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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



cine. He was a man of decided talent and 

 moral worth. 



j) eCf . SNTDER, Mrs. MARY, a centena- 

 rian ; died at Leesville, Crawford County, Pa., 

 aged 108 years. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Jan. 5. CROSS- 

 LET, Sir FRANCIS, Baronet, member of Parlia- 

 ment, and great carpet-manufacturer ; died in 

 Halifax, England, aged 55 years. He was born 

 in Halifax, in 1817, and was a son of Francis 

 Crossley, a carpet-manufacturer of that town. 

 Early in life he entered his father's business, 

 which rapidly grew, and now furnishes employ- 

 ment for over 5,000 people. In 1852 he was 

 elected to the British Parliament, representing 

 his native town in the Liberal interest until 

 1859, when he was elected for the West Riding 

 of Yorkshire, and afterward sat in the House 

 of Commons for other divisions of the county. 

 In 1863 he was made a baronet. He was a 

 man of strong philanthropic feeling, giving 

 largely to the interests of his native town and 

 elsewhere. In 1857 he presented his town 

 with a handsome park and pleasure-ground ; 

 he gave also $60,000 for an infirmary, $100,000 

 to foreign missions, $50,000 to a fund for aged 

 ministers and their wives, besides other large 

 benefactions. 



Jan. 6. GILLOTT, JOSEPH, a celebrated man- 

 ufacturer of steel pens; died at Birmingham, 

 England, aged 72 years. He was of English 

 birth, and began his business career as a 

 grinder of cutlery in Sheffield ; about 1822 he 

 removed to Birmingham, followed the business 

 of steel toy-making for a time, and finally en- 

 tered upon the manufacture of steel pens, 

 which has rendered his name so widely known, 

 and through which he became immensely 

 wealthy. 



Jan. 12. ARLES-DDTOUR, JEAN BARTHELE- 

 MY, an eminent French silk-merchant and ad- 

 vocate of free trade ; died in Paris, aged 67 

 years. His original name was Aries ; he was 

 the son of a municipal councillor of Lyons, 

 in which city he was born in 1805. Becoming 

 a silk-merchant, he married into the family of 

 Dufour, eminent bankers of Lyons, and united 

 the name of his wife with his own. He was a 

 juryman at the French Exhibition in 1849, and 

 acted in the same capacity at the Great Exhi- 

 bitions of London and Paris, held in 1851 and 

 1855, respectively. In 1853 he established a 

 commission house in Paris for the sale of silks. 

 In 1853 he was made Secretary- General of the 

 Imperial Commission on Manufactures. Since 

 1855 he had published many articles relative 

 to the textile fabrics exhibited at the Exposi- 

 tion of 1855. For fifteen years before leaving 

 Lyons he was a member of the Chamber of 

 Commerce and of the Municipal Council of 

 that city, as well as of the Society of Primary 

 Instruction and of the Council General of the 

 Department. He received the decoration of 

 the Legion of Honor in 1837, was promoted 

 to be an officer of the Legion in 1854, and 

 made commander in 1860. 



Jan. 28. DIXON, Rev. JAMES, D. D., an emi- 

 nent Methodist clergyman and pulpit orator ; 

 died at Wellesley Terrace, Manningham, Eng- 

 land, aged 84 years. He was born in England, in 

 1788, entered the ministry in 1812, and in 1824 

 went for a year as missionary to Gibraltar. In 

 1841 he was elected president of the Wesleyan 

 Conference. For a period of nearly sixty years 

 he labored as a minister on circuit in various 

 parts of England, continuing to preach after 

 the loss of sight. He was exceedingly eloquent 

 as a speaker, and strong in his denunciations 

 against papacy and slavery. He was widely 

 known as the author of several theological 

 and biographical works. In the pulpit he had 

 a patriarchal and venerable appearance, and 

 was frequently compared in this respect to 

 John "Wesley. In 1862 he retired from the 

 full work of the ministry, and settled in Brad- 

 ford. 



Jan. 29. LEWIS, Rev. JAMES, D. D., a Scot- 

 tish clergyman of Rome, Italy ; died in that city, 

 of diphtheria. He went to Rome in 1864, and, 

 although in danger from the papal authorities, 

 opened his house for private religious services, 

 which were continued for a space of three 

 years. In 1867 the Papal Government ordered 

 him to desist from such worship, under penalty 

 of imprisonment. With the ready and prudent 

 boldness which had characterized him during 

 the trying days of the separation of the Free 

 Church of Scotland from the Establishment, 

 he obeyed the order, but in a very different 

 manner from what was expected. He dis- 

 continued the private services, but rented a 

 room and opened a public service just outside 

 the gate of the city, immediately across the 

 street from the English church, which was, in 

 a manner at least, under the control of the 

 British legation. Any attempt to interfere 

 with him here would probably involve con- 

 sequences impossible to foresee, and he was 

 unmolested. Here he resolved to build a 

 church, and money being contributed by 

 friends in Scotland, Rome, and America, to 

 further that object, he carried it forward re- 

 gardless of the danger. A square building, 

 looking as little like a church as possible on 

 the outside, was erected, and, before its com- 

 pletion, the suspension of the Papal Government 

 gave perfect religious license. In 1871 the 

 church was dedicated, it being the only Prot- 

 estant church built on Roman soil. The same 

 day the college at Princeton gave him the 

 title of Doctor of Divinity. 



Feb. 2. DAWISON, BOGUMIL, a German 

 tragic actor, died in Dresden, aged 54 years. 

 He was the son of a Polish Jew, and a native 

 of Warsaw, born May 18, 1818. Having a 

 taste for the stage, he fought against the fate 

 which would have confined him and his for- 

 tunes to the uncongenial arena of the printing- 

 office, and, abandoning his position as tran- 

 scriber in the office of the Warsaw Gazette, hvj 

 studied the mimetic art under Kudlicz. He 

 made his first appearance in 1837 at the Polish 



