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born in Scotland, ordained to the second charge 

 tit' tiio abbey in 1817, and, upon tho death of 

 the Jlev. Alexander McLean, was appointed to 

 tlio first charge. I>r. Clialmera was a fine 

 ieal scholar. He \\ .-i- tho author of a 

 History of Dunfermlino," and for an article 

 in the "Statistical Account of Scotland" re- 

 eeivod a silver jug from the Highland Society. 



April 13. TENTEHDEN, JOHN HENRY ABBOTT, 

 second Baron, an English peer ; died in London, 

 aged 74 years. Ho was tho son of Chief- Jus- 

 tice Abbott, afterward tho first Lord Tenter- 

 den, of tho Court of King's Bench, and was 

 born in London in 1790. He was educated 

 at Oxford, and took a prominent part in poli- 

 tics in the Conservative interest. In 1832, on 

 the death of his father, he succeeded to tho 

 peerage, and in the House of Lords was known 

 for almost forty years for his rigid adherence 

 to the Conservative party. He was unmarried, 

 and his title and estate descend to his nephew, 

 Charles Stuart Aubrey Abbott. 



April 20. MOORE, GEORGE HENRY, M. P., 

 an eminent Irish patriot and orator ; died of 

 apoplexy, in the British House of Commons, 

 aged 59 years. He was born at Moore Hall, 

 County Mayo, Ireland, educated at Oscott Col- 

 lege and Christ's College, Cambridge, and en- 

 tered Parliament for the county of Mayo in 

 1847, in the Conservative interest. He took 

 a prominent part in the tenant-right agita- 

 tion, and was one of the leaders in the Inde- 

 pendent Opposition party, which was formed 

 to wrest liberal measures from the Govern- 

 ment by opposing all political parties in tho 

 British Parliament who refused to make ten- 

 ant right a Cabinet measure. He continued 

 to represent Mayo until 1857, when he was un- 

 seated on petition, since which time he had 

 retired from public life, until in 1868 he was 

 again elected to Parliament. His many and 

 strong pleas in behalf of Ireland and her im- 

 poverished patriots rendered him exceedingly 

 popular among his countrymen. At heart he 

 was an intense nationalist, firmly convinced 

 that Ireland could derive no good from the 

 English Parliament, and disposed to tolerate 

 British power only until it could be over- 

 thrown. The coercion act recently passed 

 met with a vigorous opposition from him, and 

 roused the feeling that defiance alone remained 

 for the Irish people. 



April 24. COSTELLO, Miss LOUISA STUART, 

 an artist and author ; died in Boulogne, 

 France, aged 55 years. She was born in Ire- 

 land, in 1815, but about the year 1835 settled 

 in London, and for a time supported herself by 

 miniature-painting, but, her pen proving more 

 remunerative than her pencil, she abandoned 

 har art and devoted herself thenceforth to 

 writing. The first work by which she became 

 known to the public was a volume of poems 

 published in 1835. This was followed by sev- 

 eral books of travels descriptive of various sec- 

 tions of the Continent. In 1841 she published 

 the historical romance called " The Queen's 



Prisoner, or the Queen Mother," tho most 

 prominent eharactor being the well-known 

 Catharine de Medici. Toward tho close of 

 1844 tho " Memoirs of Celebrated English Wo- 

 men," commencing with tho Countess of 

 Shrewsbury, and closing with Lady Mary 

 Wortloy Montagu, was issued. The follow- 

 ing year, the " Rose Garden of Peruia," a 

 work consisting of translated specimens and 

 biographical notices of the most remarkable 

 among the Persian poets, appeared. Among 

 her biographical works are " Memoirs of Mary, 

 the Young Duchess of Burgundy," 1863; and 

 " Anne of Brittany," 1855. Miss Costello was 

 well known as a song-writer, and of late years 

 contributed to periodical literature. 



April 26. BLAAUW, WILLIAM HENBY, F. 8. 

 A., an eminent English antiquarian ; died in Sus- 

 sex, aged 76 years. He was born in 1793, and 

 was educated at Eton, and Christ Church, Ox- 

 ford, where he graduated in 1813. He was a 

 magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Sussex, 

 served as High-Sheriff for that county, was an 

 accomplished antiquary, and one of tho found- 

 ers of the Sussex Archaeological Society. Mr. 

 Blnauw was the author of an interesting histor- 

 ical treatise, entitled " The Barons' War," in- 

 cluding the "Battles of Evesham," published in 

 1844, and of smaller papers of an antiquarian 

 character, published anonymously. 



April 80. COOK, Monseigneur THOMAS, Ro- 

 man Catholic Bishop of Three Rivers, Canada, 

 since 1852; died in Montreal, aged 78 years. 



April 30. DEMIDOFF DE SAN DONATO, 

 Prince ANATOLE, a Russian nobleman and au- 

 thor ; died in Paris, aged 58 years. He was 

 born in Florence, in 1812, and was the son of 

 the famous Prince and General Nicolas Demi- 

 doff, from whom he inherited an enormous 

 fortune. He devoted himself to literary and 

 scientific pursuits, and in 1839 wrote a work 

 describing his travels in Southern Russia, in 

 which he was assisted by several French schol- 

 ars and artists who accompanied him. In 1841 

 he married the Princess Mathilde, daughter of 

 Jerome Bonaparte, a marriage displeasing to 

 the Emperor Nicholas, at first, on religious 

 grounds, as the princess was a Roman Catho- 

 lic, and the prince a member of the Greek 

 Church, but, after hearing tho prince's explana- 

 tions, he gave it his sanction. The union, how- 

 ever, proved infelicitous, and four years later 

 they separated by mutual consent, the princess 

 receiving the annual sum of $150,000. Princo 

 Demidoff made liberal nse of his immense 

 wealth, constructed works of public utility, and 

 contributed largely to benevolent institutions. 

 He owned the celebrated Sanci diamond, 

 which he purchased in 1835 for $400,000. 



April . NIEPCE DE ST. VICTOR, CLAUDE 

 MARIE FRANCOIS, a chemist and photographer ; 

 died in Paris. He was born at St. Cyr, July 

 26, 1805, and educated in the military school 

 of Sanmnr, from which he graduated in 1827. 

 In 1842, while a lieutenant of dragoons, ho was 

 led to make researches relative to the rcstora- 



