600 OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



OHIO. 



He was born at Meiningen, March 11, 1821, 

 and was educated at the Universities of Leip- 

 sic and Tubingen, at the latter of which he 

 was a pupil of Ewald, under whom he studied 

 the Semitic languages, as well as the Sanscrit 

 and the Persic. After spending two years with 

 Ewald, he went to Bonn, where he devoted 

 himself wholly to philology, going through a 

 regular course of study in both the classical 

 and the Oriental languages, under the most dis- 

 tinguished professors. Subsequently he occu- 

 pied professional chairs in the Universities of 

 Prague and Jena. He repeatedly declined the 

 most honorable appointments in Russia, but, at 

 the request and at the expense of the Imperial 

 Academy of St. > Petersburg, wrote a series of 

 works for the promotion of the study of Sla- 

 vonic philology. 



Dec. 9. DENOYER, Louis, a French jour- 

 nalist and novelist, died in Paris. He was one 

 of the founders of the Charivari and the 

 Siecle. 



Dec. 27. BEERSKI, Count JOHN DE, a Rus- 

 sian nobleman and officer in the Russian Army, 

 died in Rochester, N. Y., aged about 70 years. 

 He was of noble birth, and inherited a large 

 and valuable estate near Moscow, together 

 with 250 serfs ; but at an early age entered the 

 army, and was in the campaign against the 

 Turks in 1825. He distinguished himself in 

 the army, and was promoted to the rank of 

 lieutenant-colonel. On his return to St. Peters- 

 burg, filled with ideas of liberty which he 

 could not suppress, he emancipated his serfs. 

 In 1826, when Nicholas succeeded to the 

 throne, the count compromised himself in the 

 insurrection of that year, and was obliged to 

 leave his native country and all his possessions, 

 and seek in other countries that liberty of 

 thought and action denied him in his own. He 

 reached Hamburg in safety, and soon began to 

 realize the embarrassment of his situation. Ac- 

 customed to wealth and luxury, he now found 

 it necessary to do something to procure the 

 means of subsistence. He was a proficient in 

 . eight or ten languages, and thought of offering 

 himself as a teacher, but very soon abandoned 

 the idea. He had cultivated somewhat a taste 

 for drawing, and one day, while examining an 

 ivory miniature, the thought occurred to him 

 to make an effort to paint miniatures. His 

 first attempt was the production of a marvel- 

 lously correct likeness of a young English lady, 

 without any sitting. Thus he began, and in a 

 short time his works attracted the attention of 

 prominent officers in the Danish Army, by 

 whom he was introduced to the court of the 

 King of Denmark, and recommended to the 

 King of Prussia. Subsequently Count de Beer- 

 ski removed to Paris, where he continued to 

 attract great notice as an artist. His paintings, 

 which were exhibited at the Crystal Palace, 

 at the World's Fair, in London, 1851, won the 

 first premium. He was afterward employed 

 to paint the royal family of Great Britain. In 

 1859 he came to the United States, whose free 



institutions he greatly admired, and thenceforth 

 made this country his home. 



Dec. 27. MAYNE, Sir RICHARD, K. 0. B., 

 Commissioner of London Police, died in that 

 city, aged 72 years. He was a native of Ire- 

 land, and was educated at Trinity College, 

 Dublin, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 where he graduated in 1821. The following 

 year he was admitted to the bar at Lincoln's 

 Inn. In 1829, upon the organization of the 

 present London police force, he was appointed 

 one of the commissioners, and his executive 

 ability and untiring energy did much toward 

 rendering that organization so effective. He 

 was a man of marked eccentricity and some- 

 times was severe in his ideas of discipline, and 

 the riot of Hyde Park was mainly the result of 

 his attempt to suppress the Sunday meetings 

 of workingmen. With all his eccentricities, 

 however, he was an excellent officer. 



Dec. . DELAVIGNE, GERMAIN, a dramatic 

 writer, brother of Casimir Delavigne, died at 

 Montmorency, France, aged 79 years. In 1811 

 and 1813 he produced the "Dervis," the "Au- 

 berge," and "Thibault." He was the friend 

 and colaborer of Scribe, with whom he 

 brought out the "Magon" in 1823, the "Mu- 

 ette" in 1828, the u Somnambule " in 1829, the 

 "Mysteries d'Udolphe" in 1852, and the "Non- 

 ne Sanglante " in 1854. In conjunction with 

 his brother Casimir, he was the author of 

 " Charles the Sixth," played for the first time 

 in 1843. 



Dec. . MALLEFILLE, FELICIEN, a well- 

 known French dramatist, died in Paris, aged 

 56 years. He was born in the Isle of France. 

 His first dramatic composition was " Glenar- 

 von," represented in 1835 at the Ambigu Co- 

 mique. From that time forward he wrote con- 

 stantly for the stage. Among the best-known 

 of his works are "Psyche," played at the Vau- 

 deville in 1845; "Forta Spada," produced at 

 the Gaite in 1849 ; "Le Coeur et la Dot " and 

 " Les Deux Veuves," both brought out at the 

 Theatre Frangais, the former in 1858, and the 

 latter in 1860 ; and " Les Meres Repenties," 

 produced at the Porte St. Martin and repro- 

 duced at the Vaudeville. His "Susceptiques," 

 written last year for the Theatre Francais, but 

 played at the Theatre Cluny, was also a great 

 success. At the time of his death M. Malle- 

 fille was engaged upon the composition of a 

 piece for M. Harmant of the Vaudeville, en- 

 titled "Le Gentilhomme Bourgeois," which 

 remains unfinished. 



OHIO. The Legislature of this State met 

 on the first Monday in January, and continued 

 in session until the 18th of May, when it ad- 

 journed to meet again on the 23d of November. 

 Rutherford B. Hayes, elected in the preceding 

 fall by the Republican voters for Governor of 

 the State, was inaugurated soon after the 

 opening of the session. The Legislature itself 

 had a small Democratic majority in both 

 branches. 



One of the propositions introduced at this 



