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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



politician ; died in Florence. On the procla- 

 mation of the Roman Republic, he was elected 

 as Deputy to the Roman Assembly, and was 

 appointed Minister of War. He was after- 

 ward chosen one of the Triumvirs of Rome. 

 From 1860 to 1869, with short intervals, he sat 

 in the Italian Parliament, where he exercised 

 considerable personal influence. 



April 3. WILSON, WILLIAM, English bota- 

 nist and author ; died in Warrington, aged 71 

 years. He was president of the Warrington 

 Natural History Society, and was the author 

 of " Bryologia Britannica " and of "Muscologia 

 Britannica." 



April 23. WILHELM, GAEL, musical com- 

 poser, author of the music of " Die Wacht am 

 Rhein; " died in Germany, aged 56 years. 



April 30. DESCHAMPS, EMILE, a French 

 poet, dramatist, essayist, and novelist; died 

 at Versailles, aged 80 years. He was born at 

 Bourges, February 20, 1791, and educated at 

 Paris, where in 1812 he published a patriotic 

 ode, "La Paix Conquise" which attracted the 

 attention of Napoleon I., who gave him a posi- 

 tion in the Department of Crown Lands. At 

 the Restoration he lost this, and was hunted 

 by the police, as an adherent of the Emperor, 

 but revenged himself, poet-like, by some popu- 

 lar songs. Very soon, however, he made his 

 peace with the Bourbons, and, beginning with 

 two comedies published in 1818, entered upon 

 a literary life, first as editor of La Muse Iran- 

 $aise, a literary journal, in which he had Victor 

 Hugo, De Vigny, Nodier, and others, for asso- 

 ciates. In this he first published many of the 

 poems and essays which he afterward collected, 

 and which made him famous. In 1828 he 

 was appointed to a Government office under 

 Charles X. Between 1826 and 1850 he had 

 published numerous novels of remarkable 

 grace and spirit, several operas, operettas, and 

 other poems and dramas set to music, three or 

 four volumes of essays, and a number of come- 

 dies. His last publication was " Poesies des 

 Creches" (cradle-songs), published in 1852, on 

 the occasion of the birth of the Prince Imperial. 

 For fifteen or sixteen years before his death, 

 M. Deschamps was entirely blind. 



April . ANGEVILLE, Mademoiselle HEN- 

 RIETTE D', a French lady tourist, a sister of the 

 late Count d'Angeville ; died at Lausanne, 

 Switzerland, aged 77 years. She was in her 

 day a famous mountain-climber, and had the 

 reputation of being the first lady who ever as- 

 cended Mont Blanc. 



April . CARRERA, MARTIN, a Mexican offi- 

 cer and soldier of fortune, President, for a 

 month, of the Mexican Republic in 1855 ; died 

 in Mexico, aged about 60 years. In April, 

 1853, Santa Anna was recalled, and for the 

 fifth time was placed at the head of the Gov- 

 ernment ; but, the year following, Alvarez, 

 44 the panther of the Pacific," assisted by sev- 

 eral eminent Mexicans, caused a revolt, which 

 resulted in the flight of Santa Anna from the 

 country in August, 1855. General Carrera 



was then elevated to the presidency, but was 

 compelled to retire a month later, when, after 

 a period of anarchy, Alvarez was made Presi- 

 dent by a junta. 



April . LEJEAN, GUILLAUME, a French 

 traveller and geographer, secretary of the 

 French Geographical Society ; died at Ploue"- 

 gat GuSrande, near Morlaix. He had made 

 several expeditions into Central Africa, espe- 

 cially into the Soudan of Abyssinia and the 

 White Nile region, had visited many of the 

 savage tribes of those regions, and was for a 

 time a prisoner of King Theodoras of Abyssinia. 

 He had published interesting accounts of his 

 travels in the Tour du Monde and the Revue 

 des Deux Mondes. More recently he had 

 turned his attention to Eastern Europe and 

 had explored very thoroughly the Danubian 

 provinces, of which he had completed a fine 

 map. 



April . MEYR, Dr. MELCHIOE, an accom- 

 plished German writer ; died in Munich. Ho 

 was the author of various novels, dramas, lyr- 

 ics, and philosophical essays, which gave him 

 a wide celebrity. His "Erzahlungen aus dem 

 Ries " have become exceedingly popular. 



April . ROTSCHEE, Dr. N. T., a German 

 author ; died at Berlin, aged 69 years. He 

 was one of the best known of German writers 

 on the theory of the dramatic art. His princi- 

 pal works are " Kunst der Dramatischen Dar- 

 stellung," " Shakespeare in seinen hochsten 

 Charaktergebilden," " Dramaturgische Ab- 

 handlungen." For many years he was the 

 dramatic critic of the Spener Zeitung. 



May 8. DE LA TOUR D'ATTVERGNE, HENRI 

 GODFREY BERNARD ALPHONSE, Prince, formerly 

 minister to London and Paris ; died in Paris, 

 aged 47 years. He had also been Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs, and Senator of France. 



May 10. KONEWKA, PAUL, a celebrated 

 silhouette artist, whose illustrations in that de- 

 partment of art displayed real genius. His 

 illustrations of Shakespeare in silhouette were 

 as truly creations as Flaxman's " Outlines," or 

 Maurice Retsch's etchings of " Reynard the 

 Fox." He had illustrated with great skill a 

 number of humorous works, and had just 

 made himself famous, when he was carried off 

 by a short illness in the prime of life. 



May 16. HUGO, CHARLES VICTOR, a journal- 

 ist and author, son of Victor Hugo; died in 

 Bordeaux, aged 45 years. He was born in 

 Paris, November 2, 1826. He took high rank 

 in scholarship in the College of Charlemagne, 

 and after the Revolution of 1848 was secre- 

 tary of Lamartine, Minister of Foreign Affairs. 

 He was offered by M. Bastide the position of 

 secretary of legation for Rio Janeiro, but de- 

 clined, preferring to remain in Paris as asso- 

 ciate editor of the wbnmuant, a journal found- 

 ed by his father. In 1851 he was prosecuted 

 and imprisoned four months for publishing an 

 article in favor of abolishing the death-penal- 

 ty, and the same year was exiled to the Isle 

 of Guernsey. After the coup d'etat of the 



