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from confinement, which ultimately shortened 

 his life. 



Nov. 29. BARAOTE, AIMABLE GTTILLATJME 

 PROSPER BRUGIERE, Baron, a French historian 

 and diplomatist, died at Auvergne, France, aged 

 84 years. His immediate ancestors were schol- 

 ars of some reputation, and under the super- 

 vision of his father, young Prosper received a 

 thorough classical education, after which he 

 entered the polytechnic school in Auvergne, his 

 native town. Entering public life in 1802, he 

 held several offices at home and diplomatic mis- 

 sions abroad; served for a time as general 

 secretary of the home department, and in 1819 

 was made a peer of France, when he gave him- 

 self up more exclusively to literary pursuits. 

 As early as 1808 he published anonymously an 

 able sketch of the literary men of the eighteenth 

 century. In 1814 were published the "Me- 

 moirs " of Madame de La Rochejaquelin, relat- 

 ing to the sanguinary wars waged against the 

 insurgents of La Vendee during the first period 

 of the French Republic, the greater portion of 

 which was written by his pen. In 1821 he 

 published his French version of Schiller's 

 dramas, after which he devoted himself for 

 years to his most important work, as the histo- 

 rian of the Dukes of Burgundy. This labor, 

 so ably performed, gained him an entrance into 

 the French Academy in 1828. After the revo- 

 lution of 1830, Barante was appointed ambas- 

 sador to the court of Turin, and in 1835 was 

 sent as minister to Petersburg. His subsequent 

 writings were partly political, but mainly his- 

 torical. 



Dec. 1. COTTON, WILLIAM, D. C.L.,F.R.S., 

 an English philanthropist, director of the Bank 

 of England, died in Lcytonstone, Essex, aged 

 80 years. He was descended from the Cotton 

 family of Cheshire; was educated at the Gram- 

 mar School of Chigwell, and in his fifteenth 

 year entered a counting house. In 1808 he 

 became connected with a large firm manufac- 

 turing machinery for registering cables, and 

 from this time developed that deep and active 

 interest in the social and spiritual welfare of 

 his fellow-men which characterized his future 

 life. He was one of the original founders of 

 the National Society, was governor of Christ's 

 Hospital, the originator of public baths and 

 wash houses, took a leading part in the forma- 

 tion of King's College, and was ever actively 

 engaged in the work of church building. In 

 1822 he was elected a director of the Bank of 

 England, of which he was governor three times. 

 During this period the necessity of weighing 

 the whole of the gold coinage of the country 

 led him to conceive the idea of the automaton 

 weighing machine, now so extensively used. 

 He retired from his position as director of the 

 bank in 1866. Mr. Cotton was a deputy-lieu- 

 tenant for Essex, chairman of Petty Sessions at 

 llford and Stratford, and subsequently chair- 

 man of Quarter Sessions at Chelmsford. 



Dec. 1. EVEREST, Col. Sir GEORGE, C. B., F. 

 R. S., Royal Bengal Artillery, died at Hyde 



Park gardens, aged 76 years. He was educated 

 at the Royal Military Schools of Great Marlow 

 and Woolwich ; entered the service of the East 

 India Company in 1804, and served at the siege 

 of Kalinger in 1812. He was surveyor-general 

 of India, and superintendent of the great tri- 

 gonometrical survey from 1830 to 1843, when 

 he retired from the service with the rank of 

 colonel. He was knighted and made C. B. in 

 1861. 



Dec. 3. HINCKS, Rev. EDWARD, D. D. - , p 

 clergyman of the Church of England, philolo 

 gist, and archaeologist, died atKilleleagh, county 

 Down, Ireland, aged 72 years. He was the son 

 of Dr. Thomas Dix Hincks, professor of Hebrew 

 and head-master of the classical school in the 

 Belfast Academical Institution. He was a na- 

 tive of Cork; graduated at the Dublin Uni- 

 versity in 1812, and took a fellowship the 

 following year. In 1826 he became rector of 

 Killeleagh, holding that position until his death. 

 He contributed numerous valuable papers, espe- 

 cially on Egyptian hieroglyphics and Assyrian 

 cuneiform inscriptions, to the Royal Irish Aca- 

 demy, the Royal Society of Literature, the 

 Asiatic Society, and the British Association. 

 He was one of the chief restorers of Assyrian 

 learning, throwing great light on the linguistic 

 character and grammatical structure of the 

 languages represented on the Assyrian monu- 

 ments. He was an able advocate of reform in 

 the Irish Establishment. 



Dee. 8. FRERE, JAMES HATLET, an English 

 commentator on the prophecies, died at Shill- 

 ington, Bedfordshire, aged 87 years. In 1812 

 he first commenced the study of prophecy, and 

 although the death of the First and Second 

 Napoleons seemed at the time to have exploded 

 his Napoleonic theory of interpretation, he ad- 

 hered to it through all adverse appearances, 

 and continued even to the last to look on the 

 present Emperor of the French as destined to 

 fulfil his expectations as to the downfall of the 

 temporal power of the Papacy, and the brief 

 reign of Antichrist, as preparatory to tho 

 restitution of all things. . 



Dec. 1.1. MEATII, Rev. JOHN CANTWELL, D.D., 

 Roman Catholic Bishop of, died at Mullingar, 

 aged about 75 years. He was consecrated in 

 1830. One of the most able and active prelates, 

 he was always distinguished by strong political 

 feeling, which manifested itself especially in the 

 election of members of Parliament, and in the 

 advocacy of tenant right. 



Dec. 13. ROBERTSON, JOSEPH, LL. D., a 

 Scottish antiquarian, died at Edinburgh, aged 

 55 years. He was a native of Aberdeen and 

 was educated for the law, but early in life 

 turned his attention to the editorial profession. 

 He edited several volumes for the Spalding, 

 Maitland, and Bannatyne clubs. In 1853 his 

 antiquarian tastes were gratified by an appoint- 

 ment as curator of the Historical Department 

 of the Register Office at Edinburgh, which pos- 

 ition he held at the time of his death. Few 

 men were more thoroughly acquainted wiw 



