omni ARIES, FOREIGN. 





:1 in tin- Austrian army, mid 

 colonel n!' the .")Stli regiment of infantry. He 

 . .led his fat her in tin- Palatinate of Hungary 

 in January, 1*17. Ho was a liberal pai 

 charitable institutions and of tlio learned 



!' the empire, and was much helmed in 

 Hui>. 



;N'BULL, Rev. JOHN, a clergy- 

 man of the Kirk of Scotland, died at TiOgWlNl, 

 Shetland. He \vas born at Ancrum, Roxburgh, 

 May L'I',, 177"), educated at tho I'niversity of 

 Ivlinbiirgh, and \vasordained at Bressa in 1805, 

 and in tlio following year was appointed min- 

 ister of tho united parishes of Tingwcll, White- 

 and Weisdale. In 1814 he accompanied 

 Sir Walter Scott and several other gentlemen 

 in the Lighthouse yacht to Shetland, the details 

 i if \\hich interesting voyage were minutely 

 given in Lockhart's "Life of Scott," which con- 

 tains a tribute from tho pen of Sir Walter to 

 the incalculable benefit Mr. Tnrnbull rendered 

 to the agriculture of the Shetland Islands by 

 the introduction of a new style of husbandry, 

 which has greatly enhanced the value of the 

 soil. 



Feb. 23. SMABT, Sir GEORGE THOMAS, K. 

 0. B., organist and composer to the Ghapel 

 1. died in London. He was born in that 

 city. May, 1776 ; entered the Chapel Royal as 

 a chorister at the age of eight years, and was 

 ut at the Handel Commemorations of 

 Westminster Abbey from 1784 to 1791. He 

 was conductor of musical festivals in the ab- 

 bey, and also at Norwich, Manchester, Liver- 

 pool, Derby, and other places, and directed the 

 oratorios performed during Lent at Covent 

 (iardeii and Drury Lane Theatres from 1813 

 until their extinction by the advent of the 

 Sacred Harmonic Society. He was the friend 

 of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rossini, and "We- 

 ber ; the last of whom died in his house, and 

 was one of the original founders of the Philhar- 

 monic Society in 1813, and of the famous City 

 Concerts in 1818. Sir George gave lessons to 

 nearly all the great artists of his time. lie was 

 knighted in Dublin in 1818. 



Feb. 28. BBASCASBAT, JACQUES RAYMOND, 

 :i:i eminent French painter, died at Paris. He 

 was born at Bordeaux, August 30, 1805. In 

 1825 he took tho first prize at the Academy of 

 Fine Arts, for historical landscape, after which 

 lie went to 'Rome to complete his studies. He 

 was remarkably skilful in his landscapes with 

 animals, and became a member of the Academy 

 of Fine Arts in 1848. 



Feb. . ALDER, JOSHUA, an eminent Eng- 

 lish zoologist and author, died at Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne. He was the author of some valu- 

 able papers on "The Mollusca and Zoophytes of 

 Northumberland," and published, in conjunc- 

 tion with Mr. Hancock, a standard work on 

 ''The Nudibranchiate Mollusca of the British 

 Islands/ 1 He had been for some years previous 

 to his death engaged upon the British Tumi- 

 cata. 



Feb. . MARCHAL, Colonel ANDRE, an offi- 



cer of the French army, died at Ohalona-sur- 



Saoin-. II.- was born at Lyons, in 17'!J, and 



I the service in 1781, in tho Cant 



El r\ed through all tin- Nap. '. 

 wars, and received from Napoleon III. the Crow 

 of Commander of the Legion of Honor. 



M.irch 1. MAHO.MI-.T, KMII: PACHA, Turkish 

 Minister of Police, died in Constantinople, aged 

 109 year-. He attained his position from that 

 of a private Janizary. 



Mitrch 6. GOODSIR, JOHN, Professor of 

 Anatomy in the 1'niversity of Edinburgh, died 

 at his residence near that city. He was born 

 at Anstruther, in 1X14, educated at St. An- 

 drew's, studied medicine at the University of 

 Edinburgh, and in 1836 became a Licentiate of 

 the College of Surgeons. In 1846, on the re- 

 tirement of Professor Monro from the chair of 

 Anatomy in the university, he was elected to 

 that post. His lectures drew students from 

 every part of the United Kingdom, and crowds 

 of visitors from nearly every Continental school. 

 His researches on anatomical and physiological 

 subjects gained for him a high standing among 

 the anatomists of Europe, though his publica- 

 tions were not numerous. 



March 9. GROSSMITH, JOHN, .an English 

 chemist and author, died in London, aged 53 

 years. He was a man of fine scientific attain- 

 ments, and his house was the resort of literary 

 and scientific men from abroad as well as at 

 home. He was the author of " The Monetary 

 System," "The Usury Laws," "Government 

 upon First Principles," and other works. 



March 11. BAVARIA, Her Serene Highness 

 the Princess SOPHIE MARIE FREDERIQUE Au- 

 GUSTE LEOPOLDINE ALEXANDRINE ERNEST INK 

 ALBERTINE ELIZABETH, Duchess of; died at 

 Munich. She was the youngest daughter of the 

 King of Saxony, and was born March 15. 1845. 



March 11'. SCHLKSWIG - HOLSTEIN - SONDEU- 

 BURG-AuGCSTENBURG, Her Serene Highness the. 

 Duchess LOUISA SOPHIA, mother of the reigning 

 duke of, and H. R. II. Prince Christian, died at 

 her residence in Lower Silesia. She was born 

 September 22, 1798. 



March 12. POOLE, EDWARD STANLEY, an 

 English linguist and 'Orientalist of high reputa- 

 tion, died at Upper Tooting, England, aged 36 

 years. He was the author of many valuable 

 articles in Smith's " Dictionary of the Bible " 

 and the " Encyclopaedia Britannica." 



March 13. GLUCKSBURG, Her Serene High- 

 ness the Princess LOUISE of, died at Ballenstedt, 

 near Copenhagen. She was the daughter of 

 the Landgrave Charles of Hesse, and his wife. 

 Her R. II. Princess Louise of Denmark, and 

 was born September 28, 1789. She was the 

 grandmother of Her Royal Highness the Prin- 

 cess of Wales. 



March 15. DANDALO, Count GIROLAMO AN- 

 TONIO DANDALO, Director of the Venetian 

 Archives, died at Venice. He was born July 

 iti, 1796. He was an eminent antiquarian 

 scholar, and among the results of his industry 

 may be mentioned his assistance in the compi- 



