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nell for Pick, ring's A Mine edition of the Brit- 

 i.-li I WH. Ho was also a contributor to some 

 journals. 



Oct. 4. DUCIIESNE, Captain Ai.rnoNSE, an 

 eminent French naval commander; died at 

 iMiiiillmi, I!. L'iiim, whither he had repaired 

 for benefit to his health, aged 47 years. He 

 >orn in 1828, at (.'nui<h ille, a small port in 

 Normandy. Among the incidents in his nu- 

 in. TOUS voyages across the Atlantic, were the 

 collision of his vessel, the Vesta, with the 

 Aiik-rican steamship Arctic, and tho perilous 

 position of the Pereira in the storm of Janu- 

 ary 21, 1809, when his coolness largely con- 

 tributed to her safety. lie also commanded 

 the steamships Danube, Louisiana, Washing- 

 ton, and Europe. Captain Duchesne attained 

 the rank of Legion of Honor. 



Oct. 6. MATTHIESSEN, AUGUSTUS, Ph. D., nn 

 eminent chemist; died by suicide, aged 89 

 years. His earliest chemical successes were in 

 the preparation of metals from the alkaline 

 earths by new processes, and in quantities that 

 enabled him to determine a number of valua- 

 tions of their various properties, previously 

 known only indefinitely. In the fixing of dif- 

 ferent elements entering into calculations of 

 the conducting power of metals, Prof. Matthi- 

 essen's researches became of great practical as 

 well as scientific value. The laws thus de- 

 duced are now in constant use by practical 

 electricians in telegraphic estimates and process- 

 es. His most recent researches into the char- 

 acteristics of pure iron and its alloys have led 

 already to great metallurgic successes. The 

 circumstances of his death were peculiarly dis- 

 tressing an absurd charge had been brought 

 against him, though he was a man of unques- 

 tionable purity of character, and the shock to 

 his sensitive nature was so great that in a state 

 of sudden frenzy he took poison. 



Oct. 8. MATTEI, MARICS, Cardinal of the 

 Roman Catholic Church, and President of the 

 College of Cardinals, ranking next to the Pope ; 

 died at Rome, aged 78 years. He was born at 

 Pergola, Italy, September 6, 1792, was educat- 

 ed at Rome, entered the priesthood in 1814, 

 was created cardinal in July, 1832; he was 

 consecrated Bishop of Frascati, June 17, 1844; 

 Bishop of Perto, June 23, 1854 ; and Bishop of 

 Ostia and Villetri, in 1860. He was a great 

 favorite with Pope Pio Nono, and was by him 

 made dean of the College of Cardinals, arch- 

 priest of the basilica of the Vatican, prefect of 

 the congregation formed for tho preservation 

 of the Church of St. Peter, and private secre- 

 tary to his Holiness. 



Oct. 11. VAUGERON, KARL ADOLPH vox, J. 

 U. D., a German jurisconsult, professor, and 

 author; died at Heidelberg, Germany, aged 

 62 years. He was born at Schiffelbach, near 

 Marburg, in Electoral Hesse, Juno 5, 1808, was 

 educated at the University of Marburg, and in 

 1830 received his doctor's diploma, and imme- 

 diately took a position as a tutor or pritat- 

 docent in the faculty of law ; in 1838 he was 



appointed adjunct professor, and in 1837 full 

 or titular professor of law in the University 

 of Marburg. In 1840 he was chosen professor 

 of Roman Law in the I'nivcrMty of IK-idelberg, 

 and continued in that professorship till hm 

 death. In 1842 ho was appointed a councillor 

 of the court, and in 1849 privy councillor. 

 Hcrr von Vaugeron's greatest work is his 

 "Treatise on tho Pandects," in three volumes, 

 which has passed through many editions. JI<- 

 had also prepared a " Text-book," in three vol- 

 umes, on the Pandects, and several commen- 

 taries on particular codes of Roman law, and 

 numerous learned articles in the legal reviews, 

 of one of which, The Archives of Civil Pro- 

 cedure, he was one of the editors. 



Oct. 12. GRANIEK DE CASSAGNAC, PAUL DE, 

 a French journalist, editor of the Pays, a 

 violent and brutal Imperialist journal, but a 

 great favorite of Napoleon III., and in his suite 

 during the early part of the War of 1870; was 

 taken prisoner at Sedan, and died in a German 

 prison, aged 29 years. He was a son of the 

 veteran publicist, Adolphe de Granier de Cas- 

 sagnac, and entered upon his journalistic career 

 in 1866, first as assistant-editor, but soon as 

 editor-in-chief of tho Pays, which soon be- 

 came noted for its unscrupulous and often 

 scurrilous personal attacks on the editors of 

 all journals which presumed to oppose the Im- 

 perial Government. So violent were these at- 

 tacks that, from June 1867 to 1870, he was al- 

 most constantly engaged in duels or libel-suits 

 growing out of them. Some of these duels 

 were notorious for their ferocity, that with 

 Gustavo Flourens especially. It was in the 

 midst of these bloody strifes that the Emperor 

 saw fit, August 15, 1868, to single him out 

 among the Parisian journalists as worthy of 

 the decoration of the Legion of Honor, and 

 make him one of the chamberlains of the Em- 

 press. A year later he made a violent attack 

 in his journal on the Prince Napoleon Jerome, 

 which even the official journal was compelled 

 to rebuke. He was elected in July, 1869, a 

 member of the Council-General of Gens. After 

 the declaration of war, in July, 1870, his jour- 

 nal became even more furious and blood-thirsty 

 against the opposition than before. 



Oct. 18. YOUNG, Sir HENRY EDWARD Fox 

 KNIGHT, C. B. ; died in London, aged 60 years. 

 He was born in 1810, and held the posts of 

 Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 New Zealand, and a judgcship at St. Lucia, 

 lie was Governor of Tasmania from 1854 till 

 1801. 



Oct. 19. ROLPIIE, JOHN, M. D., a Canadian 

 physician of great ability ; died in Toronto, 

 ;ii:<-(l 84 years. He was born in England, in 

 1786, and emigrated to Canada at an early age. 

 Ho took an active part in the Canadian insur- 

 rection of 1837, and, being obliged to fly, lived 

 in Russia many years. After his return he 

 practised law and medicine, and was a mem- 

 ber of the Canadian Parliament. He spent 



