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charge d'affaires at the court of Persia. He 

 resigned his appointment at the court of Te- 

 heran in 1852, and was promoted to a colonel- 

 cy in 1855. 



Oct. . HlLDEBEANDT, EDOFARD, a g6O- 



graphical painter, died in Berlin. He was born 

 in Dantzic, and had made a considerable local 

 reputation as a landscape-painter when, through 

 the influence of Humboldt, he was sent to Bra- 

 zil to paint the scenery of that country. After- 

 ward he came to this country, and established 

 himself in New York, but his success not meet- 

 ing his expectations, he returned to Prussia and 

 won some fame. His pictures were more val- 

 uable as scientific records of scenery than at- 

 tractive to the public generally. 



Oct. . SIAM, PHEA-BAED-SAMDETCH-PHEA- 

 PHAEAMENDE-MAHA-MONKUT, first King of, 

 died at Bangkok. He was born about 1805, 

 and succeeded his father, Eheu Din Klang, in 

 1825, by right of his being eldest son of the 

 Queen. He was, however, set aside by one of 

 his elder brothers, and became a Buddhist 

 monk, devoting a large portion of his time to 

 studying dead and modern languages. He ac- 

 quired a familiar knowledge of the sciences, 

 spoke English with great fluency, and was a 

 member of the Asiatic Society of Great Britain. 

 Upon the death of his brother, in April, 1856, he 

 ascended the throne. Discarding the monastic 

 dress, he took the above title, and immediately 

 instituted several reforms, among which, it may 

 be remarked, that he exercised his troops ac- 

 cording to the European system, established a 

 royal printing-press, and granted freedom of 

 worship. In April, 1855, he concluded a 

 treaty of commerce with Great Britain, and in 

 1856 similar treaties with France and the 

 United States. He paid great attention to 

 the development of the internal resources of 

 his kingdom, and caused numerous roads, 

 canals, etc., to be constructed in various parts 

 of Siani. In 1868 he aiforded every possible 

 facility for enabling scientific men, coming from 

 other countries, to take observations of the 

 eclipse. 



Oct. . TOMMY, a Japanese youth, an at- 

 tache of the Japanese embassy, which visited 

 the United States in 1860, was killed in one of 

 the late actions near Neegata. His bravery 

 had won for him several promotions. While 

 in this country his brilliancy and quickness of 

 intellect made him a special favorite with the 

 public. 



Nov. 9. JOHNSON, Hon. JOHN MEECEE, mem- 

 ber of the Dominion Parliament for Northum- 

 berland, N. B. ; died there, aged 50 years. He 

 was born in Liverpool, England, whence his 

 father, who was a timber-merchant, emigrated 

 to New Brunswick. The son, having been edu- 

 cated in the Northumberland County Gram- 

 mar School, was admitted to the bar in 1840. 

 He soon became a member of the Provincial 

 Legislature, and in 1854 was made Solicitor- 

 General. In 1847 he was made Postmaster- 

 General, and was afterward Speaker of the 



House and Attorney-General. He was a mem- 

 ber of tne Conference which met in Quebec in 

 1864, and of the London Conference which 

 settled the details of the Confederation Act. 

 When the Union became a fact, he presented 

 himself for election to the voters of Northum- 

 berland, and was returned by a large majority. 



Nov. 10. HASTINGS, , Marquis of, a 



young English nobleman, died in London, at 

 the age of 26 years. He inherited at an early 

 age a large fortune, consisting principally of 

 landed estates, but his inordinate love for the 

 sports of the turf and his reckless expenditures 

 in different directions speedily reduced him to 

 bankruptcy, and sent him to an early grave. 



Nov. 12. HAVIN, LEONOR JOSEPH, a French 

 publicist and editor, died in Paris. He was 

 born in 1799, at Saint L6, and received Ms 

 education in his native land, but his father, 

 having been a member of the National Conven- 

 tion that decreed the death of Louis XVI., was 

 included in the list of proscribed regicides 

 drawn up on the restoration of the Bourbons 

 to the throne of France, and being compelled 

 to leave his country in 1816, his son accom- 

 panied him, sharing his exile till 1820. On his 

 return to France, the future journalist joined 

 the young men of the Liberal party, and in 

 1830 was elected a deputy from the provinces 

 of the west, charged with the duty of instruct- 

 ing the Provisional Government as to the 

 wants and views of the people of the depart- 

 ments. In 1839 he was chosen Secretary of 

 the Chamber of Deputies, to which he had 

 been elected from Saint L6 in 1861, but his 

 liberal views made him obnoxious to the Gov- 

 ernment, and in 1842, through ministerial in- 

 fluence, he lost his position. Still retaining his 

 seat, however, he ranged himself beside Odillon 

 Barrot, with whom he almost constantly acted 

 in the opposition. In the reform agitation he 

 took a principal part in organizing the banquet 

 of Thorigny, which led to such important re- 

 sults. After the revolution of February he 

 was elected by an overwhelming vote to the 

 Constituent Assembly, and on all political and 

 social questions voted with the Eight till De- 

 cember. When Louis Napoleon had been 

 elected President, Havin, allying himself with 

 the Democratic party, exerted himself greatly 

 to prolong the existence of the Constituent 

 Assembly. He was subsequently elected mem- 

 ber of the Council of State; and, in 1863, as an 

 opposition candidate, he was chosen to the 

 Corps L6gislatif, both for Paris and Manche, 

 but decided to sit for the latter. His fame 

 rests principally upon his management of the 

 Siecle, of which journal he was editor for sev- 

 eral years, conducting it with a judgment and 

 an ability that have given it a foremost rank 

 among the political journals of France, and se- 

 cured for it a circulation not exceeded perhaps 

 by that of any newspaper of the same class in 

 France. 



j) eCt 6. SOHLEICHEE, AUGUST, an eminent 

 German philologist and author, died at Jena. 



