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OBITUARIES. 



the Roman Catholic clergy. In 1851 he re- 

 signed his seat on account of the failure of his 

 health. In 1857 he was appointed lieut.-col. 

 commandant of the Duke of Lancaster's Own 

 Yeomanry Militia. One of his latest acts was 

 the gift of 1,000 for the relief of the prevail- 

 ing distress in Lancashire and Cheshire, owing 

 to the " cotton famine." 



Sept. 22. JOMABD, EDM FRANCOIS, surnamed 

 de VInstitut, died at Paris, aged 85 years. He 

 was one of the earliest pupils of the Polytech- 

 nic School, and was appointed a member of the 

 scientific commission which accompanied Bona- 

 parte to Egypt in 1798. Upon his return to 

 France he was sent on a topographical mission 

 to the Upper Palatinate, but returned to Paris 

 in order to aid and superintend the preparation 

 of the DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE, upon which 

 he was engaged nearly eighteen years. He 

 was mainly instrumental in introducing into 

 France the Lancasterian system of education, 

 though he had to contend with much opposi- 

 tion. Having obtained the favor of Mehemet 

 Ali, he induced the pasha to send a number of 

 young Egyptians to study in Paris, forming 

 thus what was called the Institut des Egyp- 

 tien, which was placed under his particular 

 direction. For his services the successor of 

 Mehemet Ali appointed him his scientific cor- 

 respondent and granted him the honorary title 

 of bey. He was the author of many works on 

 geography, archaeology, education, &c. 



Sept. 22. HAMEL, Dr. JOSEPH, member of 

 the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Peters- 

 burg, died at his residence in Duke street, St. 

 James, aged 74 years. He was born in Sarepta 

 on the Volga, in Russia. In 1807 he distin- 

 guished himself by the invention of an electri- 

 cal machine,and in 1813, after having completed 

 his studies, he was named by the Emperor Al- 

 exander member of the Academy of Medicine. 

 Having made a tour through England, he was 

 afterward appointed to accompany the Grand 

 Duke Nicholas, during his visit to England in 

 1815, and in 1818 discharged the same duties 

 toward the younger brother, the Grand Duke 

 Michael. In 1820 he made the well-known 

 ascent of Mont Blanc, where he lost several of 

 his guides. In 1821 he returned to Russia and 

 was attached to the suite of the governor- 

 general of Moscow. In 1828 he was elected a 

 member of the Imperial Academy. It was 

 through his exertions that the Lancasterian 

 system of education was introduced into Russia, 

 and also that the first industrial exhibition took 

 place at Moscow. He took a lively interest in 

 the progress of the arts, and visited all the 

 great exhibitions in France and England, and 

 also that in New York in 1854. He was the 

 author of a history of the steam engine and of 

 the electric telegraph both of which are very 

 complete and full of interest in a scientific 

 point of view. 



Sept. 25. THOMPSON PISHEY, an English au- 

 thor, died at Stoke Newington, aged 78 years. 

 He was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng. In 



1820 he published his " Collections for a Topo- 

 graphical and Historical Account of Boston,and 

 the Hundred of Skirbeck." He afterward 

 emigrated to this country, where he resided 

 for many years obtaining the friendship and 

 esteem of several of the most eminent literary 

 men in the New England States and Washing- 

 ton. Upon his return to England he com- 

 menced the preparations for his complete His- 

 tory of Boston, which was published about six 

 years since. He was .also the author of several 

 pamphlets, and was a frequent contributor to 

 newspapers both in England and in this coun- 

 try. He was thoroughly conversant with al- 

 most every branch of science and art, but so 

 modest in his estimate of his own acquirements 

 that none but those who knew him well could 

 form any idea of the extent of his research and 

 knowledge. 



Oct. 3. DUNDAS, Admiral Sir JAMES TV. 

 DEANS, G. C. B., died at Weymouth, aged 76 

 years. He entered the navy in 1799, as first- 

 class volunteer on board the " Kent." In Nov. 

 1802, he was present at a skirmish with the 

 French 74 gun ship " Duguay Trouin," also at the 

 blockade of Rochefort; served successively on 

 the " Monarch " and " Cambrian," and in 1806, 

 was promoted as commander of the "Rosa- 

 mond," employed in attendance on the British 

 ambassador to the King of Sweden at the siege 

 of Stralsund. He subsequently distinguished 

 himself in the command of the " Stately," " Ven- 

 erable " and " Pyramus," in the latter of which 

 he captured two privateers. In 1815, he joined 

 the " Tagus " in the Mediterranean, and after- 

 ward served under Rear- Admiral Sir William 

 Parker on the Lisbon station. In Dec. 1852, 

 he became vice-admiral and was appointed 

 to the " Britannia " as commander-in-chief of 

 the Mediterranean and Black Sea fleet. He 

 was a whig in politics, and the first represen- 

 tative of the borough of Greenwich after the 

 passing of the Reform Act. 



Oct. 6. SMITH, Capt. WILLIAM, R. N., died 

 at Berwick-on-Tweed, aged 71 years. He 

 entered the navy in 1806, and served on the 

 " Shannon." In the memorable action between 

 that ship and the "Chesapeake" he was 

 stationed with five men in the maintop of the 

 " Shannon" and at their head, ran along the 

 main yard, which was braced, and boarded the 

 foretop of the " Chesapeake." For this he 

 obtained the rank of lieutenant. He distin- 

 guished himself again in the Burmese war in 

 1825-26, when serving in the "Boadicea." In 

 1826, he was appointed commander, and sub- 

 sequently had command of the " Philomel " 

 and " Syren," in the latter serving in the East 

 Indies from 1841 to 1844. 



Oct. 7. WARD, FREDERICK TOWNSEND, Ad- 

 miral Gen., was killed during an engagement 

 near Ningpo between the Taepings and the 

 European allied army. He was born in Salem, 

 Mass., in Nov. 1831, and was educated at the 

 Salem High School. During the Crimean war 

 he was a lieutenant in the French service. 



