OBITUARIES, EUROPEAN. Jan. 6.-PONCHARD, JEAN FREDERICK AUGUSTE, an eminent French musician, died at Paris, aged 76 years. He was a pupil at the Conservatoire at Paris, and as early as 1810, obtained the first prize in singing, and the second in lyric tragedy and comedy. While yet in his youth, he became a favorite with the public, but retired from the theatre in 1834, devoted himself to teaching, and was appointed a professor at the Conservatoire. Jan. 9.-MONTAGNE, JEAN FRANÇOIS CAMILLE, a French physician and surgeon, member of the Institute of France, and an eminent botanist, died in Paris, aged 82 years. He was a native of Vandoy, and son of a surgeon, who trained him for the medical profession, and, to obtain a livelihood in those tempestuous years of revolution, he took service as military surgeon and went to Egypt with the memorable expedition. He returned to France in 1802, and pursued his medical studies and served alternately in the army and navy. He became, in 1815, the chief surgeon of the army of the King of Naples (Joachim Murat). The Restoration dismissed him to obscurity, but after the Revolution of July, 1830, he was made chief surgeon of the. Sedan military hospital, and retired on a full pension in 1832. He then devoted himself to botany with a zeal which appears extraordinary, when it is considered that he was already fortyeight years of age. He was one of the first French botanists who used the microscope in that science, and several important discoveries are due to him. His researches into the cryptogames are valued, and he has left a number of works in Latin and French on questions of natural history. In 1858, he received the cross of an officer of the Legion of Honor. Jan. 9.-ZAMOYSKI, Count, a distinguished Polish nobleman and exile, died in London, aged 67 years. He was the head of his family, and proprietor of the large entailed estate of Zamose, and nobly exerted himself to ameliorate the condition of the peasantry on his vast estates. The state of Poland, and the grief he felt in consequence, had induced him for many years to live in complete retirement in England, and donbtless hastened his death. Jan. 11.-BROOKE, GUSTAVUS VAUGHAN, an eminent tragedian, was lost on the steamship London, on his way to Australia, aged 48 years. He was a native of Dublin, and was educated for the Irish bar, but, having a decided taste for the stage, made his first appearance at the Theatre Royal in his native city, in 1833. His performances proving successful, he subsequently entered into engagements at Limerick, Londonderry, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, and his fame reaching London, he was engaged to appear at the Victoria Theatre, where he gave twelve performances of Virginius. In 1850 he sailed for New York, where he appeared with great success in the character of Othello. In 1852, he became manager of the Astor Place Opera House, but losing money in the undertaking, returned to Europe, and after a successful tour, revisited this country and extended his journey Jan. 11.-PALMER, GEORGE HARRY, an Eng- Jan. 11.-WELLESLEY, Rev. HENRY, D.D., Principal of New-Inn Hall, Oxford, and an eminent classical scholar, died at Oxford, aged 74 years. He was a natural son of the late Marquis Wellesley (elder brother of the first Duke of Wellington), was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was appointed in 1838, to the rectory of Woodmancote, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor. In 1847, he received the appointment of principal of New Inn Hall, and occupied the post of select preacher to the University. Dr. Wellesley was an accomplished scholar, well read in both ancient and modern literature, and well known in connection with the fine arts and continental languages. He was the author of selections in the Latin, Italian, and English languages, under the title of "Anthologia Polyglotte," also of several valuable papers appearing in the volumes of the Sussex Archæological Society, of which he had been a member from its formation. At the time of his death he was a curator of the Bodleian Library, and also of the University Galleries and of the Taylor Institution. Jan. 11.-WOOLLEY, Rt. Rev. JOHN, D.D., D.C.L., Bishop of Sydney, Australia, was lost on the steamship London, aged 50 years. He was educated at University College, London, and at Exeter College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1836. He became successively Head Master of Rossall school, Lancashire, and of King Edward's Grammar School, Norwich. This last office he relinquished in 1852, on obtaining the appointment of professor in the University of Sydney. His later life was mostly passed in Australia. Jan. 15.