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St. James Chronicle, which was established in 

 1761, and was first the partner of his father, 

 and eventually sole proprietor of that paper. 

 In 1827, the paper having become very pop-u- 

 lar under Dr. Giffard's editorship, Mr. Baldwin 

 determined to found a daily evening paper, 

 and on the 21st of May, in that year, estab- 

 lished the London Daily /Standard, of which 

 he continued to be a proprietor (though not 

 actively such for the last twenty-five years) 

 till his death. He was very enterprising in 

 obtaining the earliest news, and conducted his 

 paper, which was always the organ of the 

 Conservative party, with great ability and suc- 

 cess. He was the senior member of the Sta- 

 tioners' Company, and twice master of it. He 

 was also a member of the council, and treas- 

 urer of the Literary Fund for some years. 



Feb. 18. WEBB, Eev. JOHN, F. S. A., M. R. 

 S. L., an English clergyman, antiquarian, mu- 

 sical composer, and author ; died near Hay, 

 County Hereford, England, in his 93d year; 

 He was born and bred in London, educated at 

 St. Paul's School, London, and Wadham Col- 

 lege, Oxford, graduating in 1798. He held 

 several valuable livings during his sixty-nine 

 years of clerical service, the most impor- 

 tant being that of Rector of Tretire, 1812-1869, 

 and Vicar of St. John's, Cardiff, 1821-'63. He 

 was a most accomplished scholar almost uni- 

 versally accomplished though his favorite 

 pursuits were in the line of antiquarian re- 

 search and musical composition. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries 

 in 1819, and contributed to its Archceologia 

 five carefully-edited papers, several of them 

 nearly complete volumes in themselves. For 

 the Camden Society he prepared three volumes 

 of great value, and several tracts and papers 

 on the early history of Gloucester were also 

 from his pen. He was a poet of considerable 

 ability, and as a musical composer and adapter 

 he possessed great skill. He adapted much 

 of the music performed at the great musical 

 festivals in Birmingham, and wrote the libret- 

 tos for Mehul's Oratorio of Joseph, Haydn's 

 Seasons, Neukomm's David, and Mendelssohn's 

 Hebrew Mother. 



Feb. 22. BAENES, RALPH, an eminent jurist 

 and legal writer, Secretary to the Bishop of 

 Exeter ; died in Exeter, in the 88th year of his 

 age. He was born July 14, 1781, educated at 

 the Exeter Grammar School, studied law, and 

 was admitted as an attorney in 1802. He was 

 Secretary to the Bishop of Exeter from 1830 

 to 1869. He was the author of numerous legal 

 and semi-legal treatises, mostly on topics con- 

 nected with ecclesiastical law, on which he 

 had no superior in Great Britain. His " Trea- 

 tise on Equity Practice" has had a high repu- 

 tation both in Europe and the United States. 

 His intellectual powers and his ability to ex- 

 press his views clearly and forcibly continued 

 to the close of his life, as his " Remarks on the 

 Judicial Aspects of the Colenso Case," and his 

 "Thoughts on Mr. Gladstone's Chapter of 



Autobiography, in its Legal Aspect," evinced. 

 He was an earnest law ref brmer,'though a Con- 

 servative in politics ; in ecclesiastical antiqui- 

 ties he was an acknowledged authority. 



Feb. 23. DELAWARE, Rt. Hon. GEOBGE JOHN 

 SACKVILLE-WEST, fifth Earl, LL.D., D. C.L., 

 the senior member of the House of Peers, and 

 a member of H. M. Privy Council ; died at Buck- 

 hurst, England, in the 78th year of 'his age. 

 He was born in Saville Row, Middlesex, Octo- 

 ber 26, 1791, and became earl by the death of 

 his father, July 28, 1795. He was educated at 

 Harrow, where he was the intimate friend of 

 Lord Byron, and at Brasenose College, Oxford, 

 where he took his degree of B. A. in 1811. 

 He ranked high as a scholar, and was fond of 

 classical and literary pursuits through life. He 

 was Chamberlain of the Queen's Household 

 from 1841 to 1846, and from November, 1858, 

 to June, 1859. He was a liberal patron of 

 Sackville College, East Grimstead, and rebuilt 

 its chapel and hall, and restored its other 

 buildings at his own expense, in 1848. 



Feb. 23. KYLE, Rt. Rev. JAMES, D. D., 

 Bishop of Germanicia, in partibus infidelium, 

 and Vicar-Apostolic of the Roman Catholic 

 Church, in the Northern District of Scotland, 

 died at Preshome-in-the-Enzie, in the 81st 

 year of his age. He was born at Edinburgh, 

 September 22, 1788, and in 1799 sent to the 

 Catholic College of Aquhorties, on the banks 

 of the Don, to receive his education. He was 

 ordained a priest there in March, 1812, and 

 for two or three years following was a priest 

 in Glasgow. lie was recalled, in 1815, to 

 Aquhorties, as a professor, and attained a high 

 reputation both as a classical scholar and a 

 master of ecclesiastical history. In 1828 he 

 was called from his professorship to be the 

 first Bishop of the Northern District of Scot- 

 land, comprising the seven northern shires 

 and the northern part of Inverness. For over 

 forty years he had labored in this very hard 

 and difficult field with an assiduity and suc- 

 cess that were astonishing. Few men could 

 have accomplished as much in the same time, 

 and none could have done this work more 

 quietly and unobtrusively. 



Feb. 23. TOWNSEND, GEOEGE HEEBEET, an 

 English journalist and compiler ; died by his 

 own hand, in Kennington. He had received a 

 good education, and entered early upon jour- 

 nalism, advocating the measures of the Con- 

 servative party, and laboring very zealously 

 for them. In addition to his duties on the 

 daily press, he found time to compile an 

 "Epitome of Russell's Modern Europe," a 

 "Summary of Persian History," "The Manual 

 of Dates," a reference-book, first published in 

 1862, and a second edition in 1867, the seventh 

 edition of "Men of the Time," "The Hand- 

 book of the Year 1868," editions of Fielding's 

 " Tom Jones," and Smollett's "Roderick Ran- 

 dom," and several volumes of anecdotes, es- 

 says, etc. He had been promised by Mr. 

 Disraeli an appointment to a Government sit- 



