OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



649 



as musician at the Italian Theatre, though still 

 composing new operas, cantatas, and rondos. 

 Later in life he acquired a sufficient compe- 

 tence to enable him to live humbly and quiet- 

 ly at Bologna. 



O c t n . VIGNERON, PIERKE-ROOH, a cele- 

 brated French artist ; died in Paris, aged 83 

 years. He was a pupil of David and of Gros, 

 I and in 1819 exhibited the "Convoi du Pau- 

 i vre," which was received with great favor. 

 I In 1847 he obtained the medal of the second 

 class from the French Institute, and in 1854 

 he was decorated with the Cross of the Legion 

 of Honor. 



Nov. I. KELSIEFF, BASIL IVANOVITCH, a 

 Russian revolutionary writer and journalist, 

 born in St. Petersburg about 1835; died in 

 that city. He was for ten years a pupil of the 

 School of Commerce of that city, as a bene- 

 ficiary of the Russo-American Company, and 

 in 1855 entered the University of St. Peters- 

 burg for a two years' course in the Chinese 

 and Mantchoo languages. In 1857 he embarked 

 for Russian America, but, the ship having put 

 in at Plymouth, England, he escaped from it 

 and fled to London, where he studied Hebrew 

 and undertook the translation of the Old Tes- 

 tament into Russian, following the interpreta- 

 tions of the Talmud. Falling in with Alexan- 

 der Hertzen, he became soon after one of the 

 editorial staff of the Kololcol, Hertzen's revolu- 

 tionary journal, and prepared also several 

 works for the propagation of socialist and 

 materialist doctrines, and, with the assistance 

 of Ogareff, published several supplements to 

 the Kololcol, having the same end in view. 

 Growing bolder by degrees, he attempted, in 

 concert with his brother John, to rouse the 

 inhabitants of Tulscha, a province of the Do- 

 brudja, to insurrection against the Russian 

 Government, and, making common cause with 

 the insurgents of Podolia and Volhynia, to use 

 incendiarism as a revolutionary measure. He 

 was aided in this effort by a Polish Revolu- 

 tionary Association, having its headquarters in 

 London. Their scheme seemed likely to prove 

 successful, as in all these provinces, as well as 

 among the Cossacks of the Don, the Terek, 

 and the Ural, are great numbers of a schismat- 

 ic sect called "Raskolniks" or "Old Be- 

 lievers," who were ripe for revolution. Their 

 archbishop opposed them, but they compelled 

 him to fly into Turkish territory. Kelsieff 

 next started a printing establishment at Tul- 

 scha, where he began to publish the works of 

 the " Old Believers, 1 ' and revolutionary docu- 

 ments also. The death of his brother discon- 

 certed his plans, and Kelsieff returned to Eng- 

 land in 1865, and removed the Kololcol to 

 Geneva, where he continued its publication. 

 After a time, however, wearied with his suf- 

 ferings and disappointments, he gave himself 

 up to the Russian Government, and after a 

 brief imprisonment was set at liberty. Since 

 that time he had lived in St. Petersburg, and 

 engaged in literary pursuits. He had pub- 



lished a history of the Raskolniks, and a nar- 

 rative of his imprisonment. 



Nov. 1. MAGUIRE, JOHN FRANCIS, M. P., 

 an Irish statesman; died in Cork, aged 57 

 years. He was a native of that city, and, hav- 

 ing been educated for the law, was called to 

 the bar in 1843. He represented the borough 

 of Dungarvan from 1852 to 1865, when he was 

 elected one of the members for the city of 

 Cork. In Parliament he was an earnest de- 

 fender of the interests of Catholics at home 

 and abroad, and for many years was editor 

 of the Cork Examiner, a Catholic paper of 

 considerable influence in the south of Ireland. 

 He took a leading part in promoting the 

 growth of flax in Ireland, and established a 

 company for introducing the linen industry 

 into Cork. He was the author of " Rome and 

 its Ruler" (1857-'59); an enlarged edition of 

 the same under the title of " The Pontificate 

 of Pius Ninth" (1870); "The Industrial 

 Movement in Ireland in 1852 " (1853) ; " Fa- 

 ther Mathew " (1863) ; " The Irish in Amer- 

 ica" (1858); and "The Next Generation" 

 (1871). Mr. Maguire was Mayor of Cork for 

 some years, and was a strong advocate of self- 

 government for Ireland. 



Nov. 2. AMAT DI SAN FILIPPO E SORSO, 

 LUIGI, a Roman cardinal ; died in Rome, aged 

 76 years. He was born at Cagliari, Sardinia, 

 June 21, 1796 ; was educated at the college in 

 Rome, was for some years legate of Bologna at 

 Rome ; was promoted to the cardinalate, May 

 19, 1837, was consecrated Bishop of Palestrina, 

 March 16, 1852 ; and was Vice-Chancellor of 

 the Holy Roman Church. 



Nov. 5. CLARKSON, JAMES BURNET, M. D., 

 an eminent physician of Scotland; died at 

 Edinburgh, aged 80 years. He was an inti- 

 mate fiiend and family physician of Sir Wal- 

 ter Scott. He retired from practice many 

 years previous to his death, to a fine estate 

 near Edinburgh, where he entertained visitors 

 hospitably and exhibited many valuable sou- 

 venirs of the friendship that existed between 

 that great writer and himself. 



Nov. 20. LUCCA, FRANCESCO, a celebrated 

 music publisher of Italy ; died in Milan, aged 

 70 years. He was born at Cremona, in 1802, 

 and was originally a music-engraver in the 

 house of Ricordi. 



Nov. 23. JANET-LANGE, ANGE-LOUIS, a 

 French historical painter ; died in Paris, aged 

 54 years. He was born in 1818, and was a 

 pupil of Collin, Ingres, and Horace Vernet. 

 He adopted the manner of the last of these 

 painters, especially in the numerous designs 

 he made for woodcuts, which were published 

 in a periodical, viz., L 1 Illustration. He also 

 made a series of designs for military uniforms 

 by order of Marshal Soult, though they were 

 never adopted. 



Nov. 25. PLON, HENRI, a distinguished 

 bookseller of Paris ; died in that city, ^ aged 

 66 years. He published Napoleon's "Life of 

 Caesar," and many other books of note. 



