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1830 or 1831, and on his return settled again 

 at Reading, bnt over another congregation. 

 Of late years he had retired from the pastor- 

 ate, and resided in Bristol. Mr. Hinton was 

 the author of " Memoirs of William Knibb ; " 

 " A History of the United States of America, 

 from their First Discovery and Colonization 

 to 1826; 2 vols., 4to, 100 Maps and Plates," 

 1882 (in the preparation of this work Mr. 

 Hinton was assisted by several literary gentle- 

 men in Europe and America. It was revised 

 and new editions issued in 1842, 1843, and sub- 

 sequently); "Theology, or an Attempt tow- 

 ard a Consistent View of the Whole Counsel 

 of God ; " " Elements of Natural History ; " 

 and numerous essays and pamphlets advocat- 

 ing the voluntary principle in religion and 

 education. A complete edition of his works 

 has been published in seven volumes. 



Dec. 20. BIXIO, Lieutenant-General GIBO- 

 I.A.MO, called Nixo, a distinguished officer of 

 Marines, soldier and statesman, born at Genoa 

 in 1821 ; died at Rome in the 53d year of 

 his age. Like his friend Garibaldi, he served 

 in the Sardinian Navy, from which he with- 

 drew in 1844, to command a merchant-ship. 

 Sharing in the political aspirations of the 

 time, he promoted the popular demonstration 

 of 1847 which constrained King Charles Albert 

 to grant a liberal constitution. During the 

 revolutionary movement of 1848-'49 he as- 

 sisted in the gallant defense of Venice, and 

 commanded the forces at Rome which repelled 

 the first attack of the French troops under 

 General Oudinot. When peace returned the 

 young soldier resumed seafaring life, and met 

 with several perilous adventures while com- 

 manding a Genoese ship in the Southern seas. 

 In 1857 ho returned to military pursuits, com- 

 manding a battalion of Alpine chasseurs under 

 Garibaldi, then took an important part in the 

 expedition to Sicily, fought in the first ranks 

 at Calatafimi, and headed one of the attacking 

 columns at Palermo, where he was wounded. 

 He likewise distinguished himself at the cap- 

 ture of Reggio, and the hard-fonght battle of 

 the Volturno. Ho attained the rank of lien- 

 tenant-general, and on the return of peace 

 entered the Italian Parliament as deputy from 

 Genoa, and used his influence with Garibaldi 

 to moderate that general's hostility to the 

 Cavonr ministry. In 1862 he was transferred 

 to the regular army, with the same rank as in 

 the volunteer, and in 1863 was appointed mil- 

 itary commander of Alexandria. In 1865 he 

 was refilected deputy, this time in Ancona, and 

 the year following received command of a di- 

 vision of the Italian Army, in view of the ap- 

 proaching war with Austria. 



Dee. 22. SMAALWOOD, CHARLES, M. D., LL. 

 D., a Canadian astronomer and meteorologist ; 

 died in Montreal, aged 62 years. He was a 

 native of Birmingham, England, had resided in 

 Canada for twenty-one years, and had been 

 director of the observatory at Montreal since 

 1865. He had at first settled at St. Martin's, 



Isle J6sns, Province of Quebec, and had erect- 

 ed an observatory there. In 1858 McGill Col- 

 lege, Toronto, conferred on him the degree of 

 LL. D., and appointed him Professor of Meteor- 

 ology in that institution, to which was sub- 

 sequently added the chair of Astronomy. After 

 his appointment to the Montreal Observatory, 

 he continued his meteorological observations, 

 and when our signal-service system was es- 

 tablished, arranged to have Montreal, and sev- 

 eral other Canadian towns, established as con- 

 necting stations with it. Dr. Small wood was 

 the author of "Contributions to Canadian 

 Meteorology," and of many articles in the 

 scientific periodicals, and the "Smithsonian 

 Reports." 



Dec. 26. Hcoo, FBANQOIS, the second and 

 last surviving son of Victor Hugo; died in 

 Paris, aged 45 years. He was born October 

 22, 1828, at Paris, studied at the Charlemagne 

 Lyceum, and won university honors. When 

 his father was driven from France, in 1851, he 

 and his brother Charles shared the great 

 poet's exile, and during the succeeding seven- 

 teen years Francois never revisited his native 

 land, although at liberty to do so. During 

 this period he resided principally in Jersey 

 and Germany, devoting his time to literary 

 pursuits. He published in 1857 a history of 

 the island of Jersey, and a French translation 

 of Shakespeare's sonnets, the first made in 

 that language. In the interval from 1860 to 

 1864 he completed the arduous task of trans- 

 lating into French all Shakespeare's works, 

 which he reclassified and annotated. In 1869 

 he aided in founding the jBappel, the ultra- 

 radical organ of M. Rochefort, and was in 

 active sympathy with the republican move- 

 ment which at that time so much embarrassed 

 Napoleon III. 



Dee. . BEAITMONT DE MONTFLA, Marquis 

 EMILE DE, a member of one of the noblest of 

 French families ; died at the monastery of La 

 Trappe, France. He was formerly ambassador 

 to St. Petersburg, but, abandoning the world 

 and politics, as well as his social rank and 

 position, he entered La Trappe about ten years 

 ago, and had been known there simply as 

 Brother Ambroise till his death. 



ODILON-BARROT, CAMILLE HYACINTHS, 

 often called simply BARROT, an eloquent French 

 Liberal advocate and statesman, born at Ville- 

 fort (Lozere) July 19, 1791 ; died in Paris, Au- 

 gust 6, 1873. His father, J. A. Barrot, was a 

 deputy to the Convention during the French 

 Revolution, and voted against the death of 

 Louis XVI., and subsequently as a member of 

 the Corps L6gislatif voted against the Empire, 

 and during the entire reign of Napoleon I. 

 maintained his position as a leader in the roy- 

 alist and Liberal opposition. The son, Odilon 

 Barrot, was worthy of his father. He studied 

 law and was admitted to the bar at the age of 

 nineteen years, and in 1814, though still below 

 the prescribed age (twenty-five years), was 

 appointed advocate to the King's Council and 