-ANERSWALD, Herr RUDOLPH von, head of the late liberal ministry at Berlin, died in that city. He was the son of an East Prussian nobleman, and matriculated at Königsberg University, where he intended to study for the law, but on the outbreak of the war with the French, he volunteered with the Black Hussars of Prussia, and, after an honorable service, retired in 1820, married, and settled on the estates of his wife near Dantzic. He was soon elected Landrath by the proprietors of his neighborhood, and subsequently entered the provincial department of Eastern Prussia. In consequence of the stormy events which supervened in March, 1848, he became successively Governor of Eastern Prussia, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a member of the central Germanic Parliament at Frankfort. Jan. 19.-CLARKE, Miss HARRIETTE LUDLOW, a wood engraver, designer, and painter on glass, died at Cannes, France. She was the daughter of Edward Clarke, solicitor, of London. Among her earliest engravings was a large cut of the "Penny Magazine," in 1838. She progressed rapidly in this art, and subsequently turned her attention to the study of designing and painting on glass, in which she became very successful. In 1852 she commenced the execution of church windows, and exhibited so much genius in that department of art, that her orders followed each other in rapid succession. Her last work was a window, containing eight lights in a row of six figures at the top, in the cathedral at Canterbury, the subject being the life and death of Thomas à Becket. Jan. 19.-MAITLAND, Rev. SAMUEL ROFFEY, D. D., F. R. S., F. S. A., an eminent scholar and theological writer, died at Lambeth Palace, London, aged 75 years. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1816, studied law, and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple, but leaving his legal studies, was ordained priest in 1821, and appointed first incumbent of Christ Church, Gloucester. Soon after, he began to be conspicuous as an author, and resigned his charge in 1830 to devote himself more exclusively to his pen. In 1838 he removed to London and became librarian of Lambeth Palace, until 1849, when he retired to Gloucester to spend the rest of his days. He was the author of several works on the prophecies, and eight volumes of essays on various theological works. He was also for some years editor of the "British Magazine." Jan. 21.-ODDONE, Prince, third son of Victor Emmanuel, died at Genoa, aged 19 years. 66 Jan. 23. PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE, an English poet and novelist, died at Lower Halliford, Eng., aged 80 years. He was a native of Weymouth, and was educated at a school at Englefield Green. In 1810 he published a classical poem called "The Genius of the Thames," also another entitled "The Philosophy of Melancholy." Among his novels are Headlong Hall," 1816: Melincourt," "Nightmare Abbey," "The Misfortunes of Elphin," "Crochet Castle," and "Grall Grange." Beside these works, Mr. Peacock was a large contributor to periodical literature, although from 1818 to 1856, he had held the position of examiner of Indian correspondence in the service of the Hon. East India Company. In March, 1856, he retired from the service and spent the remainder of his life among his books. Jan. --BREHAT, ALFRED G. de, a distinguished French novelist, died in Paris. He was the author of "Jean Belin; or, "Adventures of a little French Boy." Jan.-.-DARGAUD, J. M., a French author of much note, died in Paris, aged 65 years. He was private secretary to Lamartine, and author of historical works, books of travel, criticism, and fiction. Feb. 3.-FOUCHER, VICTOR, an eminent French lawyer, grand officer of the Legion of Honor, and counsellor to the Court of Cassation, died at Paris, aged 63 years. He was called to the bar in 1823, and was soon after named Deputy Procurator-Royal at Alençon. After successive advancements in more important courts, he was appointed in 1846 Director-General of the Civil Affairs of Algeria, and the following year Counsellor of the Cour Royale of Paris. In 1850 he was appointed to the same office in the Court of Cassation; was chosen member of the Municipal Council of Paris, member of the Consulting Commission of Algeria, and of the Council of the Legion of Honor, in which order he was subsequently raised to the rank of Grand Officer. Feb. 11.-COOPER, Commodore READ, of the Liberian navy, died near St. Paul's River, Libe ria, aged 64 years. He removed to Liberia from Norfolk, Va., in 1829, and commanded the gunboat Quail, when she was attacked at her anchorage near Monrovia by a Spanish war steamer, a few years since. In company with his sons, Commodore Cooper owned a large sugar farm on the St. Paul's River, giving employment to quite a number of people. Feb. 19.--ADDISON, CHARLES GREENSTREET, an eminent English lawyer, legal writer, and author, died in South Kensington, aged 29 years. He was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1842, and the same year was admitted a barrister on the Home Circuit. Subsequently he was appointed revising barrister for East and West Kent, and was also crown counsel for the Mint prosecutions at the West Kent sessions. He was the author of a work on Contracts," and a treatise on "Wrongs and their Remedies." 66 Feb. 20.