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OBITUARIES. 



Having returned from the Peninsula, he pro- 

 ceeded to India, where he served for a period of 

 twenty-eight years, and was appointed to a 

 colonelcy of the 79th Foot in 1854, an appoint- 

 ment which he held until his death. 



March 17. HALEVY, JACQUES, ELIE FROMEN- 

 TAL, the favorite pupil of Cherubim, died at 

 Nice, aged 62 years. He was born in Paris 

 where, in his 12th year, he won the grand 

 prize for harmony at the Conservatoire. After 

 two years of instruction in this public school 

 of music he was placed under the care of Cheru- 

 bini, and made such proficiency that within the 

 space of two years more he was intrusted by 

 his master with the charge of his class while 

 the latter visited London. He was sent to 

 Rome by the French Academy, and during his 

 residence there, wrote his first opera, Pygma- 

 lion. In 1827 he published his Phidias, the 

 popularity of which had not decreased when it 

 was followed by The Artisan. In 1835 he pro- 

 duced at the Academic de Musique the opera 

 La Juive, which was immediately brought out 

 in every capital in Europe. He composed 

 several comic operas which met with great 

 favor, among which are his Guido et Genevra 

 and Charles VI. His other productions were: 

 Le Roi et le Batelier ; the Val d'Andorre, which 

 ran continuously for 165 nights; Guitarero, Les 

 Mousquetaires de la Heine, La Fee aux Hoses, 

 and La Magicienne. His last opera was " Noe 

 OIL le Deluge." In 1854 he was elected per- 

 petual secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts. 



March 19. DON, Sir WM. HENRY, Bart., died 

 at Hobart Town, Tasmania, aged 36 years. He 

 was for a short time in the army, and was extra 

 aide-de-camp to the lord lieutenant of Ireland 

 in 1844. In 1845 he became lieutenant in the 

 5th dragoon guards, but retired the same year 

 and took up the profession of an actor. His 

 admiration of his art was intense, and his suc- 

 cess as an actor appeared to afford him more 

 unalloyed satisfaction than his relationship to 

 earls and duchesses. 



March 23. NESSELRODE, Count. (See NES- 



6ELRODE.) 



March 24. "WINDISCHGRATZ, ALFRED, Prince. 

 (See WINDISCIIGRATZ.) 



March 26. WHITE, Rev. JAMES, a clergy- 

 man of the Church of England, died at Bon- 

 church in the Isle of "Wight. He was born in 

 1804, educated at Glasgow and Oxford, took 

 orders in the Church of England, and was pre- 

 sented by Lord Brougham to a living in Suf- 

 folk, which he afterward gave vip for another 

 in "Warwickshire. On ultimately succeeding to 

 a considerable patrimony, he retired from the 

 Church and devoted a large share of his time 

 to literary pursuits. He was a contributor to 

 Blackwood's Magazine. Among his later works 

 are "The Eighteen Christian Centuries" and 

 the " History of France." 



March 30. VANDERBURCH, M. EMILE, a 

 popular dramatist, died at Reuil, aged 67 years. 

 He commenced life as an officer in the army of 

 La Vendee, and passed through several of 



Napoleon's campaigns, but finding that he had 

 some taste for dramatic composition, and no 

 desire for military glory, he abandoned his pro- 

 fession and commenced writing for the Paris 

 theatres. In the space of forty years he pro- 

 duced one hundred dramas, most of which 

 were well received by the public. Among the 

 most popular of his dramatic works were : Les 

 Camarades du Ministre, Le Camarade du Lit, 

 Cotillion III, Jacques II, and Les Gamins de 

 Paris. 



April 2. ELMES, JAMES, an English author 

 and architect, died at Greenwich, aged 79 years. 

 He studied architecture under Mr. George Gib- 

 son, and gained the silver medal at the Royal 

 Academy in 1804 ; his name, however, was best 

 known as a professional author, and one of hia 

 most useful and popular works was that on 

 Dilapidations, published in 1826. He was the 

 editor of several periodical publications. Among 

 his literary productions are several on Architec- 

 ture and the Arts; " Memoirs of the Life and 

 Works of Sir Christopher Wren," 1823 ; " Hora) 

 Vaciva?. a Thought-Book of the Wise Spirits 

 of all Ages and all Countries, fit for all Men 

 and all Hours," 1851; and "Thomas Clarkson, 

 a Monograph : being a Contribution towards 

 the History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade 

 and Slavery," 1854. Mr. Elmes was for many 

 years surveyor to the port of London. 



April 3. Ross, Sir JAMES CLARKE. (See 

 Ross, Sir J. C.) 



April 5. HOUSTON, Gen. Sir ROBERT, K.C.B., 

 died at Torquay, aged 81 years. He entered 

 the army of the East India Company at an early 

 age, and proceeded to Bengal in 1795, where 

 he continued to serve for twenty-five years. 

 In 1854 he became a general, and was- for ten 

 years governor of the Military College at Ad- 

 discombe. 



April 8. CARROLL, Sir WM. FAREBROTHER, 

 K.C.B., died at his residence, Greenwich Hos- 

 pital, aged 77 yeap. He was born at Glen- 

 carrig, Wicklow, entered the navy in 1795 on 

 board the "Diamond," then commanded by Sir 

 Wm. Sidney Smith, under whom he served 

 many years, and with whom he was taken 

 prisoner in 1796. A year from the following 

 August he was released and sent to the West 

 Indies in the " Syren," in which he served at the 

 capture of Surinam. He was present at the 

 sieges of Gaeta and Scylla, and the storming of 

 Capri, and in 1807 commanded the seamen and 

 marines in the engagement in the Sea of Mar- 

 mora. He had command of the Cadiz flotilla, 

 and afterward cooperated in the defence of 

 Tarifa. He was commander of the " Volcano" 

 on the coast of Catalonia, and subsequently of 

 the " Cyrus," on the coast of France. He had 

 been sixty-seven times in action with the 

 enemy upon sea and land, and had aided in the 

 capture of nineteen sail of the line, eighteen 

 frigate?, and a vast number of smaller vessels. 



April 11. CHETHAM-STRODE, Admiral Sir 

 EDWARD, K.C.B., K.C.H., died at his residence, 

 Southill, Somersetshire, aged 87 years. He 



