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OBITUAEIES. 



Jan. 25. LE BAS, Rev. 0. "W., formerly prin- 

 cipal of Haileybury College. 



Jan. 29. GORE, Mrs. CATHARINE GRACE, 

 (FRANCIS,) an English authoress, born in 1799 

 in Nottinghamshire. She received a superior 

 education, but did not commence her career as 

 writer till 1822, the year of her marriage to 

 Capt. Charles Gore. Her first work, " Therese 

 Marchmont, or the Maid of Honor," is said to 

 have been written in a week. In 1824 this was 

 followed by "The Bond," in 1827 by the 

 "Lettre de Cachet," in 1828 by the "Hunga- 

 rian Tales," and in 1830 by " Women as they 

 are," and " Mothers and Daughters." Within 

 the following thirty years she published more 

 than fifty distinct works, all, with four or five 

 exceptions, either novels or dramas, and most 

 of them possessing superior merit. The best 

 of her works are " Women as they are," " Mrs. 

 Armytage, or Female Domination," " The Wo- 

 man of the World," " Cecil, or the Adventures 

 of a Coxcomb," " Greville, or a Season in Par- 

 is," " The Banker's Wife," " Self," and " The 

 Queen of Denmark." 



Jan. 29. GUILFORD, Rev. FRANCIS NORTH, 

 Earl of, born 1772 ; educated at St. Mary Hall, 

 Oxford, where he graduated 1797 ; was rector 

 of Alresford and St. Mary's, Southampton ; 

 was master of St. Cross hospital, Winchester, 

 from 1808 to the time of his death. 



Jan. 30. BTJRFORD, ROBERT, an English paint- 

 er, the introducer of panoramas, born 1792. 



Jan. 30. PICKERSGILL, H. W., R. A., an emi- 

 nent English portrait painter. 



Feb. 5. DE LA MOTTE, Gen. PETER, C. B., 

 born 1781, made Companion of the Bath, 1831 ; 

 general in the Indian army, 1860. 



Feb. 6. OWEN, SIR JOHN, born at Pembroke 

 about 1776 ; was called to the bar at the Inner 

 Temple, 1800; was lord-lieutenant of Pem- 

 broke, and governor of Milford Haven ; was M. 

 P. for Pembrokeshire from 1806 to 1841, and 

 sat for the Pembroke district from 1841 to -the 

 time of his death. 



Feb. 9. MUNDY, Admiral SIR GEORGE, born 

 at Shipley Hall, in the parish of Heanor, Der- 

 byshire, 1777 ; became admiral of the red in 

 1857 ; served at the taking of Corsica, and dis- 

 tinguished himself in the battles of St. Vincent, 

 the Nile, &c. ; represented Borough bridge in 

 parliament from 1819 to 1831. 



Feb. 9. DANBY, FRANCIS, A. R. A., an emi- 

 nent English historical painter, born near Wex- 

 ford, Nov. 16, 1793. His paintings rank among 

 the best in their class of the painters of our 

 time. He died at Exmouth. 



Feb. 10 DONALDSON, JOHN WILLIAM, D. D., 

 an English philologist born in 1811 ; was for 

 many years head master of the Grammar 

 School of Bury St. Edmunds, and subsequently 

 removed to Cambridge, where he acted as pri- 

 yate tutor. He was the author of " The New 

 Cratylus," " Varronianus," &c. 



Feb. 12. LESLIE, Lieutenant-General JOHN, 

 an English army officer, born in 1790 ; attained 

 the rank .of lieutenant-general, 1858. 



Feb. 13. ATCHINSON, Vice-Admiral ROBERT, 

 an English navy officer born in 1797. 



Feb. 16. CLERKE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, born 

 in London, 1793 ; high sheriff of Flintshire, 

 1848 ; entered the army in 1811 ; served with 

 the Fifty-second in the Peninsula, and was also 

 at Waterloo ; retired from the army with the 

 brevet of major in 1858. 



Feb. 16. BURNETT, SIR WILLIAM, M. D., 

 K. 0. B., K. C. H., born at Montrose, Scotland, 

 in 1779 ; entered the navy as assistant-surgeon 

 in 1795 ; was promoted to the rank of surgeon 

 in 1799 ; appointed physician and inspector of 

 hospitals to the Mediterranean fleet -in 1810; 

 became medical commissioner of the navy in 

 1822, and in 1832 was appointed director-gen- 

 eral of the medical department of the navy, 

 which post he held till his death. He was 

 physician in ordinary to William IV. He served 

 in the Goliath, 74, in the battles of Cape St. 

 Vincent and the Nile ; and in the Defiance in 

 the action off Ferrol and in the battle of Tra- 

 falgar, and received four war medals for his 

 meritorious conduct in these battles. 



Feb. 18. MUGGE, THEODORE, a German nov- 

 elist and editor, born at Berlin, Nov. 8, 1806. 

 He was the founder and for 12 years editor of 

 the National Zeitung or Gazette. He was the 

 author of twenty-four or five novels, one of 

 which, Afraja, was well known in this country. 



Feb. 20. DYSON, Gen. JERRY F., an officer 

 of the East Indian army. 



Feb. 20. OGILVY, SIR WILLIAM, born 1810 ; 

 claimed the baronetcy of Banff, a Scotch peer- 

 age created in 1642, and dormant since the 

 death of William, eighth baron, in 1803. 



Feb. 20. SCRIBE, EUGENE. (See SCRIBE, EU- 

 GENE.) 



Feb. 21. HEIDEGGER, KARL WILHELM, a dis- 

 tinguished Bavarian general, died at Munich at 

 the age of 73 years. 



Feb. 21. MODENA, GTSTAVO, an Italian 

 sculptor, died at Turin, aged 58 years. 



Feb. 22. BRAYBROOKE, RICHARD CORNWAL- 

 LIS NEVILLE, fourth Baron of, born March 17, 

 1820, educated at Cambridge, and prosecuted 

 with great zeal archaeological investigations, for 

 which he inherited a strong predilection from 

 his father. He was hereditary visitor of Mag- 

 dalene College, Cambridge, and high steward 

 of Wokingham. 



Feb. 27. ARENBERG, PROSPER LUDWIG, Duke 

 of, born at Schlosser, in Henuegau, April 28, 

 1785, died at Brussels. 



Feb. 27. RIETSCHEL, ERNST, an eminent 

 German sculptor, born in Pulsnitz, Saxony, 

 Dec. 15, 1804. He entered the Academy of 

 Arts in Dresden in 1820, and after a brief 

 course of study executed a statue of Neptune, 

 which was reproduced in iron and excited 

 general admiration. In 1826 he repaired to 

 Berlin and became a student under Rauch, and 

 in 1827 the Saxon Government furnished him 

 the means of visiting Italy. After a year's so- 

 journ there, he returned to Dresden and exe- 

 cuted a colossal statue of Frederic Augustus II., 