-SPOTTISWOODE, ANDREW, an English publisher, formerly M. P. for Saltash, and Colchester, died in London, aged 71 years. He was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and was at one time Sheriff of the city of London. He was head of the famous house of Eyre and Spottiswoode, Queen's printers. Feb. 20.-THOMPSON, JOHN, a distinguished wood-engraver, died at Kensington, Eng., aged 81 years. As early as 1817 his name was attached to works of considerable merit; and many years ago he, together with his brother, was much employed by French publishers, when scarcely a wood-engraver existed in France. Mr. T. engraved the whole of the engravings for Mulready's "Vicar of Wakefield." Feb. 21.-WOOD, Rev. Sir JOHN PAGE, Baronet, former chaplain and private secretary to Queen Caroline, died at Bethus, near Romford, aged 69 years. He was a native of Woodbridge, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree of LL. B., in 1821. Previous to this, however, he had en OBITUARIES, tered into holy orders, and in 1820 was apAfter pointed chaplain to Queen Caroline. this he was chaplain to the Duke of Sussex; rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill, in 1824; and vicar of Cressing, Essex, in 1832. In 1843 he succeeded to the baronetcy. He took an active part in the business of the county, and was for twenty-five years chairman of the Braintree Board of Guardians, and twenty-two chairman of the Witham bench. Sir John troubled himself little concerning the differences between religious parties, but was well known as a man of unaffected piety, and earnestly strove to forward the moral and temporal elevation of the people. Feb. 22.-DONOUGHMORE, Rt. Hon. RICHARD HELY HUTCHINSON, fourth Earl of, died in Knocklofty, Tipperary, Ireland, aged 52 years. He was educated at Harrow, and was a DeputyLieutenant for the county of Tipperary, and a magistrate for that of Waterford. In early life he held a commission in the army and served in the campaign of China, and in 1849 was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant of the militia. In 1851 he succeeded to the family honors, and from that period devoted himself to public life. Under the Derby Administration in 1848, he was appointed VicePresident of the Board of Trade, and President He was possessed of of that body, in 1859. rare business powers, and few speakers in the House of Lords could equal the facility with which he handled the nicer points of law. Feb. 23.-HAVILLAND, Lieutenant-Colonel, THOMAS FIOTH, formerly an eminent military and civil engineer of the East India Company, died at De Beauvoir, Guernsey, aged 90 years. He was a native of Havilland, entered the service of the East India Company as a Madras cadet, in 1791, and having become a distinguished engineer, was employed in the construction of important military works at Seringapatam and elsewhere. In 1814 he was appointed superintending engineer and architect of the Madras Presidency, and in this position constructed numerous civil works of great magnitude and utility, the chief of which were the Madras bulwark and pier completed in Upon the death of his father in 1823, he left the service with the rank of LieutenantColonel, and devoted the rest of his life to the public service of his native island, of which he was one of the justices and legislators. 1822. Feb. 23.-SYKES, GODFREY, an English decorative artist of great distinction, died at Old Brompton, aged 41 years. He was educated in the Sheffield School of Art, where he was subsequently teacher and master, and about 1861, removed to London to undertake the decoration of the arcades in the Royal Horticultural Gardens. Besides being a sculptor and a modeller, he was a skilful painter, and was perhaps the first artist who has ventured to take the mere structural forms of ribs and bolts of ironwork and to make them decorative on their own surfaces. His last work, and perhaps his EUROPEAN. greatest achievement, was the production of a Feb.--HALACZ, a veteran of the Seven Years' War, died at Stande, Upper Silesia, aged 120 years. He served 38 years in the Prussian army and took an active part in several campaigns of the present century. Feb. --RUCKERT, FRIEDRICH, a German poet and Orientalist, died at Neusess, aged 77 years. He was a native of Bavaria; was educated at the University of Jena, and after a brief editorship, was, in 1826, appointed professor of Oriental languages at Erlangen. In 1840 he was induced by Frederick William IV. of Prussia to remove to Berlin, where he held a professorship at the university until 1849, when he retired to private life. He was the author of several volumes of lyrical poems, also some dramas, and a "Life of Jesus." March 13.-MASSEY, Mrs. ROSINA JANE, wife of Gerald Massey, the poet, died near Hemel Hempstead, aged 34 years. She was a native of Bolton, Lancashire, and at an early age manifested singular trance-like tendencies and abnormal powers of vision. It is considered doubtful whether a more remarkable seer or clairvoyant has existed since the days of Emanuel Swedenborg. March 16.