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but was never ordained. He was passionately 

 fond of scientific pursuits, and there was hardly 

 a branch of learning that he was not capa- 

 ble of teaching ; he was a frequent contribu- 

 tor to the local journals on scientific subjects, 

 and published several learned works, among 

 which was the Lord's Prayer and the Creed in 50 

 different languages ; he also invented a chrono- 

 astrolabe. which attracted the attention of the 

 most eminent astronomers. For many years 

 he labored in the prisons, instructing the in- 

 mates. He was a member of the British As- 

 sociation, and, his learning having attracted the 

 attention of Her Majesty, he was offered a pen- 

 sion of 100 yearly, and subsequently gave up 

 his appointment as teacher in the prisons, de- 

 voting himself entirely to literary and scientific 

 pursuits. He was a member of the Free Church 

 until 1861, when his views upon the subject of 

 baptism underwent a change, and he joined the 

 Baptist Congregation at Meadowside, publishing 

 soon after an able treatise on baptism in explana- 

 tion of his views. His library embraced all pe- 

 riods of history, in all languages. For many 

 years he had been specially interested in the 

 possibility of electrical communication through 

 water without wires, and in the preparation of 

 a dictionary in fifty languages, which, at the 

 time of his death, was nearly completed. 

 July 5. PASQUIER, Duke. (See PASQUIER.) 

 July 18. BERESFOBD, Lord J. G. (See BEB- 



K8FORD.) 



July 19. BEOKWITH, Major-General JOHN 

 CHARLES. (See BECKWITH.) 



July 22. BLIGHT, Kear Admiral WILLIAM, 

 died at Stonehouse, aged 77 years. He entered 

 the navy in 1793, and after a few months' 

 service as acting-lieutenant of the Prince 

 George, was transferred to the Britannia, in 

 which he served at the battle of Trafalgar. 

 He was next employed on the Santa Anna, and 

 successively on the Dreadnaught, Nereide, 

 Powerful, and the Queen Charlotte. In October, 

 1808, he assisted at the destruction of two 

 powerful pirate vessels, in the Persian Gulf, 

 having seven hundred men on board, and the 

 recapture of the H. E. L O.'s war cruiser, 

 Sylph. In 1821 he was promoted to the rank 

 of commander, and in 1828 was appointed to 

 the Britannia. In 1830 he attained post-rank, 

 accepted the retirement, 1850, and was ad- 

 vanced to the rank of rear-admiral on the re- 

 tired list, Sept. 27, 1855. 



July 30. TRAILL, Dr. THOMAS STEWART, 

 professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, died at his residence, in 

 Rutland Square, Edinburgh, aged 80 years. 

 He was a native of Kirkwall, in which parish 

 his father was a minister ; studied at the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh ; took his degree in 1801, 

 and in 1832 was appointed to the chair which 

 he held at his death. During his long incum- 

 bency he was enabled to deliver his lectures 

 regularly till within a few days of his death. 

 He fulfilled the duty of editor of the last edition 

 of the " Encyclopcedia Britannica" 



Aug. 8. McNAB, Sir ALLAN. (See McNAB.) 



Aug. 10. CORR, M. ERIN, member of the 

 Royal Academy of Belgium, died at Paris, aged 

 59 years. He was born at Brussels, and was 

 the son of an expatriated Irishman, who had 

 taken a part in the rebellion of 1798. As an 

 engraver he had obtained the highest European 

 reputation. His principal works are : the 

 " Saviour," from Leonardo da Vinci ; " Christ 

 upon the Cross," from Vandyke ; the " Queen 

 of Holland," from Scheffer; and "King Leo- 

 pold," from Woffers. He had but just com- 

 pleted his magnificent engraving on copper- 

 plate of Rubens' celebrated picture, "The De- 

 scent from the Cross," after ten years' severe 

 labor, and had gone to Paris to superintend the 

 first impressions, when he died. 



Aug. 16. NUGENT, Marshal, a distinguished 

 officer in the Austrian service, died at Croatia, 

 Austria, aged 85 years. He was a native of Ire- 

 land, but many members of his family bad long 

 been settled in Austria, and his father, Count 

 Nugent, was a well-known diplomatist. He en- 

 tered into the army quite young, and served in 

 the wars between Austria and France almost 

 from the beginning of the French Revolution. 

 He was long employed in Italy, under Radetsky, 

 also against the Hungarians in 1848-9, and closed 

 his military career at Solferino, after upward 

 of sixty years' service. He was highly honored 

 by the successive sovereigns, and made magnate 

 of Hungary, a Roman prince, knight of the 

 Golden Fleece, Councillor of State, Austrian 

 field marshal, &c. 



Aug. 20. RICARDO, JOHN LEWIS, M. P. for 

 Stoke-upon-Trent, died in Lowndes Square, 

 aged 50 years. He was born in 1812, and en- 

 tered Parliament in 1841. He was one of the 

 earliest advocates for free trade, and aided 

 materially in carrying the repeal of the 

 corn laws. In 1847 he moved for a com- 

 mittee upon Navigation Laws, and warm- 

 ly supported the repeal of the restrictions upon 

 shipping ; was the author of a work on that 

 subject, " The History and Anatomy of the Nav- 

 igation Laws," and devoted much attention to 

 the question of maritime rights in time of war. 

 It was mainly due to his efforts that the electric 

 telegraph was established on so firm and suc- 

 cessful a footing in England. For upward of 

 ten years he was chairman of the Electric Te- 

 legraph Company, and during that time worked 

 with untiring zeal and energy in developing all 

 its resources, and rendering it of greater benefit 

 to the civilized world, receiving upon his re- 

 tirement from the chair a valuable addition to 

 to his library of 1,000 volumes, as a testimony 

 of the attachment and respect of the officers 

 and employes of the company. He was also 

 chairman of several other companies, and for 

 many years a director of the London and West- 

 minster Bank. 



Aug. 25. BERKLEY, JAMES JOHN, chief en- 

 gineer of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, 

 died at .Sydenham, aged 42 years. He was an 

 intimate friend and associate of the late Robert 



