OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Royal Academy, but in 1850 



10(1. 



KD. Mrs [tAJO 



h novcli>t and p<>et, died at 



mouth, Ktidaml. aged about 00 



horn in Cork. :iiul early gave 



: vigorous intellect and line ima- 



g'mati\e powers Her tii>t publication wa* 



iiction," a work which entitled ! 



Ice liiu'li rank a" a novdi>t. It was 

 piihlMa-d i ! was tallowed, in 1837, 



. he Mascaiviihas" a legend of the Por- 

 ludia ; "The Interdict," in 1840; 

 iarine Krloil'/'and " Marguerite's Legacy, 

 in 1 >:.?. siu> \\a< also a frequent contributor to 

 the periodical literature of the day. Her poeti- 

 e.al compositions were numerous. 



A/n-il . VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANCOIS, an 

 eminent Kroiu-h publicist, died in Paris. He 

 was horn at Paris, June 11,1790, and at twenty 

 of a-v was Professor of Rhetoric in the 

 Charlemagne, and subsequently was 

 -sor of Modern History and Eloquence at 

 the Soi-bonne. He was a member of the Cham- 

 ber of I >eputies in 1830, was Minister of Public 

 Instruction in 1839, and also in 1840. Latterly 

 he had abandoned politics, and was preparing a 

 " Lite n' I'npe (iivirory Y1I. " at the time of his 

 death, lie was the author of several valuable 

 hi-torical works. In ls:>l he was made a peer 

 of France by Louis Philippe. 



M<ii/ \. UK. \OER3ON, JOHN, an East India 

 merchant of remarkable liberality, died in Ren- 

 u're, Scotland, aged 85 years. He was 

 the originator of the prizes to working-men for 

 essays on the advantages of the Sabbath, lie 

 pent between 30,000 and 40,000 for reli- 

 gious and charitable objects. 



/ 1. POEBIO, CAHLO, an Italian states- 

 man, died at Turin. He was born in 1803, his 

 family being of ancient and distinguished Ital- 

 ian origin, and at the age of twelve his father 

 was exiled by the Neapolitan Government for 

 hi-; ell'orts in behalf of republicanism. Poerio 

 pa i lied his parent to Switzerland. On 

 his return, in 1825, he embraced the law, and 

 won renown tor gratuitously defending many 

 persons charged with disobedience to the des- 

 potism of his country. Though almost always 

 suffering alternate imprisonment, release, and 

 trial, for his political offences, Poerio persisted 

 niaining in Naples, convinced that there 

 was the theatre of his usefulness. When, in 

 1848, Ferdinand of Naples was forced to issue 

 the semblance of a free constitution, public 

 sympathy and regard compelled him to let 

 Poerio alone for the time being, and he rep- 

 icd Naples iii Parliament. For ten years 

 he continued to defend Italian liberty, but in 

 1859 was exiled and sent, bound, to America. 

 The exiles, however, overmastered the crew of 

 the vessel, and put into Cork. In England 

 Poerio remained two years, but returned in 

 1861 to Italy, where he remained unmolested 

 till the time of his death. 

 May 8. BBOWN, J. 0., a Scottish landscape- 

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painter, died in Edinburgh. Ho was born in 



ow, in 1805. and early i.t- -n d upon his 

 - as mi arti-t. lie \i-it-d Holland, Flan- 

 ders, and Spain, and -pmt a ti-v. y.-:ir- in 

 don. Returning to his native city, lie took 

 hL'li rank as an artist, and in 14'J settled in 

 Kdiiibiirgh, where the works he exhibited at- 

 tracted much attention, and he was soon att.-r 

 ! an a--ociati- of the Royal Scottish Acad- 

 emy. Among his production- v. m- : "The 

 i' the Clan ; " " Fugitives of the Battle of 

 OuDoden;" " Clencoe;" "Dawn of the Morn- 

 ing of the Massacre ; " "A Scene on the Ayr- 

 shire Coast;" "Harvest Time in the High- 

 lands ; " " The Death of Macdonald of Glen- 

 coe ; " and a " Summer Sabbath Afternoon in 

 the West Highlands." 



May 18. HOOKHAM, T., an eminent book- 

 seller and scholar, died in London, aged 80 

 years. His place of business, called " The Li- 

 brary," was familiar to everybody in Europe 

 who took an interest in any literary subject, 

 and was the habitual resort of the litterateurs 

 of the day. 



May 25. ARMSTRONG, ROBERT ARCHIBALD, 

 LL. D., an eminent Scottish philologist and 

 litterateur, died at Peckhara Rye. He was 

 born at Kenmore, Perth, in 1788, educated at 

 Edinburgh and St. Andrew's University, where 

 he graduated. Removing to London, he was 

 for more than twenty years head master of the 

 South Lambeth Grammar School. He was a 

 writer of great ability. He was the author of 

 the standard dictionary of the " Gaelic Lan- 

 guage and Literature," an elaborate compila- 

 tion of great value. In 1826 he was appointed 

 Gaelic Lexicographer in ordinary to the King. 

 From 1819 he contributed for popular period- 

 icals papers on learned, literary, and humorous 

 subjects. Dr. Armstrong was for some years 

 in receipt of a pension from the " Literary 

 Civil List." 



May 28. BROUGH, WILLIAM FRANCIS, a dis- 

 tinguished operatic singer and manager, died in 

 Liverpool, England, aged 70 years. He first 

 appeared at the Worthing Theatre in 1818, as a 

 bass singer. In 1837 he came to the United 

 States with Mr. and Mrs. Wood, and travelled 

 with them throughout the country. 



May 30. BRODIE, ALEXANDER, a Scottish 

 sculptor of great reputation, died at Aberdeen, 

 aged 36 years. He was fast rising in celebrity. 

 H is "Queen's Statue," in Aberdeen, the late 

 "Duke of Richmond," "The Motherless Las- 

 sie," "Highland Mary," " Cupid and Mask," 

 and the figure in the Aberdeen churchyard, 

 representing Grief strewing flowers on a grave, 

 are evidence of a high degree of attainment in 

 artistic skill. 



_]/ (t y . CAMERONI, ANGELO, one of the 

 most celebrated sculptors of Italy, died in 

 Venice. 



May . CHAMPOLLION, JEAN JACQUES, com- 

 monly called CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAO, an eminent 

 French author, historian, and publicist, died at 

 Fontainebleau. He was born in 1 778, at 