-JUSUF, Gen., Commander of the military division of Montpellier, France, died at Cannes, aged 60 years. He was a native of Algeria; entered service as a private in an Arab cavalry regiment, and obtained his promotions, followed by his naturalization, for distinguished services, and for his devotion to France. He was the author of several works on the affairs of the colony. March 21.-COOPER, Charles HenrRY, an English antiquarian scholar and author, died at Cambridge, aged 58 years. He was a native of Great Marlow, Bucks; was educated at Reading, and by his fondness for books, early laid the foundation of his extensive stock of antiquarian and historical learning. In 1826 he settled in Cambridge and applied himself with diligence to the study of law, and in 1840 was admitted as solicitor. Having an intimate acquaintance with the law and decided talent as an orator, he gained a high reputation and an extensive practice. In 1851 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He was a voluminous writer, and among the productions of his pen may be mentioned four volumes of the "Annals of Cambridge," arranged chronologically, and containing an account of all matters relating to the university and town, down to the close of 1849; "Athenæ Cantabrigienses," memoirs of the worthies educated at Cambridge (3 vols.); and the "Memorials of Cambridge" (3 vols.), 1858-1866. During the latter years of his life most of his leisure was devoted to the collection of particulars illustrative of the lives of all the eminent natives of Great Britain and Ireland from the earliest period to the present day, and his research in that direction involved an immense amount of patient labor. March 21.-WARES, MARGARET, an aged servant in Thurso, a province of New Brunswick, died there, aged 105 years. She was a native of Stroma, and when a girl went to serve a farmer, continuing with him and his descendants for five generations. She retained all her faculties to the last, and was known as a woman of deep piety, latterly passing a great portion of her time in prayer. March 23.-EDWARDES, Hon. RICHARD, an English diplomatist, died in London, aged 59 years. He entered the diplomatic service in 1826; served a long clerkship, and in 1838 was appointed an attaché to the embassy at St. Petersburg; in 1841 was called to the same post at Berlin; returned to St. Petersburg the same year, and in 1847 was transferred to Paris, where he twice discharged the duties of Chargé d'Affaires. In 1851 he was appointed Secretary of Legation at Frankfort, and in 1859 at Madrid, where he remained till the end of 1863. The following year he was Consul-general at Caracas, and was subsequently appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic. יי March 23.-TOSTI, Cardinal ANTONY, senior cardinal priest, under the title of St. Pietro in Montorio, died at San Michele, Rome, aged 89 years. He was a native of Rome, and was known as the "learned and venerable " Director of the combined school and hospital of San Michele, and as Librarian of the Holy Church. March 24.-HESSE HOMBURG, FERDINAND HENRI FRIEDRICH, Landgrave of, died at Homburg, aged 38 years. He was a general of cavalry in the service of Austria, and succeeded to the family estates in 1848. Having left no direct heirs his territory reverts to the Grand Ducal House of Hesse-Darmstadt; the heir to the principality being Prince Louis of Hesse, husband of the Princess Alice. March 25.-THORNTON, THOMAS, an editor and author, died in London, aged 79 years. In 1825 he entered the service of the "London Times," and for many years was engaged in reporting the proceedings of the ecclesiastical and maritime courts; his accuracy and sound judg ment obtaining the frequent approbation of the Bench and the Bar. During a period of forty years' connection with this journal, he published a valuable series of law reports, which, under the title of "Notes of Cases," are still habitually quoted as an authority. For some twenty years he had prepared the summary of the debates in the House of Commons for the "Times," which for condensation, accuracy, and comprehensive grasp, could rarely be equalled. His mind retained its vigor until the last. Mr. Thornton brought out an edition of Otway's plays, and was at one time a contributor to the "Edinburgh Review." He was particularly versed in Indian affairs, and edited the papers of one of the most eminent statesmen connected with the East India Company. March 28.