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whole weight falling upon his face and splitting 

 his skull completely in two. 



Nov. 23. MELGAEEJO, General MAEIANO, for- 

 mer Dictator and ex-President of Bolivia ; was 

 killed in Lima by his son-in-law General J. A. 

 Sanchez. Family difficulties had alienated 

 them, and the father-in-law had frequently 

 uttered threats of violence. At length, during 

 a fit of intoxication, he armed himself with a 

 revolver, and proceeded to the residence of 

 General Sanchez, who, in defence of his life, 

 shot him in the forehead, inflicting a mortal 

 wound. He was President of Bolivia from 

 1866 to 1870. 



Nov. 24. COLLINS, ISAAC, an eminent pro- 

 fessor and teacher of the violin ; died in London, 

 in his 74th year. When in his prime, he ex- 

 cited great attention hy his extraordinary per- 

 formances on the violin. Being the first and 

 only Englishman who played in the Italian 

 school, he was styled the English Paganini. 



Nov. 28. FEBBE, THEOPHILE CHARLES, a 

 Communist leader, one of the Committee of 

 Public Safety ; was executed at Versailles, aged 

 25 years. During the closing years of the 

 Imperial Government, he was known as an 

 ardent Republican, and was conspicuous in 

 1868 at the Baudin demonstration. He was 

 elected in March, 1871, a member of the Com- 

 mune of the 18th Arrondissement, and also a 

 member of the Committee of Public Safety. 

 It is alleged that he was present at the sum- 

 mary trial of General Lecomte, and loudly 

 demanded the general's execution. In May 

 he was appointed Procurator of the Commune, 

 in which capacity he effected several arrests, 

 and carried out arbitrary sentences. He was 

 next appointed a delegate to the Prefecture of 

 Police, and, as such, suppressed numerous jour- 

 nals, and signed the death-sentence of many 

 persons. He was, according to the evidence, 

 concerned in setting fire to the police headquar- 

 ters, and went to La Roquette Prison to order 

 the execution of the hostages. He also caused 

 prisoners to be released, who, when supplied 

 by him with arms and ammunition, massacred 

 many persons imprisoned by the Commune, 

 including sixty-six gendarmes. Ferre was 

 placed upon trial under the following indict- 

 ment : 1. For having participated as a mem- 

 ber of the Commune in a plot to overturn the 

 Government. 2. For destroying and ordering 

 to be destroyed several public buildings. 3. 

 For having provoked and ordered the assassi- 

 nation of the hostages. 4. For having usurped 

 public functions. 5. For ordering arbitrary 

 arrests. He was found guilty by the military 

 commission, and was sentenced to death. 



Nov. 28. ROSSEL, Louis NATHANIEL, Secre- 

 tary of War under the Commune ; was exe- 

 cuted at Versailles, aged 28 years. He was 

 a pupil in the Polytechnic School, and came 

 out second in his class. He was a captain of 

 engineers, and afterward commandant in the 

 Army of the Loire ; served with General Clu- 

 seret as head of the staff, and was remarkable 



for his brilliant talents, his great intelligence, 

 and moral courage. 



Nov. 30. GIEGENTI, Prince GAETANI MAEIE- 

 FREDERIO, Count de ; committed suicide in Lu- 

 cerne, Switzerland, aged 25 years. He was 

 the fifth son of Ferdinand II., King of Naples, 

 and Marie, Archduchess of Austria, and was 

 born January 12, 1846, and in 1868 was mar- 

 ried at Madrid to the Princess Marie, eldest 

 daughter of ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain. He 

 held the honorary rank of major in the Sixth 

 Regiment of Austrian Lancers, and was a 

 Knight of the Spanish Order of the Golden 

 Fleece. He took no part in Spanish politics, 

 and was sharing the exile of Isabella II. at 

 Lucerne. 



Nov. . KNORR, LTJDWIG, a German actor 

 and stage-manager ; died in Berlin, aged about 

 63 years. He commenced his career at the 

 small theatres in Germany, in 1838. In 1858 

 he came to this country, and was for ten years 

 connected with the Stadt Theater, chiefly per- 

 sonating character roles. He was also for sev- 

 eral years stage-manager. Returning to Ger- 

 many, he appeared again at the theatres of 

 Dantzic and Konigsberg, and was last engaged 

 as stage-manager of the Friedrich Wilhelm- 

 stadtische Theater of Berlin. 



Nov. . WOOD, Lieutenant JOHN, of the In- 

 dian Navy, a British traveller and explorer ; died 

 in Sind, India, aged about 67 years. In 1836, 

 he accompanied Alexander Burnes in his ex- 

 pedition to Cabul, and discovered the source 

 of the river Oxus. After an adventurous life 

 he fixed his residence in Sind, the scene of his 

 early exploits as a surveyor, as agent to the 

 Indian Flotilla Company. His death was at- 

 tributed to overwork in that trying climate. 

 In 1845 he published an interesting narrative 

 of his explorations. 



Nov. . WEIGHT, ICHABOD CHARLES, an 

 eminent banker, of Nottingham ; died there, 

 aged 76 years. He was born at Maberly Hall, 

 Notts, in 1795 ; was educated at Eton, and at 

 Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated 

 B. A. in 1817, and M. A. in 1820, and was for 

 some time a Fellow of Magdalen College. He 

 translated Dante into English verse, the Iliad 

 of Homer into blank verse, published a letter 

 to the Dean of Canterbury, and was the author 

 of some able pamphlets on the currency ques- 

 tion. 



Dec. 6. SOAELETT, Hon. Sir JAMES YORKE, 

 K. 0. B., a lieutenant-general in the British 

 Army; died in Lancashire, England. He was 

 a son of the first Lord Abinger, and was born 

 February 1, 1799 ; was educated at Eton and 

 Trinity College, Cambridge ; joined the Eigh- 

 teenth Hussars in 1818, and gradually rose un- 

 til he became, in 1840, lieutenant-colonel of the 

 Fifth Dragoon Guards, and in 1862 lieutenant- 

 general. When the British military expedition 

 to the East was resolved upon, he was ap- 

 pointed a brigadier-general, and the heavy 

 cavalry was placed under his command. He 

 distinguished himself at Balaklava, in October, 



