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not long afterward confessor to the canons of 

 the cathedral. Desiring to overthrow the 

 Protestants and their doctrines, which he 

 often assailed, he began to read their books, in 

 order to arm himself for the warfare. In this 

 way he was led to exercise greater charity for 

 them, then to doubt his former views, and 

 finally to join their ranks. He soon became 

 their champion, and a powerful defender of 

 what he had formerly sought to destroy. 

 Being popular among his brethren, he was 

 finally elected bishop of the " Church of 

 Jesus," the name adopted by the Evangelical 

 party in the city of Mexico, and, throwing all 

 his energy into the cause, he often preached as 

 many as twelve times a week, until, crushed 

 under the wear and tear and difficulties of his 

 work, his health rapidly failed, and he sank 

 from complete exhaustion. 



Oct. 19. COOHRANE, Sir THOMAS J., G. 0. B., 

 Admiral of the Fleet; died in London, aged 

 83 years. He had taken a part, though in a 

 subordinate capacity, in all the naval battles 

 of the early part of the century, and had dis- 

 tinguished himself in the Chinese and Indian 

 Wars. 



Oct. 19. PURCHAS, Rev. JOUST, a prominent 

 ritualist of Brighton, England ; died there, 

 a<i\>d 49 years. He was born at Cambridge in 

 1823, educated at Rugby, and Christ College, 

 Cambridge, where he graduated in 1844, and 

 was curate successively of Elsworth, Orwell, 

 St. Paul's, and finally of St. James's Chapel, 

 Brighton, where he was appointed incumbent 

 in 1836. Here he introduced what were 

 dee'iiad innovations in the Church of England 

 service, and was brought to trial for doing so 

 before the Court of Arches. He appealed 

 from the adverse decision of that court to the 

 JuTtcial Committee of the Privy Council, but 

 finally was admonished to discontinue the 

 ceremonies he had practised, and the use of 

 certain vestments in the communion service, 

 of lighted candles and incense, mixing water 

 with communion wine, and using wafer-bread. 

 He refused to obey these admonitions, and was 

 suspended from his functions in February, 1872, 

 and since that time had remained in private 

 life. In 1853 he published a hand-book of 

 English ceremonials, a text-book of Anglican 

 Ritualism; in 1839, "The Miser's Daughter;" 

 " Poems and Ballads," 1846 ; " Book of Feasts," 

 1853 ; and several sermons, 1866. 



Oct. 20. WELWITSCH, Dr. FREDERICK, an 

 eminent botanist of Dutch extraction, died in 

 London. He had spent eighteen years in the 

 pursuit of his favorite science in the Portuguese 

 possassions on the west coast of Africa,, and 

 had made a collection of over forty thousand 

 specimens of African plants. He was a stand- 

 ard authority on African botany, and had pub- 

 lished several works on natural history. 



Oct. 28. BEECHER, Lady WRIXOX, nee ELIZA. 

 O'NEILL, once a famous actress ; died in Mal- 

 lony, England, aged 81 years. She was the 

 daughter of John O'Neill, manager of a com- 



pany of strolling players, and early displayed 

 remarkable grace as an actress under his 

 direction. She was first brought before the 

 public as a substitute, and made so favorable 

 an impression that she was forthwith attached 

 to the Dublin Theatre, where her popularity 

 was at once established. Ultimately she was 

 engaged for Covent Garden Theatre, by John 

 Kemble, making her debut there in 1814, as 

 Juliet, and a few days after personated Belvi- 

 dera making a startling sensation in both. 

 Her grace, sweetness, delicacy, and refinement, 

 as exhibited through a line ,of characters, won 

 great admiration, and placed her in the next 

 rank to Mrs. Siddons. Her career, however, 

 was as brief as it was brilliant, closing 

 in July, 1819, with her performance of Mrs. 

 Haller. The following December she became 

 the wife of Sir William Wrixon Beecher, M. 

 P. for Mallony, who in 1831 succeeded to an 

 ancient baronetcy, and whose death occurred 

 in 1850. 



Oct. 30. COMBE, THOMAS, M. A., manager 

 of the Clarendon Pres at Oxford ; died there, 

 aged 76 years. He was the son of a book- 

 seller in Leicester, and, removing to Oxford 

 about 1837, was appointed manager of the 

 press, which under his supervision greatly ex- 

 tended its operations, and from being an ex- 

 pense became a source of revenue. When the 

 monopoly for printing Bibles, which it had so 

 long enjoyed, came to an end, Mr. Combe de- 

 termined to save the profit made by the maker 

 upon the paper, and, as an Act of Parliament 

 would have been necessary to enable the 

 University to turn paper-maker, he took a 

 mill at Wolvercott in his own name and at 

 at his own risk. After long and patient 

 supervision, he succeeded in overcoming all 

 difficulties, and in making the establishment 

 profitable, so that the competition of other 

 printers of Bibles and Prayer-books in no 

 way injured the Clarendon Press. Out of 

 no excessive means he found funds to build a 

 graceful chapel to the Oxford Infirmary for 

 the use of the convalescent inmates. lie built 

 also a large church in St. Barnabas, the poorer 

 quarter of Oxford, which, like the previous 

 edifice, was designed by Mr. Bl cornfield. In 

 the same city he erected one school-house, and 

 paid half the cost of another ; and to all works 

 of charity he was a liberal contributor. Mr. 

 Combe was also a great lover of art, and pos- 

 sessed a valuable collection of choice paintings. 

 The honorary degree of M. A. was conferred 

 on him by the university, in recognition of 

 his valuable business services to her. 



Oct. 30. SAYN-WlTTGENSTEIN-HoHEXSTEIN-, 



Prince ADOLPHUS vox, a German tenor of 

 note ; died on board a vessel bound from 

 Bremen to the United States, aged 32 years. 

 He was on an artistic tour. 



Oct. 30. SOBOLSHCHIKOFF, YASILT IVANO- 



VITCH, a Russian author, librarian of the Im- 

 perial Public Library at St. Petersburg ; died 

 in that city, aged 59 years. He was born at 



