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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Metropolitan Sewers Commission, then about 

 to undertake the construction of an important 

 system of drainage-works. In 1854 he was 

 sent to Turkey, to devise measures for defend- 

 ing Constantinople, and securing the free pas- 

 sage of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, 

 and the Bosporus, against an apprehended 

 advance of the Russians. He returned to Eng- 

 land, but shortly afterward again proceeded to 

 the East, and directed the English works in- 

 tended to reduce Sevastopol. He was present 

 at the battle of the Alrna, the affair of Bala- 

 klava, and the battle of Inkerman. In 1855, 

 during the outcry raised against the generals 

 in the Crimea, he was recalled to England to 

 occupy his former post of Inspector-General 

 of Fortifications. He, however, remained with 

 the army three months longer, at the particu- 

 lar request of Lord Raglan, and upon leaving 

 the camp was highly complimented by the 

 commander-in-chief in a general order. On 

 his return to England, Sir John Burgoyne was 

 promoted to the rank of general, and created 

 a baronet, for his services in the Crimea. 

 About the same period he received the Order 

 of the Medjidie, and that of Grand-Officer of 

 the Legion of Honor. He became a G. C. B. 

 in 1852, and upon the death of Lord Comber- 

 mere, in 1865, was appointed Constable of the 

 Tower of London, and Lord-Lieutenant and 

 Gustos Rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets. Sir 

 John was the author of several professional 

 articles in periodical publications. 



Oct. 21. ROBINSON, JOHN HENRY, R. A., a 

 celebrated English line engraver ; died at Pet- 

 worth, England, aged 75 years. He was born 

 at Bolton, Lancashire, in 1796, and was a pupil 

 of Heath. Among his more celebrated en- 

 gravings are " Napoleon and Pope Pius VII.," 

 after Wilkie ; " The Wolf and the Lamb," after 

 Mulready, exhibited about 1825 ; " The Man- 

 tilla ; " " The Marchioness of Abercorn ; " and 

 "Little Red Riding-Hood," after Landseer; 

 "Sir Walter Scott," after Lawrence ; "Theo- 

 dosius refused Admission into the Church," 

 and the portrait of Rubens, after Vandyck ; 

 "Spanish Flower Girl," after Murillo; and 

 some choice book-plates. Two of the choicest 

 specimens of his art, as an engraver, are the 

 "Sisters," after F. P. Stephanhoff, and the 

 *' Mother and Child," from Leslie's picture of 

 1846. In 1862 he completed a portrait of the 

 Countess of Bedford, from the celebrated 

 picture by Vandyck. He obtained the first- 

 class gold medal for engraving at the Interna- 

 tional Exhibition at Paris in 1855, was made 

 an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy 

 November 3, 1856, and R. A. in June, 1866. 



Oct. . CEONYN, Rt. Rev. BENJAMIN, 

 D. D., Bishop of Huron ; died in London, On- 

 tario, aged 69 years. He was born in Kil- 

 kenny, Ireland, in 1802, and was educated 

 at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took high 

 honors. After a few months' service in Eng- 

 land as curate, he returned to Ireland, was 

 ordained priest in 1826, and served as curate 



to the Archbishop of Tuam for six years. In 

 1832 he emigrated to Canada, and was for 

 twenty-five years the earnest and energetic 

 rector of the London district or parish. In 

 1857 he was consecrated the first Bishop of 

 Huron, his jurisdiction extending over an area 

 of 12,200 square miles, and embracing a popu- 

 lation of 277,505. He had fulfilled his duties 

 as bishop with great zeal and efficiency, and 

 was very highly esteemed throughout the 

 diocese. 



Oct. . SEEMANN, BEBTHOLD, Ph. D., F. L. 

 S., Vice-President of the Imperial German 

 Academy Naturae Curiosorum ; died in Nica- 

 ragua. He was born in the city of Hanover in 

 1825, was educated at the Lyceum of his native 

 city, obtained his degree of Doctor at the Uni- 

 versity of Gottingen, and was appointed, in 

 1846, naturalist on board H. M. S. Herald, in 

 which he made a voyage round the world, and 

 three cruises to the arctic region in search of 

 Sir John Franklin. In 1860 he was appointed 

 by the Colonial Office one of the Royal Commis- 

 sioners to the Viti or Fiji Islands, for the pur- 

 pose of ascertaining their fitness for a British 

 colony ; and he explored, in a private capacity, 

 many parts of North and South America. Dr. 

 Seemann was the author of a "Narrative of 

 the Voyage of H. M. S. Herald," published in 

 1853; "Popular History of Palms," in 1855; 

 "The Botany of the Voyage of H. M. S. Her- 

 ald," in 1857; "Viti: an Account of a Gov- 

 ernment Mission to the Viti or Fiji Islands," 

 in 1862 ; " Popular Nomenclature of the Amer- 

 ican Flora;" "Paradisus Vindobonensis ; " 

 " Twenty-four Views of the Coast and Islands 

 of the Pacific ; " and had been a contributor 

 to the leading political, literary, and scientific 

 journals of London, and editor of the Bon- 

 plandia and the Journal of Botany, British 

 and Foreign. 



Nov. 2. GIBSON, Rev. JAMES, D. D., a distin- 

 guished Presbyterian clergyman and professor; 

 died in Glasgow, Scotland, aged 72 years. He 

 was one of the leaders of the movement against 

 the proposed union of the Free and United 

 Presbyterian Churches. Upon the establish- 

 ment of the Free Church College in Glasgow, 

 he was appointed to the chair of Church His- 

 tory and Systematic Theology. 



Nov. 8. SANDYS, Rev. THOMAS, a missionary 

 of the Church Missionary Society, in Northern 

 India, for forty-two years, and who had re- 

 cently returned to England ; died in , Eng- 

 land, from the effects of a fall from a carriage. 



Nov. 19. VIGNEEON, , a French athlete ; 



was killed in the midst of one of his perform 

 ances on the sands of Boulogne-sur-Mer, aged 

 45 years. He was a man of extraordinary 

 strength, and widely known for his wonderful 

 feats, one of which consisted in his lifting a 

 cannon, weighing 600 pounds, upon his shoul- 

 ders and firing a full charge of gunpowder. 

 He was going through this performance with 

 the usual success, but, while in the act of lifting 

 the cannon to lower it, he slipped and fell, the 



