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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Protestantism was his contest, many yean 

 since, with O'Connell, and it was provoked by 

 gome observations about the Wesleyans, which 

 ICaoaffee at once challenged and refuted. Al- 

 most worn out in the ministry, the deceased 

 retired, and spent the last few years in Lon- 

 don, occasionally appearing in public, and to 

 the last proving himself an ablo advocate of a 

 common Protestantism in the churches of the 

 rmation. 



Jan. 18. MATTBO, DOMINTCO, an Italian poet 

 and patriot ; died at Florence, of cancer. 



Jan. 27. OTWAY, Lady , the widow of 



the late General Sir Loflus Otway, 0. B., colo- 

 nel of the eighty-fourth Regiment of Foot; 

 died in London. Lady Otway was a Planta- 

 genet, a lineal descendant from Edward III. 



Jan. 81. Ross, Ven. Henry John, Arch- 

 deacon of Bedford, and an author and editor 

 of distinction ; died in Bedford, England, aged 

 73 years. He was a brother of the late Rev. 

 Hugh James Rose, Principal of King's College, 

 London, graduated from St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, as fourteenth wrangler in 1821, 

 became Fellow of his college in 1824, was 

 Hulsean Lecturer in 1838, rector of the college 

 living of Honghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, in 

 1837, Archdeacon of Bedford in 1866. He was 

 editor of the " Encyclopaedia Metropolitana" 

 from 1889, and of the first volume of the bio- 

 graphical dictionary that bears his name. He 

 also edited with Rev. J. W. Burgon a series 

 of Scripture engravings with accompanying 

 letter-press, and translated Neander's "Eccle- 

 siastical History of the First Three Centuries." 

 Among his original contributions to theologi- 

 cal literature, were: "Ecclesiastical History 

 from 1700 to 1858," 1858; Hulsean Lectures 

 on "The Law of Moses viewed in Connection 

 with the History and Character of the Jews; " 

 " An Answer to the Case of the Dissenters," 

 1884 ; and one of the essays in the " Replies 

 to Essays and I : 



J<in. . AK.VVL, ETIKNNR, a French comic 

 actor, born at Melun (Seine-et-Oiso), February 

 1, 1794; died at Geneva, aged 70 years. In 

 1803 he became a cadet of the Imperial Guard, 

 and in 1814 took part in the defense of Paris. 

 At the commencement of the Restoration ho 

 entered the theatre and played tragic parts, 

 bnt soon after, understanding better his real 

 vocation, tamed to comedy. He remained 

 n une time at the Varietes, and loft it for the 

 Vaudeville in 1x27, where he obtained a prut 

 Togtie, particularly in " Mile. Marguerite, M. 

 Galorhnrd," " Le Mari de la Dame de Coetir," 

 " I.'Hninririftte," "LosGantaJannes," "LePol- 

 trc.n," " L'Homme Bland," etc. From the Vau- 

 deville he passed to the Gymnase. went h.-i.-k 

 t the Vaudeville, then returned to the Va- 

 rtete*, and at length engaged himself at the 

 Pslal Royal, where he remained until 184. 

 Arnal was a poet of considerable merit. He 

 was the author of an " Epitre 4 Bouffe " (1840), 

 " BooUdeenVri"(1861) > "Les Gendarmes," 



Jan. . BLAODEX, Miss ISA, an English 

 novelist and essayist; died in Florence. Her 

 principal novels were, " Agnes Tremorne ; " 

 "The Woman I loved and the Woman who 

 loved Me;" "The Cost of a Secret;" "The 

 Crown of a Life," and iiuiny brilliant novellet- 

 tes in Prater, the Cornhill, and All the Year 

 Round. Her greatest claim to grateful remem- 

 brance, however, is her warm friendship for 

 the Brownings, and the tender affection with 

 which she watched over Mrs. Barrett Brown- 

 ing in her lost illness. She performed also the 

 same loving office for Theodosia Trollope. 



Feb. 3. HCXTEB, Jonx KKI.SO, a Scottish 

 author and artist ; died at Pollokshields, near 

 Glasgow. His " Retrospect of an Artist's Life " 

 attracted some attention a fuw years since. 



Feb. 4. GABMENCIA, Don FBANCISOO, the 

 second Vice-President of the Republic of Pe- 

 ru ; died at Placentia, Italy. He was one of 

 the ablest of the Peruvian statesmen, and his 

 death was greatly lamented by the Peruvian 

 people. 



Feb. 7. LE FAXTT, JOSEPH SHERIDAN, an 

 Irish novelist ; died in Dublin, aged 5!) years. 

 Mr. Le Fanu was best known here by his " Un- 

 cle Silas," a book full of ghostly horrors, and 

 several other novels of less merit, but of a 

 similarly sensational character. Ho was a 



Eoet and essayist, as well as a novelist, though 

 is productions iti these walks of literature 

 have not been reproduced here. A novel of 

 his, " Willing to Die," was running as a serial 

 in All the Year Round at the time of his 

 death. 



Feb. 10. BOWEBS, Very Rev. GEOROK HI-LI., 

 D. I '.. Dean of Manchester, nn English cler- 

 gyman, author, and zealous educator ; died in 

 Manchester, aged 78 years. He was educated 

 at the Grammar-School, Pembroke, and Clare 

 College, Cambridge, whence ho graduated B. D. 

 in 1829, and D. D. in 1849. Having been per- 

 petual curate of Elstow, Bedfordshire, from 

 1819 to 1882, and Select Preacher to the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge in 1880, he was present- 

 ed by the late Duke of Bedford to the rectory 

 of St. Panl's, Oovent Garden, London, in 

 1881, and promoted to the deanery of Man- 

 chester in 1847. Dr. Bowers was the author 

 of sermons preached before the University of 

 Cambridge, in Covent Garden Church, and in 

 the cathedral of Manchester, and of a scheme 

 for the formation of schools for the sons of 

 clergymen and others, combining the twofold 

 ad vantages of efficiency and economy. The 

 publication, in 1842, of this plan, led' to the 

 establishment of Marlborouph College, of 

 which Dr. Bowers was the founder, conjointly 

 with the lato Uev. Charles Eaton Plater. He 

 was also chairman of the council of Rossall 

 School, Flectwood (similar in constitution to 

 Marlhorongh College), visitor of the Manches- 

 ter Free Grammar School, and one of the 

 nominators to the Hnlme Exhibitions at 

 Brasenose College, Oxford. He was also tho 

 originator, in 1862, of Haileybury College 



