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he was nominated by Sir Robert Peel to the 

 bishopric of Sodor and Man, and in 1846 was 

 translated to the See of St. Asaph, which he 

 held for twenty-four years, and then resigned 

 under a recent act of Parliament. He was the 

 author of a "Sketch of the History of the 

 Church of England to the Revolution," and of 

 several other works. 



April 18. MITCHELL, EDWARD, an English 

 sculptor ; died in London, aged 41 years. 



April 18. SHEEPSHANKS, WILLIAM, an emi- 

 nent English philanthropist; died in London. 



April 19. WESTMACOTT, Prof. RICHAED, R. 

 A., F. R. S., an eminent English sculptor; died 

 in London, aged 74 years. He was the son of 

 Sir Richard Westmacott, a celebrated artist, 

 and was born in 1798. Adopting his father's 

 profession, he went to Italy in 1820, and de- 

 voted six years to the study of his art. His 

 first exhibition at the Academy was in 1827. 

 In 1838 he was elected an Associate ; in 1849, 

 R. A., and in 1859, Professor of Sculpture. 

 Among his best ideal works were "Venus and 

 Ascanius" in 1831; "the Cymbal Player," in 

 the Duke of Devonshire's collection, exhibited 

 in 1832 ; a group of a Girl and a Fawn ; " Venus 

 instructing Cupid ;" "Paolo and Francesca," 

 in 1838, and "Blue Bell," a bass-relief full of 

 grace and beauty. His greatest success, how- 

 ever, was in religious compositions, of which 

 his finest examples were the "Angel Watch- 

 ing," part of a large monumental group to the 

 Ashburton family, in 1842 ; a bass-relief, " Go 

 and Sin no more; " a recumbent monumental 

 figure of the late Archbishop Howley, in Can- 

 terbury Cathedral, in 1850; and one of the 

 late Earl of Hardwicke, at Wimpole. Mr. 

 Westmacott had for some years previous to 

 his death retired from the practice of his pro- 

 fession, occupying himself chiefly in the litera- 

 ture connected with his art, and in delivering 

 lectures. He contributed to most of the en- 

 cyclopaedias and journals articles and essays 

 on the subject of his professional study; and 

 was the author of a " Handbook on the Schools 

 of Sculpture," and an essay "On Coloring 

 Statues." 



April 27. BEAMISH, Lieutenant-Colonel 

 NORTH LUDLOW, K. H., an author of several 

 military works ; died in London, aged 75 years. 

 Among his works was " The History of the 

 King's German Legion." 



April 30. MAYHEW, HORACE, a popular 

 English author ; died in London, aged 53 years. 



April 30. NASSAU-ORANGE, WILLIAM FRED- 

 ERICK HENRY, Prince of, Vice- Admiral of the 

 Dutch Navy, and brother of the King of the 

 Netherlands; died in Amsterdam, aged 52 

 years. He was born in Soestdyke, June 13, 

 1820. He was Viceroy of the grand-duchy of 

 Luxemburg, and commanded the second" di- 

 vision for the equipment of the Russian fleet. 

 In March, 1853, he married the Princess Ama- 

 lia Marie-de-Gloria- Auguste, daughter of Ber- 

 nard, Duke of Saxe- Weimar-Eisenach. 



April . BAMFORD, SAMUEL, an English 



author ; died near Manchester, aged 84 years. 

 He was successively a weaver, warehouseman, 

 sailor, public secretary, bookseller, newspaper 

 correspondent, and Government clerk, and was 

 several times a political prisoner. IJis two 

 chief works, "Passages in the Life of a Radi- 

 cal," and "Early Days," give a detailed account 

 of his connection with the political movements 

 in Lancashire which brought him into noto- 

 riety. He is frequently quoted by Miss Mar- 

 tineau, in her " History of England during the 

 Thirty Years' Peace," as an authority with 

 regard to the events immediately prior to the 

 Manchester massacre, in August, 1819, as well 

 as to that deplorable event itself, which con- 

 stituted an epoch in the history of the Gov- 

 ernment contest with radicalism. 



April . BORGIA, ALEXANDER, Grand Com- 

 mander of the Knights of St. John ; died in 

 Rome, Italy. Pie was a lineal descendant of 

 Pope Alexander VI. and of Lucrezia and Ce- 

 sare Borgia, and a great admirer of that' eccen- 

 tric family, whom history, he always declared, 

 had foully wronged. 



April . PICTET, called DE LA RIVE, Prof. 

 FRANgois JULES, an eminent Swiss naturalist ; 

 died at Geneva, Switzerland, aged about 72 

 years. He was born in that city about 1800, 

 graduated from the Academy of Geneva, and 

 early devoted himself to the study of zoology 

 and comparative anatomy, to which he sub- 

 sequently added such profound researches into 

 palason tology as made him the peer of Agassiz in 

 this difficult but interesting science. He was 

 elected Professor of Zoology and Comparative 

 Anatomy in the Academy of Geneva about 

 1830, and prosecuted his favorite studies with 

 unwearied assiduity till his death. His pub- 

 lished works are numerous. The principal 

 were: "Researches upon the Phryganides," 

 1834; "The Natural History, General and 

 Specific, of Neuropterous Insects," 2 vols., 8vo, 

 1841-'43, comparing the Perlides and Epli- 

 emerides ; ' ' Elementary Treatise on Paleontol- 

 ogy," 4 vols., 8vo, 1844-'46 (a second edition 

 with an atlas of 110 plates was published in 

 Paris, 1853-55) ; , " Description of the Fossil 

 Mollusks found in the New Red Sandstone of 

 the Vicinity of Geneva," 1847-'51, 4to, with 

 51 plates; "Materials for Swiss Palasontol- 

 ogy," 3 vols. (35 numbers) with numerous 

 plates, 1854-'63; "Description of the Fossil 

 Fish of Mount Lebanon," 4to, 1850; "Notes 

 on the New Animals in the Museum of Gene- 

 va," 4to, 23 plates; " Pala3ontologic Miscel- 

 lanies," 1863. He also prepared numerous 

 papers for the Transactions of the Society of 

 Physics of Geneva, and was a large contribu- 

 tor to the " Bibliotheque Universelle." 



May 1. MAYHEW, HENKY, an English au- 

 thor and reformer; died in London, aged 60 

 years. He was born in London in 1812 ; 

 studied at Westminster School, which he left 

 for a voyage to Calcutta, and on his retuin 

 was articled to his father, a solicitor, for three 

 years. His literary career commenced not far 



