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OBITUABIES, FOREIGN. 



biblical scholar and author; died in Hemp- 

 stead, aged 68 years. He descended from a 

 worthy Lincolnshire family ; was born in Feb- 

 ruary, 1801, and educated at Oaius College, 

 Cambridge, where he received his degree of 

 B. A. in 1823. He was for some years Curate 

 of Edmonton, and subsequently held the in- 

 cumbency of St. John's Chapel, Downshire 

 Hill. He. was also domestic chaplain to the 

 Earl of Roden to the end of his life, and was 

 one of the editors of the " Parker Society." In 

 1866 his valuable "Treasury of Bible Knowl- 

 edge" was issued by Messrs. Longman, and 

 has had an extensive sale both in England and 

 the United States; and the last edition of 

 "Home's Introduction to the Study of the 

 Scriptures " was brought out under his care- 

 ful superintendence. At the time of his death 

 Mr. Ayre was engaged on a learned and elabo- 

 rate work bearing on Jewish antiquities. 



May 23. JONES, RACHEL, a widow of Bris- 

 tol, England ; died from burns received by her 

 dress taking fire, age<J 108 years. Her great- 

 grandson, a man aged 60 years, succeeded in 

 extinguishing the flames, but too late to save 

 her life. 



June 10. HURLSTONE, FREDERICK YEATES, 

 a genre and historical painter ; died in London, 

 aged 69 years. He was born in London in 

 1800, and was educated at the Royal Academy, 

 where he obtained the gold medal for the best 

 historical picture, in 1823, and was a constant 

 exhibitor at that institution until 1832, when 

 he became a member of the Society of British 

 Artists, to the presidency of which he was 

 chosen in 1842, holding that position until his 

 death. Among his principal works were: 

 "The Prisoner of Chillon," "Haidee," "Ital- 

 ian Mendicant," "The Moorish Peasant Girl," 

 " A Spanish Beauty," " The Farewell of Boab- 

 dil to Granada," and " Columbus at the Con- 

 vent Gate." His finest portrait was the "Earl 

 of Cavan." Mr. Hurlstone received a gold 

 medal from the French Government, through 

 the French Academy of Arts. 



June 10. SEYMOUR, FREDERICK, C. B., Gov- 

 ernor of British Columbia ; died on board the 

 gunboat Sparrow-hawk, off the coast of 

 northern British Columbia. In 1843 he was 

 Secretary of Tasmania ; Stipendary of Antigua 

 in 1848 ; Governor of British Honduras, 1857 

 to 1863 ; and Governor of Columbia from 1863 

 to his death. 



June 19. LACUNZA, JOSE MARIA, a Mexican 

 statesman and poet ; died in Havana, of yel- 

 low fever, aged about 60 years. He was a 

 native of Mexico, and had received an excel- 

 lent collegiate and legal education, and was 

 admitted to the bar in 1834 or '35. When 

 Santa Anna became dictator the first time, in 

 1843-'44, he called Lares and Lacunza into his 

 Council, and they were the ablest of his minis- 

 ters. In one of Santa Anna's later assump- 

 tions of power, he again called Lacunza into 

 his Cabinet. When Maximilian began his brief 

 and unfortunate career as Emperor in Mexico, 



he found Lacunza and Lares the most eminent 

 lawyers of the capital, and, as both were favor- 

 ably disposed toward him, in November, 1864. 

 he made Lacunza Minister of State and presi- 

 dent of his Council, and Lares a member of the 

 Council. Lacunza labored earnestly to make 

 Maximilian's administration successful, but, 

 finding this impossible, he resigned in Novem- 

 ber, 1865, and, finding that the end was draw- 

 ing nigh, made his escape a few months later 

 to Havana, where he continued to reside till 

 his death. His poems, which are really of a 

 very high order, have passed through several 

 editions. 



June 24. YON DER GOLTZ, Count ROBERT 

 HEINRICH LUDWIO, the Prussian envoy ex- 

 traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to 

 France; died at Charlottenberg, near Berlin, 

 aged 52 years. He was born in Paris, where 

 his father filled the same office from 1815 to 

 1822, the period of his death. The son entered 

 the diplomatic service in 1849, as assistant 

 member of the Federal Commission at Frank- 

 fort. He was then appointed counsellor of le- 

 gation, and was afterward sent to Athens as 

 resident Prussian minister. In February, 

 1857, he became envoy extraordinary and 

 minister plenipotentiary at that post, and two 

 years afterward was accredited in the same 

 capacity to the Prussian embassy at Constan- 

 tinople in the place of Major-General de Wil- 

 denbruck. He remained there three years, at 

 the expiration of which time he was appointed 

 to St. Petersburg, and, after a short term of 

 service in that city, was transferred to Paris 

 in the month of January, 1863, taking the 

 place which was occupied by his father nearly 

 fifty years before. At the period when M. de 

 Manteuffel, the celebrated Prussian statesman, 

 was president of the Council, Count Von der 

 Goltz had a seat for some time in the Prussian 

 Chamber of Deputies, where he acted with the 

 opposition. He was a Knight of the Order of 

 St. John. 



June 28. TODD, Rev. JAMES H., D. D., a 

 clergyman of the Irish Established Church, pro- 

 fessor and author ; died near Dublin, aged 64 

 years. He was the son of Charles H. Todd, an 

 eminent surgeon of Dublin, and was born in that 

 city in 1805 ; graduated at Trinity College in 

 1825, and was elected to a fellowship in 1831. 

 In 1850 he was elected to a senior fellowship, 

 and in addition to his Regius professorship, 

 obtained in 1852, held the appointment of 

 Librarian of Trinity College, and Precentor of 

 St. Patrick's Cathedral. His chief theological 

 works were: "Discourses on the Prophecies 

 relating to Anti-Christ," 1840; "Search after 

 Infallibility," and a "Memoir of St. Patrick's 

 Life and Mission." He also edited the "Books 

 of the Vaudois," and some of the works of 

 John Wickliffe, including "The Last Age of 

 the Church," and his "Apology for Lollard 

 Doctrines." He subsequently devoted him- 

 self to the work of editing some of the ancient 

 records of Irish history from original MSS. 



