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j arlt . HUET, PAUL, an eminent French 

 landscape-painter ; died in Paris. He was born 

 in that city October 3, 1804, and educated in 

 the School of Fine Arts, and in the ateliers of 

 Paul Guerin and Baron Gros. From 1824 to 

 1827 he travelled extensively in Europe and 

 the East, sketching everywhere the landscapes 

 which pleased him. On his return to France 

 he exhibited in 1827, at the hall of the School 

 of Fine Arts, a view of La Fere, and except in 



1839 and 1844, when he was absent in Italy, 

 he had one or more of his landscapes in the 

 annual expositions for forty years. His land- 

 scapes have a high rank as the best and most 

 characteristic examples of the modern French 

 school. He received a second medal in 1833, 

 for his " Entrance to the Forest of Compiegne, 

 and View of the Guardhouse ; " a first medal 

 at the Exposition of 1848, and the grand medal 

 at the International Exhibition of 1855. In 

 June, 1841, the King (Louis Philippe) confer- 

 red upon him the decoration of the Legion of 

 Honor. 



Jan. . OELCKEES, THEODOR, a German 

 scholar, author, and radical; died at Leipsic, 

 aged 53 years. From 1849 to 1858 he was 

 imprisoned for political causes. He was the 

 author of forty-two original volumes and 

 seventy -two translations. 



Jan. . VEECELLONE, Father, a learned 

 Barnabite monk ; died at Rome. He was the 

 author of several learned works on Scriptural 

 exegesis, and shortly before his death was em- 

 ployed in editing the famous Greek Bible of 

 the Vatican. 



Feb. 1. CHURCHILL, Colonel, an eccentric 

 English officer and author; died suddenly at 

 Beirut. He married an Arab princess some 

 years since. His principal works were "Mount 

 Lebanon ; a Ten Years' Residence, from 1842 

 to 1852," 3 vols. 8vo, and "The Druses and 

 the Maronites, under the Turkish Rule, from 



1840 to 1860," 8vo, 1862. 



Feb. 3. KEELEY, ROBERT, an English come- 

 dian of great 'celebrity; died in London, aged 

 75 years. He was born in London, and early 

 apprenticed to the printing trade, but after 

 three years' probation turned his attention to 

 the stage. Having won some success in Lynn 

 and Birmingham, he went to the metropolis 

 and entered into an engagement at the Olym- 

 pic, and the following year at Drury Lane, and 

 in 1821 joined the Adelphi Company. In 

 1822 he made his first appearance at Covent 

 Garden, under the auspices of Charles Kemble, 

 and there secured a high reputation for his 

 originality. Here he married Miss Goward, an 

 actress, with whom, after a few years of suc- 

 cessful engagements, he went into the prov- 

 inces on a starring tour. Subsequently they 

 performed at the Princess's Theatre and with 

 the Haymarket Company. His last appear- 

 ance in public was at the Dramatic College 

 fete in 1867. 



Feb. 7. HODGSON; JOSEPH, F. R. S., Presi-. 

 dent of the Royal College of Surgeons ; died 

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in London, aged 81 years. He was born in Bir- 

 mingham, and educated at King Edward VI.'s 

 School. His medical studies were pursued in 

 London at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 

 1811 he received his diploma as a member of 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, win- 

 ning the Jacksonian prize for his "Essay on 

 Diseases of the Arteries and Veins," which 

 was the basis of a larger work on the same 

 subject, published in 1815. The same work 

 was subsequently translated into French, Ger- 

 man, and Italian, and reprinted in America. 

 After practising for a time in London, Mr. Hodg- 

 son settled in Birmingham, where he soon ob- 

 tained throughout the midland counties a very 

 extensive practice. He was surgeon to the 

 Birmingham Hospital, and the Eye Infirmary. 

 He was a remarkably skilful operator, and 

 was especially renowned for his operations for 

 stone. Having acquired a large fortune through 

 his profession, he removed to London in 1849, 

 and was immediately elected on the Council of 

 the College of Surgeons. In 1855 he delivered 

 the Hunterian Oration; the next year was 

 chosen examiner at the college, and in 1864 

 filled the office of president. During his resi- 

 dence in London he was in great demand as 

 a consulting physician. He was the favorite 

 medical adviser of Sir Robert Peel, and attended 

 that statesman in his last hours. During the 

 last years of his life Mr. Hodgson was afflicted 

 with failing sight, and a few weeks previous 

 to his death became totally blind. 



Feb. 8. JOEDON, EDWAED, a quadroon states- 

 man, Colonial Secretary of Jamaica, W. I. ; 

 died at Kingston, aged 68 years. In the days 

 of his youth and early manhood he suffered, in 

 common with the whole of his class, from the 

 social proscription and political disabilities to 

 which the colored people were at that time 

 subjected in all the West-India colonies of Eng- 

 land. But, having received a good education, 

 and being of a sensitive nature, he commenced 

 a course of agitation with the view of obtaining 

 for the free colored population the political 

 rights which belonged to them as British sub- 

 jects. Having succeeded in securing these, he 

 immediately became a zealous advocate of 

 emancipation, calling upon his enfranchised 

 countrymen of the colored class to unite with 

 the antislavery party of England in bringing 

 about the abolition of slavery. For certain 

 expressions used in a newspaper of which he 

 was editor, relative to the approaching doom 

 of the system, he was put on his trial for trea- 

 son, with the certainty of being hanged if con- 

 victed; but the firmness of one man on the 

 jury that sat on his trial saved his life. It was 

 not long after this event that slavery received 

 its death-blow in the British West Indies by 

 the passing of the Emancipation Act, about 

 which time Jordon was elected a member of 

 the Jamaica House of Assembly. Thencefor- 

 ward he rose step by step, until he obtained 

 the highest positions in the colony, having been 

 successively member of the Privy Council, 



