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OBITUARIES, EUROPEAN. 



May 4. CHRISTY, HENRY, F. R. G. S., F. G. S., 

 etc., an English antiquarian, naturalist, and 

 palaeontologist, died at La Palisse Allier, France, 

 aged 54 years. He was a native of Woodbines, 

 Kingston-upon-Thames. His early years were 

 devoted to business as a partner in a manufac- 

 turing interest, and afterwards he succeeded his 

 father as director of the London Joint Stock 

 Bank. Having a decidedly antiquarian taste, 

 he devoted much time to travel, for the purpose 

 of observing the primitive customs of the more 

 remote tribes 'of men, collecting arms, imple- 

 ments, dresses, and other relics, with great per- 

 severance and industry. His explorations ex- 

 tended throughout Mexico, a portion of the 

 United States, Canada, British Columbia, the 

 East, Algeria, an<l the north of Africa, Spain, 

 Italy, France, and the Scandinavian kingdoms, 

 and during his travels he established close and 

 intimate relations with the scientific men of the 

 countries which he visited. He made liberal 

 contributions to the British Museum and other 

 like institutions, and was ever ready to ad- 

 vance the interests of these departments of 

 science. Of late years his attention had been 

 more particularly directed to the discoveries 

 tending to prove the antiquity of man, and he 

 explored, at a considerable sacrifice of money 

 and time, the rock shelters that line the banks 

 of the Vezere, in Dordogne ; the results of 

 which discoveries were to be embodied in a 

 work of considerable extent. Mr. Christy's life 

 was consecrated to works of beneficence. The 

 starving poor of Ireland, the Arabs of Algeria, 

 the negroes of Africa, the Indians of the Brit- 

 ish North American colonies, the oppressed hi 

 Syria, and more recently the unfortunate Danes, 

 have reason to bless him as a benefactor. He 

 was a Fellow of most of the metropolitan scien- 

 tific societies. 



May 12. TREVELYAN, RALEIGH, an English 

 scholar and author, died at Netherwitton Hall, 

 Northumberland, aged 83 years. He was edu- 

 cated at Eton, and St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he graduated M. A. in 1807. In 

 1810 he was admitted to the bar of Lincoln's 

 Inn ; but on inheriting the family estates at the 

 death of his brother, he relinquished the active 

 duties of his profession. In politics he was a 

 staunch Conservative, as his published works 

 indicate, viz. : " Parliamentary and Legal Ques- 

 tions" (1832), and "Radical Sketches of Times 

 and Men, Political and Legal." He was also 

 the author of "Poems and Essays" (1819); "A 

 Poetical Sketch of the Ten Commandments, with 

 other Poems ; " " The Christian Inheritance, a 

 Sermon," and " Domestic Forms of Prayer for 

 Night and Morning." 



May 19. BIGG, JOHN STANYAN, an English 

 author, died at Ulverston, aged 36 years. He 

 spent some years in Ireland, during which ho 

 edited the ' Downshire Protestant ; " since 

 which he has resided in Ulverston, engaged in 

 editorial and literary work. He was better 

 known in this country by his " Night and the 

 Soul," a poem, which was republished here. 



May 30. KENNEDY, Sir JAMES SHAW, K. (J. 

 B., an eminent British officer, died at Bath, 

 England, aged 70 years. He was educated at 

 the Royal Military College, entered the army 

 in 1805, as ensign in the 43d regiment, served 

 in the siege of Copenhagen and battle of Kioge, 

 was severely wounded at the action of Almeida, 

 and won much distinction at the siege of Cin- 

 dad Rodrigo, and later, at the storming of Bad- 

 ajoz, the action of Salamanca, and the occupa- 

 tion of Madrid. He also shared in the glories 

 of "Waterloo, and, after the war was over, com- 

 manded at Calais, during the three years of the 

 army of occupation, the establishment formed 

 to keep up the communication between the 

 army and England. He served nine years as 

 assistant adjutant-general at Manchester, as- 

 sisted in organizing the constabulary force in 

 Ireland, and after attaining the rank of major- 

 general in 1846, was named by the Duke of 

 "Wellington to several very important com- 

 mands. Sir James was made general in 1862. 

 His " Notes on the Battle of Waterloo, and 

 Plan for the Defence of Canada," with a brief 

 memoir of his life and services, was published 

 in 1865. 



June 1. GREY, Right Hon. Sir CHARLES ED- 

 WARD, G. C. H., Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court of Bengal, died at Tunbridge Wells, aged 

 79 years. He was educated at University Col- 

 lege, Oxford, where he graduated in 1806. In 

 1811 he was called to the bar by the Society 

 of Lincoln's Inn. In 1820 he was knighted on 

 being appointed a judge of the Supreme Court 

 of Madras, and in 1825 was transferred to the 

 Chief-Justiceship of the Supreme Court of Ben 

 gal. In 1835 he was appointed Commissioner 

 for the affairs of Lower Canada, and on his re- 

 turn was made a Privy Councillor and received 

 the Hanoverian Order. He was Governor of 

 Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Trinidad, and Lucia, 

 from 1841 to 1846, when he was appointed 

 Governor of Jamaica. For a period of about 

 four years he represented the borough of Tyne- 

 mouth in the House of Commons. 



June 2. KENNEDY, W. DENHOLM, landscape 

 and figure painter, died at his residence, Soho- 

 square, London, aged 51 years. He was a na- 

 tive of Dumfries, Scotland ; received his early 

 education in drawing at the Edinburgh School 

 of Art, and at the London Academy, where he 

 won some honors, and in 1820 travelled in Rome. 

 The list of his works is very long, but among 

 the most important may be mentioned. " The 

 Italian Goat-herd," " Gil Bias," " The last of 

 all the Bards was he," and the " Wardens.'' 

 His representations of Italian scenes won him 

 great credit for their beauty and perfectness. 



June 8. PAXTON, Sir JOSEPH, M. P., an Eng- 

 lish architect, died at Rock Hill, Sydenliam. 

 aged 61 years. He was a native of Woburn. 

 where he was educated at the Free School, be- 

 came a gardener, and subsequently director of 

 the gardens and grounds at Chatsworth, ownM 

 by the Duke of Devonshire, and manager of 

 his Derbyshire estates. The grand conscrva- 



