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that he was several times sent for by foreign 

 sovereigns, and was honored with the titles of 

 gardener to the Emperor of Austria, to the 

 King of the Belgians, to Ismail Pasha, etc. 

 His creations in and around Paris are the Bois 

 de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, the Park 

 Monceau, the Buttes Chaumont, etc. 



Nov. 3. ROSAS, Don RIOB, a distinguished 

 Spanish political leader, a cabinet officer in 

 one of the numerous ministries of Isabella 

 Segunda, and at one time President of the 

 Spanish Cortes ; died in Madrid. 



Nov. 8. DAOUD PASHA, a Turkish official 

 and statesman, for seven years governor of 

 the Turkish province of Lebanon ; died at 

 Biarritz, France, aged 57 years. He was of a 

 United Armenian, or Armenian Catholic fam- 

 ily, born in Constantinople in March, 1816, 

 educated at the University of Berlin, where 

 he took the highest honors. After his return 

 to Constantinople, he was for a time employed 

 in a French commercial house at Galata, bat 

 soon taken into the employ of the Ottoman 

 Government, and was a member of an embas- 

 sy sent to Prussia by the Snltan. While thus 

 engaged, he published a work on the Germanic 

 Diet. He was next sent as Turkish consul- 

 general to Vienna, and in that capacity repre- 

 sented the Ottoman Government, in the Com- 

 mission of the Riverine States of the Danube. 

 Recalled to Constantinople, he was employed 

 in different duties of the interior administra- 

 tion of the Turkish Government, being, in 

 1857, censor of the press ; in 1858, cooperating 

 in the conclusion of a government loan, and, 

 still later, as director of telegraphs, a service 

 in which he made great improvements. .In 

 1861, at the instance of the Commission of the 

 Five Groat Powers, Daoud was appointed 

 Cameicttn, or Governor of Lebanon, for three 

 years, and on that occasion was created Mudir 

 (an order of merit), and elevated to the rank of 

 a pasha of three tails. His administration was 

 energetic and honest, and, though he had many 

 enemies, seems to have been on the whole sat- 

 isfactory. In 1864 the Snltan renewed his 

 appointment for five years more, and his sway, 

 though surrounded with difficulties, gradually 

 became more popular, till May, 1868, when he 

 was appointed Governor of Commerce for that 

 portion of the Turkish realm. His health failed 

 in 1873, and he had visited the Spa at Biarritz 

 in hope of benefit, but died there. He was a 

 member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Nov. 8. DEMETZ, FREDERIC ATJGTTSTE, a 

 French philanthropist who, with rare patience 

 and zeal, had devoted nearly forty years of his 

 life to the effectual reformation of juvenile of- 

 fenders ; died at Mettray, near Tours, in the 

 7Kth year of his age. He was born May 12, 

 1796, studied law in Paris, and was admitted 

 to the bar in that city. In 1821, he was ap- 

 pointed pnisne judge to the tribunal, and not 

 Jong after Judge of Instruction, then Vice- 

 !>lent of the Chamber of Correctional 

 Police, and finally, in 1832, Counsellor to the 



Court. In 1836 he was sent to the United 

 States, with the architect, A. Blouet, to make 

 further studies of our penitentiary system, on 

 which MM. de Tocqueville and de Beaumont 

 had already reported. His report on this sub- 

 ject was very able. He had already become 

 deeply interested in the condition of discharged 

 convicts, and had written upon the subject of 

 improving their condition ; but his later inves- 

 tigations had shown him that great numbers 

 of young persons and children, accused of mi- 

 nor crimes, and acquitted, either because they 

 were innocent, or because they had acted with- 

 out discernment, were kept in prisons where 

 they were associated with the worst convicts, 

 and taught to become themselves hardened 

 criminals. He felt so deeply for these poor 

 children, that he resolved to resign all his 

 official honors, and devote his life to their res- 

 cue. Accordingly, having matured all bis 

 plans, and associated with himself an old 

 classmate, M. de Bretignieres de Courteilles, 

 he founded, in 1840, at Mettray, near Tours, 

 in the department of Inde-et-Loire, an agri- 

 cultural reformatory colony, He had, for a 

 year or two preceding, maintained in the same 

 place, a training-school for young teachers, 

 whom he was preparing for his greater work. 

 He began at first with ten children, but before 

 the close of the year he had three hundred ; 

 and, putting himself in communication with 

 the judges of the Courts of Assizes all over 

 France, the number of his colonists was subse- 

 quently increased to about seven hundred and 

 fifty, at which point it was retained during 

 his life. The children were employed on the 

 farm, instructed in trades, in navigation, etc., 

 and their education, and, above all, their moral 

 training, were carefully attended to. Very few 

 were found incorrigible, and nearly all were 

 thoroughly reclaimed and sent forth AS good 

 citizens, a few being retained as teachers and 

 employes. The children manifested the warm- 

 est affection for M. Demetz, as well they might. 

 To the very last he kept a zealous, watchful 

 care over the three thousand children who had 

 been sent out from the colony, corresponding 

 with them, and welcoming them back on their 

 visits to the "colony." Many other reforma- 

 tories were founded in imitation of this, "the 

 glory of France," as Lord Brougham termed 

 it. M. Demetz had written several works on 

 prison discipline, besides his "Reports." 



Nov. 14. BiscnoFFBCHEiM, Louis RAPHAEL, 

 a banker of London and Paris; died in the lat- 

 ter city, aged 74 years. His parents were 

 German Jews. He established himself as a 

 banker at Amsterdam in 1820, and, after thirty 

 years of success there, removed to Paris, where 

 he amassed great wealth, and founded a Music 

 Hall, the receipts from which were to be devo- 

 ted to the poor, but the establishment, through 

 some mismanagement, failed, though it did not 

 involve his banking-house. He had also a pri- 

 vate bank in London, and both his houses were 

 concerned in the Erie Railway operations. 



