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1823 Signer Coccia removed to London, to 

 become director of music for the Royal Thea- 

 tre, and there produced his most successful 

 opera, "Maria Stuart." His last published 

 opera appeared in 1840. He left London about 

 1830, and, after visiting the principal cities of 

 Europe, took up his residence at Palermo, 

 whence some years later he removed to Milan. 



May 13. ROBINSON, THOMAS, D. D., Canon 

 of Rochester, Lord Almoner's Professor of Ara- 

 bic at Cambridge, and for twenty-four years 

 Master of the Temple ; died at Rochester, aged 

 83 years. He was born at Leicester, where his 

 father was vicar, in 1790 ; was educated at 

 Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, where 

 he won high honors by his scholarship ; was 

 for many years in India as chaplain to Bish- 

 op Heber, and was subsequently Archdeacon 

 of Madras. On his return to England he be- 

 came Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic 

 at Cambridge. He was Rector of Tliirfield, 

 IK-rts, from 1853 till 1861, Master of the Tem- 

 ple from 1845 till 1869, and Canon of Roches- 

 ter from 1854 till his death. His published 

 works were : " The Last Days of Bishop He- 

 ber," 1827; "The Old Testament translated into 

 Persian ; " Several Sermons and Charges deliv- 

 ered in India;" " The Character of St. Paul;" 

 "Sermons before the University of Cambridge," 

 1840; "The Twin Fallacies of Rome;" "Five 

 Sermons at the Temple," 1851 ; and "Lectures 

 on the Study of Ihe Oriental Languages." 



May 20. CARTIER, Sir GEOKGE ETIEXXE, 

 Queen's Counsel, a Canadian statesman and 

 political leader ; died in England, in his 59th 

 year. He was born at St. Antoine, on Cham- 

 bly River, in the Province of Quebec (then 

 Lower Canada), September 6, 1814, and was a 

 collateral descendant of Jacques Cartier, the 

 discoverer of Canada. He was educated at 

 the College of St. Sulpice, Montreal ; studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar in 1835. He 

 Boon distinguished himself aa a lawyer, was 

 elected to the Canadian Parliament in March, 

 1848, and offered a seat in the cabinet by 

 Lord Elgin in 1851, and again in 1853; but 

 declined on account of his unwillingness to 

 leave his profession. In 1855, however, he 

 became Provincial Secretary in the ministry, 

 and in 1856 was appointed Attorney-General 

 for Lower Canada. He was prime-minister 

 from August, 1858, to May, 1862. In 1861 he 

 contested Montreal for a seat in the Provincial 

 Parliament with M. Dorian, the opposition 

 candidate, whose previous immense majorities 

 he overcame by a hard struggle. In 1804 he 

 was again offered the premiership of the cab- 

 inent, bat declined it, though he again accept- 

 ed the position of Attorney-General for Lower 

 Canada. He was the recognized leader of the 

 French-Canadian Conservative party, and had 

 carried several important measures in its in- 

 terests. He' was one of the delegates to Eng- 

 b ml on the questions of confederation and the 

 Intercolonial Railway in 1865 and 1806. On 

 the formation of the Dominion Government, 



in 1867, he was appointed Minister of Militia 

 in the new cabinet, and retained this position 

 till the reconstruction of the cabinet under 

 Lord Dufferin, 1873. He was knighted in 1872. 



May 22. EWING, Rt. Rev. ALEXANDEB, D. 

 D., D. C. L., Bishop of Argyll and the Isles ; 

 died in Scotland, aged 59 years. He was or- 

 dained a priest in 1838, and consecrated Bishop 

 of that small see in 1847. He was a man of 

 fine classic and literary attainments, and had 

 edited, for two or three years past, a monthly 

 periodical called Present Day Papers. 



June 5. VITET, Locis, a French journalist, 

 publicist, and historian; a member of the Insti- 

 tute of France ; a cabinet officer under Louis 

 Philippe ; died in Paris, aged 71 years. He was 

 born in Paris, October 18, 1802, and was educat- 

 ed for a teacher. He entered the Normal School 

 in 1819, and, aft er passing through the prescribed 

 course, taught for a while, but in 1824 launched 

 into journalism as one of the editors of the 

 Globe. In 1826 he published an historical dra- 

 ma, entitled " The Barricades," followed, in 

 1827, by "The States of Blois," and in 1829 by 

 "The Death of Henri III." These were very 

 popular, and were subsequently collected into 

 two volumes, entitled " The League." Alter 

 the Revolution of July, 1830, M. Vitet, having 

 lost his situation on the Globe from its politi- 

 cal change, received from M. Guizot a situation 

 expressly created for him, that of "Inspector 

 of Historical Monuments. In 1834 he was ap- 

 pointed Secretary-General of Commerce under 

 the ministry of Duchatel; entered the Council 

 of State in 1836, and was Vice-President of 

 the Section of Finance in that body from 1846 

 to 1848. From 1834 to 1848 he was a deputy 

 in the Legislative Assembly, and one of its 

 most conservative members. He was not an 

 advocated the Revolution of 1848 ; but, though 

 he failed of a place in the Constituent Assem- 

 bly, he was elected to the Corps Legislat{f, 

 and there, at the time of the coup d'etat, sup- 

 ported parliamentary government so strongly, 

 that he was thenceforth remanded to private 

 life. He was elected a member of the Acade- 

 my of Inscriptions in 1839, appointed an officer 

 of the Legion of Honor in 1848, and elected to 

 the Institute in 1845 as the successor of Son- 

 met. His principal works, besides those already 

 named, were : " History of the City of Dieppe," 

 2 vols., 1838; "Eustache Lesuenr," an art- 

 study, 1843 ; "A Monograpli on the Church of 

 Notre-Dame de Noyon," 1845; "Fragments 

 and Miscellanies," mainly articles of criticism, 

 2 vols., 1846; "The States of Orleans," 1849; 

 " The Louvre," 1852 ;'" The Royal Academy of 

 Painting and Sculpture," 1861 ; "Essays, His- 

 torical and Literary," 1862; "Studies in the 

 History of Art," 1864; and many articles in 

 the Itevue de Deux Mondet, and the Hevue 

 Cotemporaine. 



June 14. HOTTER, JOHN CAMDEN, an enter- 

 prising but somewhat notorious publisher of 

 London, who republished American novels 

 very largely, altering them, without notice to 



