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his high character for integrity were, however, 

 not popular in a Parliament so venal as the 

 first to which he was elected, but in subse- 

 quent years he made his influence felt in favor 

 of liberal reforms. The Concordat, which he 

 had so long fought, was abolished on the day 

 he was buried. 



May . SUBNET, JOHN, an eminent en- 

 graver, and author of works on art, died in 

 London, aged 84 years. He was a native of 

 Scotland, and relative of Bishop Burnet, of 

 Salisbury. Removing to London, he devoted 

 himself to the art of etching and engraving, 

 and rapidly rose to fame and independence. 

 His engravings of Wilkie's and Rembrandt's 

 pictures in the London National Gallery were 

 specimens of a high order of artistic skill. He 

 was the author of a work entitled " Practical 

 Hints on Painting." 



May . COBMENIN, Louis MABIE DE LA 

 HATE, Yicomte de, a distinguished French 

 jurist and publicist, died in Paris. He was 

 born in Paris, January 6, 1788, and was edu- 

 cated for the law. In 1810 he was appointed 

 auditor of the Council of State, and drew up 

 several of its most important reports. In 1828 

 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, 

 and was reflected from that time until 1846. 

 His extensive knowledge of jurisprudence, and 

 of the practical affairs of government, and the 

 clear and logical force with which he could 

 present his ideas, either by speech or writing, 

 secured him an immense influence in public 

 affairs. After the revolution of 1848 he had 

 the honor of being elected to the Chamber by 

 four departments, and was nominated presi- 

 dent of the commission for remodelling the 

 constitution. In this capacity he strongly ad- 

 vocated universal suffrage. After the coup 

 &etat he was appointed member of the Coun- 

 cil of State. In 1855 he was elected a mem- 

 ber of the Institute. Besides his many pam- 

 phlets, Cormenin was the author of " Etudes 

 sur les Orateurs Parlementaires " (two vol- 

 umes), and a valuable work on the administra- 

 tive law of France. 



June 4. WAED, NATHANIEL BAGSHAW, 

 F. R. S., an eminent surgeon and botanist, died in 

 London. After some years of devotion to his 

 professional duties, he retired therefrom, and 

 pursued his favorite study of natural history. 

 He was the inventor of the " Wardian Cases," 

 in which the beautiful ferns of tropical climates 

 are transferred to other countries. His ex- 

 quisite " Fernery " was at one time one of the 

 sights of London. 



June 5. SHEEWSBUET, HENEY JOHN CHET- 

 WYND TALBOT, eighteenth Earl of, and third 

 Earl Talbot, an admiral of the British Navy, 

 died at Shrewsbury, England. He was born 

 in 1803, entered the Royal Navy in 1817, took 

 part in the battle of Navarino in 1826, was 

 made a captain in 1827, and at the time of his 

 death was an admiral on the reserved list. As 

 a member of the House of Commons, from 

 1830 to 1832, and again from 1837 to 1849, he 



was a strong supporter of the Conservative 

 party, but never won any distinction. On his 

 father's death in 1849, he succeeded to the 

 earldom of Talbot. In 1857, on the death of 

 Bertram, seventeenth Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl 

 Talbot laid claim to the earldom of Shrews- 

 bury, and in 1858 this claim was recognized 

 by the House of Lords. As Earl Shrewsbury 

 he was Premier Earl of England. 



June 14. SMITH, Major HENEY, Royal Ma- 

 rines, an accomplished antiquarian, botanist, 

 and amateur actor, died at Southsea, Hants, 

 aged 75 years. He was born in the Isle of 

 Wight ; entered the Royal Marine Corps toward 

 the close of the war between Great Britain 

 and France, and held repeated commands un- 

 der Sir Charles Napier, whose friendship he 

 ever maintained. Repeated appointments to 

 the Mediterranean station enabled him to em- 

 ploy his leisure in antiquarian excursions and . 

 in the study of music. As a botanist he 

 earned considerable reputation, and for many 

 years was engaged in th compilation of a 

 work somewhat on the plan of Paxton's " Bo- 

 tanical Dictionary." He also left in manu- 

 script a vocabulary of words peculiar to the 

 Isle of Wight. He had some dramatic talent, 

 which was developed by amateur performances 

 in some of the chief Italian cities, and also in 

 England, by which large sums were raised for 

 charitable purposes. 



June 16. CEISP, Rev. T. S., D. D., an Eng- 

 lish Baptist* clergyman, died at Gotham, Bris- 

 tal, aged 80 years. He was educated in an 

 independent college, and in one of the uni- 

 versities of Scotland, but subsequently, having 

 adopted Baptist views, became joint tutor in 

 the Baptist College in Bristol, and was co- 

 pastor with Dr. Ryland in 1818. Upon the 

 demise of Dr. Ryland, Dr. Crisp became presi- 

 dent of the college, and in this relation, and 

 that of Broadmead Church as co-pastor, he 

 was associated with such illustrious men as 

 Robert Hall, John Foster, and Dr. Summers. 

 The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 

 upon him by an American college. Dr. Crisp 

 was a man of fine scholarship, but of singular 

 modesty and even diffidence. 



June 16. PONSONBY, Colonel AETHUE E. V., 

 an officer of the British Army, died of cholera, 

 at Jubbulpore. He was born at Yaletta, in 

 1827, while his father, Sir Frederick Ponson- 

 by, was Governor of Malta ; entered the army 

 in 1852, and served on the mountains and in 

 the kloofs of Kaffirland. In 1854 he was 

 transferred to the Grenadier Guards, and was 

 employed in the Crimea on the staff of Sir 

 George Brown and Sir W. Codrington. At 

 the conclusion of the war, he was appointed 

 aide-de-camp to Sir G. Buller in the Ionian 

 Isles. In 1864 he was in command of a corps 

 stationed in Kildare, where he had the oppor-" 

 tunity of carrying out a favorite idea of em- 

 ploying soldiers in industrial pursuits as the 

 best mode of preventing vice. In furtherance 

 of this object, he established a military exhibi- 



