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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MATSUDAIRA MOUGEL BEY.) 



more " in 1849 ; and " Ann Blake." a play, in 1852. 

 Subsequently lie wrote " Philip of France," a trage- 

 dy ; the play called " A Lite's Ransom " ; the comic 

 drama of " Borough Politics " ; and " A Hard Strug- 

 gle," a dramatic sketch in one act. "Trevanion, or 

 the False Position," was in part his work. His novel 

 of " A Lady in her Own Right" appeared in 1860, and 

 a collection of his contributions in fiction to the mag- 

 azines in 1861, under the title of " Family Credit, and 

 other Tales." Chief among his later dramatic works 

 are " Pure Gold," a play in four acts ; the two-act 

 drama of*' The Wife's Portrait " ; " Donna Diana," a 

 comedy adapted from a German original ; " The Fa- 

 vorite of Fortune," which was produced at the Hay- 

 market Theatre in 1886 ; " A Hero of Romance," taken 

 from a French source ; " Life for Lite," a drama in 

 blank verse ; and " Under Fire," which was played in 

 1866 at the Vaudeville Theatre. He was associate edi- 

 tor of the " National Magazine," in which and in the 

 "Athenaeum" and other periodicals he published 

 animated lyric poems, the most noted of which is 

 " The Death Ride at Balaclava." His death followed 

 soon after that of his blind son, Philip Bourke Mar- 

 Bton, more famous as a poet than himself. 



Matsudaira, a Japanese statesman, died in July, 

 1890. He was feudal chief of Echizen ? one of the most 

 powerful of the great nobles, and betore the revolu- 

 tion the adviser of the Shogun. In 1861 he and the 

 Regent H Kamu no Kami had a conflict regarding the 

 choice of a successor to the throne, and engaged in 

 open hostilities which resulted in the temporary tri- 

 umph of li and the retirement from court of Matsu- 

 daira and other chiefs. When the Regent was assas- 

 sinated shortly afterward outside the Sakurada gate of 

 the Shogun's palace, Matsudaira returned from his 

 fief on the west coast and resumed his place as guar- 

 dian of the Shogun, his nominee, Tokugawa Keiki 

 being placed on the throne. The civil disturbances 

 continued, and finally Keiki resigned his powers into 

 the hands of the Mikado after a revolution that Mat- 

 sudaira vainly strove to bring to an end without effu- 

 sion of blood. Under the new regime he became for a 

 time Minister of the Interior and 'of Finance. Subse- 

 quently he retired to his estates, and lived to be al- 

 most the only survivor of the mighty Daimios who 

 ruled Japan in the times anterior to the restoration of 

 the mikados. 



Molesworth, William Nassau, an English author, born 

 in Millbrook, near Southampton, Nov. 8, 1816 ; died 

 Dec. 19,1890. He was the son of a clergyman, was 

 educated at St. John's and Pembroke Colleges, Cam- 

 bridge, took his degree of bachelor in 1839, entered 

 the Church and became incumbent of St. Andrew's, 

 Manchester, in 1841, and vicar of Spot and Rochdale 

 in 1844. He published ' An Essay on the Religious 

 Importance of Secular Instruction " (1857); " Eng 

 land and France," a prize essay on the advantages of 

 a close alliance (1860) ; " A History of the Reform Bill 

 of 1832" (1864) ; " A New System of Moral Philoso- 

 phy " (1867); "Prize Essay on Education" (1867); 

 "History of England from 1832" (1871 -'73) ; and 

 "History of the Church of England from 1660" 

 (1882). He was a strong advocate of co-operation at 

 a time when the movement was very unpopular, and 

 has been earnest in his efforts to advance various 

 other social reforms. 



Montpensier, Antoine Marie Philippe Louis d' Orleans, 

 Due dc, born at Neuilly, July 31, 1824 ; died in Sun 

 Lucan, Andalusia, Feb. 4, 1890. He was the fifth son 

 of King Louis Philippe, born while his father was 

 still Duke of Orleans, was educated at the College 

 Henri IV, and entered the artillery as a lieutenant in 

 1842. In 1844 he was ordered to Algeria, where he 

 took part in the expedition against Biskaya, and re- 

 ceivea a wound in the Ziban campaign. For his 

 bravery he was made a major and an officer of the 

 Legion of Honor. After serving with distinction in 

 the campaign against the Kabyles, he made a tour 

 through Egypt, Syria, and Greece. Guizot, the French 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, had given assurances that 

