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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



With the exception of the period during which 

 he was Solicitor-General, Mr. Macdonald was 

 in the opposition, until late in his career he 

 became what is termed an " independent mem- 

 ber." He was one of the few Upper Cana- 

 dians who have persistently opposed represen- 

 tation by population, and, although a Roman 

 Catholic, was never an advocate of separate 

 schools. 



June 7. HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT, Q. C., 

 Commissioner of Bankrupts at Bristol, and late 

 Recorder of Birmingham, an eminent philan- 

 thropist ; died in Birmingham, aged 80 years. 

 He was a brother of Sir Rowland Hill, and 

 born in 1792. His education was mainly con- 

 ducted by his father. In 1819 he was called to 

 the bar of Lincoln's Inn ; was one of the mem- 

 bers in the Liberal interest for Kingston-upon- 

 Hull from 1832 to 1834, and the latter year re- 

 ceived a silk gown with a patent of precedence. 

 He was appointed Recorder of Birmingham, 

 and Commissioner in Bankruptcy in the Bris- 

 tol district, but resigned the former in 1866, 

 retaining the latter position until his death. 

 Mr. Hill was active in promoting the establish- 

 ment of reformatories for juvenile criminals, 

 and had published in a collected form, under 

 the title of " Suggestions for the Repression 

 of Crime," a large number of charges addressed 

 by him to grand juries in his capacity of Re- 

 corder of Birmingham, besides various pam- 

 phlets ; among which may be mentioned " Prac- 

 tical Suggestions to the Founders of Reform- 

 atory Schools," "Mettray," "Tuscan Juris- 

 prudence," and letter to the Right Hon. 0. B. 

 Adderley, "On the Insufficiency of Punish- 

 ments simply deterrent." He also edited sev- 

 eral biographies of men and women who have 

 become benefactors of their country. 



June 26. OETTINGER, EDWARD MARIA, a 

 German novelist and journalist; died in Ger- 

 many, aged 66 years. He was born in Breslau, 

 in 1806. He began his career as a journalist in 

 Vienna, and afterward resided in nearly all 

 the principal cities of Germany. Early devot- 

 ing himself to bibliography, he possessed a 

 knowledge of books, especially of historical 

 and biographical works, surpassing that of the 

 most eminent bibliographers of his time. He 

 was a man of powerful intellect, exhaustive 

 knowledge, and sparkling humor, endowed 

 with a wonderful power of description. His 

 last years were spent in poverty and sickness, 

 which deprived him of sight. He left an un- 

 finished work of much value, entitled "Moni- 

 teur des Dates." 



July 2. HlLFERDING, ALEXANDER, a RuS- 



sian author, and scholar ; died at Kargopol, 

 aged 42 years. He was one of the most eru- 

 dite of Russian scholars, and a chief authority 

 on all questions concerning the various Slavon- 

 ic peoples, and had published numerous works 

 on Slavonic literature. At the time of his 

 death he was on a journey of exploration to 

 certain imperfectly-known districts of the 

 Archangel Government. 



July 3. BAGSTER, JONATHAN, one of the 

 publishers of Bagster's Polyglot and other Bi- 

 bles ; died in London, aged 59 years. 



July 18. ITURBIDE, Don ANGEL de, son of 

 Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico ; died in Mexico. 



July 25. GUISE, Duke de, eldest son of the 

 Due d'Aumale ; died in Paris, aged 18 years, 

 lie was born at Twickenham, England, Janu- 

 ary 5, 1854. His mother was daughter of the 

 King of the Two Sicilies. His death was the 

 result of too close application to his studies. 



July 31. SMITH, AUGUSTUS, lessee or King 

 of the Scilly Isles ; died there, aged 67 years. 

 In 1830, having immense wealth at his com- 

 mand, as a member of the famous London 

 banking family, he obtained, through his 

 father's influence with King William IV., a 

 lease of the Scilly Islands, and devoted himself 

 to the work of improving the physical and 

 moral condition of the inhabitants, who were 

 sunk in ignorance, apathy, and superstition, 

 and not unfrequently reduced to a state of 

 semi-starvation. He gave them instruction in 

 agriculture, instituted schools, and made edu- 

 cation compulsory. As a result of his work of 

 forty years, they are now a thriving, active, 

 well-educated people, competing successfully 

 with the first market-gardeners in the king- 

 dom, as purveyors of the earliest fruit and ve- 

 getables to Covent Garden. 



July . DUFOUR, SELIM FRANCOIS, a 

 French journalist and author ; died in Paris, 

 aged 73 years. He was for sixteen years edi- 

 tor of the Revue et Gazette Musicale, and for 

 some time also editor of the Journal de St. 

 Petersburg, and vice-president of the Society 

 of Authors, Compositors, and Editors, in Paris. 



July . Low, WALTER, a publisher and 

 bookseller, for many years, in the United 

 States ; died in London, by suicide. He was 

 for a long time connected with the Harpers of 

 New York. 



July . MARCIIISIO, CARLOTTA, an Italian 

 vocalist ; died in Turin, aged 35 years. 



Aug. 8. LEEDS, GEORGE GODOLPHIN OS- 

 BORNE (Scotch Viscount Dunblane); died at 

 his country-seat, aged 70 years. He was born 

 in 1802, and succeeded to the peerage in 1859. 



Aug. 10. SMITH, Sir ANDREW, K. C. B., M. 

 D., F. R. S. ; died in London, aged 75 years. 

 He was born in Roxburghshire, in 1797, and 

 educated at Edinburgh, where he graduated, 

 in 1819. He was made Honorary Fellow of 

 the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of 

 Glasgow, of the College of Surgeons of Edin- 

 burgh, and of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of 

 Aberdeen. From 1851 to 1858 he was Director- 

 General of the Army Medical Department, and 

 was created a K. 0. B. on retiring from his of- 

 fice. He was the author of "Illustrations of 

 the Zoology of South Africa" (1838-'47); 

 " Origin and History of the Bushmen ; " 

 tory of Secondary Small-pox ; " and various 

 contributions to scientific periodicals. 



Aug. 15. SKEY, FREDERICK C., F. R. S., 

 President of Royal College of Surgeons, and 



