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U.ANoYKK', lit. Him. BENJAMIN- llvi.i, 

 I. on!. -!i MateMiian, better known aa 



: njainiii Hall. born at IK-noI Castle, Coun- 

 iv Glamorgan, Novembers, ISM:!; died in Lon- 

 ifon, April -27, 1*'''7. Hf was educated at \\Y-t- 

 tninster School and Christ Church Coll. ;/, <).\- 

 fonl. Hi- lir-l ent'Ted Parliament, for Mon- 

 niouth, in is:u. In November, 1887, ho was 

 elected r,n- Marylebone, which constituency he 

 represented in Parliament for twenty-two years, 

 till he was elevated to the peerage in 1859. 

 Hi- was an active and consistent Liberal, sym- 

 pathizing with Cobden and Bright in their po- 

 litical views, and was a prominent Liberal lead- 

 er in the llouse, where he was greatly respect- 

 ed I iy all parties for his honesty. In 1838 he 



created a baronet. In August, 1854, ho 

 took the office of president of the Board of 

 Health, and in August, 1855, he accepted the 



<>f First Commissioner of Public Works, 

 which gave him a place in the Cabinet. Ho 

 held office till 1858, and during his tenure of 

 office introduced the measure for the local gov- 

 ernment of the metropolis under which the pres- 

 ent Metropolitan Board of Works was elected, 

 and which has resulted in such great improve- 

 ments in the parks of London. In 1854 ho 

 was sworn a privy councillor and retained 

 his seat in the Council till his death. In 1861 

 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of County 

 Monmouth. After his elevation to the peerage 

 a 1*59, he did not hold office, but was promi- 

 nent in the House of Lords as a Reformer, and, 

 during the late war in the United States, an 



it Republican. Ho died of cancer in the 

 >-k. 



LONSDALE, Right Rev. JOHN, Lord Bishop 

 of Lichtield, an Knglish prelate and scholar, 

 born at Newmillerdam, near Wakefield, Jan- 

 nary 17, 1788; died at Eccleshall Castle, Staf- 

 fordshire, October 19, 1887. His father was a 

 clergyman of the Church of England and a man 

 of some note. He was somewhat precocious, 

 but his intellectual powers were very harmo- 

 niously developed. He entered Eton at eleven 

 years of age, in advance of pupils of his age, 

 and King's College, Cambridge, in 1806, where 

 he. got nearly all the prizes, the Browne's 

 medal, and the University scholarship, and took 

 his 15. A. degree in 1811, and B. D. in 1824. 

 lie studied law at Lincoln's Inn, but was not 

 called to the bar, and soon turned his attention 

 to theology, lie was a Fellow of King's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, from 1814, and a tutor there 

 until his marriage ; was ordained priest in 1815, 

 and soon after was made examining chaplain to 

 An-libishop Sutton, and assistant-preacher at 

 the Temple. He early achieved reputation as 

 a preacher, and two courses of his Univer- 

 sity Sermons, as well as several occasional 

 discourses, were published in 1820 and 1821. 

 " In 1822 he received the rectory of Newham, 

 but his duties as examining chaplain to the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury made it necessary 

 for him to reside in Westminster. In, 1827 he 

 relinquished parochial duty for a prebendal- 



Btall at Lincoln, which was exchanged the next 

 year for the precentor-hip at l.ii-hli-lil. nnd 

 that in 1KUI torn stall in M. Paul's. In 1H2'J 

 he was presented to the rectory of Si 

 liloom-hnry, by Lord Lyndhnr-t. which In- 

 rcliiKjiiMied in 1 *::}, and in 1830 was up- 

 pointed Rector of Southfleet, which portion he 

 retained till 1842, when he was obliged to 

 n-iim on receiving the Archdeaconry of 

 Middlesex. Meantime he was also preacher 

 of Lincoln's Inn, and Principal of King's Col- 

 lege, London, from 1838 to 1840, and was 

 elected Provost of Eton College in 1840, but 

 on account of the circumstances declined. In 

 October, 1843, he was nominated by Sir Robert 

 Peel Bishop of Lichfield, and consecrated in 

 December of the same yeart From this time 

 onward his life was one of incessant labor and 

 activity. His see was large, and he consecrated 

 during the twenty-four years of his bishopric one 

 hundred and fifty-six new churches. He was 

 a zealous friend of education, and especially 

 desirous of its more universal diffusion among 

 the middle and lower classes; he desired to 

 have the masses brought under the influence 

 of religious teachings, and labored diligently to 

 that end ; and as a spiritual peer, in the House 

 of Lords, he had important measures put upon 

 him, because ho would give them his attention. 

 In 1849 he published with Archdeacon Halo a 

 volume of excellent "Annotations on the Gos- 

 pels." These, and the volumes of sermons, 

 and some of his Latin poems, which were of 

 very great merit, were his only publications. 

 He was a man of remarkable humility, .v 

 to controversy, and never willing to enter into 

 a public discussion of great questions in theol- 

 ogy, from the belief that others were better 

 qualified than he to handle them ; but withal, 

 he was unflinching in his adherence to what he 

 believed to be right. He was greatly beloved, 

 not only in his own church, but by the Dis- 

 senters also. 



LOUISIANA. At the opening of the year, 

 the State of Louisiana had not wholly recovered 

 from the excitement which followed upon the 

 riot in New Orleans on the 30th of July, 1866. 

 That subject was still before the Congressional 

 committee at Washington, to whom its investi- 

 gation had l>een referred, and examinations 

 regarding the same matter were not entirely 

 finished at the capital of the State. General 

 Sheridan, in his report upon these disturbances, 

 had cast grave reflections upon the conduct of 

 Governor Wells in relation to the riots, accusing 

 him of want of vigilance and energy in his offi- 

 cial acts pertaining thereto. Governor Wells, in 

 a letter "to the Hon. Lyman Trnmbull, of the 

 United States Senate, repelled the charges of 

 the commander of the Department of the Gulf, 

 and endeavored to show that General Sheridan 

 himself was responsible for the "massacre at 

 the Mechanics' Institute." About the same 

 time at which Senator Trnmbull received this 

 letter, he had occasion to present to the Senate, 

 en the 18th of December, 1866, a memorial, 



