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the Eighty-second Foot, and a brother of the 

 late Lord Ashburnhara, once Treaty Commis- 

 sioner to the United States. 



March 6. GOLDSTTJCKER, THEODOE, an emi- 

 nent Sanscrit scholar, and professor ; died in 

 London. He was of German birth, but had 

 lived in England the greater portion of his 

 life. He was a man of fine, scholarly attain- 

 ments, and was a standard authority upon Sans- 

 crit literature ; was professor of that language 

 in the University of London, and left many 

 works, the labor of years, in manuscript, 

 among which is an immense Sanscrit diction- 

 ary, and a treatise on the administration of Hin- 

 doo law, both unfinished. It was said that he 

 requested that his papers should be burned. 



March 10. CHOELET, HENEY FOTHEEGILL, 

 an eminent English musical composer, critic, 

 and author ; died in England, aged TO years. 

 He was born at Blackleyhurst, Lancashire ; 

 educated in the Royal Institution, Liverpool, 

 and, after spending a few years in a merchant's 

 office there, went to London in 1834, and, join- 

 ing the staff of the Afhencsum, remained with 

 it for thirty -five years. He was the author of 

 "Sketches of a Seaport Town," "Pomfret," 

 "The Lion," "Boccabella," and "The Prodi- 

 gy," two plays, " Old Love and New Fortune," 

 and "Duchess Eleanor; " two original opera- 

 books "White Magic," and the "Amber 

 Witch ; " twenty opera-books paraphrased 

 from the French, German, and Italian lan- 

 guages ; and about a hundred songs. 



March 10. WELLS, Rev. JAMES, an eminent 

 Baptist minister, forty years pastor of the 

 Surrey Tabernacle ; died in London. He was 

 of humble birth, and his early education was 

 meagre, but after his conversion he gave him- 

 self diligently to study, and during his pastor- 

 ate had so greatly endeared himself to his 

 people that his funeral was attended by ninety 

 mourning-coaches and many thousands of 

 weeping friends. 



March . CAMPBELL, McLsoD, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman of Scotland, of lati- 

 tudinarian views ; died in Scotland. He was 

 the author of a noted work on the atonement. 



March . DON MANUEL PANDO, Marquis 

 de Miraflores,' Count of Villapaterna, a Span- 

 ish statesman and publicist; died in Madrid, 

 in the 80th year of his age. He was born 

 February 23, 1792, educated for public life, 

 which he entered early, and for more than 

 fifty years was constantly in the service of the 

 Government, either as an ambassador, sena- 

 tor, or cabinet officer. He had been sent at 

 different times in the capacity of ambassador, 

 minister extraordinary, and minister plenipo- 

 tentiary, to the courts of London and Paris. At 

 home, he had been many times called into cab- 

 inets over which other ministers presided, and 

 twice (in 1846 and 1863) had himself been 

 president of the Council. Seven times he had 

 been called to the presidency of the Senate. In 

 this last capacity, where he presided from 1863 

 to 1868, he made great but ineffectual efforts 



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to bring about a cordial state of feeling be- 

 tween the principal aspirants for power ; and, 

 after the death of Narvaez, he advised the 

 Queen to surround herself with a cabinet of 

 the Liberal, Union, and Progressist parties. 

 His advice was not accepted, and, foreseeing 

 the result, he resigned his office as president 

 of the Senate some time before the Revolution 

 of September, 1868, which cost the Queen her 

 throne, and remained in private life from that 

 time to his death. The marquis was a Span- 

 ish grandee of the first class, and had been 

 made Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor ; 

 Knight of the Golden Fleece ; Grand Cross of 

 Charles III. ; Senator for life ; Member of the 

 Real Academia de la Eistoria of Madrid ; Gov- 

 ernor of the Royal Palace and Royal Patrimo- 

 ny, and decorated with all the orders of merit 

 in Europe. He had written much and ably, 

 mainly in reference to the history and politics 

 of his own time. His principal works were : 

 " An Historical and Legal Memoir concerning 

 the Laws of the Succession to the Crown of 

 Spain," 1833 ; " An Impartial Review of the 

 Question of Succession, on the Occasion of 

 the Spanish Marriages," 184V; "Louis Phi- 

 lippe of Orleans," etc., 1851; "Memoirs of 

 the History of the First Seven Years of the 

 Reign of Isabella," 1863 ; "Memoirs of my Own 

 Life ;" and a number of important memoirs 

 and speeches. 



March . PEZEZDZIECKI, Compte ALEXAN- 

 DEE, a Polish historian and archaeologist ; died 

 in Paris. He was long a resident in that city, 

 and was the author of an historical drama in 

 French, entitled "Don Sebastiende Portugal," 

 which had some success. 



March . SCHUEZ, JOSEPH, a Swiss soldier 

 who had served through all the Napoleonic 

 wars and was wounded forty times, died at 

 Altorf, Switzerland, aged 110 years. 



April 3. SCOTT, Admiral Sir JAMES, K. C. B., 

 an officer of the British Navy ; died in Lon- 

 don, aged 81 years. He entered the navy in 

 1803, and served in the French, American, and 

 Chinese Wars ; was wounded at the reduction 

 of Martinique; served at Walcheren, at the 

 capture of Washington, and at the battles of 

 Bladensburg, Baltimore, etc. He was recom- 

 mended twenty times and gazetted nine times; 

 received the navy and army war medals, and 

 the Chinese medals ; also, the thanks of both 

 Houses of Parliament. 



April 13. SHOET, Rt. Rev. THOMAS VOWLEE, 

 D. D., formerly Bishop of St. Asaph ; died in 

 London, aged 82 years. He was the son of 

 Dr. Short, Archdeacon of Cornwall, born in 

 1790, and educated at Westminster School and 

 at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a 

 double first class in 1812. He was shortly after 

 appointed a tutor of Christ Church, and to a 

 living in the gift of his college. In 1821 he 

 was nominated Oxford preacher at the Chapel 

 Royal, Whitehall; and, after holding other 

 benefices in the Church, was promoted to the 

 living of St. George's, Bloom sbury. In 1841 



