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. IIo was a member of tho Academy of 



jiiently became president. 

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lolttl, uml died of cerebral con- 



. FEATIII ROE AVir.- 



!'. II. S., IUT r>ritatinic majesty's consul 



of Calvados and Seine, 



-.:..! Si; years. Having r. 



during tho early part of his 



life i: \uicrica, and having explored 



numerous wild tracts then occupied by tho 



Indians but now eivili/.ed States, he was 



singularly well qualified to act as ft British com- 



ner in settling, by arduous service in the 



tin- northern boundary of tho United 

 i'ir tho successful execution of 

 tin-; task, in association with Mr. Raring, after- 

 ward Lord Ashburton, that the Earl of Abcr- 



then her majesty's Secretary for Foreign 

 Affairs, assigned to Mr. Featherstonhaugh tho 

 consulate at Havre. In carrying out the duties 

 of that office he received tho full approbation 

 of tho Government. His writings on statistical 

 and political subjects were clear and vigorous, 

 and hi* geological memoirs merited tho warm 

 approval of his attached friends Buckland and 

 Murchison. His works, as named by Allibone, 

 are, "Geological Report," made in 1834, of the 



vd country between tho Missouri and tho 

 Red Rivers ; " Observations on the Ashburton 

 Treaty," 1842; "Excursion through the Slave 



,'' published in 1844; and "Canoe Voy- 

 age" to tho Minnesota, 1847, in two volumes. 



Sept. . DUNBAR, DAVID, a Scottish sculp- 

 tor, died in Scotland. His best works were 

 busts from life, and some copies in marble from 

 the antique. He produced busts of Earl Grey, 

 Lord Brougham, Lord Durham, and other emi- 

 nent statesmen ; but one of his greatest works 

 was a bust of Grace Darling. 



'. . GOI.I>SCHMIDT, HERMANN-, an emi- 

 nent painter and astronomer, died in Germany, 

 aged 64 years. He was born at Frankfort-on-the- 



and was in tho mercantile business until 

 thirty years of age, when he took up his pencil, 

 studying tinder the celebrated artists Schnorr 

 and Cornelius in Munich. In 18:51 lie went to 

 Paris, where ho followed his profession. In 

 1847 bo turned his attention to astronomy, and 

 his discoveries obtained for him the 

 of the Royal Astronomical Society of London 

 besides other marks of recognition from tho 

 Academy of Sciences in Paris, to which body 

 his discoveries were usually first communicated. 

 His name is identified with no le<s than four- 

 teen of tho small planets between Mars and Ju- 

 K'ter, viz., Lutetia(1852), Pomona (1854), Ata- 

 1885), liarmouia (185R), Daphne (1850), 



(1857), Eugenia (1857), Pseudo Daphne 

 (1857), Doris and Pales (1857), both discovered 

 on the same evening, Europa (1857), Alexandra 

 1858), Danae (1860), and Punopea(1861). From 

 the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and other 



learned bodies, he received numerous prizes and 

 honors. 



Sept. . SADLIER, LOUISE, a distinguished 

 ui painter, died at Weimar, aged 80 

 . Slio was a native of Jena, uud tho 

 !!iporary of Goethe. 



Oct 1. TUBGOT, LOUIH FELIX ETIKNM:. M.ir- 

 quis do, minister of France at I!> -i ; 



; lies, aged 70 years. Ho descended from 

 a noble family of Norinandy, and was a native 

 of lions. He was educated at tho military 

 school of Saint Cyr, and served in the army for 

 several years, resigning his commission in 1830. 

 In 1832 he was raised to the Chamber of Peers, 

 and took his seat with the conservative poli- 

 ticians, but tho revolution of February sent him 

 back to private life. He had taken but little 

 part in public affairs up to that time ; but he 

 attached himself to the Napoleonic policy, was 

 a member of the ministry of the 2d December, 

 1851, and identified himself entirely with tho 

 coup (Vetat. In July, 1852, he resigned tho 

 portfolio of Foreign Affairs to M. Drouyn do 

 Lhuys, and received the dignity of Senator. 

 On the 26th of April, 1853, he was accredited 

 as ambassador to the court of Spain. In 1854 

 he fought a duel with Mr. Soule", the United 

 States ambassador. In 1852 he was made 

 commander of the Legion of Honor, and grand 

 officer of the order in September, 1858. 



Oct. 11. HOBBS, WILLIAM FISHER, an emi 

 nent English agriculturist, died at his residence 

 near Colchester, aged 57 years. Ho was a 

 native of White Colne, Essex, and from his 

 earliest years was trained to farming. He com- 

 bined both scientific knowledge and practical 

 experience, holding each in such exact balance 

 that he became a leading agriculturist in the 

 country. At tho time of his decease he was 

 vice-president of tho Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety of England, of which he had been one of 

 tho founders, and a prominent member of sev- 

 eral other important societies, not only in his 

 own country, but abroad. 



Oct. 11. SIDNEY, Sir WILLIAM ROBERT, a 

 parliamentary pleader, and author, died near 

 Maidenhead, Berks, nged 78 years. II. 

 educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and 

 was a magistrate for Berks. He was tho author 

 of works on savings, on the jurisdiction of tho 

 House of Lords in appeals and writs of error, 

 on the practice in claims to dormant peerages, 

 on state lotteries, etc. 



Oct. 12. LOWE, JAMES, inventor of the screw- 

 propeller, was killed by an accident in tho 



Oct. 13. PELLEW, Hon. GEORGE, D.D., Dean 

 of Norwich, and rector of Chart, died at Great 

 Chart, Kent, aged 73 years. He was a native 

 of Cornwall, and a son of Admiral Sir Edward 

 Pellew, (\. C. B., was educated at Eton and 

 Corpus Christi College, Oxford ; received holy 

 orders in 1817, became canon of Canterbury in 

 dean of Norwich in 1829, and rector of 

 New (.'hart in 1852. He was an accomplished 

 scholar, and published, among other works, 



