

any in Trinity Col- 

 jiriy, aged 50 ; 



was M-lf- 

 II.- published t'-n >f tv/clvr 



ay. 1 ' Ho was 

 ity herbarium. 

 Mr. DAVID, !'. R. C. I'. K. 

 tch physician, author ini'l 

 lia rcsid.-nce in Edinbuiv. 



.i native of North Leith, 

 i the I'niversity of Edinburgh, 



.imsclf as a cl;i 



,!arly for his fondness for 



A- a teacher of the prin- 



^i-o of physio and of chemical 



r.iincntly successful. Al- 



highly accomplished physician, his 



never very extensively employed in 



i-ivato practice of his profession, which 



mainly attributed to the long protracted 

 1 of his bodily infirmities. Perhaps his 

 :-.cful lahors \vere his contributions to the 



diil'usion of more enlightened and correct views 



of the principles and practice of the healing 



art, through tlio "Encyclopaedia Britannica," 



on "Pathology," and the "Practice 



of Physio," and the u Edinburgh Medical and 



'.irnal," of which publication he was 



litor and proprietor. 



/ 18. ROBINSON, Rev. HEXISY HASTINGS, 



I). M.. i\. tur of Great Warley, Hon. Canon of 



and Rural Dea:i, died at Great 



: 7-'. \\.irs. He was edu- 



, and St. John's College, Cam- 



, where he was a fellow from 1816 to 



1827, when ho was presented to the rectory of 



Warley. Here he had resided for thirty 



. faithfully discharging the duties of his 



. following literary pursuits, and attending 



duties of his position as a magistrate. 



1'r. Robinson was the editor of the "Zurich 



;!ul other classical and theological 



/ 10. MIT.T^, J.\MI:S>, an English chemist 

 and antiquary, died at Norwich, Kng. He was 

 11-known collector of antiquities, and his 

 Nvas always open to the inspection of 

 the amateur with the utmost liberality, lie 

 a valuable contributor to the " Archaeolo- 

 gical Society." 



- 'Jl. CONDB, ! ! Highness, the 

 Prince de, eldest M'ii of the Due d'Aumale, died 



N" S. W.. a-.'- d -Jo ] 

 May - !. Enii:i:ii> ; T., an E 



.-van minister and author, di 1 iu England. 

 He was the biographer of Adam Clarke and 

 J>r. i 



. BROFFEKIO, M. an Italian 



Mian, poet, and historian, died at Elorence, 

 US years. Ho was born iu the Province 

 :i, between Turin and Alexandria, and 

 .tod for the law, though he devoted 

 himself mostly to literary pursuits. As a 

 speaker in parliament, ho was ardeut and ener- 

 getic; as a journalist, the tendency of his writ- 

 ITM to promote th.- c : i'i-e of liberty and 

 VOL. vi. 38 A 



nntry, and as a poet, 



itrioti-ni gave him inspiration. Ho was 

 the author <if a "History of Piedmont," 

 .'' and a popular battle song kin" 



'a Hymn." His greatest historical 

 work was the " History of the Sul, alpine Par- 

 liament," which ho unfortunately left uniinMi<-d. 

 In 1848 ho was the editor of tho "Mcssagi&ro 

 Torincse. Tin nigh a radical democrat, he was 

 no! a Ma/x.inist, but a partisan of the House- of 

 Savoy, and one of his last wishes was that he 

 could take an active part in tho coining war. 



May 29. KAMAMALU, VIOTOKIA, Princess 

 Koyal and heir-apparent to tho throne of tho 

 Sandwich Islands, died at Honolulu, S. I. 



May 30. BOWERS, Kev. JOHN, Governor of 

 the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Did?bury, 

 died at Riversdale, Southport, aged G9 years. 

 He entered the ministry tit the early ago of 

 seventeen years, and in a short time became 

 one of the most popular ministers in his de- 

 nomination. His sermons were the fruit of 

 careful study and delivered in an earnest and 

 impressive manner. In 1858 he was elected 

 President of the Wesleyan Conference, the 

 highest honor which the body can. confer on 

 any of its ministers. 



May 31. VEKNOJT, Right Hon. GEOIIOT. 

 Join* WAI:REX, fifth Lord, a liberal peer, and an 

 ;it Italian and classical scholar, died at Sud- 

 bury Ilall, Derbyshire, aged 63 years. He was 

 educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, 

 and succeeded to his father's title in 1835. In 

 183V he exchanged his patronymic of Venables- 

 Vernon for that of Warren. Ho was M. P. for 

 Derbyshire in 1831-'4; deputy-lieutenant, and 

 captain-commandant of tho 2d battalion of 

 Derbyshire volunteers. Lord Yernon was a 

 supporter and liberal contributor to all institn- 

 tions of a benevolent character, and especially 

 was interested in the Midland Institution for 

 the Blind. Ho was also an accomplished lin- 

 guist, and as an Italian scholar, attained the 

 high distinction of being elected one of tho 

 twenty Corresponding Academicians of the 

 Societa della Crusca, at Florence. His chief 

 interest, however, lay in the study of Dante, to 

 which he largely contributed by works not un- 

 known in the literary world. 



May . BELCHER, JOHN, a soldier under 

 Admiral Xelson at the battle of Trafalgar, died 

 in Gloucestershire, aged 103 years. 



May . DELL, JOHN, a prominent citizen 

 of Tasmania, died there, aged 102 years. He 

 was a native of Reading, and took up his res- 

 idence in New South Wales, in 1788, having 

 arrived with the 102d Foot in the ship Surprise. 

 He \vi,s pensioned in 1815, and was appointed 

 chief constable of Lauiiccston, Tasmania, in 

 1818. 



/ . DESPORTES, M.. a French trans 

 lator, dramatist, and compiler, died in Paris, 

 aged 68 years. He was a native of Aubenas, 

 Ardcehe county, and made his first appearance 

 as an author by " Le Duel d'Yc-ung." He 

 translated into French Virgil's Bucolics aud 



