OBHTAKIKS, LUIOIT.AN. 



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port of Councillor of State, a post for which lie 



minciitly !,:::. \\ !u-n Ma.\imiliari asked 



or of tin- I'lvnch to .solid him a com- 



n!< r into tin- finances 



is was at onco scK-et, d 



ions and ditlicult ta-k. 



was for about three years, and 

 In lets than half that timu ho bad completed his 

 work .:ii/ation, hut was taken ill with 



'.an capital, and died 

 he had recommended could 

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Al>ril 1. Hii.i.iEi:, (lEoitoK, an English an- 

 tiquarian, historian, and author, died at Ryde, 

 :' Wight, a. TS. He \vn.s a native 



iinin^ton, and was educated at Place 

 Street House Academy near Ryde. In 1852 

 he pnbli.-hcd "A Narrative of the attempted 

 i- of Charles the First from Carishrook 

 1 ." IK- was also the author of treatises 

 "ii. or guide-books to, Carisbrook and Arundel 

 Castles. The discovery of the Anglo-Saxon 

 : ry upon Chessell Down, in the Isle of 

 Wight, and the excavation of the graves, was 

 one of his most valuable contributions to area- 

 s'. Mr. Uillier had been for some time 

 employed in the preparation of an important 

 work, tho ".History and Antiquities of the Isle 

 of \Yight. ; ' engraving the plates with his own 

 hand, ami having tho printing done in his own 

 , but his death occurred before its com- 

 pletion. 



April 5. GICIFFIN-, Right Rev. HEXKY, D. D., 

 Lord Bishop of Limerick, an eminent prelate 

 and scholar, died at Dublin, Ireland, aged 80 



- a native of Wexford, entered 

 Trinity College at twelve years of age, and after 

 a distinguished career obtained a fellowship in 



In that capacity he was for some time 

 tutor, but in 1829 resigned to accept the valua- 

 ble college living of Clonfeacle, in the arch- 

 Armagh. In 1854, upon urgent soli- 

 n, he accepted the bishopric of Limerick, 

 Ardfert, and Aghadoc, the duties of which ho 

 rged with intlexible integrity up to the 

 period of his last illness. He was distinguished 

 for his profound knowledge, and with Dr. 

 Sandes, the late Bishop of Waterford, was re- 

 garded as the head of the Liberal party in the 

 univers'ty. Dr. (iriilin took an active part in 

 ihc agitation for emancipation, and on all occa- 

 sions di-tingnished himself by his enlightened, 

 generous, and comprehensive opinions. 



Aj/ril o. HODGKIX, THOMAS, LL. D., an 

 eminent English philanthropist and scholar, 

 burn in IT'.' 1 .'; die<l at Jatl'a, near Jerusalem. 

 His whole life had been devoted to the service. 

 of his fellow-creatures of all races. He was one 

 of tho founders of the Aborigines Protection 

 and Ethnological Societies; the honorary 

 retary of the Geographical Society; a member 

 of the Senate of the I'niversity of London, and 

 intimately connected with many other scientific 

 bodi< -. A i^w months previous to his death 

 he accompanied Sir Moses Montetiore to Mo- 

 . and induced the Sultan to make large 



concessions to Lia Jewi-h subjects, and at tho 

 time of his decease was abroad upon another 

 philanthropic mission. Dr. Hodgkin uaa at- 

 tached to the Society of Friends. 



A/iril 7. BABIXGTON, BENJAMIN GUT M. D., 

 V. K H., etc., an eminent English ph> 

 and medical writer, died in London, ag< 

 years. He was educated at the Charterhouse, 

 and after passing through Haileybury, err 

 the Madra- medical service in 1812, but n 

 from it in 1819, and studied at the Univer.-ily 

 of Cambridge, where he graduated M. D. in 

 1830. The following year ho was elected fel- 

 low of the Royal College of Physicians. He 

 was attached to Guy's Hospital, to the Deaf 

 and Dumb Asylum, Margate Infirmary, German 

 Ho.-pital, City of London Hospital for Diseases 

 of the Chest, And to tho English and Scottish 

 Law and Clergy Mutual Assurance Company. 

 Dr. Babington was known as the author of a 

 "Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology," and 

 of various papers in the Medico-Chirurgical 

 Society's Transactions, as editor of a * ; Medical 

 Psychology," and as translator of "The Epi- 

 demics of the Middle Ages." 



April 12. MOLTKE, ADAM WILHELM vox, 

 Count, a Danish statesman, died in Livonia, 

 aged 81 years. His family came originally 

 from Mecklenburg. He was Minister of State 

 in Denmark from the death of Christian VIII. 

 to 1848, minister for Holstein in 1851, and for 

 Selileswig from 1852 to 1854, when he with- 

 drew from public life. He was last known as 

 ii.-iiig his groat wealth for the promotion of 

 science and art. 



April 16. RYLAXD, JONATHAN EDWAED, an 

 eminent Hebrew, Greek, and German scholar, 

 died at Waterloo, Northampton, aged 68 years. 

 He was educated at the Baptist College at Bris- 

 tol, of which his father, Dr. Ryland, was presi- 

 dent. His translations from Neander testify to 

 his critical acquaintance with the German lan- 

 guage. 



April 16. SEYMOUB, EDWARD JAMES, M. D., 

 F. R. S., a distinguished English physician, died 

 in London, aged 70. He was a native of Brigh- 

 ton, and educated at Dr. Delafosse's school at 

 Richmond, and Jesus College, Cambridge, 

 when he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he 

 graduated M. ]). He became physician to the 

 infirmary at Edinburgh, and having practised 

 for some years at Florence, settled in London 

 in -1824. He filled successively the posts of 

 senior physici;.n to the Council of St. George's 

 Hospital, senior censor of the Royal College of 

 Pliy.-icians, and was one of the Commissioners 

 on Lunacy. 



I 1 9. REYNOLDS, Rev. JAMES, a clergy- 

 man of the Established Church, died in tho 

 Chapel Yard of St. Mary's Hospital, Great II- 

 ford, aired C> % 2 years. 1 Jo was educated at St. 

 Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, where he gradu- 

 ated in 1S20. and the following year was an- . 

 pointed chaplain to St. Mary's Hospital. Ho 

 :ine scholar, and particularly delighted in 

 the Oriental languages. For many years ha 



