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thor; died in England, ngod 04 years. He was 

 Imni in 1806, entered into business as a book- 

 seller, at Oxford, in 1832, and in 1868 n-tiiv.l 

 in favor of his son. A largo portion of his timo 



levotodto archaeological studies, in which 

 he obtained great distinction, and his "Glos- 

 sary of Architecture," which was first pub- 



1 in 1836, and passed through many edi- 

 tions since that time, is considered the best 

 text-book on the subject in existence. Ho was 

 for many years tho publisher of, and a large 

 contributor to, the Gentleman's Magazine. 

 His artirleion antiquarian subjectswere among 

 tin- most valuable contributions to archaeologi- 

 cal science in tho magazine. lie also pub- 

 lished, for several years, tho London Saturday 



May . UBQUIZA, Don JCBTE Josfi E, an 

 Argentine general, dictator, and acting Presi- 

 dent of the Confederation, born in 1800, in the 

 province of Entre Rios ; died in Entre Rios, in 

 May, 1870. He was of the Gaucho stock, and 

 came to the surface as a commander of troops 

 under Rosas, in his protracted war against the 

 citios of the Confederation. In 1842 he was 

 appointed Governor of Entre Rios, and soon 

 after, under the orders of General Oribe, in- 

 vaded Uruguay, and, though at first defeated 

 by the Unitarian General Ribera, he finally 

 overcame him and put his army to rout in 

 1845, at India Muerte. He remained faithful 

 to Rosas until 1851, when, the tyrant having 

 renewed his oft-repeated farce of abdicating, 

 Urquiza took him at his word, and, having con- 

 tracted a treaty with Brazil and Uruguay, 

 against Rosas and Oribe, he compelled the 

 latter to capitulate on the 8th of October, 1851, 

 and, crossing the Parana, attacked Rosas on the 

 3d of February,. 1852, at Santos Lugares, and 

 defeated him so signally as to put an end to 

 his bloody dictatorship. It was now his turn 

 to rule, and, amid the anarchy and confusion 

 which followed, he found it no easy task. He 

 refused to accept the title of President, though 

 ho was the actual ruler ; but, having appointed 

 Don Vincent de Lopez provisory president of 

 the Republic of Buenos Ayres, and convoked a 

 Congress of all the Governors of the provinces 

 to form a definitive Constitution for the Ar- 

 gentine Republic, ho contented himself with 

 being General-in-Chief and Minister of Foreign 

 Aftairs. The Congress elected him provisory 

 governor of the republic, but Buenos Ayres, 

 disliking his federalist opinions and his devo- 

 tion to tho other provinces, revolted, and, pro- 

 claiming itself independent, chose Alsina Cap- 

 tain-General. Urquiza attempted the reduc- 

 tion of the city with a strong force in the 

 winter of 1852-'53 ; but the treachery of his 

 chief of staff compelled him to raise the siege 

 just as it was on the point of succeeding. For 

 the next six years he was Director of the other 

 thirteen States of the Confederation, having 

 been elected to that office by the Congress of 

 Santa F6.in 1853. His measures were gener- 

 ally judicious, and seem to have been prompted 



by a desire for the promotion of tho interests 

 of the nation. After retiring from the director- 

 ship ho was again appointed General-in-Chief 

 of tho Confederation, and again attempted 

 the reduction of Buenos Ayres. Defeated by 

 General Mitro. ho entered into a treaty of 

 peace, and, resigning his office, became in 1862 

 Governor of the province of Entre Rios. In 

 1868 ho was a candidate for tho presidency of 

 the Confederation, but was defeated by the 

 election of Don D. F. Sarmiento. , From that 

 timo ho took but little part in public affairs. 



June 27. BABBES, ABMAND, a French revo- 

 lutionist ; died in Paris. He was born in the 

 Island of Guadaloupe, and when young was 

 left by his father's death possessed of a largo 

 fortune. Having arrived in France in 1830, 

 all tho circumstances of tho period favored the 

 development of his revolutionary disposition. 

 Ho became an active member of the secret re- 

 publican associations, and underwent a year's 

 imprisonment for privately manufacturing gun- 

 powder. In 1839 ho made, in company with 

 other daring associates, an audacious attempt 

 at insurrection. They first attacked and car- 

 ried a police-station. During the conflict, 

 Lieutenant Drouineau, who commanded the 

 post, fell mortally wounded: Barbes, who 

 was also wounded, was arrested, tried, con- 

 victed of murder, and sentenced to death. At 

 the last moment, when he had already tak- 

 en leave of his friends, his sentence was com- 

 muted by the king. Liberated by the Revolu- 

 tion of 1848, he again engaged in revolutionary 

 projects, and under the Provisional Govern- 

 ment was condemned to banishment for life. 

 When the Russian War commenced, he cori- 

 sidered that he was called upon to sustain his 

 own country by giving his adhesion to the Im- 

 perial Government. This secured his pardon 

 from Napoleon III., and his subsequent life 

 was unimportant. 



June 28. HALE, Venerable WILLIAM, Arch- 

 deacon of London ; died in that city, aged 75 

 years. He was born about 1795, was educated 

 at the Charterhouse and at Oriel College, Ox- 

 ford ; became preacher of the Charterhouse in 

 1823 ; chaplain to the Bishop of London and 

 Master of the Charterhouse in 1842 ; Rector 

 of Cripplegate in 1847 ; Archdeacon of St. Al- 

 bans in 1839 ; of Middlesex in 1840, and of 

 London in 1842. In 1857 he resigned his liv- 

 ing of Cripplegate. Archdeacon Hale was the 

 author of a number of pamphlets, tracts, ser- 

 mons, etc., mostly on ecclesiastical subjects ; 

 of "Some Account of the Hospital of King 

 Edward VI., called Christ's Hospital," "Some 

 Account of the Past History and Present Con- 

 dition of the Charterhouse;" edited, in connec- 

 tion with Dr. Lonsdale, tho Four Gospels, with 

 annotations, and several devotional works. He 

 also contributed to tho Encyclopaedia, Mctro- 

 politana, and prepared for the Camden Society 

 two works of great antiquarian interest, " The 

 Doomsdays of St. Paul" in 1858, and "Regis- 

 trum Privatus S. Mario Wigoniensis." 



