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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



lish peer, born February 19, 1829 ; died June 

 27, 1875. The title becomes extinct with his 

 death. 



OHEAPE, Sir J., an English general, born in 

 1792 ; died April 2, 1875. He entered the 

 army in 1809, and served mostly in India. He 

 distinguished himself chiefly in the wars with 

 Burmah in 1824-'26 and 1852-'53, and in the 

 campaign in the Punjaub, 1848-'49. He was 

 a Commander of the Order of Bath, and was 

 made a general in 1866. 



CHBUSHTCHOV, A. P., a Russian officer, born 

 in 1806 ; died July 26, 1875. He commanded 

 a division at Sevastopol, took part in suppress- 

 ing the Polish insurrections, was appointed 

 Governor - General of "Western Siberia and 

 Hetman of the Siberian Cossacks in 1866. In 

 1874 he was forced to resign on account of ill- 

 health. In 1875 he was created an imperial 

 councilor. 



CLASSON," OOTAVIUS, a German philologist, 

 born in 1844; died March 18, 1875. He stud- 

 ied in Bonn, then traveled extensively, and, 

 having taken part in the French war, became a 

 lecturer at the University of Rostock in 1871, 

 and Professor of History in 1874. He wrote 

 " Kritische Erorterungen uber den romischen 

 Staat" (1871), "De Taciti Annalium ffltate 

 Quaestiones geographicas ad Mare Rubrum et 

 jEgyptum Maxime pertinentes interpretatus 

 est O. Classon" (1870). 



COOHET, JEAN BENO!T DESIRE, a French ab- 

 bot and antiquarian, born March 7, 1812 ; died 

 in June, 1875. Besides some works on the 

 churches of the arrondissements of Havre 

 (1844-'46), of Dieppe (2 vols., 1846-'50), and 

 of Yvetot (2 vols., 1862), he wrote the follow- 

 ing works : " Le Tombeau de Cbilperic, Pre- 

 mier Roi des Francs " (1850), " Sepultures Gau- 

 loises, Romaines, Franques, et Normandes" 

 (1857), and "Archeologie Chretienne" (1867). 



COROT, JEAN BAPTISTS CAMILLE, a French 

 artist, born in 1796 ; died February 23, 1875. 

 He was one of the first French historical paint- 

 ers of the day, and his death was sincerely re- 

 gretted, not only by all lovers of the arts, but 

 by a large circle of friends. His first work was 

 exhibited in 1827. In grandeur, his "Christ 

 on the Mount of Olives," "Hagar in the Des- 

 ert," and "Dante," are fully equal to any of 

 Delacroix's pictures, and these he has left to 

 the Louvre. Others of his chief productions 

 are "Ariadne," "Saint Sebastian," "The 

 Burning of Sodom," and " Macbeth," all splen- 

 did examples of color and grouping. About 

 six months before his death the artists of Paris 

 united to present " Le Pere Corot," as they 

 liked to call him, with a large gold medal spe- 

 cially struck for the occasion. He was buried 

 on February 26th at Pere Lachaise. Upward 

 of 6,000 people and fifty carriages formed the 

 funeral procession, and the Abbe Duclos, in the 

 funeral sermon, condemned the newspapers 

 for ignoring the fact that the deceased died a 

 good Catholic. 



COWPER, Sir CHARLES, an Australian states- 



man, born in 1808 ; died in London, October 19, 

 1875. He had been Prime-Minister of New 

 South Wales five times, and at the time of his 

 death was the London general agent of the 

 same colony. 



CURRIE, Sir FREDERICK, Bart., was born 

 1799, and died September 10, 1875. He en- 

 tered the Bengal service in 1817, and, having 

 held several inferior offices, he became succes- 

 sively a secretary to the Government of India, 

 and a member of the Supreme Council. Dur- 

 ing the first Sikh War in 1847, he greatly dis- 

 tinguished himself by his energy and his ad- 

 ministrative capacity. He was raised to a bar- 

 onetcy soon after the battles of the Sutlej, 

 and returning to England he was appointed 

 in 1854 a director of the East India Com- 

 pany, and in 1858 Vice-President of the In- 

 dian Council. 



DECHAMPS, ADOLPHE, a Belgian statesman, 

 born June 17, 1807 ; died July 19, 1875. In 

 1834 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, 

 and soon became a prominent member. In 

 1842 he was appointed Governor of Luxem- 

 burg, and a year later Minister of Public Works. 

 He principally distinguished himself by his ef- 

 forts to promote the railroad system of his 

 native country. From 1845 to 1847 he was 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, and then remained 

 in the Chamber of Deputies until 1857. In 

 1859 he was again elected a deputy, and re- 

 mained in the Chamber until 1864. During 

 the years 1837-'51 he published, together with 

 Dedecker, the fievue de Bruxelles, an ultra- 

 Catholic paper. 



DEINLEIN, MICHAEL VON, a German Arch- 

 bishop, born October 26, 1800; died January 4, 

 1875. He was ordained a priest in 1824, was 

 created a coadjutor to the Bishop of Bamberg 

 in 1853 ; Bishop of Augsburg in 1856 ; and 

 Archbishop of Bamberg in 1858. He was 

 noted for his devotion to historical studies. 



DEJAZET, VIRGINIE, a Parisian actress, born in 

 1797; died December 1, 1875. She was the most 

 popular actress of the Vaudeville and Varietes 

 Theatres, where she filled the houses to their 

 utmost. Numerous trips across the Continent 

 made her well known outside of France. Her 

 principal parts were in the plays " Bonaparte 

 inBrienne," "Vert Vert," "Fretillon," "Mon- 

 sieur Garat," " Les Pre"s Saint-Gervais." All 

 the prominent actors and actresses attended 

 her funeral, and the procession which followed 

 her to her grave was estimated to contain about 

 20,000 persons. 



DE VESCI, THOMAS VESEY, Viscount, born 

 September 21, 1803 ; died December 23, 1875/ 

 He was elected a representative peer of Ire- 

 land in 1857, and was Member of Parliament 

 for Queen's County, 1835-'37, and 1841-'52. 



DORCHESTER, GUY TARLETON, Baron, a Brit- 

 ish peer, born October 25, 1811; died Decem- 

 ber 2, 1875. 



DUCUING, FRANgois, a French politician, died 

 October 3, 1875. In 1871 he was elected a 

 member of the National Assembly from the 



