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O'DONNELL, LEOPOLD. 



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t ho sweetness of heart and 



i timer, which had SO !'a-riii:it.-<l the 



pnlilie, diil not. fail her. She retained many of 



her per-onal advantages and accomplishments 



Lite period. Not possessing either 



ius or wit, ;-he pleased by II.T exipii*- 



.nper and total ahscnce .if ati'ectMtion. l!y 



nld tho>e who knew 



li-.-r he ivniiiidi-d that she hud, in her youth 



and thr hoy-day of her heauty, been OHO of the 



.-polled chiidivn of the public. To the last she 



U willing to IK- pleaded by small courtesies 



as to give pleasure. 



Dec. _".'. II \\.\\n, JOHN. I>. D., an English 

 Wi-lcyau minister and theological professor, 

 died at Didsbury, England. He was born in 

 Lincoln, Km:., in 1792, and joined the itin- 

 erant ministry in 1814, continuing on the cir- 

 cuits until 18:U, when he became theological 

 tutor at the Wesleyan Training Institution at 

 'ii, then just established. In 1842 he was 

 removed to the college at Didsbury, and in that 

 year also was elected president of the London 

 Conference, receiving a similar honor in 1851, 

 when the Conference assembled at Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyno. He was eight times secretary of 

 the Conference. For 83 years he was a chief 

 instructor of the young Wesleyan ministry, and 

 during that time trained nearly 300 preachers. 

 On two occasions he represented his church at 

 \:'KTii':in General Conference, once as the 

 companion of the Rev. Richard Reece, and the 

 second time as chief representative, with the 

 Rev. F. J. Jobson as his companion. Being 

 unable to sustain longer the onerous duties of 

 the Didsbury Institution, he retired last year, 

 but continued to reside at Didsbury under 

 arrangements made by prominent Wesleyan 

 laymen. He died of congestion of the lungs, 

 after a brief illness. 



Dec.-3Q. FERGUSSON-BLAIR, Hon. ADAM J., 

 pre>klent of the Privy Council of the Domin- 

 ion of Canada, and Senator for Ontario; died at 

 .Ottawa, Canada. He was a son of the late 

 Adam Fer.ru-s:>n, and was born in Perthshire, 

 in 1815, and educated at Edinburgh. He came 

 to Canada as a young man, studied law in 

 Upper Canada, and was called to the bar in 

 1859. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 

 4th battalion of the Wellington militia, and 

 while yet young a district judge of Upper 

 Canada. Entering into political life, he sided 

 with the Liberal party in Canada, and sat in 

 the Lower House of the Provincial Parliament 

 for Waterloo, from 1849 to 1854, and for the 

 South Riding of Wellington from 1854 to 1857. 

 In 1800 he was elected by acclamation to the 

 Legislative Council from the Brock Division, 

 and reflected on his appointment to office in 

 1863. From March to July, 1863, he was 

 Receiver-General, when he was appointed Pro- 

 vincial Secretary in the government of the 

 Hon. J. Sandlield Murdonald. In 1866 he was 

 ient of the Council in the administration 

 of Sir N. F. Belleau, and in 1867 accepted the 

 office of president of the Privy Council in the 



it. government of the Dominion. II.- 

 was a man of excellent aliiliti. -, and < \ 

 a good deal of influence with the political 

 with which he was associated. II..- 

 assumed the name of Blair after that of Fergug- 

 son on Mi.-ceeding to the estate of Balthayock, 

 Scotland, on the death of his brother. 

 I Yriru on-Blair, Esq., in 1862. 



Dee. . M \i:o< rin/ni, Baron CHARLES, a 

 celebrated French sculptor, died in Paris. Ho 

 was horn of French parents at Turin, in 1805, 

 and was educated at the Lyc6e Napoleon at 

 Paris. He then entered the studio of Bosio, 

 but, in the examination of the School of Fine 

 Arts, ho received only an honorable mention, 

 and made the journey to Italy at his own 

 expense. In 1827 he returned to France, and 

 the same year exhibited a " Young Girl Play- 

 ing with a Dog," which received a medal, and 

 was offered by him to the King of Sardinia. 

 In 1831 he exhibited his " Fallen Angel," and, 

 about the same time, executed for the Academy 

 of Fine Arts of Turin a statue of Bishop 

 Morsi, and without any reward an equestrian 

 statue of Emanuel Philibert. The latter was 

 his greatest work, and was the only thing sent 

 by the artist to the Paris Exhibition of 1855. 

 In 1839, Marocchetti was made a Chevalier of 

 the Legion of Honor. He afterward executed 

 the bas-reliefs for one of the triumphal arches 

 of Paris, the monument of Bellini, the com- 

 poser, the statue of La Tour d'Auvergne for 

 the town of Carhaix, and the grand altar of the 

 Madeleine in Paris, besides other works. In 

 1848 he went to England, from political causes, 

 and continued in that country until his death. 

 At the Great Exhibition of 1851 he exhibited 

 his model of "Richard Coeur de Lion," which 

 has since been executed in bronze by a national 

 subscription, and a colossal model in plaster 

 was placed in the palace yard. Among his 

 late works are an equestrian statue of the 

 Queen, executed for the city of Glasgow in 

 1854 ; an obelisk in granite to the memory of 

 the soldiers who fell in the Crimea, 1856 ; the 

 Mausoleum of the Princess Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Charles I., 1857; and a portrait bust of the 

 late Prince Consort. He also executed a largo 

 number of busts of distinguished men in Eng- 

 land. He will be remembered in this country 

 by his Amazon attacked by a Tiger, exhibited 

 at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1852. 



O'DONNELL, LEOPOLD, Count of Lucena, 

 Duke of Tetuan, Marshal and ex-Minister of 

 Spain, born at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, one of the 

 Canary Island/, January 12, 1809; died at Biar- 

 ritz, France, Octobers, 1867. The name is one 

 that ranked high in the earliest ages of the his- 

 tory of Ireland ; and the late marshal, by his 

 valor on the battle-field, and his wisdom in the. 

 councils of Spain, has exalted and endeared it 

 to every Spaniard. The career of Marshal 

 O'Donnell was a most brilliant though check- 

 ered one. He was descended from an old family 

 in Ireland, to whom the former province of 

 Tyrconnell and the present county of Donegal 



