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OBITUAEEES. 



called simply ROSE, a French actress born at 

 Etarnpes about 1824. She was the daughter of 

 an actor who had assumed the name of Cheri, 

 (dear.) She commenced her career as an ac- 

 tress at the age of six years, performing the 

 child parts of some favorite dramas. In 1842 

 she was called to act as a substitute for Natha- 

 lie, then a popular actress, and acquitted her- 

 self so well as to obtain immediately a lucra- 

 tive engagement. Her success from this time 

 was uninterrupted. She played the principal 

 part iu all the best dramas of the French stage, 

 and was without a rival in most of them. In 

 1845 she married M. Lemoigne Montigny, at 

 that time director of the Gymnasium Theatre 

 in Paris. 



Sept. 22. DASHWOOD, SIR GEORGE, born at 

 Kirtlington Park, Sept. 17, 1786 ; succeeded his 

 father in 1828 ; was a deputy-lieutenant of Ox- 

 fordshire. 



Sept. 22. ZWIENER, ERNST F. (See ZWIR- 

 NER.) 



Sept. 23. LEGEYT, Admiral GEORGE, a Brit- 

 ish naval officer, born March 20, 1777 ; entered 

 the service in 1791 ; was made vice-admiral in 

 1855, and admiral in 1861. 



Sept. 24. FARHEN", WILLIAM, an English 

 actor born in 1787; entered upon an actor's 

 career in 1806 at Dublin, played for many 

 years in. leading parts at Coven t Garden, Hay- 

 market, and the Olympic theatres in London, 

 and was manager of the two latter. He retired 

 from the stage in 1855. 



Sept. 24. SCHLOSSER, F. C. (See SCHLOS- 



8ER.) 



Sept. 25. BLAIKIE, SIR THOMAS, born at 

 Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1802 ; educated at the 

 Aberdeen Grammar School and Marischal Col- 

 lege ; a merchant ; had been elected provost of 

 Aberdeen five times. 



Sept. 25. CUSACK, J. W., an eminent Eng- 

 lish surgeon, born in 1787. 



Sept. 25. MAUDSLAY, JOSEPH, an English 

 civil engineer, born in 1800. 



Sept. 28. LEIGH, CAPEL HANBURY, lord- 

 lieutenant of Monmouthshire, born Oct. 6, 

 1776 ; appointed lord-lieutenant in 1836. 



Sept. 28. PUJOL, ABEL DE, a French painter, 

 born in 1785. 



Sept. 28. RIDDELL, SIR JAMES, born at Shaw 

 Park, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, June 3, 

 1787 ; succeeded his grandfather as baronet in 

 1797 ; was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, 

 where he graduated B. A. in 1807; was deputy- 

 lieutenant of Argyleshire. 



Sept. 30. CUNNINGHAM, Rev. J "W., an Eng- 

 lish poet and theologian, died at Harrow. He 

 was born in 1780 ; educated at St. John's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge ; appointed vicar of Harrow 

 in 1811. He was the author of " A World 

 without Souls," &c. 



Oct. 2. STANLEY, Rear-Admiral WILLIAM 

 P., an officer of the British navy, born 1784 ; 

 entered the service in 1798 ; attained the rank 

 of rear-admiral in 1857. 



Oct. 2. PONSONBY, WILLIAM, third baron, 



born at Ilampstead, Eng., in 1816; succeeded 

 his uncle in the barony in 1855. 



Oct. 4. VANDENHOFF, JOHN, a celebrated 

 English actor, born in 1790. 



Oct. 4. EGLINTON, EARL. (See EGLINTON.) 



Oct. 9. AUSTIN, HENRY, an English civil en- 

 gineer. 



Oct. 10. WILLIAMS, SIR JAMES HAMLYX, 

 born in Devonshire in 1790 ; succeeded his 

 father as baronet in 1829 ; was member of par- 

 liament for Carmarthenshire in 1831, and again 

 from 1835 to 1837; lieutenant-colonel East 

 Dover militia in 1846 ; high sheriff of Carmar- 

 thenshire in 1848 ; and deputy -lieutenant of 

 Dover in 1852. 



Oct. 12. CUBITT, SIR WILLIAM, an English 

 civil engineer, born in Norfolk in 1785, and at 

 an early age he displayed a remarkable genius 

 for mechanical invention. Being apprenticed 

 to a joiner, he soon became a superior work- 

 man, and gave attention first to making agricul- 

 tural implements, then to the construction of 

 millers' machinery, and soon after invented the 

 self-regulating windmill sails now generally 

 used. He became connected, about 1812, with 

 Messrs. Ransome and Son, of Ipswich, in the 

 manufacture of agricultural implements, and 

 after a time engaged in all kinds of engineer- 

 ing work, the construction of gas-works, &c. 

 About this time he invented the treadmill for 

 the use of gaols and houses of correction. In 

 1826 he removed to London, and found at once 

 abundant employment in the construction of 

 docks, canals, railroads, port, harbor, and river 

 improvements. He superintended the construc- 

 tion of the London Crystal Palace in 1851, and 

 was knighted for his services to the country in 

 connection with it. 



Oct. 13. SIBTHORP, GERVASE, T W., M. P. 



Oct. 16. MURRAY, SIR WILLIAM KEITH, born 

 at Ochtertyre, 1801 ; was appointed a deputy- 

 lieutenant of Perthshire in 1846 ; was lieuten- 

 ant-colonel of militia of that county, but re- 

 signed in 1846. 



Oct. 17. CRAWFORD, SHARMAN, an English 

 political writer. 



Oct. 21. WADE, SIR CLAUDE MARTINE, born 

 in Bengal, 1794; entered the military service 

 of the East India Company in 1809 ; appointed 

 diplomatic agent at Lodiana, 1823 ; placed in 

 charge of the British relations with Runjeet 

 Singh, and the States across the Indus ; on a 

 special mission to Peshawur in 1838, to join the 

 Sikh army with Shah Zada-Timon, and was the 

 first to force the Khyber pass; became lieu- 

 tenant-colonel in 1839 ; was knighted the same 

 year for his services at the Court of Lahore for 

 17 years; received permission in 1841 to wear 

 the order of the Dooranee Empire, conferred 

 for services in Candahar, Cabul, and at the 

 capture of Ghuznee, and also received the Star 

 of the Punjab ; in 1848 was political agent at 

 Malwa, Central India; in 1855 received the 

 local rank of colonel in the East Indies. 



Oct 25. GRAHAM, SIR JAMES R. G. (See 

 GRAHAM.) 



