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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Jan. 1. FRED- 

 ERICK WILLIAM IV. (See FREDERICK WILLIAM 

 IV.) 



Jan. 3, BERTHOLD, ARNOLD ADOLPH, a Ger- 

 man naturalist, born Feb. 26, 1803, at Soest, in 

 Westphalia. He was professor at Gottingen, 

 councillor royal of the Court of Hanover, and 

 author of numerous works on natural history. 



Jan. 4. BAUB, FEHD. CHRISTIAN. (See 

 BAUR, F. C.) 



Jan 4. FAIRBAIRN, SIR PETER, C. E., born 

 at Kclso, Scotland, in 1799 ; was a distinguish- 

 ed civil engineer, a magistrate for Leeds, and 

 mayor for that city in 1858-'9, during the 

 queen's visit, on which occasion he was 

 knighted. 



Jan. 6. PYPER, Dr. W, a distinguished pro- 

 fessor in the University of St. Andrews, Scot- 

 land. 



Jan. 13. COUNT MONTEMOLIN, DON CARLOS 

 Luis MAKIA FERNANDO DE BOURBON, prince of 

 Asturia, born Jan. 31, 1818, at Madrid, son 

 of Don Carlos and the Portuguese Princess Ma- 

 ria Francesca d'Assis. He attempted, but un- 

 successfully, in April, 1860, to overthrow the 

 Government of Spain, to the throne of which 

 he pretended, on the ground of his father's 

 claims. Defeated in this effort, and compelled 

 to leave Spain, he and his brother, who had 

 been associated with him, made a public retrac- 

 tion at Cologne, in June, 1860. The count and 

 his countess died at Trieste, within two days 

 of each other. 



Jan. 13. JOHN ELPHINSTONE FLEMING, Baron 

 Elphinstone, of the county of Stirling, Scotland, 

 a lieutenant-colonel in the English army, born 

 Dec. 11, 1819, succeeded his first cousin, Baron 

 Elphinstone of Elphinstone, in the peerage of 

 Scotland. July 19, 1860. 



Jan. 14. JODRELL, SIR RICHARD PAUL, born, 

 in Marylebone, 1781, graduated at Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, 1804; was called to the bar 

 at Lincoln's Inn, 1803; was deputy-lieutenant 

 of Derbyshire and of Norfolk. 



Jan. 14. MOXTEZ, LOLA, MAEIA DOLORES 

 POEEIS T MOXTEZ, Countess of Landsfeld, a 

 woman of remarkable career and adventures, 

 born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1824, died in New 

 York. She was partially educated in England ; 

 when very young married an officer named 

 James, who took her to India, but, treating her 

 cruelly, she left him and returned to England. 

 In 1840 she appeared as a dancer at a theatre 

 in Paris, became the mistress of Dujarrier, edi- 

 tor of the Presse, and, after his death in a duel, 

 appeared as a witness in the trial which ensued ; 

 found her way to Munich ; appeared as a dan- 

 seuse, and fascinated King Louis, over whom 

 she exerted a powerful influence, occasioning 

 the overthrow of his ministry. The king, in 

 1846. made her Countess of Landsfeld, but she 

 soon became involved in difficulties, and was 

 obliged to leave the country. She next went 

 to England and married an Englishman by the 

 name of Heald, but her first husband being 

 alive, she was prosecuted for bigamy, and es- 



caped to Spain. In 1850, James and Heald 

 having both deceased, she was freed from the 

 danger of prosecution. In 1852 she came to 

 the United States, and performed in the Eastern 

 States, and subsequently in California and Aus- 

 tralia, as a dancer, and on her return to the 

 United States and England, lectured on a vari- 

 ety of subjects. In 1859 she came again to 

 New York, and soon after was affected with 

 partial paralysis. She was the author of three 

 works of no great ability. 



Jan. 17. EXETER, Very Rev. THOMAS HEN- 

 RY LOWE, Dean of, born Dec. 21, 1781, gradu- 

 ated at Oxford, appointed Dean of Exeter in 

 1839. 



Jan. 17. SCOVELL, Gen. SIR GEORGE, born in 

 London, 1774 ; entered the army in 1798 ; re- 

 ceived a cross and clasp for his services at Vit- 

 toria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse ; 

 was at Waterloo, for his services at which bat- 

 tle he received the order of St. Wladimir, 4th 

 class ; was appointed Governor of the Military 

 College at Sandhurst, 1837, resigned in 1856 ; 

 Avas colonel of the Fourth Dragoons from 1848 

 to his death ; received the rank of general in 

 1854. 



Jan. 20. PARSONS, Rear-Admiral ROBERT 

 "W., born in 1783. 



Jan. 21. HALL, SIR JOHN, born at Stanning- 

 ton, Yorkshire, 1779 ; was appointed, in 1807, 

 consul and agent for the maritime seigniory of 

 Papenburgh and East Friesland. In 1809 was 

 made chairman for regulating convoys, and for 

 the protection of British commerce and naviga- 

 tion to and from the ports between the Elbe 

 and Calais ; in 1816 appointed consul-general 

 for Hanover in the United Kingdom ; in 1817 

 was high sheriff of Essex ; was a deputy-lieu- 

 tenant and magistrate of Middlesex and of Es- 

 sex ; honorary treasurer and secretary of the 

 Society of London Merchants, and secretary to 

 the St. Katharine's Dock Company. 



Jan. 21. PLAYFAIR, SIR HUGH LYON, born 

 at Meigle, Angusshire, 1786 ; educated at the 

 Dundee Grammar School, University of St. An- 

 drews, and at Woolwich ; served for several 

 years as an officer of the Bengal Artillery, 

 which corps he entered in 1805 ; retired from 

 the service in 1834; was provost of St. An- 

 drews from 1842 until his death. 



Jan. 21. RADFORD, Rear- Admiral SAMUEL, 

 born in 1784. 



Jan. 21. CHAPPELL, Rear-Admiral SIR ED- 

 WARD, born August 10, 1792. 



Jan. 22. TIEDEMAXN, FEIEDEICH, an eminent 

 German physiologist and anatomist, born in 

 Hesse Cassel, Aug. 23, 1781. died at Munich. 



Jan. 23. LINDSAY, THOMAS, an English 

 landscape painter in water colors, born in 

 1793. 



Jan. 24. MULLER, HIEEONYMUS, a German 

 classical scholar and writer on education, born 

 June 7, 1785. 



Jan. 24. WELSH, Gen. JAMES, an officer of 

 the Indian army, born in 1774, promoted gen- 

 eral in 1854. 



