596 OBITUARIES, FOREIGN". 



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some years in. the United States, but, under the 

 proclamation of amnesty, returned to Canada. 

 Dr. Rolphe was the founder of the People's 

 School of Medicine, which is now the Medical 

 Department of Victoria College. 



Oct. 22. MOIR, Prof. D. M., a Scottish 

 poet and professor of considerable ability; 

 died in Edinburgh. He was the author of nu- 

 merous lyrical pieces of great merit, mostly 

 of a serious character. Some of these were 

 collected a few years ago in a little volume. 

 He was professor of Rhetoric and Belles-lettres 

 in the University of Edinburgh. 



Oct. 29. BAROCHE, PIERRE JULES, a French 

 advocate and politician ; died at St. Helens, 

 Isle of Jersey, aged 68 years. He was born 

 in Paris, November 18, 1802, received a col- 

 legiate education, studied law, was admitted 

 advocate in 1823, and in 1847 entered the 

 Chamber of Deputies. He took an active part 

 in promoting the reform banquet of February 

 22, 1848, and signed the act of accusation 

 against MM. Guizot and Duchatel. After the 

 24th of February he was elected to the Con- 

 stituent Assembly for Charente-InfSrieure, 

 serving in behalf of gratuitous education, the 

 equitable remuneration of labor, protection 

 for agriculture, etc. As a prominent member 

 of the Republican party, he was made a Pro- 

 cureur-General of the Republic in the Court 

 of Appeal of Paris, and in 1850 became Min- 

 ister of the Interior. After the coup d'etat, 

 M. Baroche was made President of the Coun- 

 cil of State, with the rank of minister ; Min- 

 ister of Foreign Affairs in January, 1860 ; Min- 

 ister of Justice, January, 1863 ; and Senator, 

 October, 1864. 



Nov. 15. BLAKE, Hon. WILLIAM HUME, LL. 

 D., an eminent Canadian jurist; died in To- 

 ronto. He was for several years Chancellor 

 of Canada, and professor of Law in the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto. 



Nov. 20. PLUMPTBE, FREDERICK C., D. D., 

 an eminent English clergyman and scholar ; 

 died at Oxford, Eng., aged about 70 years. He 

 was, like his brother, Edward Hayes, a gradu- 

 ate of the University of Oxford, and, rising by 

 degrees in consequence of his superior scholar- 

 ship, became, in 1836, master of University Col- 

 lege, which position he held until his death. 



Nov. 28. BYROST, GEORGE ANSON, eighth 

 Lord, the second successor of the poet ; died 

 in England, aged 52 years. He was born in 

 Cheltenham, in 1818, served till 1843 in the 

 infantry, was deputy-lieutenant in Notting- 

 hamshire, and became a member of the House 

 of Lords upon the death of his father, in 1868. 



Deo. 10. BBASSET, THOMAS, an English rail- 

 way contractor, celebrated for the magnitude 

 and success of his enterprises ; died in London, 

 aged 65 years. Most of the great railroads 

 constructed during the past fifteen years, both 

 in Great Britain and on the Continent, were 

 either wholly or in part built under his super- 

 vision ; and so thorough was his knowledge of 

 the cost of such undertakings that he was 



very generally consulted, even if he did not 

 take an interest in the contracts. He was also 

 a large stockholder and zealous promoter of 

 the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and, to his 

 earnest mode of encouragement in a time of 

 great depression, its final success was largely 

 due. 



Dec. 30. AXSCJIUTJZ, KARL, a German mu- 

 sical director and composer; died in New- 

 York City, aged 57 years. He was the son of 

 a Prussian musical composer, was born in Cob- 

 lentz, Germany, in February, 1813, educated 

 in his father's school, and in that of Frederick 

 Schneider, of Dessau, and on his return to 

 Coblentz was appointed Royal Musical Direc- 

 tor. In 1842 his orchestra was increased to 

 eighty musicians. In 1848 he resigned, and 

 was successively director of the orchestra of 

 Nuremberg, conductor of German Opera at 

 Amsterdam, chapel-master to Drury Lane 

 Theatre, London, conductor of the Exeter 

 Hall concerts, of the Italian Opera at Dublin, 

 Edinburgh, and Glasgow, and conductor of the 

 orchestra at Drury Lane. In 1857 he came 

 to the United States with Ullmann's Italian 

 opera troupe. In 1862 he founded the Ger- 

 man Opera of New-York City, and subsequent- 

 ly was conductor of orchestras and Philhar- 

 monics ; established a conservatory of music, 

 and was one of the directors of the Sanger- 

 bund in 1869. 



Dec. 30. MORIXG, Marshal, an officer of 

 the Austrian Army ; died at Vienna. He served 

 in the Sardinian War in 1848, acquired dis- 

 tinction in the hostilities against France, in 

 1859, commanded a brigade of the Fifth Army 

 Corps in the Austro-Italian "War of 1866, and 

 took part in the victory of Custozza. After 

 the battle of Koniggratz and surrender of Ve- 

 netia, he was transferred with his corps to the 

 Danube. 



OHIO. The total population of the State, 

 as given in the Federal census of 1870, is 

 2,662,330, being an increase of 322,819, or 

 about 14 per cent. The following table shows 

 the increase in the population of Ohio since 

 1810: 



This gain is in the cities and larger towns, 

 the agricultural districts generally showing a 

 decrease. Of the five largest cities in Ohio, 

 Toledo shows an increase of 136 per cent.; 

 Cleveland, 112; Columbus, 66; Dayton, 51; 

 and Cincinnati, 35. The five cities of the 

 State Having a population exceeding 15,000 

 are: Cincinnati, 218,900; Cleveland, 93,018; 

 Toledo, 31,592; Columbus, 31,290; Dayton, 

 30,487. The following is the Federal census 

 as taken in the years 1860 and 1870 : 