 none of the sons of Louis Philippe was to be a suitor 



for the hand of the young Queen Isabella of Spain, or 

 of her sister, the Infanta Maria Louisa Ferdinande, 

 but suspecting a trick of Lord Palmerston to put for- 

 ward the claims of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, 

 he hastily concluded a secret arrangement by which 

 the Due de Montpensier married the Infanta at Mad- 

 rid on Oct. 10, 1846, and the Queen became the wife 

 of her cousin Don Francis of Assisi. England pro- 

 tested against the Spanish marriages and threatened 

 to make war on France without being able to prevent 

 the consummation of the arrangement. Louis Philippe 

 and his minister calculated on the crown's falling to a 

 child of the Due de Montpensier, thinking it impos- 

 sible for Don Francisco to beget children. In this 

 they were disappointed, for the Queen had issue, Al- 

 fonso, who became King. Montpensier, after the 

 revolution of 1848 left France, and eventually settled 

 at Seville. He received the title of Infante, and was 

 made captain-general of the Spanish army in 1859, re- 

 signing when be left Spain at the request of the min- 

 ister during the commotion that resulted in the Queen's 

 flight. He returned under the Provisional Govern- 

 ment, and became a candidate for the vacant throne 

 in 1868, his claims being pressed by Admiral Topete 

 and other politicians. One of his rivals was his cous- 

 in Don Enrique de Bourbon, the brother of the 

 Queen's husband, with whom he had an old fued. 

 Don Enrique, in a letter requesting reinstatement in 

 the navy, alluded in such bitter and sarcastic terms to 

 Montpensier and his adherents that the latter, al- 

 though by nature cautious and reserved, was provoked 

 into sending a challenge. The cousins met on March 

 12, 1870, on the artillery ground near Madrid. The 

 Infante Enrique first fired into the air, and the Due 

 de Montpensier followed his example. At the second 

 shot Enrique's passed near Montpensier's ear, and the 

 latter took deliberate aim. shivering the butt of his 

 antagonist's pistol. Both fired in earnest the next 

 time, Montpensier escaping unhurt, and then coolly 

 shooting his adversary in the head. The nervous re- 

 vulsion after the tragedy made him ill. His chances 

 for the throne were ruined, for a popular outcry was 

 raised against the foreigner who had killed a Span- 

 ish prince, his competitor. After the restoration of 

 the monarchy the Due de Montpensier took little part 

 in public affairs. His eldest daughter became the 

 wife of her cousin, the Comte de Paris, on May 30, 

 1864, and his third daughter, Maria de las Mercedes, 

 married King Alfonso of Spain. She speedily gained 

 the affections of the Spanish people and caused for 

 the time her father's unpopularity to be forgotten, but 

 died leaving no child. His only surviving son, Prince 

 Antoine, married, in 1886, the'lnfanta Eulalie. 



Moufang, Christoph, a German ecclesiastic and poli- 

 tician, born in Mayence in 1817 : died there, Feb. 27, 

 1890. He studied medicine and afterward theology 

 at Bonn and Munich, and prepared himself tor the 

 priesthood in the seminary of his native diocese, in 

 which he became Professor of Moral Philosophy and 

 ot Ilomiletics. His life was divided between ecclesi- 

 astical administration, as canon and, after the death 

 of Bishop Ketteler, as capitulary vicar, and the polit- 

 ico-religious conflicts in the German Reichstag, of 

 which he was a member from 1871 till the last elec- 

 tion before his death. As the faithful lieutenant of 

 Bishop Ketteler, he labored to bring about an alliance 

 between the Clerical and Social-Democratic parties. 



Mougel Bey, a French engineer, born in 1808 ; died 

 in Paris early in December, 1890. He was educated 

 in the Ecole Polytechnique, took part in the revolu- 

 tion of 1830, and afterward went to Egypt, where lie 

 had charge of harbor improvements at Alexandria. 

 He suggested the plan ot building a dam across the 

 Nile for the irrigation of the delta at low water, and 

 was commissioned to carry out his project. Before he 

 had completed the barrage a new Khedive came to the 

 throne, and the work was stopped. Mougel after- 

 ward superintended the construction of the 'Suez Ca- 

 nal. When Sir C. S. Moncrietf determined to com- 

 plete the barrage he called Mougel into consultation. 

 (See EGYPT.) 



