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Theatre in Warsaw, and obtained an engage- 

 ment shortly after at Vilna as general utility 

 man. Subsequently at Lemberg, meeting a pa- 

 tron in the director of the Polish Theatre of that 

 city, Count Starbeck, he was enabled to travel, 

 visiting the chief cities of France and Germany. 

 On returning toLernberg he played in the Ger- 

 man language, and thenceforward devoted 

 himself chiefly to the German drama. In 1846 

 he played at Hamburg, and, refusing many 

 other advantageous offers, he was finally in- 

 vited, in 1849, to play at the first of German 

 theatres, the Hofburg Theatre, of Vienna. 

 Retiring from this in consequence of the ill- 

 health of his wife, he was engaged in the 

 Dresden Theatre. Subsequently he travelled 

 on the Continent of Europe, in the British 

 Islands, and in the United States, appearing 

 at the highest-class theatres. A few years ago 

 he returned from this country, and just after 

 his return the insanity which finally led to his 

 death developed itself strongly. His repertoire 

 was very varied. His principal roles were: 

 Hamlet, Richard III., Macbeth, Othello, Shy- 

 lock, Philip II., the Duke of Aha, and Wal- 

 lenstein. In his treatment of these characters 

 he displayed the most painstaking attention to 

 detail, as well as an accurate study of the 

 spirit, no less than the language of the char- 

 acter. 



Feb. 5. POOLE, JOHN, an English dramatist 

 and author; died in London, aged 80 years. 

 He had written for the stage since 1813. He 

 was the author of "Little Pedlington," the 

 comedy of " Paul Pry," and several volumes of 

 essays and sketches. 



Feb. 7. GENIOT, Madame, a Parisian charcu- 

 tiere, or sausage and pork seller, of enormous 

 size ; died in Paris. In 1848, on some political 

 occasion, she was selected to represent the 

 Goddess of Liberty. At the time of her death 

 she weighed 514 pounds, and her coffin 

 measured nearly two yards across. 



Feb. 8. PEASE, JOSEPH, an English mine 

 owner, one of the largest employers of labor 

 in England ; died in Darlington, aged 75 years. 

 He was a member of the Society of Friends, 

 and the first of its members who ever sat in 

 Parliament. He was also the president of the 

 Peace Society, and established and maintained, 

 chiefly at his own cost, an extensive system of 

 education in connection with his collieries in 

 the county of Durham. 



Feb. 13. CONTI, CHARLES ETIENNE, private 

 secretary of Napoleon III. ; died in Paris, aged 

 60 years. He was a native of Corsica, and was 

 born October 31, 1812. He acquired distinc- 

 tion as a lawyer, politician, and a writer of 

 verse, and was elected to the Council-General 

 of his department. He received the office of 

 Procureur-General at Bastia, under the repub- 

 lic, and was returned to the French Legislative 

 Assembly, wherein he acted with the mod- 

 erate democratic party, while General Cavai- 

 gnac was in power. He supported the empire, 

 and received October, 1851, the decoration of 



the Legion of Honor, and was also appointed 

 a Councillor of State soon after the overthrow 

 of the republic. He succeeded M. Mocquard 

 as private secretary to Napoleon III., and 

 served him with great fidelity. He was re- 

 turned from Corsica to the present National 

 Assembly, where, before a hostile and uproar- 

 ious audience he avowed, on a notable occa- 

 sion, his fidelity to his fallen master. 



Feb. 13. ROGEES, G. II., a popular actor; 

 died at Melbourne, Australia, aged 54 years. 



Feb. 15. DALY, Right Rev. ROBERT, D. D., 

 Episcopal Bishop of Cashel, Ireland ; died 

 there, aged 90 years. He was made bishop 

 in 1843. 



Feb. 18. OEHLEE, Professor, a theologian of 

 the latitudinarian school of Tubingen, the as- 

 sociate and supporter of F. C. Baur, and, like 

 him, vehement in his attacks on the orthodox 

 school ; died at Tubingen. 



Feb. 21. BURNS, Colonel WILLIAM N., late 

 of the Indian Army, and last surviving son of 

 the poet Robert Burns; died at Dumfries, 

 Scotland, aged 80 years. He was named after 

 his father's friend, William Nicol, a master in 

 the Edinburgh High-School, and one of the 

 three celebrities named in ''Willie brewed a 

 Peck o' Maut." Colonel Burns was buried in 

 the Burns mausoleum, at Dumfries, where his 

 father, his brothers, and his world-widely cele- 

 brated mother, Jeanie Armor, rest. 



Feb. 21. GAGARIN, Prince PAUL, a Russian 

 statesman, president of the Ministerial Coun- 

 cil ; died in St. Petersburg, aged about 79 years. 

 He had been in the Russian service since 1807, 

 having begun his career as a young army offi- 

 cer under General Kutuzoff. Transferred some 

 years later to the civil service, he had filled 

 many offices, and had been for some years past 

 president of the Council of Ministers. He was 

 a man of great skill and tact, and was univer- 

 sally respected for his straightforwardness and 

 integrity. 



Feb. 23. VAUDOYER, LEON, an eminent 

 French architect, and member of the French 

 Institute; died in Paris, aged 69 years. He 

 was born in Paris, Jue 7, 1803 ; studied with 

 his father, and with M. Hippolyte Le Bas; 

 entered the School of Fine Arts in 1819, and 

 gained the second prize in 1824, and the grand 

 prize in 1826 for the plan offered by him for a 

 palace for the French Academy, at Rome. 

 During a protracted residence at the villa of 

 the Medici, at Florence, he sent home to Paris 

 plans and elevations of the arches of Trajan, 

 at Ancona and Benevenuto; of the Porte 

 la Majeure, and of the Augustan Gate, both at 

 Fano ; of the aqueducts of Claudius, and of the 

 Temples of Venus, and of Rome. The two 

 latter studies were exhibited at the Exposition 

 of 1855. On his return to Paris in 1832, he 

 designed, in connection with David (d'Angers), 

 the national monument to General Foy, be- 

 sides a large number of private monuments. 

 He next undertook, with his father, the archi- 

 tectural drawings for the Conservatory of Arts 



