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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



May 80, 1794, of Jewish parentage, and com- 

 menced bis musical studies in his native city 

 under Denis Weber, the director of the Musi- 

 cal Conservatory of Prague. He possessed a 

 remarkable facility for the acquisition of the 

 most difficult pieces of instrumentation, and 

 made his appearance in public concerts while 

 yet a child, where he was warmly applauded 

 for his skill as a player. He continued his 

 studies under Albrechtsberger and De Salieri, 

 and, when but little more than twenty years of 

 age, gave a series of concerts in the cities of 

 Germany and Holland. In 1820 he visited 

 Paris, and the next year took up his residence 

 in London, where he was appointed a professor 

 in the Academy of Music. He remained there 

 attracting numerous pupils, till 1846, when the 

 directorship of the Leipsic Royal Conservatory 

 of Music, the great prize of the musical world, 

 was offered him and accepted. He remained 

 there till his death, rendering great services to 

 the cause of musical education. Among his 

 pupils were Thalberg and Mendelssohn. Herr 

 Moscheles is reckoned as one of the founders 

 of the modern school of the piano. His style 

 of playing was very brilliant, but free from 

 the fantastical manner of some modern players. 

 He had a very high reputation as a composer 

 as well as an author of excellent books of 

 method and instruction. His concertos, sona- 

 tas, fantasias, variations, and piano studies, are 

 highly prized by the best musical artists. His 

 "Method of Methods for the Piano" is re- 

 garded as the best German work of instruc- 

 tion. 



March 13. BBOTTGH, WILLIAM, a comedian 

 and writer of burlesque comedy ; died in Eng- 

 land, aged 44 years. He wrote numerous ex- 

 travaganzas, comedies, and farces, many of 

 which achieved a wide popularity, and was 

 also a contributor to English periodical litera- 

 ture. He was the founder of the comic paper 

 Diogenes. 



March 1C. BARBADOES, Right Rev. THOMAS 

 PARRY, D. D., Bishop of; died in England, 

 aged 75 years. He was born in Denbigh- 

 shire in 1795, educated at Oriel College, Ox- 

 ford, where he graduated with high honors, 

 and thence was elected to a Fellowship at Ba- 

 liol College. He held the incumbency of St. 

 Leonard's, Colchester, previous to 1824, when 

 he was appointed Archdeacon of Antigua, 

 West Indies, whence he was transferred as 

 archdeacon to Barbadoes in 1840. In 1842 he 

 was consecrated second Bishop of Barbadoes. 

 Dr. Parry was the author of some able and 

 learned expositions of the Epistles of St. Paul 

 to the Romans, Hebrews, etc., "Christian 

 Stewardship," " Christ and His Adversaries," 

 and some other works. 



March 19. LOUSADA, FRANCIS, British Con- 

 sal for Massachusetts and Rhode Island since 

 1859 ; died in Boston, aged 54 years. 



March 31. GRET, General CHARLES, private 

 secretary to Queen Victoria, and formerly to 

 Prince Albert ; died in London, aged 66 years. 



He was the second son of Earl Grey, Premier 

 under William IV., and was born in 1804, en- 

 tered the army in 1820, and in 1831 was re- 

 turned to Parliament in the Liberal interest 

 for High Wycombe. On the accession of the 

 Queen to the throne, he was made one of her 

 equerries, and from 1849 to 1861 acted as pri- 

 vate secretary to Prince Albert. On the death 

 of the Prince-Consort he was made private 

 secretary to the Queen, and in 1866 was ap- 

 pointed one of keepers of the privy purse. 



April 6. KESLEB, HENEI DE, a French re- 

 publican and exile ; died at Hauteville House, 

 Guernsey. He was a bosom friend of Victor 

 Hugo, and one of the heroes of the barricade 

 in 1851, and had been an exile from that period. 

 He was educated a royalist and a Catholic, .but 

 threw off the principles of his youth, and was 

 thenceforth firm in his adherence to his adopted 

 opinions. 



April 7. BONER, CHARLES, an English au- 

 thor, journalist, and translator; died at Mu- 

 nich. He was of English birth, and went to 

 Germany as tutor to the family of the Prince 

 of Thurn and Taxis, and finally settled in Mu- 

 nich. He was the author of " Christmas Hunt- 

 ing in the Mountains of Bavaria," and trans- 

 lator of Hans Christian Andersen's stories. 

 He also contributed to various English and 

 American journals, having been at one time a 

 Vienna correspondent. 



April 8. MORRISON, DANIEL, a journalist ; 

 died in Toronto, Canada, aged 48 years. He 

 was born in Scotland, emigrated to America in 

 1850, and was engaged on Canadian periodi- 

 cals from that time until 1861, when he re- 

 moved to New- York City, and was for a short 

 time a contributor to the "New American 

 Cycloposdia." Afterward he obtained a situa- 

 tion upon the New- York Times, with which he 

 was connected till 1867, when he went to To- 

 ronto as editor of the Daily Telegraph. 



April 12. BERIOT, CHARLES AUGUSTS DE, a 

 celebrated Belgian violinist ; died at Brussels, 

 aged 68 years. He was born at Louvain, Bel- 

 gium, February 20, 1802 ; studied music there 

 until 1821, when he went to Paris in order 

 to receive instruction under Viotti, Baillot, and 

 other celebrated masters. He made his first 

 appearance before a Parisian audience at the 

 same time with Paganini, and subsequently 

 won a high reputation in London, receiving 

 the appointment of first violin in the Royal 

 Orchestra with a pension of two thousand flo- 

 rins. In March, 1836, he married the cele- 

 brated Madame Malibran, one of the most emi- 

 nent of modern prima donnas in Italian opera. 

 In 1842 he was appointed professor to _ the 

 Conservatoire at Brussels, where he trained 

 Leonard, Vieuxtemps, Ghys, Prume, and others 

 who have since become famous. During the 

 latter part of his life he was afflicted with 

 blindness. 



April 12. CHALMERS, Rev. PETER, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, antiquarian, and au- 

 thor ; died at Dunfermline, Scotland. He was 



