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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN". 



a view to bring out the strong points of Ma- 

 dame Persiani's singing and acting. 



Aug. 26. SPIERS, ALEXANDER, Ph. D., an 

 eminent philologist, professor in the University 

 of France, and inspector of the colleges of 

 France; died at Passy, near Paris, aged 62. 

 He was a native of England, but had been for 

 many years a resident and professor in Paris. 

 He was the author of numerous valuable text- 

 books, and his French-and-English Dictionary 

 (republished here, both in a verbatim edition, 

 and under the editorship of Prof. Surenne) 

 has the reputation of being the most complete 

 work of the kind published. His death was 

 sudden, and occurred just after his return from 

 a tour of inspection of the colleges of the de- 

 partments. 



Aug. 30. MOREIRA, CUSTODIO JOSEZ, a na- 

 tive of Portugal, but for more than a hundred 

 years a resident of Brazil; died at Franca, 

 Brazil, aged 135 years. He was born in 1734, 

 and his health had been so perfect throughout 

 his long life, that he performed his full share 

 of daily labor till he was 127 years of age. 



Aug. 81. LEMOS SABINA MARIA DE, a Por- 

 tuguese lady of high rank, the mother of the 

 Baron Rio do Verde; died in Minas Geraes, 

 Brazil, aged 115 years. She was born in Por- 

 tugal in 1754, and has left over three hundred 

 descendants down to the fifth generation. Her 

 son, the baron, was murdered in Rio Janeiro 

 in 1865, at the age of eighty-one, but his 

 mother was kept in ignorance of his death. 



Aug. 81. YOUNG, Sir CHARLES GEORGE, 

 Knight, Garter King of Arms for all England, 

 an antiquarian and standard authority on the 

 whole subject of heraldry; died in London, 

 aged 74 years. He was born in April, 1795, 

 educated at the Charter-House School, and at 

 the College of Arms, where he was one of the 

 pursuivants from 1813 to 1820. He was then 

 appointed York Herald, and in 1822 registrar 

 of the College of Arms, an office of great labor 

 and responsibility. In August, 1842, he was 

 appointed Garter Principal King of Arms, and 

 received the honor of knighthood. In this 

 capacity he was sent abroad to invest foreign 

 monarchs with the blue ribbon of the Garter. 

 He made eight or nine of these honorable 

 journeys during his term of service. Sir 

 Charles was the author of several books and 

 pamphlets relating to heraldry subjects. 



Aug. . LOBECK, Prof. JUSTUS FLORIAN, a 

 naturalist, of German birth and education, but 

 long a resident in Chili, where he had made 

 large contributions to natural science, and had 

 been for some years Professor of Natural His- 

 tory in the University of Santiago ; died in that 

 city. 



Aug. . MANEILLE, M., one of the greatest 

 of modern French cooks ; died in Paris. As- 

 sociated with MM. Simon and Barthelemy in 

 the time of the first republic, he opened the 

 celebrated Paris restaurant called the Trois 

 Freres Proven$aux, and was the inventor of the 

 Poulet d la Marengo. 



Sept. 3. HOHENZOLLERN-HECHINGEN, FRIED- 

 RICH WILHELM CONSTANTINE, Prince of, the 

 last reigning sovereign of the Duchy of Hech- 

 ingen; died at the Castle of Netzken, near 

 Berlin, of apoplexy, aged 68 years. He was 

 born February 16, 1801, and was heir to sev- 

 eral other titles and positions as well as that 

 of Duke or Prince of Hechingen, being Bur- 

 grave of Nuremberg, Duke of Sagon in Silesia, 

 Count of Sigmaringen, Conde of New Castile, 

 and Lord of Hagerlech and Wehrstein. He 

 succeeded his father, as Prince of Hechingen, 

 September 13, 1838. After the revolution of 

 1848-'49, when so many dynasties made ship- 

 wreck, the prince, prompted in part, perhaps, by 

 his apprehension of a rising among his people, 

 and in part by his desire to contract a morga- 

 natic marriage with the Countess of Rothen- 

 bourg, whom, by the law of succession, he could 

 not make the partner of his throne, abdicated 

 the government of the principality in favor of 

 the King of Prussia, who was the representative 

 of the elder branch of the Hohenzollerns, on 

 the 7th of December, 1849, and was made a 

 lieutenant-general in the Prussian army, and 

 chief of the second regiment of Landwehr of 

 Lower Silesia. He was divorced from his 

 countess in February, 1863. 



Sept. 4. FAWKNER, JOHN P., the founder 

 of the Colony of Victoria, Australasia ; died at 

 Melbourne, aged 77 years. He was born in 

 London in 1792, and at the age of eleven years 

 was allowed to accompany, in some humble 

 capacity, the expedition of Lord Hobart, in 

 1803, to found a new penal settlement on the 

 southern shore of New Holland. The spot 

 chosen was not favorable for a settlement, and 

 the expedition soon removed to Van Diemen's 

 Land or Tasmania, and founded Hobart Town. 

 Here young Fawkner led a roving life for some 

 years, keeping sheep, trading, building huts, 

 and mingling in the plots for the escape of 

 convicts. One of these last adventures in- 

 volved him in trouble, and he left Tasmania 

 for Sydney for two years. Returning to Tas- 

 mania in 1818, he married, acted as advocate 

 or impromptu attorney, started a public house 

 and a newspaper, the Launceston Advertiser. 

 In the autumn of 1830 he resolved to start an 

 expedition for a settlement in Southern Aus- 

 tralia, and, though not its actual leader, he was 

 its principal promoter, selected the site of what 

 is now Melbourne, and was the most active 

 agent of its settlement. He started a news- 

 paper here, the Port Philip Patriot, and began 

 farming, but was unfortunate and became in- 

 solvent. Emerging from his difficulties, he 

 converted the Patriot into a daily paper, estab- 

 lished a sheep station, devoted himself to gar- 

 dening and wine making, and was active in 

 the city and colonial councils. He was a 

 member of the Colonial Assembly from its 

 first organization, and, having acquired wealth 

 after the discovery of gold, was a prominent 

 man in the colony, and for several years, until 

 his death, a member of the Legislative Council, 



