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2d of December, Charles, with his brother 

 Francois, followed their father into exile. 

 When the decree was issued establishing the 

 liberty of the press, the brothers returned 

 to France, but were not rejoined by their 

 father until after the capture of Sedan, and 

 the downfall of the Emperor. They then 

 founded the Paris Rappel, a radical organ, and 

 were at the commencement assisted by Henri 

 Rochefort, but the political differences be- 

 tween them and Rochefort led to a speedy 

 separation. 



May 24. DELESCLUZE, Louis CHARLES, a 

 Communist leader, was killed in Paris. He 

 was born at Dreux, Department of Eure-et- 

 Loire, October 2, 1809, was educated at the 

 College Bourbon, in Paris, and the School of 

 Law of the University. After the Revolution 

 of 1830, he became a member of the political 

 societies then so prevalent, and in 1834 was 

 arrested for participation in a conspiracy, and 

 in 1835 was implicated in a plot, for which he 

 was compelled to fly from the country. He 

 took refuge in Belgium, and there edited a 

 political paper. In 1841 he returned to 

 France, and became editor-in-chief of the 

 Impartial du Nord, at Valenciennes, where he 

 soon subjected himself to a month's imprison- 

 ment and 2,000 francs fine. After the revolu- 

 tion he was a commissary-general of the re- 

 public in the north of France, but after the 

 affair of 15th of May, in which he was im- 

 plicated, he resigned, and again commenced 

 editing his paper. In November, 1848, he 

 founded in Paris two papers, The Revolution, 

 Democratic and Social, and Republican Liberty, 

 of both of which he was manager. For some 

 articles in these he was imprisoned fifteen 

 months and fined 20,000 francs. In June, 

 1849, the first of these papers was suppressed, 

 and M. Delescluze banished. After spending 

 four years in England he returned to France, 

 was again arrested, and sent to the galley 

 prisons, and after four years was rearrested 

 and sent to the penal colony at Cayenne until 

 the amnesty of 1859, when he returned. In 

 1868 he was fined and imprisoned, was set at 

 liberty by the Revolution of 1870, and the fol- 

 lowing year was a delegate to the National 

 Assembly, but withdrew and became one of 

 the members of the Council of the Commune. 

 May 24. JECKER, M., an eminent French 

 banker, was murdered by the Commune in 

 Paris, aged 64 years. He was born in Swit- 

 zerland, during the early part of the present 

 century, but went to Paris when quite a young 

 man and engaged in financial pursuits. He 

 first became known during the administration 

 of Almonte in Mexico. Almonte employed 

 him to negotiate a loan, which he did at so 

 low a rate that he was publicly charged with 

 swindling the Mexican Government. On pre- 

 senting his claim it was at once rejected, and, 

 although M. Jecker persistently pressed it, 

 none of the several governments would recog- 

 nize its validity. On the establishment of 



the empire, however, Maximilian agreed to 

 pay the claim, and Jecker was employed to 

 negotiate another loan. Whether he ever got 

 the money he claimed is problematical, but, as 

 he was a man of great wealth, the loss, if he 

 did lose any thing, did not affect his fortunes. 

 May 26. DOMBEOWSKI, JAROSLAS, com- 

 mander of the Communist Army, was killed 

 in Paris. He was born at Cracow, Poland, in 

 1826. He was once a subordinate officer in 

 the Russian Army, and there a notorious 

 counterfeiter ; then, to escape from transporta- 

 tion to the mines of the Ural, a spy ; later, a 

 spy of Prussia during the war, and, when his 

 companionship with Cluseret enabled him to 

 grasp power, he too opened negotiations with 

 the Versailles Government to betray the city 

 to them, but was removed from supreme com- 

 mand too soon to be able to complete the 

 transaction, though in some way he regained 

 his authority, and died from wounds received 

 in a barricade-fight. 



May. VIARDOT, Madame PAULINE, nee 

 GARCIA, a French cantatrice, sister of Malibran; 

 died at Turin, aged 53 years. She was born 

 in Paris, July 18, 1821, and was the daughter 

 of Emmanuel Garcia, an eminent singer. She 

 accompanied her parents on a musical tour in 

 England, United States, and Mexico, when a 

 mere child. Without the knowledge of her 

 family, she had made great proficiency in 

 music, and subsequently studied under Meysen- 

 burg and Liszt. On the death of her father, 

 in 1832, she removed to Brussels, and sang in 

 concerts with her sister Malibran. In 1839 she 

 first appeared in opera in London, played in 

 London and Paris until 1840, when she was 

 married to M. Louis Viardot, a literary gentle- 

 man, and with him took a musical tour through 

 Italy, Spain, Germany, and Russia, meeting 

 with the greatest success everywhere, espe- 

 cially in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Mos- 

 cow, and London. She continued to sing in 

 opera until 1860, after which she sang only 

 occasionally. Her voice was a very fine mezzo- 

 soprano, of great compass and remarkable flexi- 

 bility. 



June 14. FIGANIERE, CESAR II. S., a Por- 

 tuguese gentleman, son of the late Portuguese 

 ambassador to the United States ; died in New 

 York, aged 47 years. He was born in 1824. 

 For some years he held the office of Consul- 

 Gen eral of Portugal for the port of New York. 

 June 21. KINGSTON, ROBERT EDWARD KING, 

 seventh Earl of, in the Irish peerage ; died at 

 Kingsborough, Ireland, aged 39 years. He 

 had succeeded to the peerage less than a year 

 previous to his death. 



June 26. HEMANS, HENRY WILLIAM, Brit- 

 ish consul at Para, and fourth son of Mrs. 

 Hemans, the poetess; died at Para, Brazil. 

 He was formerly British consul at Buffalo, 

 and while there wrote some notable articles 

 for the North American Review. 



June . HOUDIN, ROBERT JOHN EUGENE, 

 a celebrated French conjurer; died at Blois. 



