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liia humorous songs, delivered with an inimita- 

 lu-it y, were very popular, and tho copy- 

 rL-lit on them, together with his salary as an 

 actor, enabled him to amass a fine fortune. 



. 15. BECKS, Baron FKANZ VON, Austri- 

 an Minister of Finance; died at Vienna. Ho 

 was Minister of Commerce and Agriculture 

 for Cis-leithan Austria, from April 24 to De- 

 cember 29, 18C7, and nominated Minister of 

 Finance for tho whole Empire, December 29, 

 186T. 



Jan. 15. MADDOCK, Sir THOMAS HERBERT, 

 formerly Deputy-Governor of Bengal, and 

 Pivsidont of the Council of India; died in 

 London, aged 77 years. He was born in 1792, 

 entered the East India service in the Bengal 

 presidency, in 1811, was appointed assistant 

 to the magistrate of Moorshedabad, in 1815, 

 and having held some other political and finan- 

 cial appointments, including the secretaryship 

 of the Government of India in the Legislative, 

 Judicial, Revenue, and Foreign Departments, 

 was knighted by patent, in 1844. He was 

 Deputy-Governor of Bengal, and President of 

 the Council of India, from 1845-1849, and was 

 one of the members of Parliament in the con- 

 servative interest for Rochester from July, 

 1852, till March, 1857. 



Jan. 16. WESTERMANN, ANTOINE, Ph. D., a 

 German philologist ; died at Leipsic, Saxony, 

 aged 64 years. He was educated at the Uni- 

 versity of Leipsio. In 1830 he was appointed 

 lecturer, in 1832 adjunct professor, and in 1834 

 Professor of History and Ancient Literature. 

 He was one of the founders of the Society of 

 Sciences at Leipsic, in 1846, and author of a 

 " History of Eloquence in Greece and Rome," 

 in two vols., 1833-1835, and also of several 

 other works on classic philology and litera- 

 ture. 



Jan. 17. MURRAY, LEIGH, a successful co- 

 median of London ; died there, aged 49 years. 

 His first appearance was at the Princess's 

 Theatre, in 1845, and attended with great 

 success. He maintained a high position for a 

 period of twenty years, after which he retired 

 from the stage. 



Jan. 24. BAILEY, SAMUEL, a philosophical 

 and politico-economical writer; died in Lon- 

 don, aged 78 years. He was the author of 

 "Essays on the Formation of Opinions," and 

 also of works on metaphysics, political econo- 

 my, finance, government, and abstract science. 

 He established the Banking Company in Shef- 

 field, in 1831, of which he was made chair- 

 man. 



Jan. 25. DARLING, Sir CHARLES HENRY, 

 K. C. B. ; died in London, aged 60 years. He 

 was for many years in the British colonial 

 service, having been Lieutenant-Governor of 

 St. Lucia, Cape of Good Hope, Newfound- 

 land, Jamaica, and New South Wales. 



Jan. 81. CASTANON, GONZALEZ, a Spanish 

 journalist; was killed in a rencontre at Key 

 West. He was editor of a Havana newspaper, 

 the Yoz de Cuba, and had repaired to Key 



West in accordance with a challenge from the 

 oditor of the Itcjtullican, published in that 

 place. Upon meeting, a violent altercation 

 ensued, and a party of Cubans, threatening 

 vengeance, stirred up a fight, during which 

 Castanon was killed and several Cubans 

 wounded. His death was made a pretext for 

 a terrible massacre of Cubans in Havana, in 

 which about three hundred and fifty were 

 killed. 



Feb. 2. WYNDHAM, Sir CHARLES ASHE, K. 

 0. B., a Lieutenant-General in tho British 

 Army; died at Jacksonville, Fla., aged 60 

 years. Ho was born in 1810, entered the 

 Coldstream Guards in 1826, and became 

 colonel in June, 1854. On the breaking out 

 of the Russian War he was appointed Assistant 

 Quartermaster-General to the Fonrth Division, 

 and was soon after placed in command of a 

 brigade of the Second Division. He distin- 

 guished himself at the battle of Inkerman, as 

 well as at the taking of the Redan. For 

 gallantry on that occasion he was promoted 

 major-general, and made chief-of-staff. In 

 1857 he was elected member of Parliament 

 from East Norfolk, in tho Liberal interest, and 

 in the same year was sent to India to aid in 

 the suppression of the mutiny, where he took 

 an active part in the campaign under Lord 

 Clyde. He was made a K. C. B. in 1865, and 

 at the time of his death was a lieutenant- 

 general in the army, and colonel of the Forty- 

 sixth Regiment. 



Feb. 7. OVIEDO, Don ESTEBAN SANTA CRUZ 

 DE, a wealthy Cuban; died in Havana. He 

 was known to the public as the bridegroom of 

 the famous Diamond Wedding. In 1859 he 

 married the young daughter of a merchant in 

 New York, and the bridal trousseau, as well 

 as all tho wedding outfit and ceremonial, was 

 on a scale of extravagant expenditure previ- 

 ously unknown in this country. He was many 

 years older than his bride, and his estate, not- 

 withstanding heavy losses in the revolution, 

 was very large. 



Feb. 12. SOFBLETTE, CARLOS, a Venezuelan 

 statesman and diplomatist; died at Caracas, 

 Venezuela, aged about 70 years. He distin- 

 guished himself in the war for independence 

 in the South-American provinces against 

 Spain, and had been Secretary of War, Secre- 

 tary of State, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 

 Secretary of Finance, and President of the Re- 

 public of Venezuela from 1842 to 1846. He had 

 also been ambassador to England, France, and 

 Spain. 



Feb. 19. ROTHSCHILD, NATHANIEL, Baron ; 

 died in Paris, aged 58 years. He was the 

 third son of Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild; 

 was born in 1812, and in 1842 married his 

 cousin Charlotte, daughter of Baron James 

 Rothschild. For many years he was blind, 

 and recently paralyzed. 



March 8. MOSCHELEB, IGXACE, a German 

 pianist, professor, and composer, died at Leip- 

 sic, aged 76 years. Ho was born at Prague, 



