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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



in the French Department of Lot. After hold- 

 ing in Grenoble the offices of Librarian and 

 Professor of Greek literature, lie was appointed 

 in 1828 Conservator of Manuscripts in the Im- 

 perial Library in Paris ; but after the February 

 revolution was deposed from office by Carnot. 

 In 1849 he was appointed by Louis Napoleon 

 Librarian of the Palace of Fontainebleau, and 

 subsequently Librarian to the Emperor. Besides 

 the Antiquites de Grenoble (1807), his chief 

 works include the Annales des Lagides and 

 Egypte Ancienne, Les Tournois du Boi Rene, a 

 splendid work with lithographs by Motte ; and 

 several publications of old French documents. 

 Since the death of his younger and more cele- 

 brated brother, he had been employed in edit- 

 ing the manuscripts left by that distinguished 

 scholar. 



May . PERSIANI, Madame FANNY TAOH- 

 CHINARDI, an eminent Italian operatic singer, 

 died at Passy. She was born at Rome, in 1818, 

 completed her musical education at a very 

 early age, and at sixteen made her debut at 

 Leghorn, in Francesco, di Rimini. After hav- 

 ing obtained the greatest success in Italy and 

 at Vienna, she appeared at the Italian Opera 

 in Paris in 1838. Her impersonation of '.' Ami- 

 na," in La Sonuambula, was considered by 

 many more artistic than that of Jenny Lind. 

 In 1850 she quitted the stage, and since that 

 period she lived in retirement. In 1833 she 

 married Persiani, a celebrated composer. She 

 was a woman of fine domestic qualities, and of 

 an exceedingly benevolent nature. 



June 4. RANKING, W. H., M. D., an English 

 physician and medical writer, died at Heigham, 

 Norfolk, aged 53 years. He graduated at the 

 University of Cambridge in 1837, and in 1842 

 took his degree of M. D. After spending some 

 time in the hospitals of Paris, he settled in 

 Bury St. Edmund's, and became physician to 

 the Suffolk General Hospital. Later, upon re- 

 moving to Norfolk, he was appointed physician 

 to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. In 1845 

 he commenced the preparation of his work, 

 " The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sci- 

 ences." He also for some time edited tlie jour- 

 nal of the Provincial, Medical, and Surgical 

 Association. Among his lesser writings is a 

 paper on "Dimensions of the Heart." 



June 6. HAPSBURG, MATILDA, Archduchess 

 of, died at Vienna, from injuries occasioned 

 by her dress catching fire, in the nineteenth 

 year of her age. She was the second daughter 

 of the Archduke of Austria, and a grand-daugh- 

 ter, on the maternal side, of Louis, King of Ba- 

 varia. 



June 9. ANSTEB, JOHN, LL. D., Professor of 

 Civil Law in Trinity College, Dublin, died in 

 that city. He was born in Charleville, County 

 Cork, in 1793, received his university educa- 

 tion at Trinity College, and took the degree of 

 LL. D. in 1825. After several years' practice 

 at the bar he was, in 1837, appointed Registrar 

 of the High Court of Admiralty. In 1850 he 

 cwas elected Regius Professor of Civil Law at 



Trinity College. He was the author of a prize- 

 poem upon the death of the Princess Charlotte 

 (1819); a volume of poems ; translations from 

 Goethe, Schiller, ai-d De La Motte Fouque ; 

 and an " Introductory Lecture on the Study of 

 the Civil Law." He also contributed largely to 

 the Dublin University Magazine, North British 

 Review, and other literary periodicals. 



June 9. FUENTE, JTJAN ANTONIO DE LA, a 

 Mexican statesman and diplomat; died in Sal- 

 tillo. He was a self-made man, and his whole 

 life was a continued struggle against adverse 

 circumstances. As minister of the Republic of 

 Mexico in Paris, when Napoleon was getting 

 up his intervention scheme, his services have 

 always been recognized by the Liberal party 

 of his country as of great value, and he received 

 the praises of both the European and American 

 press for his eiforts in favor of the republic. 

 When he was minister for Foreign Affairs he 

 treated the corps diplomatique with very little 

 ceremony, and became a favorite with all Mex- 

 icans in consequence. During the Imperialist 

 occupation of Ooabuila he had to hide on dif- 

 ferent farms, and was generally unable to get 

 the attendance or medical care that his broken- 

 down health required. His friends, however, 

 at length took him by force to Saltillo, and 

 there his health improved. While in that city, 

 he had to keep close for fear of the French. 

 After a time his health again began to fail, and 

 he died in poverty. 



June 13. DAVIS, EDWARD, an English paint- 

 er, died at Rome, aged 34 years. He first ex- 

 hibited his pictures in 1854. Among the most 

 popular are, " The Pedlar " (1859) ; " Coaxing," 

 and "Danger by the Way" (1860); "Telling 

 a Tale " (1861) ; " After Work " (1862) ; " Sun- 

 shine," "'Summer," and "Dame's School" 

 shown in 1863. 



June 15. MAOCUXLOCH, HORATIO, R. S. A., 

 a Scottish landscape-painter of great celebrity, 

 died at Edinburgh. He was born in Glasgow, 

 in 1806, and having studied his art in his native 

 city and at Edinburgh, he commenced the ex- 

 hibition of his pictures in 1826. In 1836 he 

 was elected an associate of the Scottish Acad- 

 emy, and shortly after settled in Edinburgh, 

 where he continued to reside until his death. 

 Among his most popular productions are, 

 "Loch Katrine," "Loch Achray," "Kilchuru 

 Castle," "A Dream of the Highlands," "Glen- 

 coe," "Lord Macdonald's Deer Forest in Skye," 

 "Inverlochy Castle," and "Loch Maree." 



June 27. HAMILTON, WILLIAM JOHN, F. G. S., 

 an eminent English geologist and traveller, died 

 at Holyfield Hall, Essex. He was born in 1805, 

 educated at the Charterhouse, and at the Uni- 

 versity of Gottingen, and early entered the 

 foreign diplomatic service at Madrid, Paris, 

 and Florence. He was a writer at the Foreign 

 Office, under Lord Aberdeen, but resigned in 

 1841, on his election to represent the borough 

 of Newport, Isle of Wight. In 1831 he be- 

 came a member of the Geological Society, and 

 in 1854 was elected its president. Iii the sum- 



