Saturday 20 Sep 1845 (p. 3, col. 6-7) Deaths. In Moffat's Yard, Lowther Street, on the 15th instant, Mr. Thomas SIMPSON, aged 23 years. In Union Street, on the 15th Inst., Miss Jane BLACK, aged 18. In Brown's Row, on the 16th, James HUGHES, aged 9 years. At Waverton, in the parish of Wigton, on the 12th inst., Mr. Joseph JACKSON, miller, aged 77 years. At Wigton, on the 15th instant, Henry, youngest son of Mr. Robert BEATY, aged 36 years. At Biglands, in the parish of Aikton, on the 8th, Robert, son of Mr. George STUDHOLM, joiner, aged 12 years. At Longnewton, in the parish of Holme Cultram, on the 30th ult., Mr. Joseph HAYTON, aged 35 years,-much respected. At Buckabank, on the 13th instant, Isabella, the wife of Mr. Joseph SHIELDS, aged 49 years,-much and deservedly respected. At Lowthian Gill, on the 11th of Sept., Mr. John CARRUTHERS, aged 71 years. At Penrith, on the 7th instant, Mr. Edward NICHOLSON, aged 36 years. The deceased was for fourteen years Head Master of the Free Grammar School, Penrith, which office he was obliged by ill health to resign in March last. His classical attainments were considerable, and his amiable and benevolent disposition procured him the esteem of a large circle of friends, who deeply lament his loss. In pace requiescat. At the residence of Mrs. FAWCETT, Union Place, Penrith, on the 15th instant, Mr. Robert VIRTUE, in the 48th year of his age. The deceased was superintendant of the Penrith District of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, for which his abilities eminently qualified him; and to his unwearied exertions may be attributed the rapid progress of the works on this part of the line. He was borne to the grave by the sub-contractors of his district, and the number who followed him to his last resting place evinced the respect with which, although a comparative stranger, he was held. In Scotch Street, Whitehaven, on Thursday week, Mr. James GRAHAM, serjeant major of the staff of the Royal Cumberland Militia, in his 66th year; in King Street, last week, Mrs. Mary DOUGLAS, in the 68th year of her age; in Preston Street, on Sunday week, Mr. Jonathan BOWMAN, landlord of the Dog Inn, in the 44th year of his age; last week, Hannah, wife of Mr. Thomas BANKS, joiner, aged 63 years; in King Street, Robert, son of Mr. Isaac FLETCHER, tin-plate worker, aged 24 years; on Saturday last, aged 65 years, Mary, wife of Mr. DUNLOP, of the coal weighing office, North Wall, Whitehaven. At Gillfoot, in Kinneyside, on Saturday week, Mrs. Jane FERGUSON, in the 66th year of her age. On Sunday, September 14, after a lingering illness, Elizabeth, Fanny, aged 19, youngest daughter of the late John BARWISE, Esq., of Langrigg Hall, in this county. At the Union Workhouse, Cockermouth, on Tuesday week, aged 83 years, Mr. Richard BOWES, a native of Workington, and many years master of different vessels out of Whitehaven. At Keswick, on the 7th inst., Mrs. Mary MELVILLE, widow, in the 84th year of her age; on Friday last, after a long and severe illness, Mr. Thomas HILFERTY, aged 28 years. At Great Braithwaite, near Keswick, on Tuesday week, Mr. Joseph HODGSON, aged 75 years. At Ellel Cottage, the house of her brother-in-law, R. B. ARMSTRONG, Esq., Q.C., on Sunday night, the 14th instant, Isabella, eldest daughter of the late Richmond BLAMIRE, Esq. At Tamworth, of scarlet fever, on the 1st inst., Edward Henry, aged 2 years and 7 months; on the 10th inst., Frank Storr, aged 1 year and seven months; and on the 16th, Elizabeth, aged 5 years and a half, children of the Rev. R. C. SAVAGE, Vicar of Nuneaton. At Harrogate, on Tuesday the 9th instant, James BROUGHAM Esq., of Stobars-house, Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, in the 71st year of his age. At New York, John Augustus SHEA, Esq., late of Cork, author of several poems of great merit. The mother of M. ARAGO, the eminent natural philosopher, Eastagel, in the Eastern, Pyrenees, a few days ago, at the advanced age of 91 years. At Lincoln, on the 1st of September, in the 80th year of his age, the Rev. John KNIPE, M.A., rector of Charlton, in Oxfordshire, and incumbent of St. Michael's on the Mount, Lincoln. At the Castle, Parsonstown, Ireland, on the 15th inst., the infant daughter of the Countess of Rosse, aged 4 days. At the Manse of Penninghame, Newton-Stewart, on Friday the 29th ult., aged 22, James Black RICHARDSON, only son of the Rev. Samuel RICHARDSON, minister of Penninghame. The deceased was for some years in the office of Mr. N. WATERHOUSE & Sons, of this town, and his loss is much felt and deplored by his relatives, his employers, and all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. At his estate, Chateauvieux, near St. Agneau, on Thursday the 4th inst., in the 82nd year of his age, M. Royer COLLARD, formerly President of the Chamber of Deputies, Member of the French Academy, and Professor of Philosophy at the College of France. At St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, on Monday the 8th instant, aged 103, Colonel Cromwell MASSEY, late of the Hon. East India Company's service. He was a combotant [sic] on the 10th of September, 1780, in the sanguinary battle of Penmbancum, in Mysore, against the forces of Hyder Ally, when he, with Colonel BAILLIE, Captain (afterwards Sir David) BAIRD, and about 200 British soldiers, were taken prisoners. Without ammunition, their waggons having been accidentally blown up, they formed themselves under the fire of the enemy's numerous artillery, into a square, and there resisted and repulsed eighteen different attacks, until borne down and trampled upon, and still fighting under the legs of the elephants and horses, they were compelled to surrender, and were thrown, chained together two and two, into Hyder's dungeons at Seringapatam, suffering from their wounds, without surgical care, almost naked, exposed to privations, cruel indignities, and ill treatment, and remained captives for three years and nine months, when Hyder's death led to their release. On the 23rd ult., in the parish of Kiltearn, Ross-shire, an aged Highlander, named Donald ROSS, who had attained the vast age of 115 years. Among the memorabilia of Donald's life was his being sent as a special messenger with a letter from Lochbroom to Dingwall at the time of the rebellion in 1745. The old man retained possession of all his faculties, and enjoyed uninterrupted good health till within a few days of his death.