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personal acquaintance with Secretary Seward, 

 was the means of preventing an unpleasant- 

 ness between the Brazilian Government and 

 the United States with reference to an occur- 

 rence which took place in the Brazilian harbor 

 of Para. On the occasion of the visit to this 

 city, four years ago, of the Duke of Saxe, ad- 

 miral in the Brazilian Navy and son-in-law of 

 Dom Pedro, actual Emperor of Brazil, Mr. 

 Aguiar received special attentions from him. 

 Mr. Aguiar was Commander of the Order of 

 the Rose and Chevalier of Christ of the Royal 

 Order of Brazil, also Knight of the Order of 

 Conception of Portugal and honorary mem- 

 ber of many societies. 



AITCHINSON, General Sir JOHN G. C. B., an 

 English officer ; died May 12, 1875. 



ALDBOROUGH, BENJAMIN O'NEALE SRAT- 

 FORD, sixth Earl of, born June 10, 1808 ; died 

 December 19, 1875. The title became extinct 

 with his death. 



ALDEIDGE, J. W., an English naval officer, 

 born in 1795 ; died March 26, 1875. At ten 

 years of age he entered the navy as a midship- 

 man, and served as such on the Arethusa in 

 1806, at the 'capture of the Spanish frigate Po- 

 mona, and at the capture of Curagoa in 1807. 

 He served throughout the war with Napoleon, 

 was appointed a lieutenant in 1815, commander 

 in 1833, captain in 1841, rear-admiral in 1852, 

 and was retired as vice-admiral in 1867. 



ALEXANDRA, AMELIA, Princess of Bavaria, 

 born August 26, 1826 ; died May 8, 1875. She 

 was a daughter of King Louis I., and an aunt 

 of the present King, and was known as the 

 authoress of several juvenile books. She had 

 been quite well up to the day of her death, 

 and was entering her reception-room to give 

 an audience to some persons when she fell 

 down dead, struck by apoplexy. 



AMELIA, MARY FREDERICA, ex -Queen of 

 Greece, born December 21, 1818; died May 

 20, 1875. She was the daughter of the Grand- 

 duke Augustus of Oldenburg, was married to 

 King Otto of Greece in 1836, and left Greece 

 with her husband in 1862, since which time 

 she lived at Bamberg in Bavaria. She has 

 been a widow since 1867. 



ARENBERG-MEPPEN, ENGELBERT AUGUST AN- 

 TON, Duke of, hereditary member of the Prussian 

 Herrenhaus, born May 11, 1824; died March 

 28, 1875. He was succeeded by his son En- 

 gelbert Prosper Ernst Maria Joseph, born Au- 

 gust 10, 1872. The residence of the ducal 

 family is at Brussels. 



ARLET, ALEXANDER, a German musician; 

 died March 1, 1875. He had for a time a po- 

 sition in the court-opera of Vienna, but left it 

 to devote himself entirely to vocal music as 

 an instructor, in which he was very successful. 

 Among his pupils were the Archduke Ludwig 

 Victor and Herr Dumba, and the ladies Ander, 

 Tietjens, and Biirde-Ney. 



ARNIM-HEINRIOHSDORF, HEINRICH LEONHARD 

 VON, a member of the German Reichstag, born 

 September 29, 1801 ; died November 18, 1875. 



In the Prussian House of Deputies, where he 

 had been since 1849,, he was one of the most 

 prominent leaders of the Conservative party. 

 He did not belong to the same branch of the 

 Arnim family as Count Harry von Arnim (see 

 ARNIM, COUNT HARRY VON). 



ARREST, HEINRICH LUDWIG D', a German as- 

 tronomer, born in Berlin, August 13, 1822 ; 

 died in Copenhagen, June 14, 1875. He studied 

 astronomy with Encke, was appointed second 

 assistant in the observatory in Berlin, and ex- 

 traordinary professor in Leipsic in 1848. In 

 1857 he went as ordinary Professor of Astron- 

 omy to Copenhagen, where in 1860 and 1861 

 the new observatory of the university was 

 built under his direction. Among his princi- 

 pal discoveries was that of four comets. He 

 wrote "Resultate aus Beobachtungen der Ne- 

 belflecken und Sternhaufen " (1850), " Ueber 

 das System der kleinen Planeten " (1851), and 

 "De Instrumento magno sequatorio Havnise 

 erecto " (1861). 



ATHENS, MAID OF (see BUAN). 



AUDIFREDI, , an Italian Senator ; died 



April 4, 1875. The Duke d'Audiffret-Pasquier 

 is descended from a French branch of the 

 same family. 



BAINES, THOMAS, a British painter and ex- 

 plorer; died May 8, 1875. He took part in 

 Gregory's Expedition in Northern Australia 

 from 1855 to 1856, accompanied Livingstone 

 on his two expeditions to the Zambesi in 1858 

 to 1861, and also Mr. Chapman on his journey 

 from the Bay of Whales to Lake Ngami and 

 the Victoria Falls in 1861-'62, of which he 

 published an account under the title of "Ex- 

 plorations in South Africa" (1864). In 1869 

 he visited the Tali gold-fields, and subsequently 

 made several journeys through the Transvaal 

 Republic and the neighboring countries, on 

 the last of which he had just set out when he 

 died. He published, together with W. B. Lord, 

 the book " Shifts and Expedients of Camp- 

 Life" (1871). He also wrote numerous con- 

 tributions to the Journal of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society, and furnished the illustra- 

 tions to Livingstone's Zambesi Expeditions. 



BARILI, LORENZO, an Italian cardinal, born 

 December 1, 1801 ; died March 9, 1875. 



BARLOW, General MAURICE, an English offi- 

 cer, born in 1795 ; died in April, 1875. He 

 commanded a brigade in the Crimea. 



BARTAL, GEORGE, a Hungarian statesman, 

 born in 1820 ; died October 25, 1875. He was 

 a member of the Hungarian Diet, and had been 

 Minister of Commerce in the cabinet Bitto. 



BAUERNSCIIMID, KARL EDUARD, an Austrian 

 journalist, born in 1801 ; died May 6, 1875. 

 He had been a Democratic member of the 

 Frankfort Parliament, and was one of the 

 oldest journalists of Vienna. 



BAXTER, DUDLEY, an English statistician; 

 died May 17, 1875, in London. 



BAYER, AUGUST VON, a German painter, was 

 born 1803; died February 2, 1875. Among 

 his best works is "The Strasburg Cathedral," in 



