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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



March 2. BYEOX, Rt. Hon. GEOEGE ANSON 

 BYEOST, seventh Lord, an admiral in the British 

 Navy, successor to the title of Lord Byron, the 

 poet, died in London. He was born in 1789, 

 entered the navy as a volunteer in 1800, and was 

 advanced to the rank of commander in 1812. 

 His last appointment was to the Blonde frigate, 

 to convey from England the King and Queen, of 

 the Sandwich Islands. A full account of this 

 voyage was published in 1826, under the title 

 " Voyage of Her Majesty's Ship Blonde to the 

 Sandwich Islands in 1824-'25." He was for 

 several years Lord in "Waiting to her Majesty. 

 He was made rear-admiral in 1849, vice-ad- 

 miral in 1857, and admiral in 1862. 



March 3. OLAETE, General YINCEXTE, 

 President of the State of Panama, New Gra- 

 nada, died at Panama, of yellow fever, aged 

 40 years. He was a native of the State of 

 Santander. In 1865 he went to Panama, and 

 took up arms in favor of the constituted au- 

 thorities, against one of the rebellions which 

 frequently disturb the tranquillity of the 

 State. Leading the Government forces in 

 several successful engagements, he quelled the 

 insurrection. For this service he was named 

 commander-in-chief of the State forces. In 

 1866 he was elected President. Hia term had 

 seven months to run when death finished his 

 career. He was a man of undoubted bravery 

 and resolution, and the terror of his name was 

 a check upon the machinations of scheming 

 revolutionists. 



March 8. TUCKEB, EDWAED, an eminent 

 English botanist, died at Margate, aged 58 

 years. He was born in Stodmarsh, Tha- 

 net. While yet very young he evinced a strong 

 desire for the attainment of knowledge, and 

 was particularly interested in the study of 

 botany, which he followed through life. He 

 acquired a world- wide reputation, by his dis- 

 covery of the oidium, or microscopic fungus 

 causing the grape-disease. 



March 10. NEAVE, Sir RICHAED DIGBY, an 

 English scholar and author, died in London. 

 He was born December 9, 1793 ; graduated at 

 St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, in 1815, and suc- 

 ceeded his father in the baronetcy in 1848. 

 He was a* man of highly-cultivated mind, an 

 accomplished draughtsman, and a valuable 

 member of the Geographical Society. He was 

 the author of a work entitled " Four Days in 

 Oonnemara." 



March 11. CHEISTMAS (or NOEL-FEABN), 

 Rev. HENBY, an eminent English scholar and 

 author, died suddenly in London. He was 

 born in that city, in 1811 ; graduated at St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, in 1837, and, hav- 

 ing been ordained the same year, served some 

 minor 'appointments in the Church, and then 

 accepted the position of librarian and secretary 

 of Sion College. Subsequently he was elected 

 Professor of English History and Archaeology 

 to the Royal Society of Literature. He was 

 a fine classical scholar and mathematician, and 

 a most popular lecturer on a variety of subjects. 



Among his numerous published volumes may 

 be mentioned his "Universal Mythology," 

 "Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean," 

 " Christian Politics," "Preachers and Preach- 

 ing," " Echoes of the Universe," and " Cradle of 

 the Twin Giants," besides several translations 

 from Lamartine, Calmet and others. He was 

 also a frequent contributor to the periodical 

 literature of the day. His taste for numis- 

 matics resulted in a choice collection of coins, 

 which recently sold for a large sum. Mr. 

 Christmas was a member of several scientific 

 bodies in his own and other countries. 



March 11. VAISTDEE HOEVEN, Professor JAN, 

 an eminent naturalist, Professor of Geology at 

 the University of Leyden, died there. He 

 was born at Rotterdam in 1801, and was Fel- 

 low of many learned societies of his own and 

 other countries ; among the rest, the Linnsean 

 Society of London. 



March 15. LEE, Rev. ROBEET, D. D., Pro- 

 fessor of Biblical Criticism, in the University of 

 Edinburgh, and an author of high repute, died 

 at Torquay. He was born at Tweedmouth, 

 North Durham, in 1804, studied at St. An- 

 drew's from 1824 to 1832, and was elected 

 a minister of a chapel-of-ease at Arbroath, in 

 1833, from which he was translated to the par- 

 ish of Campsie, in 1836. In 1843 he became 

 minister of the Grey Friars Church, Edin- 

 burgh, and on the institution of a chair of 

 Biblical Criticism and Biblical Antiquities in 

 the University of Edinburgh, in 1846, was ap- 

 pointed the first professor. As a preacher, 

 and orator in the church courts he held a 

 high reputation, and his learning and ability 

 gave him a wide influence among the younger 

 clergy. Among his published works are "The 

 Theses of Erastes," translated in 1844, "A 

 Handbook of Devotion " (1845), " Thou art Peter, 

 a Discourse on Infallibility " (1851), and various 

 letters, sermons, and papers. Dr. Lee was 

 dean of the chapel royal, and a chaplain in or- 

 dinary to her Majesty in Scotland. 



March 27. FELLEE, Madame HESTEIETTA, 

 an accomplished and devoted missionary from 

 Switzerland to the French-Canadian Catho- 

 lics, died at Grand Ligne, Canada, aged about 

 80 years. She was a native of Switzer- 

 land, of a highly-educated and distinguished 

 family, and, after enjoying for years the pleas- 

 ures of cultivated, intellectual society, resolved, 

 soon after the death of her husband, to aban- 

 don her native land with all its advantages, to 

 carry intelligence and Christianity to the igno- 

 rant and benighted French-Canadians. She came 

 to Grand Ligne, Canada, in 1835, and imme- 

 diately commenced a school and mission. For 

 many years she was persecuted and maltreated 

 by the people she came to bless, her books 

 burned, her property destroyed, and even her ( 

 life endangered. But her gentleness, her be- 

 nevolence, and her strong faith and courage 

 prevailed over all opposition. The mission 

 grew and increased; several French Protestant 

 clergymen became connected with it, and with 



