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consequence of the stormy events which super- 

 vened in March, 1848, he became successively 

 Governor of Eastern Prussia, Minister of For- 

 eign Affairs, and a member of the central Ger- 

 manic Parliament at Frankfort. 



Jan. 1 9. CLARKE, Miss HARRIETTS LUDLOW, a 

 wood engraver; designer, and painter on glass, 

 died at Cannes, France. She was the daughter 

 of Edward Clarke, solicitor, of London. Among 

 her earliest engravings was a large cut of the 

 "Penny Magazine," in 1838. She progressed 

 rapidly in this art, and subsequently turned 

 her attention to the study of designing and 

 painting on glass, in which she became very 

 successful. In 1852 she commenced the ex- 

 ecution of church windows, and exhibited so 

 much genius in that department of art, that her 

 orders followed each other in rapid succession. 

 Her last work was a window, containing eight 

 .ights in a row of six figures at the top, in the 

 cathedral at Canterbury, the subject being the 

 life and death of Thomas a Becket. 



Jan. 19. MAITLAND; Rev. SAMUEL ROFFET, 

 D. D., F. R. S., F. S. A., an eminent scholar 

 and theological writer, died at Lambeth Palace, 

 London, aged 75 years. He graduated at Trin- 

 ity College, Cambridge, in 1816, studied law, 

 and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple, 

 but leaving his legal studies, was ordained 

 priest in 1821, and appointed first incumbent 

 of Christ Church, Gloucester. Soon after, he 

 began to be conspicuous as an author, and re- 

 signed his charge in 1830 to devote himself 

 more exclusively to his pen. In 1838 he re- 

 moved to London and became librarian of 

 Lambeth Palace, until 1849, when he retired to 

 Gloucester to spend the rest of his days. He 

 was the author of several works on the proph- 

 ecies, and eight volumes of essays on various 

 theological works. He was also for some years 

 editor of the " British Magazine." 



Jan. 21. ODDONE, Prince, tliird son of Vic- 

 tor Emmanuel, died at Genoa, aged 19 years. 



Jan. 23.: PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE, an Eng- 

 lish poet and novelist, died at Lower Halliford, 

 Eng., aged 80 years. He was a native of Wey- 

 mouth, and was educated at a school at Engle- 

 field Green. In 1810 he published a classical 

 poem called " The Genius of the Thames," also 

 another entitled " The Philosophy of Melan- 

 choly." Among his novels are " Headlong 

 Hall," 1816: " Melincourt," "Nightmare Ab- 

 bey," "The Misfortunes of Elphin," " Crochet 

 Castle," and "Grail Grange." Beside these 

 works, Mr. Peacock was a large contributor to 

 periodical literature, although from 1818 to 

 1856, he had held the position of examiner of 

 Indian correspondence in the service of the 

 Hon. East India Company. In March, 1856, 

 he retired from the service and spent the re- 

 mainder of his life among his books. 



Jan. . BREHAT, ALFIJED G. de, a distin- 

 guished French novelist, died in Paris. He was 

 the author of "Jean Belin;" or, "Adventures 

 of a little French Boy." 



Jan. . DARQAUD, J. M., a French author 



of much note, died in Paris, aged 65 years. 

 He was private secretary to Lamartine, and 

 author of historical works, books of travel, 

 criticism, and fiction. 



Feb. 3. FOUCHER, VICTOR, an eminent 

 French lawyer, grand officer of the Legion of 

 Honor, and counsellor to the Court of Cassation, 

 died at Paris, aged 63 years. He was called to 

 the bar in 1823, and was soon after named 

 Deputy Procurator-Royal at Alencon. After 

 successive advancements in more important 

 courts, he was appointed in 1846 Director-Gen 

 eral of the Civil Affairs of Algeria, and the 

 following year Counsellor of the Cour Royale 

 of Paris. In 1850 he was appointed to the 

 same office in the Court of Cassation; was 

 choseu member of the Municipal Council of 

 Paris, member of the Consulting Commission 

 of Algeria, and of the Council of the Legion of 

 Honor, in which order he was subsequently 

 raised to the rank of Grand Officer. 



Feb. 11. COOPER, Commodore READ, of the 

 Liberian navy, died near St. Paul's River, Libe- 

 ria, aged 64 years. He removed to Liberia 

 from Norfolk, Va., in 1829, and commanded 

 the gunboat Quail, when she was attacked at 

 her anchorage near Monrovia by a Spanish war 

 steamer, a few years since. In company with 

 his sons, Commodore Cooper owned a large 

 sugar farm on the St. Paul's River, giving em 

 ployment to quite a number of people. 



Feb. 19. ADDISON, CHARLES GREENSTREET, 

 an eminent English lawyer, legal writer, and 

 author, died in South Kensington, aged 29 

 years. He was called to the bar of the Inner 

 Temple in 1842, and the same year was admit- 

 ted a ' barrister on the Home Circuit. Subse- 

 quently he was appointed revising barrister for 

 East and West Kent, and was also crown 

 counsel for the Mint prosecutions at the West 

 Kent sessions. He was the author of a work 

 on " Contracts," and a treatise on " Wrongs. and 

 their Remedies." 



Feb. 20. SPOTTISWOODE, ANDREW, an Eng- 

 lish publisher, formerly M. P. for Saltash, and 

 Colchester, died in London, aged 71 years. 

 He was educated at the High School, Edin- 

 burgh, and was at one time Sheriff of the city 

 of London. He was head of the famous house 

 of Eyre and Spottiswoode, Queen's printers. 



Feb. 20. THOMPSON, JOHN, a distinguished 

 wood-engraver, died at Kensington, Eng., aged 

 81 years. As early as 1817 his name was at- 

 tached to works of considerable merit ; and 

 many years ago he, together with his brother, 

 was much employed by French publishers, when 

 scarcely a wood-engraver existed in France. 

 Mr. T. engraved the whole of the engravings 

 for Mulready's " Vicar of Wakefield." 



Feb. 21. WOOD, Rev. Sir JOHN PAGE, Bar- 

 onet, former chaplain and private secretary to 

 Queen Caroline, died at Bethus, near Romford, 

 aged 69 years. He was a native of Woodbridge, 

 and was educated at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he took his degree of LL. B., in 

 1821. Previous to this, however he had en~ 



