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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



and Wilberforoe in his antislavery labors, 

 with O'Oonnell in the repeal agitation, and 

 with Father Matthew in the promotion of Tem- 

 perance; died in Dublin, aged 84. 



JfareA . PACLOVSA, the Grand-duchess 

 HBLK.VK, widow of the late Grand-duke Michael 

 Romanoff, brother of the late Czur Nicholas; 

 died in St. Petenburgh, aged about 73. She 

 was a daughter of Prince Paul, of Wurtera- 

 burg, and married the grand-duke in 1824. 



Aprils. BLASXAVATZ, MILIVOJ PETBOVITCH, 

 a Servian general and statesman ; died in Bel- 

 grade, aged 47 years. lie was born in the 

 Servian village of Blasnavatz, in 1826, and en- 

 tered the Servian army at an early age, where 

 he so greatly distinguished himself for brilliant 

 military qualities that he was promoted to a 

 captaincy before he was twenty-two years old. 

 In 1849, as a reward for his gallant conduct in 

 the Hungarian expedition, he received the rank 

 of major. When peace was declared, he de- 

 voted himself to the study of military science, 

 in all its departments ; studying the art of war, 

 and political economy, at Vienna and Paris, 

 artillery and ordnance tactics at Metz, and tho 

 manufacture of arms and military machines in 

 Belgium. On his return to Sorvia, Prince Mi- 

 chael, then Hosppdar of Servia, called him to 

 the ministry of War and Public Works, where 

 hia knowledge of military affairs made him in- 

 valuable. He created military establishments 

 upon the plan of those of the great powers, 

 and organized a militia force of 70,000 or 80,- 

 000 men to be, like the Prussian Landieehr, a 

 reserve force to the regular army. On the 

 assassination of Prince Michael in 1868, M. 

 Blasnavatz displayed great energy and sound 

 judgment; he established himself permanently 

 at the palace, and by his wise and decisive ac- 

 tion preserved order at a time when the peace 

 of Europe was threatened, and eventually suc- 

 ceeded in procuring tho arrest and punishment 

 of the assassin. When the young prince Milan 

 Obrenovitch, a cousin of Prince Michael, MI I 

 but fourteen years of age, was proclaimed 

 Hotpodar, or reigning prince of Servia, the 

 Sknpohina, or National Assembly of Servia, 

 elected Blasnavatz and two other members of 

 the Council, regents of the young prince dur- 

 ing his minority. 



April 9. OOLUSS, CHARLES AITBTIN, an Eng- 

 lish painter and novelist, son of tho late Wil- 

 liam Collins, R. A., a celebrated Enilish painter 

 of rustic scenes, and brother of W. Wilkie Col- 

 lins ; died in London, aged 45 years. He, was 

 educated at private schools, and from his 

 twentieth to his thirtieth year was onga- 

 the study and practice of painting, in hi.-h 

 be attained considerable reputation. From 

 1868 to his death, Mr. Collins devoted his at- 

 tention almost exclusively to literary pursuits, 

 being a regular contributor to AU tin Year 

 &>*nd, edited for some years by hi* father- 

 in law, the late Charles Diotou; and also to 

 ill Jfopuin*. Mr. Collins also pub- 

 lished " A Cruise upon Wheela," 1862; "Tho 



Bar Sinister," 1864; " Strathcairn," 1864; 

 At the Bar," 1866 ; and several other serials. 



April 18. Fox, General CHARLES RICHABD, 

 Receiver-General of tho Duchy of Lancaster, 

 late M. P. and Surveyor-General of Ordnance, 

 a British officer of distinction and an eminent 

 numismatist, died in London, aged 77 years. 

 He was born in 1796, and was the natural son 

 of the third Lord Holland, his mother being 

 Lady Webster, who in 1797 became Lady Hol- 

 land. He was well educated and nerved in the 

 navy from 1809 to 1818, taking port in some 

 of the naval battles of the Peninsula ; entered 

 the Eighty-fifth regiment in isi.i, and was for 

 several years aide-de-camp of Gen. Sir F. Adams 

 at Corfu. In 1824 he married Miss Mary Fit/- 

 elarence, one of the natural daughters of King 

 William IV. He commanded the Thirty -fourth 

 regiment in Canada in 1828-'87, and was subse- 

 quently aide-de-camp to King William IV. and 

 Queen Victoria. Ho was a member of Parlia- 

 ment for many years, sitting successively for 

 Colne, Tavistock, Strand, and the Tower Ban- 

 lets, and when the Whigs came into power 

 was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ord- 

 nance. He was an extensive traveler, having 

 visited repeatedly all the countries of Europe, 

 much of the East, South Africa and British 

 America, and he was a careful and judicious 

 observer, taking full notes of what he saw. 

 He was from early life enthusiastically de- 

 voted to the study of ancient coins, and was 

 said to have the finest private collection of 

 them in Great Britain. He published in 1856- 

 '62, a finely-illustrated work entitled, "En- 

 gravings of Unedited and Rare Greek Coins, 

 with Descriptions." Ho had been for some 

 years Receiver-General of the Revenues of the 

 Duchy of Lancaster, the Queen's private do- 

 main. 



April 14. Lrxcn, Captain HEJJRT BLOBSK, 

 C. B., F. R. G. S., of the late Indian Navy, a 

 distinguished British naval officer and explorer; 

 died in Paris, aged about 75 years. He was 

 of Irish stock, born in Castlecarra, County 

 Mayo, entered the navy in 1823, and was em- 

 ployed on the surveys of the Persian Gulf. 

 Here ho very soon acquired such thorough 

 command of the Arabic and Persian languages 

 that soon after receiving his commission as 

 lieutenant (about 1825) he was appointed Ara- 

 bic nnd Persian interpreter to the squadron, 

 and was largely employed and trusted by Her 

 Majesty's envoy in Persia in conducting ne- 

 gotiations with the independent Arnb chiefs, 

 :md in examining the means of communica- 

 tion between the gulf and the adjao< nt coun- 

 tries. In 1832 he crossed the Nubian Desert 

 on tho northern limit of Abyssinia to the Nile 

 and Egypt, after a perilous shipwreck in the 

 Red Sea. In 1834 he was second in command 

 in Chesney's expedition to the Euphrates, nnd 

 subsequently assigned by the Indian Govern- 

 ment to the command of an armed flotilla on 

 tho rivers of Mesopotamia; and ho was en- 

 gaged for several years in exploring those 



