OBITUARIES, EUROPEAN. 



>, where ho took tlio 



1. 1.. !>., in l^:;-_'. Hi- .-at in 1'arlia-' 



id-rer.shall, in the Tory interest, from 



r Uatli, from that date to 1880, 



>r a short time, for Dun- 



I,,. .sided mo iv \\itli the 



.Is. lie was Lord of the Admiralty in 



he was summoned to the House 



:her's barony of Camden. 



He was a knight of the garter, Lord Lieu- 



kiKK ksliire, ar.d Deputy-Licu- 



: ti.r Kent. The late marquis was deeply 



.11 aivlucolo;riral pursuit-*. 



'. 0. HoilKNY.nl I.KIIN, I'rillCC ANTON VO11, 



of the reigning fauiily of Prussia, died at Ko- 

 :iny, of wounds received at the 

 : Kuiiiggratz. lie was a brave and 

 la i ill tul officer. 



;. 20. GBOVER, Rev. HENRY MONTAGUE, 



a religious, scientific, antiquarian, and dramatio 



author, dud at his rectory in Maidenhead, aged 



He was a native of Waterford, 



ed at St. Albans Grammar School, and 

 graduated at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. 



as appointed rector of Ilitchani, Bucks, in 

 1833, but owing to ill-health, and his fondness 

 for literary pursuits, devoted the last twenty 

 years of his life to the study of the Scriptures, 

 and biblical antiquities. He was the author of 

 a " Voice from Stonehenge," " Soundings of 

 Antiquity," "Analogy and Prophecy," "Jour- 

 nal of Sacred Literature," " Changes of the 

 Poles and the Equator," "Theory of the Sun's 

 Orbit," a paper on u Tides," and some political 

 Works. 



Aug. 22. ALOOCK, THOMAS, M. P., a wealthy 

 philanthropist, died at Great Malvern, aged 



..re. He was a native of Putney, educated 



rrow, and was for a short time in the ] st 

 Dragoon Guards. He entered Parliament in 

 182<i, and sat for Newton, in Lancashire, and 

 in 1828-'9, travelled in Russia, Persia, Turkey, 

 and Greece, publishing an account of his jour- 

 neyings in 1831. In 1847, he was again, a mcni- 



!' the House of Commons, serving until 

 1865, when ill-health compelled him to retire 

 from public life. He was a consistent Liberal, 

 and a strong advocate of absolute freedom in 

 religious and political opinion. He was also a 

 man of large benevolence, and expended more 

 than 40,000 in the erection of churches, 

 schools, and parsonages in his native county 

 and in Lincolnshire. 



Aug. 23. MICHELL, Gen. Sir Jonx, K.C. B., 

 a distinguished l>ritish officer, died in London, 

 aired 84 years. He was educated at the Rnyal 

 Military College at Woolwich, and gained his 

 commission as second lieutenant in the Royal 

 Artillery in 1798. In 1813, he served under 

 tin- Duke of Wellingt< n in the Peninsula and 

 south of France, and the following year cm- 

 barked for America, and took part in the attack 

 on "Washington, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc. 



lueiitly ho joined Wellington's army on 

 the Continent, and was attached to the Prussian 

 army in reducing the fortresses in the Nether- 



lands. From 1831 to 1836, ho was in command 

 of the Royal Artillery in ( anada, and afterward 

 held the same postal (iihraltar. In 1 85(J, he 

 was made Col. -Commandant of the Fifth battal- 

 ion, and in 1861 watt nominated Knight Com- 

 mander of the Order of the Bath. 



Avg. 29. Ki'BOKAMA, Tycoon of Japan, died 

 nt Yedo. Upon the announcement of his de- 

 ial orders were issued by the Gov- 

 ernment of Japan by way of preventing any 

 disturbances of the peace which might other- 

 wise occur. 



Avg. . MCRAT< THEODORE, a French novel- 

 ist, dramatist, and historian, died in Paris, aged 

 58 years. He was born in poverty, but was 

 -scd of a largo amount of industry and 

 perseverance, which, \vith his natural taste for 

 literary pursuits, won him a name among wri- 

 ters. He wrote plays, histories, and novels, 

 and was, for many years, chief editor of a pro- 

 vincial paper, also dramatic critic of " La Ga- 

 zette de France." He was the author of a " His- 

 tory of Paris," "History of Conde's Army," 

 " History of the Western Wars," and the " Truth 

 to Workmen, Peasants, and Soldiers," which 

 had a sale of 600,000 copies. His last and 

 best work was a "History of France, as indi- 

 cated by the pieces played in the Parisian 

 theatres." 



Sept. 3. FRANCILLON, JAMES, an English 

 jurist and legal writer, died at Lausanne, Swit- 

 zerland, aged 64 years. He was educated at 

 King's School, Rochester ; studied law, and waa 

 admitted to the bar of Gray's-inn in 1833. After 

 several years of successful practice, he was, in 

 1847, appointed judge of the County Court, 

 where he distinguished himself for the patient, 

 laborious, and conscientious discharge of his 

 duties, and for his impartial decisions. In 1860 

 he published a volume of lectures on English 

 'law, which was followed in 1861 by a second 

 series on the same subject. These lectures 

 were of an elementary and practical character, 

 and admirably adapted for junior students in 

 the profession. 



Sept. 10. MACLAREN, CHARLES, former ed- 

 itor and proprietor of the " Scotsman," a geolo- 

 gist and antiquarian, died at Edinburgh, aged 

 84 years. He was a native of Ormiston. In 

 1817 he aided in the establishment of the 

 "Scotsman," and, with a brief intermission, 

 continued his connection with that journal 

 unJil 1847, when ill health compelled him to 

 resign. He was the author of a " Treatise on 

 the Topography of Troy," " The Geology of 

 Fife and the Lothians," eome articles in the 

 " Encyclopaedia Britannica," and several scien- 

 tific papers in the "Edinburgh Philosophical 

 Journal." Mr. Maclaren was a member of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Geological 

 Society of France, and of that of London. 



Sept. 10. HAT, DAVID RAMSAY, a Scottish 

 portrait and decorative painter, and author of 

 works on art, died in Edinburgh, aged C8 years. 

 One of his earliest productions was a portrait 

 of a favorite cat belonging to Sir Walter Scott, 



