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the schools, and Madame Feller for years past 

 lias been recognized by both Catholics and 

 Protestants as the benefactor and friend of the 

 Canadian French of all that region. She had 

 sacrificed her own private fortune in the work 

 long since, and it has been sustained, in part, 

 for many years by contributions from persons 

 of different religious denominations in the 

 United States, who had known her and her 

 abundant and self-sacrificing labors. Even to 

 her last moments her interest in her mission 

 continued, the "ruling passion, strong in death." 



March 28. JESSE, EDWARD, an eminent Eng- 

 lish naturalist and voluminous author, died in 

 Brighton. He was born in the county of 

 Yorkshire, January 14, 1780; was educated 

 under a clergyman at Leicester, and under a 

 French Protestant at Bristol, and in 1798 was 

 appointed to a clerkship in the San Domingo 

 office. Subsequently he was private secretary 

 to Lord Dartmouth, held some important mil- 

 itary commissions, and was appointed deputy 

 surveyor of the royal parks and palaces, besides 

 holding other offices under royal patronage. 

 He was the author of many works upon natural 

 history, among which were "Favorite Haunts 

 and Rural Studies," "Scenes and Tales of 

 Country Life," and "Lectures on Natural His- 

 tory." 



March . HASHEM, General, chief of the Tu- 

 nisian embassy, which visited the United States 

 in 1864, died in Tunis. He was a man of 

 good education and fine intellectual ability. 



March . MONNAIS, EDOUARD, a French 

 dramatic author, died in Paris, aged 70 years. 

 He had in his day filled the post of dramatic 

 critic to several journals. His best known 

 plays were "Le Demande en Mariage," "Le 

 Secret d'Etat," "Un Menage Parisien," "Sul- 

 tana," and "La Yeuve Grapin." He wrote 

 also several miscellaneous works, including 

 "Esquieses de la Vied' Artistes," "Ephem&ri- 

 des," etc., and was the author of innumerable 

 cantatas. In 1849 he was created Chevalier of 

 the Legion of Honor. 



March . VIEIVILLE,YALLET DE, an eminent 

 French archaeologist and author, died in Paris, 

 aged 53 yeara. He wrote much upon educa- 

 tion, and was the author of "Historical Ar- 

 chives of the Department of Aube and Dio- 

 cese of Troyes," " Memoir upon the Conquests 

 of Egypt," "History of Public Instruction in 

 Europe and especially in France," "Histoire 

 Iconography of France," etc. 



April 7. CHADS, Sir HENRY DUCIE, G. C. 

 B., an Admiral of the British Navy, died at 

 Southsea, Hants, aged 80 years. He entered 

 the Naval Academy -at Portsmouth in 

 1800, the navy in September, 1803; distin- 

 guished himself as lieutenant at the conquest 

 of the Isle of Bourbon in 1810 ; was appointed 

 to the command of the Arachne in 1823 ; took 

 part in the Burmese War, was made post-cap- 

 tain and 0. B. for his, services; forced the 

 passage of the Boca Tigris in China in Septem- 

 ber, 1834, and cleared the Straits of Malacca of 



pirates in 1836-'37 ; was promoted commodore 

 in 1844, and Superintendent of the Royal Na- 

 val College at Portsmouth from 1844 to 1854. 

 In that year he attained the rank of rear-ad- 

 miral; was fourth and finally third in com- 

 mand in the Baltic ; was nominated K. C. B. 

 in 1855. He was subsequently commander-in 

 chief of Cork ; became vice-admiral in 1858, 

 and admiral in 1863. In 1865 he was nomin- 

 ated G. 0. B., and retired on a good service 

 pension. 



April 7. McGEE, THOMAS DAROY, an Irish 

 political leader, journalist, and orator, a mem- 

 ber of the Canadian Cabinet since 1864, born 

 in Carlingford, Ireland, April 13, 1825 ; assas- 

 sinated by an Irishman by the name of Whelan 

 or Whalen in Ottawa, Canada. His father was 

 a custom-house officer in Wexford, Ireland, 

 and in that town young McGee was educated. 

 In 1842 he emigrated to the United States, 

 and obtained a position on the Boston press. 

 At the commencement of the Young Ireland 

 movement in 1848, he returned to Ireland, and 

 as one of the editorial staff of the Nation 

 newspaper was active in the Young Ireland 

 party. When this emeute was quelled, he, 

 more fortunate than most of his comrades, 

 eluded the British detectives, and made his 

 escape again to America. Here he founded 

 and edited a journal which he named the 

 American Celt, and for some years advocated, 

 with great zeal and brilliancy, the claims of 

 Ireland to an independent nationality and a 

 Republican form of government. During the 

 Know-Nothing movement of 1854-'56, his 

 views underwent a change, and he became an 

 ardent royalist, and the sympathies of his 

 countrymen being turned against him, and 

 their leading men denouncing him publicly, 

 he removed to Canada, where he was very 

 cordially received by the royalists, to whom 

 his fiery eloquence, and his brilliant abilities 

 as a writer and politician, were of great value. 

 In 1857 the citizens of Montreal chose him as 

 their representative in the Canadian Parliament. 

 In 1864 he was appointed president of the 

 Executive Council, and held that position till 

 1867, when he was reflected to the Parliament 

 of the New Dominion of Canada, and was 

 appointed Minister of Agriculture in the new 

 Cabinet. He was also Chief Commissioner 

 from Canada to . the late Paris Exposition, as 

 he had been to the previous one and the Dub- 

 lin Exhibition. He was the author of several 

 works, the most important of which were 

 "Lives of Irish Writers," and "Popular His- 

 tory of Ireland." He had been bitterly hostile 

 to the Fenian movement from its inception, 

 and his assassination was probably due to this 

 hostility. 



April 8. WETHERALL, Sir GEORGE AUGUS- 

 TUS, G. C. B., Governor of the Royal Military 

 College at Sandhurst, and late Adjutant-Gen- 

 eral of the English Army, died at Sandhurst. 

 He was born in 1788, educated in the Senior 

 Department of the Royal Military College, and 



