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OBITUARIES, EUROPEAN. 



held a professorship at the university until 1849, 

 when he retired to private life. He was the 

 author of several volumes of lyrical poems, also 

 some dramas, and a " Life of Jesus." 



March 13. MASSEY, Mrs. ROSINA JANE, wife 

 of Gerald Massey, tbe poet, died near Kernel 

 Hempstead, aged 34 years. She was a native 

 of Bolton, Lancashire, and at an early age mani- 

 fested singular trance-like tendencies and ab- 

 normal powers of vision. It is considered doubt- 

 ful whether a more remarkable seer or clair- 

 voyant has existed since the days of Emanuel 

 Swedenborg. 



March 16. JUSTJF, Gen., Commander of the 

 military division of Montpellier, France, died at 

 Cannes, aged 60 years. He was a native of 

 Algeria ; entered service as a private in an Arab 

 cavalry regiment, and obtained his promotions, 

 followed by his naturalization, for distinguished 

 services, and for his devotion to France. He 

 was the author of several works on the affairs 

 of the colony. 



March 21. COOPEE, CHAELES HEXRY, an Eng- 

 lish antiquarian scholar and author, died at 

 Cambridge, aged 58 years. He was a native 

 of Great Marlow, Bucks; was educated at 

 Reading, and by his fondness for books, early 

 laid the foundation of his extensive stock of anti- 

 quarian and historical learning. In 1826 he 

 settled in Cambridge -and applied himself with 

 diligence to the study of la\v, and in 1840 was 

 admitted as solicitor. Having an intimate ac- 

 quaintance with the law and decided talent as 

 an orator, he gained a high reputation and an 

 extensive practice. In 1851 he was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He was 

 a voluminous writer, and among the productions 

 of his pen may be mentioned four volumes of 

 the " Annals of Cambridge," arranged chrono- 

 logically, and containing an account of all 

 matters relating to the university and town, 

 down to the close of 1849 ; " Athena? Canta- 

 brigienses," memoirs of the worthies educated 

 at Cambridge (3 vols.) ; and the "Memorials of 

 Cambridge" (3 vols.), 1858-1866. During tbe 

 latter years of his life most of his leisure was 

 devoted to the collection of particulars illus- 

 trative of the lives of all the eminent natives of 

 Great Britain and Ireland from the earliest pe- 

 riod to the present day, and his research in that 

 direction involved an immense amount of patient 

 labor. 



March 21. WARES, MARGARET, an aged ser- 

 vant in Thurso, a province of New Brunswick, 

 died there, aged 105 years. She was a native 

 of Stroma, and when a girl went to serve a 

 farmer, continuing with him and his descend- 

 ants for five generations. She retained all her 

 faculties to the last, and was known as a woman 

 of deep piety, latterly passing a great portion 

 of her time in prayer. 



March 23. EDWARDES, Hon. RICHARD, an 

 English diplomatist, died in London, aged 59 

 years. He entered the diplomatic service in 

 1826 ; served a long clerkship, and in 1838 was 

 appointed an attache to the embassy at St. 



Petersburg; in 1841 was called to the same 

 post at Berlin ; returned to St. Petersburg the 

 same year, and in 1847 was transferred to Paris, 

 where he twice discharged the duties of Charg6 

 d' Affaires. In 1851 he was. appointed Secretary 

 of Legation at Frankfort, and in 1859 at Madrid, 

 where he remained till the end of 1863. The 

 following year he was Consul-general at Caracas, 

 and was subsequently appointed Minister Pleni- 

 potentiary to the Argentine Republic. 



March 23. TOSTI, Cardinal ANTONY, senior 

 cardinal priest, under the title of St. Pietro in 

 Montorio, died at San Michele, Rome, aged 89 

 years. He was a native of Rome, and was 

 known as the " learned and venerable " Director 

 of the combined school and hospital of San Mi- 

 chele, and as Librarian of the Holy Church. 



March 24. HESSE HOMBTJRO, FERDINAND 

 HENRI FRIEDRIOH, Landgrave of, died at Horn- 

 burg, aged 38 years. He was a general of 

 cavalry in the service of Austria, and succeeded 

 to the family estates in 1848. Having left no 

 direct heirs his territory reverts to the Grand 

 Ducal House of Hesse-Darmstadt ; the heir to 

 the principality being Prince Louis of Hesse, 

 husband of the Princess Alice. 



March 25. THORNTON, THOMAS, an editor and 

 author, died in London, aged 79 years. In 

 1825 he entered the service of the "London 

 Times," and for many years was engaged in re- 

 porting the proceedings of the ecclesiastical and 

 maritime courts ; his accuracy and sound judg- 

 ment obtaining the frequent approbation of the 

 Bench and the Bar. During a period of fortv- 

 years' connection with this journal, he published 

 a valuable series of law reports, which, under 

 the title of " Notes of Cases," are still habitually 

 quoted as an authority. For some twenty years 

 he had prepared the summary of the debates in 

 the House of Commons for the "Times," which 

 for condensation, accuracy, and comprehensive 

 grasp, could rarely be equalled. His mind re- 

 tained its vigor until the last. Mr. Thornton 

 brought out an edition of Otway's plays, and 

 was at one time a contributor to the "Edin- 

 burgh Review." He was particularly versed in 

 Indian affairs, and edited the papers of one of 

 the most eminent statesmen connected with the 

 East India Company. 



March 28. LANGLAIS, M., a French finan- 

 cier and statesman, Finance Minister of the 

 Mexican Empire ; born at Mamers, in the De- 

 partment of the South, about 1808; died in 

 Mexico. He was educated for the Church ; had 

 taken minor orders, and for some time was a 

 professor in the ecclesiastical seminary in his 

 native town. The revolution of 1830 opened a 

 new career for him. He went to Paris to study 

 law; was called to the bar in 1837, and soon 

 gained considerable reputation as an advocate. 

 In 1848 he was chosen as one of the representa- 

 tives for the department of the Sarthe, in the 

 Constituent Assembly, and again to the Legisla- 

 tive Assembly. After the coup d'etat he was 

 elected to the latter for his native town of 

 Mamers, but resigned in 1857, and accepted the 



