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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



studied medicine and law in the University of 

 Prague, but could not enter the academic ca- 

 reer as he desired, because he was a Jew. 

 Among his works, principally comedies, are 

 the following: " Geistige Liebe," "Hausliche 

 Wirren," " Die weiblichen Studenten," and 

 ' Eine rettende That." 



LEGAGNEUR, HUBERT MICHEL FORTUNE, a 

 French judge and former peer, born February 

 18, 1797; died January 11, 1876. As Procu- 

 reur-gemral of Douai, he prosecuted Louis 

 Napoleon for the attempted coup-d'etat at 

 Boulogne, He was created a peer of France 

 in 1845, and an officer of the Legion of Honor 

 in 1842. 



LEIGH, EGERTON, M. P., born in 1815 ; died 

 July 1, 1876. He received his education in 

 Eton, and entered the army as cornet in the 

 Queen's Bays. He retired from the service 

 in 1843 with the rank of captain, but was 

 major of the First Cheshire Light-Infantry 

 Militia for thirty years. He was High-Sheriff 

 of Cheshire in 1872, was elected member for 

 the Mid-Division of Cheshire in 1873, and at 

 the election in 1874 was returned without 

 opposition. He acted with the Conservatives. 

 He was married, in 1842, to Lady Rachel, 

 daughter of J. S. Wright, of Balcote Lodge. 

 He was the author of "Ballads and Legends 

 of Cheshire." 



LETHEBY, HENRY, a British physician, born 

 in 1816; died in April, 1876. He was the 

 medical officer of health of the city of London, 

 lecturer on chemistry and toxicology in the 

 London Hospital, and chemical analyst to the 

 Corporation of London. He published a large 

 number of " Reports on the Sanitary Condition 

 of the City of London," a series of papers on 

 the " Mode of Conducting Post-Mortem Exami- 

 nations in Cases of Suspected Murder " in the 

 Lancet, and a number of other works. He was 

 a member of the Linnfean and Chemical Socie- 

 ties, to the " Transactions " of which he con- 

 tributed a number of papers. 



LEVEN, JOHN THORNTON LESLIE MELVILLE, 

 ninth Earl of Leven and eighth Earl of Mel- 

 ville, a Scotch nobleman, born December 18, 

 1786; died September 18, 1876. He succeeded 

 his brother in 1860, and in 1865 was elected a 

 representative peer of Scotland. He is suc- 

 ceeded by his oldest son, Alexander, Viscount 

 Kirkaldie, born 1817. 



LIMAIRAO, JULES DE, a French senator, born 

 January 24, 1806 ; died in September, 1876. 

 He was elected a member of the National As- 

 sembly in 1871 for the department of Tarn-et- 

 Garonne, and supported the Legitimist party. 

 In 1876 he was chosen in the same department 

 for the higher dignity of senator. 



LOIIR, EMIL, a German landscape-painter, 

 born in 1809 ; died/April 21, 1876. After hav- 

 ing attended the Academy of Vienna, he went- 

 to Italy, where he studied the works of the 

 old masters. An incurable disease prevented 

 him from thoroughly exercising his art. His 

 works, which comprise scenes in various parts 



of Germany, although not widely known, were 

 highly valued by art-critics. 



MARO-DUFRAISSE, a French politician, born 

 in 1812 ; died January 22, 1876. He studied 

 law, and was highly respected among his col- 

 leagues for his learning. After the Revolution 

 of 1848 he was elected to the National Assem- 

 bly, where he acted with the extreme Left. 

 After the coup-cfetat he was sentenced to be 

 transported to Cayenne, but succeeded in es- 

 caping to Belgium, and soon after was called 

 to a professorship in Zurich. Upon the over- 

 throw of the empire in 1870 he returned to 

 France, and received several appointments from 

 M. Gambetta, but acted in such a manner as to 

 make himself obnoxious. In 1871 he was 

 elected to the National Assembly from Paris, 

 where he acted with the Left. He was the 

 author of several violent brochures, in which 

 he attacked the government of Louis Napoleon. 



MARCHAND, Count Louis, the last survivor 

 of Napoleon's companions in St. Helena, born 

 in 1791 ; died June 21, 1876. He entered the per- 

 sonal service of the Emperor in 1811, by whom 

 he was created a count. When Constant, the 

 first valet de chambre of the Emperor, retired 

 in 1814, he took his place. He accompanied 

 his master to Elba and St. Helena, and received 

 from the latter, on his death-bed, a number of 

 family souvenirs, which he handed over to the 

 Imperial Museum upon the accession of Louis 

 Napoleon. 



MARGARY, HENRY JOSHUA, a British general, 

 born in 1811 ; died in January, 1876. He was 

 the father of Mr. A. R. Margary, who was 

 killed at Manwyne, China, in 1875. He en- 

 tered the Bombay Engineers in 1830, served 

 in the Mahratta campaign in 1844, was field- 

 engineer of the Sinde Reserve Force during 

 the war in Afghanistan, and received the 

 thanks of the Governor-General in council for 

 his services. He retired from the army in 

 1863 with the rank of major-general. 



MARIA, ex-Queen of Spain, born August 9, 

 1847; died Novembers, 1876. She was the 

 daughter of Prince Pozzo della Cisterna, and 

 in 1867 married Amadeus, Duke of Aosta, the 

 second son of King Victor Emanuel of Italy, 

 and afterward King of Spain. She was re- 

 spected by all who knew her for her high 

 mental and moral qualities. 



MARIA, Grand-duchess of Russia, born Au- 

 gust 11, 1819 ; died February 21, 1876. She 

 was the oldest daughter of the Emperor Nicho- 

 las, was married in 1839 to Maximilian, Duke 

 of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Reichstadt, by 

 whom she had six children, and in 1856 was 

 again married to Gregory, Count Strogonoff. 



MARTIN DBS PALLIERES, CHARLES GABRIELLE 

 FELICITB, a French general, born November 22, 

 1823 ; died September 14, 1876. He graduated 

 from the Military School of St.-Cyr in 1843, as 

 second-lieutenant of the marines, took part in 

 the expeditions to the Senegal and against 

 China, and in 1868 became brigadier- general. 

 He took part in the war with Germany, was 



