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his sermons were remarkable for their vigor 

 and originality. One of his favorite themes 

 was Christian benevolence, and his pictures 

 of thosa who gave grudgingly, and especially 

 of those who only helped the poor with an 

 eye to their own benefit, were vivid and tell- 

 ing, and his denunciations terrible. 



Sept. . HOPPNEE, RICHARD BELGRAVE, an 

 intimate friend and associate of Lord Byron; 

 died in London, aged 86 years. He was con- 

 sul at Venice during Byron's stay in that city, 

 and kindly assumed the care of the poet's 

 daughter Allegra. 



Sept. . KOCH, Dr. 0. F., a German phi- 

 lologist; died in Berlin, Germany. He was 

 especially devoted to the Teutonic languages. 



Oct. 2. WILLES, Rt. Hon. Sir JAMES SHAW, 

 Justice of Court of Common Pleas; committed 

 suicide during a paroxysm of insanity, aged 58 

 years. He was the son of a physician in Cork, 

 Ireland, and was born in 1814. He received 

 his education at Trinity College, Dublin, where 

 he took honors, %nd was graduated B. A. in 

 1836, and LL. D. in 1860. He was called to 

 the bar by the Inner Temple in 1840, went the 

 Home Circuit, and had a large business as a 

 " leading junior." In 1849 he edited, with Sir 

 Henry S. Keating, the well-known legal work, 

 "Smith's Leading Cases," and in 1850 was 

 appointed a commissioner of Common Law 

 Procedure, and afterward assisted in drawing 

 the Common Law Procedure Acts of 1852, 

 1854, and 1860, which regulated the practice 

 of the English courts. In 1855, when a va- 

 cancy occurred among the Judges of the Court 

 of Common Pleas, he was raised to the bench, 

 and received the honor of knighthood. 



Oct. 3. Goss, Rt. Rev. ALEXANDER, D. D., 

 Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool; died 

 there. He was consecrated bishop in 1853. 



Oct. 6. POLLOCK, Field-Marshal Sir GEORGE, 

 Bart., G. C. B. and G. 0. S. I. ; died in Lon- 

 don. He was born in that city in 1786. En- 

 tering the service of the East India Company 

 in 1802, he joined the Bengal Artillery, in 

 which he rose by successive steps, attaining 

 the rank of captain in 1805, of major in 1819, 

 of colonel in 1829, and of general in 1859. 

 Shortly after proceeding to India, he joined 

 the army under General Lake, and was present 

 at the battle of Deeg, and at the sieges of 

 Deeg and Bhurtpore, in 1804-'5. He volun- 

 teered in 1815 to serve with the force under 

 General S. Wood against the Nepaulese ; and, 

 having held some staff appointments, he was 

 appointed, in 1821, to the command of the 

 army sent to Burmah under Sir Archibald 

 Campbell, where he gained great credit, and 

 for his services in the Burmese War was made 

 a 0. B. In 1841 he was selected to command 

 the armies on the west of the Indus, when, 

 after forcing the Khyber Pass by a series of 

 skilful and brilliant operations, he marched to 

 the relief of Sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad. 

 Having defeated the Afghan troops in three 

 successive encounters, he took Cabul Septem- 



ber 15th, in that year, effected the release 

 of the prisoners, was joined by General 

 Nott, September 17th, and led the army 

 through the formidable passes back to India 

 in October. For these services he was 

 presented with a splendid sword by the 

 Government of India, created a G. C. B., and 

 received the thanks of both Houses of Parlia- 

 ment. In 1843 he was appointed British en- 

 voy at Oude, in 1844 a member of the Supreme 

 Council of India ; in 1846 he received the 

 thanks of the Court of Common Council of 

 London, for his distinguished services in Af- 

 ghanistan, and the freedom of the city in a 

 gold box, and the freedom of the Merchant 

 Taylors' Company; in 1847 was voted a pen- 

 sion of 1,000 per annum by the East India 

 Company; received in 1850 a medal for gen- 

 eral services, with four clasps for the battle and 

 the siege of Deeg, the Nepaulese War, and Bur- 

 mese War ; and in 1858 was nominated by the 

 Crown one of the Directors of the East India 

 Company, which post he held for two years. 

 In 1861 he was appointed lion, colonel of the 

 First Battalion Surrey Rifle Volunteers, and 

 subsequently was nominated a Grand Com- 

 mander of the Star of India; was gazetted 

 to the brevet rank of field-marshal in June, 

 1870, and installed Constable of the Tower 

 of London, December 23, 1871. He was cre- 

 ated a baronet in March, 1872. 



Oct. 13. FONBLANQUE, ALBANY WlLLIAM, 



an eminent author ; died in London, aged 77 

 years. Intended for the bar, he became the 

 pupil of Chitty, the well-known special plead- 

 er, but relinquished the profession and applied 

 himself to literature. " Castlereagh's ' Six 

 Acts,'" it has been said, "made a political 

 writer of him." At first he contributed polit- 

 ical articles to the Chronicle, under Perry and 

 Black. On the death of the former, Clements, 

 who had purchased the paper, dispensed with 

 his services, and he became the chief contrib- 

 utor to, and afterward the proprietor and 

 editor of, the Examiner, the then leading Lon- 

 don weekly newspaper, which he conducted 

 for many years with great brilliancy and 

 ability. In 1837 he published a selection from 

 his editorial contributions to that paper, under 

 the designation of "England under Seven 

 Administrations." Mr. Fonblanque having 

 received from Lord John Russell's government 

 an appointment in the public service, withdrew 

 in a great measure from literary pursuits, lie 

 was the head of the statistical department of 

 the Board of Trade. 



Oct. 18. AGFAS, MANUEL, a converted Ro- 

 man Catholic priest; died in the city of 

 Mexico. In his youth he was ardently devoted 

 to his studies. Having been admitted to the 

 convent of the Dominicans, he made the usual 

 vows, received the sacred orders, and after- 

 ward occupied a high place among his brother 

 monks. When the convents were abolished K- 

 became curate of a small village called Azca- 

 pozalco, not far from the city of Mexico ; and 



