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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN". 



refused to promulgate the decrees of the Vati- 

 can Council. 



BKISTOW, EDMUND, a British painter, born 

 in 1786 ; died February 12, 1876. He excelled 

 in animal groups and landscapes. 



BROWN, WILLIAM, the uncle of the Earl of 

 Kenmare, born in 1791 ; died August 4, 1876. 

 He had served with distinction in the wars 

 with Napoleon, and had been for several years 

 a Liberal M. P. for Kerry. 



BUDHITZKI, RUDOLF OTTO VON, a Prussian 

 general, born October 17, 1812 ; died February 

 15, 1872. In the war with France in 1870-'7l 

 he was commander of the Second Infantry 

 Division of the Guards. 



BUNSEN, FRANCES, Baroness, the wife of 

 Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, the eminent 

 German scholar, born March 4, 1791 ; died 

 April 23, 1876. She was a daughter of Ben- 

 jamin Waddington, an English gentleman, 

 and belonged to the same family as William 

 Henry Waddington, the French Minister of 

 Education. She was distinguished alike for 

 her true piety, her kindness of heart, and her 

 high intellectual culture. She published a 

 biography of her husband, under the title of 

 "Frances Baroness Bunsen, a Memoir of Bar- 

 on Bunsen. drawn chiefly from Family Papers " 

 (2 vols., London, 1868), which, with the aid of 

 Prof. Nippold of Bern, she also published in 

 German (Leipsic, 1868-'7l). 



BURDACH, ERNST, a German physiologist, 

 born February 25, 1801; died October 10, 

 1876. He studied in Konigsberg, where he 

 afterward became Professor of Anatomy. Un- 

 der the title of " Anthropologie fur das gebil- 

 dete Publikum " (2 vols., 1846- '47), he pub- 

 lished the second and completely-changed edi- 

 tion of his father's celebrated work, "Der 

 Mensch nach den verschiedenen Seiten seiner 

 Natur." 



BURNETT, Sir JAMES HORN, Bart., born 

 June 21, 1801 ; died in September, 1876. He 

 succeeded his brother as tenth baronet in 1856, 

 and at the time of his death was Lord-Lieuten- 

 ant of Kincardineshire. 



BURNS, Rev. JABEZ, an eminent Baptist 

 minister, born in 1805 ; died January 28, 1876. 

 He was educated at Chester and at Oldham 

 Grammar-School. At an early age he joined 

 the Methodist New Connection, became min- 

 ister of the United Christian Church at Perth 

 in 1830, and in 1835 went to London to ac- 

 cept a call to the pulpit of the General Baptist 

 congregation assembling at New Church Street, 

 which rapidly increased in membership under 

 his charge. He was one of the earliest members 

 of the Evangelical Alliance, and took his place 

 in the first conferences held in Liverpool, 

 London, Edinburgh, and Birmingham. In 1847 

 he was appointed by the Annual Association 

 of General Baptists one of the deputation to 

 the Triennial Conference of the Free-Will Bap- 

 tists in the United States. He was the author 

 of a large number of works, among which are: 

 'Marriage Gift-Book," "Life of Mrs. Fletch- 



er," "Tracts and Small Treatises on Baptism," 

 " The Pulpit Cyclopaedia," " Hints to Church- 

 Members," and "A Few Words to Religious 

 Inquirers." He had also been for some time 

 the editor of the Temperance Journal and the 

 Preacher's Magazine. 



BURROWS, Sir JOHN CORDT, an English 

 physician, was born in Ipswich in 1813; died 

 March 25, 1876. He received his medical 

 education at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals, 

 became a member of the College of Surgeons 

 in 1836, and was elected a Fellow in 1852. He 

 practised for many years as a surgeon in 

 Brighton, of which city he was elected mayor 

 three times, the last time in 1871. He was 

 knighted in 1873, and was a Fellow of the 

 Geographical, Zoological, and other learned so- 

 cieties. 



BURTON, J. RYDER, Admiral, a British naval 

 officer; died in August, 1876. He entered the 

 navy in 1806, received a ball in his left side 

 at Castro, Spain, in 1812, which w r as never 

 removed, and afterward distinguished himself 

 before Algiers. He was a knight of the Order 

 of Guelphs of Hanover. 



CAMMAROTA, FILIPPO, an Italian ecclesiastic, 

 born November 23, 1809 ; died March 1, 1876. 

 In 1854 he was appointed Archbishop of Gneta. 



CAROLINE, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 

 born January 10, 1821 ; died June 10, 1876. 

 She was married in 1841 to the Crown-Prince, 

 afterward King Frederick VII. of Denmark, 

 from whom she was divorced in 1846. 



CARON, Hon. RENE EDWARD, a Canadian 

 statesman ; died December 13, 1876. At the 

 time of his death he was Lieutenant-Governor 

 of the Province of Quebec. 



CEZAUNE, ERNEST, a French engineer and 

 politician, born in 1830; died June 21, 1876. 

 He was appointed Engineer of Bridges and 

 Highways in 1851, upon leaving the Polytech- 

 nic School. In November, 1870, he left Paris in 

 a balloon with a mission from General Trochu 

 for the delegation in Tours. In 1871 he was 

 elected to the National Assembly for the de- 

 partment of Hautes-Alpes, and in 1876 for the 

 same department to the Legislative Assembly. 



CHESNEY, Colonel CHARLES, a British offi- 

 cer; died March 19, 1876. He was the author 

 of the " Conquest of England in 1875, and the 

 Battle of Dorking; or, Reminiscences of a 

 Volunteer," which was published immediately 

 after the Franco-German War, and was intend- 

 ed to alarm the public mind in England against 

 the rapid growth of Germany. It had a large 

 sale, and caused considerable excitement for a 

 time. 



CHILDERS, ROBERT CAESAR, an English 

 scholar, born 1838; died July 25, 1876. He 

 was Professor of Pali and Buddhist Literature 

 in University College of London, and was con- 

 sidered a high authority on everything relating 

 to the Pali. 



CHRISTIE, SAMUEL TOLFREY, a British gener- 

 al ; died in October, 1876. He served through- 

 out the Burmese War of 1852-'53, and for his 



