604 OBITUARIES, FOREIGN". 



OHIO. 



1854, where the charge of the heavy brigade 

 did great execution, and, on the return of Lord 

 Lucan to England, General Scarlett took the 

 command of the entire cavalry force in the 

 Crimea, and was created a K. 0. B. for his ser- 

 vices toward the close of the war. After his 

 return, he received the command of the caval- 

 ry brigade at Aldershot; on his resignation 

 was appointed to the governorship of Ports- 

 mouth, and the command of the Southwestern 

 District, and in 1860 was made adjutant-gen- 

 eral. Sir James was returned a member, in 

 the Conservative interest, for Guildford in 1837, 

 and at the time of his death was a magistrate 

 and deputy -lieutenant for Lancashire. 



Dec. 12. OLDENBURG, NICOLAS FREDEKIO 

 PIERKE, Grand-duke of, Prince of Lubeck and 

 Birkenfeld, general of cavalry in the Prussian 

 service, and of infantry in the Hanoverian 

 Army, a German prince; died at Oldenburg, 

 aged 44 years. He was the chief of the second 

 branch of the reigning house of Holstein- 

 Gottorp, was born in Oldenburg, July 8, 1827, 

 and succeeded his father as Grand-duke, Feb- 

 ruary 27, 1853. His grand-duchy had a pop- 

 ulation of about 285,000, and had a constitution 

 somewhat liberal. His family had intermar- 

 ried with the imperial family of Russia, and 

 he followed in foreign politics the promptings 

 of the Czar, and of Prussia. After 1866 he 

 made an exchange of territory with Prussia. 

 He prepared, in 1865, some "memoirs," or ar- 

 guments, on the Schleswig-Holstein question, 

 which were read before the diplomatic con- 

 ference, and afterward published. 



Dec. 14. SMITH, Rt. Rev. GEORGE, late 

 Bishop of Victoria (Hong-Kong); died in Eng- 

 land. He was born in Wellington, in 1815, 

 and graduated B. A. at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 

 in 1837. Having held a curacy and a small in- 

 cumbency in Yorkshire, and spent some little 

 time as a missionary at Hong-Kong, he was con- 

 secrated, in 1849, first Bishop of Victoria, in 

 that colon}'-, and resigned in 1866. He was the 

 author of a "Narrative of a Visit to Loo- 

 Cboo," published in 1850; "Ten Weeks in 

 Japan," 1861 ; " China, her Past and Future ; " 

 and a pamphlet on the slave-trade. 



Dec. 24. GASSIER, EDOUARD, a distinguished 

 French baritone ; died of the yellow fever, at 

 Havana, Cuba. He was born in France in 

 1823, and received his musical education at 

 the Paris " Conservatory," where, in 1844, he 

 won the first prize in opera. The year fol- 

 lowing he came out at the Salle Favart, and 

 soon after went abroad, obtaining engagements 

 at Palermo, Milan, Vienna, and Venice. He 

 went to Spain in 1849, and remained there 

 three years, appearing in opera at intervals at 

 Madrid, Seville, and Barcelona. Toward the 

 close of 1854 he was engaged at the Italian 

 Theatre, Paris, and sang thore during all the en- 

 suing season, and in 1856 accepted an engage- 

 ment at Drury Lane Theatre, London. While 

 in Spain, in 1847, M. Gassier married Mile. 

 Cubas a lady of Spanish birth, who has ac- 



quired celebrity as a soprano. M. Gassier 

 amassed considerable wealth by the practice 

 of his profession. 



Dec. 27. SORSO, LUIGI AMAT DI SAN FE- 

 LIPPO E., a Roman Catholic cardinal-bishop, 

 Bishop of Palestrina, Vice-Chancellor of tho 

 Holy Roman Church; died at Rome, aged 75 

 years. He was born at Cagliari, in Sardinia, 

 June 21, 1796, was educated at Rome and Bo- 

 logna, was for some years legate and Apostolic 

 nuncio at Bologna, was promoted to the car- 

 dinalate May 19, 1837, consecrated Bishop of 

 Palestrina March 15, 1852, and not long after 

 made Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic Church. 

 His death left but two cardinal-bishops living, 

 both more than seventy years of age. 



OHIO. The State Treasurer gives the fol- 

 lowing figures, showing the receipts (including 

 balances from the previous year) into, and dis- 

 bursements from, the State Treasury, for the 

 year ending November 15, 1871, and balance 

 on hand, of each fund, at that date : 



The semi-annual report of the Commissioners 

 of the Sinking Fund, made to the Governor 

 in December, says that on the 15th day of May, 

 1871, the funded debt of the State was $9,597,- 

 643.73. The reduction, during the period cov- 

 ered by this report, was : Loan of 1870, $283,- 

 600; loan of 1871, $291,322 total, $574,922. 



The amount outstanding November 16, 1871, 

 was $9,022,721.73. The total foreign debt, 

 payable in New York, is $9,018,956.73. The 

 total of the domestic debt, payable at Colum- 

 bus, is $3,765. 



The investments in bonds of the State not 

 yet matured remain unchanged since the last 

 semi-annual report. The amount of these in- 

 vestments is $21,992.37. Deducting this sum, 

 together with the $44,518.31, on which inter- 

 est has ceased, from the total amount of the 

 funded debt, as stated above, there is left the 

 sum of $8,956,211.05, on which the State is 

 paying interest at the rate of six per cent. 



The statistical report of the Secretary of 

 State, compiled from the returns from local 

 assessors and other official sources, shows the 

 following facts in regard to the horticultural 

 and agricultural interests of the State. The 

 vineyard statistics of 1870 were : 



Acres planted 



Acres in vineyard 10,890 



Pounds of grapes gathered 15,853,719 



Gallons of wine pressed 2,577,907 



The grape-crop reported for 1870 was nearly 

 equal in number of pounds to the entire crops 

 gathered in the five previous years, and the 

 wino pressed was more than two and a half 



