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OBITUAEIES. 



" Astronomie des Indiens et des Ch inois" and 

 an essay on the polarization of light. 



Feb. 6. ROSA, FBANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA, 

 a Spanish statesman, died, aged 73 years. He 

 was born in Granada, and educated at the 

 university of that city. He took an active 

 part in the struggles which marked the reign 

 of Ferdinand VII, and on account of the liber- 

 alism evinced in a narrative written by him- 

 self of that revolution, was imprisoned for five 

 years in the Spanish fortress of Pefion de Velez, 

 on the Barbary coast. After the revolution 

 of 1820 he was liberated, and subsequently was 

 made secretary of foreign affairs, but in 1823, 

 after the throne had been restored by French 

 arms, he was exiled by Ferdinand VII, and 

 went to Paris, where he remained eight years, 

 during which time he published several works. 

 In 1831 he was recalled, and in 1834 became 

 the head of a cabinet, which lasted only a few 

 months. He was twice ambassador to Rome, 

 and also to Paris. In 1858 he became presi- 

 dent of the Council of State, having been for 

 some time previous its vice-president. He 

 was the author of several tragedies, a poem on 

 the " Art of Poetry" a history of the French 

 Revolution entitled "Espiritu del Sigo," " Isa- 

 bel de Solis," and the " Conspiracy of Venice." 



Feb. 8. BUSK, HANS, died at his residence, 

 Great Cumberland Place, Hyde Park, aged 89 

 years. He was a man of high classical attain- 

 ments and a true lover of literature. Having 

 travelled much, he conversed fluently in most 

 of the languages of Europe. In early life he 

 resided some years in Russia, and was at one 

 time a member of the Empress Catherine's cele- 

 brated Chevalier Guard. He had shared in 

 the friendship of most of the political and liter- 

 ary celebrities of the early part of the century, 

 among whom were Burke, Sir Philip Francis, 

 Fox, Sheridan, Canning, Percival and Wilber- 

 force, as well as of Byron, Moore and Scott. 

 Since he attained his 80th year he commenced 

 and completed a remarkable paraphrase of the 

 Psalms entitled " Hebrew Lyrics." 



Feb. 15. SHERMAN, Rev. JAMES, a well- 

 known English clergyman, died at his residence 

 at Blackheath, aged 65 years. He was born 

 in London, and at an early age apprenticed to 

 an ivory turner, but his mind was directed to 

 the Christian ministry, and in his sixteenth year 

 he was admitted to the Countess of Hunting- 

 don's college at Cheshnnt. In 1836 he re- 

 ceived a call to Surrey Chapel as the immediate 

 successor of the Rev. Rowland Hill, and from 

 his first appearance in the pulpit was very 

 popular. In 1854, ill-health induced him to 

 resign the pastoral office there, and take charge 

 of a new chapel at Blackheath, where with a 

 few interruptions he continued to minister 

 until about a year previous to his death. 



Feb. 15. SOMERSET, Lieut.-Gen. SIR HENET, 

 K. 0. B., K. H., died at Gibraltar. He was 

 a son of Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, was born in 1794, entered 

 the army in 1811, served in the campaigns of 



1813 and 1814 under the Duke of "Wellington 

 in the Peninsula, and was present at the battles 

 of Vittoria, Orthes, and Toulouse, besides minor 

 contests. He was also in the campaign of the 

 Netherlands in 1815. In 1817 he went to the 

 Cape of Good Hope, where he was for many 

 years in service under the successive governors. 

 He took an active part in all the Kaffir wars, 

 with his regiment, the Cape Mounted Rifles, 

 and during the several commands ably distin- 

 guished himself. In 1834 he was made a 

 knight of the Hanoverian Order, and subse- 

 quently a companion of the Order of the Bath. 

 After the conclusion of the Kaffir Avar in 1853 

 he was made a knight commander of that 

 order. The same year he left the Cape and 

 was placed as major-general on the staff at 

 Bombay, and in 1855 was made commander- 

 in-chief. After serving the customary period 

 in that capacity he returned home. 



Feb. 19. TIERNEY, Rev. Canon MARK ALOY- 

 sius, died at Arundel, aged 66 years. He was 

 born at Brighton, educated under the Francis- 

 can fathers in "Warwickshire, and at- the col- 

 lege of St. Edmund near Ware, and at the end 

 of his philosophical and theological courses 

 was ordained priest in 1818. His first appoint- 

 ment was assistant chaplain at Warwick street, 

 whence he was removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields ; 

 but ill-health rendering it necessary that he 

 should be transferred to a country mission, he 

 was appointed to Slindon, in Sussex, where he 

 remained for two or three years. In 1824 he 

 became the chaplain of Bernard Edward, duke 

 of Norfolk, and from that time resided at Arun- 

 del. His taste for historic research led him to 

 devote the leisure of several years to the study 

 of English history, and he freely gave to 

 writers of eminence the benefit of his learning 

 and research. Among his historic works is a 

 new edition of Dodd's " Church History of 

 England from the year 1500 to the year 1688." 

 In 1833, he was elected a fellow of the Society 

 of Antiquaries, London; and in 1841, a fellow 

 of the Royal Society. On the formation of the 

 Sussex Arch;eological Society in 1846, he be- 

 came its local secretary, and showed his zeal 

 for the Society's collections by supervising 

 many papers, and contributing in 184'J to vol. 

 iii, "Notices of recent Excavations in the 

 Collegiate Church of Arundel ; " and in 1860, 

 to vol. xii,."An account of the Discovery of the 

 Remains of John, 17th Earl of Arundel, in a 

 Letter addressed to Wm. Durrant Cooper, Esq., 

 F. S. A." 



Feb. 22. PILLERSDORF, Baron, died at Vien- 

 na, aged 75 years. In 1848 he was Minister 

 of the Interior and afterward President of the 

 Council. When the Austrian Parliament was 

 closed, he lived in retirement, excluded from 

 the coi#t circle and took no share in public 

 life until the last year, when his position was 

 restored to him by the emperor, and he became 

 the President of the Finance Committee of the 

 Lower Chamber of the Diet. 



bSo. REED, Rev. ANDREW, D.D., died at 



