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UINGGOLD, Rear-Admiral CADWALADER, 

 I'. S. N., an Aniorioan naval olliccr; horn in 



:aud iii lSii-2 ; died in New York City, of 

 \pril29, 1867. Admiral Ringgold en- 



ihe Navy as midshipman. March 4, 1819, 



U-in_r a])|)i)inted from Maryland. On the 17th 



iay, 1828, ho was promoted to the rank of 



lant, in which capacity he remained until 

 the 1 iit.lt of July, 1849, on which date he was 

 ommissinned as a commander. For a short 

 time he was in command of the surveying and 

 exploring expedition to the North Pacific and 

 china Beaa, <>n the 2d of April, 1856, he was 

 further promoted to the rank of captain, and 

 held this position when the late war broke out. 

 In ISiil he was in command of the frigate St. 

 Lawrence, but was soon after released from 

 duty with that vessel by Captain Purviance and 

 transferred to the frigate Sabine. In command 

 of this vessel he took part in the work of 



;iding the Southern ports, and p in the 

 various operations of the Navy against Port 

 Uoyal and other ports on the Atlantic. On 

 the Kith of July, 1862, he was promoted to the 

 rank of commodore, and continued in active 

 service until December, 1864, when he was 



1 on the retired list. In March, 1807, he 

 was further promoted to the rank of rear-admi- 

 ral, and ordered on duty to succeed the late 

 IZear- Admiral Gregory, as superintendent of 

 iron-clads, with headquarters in New York 

 city. He had been in service forty-eight years 

 and nearly two months at the time of his de- 

 . of which twenty years and six months 

 had been .-pent at sea, nearly thirteen years in 

 shore duty, and fourteen years and eight 

 months unempl' 



IMWINSON. ili-Mtv CitABB, an English con- 

 vcr-ationist and literary man, well known as 

 the intimate friend of Goethe, Wieland, Schel- 

 ling. Wordsworth, Southey, Charles Lamb, 

 ;-s, Coleridge, Blake, Flaxman, Mrs. \l;>.r- 

 bauld, and other literary and artistic celebrities 

 of the early part of the present century. Born 

 in Bury St. Kdmunds, London, May 13,1775; 

 died in London, February 5, 1867. He was edu- 

 cated at a private school at Devizes, and served 

 an apprenticeship to a Mr. Francis, an attorney, 

 but before being called to the bar, he came 

 into the possession of some property and went 

 to the Continent, became a student at the Uni- 

 of .Jena, and acquired a very thorough 

 knowledge of modern languages and literature. 

 While on the Continent lie became the special 

 correspondent of the Times, and continued in 



that position for some years. On his n-turn to 

 KtiL'land lie lii-came a member of th. 

 the Inner Temple, and wa- culled (0 

 May. I si:;. II.- practis.-d in the Nor;, 

 of which In- early became tie- lead.-:- for 

 , but in IN-'S r.-tired from his p r ,,;. 

 having a competency, and preferring a K 

 life. While engaged in th" practice of law, he 

 had formed a strong and abiding friend-hip and 

 intimacy with the Lake -chool cy 

 they were called, Wordsworth, Southey, Cole- 

 ridge, and the Barhaulds, including Charle- 

 Lamb, Samuel Roger-, Flaxman, William 

 lilake, (the "Picter ignotus"). Sir Thomas 

 Lawrence, and other of the celebrities of the 

 time, and kept up a correspondence and asso- 

 ciation with them until they all [ assed away. 

 His conversational powers were of the h 

 order; thoroughly familiar with the whole 

 range of belles-lettres and art topics, he pos- 

 sessed remarkable grace and facility in expres- 

 sion and narration, and was the best story-tell- 

 er of his time. His reminiscences of the great 

 men with whom he had been so long associated 

 were very interesting. One who knew him 

 well says of him: u lie was the living histo- 

 rian of the eminent men with whom his earlier 

 life was passed. His Sunday breakfast parties 

 and his bachelor dinners will long be remem- 

 bered by those who enjoyed his hospitality, as 

 filling some of the most amusing hours of their 

 lives. He was grandly intolerant of any liter- 

 ary slight put upon his own great literary 

 friends, resenting a depreciation of Lamb as 

 a symptom of moral disease, and ridicule of 

 Wordsworth, even from a lady, as the fruit of 

 natural depravity. No one stood up for his 

 friends more ably, generously, and constantly, 

 or assailed what be thought worthy of censure 

 with more open and cordial blows. In litera- 

 ture and art the value of his judgment was 

 chiefly this that he brought a character of 

 much more than the usual strength, of consid- 

 erable humor, and of absolute naturalness, to 

 bear upon subjects which are often treated 

 with the mannerism and finesse of sensibility." 

 Ho wrote very little. It is said that he kept a 

 diary, in which he recorded most of his remi- 

 niscences of distinguished men ; hut his pub- 

 lished works consist of a defence of Clarkson in 

 connection with his anti-slavery movement, 

 some contributions to Gilchrist's Life of Blake, 

 articles in the Edinburgh Review, in the Ar- 

 chceologia of the Society of Antiquaries, etc. 

 He was a liberal patron of art and education, 

 and left an art endowment of two thousand 

 pounds to University College, London, of the 

 council of which he had been for thirty years a 

 member. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The pres- 

 ent Pope is Pius IX., born at Sinigaglia, on 

 May 13, 1792; elected Pope, on June !f,, isir,. 

 The College of Cardinals in November, 

 consisted of 52 members, of whom six \ 

 cardinal bishops. 38 cardinal priests, and 8 

 cardinal deacons. The cardinal bishops and 



