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olic nobleman, died in London, aged 78 years. 

 He was born in Geneva. In July, 1836, he 

 succeeded to the honors of the Irish and Brit- 

 ish peerage. He represented the County of 

 Meath in the liberal interest in the first two 

 Parliaments of William IV., and was for many 

 years Lord-Lieutenant and Gustos Rotulorum 

 of the county, and at one time a Lord-in-Wait- 

 ing on her Majesty. In 1834 he was a Privy 

 Councillor in Ireland, and was made a Knight 

 of the Order of St. Patrick in 1846. 



April 21. LAUDER, ROBERT SCOTT, R. S. A., 

 a Scottish genre painter of great talent, died 

 in Edinburgh. He was born at Silvermills, 

 near that city, in 1803, and, like most of those 

 who have become distinguished painters in 

 after-life, early displayed decided taste for 

 drawing, which, however, met with but little 

 encouragement from his family. His first dis- 

 tinct ideas of art were received, when not far 

 from nine years of age, from David Roberts, 

 afterward a celebrated artist. Subsequently, 

 through the influence of Sir Walter Scott, he 

 was admitted a student in the Trustees' Gal- 

 lery in Edinburgh, where he successfully prose- 

 cuted his studies for several years, after which 

 he spent five years on the Continent, studying 

 at Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Venice, and, 

 in 1838, established himself in London, where 

 he won a great reputation by his " Bride of 

 Lammermuir," exhibited in the Royal Acad- 

 emy, his "Glee Maiden," "Meg Merrilies," 

 " Claverhouse ordering Morton to be shot," 

 "Christ teaching Humility," and " Christ walk- 

 ing on the Waters." Since 1849 he had resided 

 in Edinburgh, and contributed some valuable 

 pictures to the Scottish Academy's exhibition. 



April 22. BELL, Rev. PATRICK, LL. D., an 

 eminent inventor, and Presbyterian clergy- 

 man ; died at Carmyllie, aged about 70 years. 

 He was the son of a farmer of Auchterhouse, 

 Forfarshire, where he was born ; was educated 

 at the University of St. Andrew's, where he 

 distinguished himself in mathematics and their 

 application to physics, also by his fondness 

 for natural philosophy, and, in 1827, while 

 still a student, invented the reaping-machine, 

 the principle of which was suggested to him 

 by a pair of shears. As a recognition of his 

 important service to agriculture, Dr. Bell was 

 presented with a thousand pounds by the 

 Highland Society, and a piece of plate by the 

 farmers of Scotland. He also received the 

 honorary degree of LL. D. from the Univer- 

 sity of St. Andrew's, and subsequently a simi- 

 lar degree was conferred upon him by an Ameri- 

 can college. His ordination did not take place 

 until 1843. 



April 30. BULLER, Sir ARTHUR WILLIAM, 

 M. P., an English jurist and scholar ; died in 

 London, aged 61 years. He was the son of the 

 late Charles Buller, formerly in the civil ser- 

 vice of the East India Company; was born in 

 Calcutta in 1808, and educated at the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he graduated B, A. in 1830, 



and M. A. in 1834, and the same year was 

 called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. From 1840 

 to July, 1848, he was Queen's Advocate in Cey- 

 lon, and left that post to accept the appoint- 

 ment of Judge of the Supreme Court of Cal- 

 cutta. In 1858 he resigned. From June, 1859, 

 to June, 1865, he represented Davenport in the 

 House of Commons, after which time he sat 

 for Liskeard. He was a Liberal in politics, and 

 supported Mr. Gladstone's bill for the dises- 

 tablishment and disendowment of the Irish 

 Church. 



April . D ALTON, Rt. Rev. JOHN, Roman 

 Catholic bishop of Harbor Grace, Newfound- 

 land ; died there suddenly. He was nominated 

 bishop on the creation of the see in 1856, and 

 was consecrated the same year. 



April . DREYSCHOCK, M., a distinguished 

 German pianist ; died in Venice, aged 51 years. 

 He was born at Zack, in Bohemia, and had for 

 several years filled the post of director of the 

 Conservatoire of Music at St. Petersburg. 



April . TILLY, Count CHARLES GUSTAVUS 

 EDWARD AUGUSTUS VON TSERCLAS, the last sur- 

 vivor of the line of Count Tilly, the celebrated 

 opponent of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty 

 Years' War ; died aged 85 years. He had been 

 chamberlain to the King of Holland, and a 

 member of the Equestrian Order of Brabant, 

 and was the last direct descendant of Everard 

 von Tserclas Tilly, the liberator of Brussels in 

 1356, and of his descendant above alluded to, 

 who was generalissimo of the Catholic League 

 in the seventeenth century. 



May 4. LEFROY, Rt. Hon. THOMAS, LL. D., 

 late Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ire- 

 land ; died at Bray, near Dublin, aged 93 years. 

 He was born at Bray in 1797; educated at 

 Trinity College, Dublin, where he won the 

 gold medal of his class, and was called to the 

 bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1797. After practising 

 for several years in the courts of common law 

 and equity, he was, in 1818, appointed his 

 Majesty's third sergeant-at-law, and, rising in 

 succession to the first, frequently served as a 

 Judge of Assize. In 1830 he resigned, and 

 from that period until 1841 represented the 

 University of Dublin in Parliament, in the 

 Conservative interest. Upon the return of Sir 

 Robert Peel to place and power in that year, 

 Mr. Lefroy was appointed to the first vacancy 

 on the Irish Bench, as one of the Barons of the 

 Exchequer; whence he was promoted, in 1852, 

 by Lord Derby, to the post of Lord Chief 

 Justice of the Queen's Bench, which seat he 

 held until his ninetieth year, when he resigned, 

 and bade adieu to public life. He was the 

 author of several law reports. 



May 8. COLE, THOMAS, better known as 

 "Daddy Cole," a Christian negro of consider- 

 able intelligence and medical skill; died at 

 Lagos, Western Africa, aged 114 years. He 

 had been for many years a native doctor in 

 Sierra Leone, Abeokuta, and Lagos, and had 

 been very successful in the African fevers. 

 He was forty years previous to his death a 



