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where his natural shrewdness and large colo- 

 nial experience made his advice valuable. 



Sept. 11. PALMEESTON, Right Hon. EMILY 

 MAEY, Viscountess, daughter of Lord Mel- 

 hourne, and widow of Lord Palmerston ; died 

 at Brockett Hall, Herts, aged 82 years. Lady 

 Palmerston was born April 21, 1787, and was 

 a cousin of Lady Noel Byron. She married, 

 when but eighteen years of age, Peter, fifth 

 Earl Cowper, by whom she had five children. 

 He died in 1837, and in 1839 she married Lord 

 Palmerston. She was a woman of remarkable 

 ability and tact, and won the esteem and at- 

 tachment of all with whom she was brought 

 in contact. She was specially distinguished 

 for her kindness and tenderness to the poor. 



Sept. 15. CLAEK, Rev. WILLIAM, M. D., 

 F. R. S. ; died at Cambridge, aged 81 years. 

 He graduated at Trinity College in 1808, and 

 was soon after elected to a fellowship. In 

 1817 he became Professor of Anatomy in the 

 college, and discharged the duties of his pro- 

 fessorship for nearly half a century. At his 

 retirement in 1866, his services were recog- 

 nized by a public subscription among the 

 members of the university for a bust in com- 

 memoration of his merits. 



Sept. 15. KIEENAN, Right Rev. MICHAEL, 

 D. D., Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, 

 and Primate of all Ireland ; died at Dundalk. 

 He was a native of Louth, and, after the usual 

 collegiate course at Maynooth, was ordained 

 curate at Newry and Drogheda, and was then 

 appointed parish priest of Collon. Thence he 

 was transferred, in 1848, to the parish of Dun- 

 dalk, where he remained for twenty years, 

 acting at the same time as vicar-general of the 

 arch-diocese. He was elected to the primacy 

 in 1868. 



Sept. 19. JONES, GEOEGE, R. A., a British 

 painter of great merit ; died in London, aged 

 83 years. He was the son of a mezzotinto 

 engraver of some note, and was admitted to 

 the Royal Academy in 1801, but on the break- 

 ing out of the Peninsular War he gave up 

 painting for a time, and obtained a commission 

 in a militia regiment, with which lie joined the 

 army under Wellington in Spain, and, in 1815, 

 was with the army of occupation in Paris. 

 He afterward resumed painting, became an 

 associate of the Academy in 1822, and a Royal 

 Academician in 1824. From 1834 to 1840 he 

 was librarian to the Academy, and was then 

 appointed keeper, which post he held for ten 

 years. At the commencement of his career as 

 an artist, his pictures consisted chiefly of views 

 of English and Continental towns, but after- 

 ward he chose battle-scenes, and, later in life, 

 representations of Old-Testament narrative. 

 Among his principal pictures are : " The Battle 

 of Waterloo," for which he received two hun- 

 dred guineas from the British Museum; the 

 battles of " Vittoria and Borodino; " and the 

 "Opening of London Bridge." In 1849 he 

 published a "Life of Chantrey." 



Sept. 26. BAKEWELL, J. 0., an English 



journalist, physicist, and author; died at 

 Hampstead, England, aged 69 years. He was 

 born at Waken eld in 1800, received a thorough 

 scientific education, and was connected, as 

 scientific editor, with the Morning Post and 

 other periodicals for some years. He was the 

 author of " The Natural Evidences of a Future 

 Life," "Philosophical Conversations," "Elec- 

 tric Science," a Treatise on Geology, and other 

 works. 



Sept. 28. BLOOMFIELD, Rev. S. T., D. D., 

 Rector of Bisbrooke, and honorary Canon of 

 Peterborough, an English clergyman, scholar, 

 and author; died at Wandsworth Common, 

 near London, aged 85 years. He was educated 

 at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, gradu- 

 ating B. A. in 1808. He had been Rector of 

 Bisbrooke since 1814. He was the author of 

 a capital critical edition of the Greek New 

 Testament with copious notes. 



Oct. 19. WALSH, Rt. Hon. JOHN EDWAED, 

 LL. D., Master of the Rolls in Ireland, an able 

 jurist ; died in Paris, aged 52 years. He was 

 born in 1816, and was educated in the Univer- 

 sity of Dublin, where he graduated B. A. in 1837 

 and M. A. in 1840. His college career was un- 

 usually brilliant ; he obtained a classical scholar- 

 ship, the first gold medal in ethics and logic, and 

 was also auditor of the Historical Society. In 

 1839 he was called to the bar, and to the Inner 

 Bar in 1857, where he at once took a leading 

 position. In 1859 he was appointed a Crown 

 Prosecutor, and held that office until 1866, when 

 he became Attorney-General, and in the same 

 year sat in the House of Commons. His par- 

 liamentary career was, however, short, as the 

 dissolution of Parliament followed close upon 

 his election, and, before the long vacation was 

 over, he was made Master of the Rolls. He was 

 the author of "Justice of the Peace for Ireland " 

 (1844) ; " Reports in Chancery, Irish," in 1845- 

 '49 ; and " Ireland Sixty Years ago " (1847). 



Oct. 23. CONINGTON, JOHN, M. A., Corpus 

 Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford, 

 a profound classical scholar, critic, and author ; 

 died at Boston, Lincolnshire, aged 44 years. 

 He was born at Boston in 1825, educated at 

 Rugby (under Drs. Arnold and Tait), and at 

 Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained 

 the Hertford and Ireland scholarships in 1844, 

 a first class in classics in 1846, the Chancellor's 

 prizes for Latin verse, English essay and Latin 

 essay in 1847, 1848, and 1849, and was elected 

 Eldon scholar in 1849, and Fellow of Univer- 

 sity College at the close of his undergraduate 

 course. Soon after he became lecturer at that 

 college. In 1854 he was elected to the newly- 

 created University Professorship of Latin, which 

 he held till his death. His enthusiasm, attain- 

 ments, and success in his university career are 

 unparalleled in recent times, and were not sur- 

 passed by the giants in classical lore of the last 

 century, Porson, the Bentleys, etc. In 1848 

 Mr. Conington published a translation of the 

 " Agamemnon of ^Eschylus " in English verse, 

 which attracted great attention for its thorough 