--LANGLAIS, M., a French financier and statesman, Finance Minister of the Mexican Empire; born at Mamers, in the Department of the South, about 1808; died in Mexico. He was educated for the Church; had taken minor orders, and for some time was a professor in the ecclesiastical seminary in his native town. The revolution of 1830 opened a new career for him. He went to Paris to study law; was called to the bar in 1837, and soon gained considerable reputation as an advocate. In 1848 he was chosen as one of the representatives for the department of the Sarthe, in the Constituent Assembly, and again to the Legislative Assembly. After the coup d'état he was elected to the latter for his native town of Mamers, but resigned in 1857, and accepted the OBITUARIES, EUROPEAN. post of Councillor of State, a post for which he When Maximilian asked was eminently fitted. the Emperor of the French to send him a competent person to introduce order into the finances of the empire, M. Langlais was at once selected for undertaking that laborious and difficult task. His engagement was for about three years, and in less than half that time he had completed his work of reorganization, but was taken ill with the fatal fever of the Mexican capital, and died before the measures he had recommended could be fully carried into effect. April 1.-HILLIER, GEORGE, an English antiquarian, historian, and author, died at Ryde, Isle of Wight, aged 50 years. He was a native of Kennington, and was educated at Place Street House Academy near Ryde. In 1852 he published "A Narrative of the attempted Escape of Charles the First from Carisbrook Castle." He was also the author of treatises on, or guide-books to, Carisbrook and Arundel Castles. The discovery of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery upon Chessell Down, in the Isle of Wight, and the excavation of the graves, was one of his most valuable contributions to archæology. Mr. Hillier had been for some time employed in the preparation of an important work, the "History and Antiquities of the Isle of Wight," engraving the plates with his own hand, and having the printing done in his own house, but his death occurred before its completion. April 5.-GRIFFIN, Right Rev. HENRY, D. D., Lord Bishop of Limerick, an eminent prelate and scholar, died at Dublin, Ireland, aged 80 years. He was a native of Wexford, entered Trinity College at twelve years of age, and after a distinguished career obtained a fellowship in 1811. In that capacity he was for some time tutor, but in 1829 resigned to accept the valuable college living of Clonfeacle, in the archdiocese of Armagh. In 1854, upon urgent solicitation, he accepted the bishopric of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe, the duties of which he discharged with inflexible integrity up to the period of his last illness. He was distinguished for his profound knowledge, and with Dr. Sandes, the late Bishop of Waterford, was regarded as the head of the Liberal party in the university. Dr. Griffin took an active part in the agitation for emancipation, and on all occasions distinguished himself by his enlightened, generous, and comprehensive opinions. April 5.-HODGKIN, THOMAS, LL. D., an eminent English philanthropist and scholar, born in 1799; died at Jaffa, near Jerusalem. His whole life had been devoted to the service of his fellow-creatures of all races. He was one of the founders of the Aborigines Protection and Ethnological Societies; the honorary Secretary of the Geographical Society; a member of the Senate of the University of London, and intimately connected with many other scientific bodies. A few months previous to his death he accompanied Sir Moses Montefiore to Morocco, and induced the Sultan to make large concessions to his Jewish subjects, and at the April 7.-BABINGTON, BENJAMIN GUY, M. D., April 12.-MOLTKE, ADAM WILHELM VON, Count, a Danish statesman, died in Livonia, His family came originally aged 81 years. from Mecklenburg. He was Minister of State in Denmark from the death of Christian VIII. to 1848, minister for Holstein in 1851, and for Schleswig from 1852 to 1854, when he withdrew from public life. He was last known as using his great wealth for the promotion of science and art. April 16.-RYLAND, JONATHAN EDWARD, an eminent Hebrew, Greek, and German scholar, died at Waterloo, Northampton, aged 68 years. He was educated at the Baptist College at Bristol, of which his father, Dr. Ryland, was president. His translations from Neander testify to his critical acquaintance with the German language. April 16.-SEYMOUR, EDWARD JAMES, M. D., F. R. S., a distinguished English physician, died in London, aged 70. He was a native of Brighton, and educated at Dr. Delafosse's school at Richmond, and Jesus College, Cambridge, when he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he graduated M. D. He became physician to the infirmary at Edinburgh, and having practised for some years at Florence, settled in London in 1824. He filled successively the posts of senior physician to the Council of St. George's Hospital, senior censor of the Royal College of Physicians, and was one of the Commissioners on Lunacy. April 19.-REYNOLDS, Rev. JAMES, a clergyman of the Established Church, died in the He was educated at St. Chapel Yard of St. Mary's Hospital, Great Ilford, aged 62 years. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1826, and the following year was appointed chaplain to St. Mary's Hospital. He was a fine scholar, and particularly delighted in the Oriental languages. For many years he |