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. G. PO.NI IIAI.!>, .H: AN Fm:nri:ir>c Au- 



eniinciit l-'ivnch musician, died at 



. llo was a pupil at tlio 

 :!.-, and as early as 1810, 

 izc in Miij:iiiir, and lii 



11 hrie tra-cdy and comedy. \\'liile yet 



in hi* youth, ho became n favorite with the. 



public, 'l.ut retired from the theatre in 1884, 



.-idling, and was appointed 



a professor at the Conservatoire. 



::. .li:\N l-'uANi.oiflCAMIU.B, 



ndi physician and surgeon, member of 



the Infinite of I'ri'iice, and an eminent botanist, 



in I'ari-. a-cd 82 years. He was a native 



.ndov, and son of a surgeon, who trained 



him lor tlio medical profession, and, to obtain 



n livelihood in those tempestuous years of revo- 



i, he took service as military surgeon and 



-ypt with the memorable expedition. 



lie returned to France in 1802, and pursued 



his medical studies and served alternately in 



the army and navy. He became, in 1815, the 



chief surgeon of the army of the King of Naples 



(Joachim Murat). The Restoration dismissed 



him to obscurity, but after the Revolution of 



Tuly, 1830, he was made chief surgeon of the 



Sedan military hospital, and retired on a full 



Hi in 1832. He then devoted himself to 

 \ with a zeal which appears extraordinary, 



when it is considered that he was already forty- 

 i-i^ht years of age. He was one of the first 

 l-'rciich botanists who used the microscope in 

 that science, and -everal important discoveries 

 are due to him. His researches into the cryp- 

 togames are valued, and he has left a number 

 of works in Latin and French on questions of 

 natural history. In 1858, he received the cross 

 of an officer of the Legion of Honor. 



Jan. 9, ZAMOTSKI, Connt, a distinguished 

 Polish nobleman and exile, died in London, 

 aged 07 years. He was the head of his family, 

 and proprietor of the large entailed estate of 

 Zamose, and nobly exerted himself to ameliorate 

 the condition of the peasantry on his vast es- 

 tates. The state of Poland, and the grief he 

 felt in consequence, had induced him for many 

 years to live incomplete retirement in England, 

 and doubtless hastened his death. 



Jan. 11. BROOKE, GTJSTAVUB VACGHAN, an 

 eminent tragedian, was lost on the steamship 

 London, on his way to Australia, aged 48 years, 

 lie was a native of Dublin, and was educated 

 for the Irish bar, but, having a decided ta.-to 

 for the sta^r, made his first appearance at the 

 Theatre Royal in his native city, in 1833. His 

 ] 'erf' >rmanees proving successful, he subsequently 

 entered into engagements at Limerick, London- 

 derry, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, and his fame 

 ing London, ho was engaged to appear at 



ietoria Theatre, where be gave twelve 

 performances of Vii'ginius. In 1850 he sailed 

 lor New York, where he appeared with great 



-s in the character of Othello. In 1852, 

 he became manager of the Astor Place Opera 

 House, but losing money in the undertaking, 

 teturued to Europe, and after a successful tour, 



i-d this country and extended his journey 

 .ilifornia and Aii.-tralia. 



Jan. 11. I'AI.MII:, GEop.OK ILiTtKT, an Eng- 

 lish author and editor, was lost on the M 

 ship London; aged 85 years. He gr.v! 

 with hi^'h honors at the I'niversity of (HaagOW, 

 in 1850; studied luw in- London, mid v 

 1 as a barrister, by the society of ( 

 Inn, .June, 1801. His ability and learning at- 

 tracting attention, he was appointed secretary 

 of the Law AiiKiidi. lent Society, which position 

 ho occupied until its amalgamation with the 

 Social Science Association. Ho was also editor 

 of the "Law Magazine and Review." His health 

 failing, he was advised by his physicians to 

 take a voyage to Melbourne, and was lost as 

 above stated. 



Jan. 11. "WELI.ESI.EY, Rev. HEXBT, D.D., 

 Principal of New-Inn Hall, Oxford, and an 

 eminent classical scholar, died at Oxford, aged 

 74 years. He was a natural son of the late 

 Marquis "Wellesley (elder brother of the first 

 Duke of Wellington), was educated at Christ 

 Church, Oxford, and was appointed in 1838, to 

 the rectory of Woodmancote, in the patronage 

 of the Lord Chancellor. In 1847, he received 

 the appointment of principal of New Inn Hall, 

 and occupied the post of select preacher to the 

 University. Dr. Wellesley was an accomplished 

 scholar, well read in both ancient and modern 

 literature, and well known in connection with 

 the tine arts and continental languages. IIo 

 was the author of selections in the Latin, Ital- 

 ian, and English- languages, under the title of 

 " Anthologia Polyglotte," also of several valua- 

 ble papers appearing in the volumes of the Sus- 

 sex Archaeological Society, of which he had 

 been a member from its formation. At the 

 time of his deatli he was a curator of the Bod- 

 leian Library, and also of the University Galle- 

 ries and of the Taylor Institution. 



Jan. 11. WOOU.EY, Rt. Rev. JOHN, D.D., 

 D.C.L., Bishop of Sydney, Australia, was lost 

 on the steamship London, aged 50 years. Ho 

 was educated at University College, London, 

 and at Exeter College, Oxford, from which ho 

 graduated in 1836. He became successively 

 Head Master of Rossall school, Lancashire, and 

 of King Edward's Grammar School, Norwich. 

 This last office he relinquished in 1852, on ob- 

 taining the appointment of professor in tho 

 University of Sydney. His later life was mostly 

 passed in Australia. 



Jan. 15. ANERSWALD, Herr RCDOLPH von, 

 head of tho late liberal ministry at Berlin, died 

 in that city. IIo was tho son of an East Prus- 

 sian nobleman, and matriculated at Konigsberg 

 I niversity, where he intended to study for tho 

 Jaw, but on the outbreak of the war with the 

 French, he volunteered with the Black II; 

 of Prussia, and, after an honorable service, re- 

 tired in 1820, married, and settled on the es- 

 tates of his wife near Dautzic. He was soon 

 elected Landrath by the proprietors of his 

 neighborhood, and subsequently entered the 

 provincial department of Eastern Prussia. In 



