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peer, bora March 25, 1812, and died at Western 

 House, Warwickshire. He was educated at 

 Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where 

 he graduated M. A. in 1834. As Lord Dun- 

 can, he was a member of the House of Com- 

 mons from 1837 to 1859, except two years. 

 He was a Lord of the Treasury from 1855 to 

 1858. In 1859 he succeeded his father as 

 Earl of Camperdowu, and since that time had 

 taken his seat in the House of Lords. 



Jan. . HAIEOOLLAII EFFENDI, Turkish am- 

 bassador in Persia, and the most eminent scholar 

 and historian among the Turks, died at Teheran, 

 Persia. He was originally educated for the 

 medical profession, in which he distinguished 

 himself; but he afterward applied himself to 

 literature, and entered the civil service. He was 

 the author of " A History of the Sultans," of 

 which a single volume is devoted to each sultan, 

 and of which he had already produced sixteen or 

 seventeen volumes when he was sent on the em- 

 bassy to Persia. By his absence, and the retire- 

 ment of Ahmed Jevdct Pacha from the post of 

 historiographer to that of Viceroy of Aleppo, 

 the historical labors of Stamboul were brought 

 almost to a standstill; as, also, the project of 

 the Government, elaborated by Munif Effendi, 

 for a national history, to be carried out by a 

 committee of literary men, as announced some 

 time ago in The Athenaum. Ha'iroollah Effendi 

 was buried with great ceremony, at the expense 

 of the Shah of Persia, in tribute to his literary 

 distinction. 



Jan. . JALABERT, JEAN, a French soldier, 

 who took part in the capture of the BastUe, 

 and served in the armies of the First Republic, 

 died at Besset, France, aged 107 years. 



Jan. . ROBERTSON, JOSEPH, LL. D., Cura- 

 tor of the Historical Department of the Regis- 

 ter House of Scotland ; died in Edinburgh. He 

 commenced life as a member of the press, first 

 in Aberdeen, then in Glasgow, and in 1849 be- 

 came editor of the Edinburgh Courant, which 

 position he held for four years. In 1853 Lord- 

 Advocate Moncrieff appointed him to the posi- 

 tion which he held at the time of his death, 

 and although it had been hitherto an unimpor- 

 tant and subordinate office, under his able man- 

 agement it soon became of great consequence 

 to the literature of Scotland. Mr. Robertson's 

 researches into the past history of Scotland dis- 

 played much labor and ability, and his writings 

 exhibited talents of a high order. His work 

 entitled '' Councils and Canons of the Scottish 

 Church," which has been recently published, 

 throws a new light upon the history of Scot- 

 land before the Reformation, and is regarded as 

 a work of great value. In April, 1864, the 

 honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon 

 him by the University of Edinburgh. 



Jan. . SINNETT, F., an Australian editor, 

 and son of Mrs. Percy Sinnett, a well-known 

 English authoress, died in Melbourne, Australia. 

 He had been edi>sated as a surveyor and civil 

 engineer, but had been connected with the 

 press for some time in England. He emigrated 



to South Australia in 1848, and failing to find 

 remunerative employment in his profession, he 

 turned his attention to journalism, founded the 

 Melbourne Punch, and was editor in succession 

 of many of the colonial journals, being engaged 

 on the Melbourne Argus at the time of his 

 death. 



Jan. . VERAGUA, Don PEDRO DE PORTU- 

 GALLO COLON, Duque de, Marques de Jamaica 

 y Almirante de las Indias, a Spanish noble- 

 man, a descendant of the female branch of the 

 family of Cristoval Colon, or, as we call him, 

 Christopher Columbus. He was not prominent, 

 and perhaps not specially gifted, but he pos- 

 sessed a large estate and cherished with peculiar 

 care all the archives of the family and the pa- 

 pers of his great ancestor, and was remarkably 

 liberal and cordial to Washington Irving, when 

 he was in Spain collecting the material for his 

 Life of Columbus, giving him free access to these 

 precious documents, which he valued above his 

 own life. The duke died at Madrid, at a very 

 advanced age. 



Jan. . WEYMER, Mile. MARGUERITE GEOR- 

 GES. aJrench tragedienne, better known as Mile. 

 Georges, born at Arniens, in 1786; died in 

 Paris. Her professional career began in 1802, 

 when she made her debut at the Comedie 

 Francaise. It was marked by many triumphs, 

 and crowned with the most illustrious suc- 

 cess. In the days of the Consulate and the 

 First Empire she stood at the head of the 

 profession. In 1812 she played before the 

 Emperors of France and Russia. Honors were 

 paid to her in Saxony and Russia, as well as 

 in France. At one period she studied under 

 the tuition of Talma, and, appearing subse- 

 quently, at the Od6on, she made a remarkable 

 sensation, in the character of Joan of Arc. 

 She afterward played at the Porte St. Martin, 

 and at other principal theatres, closing her 

 labors at the Theatre Francais. Her line of 

 parts was that of classical tragedy, and there- 

 in she had no rival but Mile. Mars. She had 

 passed the meridian of her fame when, in 

 1821, Rachel was born. In June, 1846, Mile. 

 Georges was obliged, by ill-health, to retire 

 from the stage. She resorted to teaching, 

 however, in the dramatic art; and it is worthy 

 of note that one of her pupils, in 1856, was 

 Miss Jean Davenport, who is now distin- 

 guished on the American stage as Mrs. Lander. 

 In 1849 a benefit was arranged for Mile. 

 Georges who was in poverty and' Rachel 

 played Eriphile, in "Iphig6nie. " Madame 

 Viardot also appeared. The beneficiary her- 

 self played Clytemnestra ; and even in the faded 

 splendor of her genius and her extraordinary 

 beauty, she made a deep impression upon the 

 fickle mind of Paris. The last years of the 

 great actress were clouded by trouble and 

 sickness. 



Feb. 10. AUSTRIA, H. S. H. STEPHEN FRAN- 

 CIS VICTOR, Archduke of, and Palatine of Hun- 

 gary, died at Mentone, Hungary. He was born 

 in Hungary, September 14, 1817 ; was a lieuten- 



