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of much celebrity, died at Newcastle, aged 77 

 years. He was born at Chirton, near North 

 Shields, and early evincing some artistic talent, 

 was carefully educated for the profession to 

 which he devoted his life. Soon after attaining 

 his majority he travelled in England and France, 

 studying chnrch architecture, and immediately 

 after his return entered upon his work. As 

 his reputation began to extend beyond the 

 imits of his own country, he was called upon 

 to design houses, churches, and castles, in other 

 parts of England. The churches built from Mr. 

 Dobson's plans were numerous, and among 

 them may be mentioned that of St. Thomas, 

 Newcastle ; the Scottish church at North 

 Shields, in 1813 ; Gesmond church, at Monk- 

 wearmouth; Lynn church, at Warrington, 

 Cheshire; St. Stephen's, South Shields; St. 

 Mary's, Jarrow, and St. Mary's, Rye Hill ; be- 

 sides schools built, cemeteries laid out, etc. 

 The restoration of Lambton Castle for the Earl 

 of Durham affords an instance of his inventive 

 genius ; the graving-dock, at St. Peter's ship- 

 yard, his talent as engineer, and the Central 

 Railway-station at New Castle, his taste and 

 skill as a designer. Mr. Dobson was also em- 

 ployed extensively by the Government on the 

 Custom-houses at Glasgow, Newcastle, and 

 Liverpool. The Royal Arcade, Newcastle, 

 was from his designs, and he also executed sev- 

 eral important hydraulic works. The result 

 of his many years of industry and devotion to 

 his department of art, will long afford a pleas- 

 ing study for the profession in which he had 

 attained the front rank. 



Jan. 9. SZEMERE, BERTALAN, a Hungarian 

 statesman and author, died at Paris, aged 53 

 years. He was a native of Borsod County, re- 

 ceived his early education at Miskolcz and Kaz- 

 mark, and took a course of philosophical and 

 legal studies at Patak and Presburg. In 1836-'7 

 he travelled over a large portion of Europe, and 

 subsequently held various public offices in his 

 native country. He was appointed Minister of 

 the Interior in the Batthyanyi cabinet, being 

 also elected representative of Borsod in the 

 national assembly of Pesth, officiated for some 

 months as commissary of the revolutionary 

 government in Upper Hungary, and on the 

 declaration of independence in Debreczin, was 

 chosen by Kossuth President of the new min- 

 istry, with the portfolio of the Interior. He 

 opposed the transfer of dictatorial power to 

 Gorgey, and after the surrender of the latter, 

 escaped to Constantinople, and thence went to 

 Paris, where he resided until his death. In 

 exile he published, besides some minor writings, 

 L. Batthydnyi, A. Gorgci, und L. JZbssuth, and 

 " Hungary from 1848 to 1860." 



Jan. 9. Don, ROBERT PHIPPS, compiler of 

 the "Parliamentary Companion," and "Peer- 

 age and Baronetage," died at Nant Issa-hall, 

 near Oswestry, Shropshire, from the effects of 

 an accident while shooting. 



Jan. 10. ILCUESTER, WILLIAM THOMAS HOR- 

 SES FOX-STRANGWAYS, fourth Earl of, died at 



Melbury-house, Dorset, aged 69 years. He 

 was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and be- 

 fore quitting the University entered the diplo- 

 matic service. In 1816 he was attached to the 

 embassy at St. Petersburg ; at Constantinople, 

 1820 ; and at Naples, 1822. In 1824 he was 

 appointed attache" at the Hague; in 1825 secre- 

 tary of legation at Florence; in 1828 held the 

 same office at Naples ; in 1832 was secretary of 

 embassy at Vienna ; in 1835 was under-Secre- 

 tary of State at the Foreign Office ; and envoy 

 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at 

 Frankfort-on-the-Main, from August, 1840, to 

 1849, when he retired upon a pension. He was 

 a man of highly cultivated mind, and displayed 

 a great fondness for horticultural pursuits. 



Jan. 10. CAMEROX, Rev. CHARLES RICHARD, 

 rector of Swaby, died at Swaby, Lincolnshire, 

 aged 85 years. He was educated at Christ 

 Church, Oxford, and was the author of several 

 sermons and pamphlets, among which are 

 "Lectures on Confirmations;" "A Sermon on 

 the Death of Nelson ;" " Sayings and Doings of 

 Popery ;" " A Letter to Mr. Whitmore on the 

 Corn Laws;" "A Pamphlet on the Sabbath 

 Question, addressed to Archbishop Whately ;" 

 "Parochial Sermons;" "On the Antichrist of 

 St. John;" "On the Revolutions of 1848;" and 

 a " Poem on the New Moral World against So- 

 cialism." 



Jan. 15. HOARE, Venerable CHARLES JAMES, 

 Archdeacon of Surrey, died at Goldstone, aged 

 83 years. He was privately educated, and was 

 admitted a pensioner of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, from which he graduated with high 

 honors in 1803. In 1806 he was elected a Fel- 

 low of his College, and the following year was 

 presented to the Vicarage of Blandford Forum, 

 in Dorsetshire, and in 1821 to the Vicarage of 

 Godstone. In 1829 he was promoted to the 

 Archdeaconry of Winchester; and in 1831 to a 

 canonry in that cathedral. In 1847 he was 

 translated to the Archdeaconry of Surrey, 

 which he resigned in 1860, on account of fail- 

 ing health, consequent upon his great age. 

 Among his many publications may be men- 

 tioned : " Seven Charges as Archdeacon of 

 Winchester, with Notes ;" " The Course of Di- 

 vine Judgments ; eight Lectures, principally in 

 reference to the Present Times, and the impend- 

 ing Pestilence" (1832); "Memoir, with Re- 

 mains of the Rev. Charles John Paterson;" 

 " Tendency of Principles in Tracts for the 

 Times " (1841) ; "Baptism, or the Ministration 

 of Public Baptism of Infants, to be read in the 

 Church, Scripturally illustrated and explained ;" 

 " Holy Scriptures and Essays," besides many 

 other sermons and theological essays. 



Jan. 15. RITCHIE, LEITCH, an English editor 

 and novelist, formerly one of the editors of 

 " Chambers' Cyclopedia," died at Edinburgh, 

 aged 64 years. He was a native of Greenock, 

 and early entered a banking-house in his native 

 town, but subsequently went to London, where 

 he became an author by profession, editinir in 

 succession, ' The Englishman's Magazine," " The 



