage as yours had he succeeded in opening the icy gates of the Arctic regions."

The same number notes the return of Dr. Rae in excellent health, notwithstanding "the perils and hardships of Arctic exploration, a more than ordinary share of which have fallen to his lot."

Dr. Rae.

the Prince Albert.

The gallant little ship Prince Albert, under Return of the command of Mr. Kennedy, returned to Aberdeen on the 7th of October, bearing the cheering news that Sir Edward Belcher had passed up Wellington Channel early in August, this channel, as well as that leading towards Melville Island, being quite free from ice, and presenting open water as far as a telescope would command a view. "This is the most satisfactory intelligence that we have had from the field of the long Arctic exploration for many a day. As the result of Mr. Kennedy's Expedition combines with all else that has been done to point directly up the Wellington Channel for the solution of the painful and protracted mystery which shrouds our lost ships, it is a great relief to know that, after the long and uncertain beating about in those dreary seas, the actual trail is at last almost certainly struck,-and that a bold

and resolute officer has gone straight into the free and unexplored water along which it doubtless runs......Mr. Kennedy states, that during his long journey he fell in with a vast number of animals; and it may interest the naturalist to know, that two large ravens were constantly seen at Fury Beach. At the mouth of Wellington Channel an extraordinary number of whales were seen coming from the north: a fact full of promise. Seals were shot,-the flesh of which Mr. Kennedy assures us proved, when properly cooked, most palatable. The organ given to the crew by H.R.H. Prince Albert proved a source of great enjoyment. When they were visited by Esquimaux at Pond's Bay, the instrument was brought on deck, and the effects of its tones on the natives were irresistibly ludicrous."

The number for November 13th records the Return of return of the screw steamer Isabel, Captain Inglethe Isabel. field, after a search of the "whole north coast of

Baffin's Bay, and the various inlets and channels leading out of it, beginning with Wolstenholm Sound and Whale Sound, which latter presented two large openings to the north-eastward. On entering Smith Sound, at the head of Baffin's Bay-long considered as a promising field for discovery, the passage widened until it became a broad expanse of open water, and it seemed as if the little Isabel were on the verge of the long