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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



July 21. TrioMAS, GEOEGE HOTJSMAN, a 

 distinguished English artist and designer, died 

 at Boulogne, France. He was born in London, 

 December 7, 1824, studied engraving in Paris, 

 and in 1845 came to the "United States and ac- 

 cepted an engagement to illustrate a newspaper. 

 After the expiration of about two years he went 

 to Italy, and was in Rome during the siege of 

 that city by the French. Many of his sketches 

 of the siege appeared in The Illustrated Lon- 

 don News at the time, and on his return to 

 England, in 1849, he painted a picture of " Gari- 

 baldi at the Siege of Rome," which was exhib- 

 ited at the Royal Academy. His drawings in 

 The Illustrated News attracted the attention 

 of Queen Victoria, and he received a commis- 

 sion from her Majesty to paint "The Queen 

 Giving the Medals to the Crimean Heroes," ex- 

 hibited at the Academy. Until very recently, 

 much of his time had been taken up by designs 

 for books ; and ill-health, from which he suffered 

 for many years, prevented him from giving his 

 time entirely to painting. 



July 30. GAENEE, THOMAS, a distinguished 

 line engraver, died at Birmingham, at an ad- 

 vanced age. His chief engravings in the pure 

 line style were the small series of Hogarth's 

 "Rake's Progress," many of Daniel's Indian 

 subjects, and some of the Art Journal engrav- 

 ings. Mr. Garner was a member of the Royal 

 Birmingham Society of Artists. 



July . LIMAYEAO, PATJLIN, an able politi- 

 cal and belles-lettres writer, died in Paris. He 

 was born at Caussade, February 20, 1817, and 

 began his literary career in 1840. From 1843 

 to 1845 he was one of the editors of the Revue 

 des Deux Mondes, and contributed to other pe- 

 riodicals. In 1849 he wrote a five-act comedy, 

 "La Comedie en Espagne," which, though 

 never played, owing to political events, obtained 

 >for him, in 1855, the Cross of Commander of 

 the Order of Charles III. of Spain. From 1852 

 to 1855 he was literary editor of the. Presse 

 newspaper, and in May, 1856, he became one 

 of the political editors of the Constitutionnel. 

 He was also a writer for the Patrie, and in 

 June, 1861, became editor-in-chief of the Pays, 

 a position he left in October of the same year 

 for the Constitutionnel. He was decorated 

 with the Legion of Honor in 1856, and in 1861 

 was promoted to be a Grand Officer. 



Aug. 2. BLAKENEY, Field-Marshal Sir ED- 

 WAED, G. 0. B., Governor of Chelsea Hospital, 

 and senior officer in the British Army ; died at 

 the Hospital, agod 90 years. He entered the 

 army at an early age ; saw service in the West 

 Indies ; took part in the expedition to Holland ; 

 served through the Peninsular campaigns with 

 distinction, winning much honor at Ciudad 

 Rodrigo, Badajoz, Yittoria, and Pampeluna. 

 In 1814 he served in America, <and the follow- 

 ing year at Waterloo. From 1838 he held for 

 many years command of the forces in Ireland. 

 In 1855 he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor 

 of Chelsea Hospital, and upon the death of Sir 

 Colin Halkett, two months after, was made 



Governor. Sir Edward held a commission 

 seventy-four years. In 1862 he received the 

 baton of a field-marshal. 



Aug. 3. PEETHES, BOUCHEE DE CEEVECCEUR, 

 founder of the science of Paleontology, and an 

 eminent geologist, died at Abbeville, France, 

 aged 80 years. He was the first to call the at- 

 tention of the scientific world to those remark- 

 able relics of the earliest ages, the flint imple- 

 ments used by man before the discovery of 

 metals. After enduring the ridicule of the 

 incredulous as a visionary, he succeeded in 

 proving that there had been in Europe an age 

 of stone. His valuable collection of flint im- 

 plements now forms an important part of the 

 Gallo-Roman Museum, at St. Germain. 



Aug. 5. LTJSHINGTO:N", Rt. Hon. STEPHEN 

 RTTMBOLD, M. P., formerly Secretary of the 

 Treasury, and Governor of Madras, died in 

 Kent, aged 93 years. He was the son of the 

 late Rev. J. S. Lushington, .was born in 1775, 

 and received his education at Rugby. He was 

 returned to the House of Commons as member 

 for Rye, in 1807, and afterward for Canterbury. 

 He was for nearly fourteen years chairman of 

 "Ways and Means in the House of Commons, 

 and from 1814 till 1827 Joint Secretary to the 

 Treasury. From 1827 till 1832 he was Governor 

 of Madras, and while holding that position he 

 published the " Life and Services of General 

 Lord Harris," whose daughter he married. He 

 was sworn a Privy Councillor in 1827, and was 

 created an honorary D. 0. L., by the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford. 



Aug. 10. COOKE, JOHN DOUGLAS, an English 

 journalist, died in London. He served an early 

 apprenticeship to the press, having been con- 

 nected from his youth with both daily and 

 weekly papers ; was for some years editor of 

 the London Morning Chronicle, and since that 

 time, of the Saturday Review. Though not a 

 great writer, he was a journalist in the most 

 practical sense of the word, his administrative 

 ability, taste, and judgment enabling him to 

 meet the requirements of the time, and gratify, 

 while moulding, the public taste. 



Aug. 14. HIGGINS, MATTHEW JAMES, better 

 known to the reading world as "Jacob Om- 

 nium," died at his residence in London, 

 aged about 53 years. He was educated at 

 Eton, where he was the contemporary of Mr. 

 Gladstone, and afterward graduated at New 

 College, Oxford. For several years he held a 

 commission in the British Army. He was for 

 a long period an attache" of the London Times, 

 and a valued contributor to many of the Eng- 

 lish periodicals. At first he wrote over va- 

 rious nommes de plume, but he finally adopt- 

 ed that of " Jacob Omnium." His style was 

 terse and vigorous, and as a satirist he was so 

 severe as to inspire fear. He wa's a man of 

 sterling honesty, dauntless courage, and yet 

 possessing a remarkably genial nature. 



Aug. 25. VAX LENNEP, JACOB, a brilliant 

 Dutch writer and novelist, died at Amsterdam, 

 lie was born in 1802. He was the author of a 



