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thedral in 1850. lie was a brother of the Rev. 

 Baptist W. Noel. 



Jan. 18. HAYTEE, Sir GEOBGE, Knight, 

 K. S. L., principal Painter-in-Ordinary to her 

 Majesty ; died in London, aged 78 years. He 

 was the son of the late Charles Hayter, Pro- 

 fessor of Perspective to H. R. H. the Princess 

 Charlotte Augusta, and was born in London, 

 iu 1792. In 1808 he was rated midshipman in 

 the royal navy, and in 1809 commenced his 

 artistic career by painting miniatures in Win- 

 chester and Southampton. In 1815 he was 

 appointed Painter of Miniatures and Portraits 

 to the Princess Charlotte and H. R. H. Prince 

 Leopold of Saxe-Ooburg (afterward King of 

 the Belgians). Having studied in Rome from 

 1816 to 1819, when he became a member of 

 the Academy of St. Luke, he took up his resi- 

 dence in London, painting history and por- 

 traits. In 1826 he returned to Italy, and be- 

 came a member of the Imperial Academies of 

 Parma (where he painted her Imperial Majes- 

 ty the Archduchess Maria Louisa), of Flor- 

 ence, and of Venice, and of the Pontifical Acad- 

 emy of Bologna. On his way back, he remained 

 at the court of Charles X. and of Louis Phi- 

 lippe, devoting himself to his profession, until 

 July, 1831, when he returned to London to 

 paint a portrait of her Majesty, then Princess 

 Victoria, and of H. R. H. the late Duchess of 

 Kent. In 1837 he wag appointed Painter of 

 Portraits to her Majesty, in 1841 Historical 

 Painter-in-Ordinary to her Majesty, and in 

 1842 received the honor of knighthood. He 

 was the author of the Appendix to the " Hor- 

 tus Ericseus Woburnensis," on the classifica- 

 tion of colors, with a diagram containing 132 

 tints, with nomenclature. 



Jan. 19. DENISON, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS, 

 K. 0. B., an officer of the Royal Engineers, 

 and, for a time, Governor-General of India; 

 died in London. He was the third son of 

 the late John Denison, M. P., and brother 

 of the Speaker of the House of Commons, 

 and the late Bishop of Salisbury, and was born 

 May 3, 1804. He was educated at Eton, and 

 entered the army in 1826, in which he became 

 lieutenant colonel of the Engineers in 1855, 

 and colonel in 1859. He held the governor- 

 ship of Tasmania from 1846 to 1854, and the 

 governor-generalship of New South Wales 

 from 1854 to 1860, when he was appointed 

 Governor of Madras. Sir William temporarily 

 administered the governor-generalship of In- 

 dia for the few months which intervened be- 

 tween the death of the Earl of Elgin, in No- 

 vember, 1863, and the arrival of Sir John 

 Lawrence in January, 1864. 



Jan. 19. ZELLWEGER, ULRIO, an eminent 

 Swiss philanthropist; died in Trogen, Swit- 

 zerland, aged 64 years. He was born in the 

 Canton of Appenzell, and when a boy was 

 sent to England to be educated for mercantile 

 nfe. He then went to Havana and entered 

 into business which required him to travel 

 through all the commercial cities of the United 



States. Having accumulated a fortune, he re- 

 turned to his native canton and village, and 

 there devoted his time and money to practical, 

 sensible, and noble efforts to benefit his coun- 

 trymen. Without aid from any others, he found- 

 ed free schools, supporting teachers himself; 

 training teachers, and sending them to all 

 parts of the country to teach, at his expense ; 

 he built asylums for the blind, and orphans, 

 and the destitute ; published and distributed 

 religious tracts and papers ; and took the lead 

 in the work of foreign missions. His whole 

 time was devoted to these various schemes of 

 Christian philanthropy. Every hour in the 

 day, from early morn to bedtime, was set 

 apart for some distinct branch of his labors, 

 and, at the given hour, the agent, assistant, 

 perhaps an overseer, or teacher, or writer, was 

 to present himself at his door, and make re- 

 port and receive instructions. 



Jan. 31. Ross, Hon. JOHN, a member of 

 the Dominion Senate ; died near Toronto, Can- 

 ada. He was President of the Grand Trunk 

 Railway for ten years. 



Jan. . GARNICHOWSKI, MICHAELOVITCH, 

 a celebrated Russian author ; died in Moscow. 

 He was an accomplished scholar, and was 

 credited with the authorship of fifty volumes. 



Jan. . LARTET, M., a French paleontolo- 

 gist and author; died in the department of 

 the Gers, during the investment of Paris. He 

 was known to the scientific world by his nu- 

 merous academic and scientific memoirs, the 

 most valuable of which was prepared in con- 

 nection with Mr. Henry Christy, and entitled 

 " MellquicB Aquitanicce." He had recently 

 been appointed Professor of Paleontology at 

 the Museum of Natural History. 



Feb. 1. SEROFF, ALEXANDER NIKOLAIE- 

 VITCH, an eminent Russian musical composer ; 

 died at St. Petersburg, aged 50 years. He 

 was a composer of the school of Wagner, and 

 was well known by his operas " Judith " and 

 "Rogueda." A later opera, "Maslanitza," 

 was inferior to the other two. He leaves an- 

 other opera, " Hostile Force," finished, all but 

 the instrumentation of the last act. As a the- 

 orist and critic, Seroff was even better than as 

 a composer, and wrote much for the journals. 

 By the direction of the Grand-duchess Helen, 

 he was buried in the Monastery of St. Alex- 

 ander Nevsky, between Glinka and Dargo- 

 mizhsky. 



Feb. 2. ROBERTSON-, THOMAS WILLIAM, a 

 popular English actor and dramatic author ; 

 died in London, aged 41 years. He was born 

 at Newark-upon-Trent, in June, 1829, and was 

 educated at Spalding, Lincolnshire, and in Hol- 

 land. His father and his grandfather before 

 him had been actors, and he himself took to 

 the stage in early life, but abandoned it for 

 dramatic composition and literature. He was 

 engaged for a time as dramatic critic on the 

 Morning Chronicle, and other newspapers, con- 

 tributed articles to magazines, wrote one or 

 two farces which were but partially successful, 



