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made a canon of Notre Dame. Dr. Gaume 

 was a very able and voluminous writer both 

 on theological and educational topics ; his re- 

 ligious works number over forty volumes, the 

 greater part of them devoted to the exposition 

 of the duties, hopes, fears, and future, of the 

 Christian life. He was also the translator of 

 several of the works of St. Alphonse Liguori 

 into French ; among these, his version of " The 

 Clock of the Passion " was very popular. He 

 was very active in the promotion of a move- 

 ment to substitute, in the secondary schools of 

 France, portions of the works of the Christian 

 fathers for the pagan classics, the influence of 

 which he believed to be injurious to the young, 

 and had prepared, in accordance with this 

 idea, a library of thirty volumes of Christian 

 classics, Latin and Greek, and two volumes of 

 "Profane Poets and Prose Writers completely 

 expurgated." He had also written several 

 works ably defending his educational views. 



March, . SINCLAIR, PETER, a distinguished 

 Scottish reformer, lecturer, and temperance 

 advocate ; died in the street, in Chicago, 111., 

 of disease of the heart, aged about 60 years. 

 He had long been prominent in all beneficent 

 reforms in Scotland, was a promoter of tem- 

 perance societies, popular education, savings- 

 banks, emigration, etc. During the late civil 

 war in this country, he was one of the most 

 fearless and unflinching advocates of the Union 

 cause in Scotland, and, after its close, he took 

 an active part in the promotion of the emigra- 

 tion of working-men from Scotland on a large 

 scale, and had visited the United States to 

 make arrangements for it. He was the inti- 

 mate friend of De Quincey, Jeffrey, Hugh 

 Miller, and other literary and scientific men 

 of Scotland, of the present and the last gen- 

 eration. 



April 2. BRIDGES, Rev. CHARLES, M. A., 

 an evangelical clergyman of the Church of 

 England, and author of religious works ; died 

 at the rectory of Hint on Martell, aged 75 

 years. He graduated at Queen's College, Cam- 

 bridge, in 1818, was ordained deacon in 1817, 

 and priest in the following year. In 1823 he 

 was presented to the rectory of Old Newton, 

 near Stow Market, Suffolk, which he held 

 until 1849. He was next presented to the rec- 

 tory of Weymouth, and in 1855 to that of 

 Hinton Martell, which was offered to him by 

 the Earl of Shaftesbury as a tribute to his meri- 

 torious services, fiis writings gained a wide 

 circulation. Among the most important are 

 his "Exposition of the 119th Psalm," "Expo- 

 sition of the Proverbs," " The Christian Min- 

 istry, with an Inquiry into the causes of its 

 inefficiency," and "Sacramental Instruction." 

 He was also the author of several published 

 sermons. 



April 8. MACZESY, THOMAS LEWIS, M. D., 

 F. R. C. S. L, an eminent Insh surgeon; died at 

 Waterford, Ireland, aged 78 years. He was a 

 native of that town ; graduated at the London 

 College of Surgeons in 1809, and immediately 



entered the army and served in many memo- 

 rable actions, includingWatcrloo. Subsequently 

 he returned to his native city, where he acquired 

 a large and lucrative practice, served as mayor, 

 and was for many years an active magistrate and 

 poor-law guardian. In 1862 he was elected 

 President of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 Ireland, and the following year received the 

 degree of M. D. from the University of Dublin. 

 He was a contributor to the "Transactions" 

 of the Social Science Association on Hygienic 

 and Public Medicine, and frequently lectured 

 before the Irish Medical Association. 



April 10. RADNOR, Rt. Hon. Sir W. PLET- 

 DELL BOTJVERIE, third Earl of, an English peer ; 

 died at his seat, Coleshill, Berkshire. He was 

 born in May, 1779, at London, and belonged 

 to a family raised to the peerage in 1747. He 

 commenced his political life in 1802, and from 

 that time until 1828 took an active part in the 

 parliamentary contests as an extreme Liberal, 

 sitting for Salisbury. On the death of his 

 father, in 1828, he succeeded to the earldom 

 and took his seat in the House of Lords. Here 

 he was known for many years as the " Radical 

 Peer," and was so decidedly a Reformer that the 

 Liberal party, when in power, did not venture 

 to give him a place in the Cabinet, although 

 entitled to it for his ability and services. The 

 latter part of his life he passed mostly at his 

 Berkshire estate, devoting his attention to agri- 

 culture and horticulture. 



April 11. ILBERT, JOSIAH JAMES, the oldest 

 railway officer in the world, died at Douglass, 

 Isle of Man, aged 100 years. He was born in 

 London, September 16, 1769. In 1826 he was 

 engaged to fulfil the duties of Superintendent to 

 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, at the 

 Liverpool end, and, from the opening of the line 

 in 1830 until he had entered his eighty-sixth 

 year, his laborious duties were faithfully -and 

 regularly performed. 



April 11. SELLER, WILLIAM, M. D., F. R. S., an 

 eminent Scottish physician, and professor of ma- 

 teria medica, died at Edinburgh, aged 72 years. 

 He was educated at the High School, Edin- 

 burgh, and afterward at the University, where 

 he graduated in medicine, in 1821. In 1836 

 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of 

 Physicians, and, in 1848, President. Subse- 

 quently he was elected Fellow of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, and, as lecturer under the 

 Morison endowment, delivered six annual lec- 

 tures on mental diseases, in which his meta- 

 physical powers of mind were strongly dis- 

 played. He was President of the Medico- 

 Chirurgical Society from 1854 to 1856, and 

 examiner in medicine at the university till 

 within a short time of his death. For many 

 years he acted as physician to the Royal Pub- 

 lic Dispensary. He was the author of an elab- 

 orate memoir of the life and writings of Dr. 

 Whytt, "Physiology at the Farm," and papers 

 on the treatment of different diseases. 



Aprils. FINGALL, Sir ARTHUR JAMES 

 PLUNKETT, ninth Earl of, K. P., an Irish Cath- 



