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wounded at Sedan, and was dismissed uncon- 

 ditioimlly by the Germans, being considered 

 unfit for further service. Two months later he 

 was appointed to the command of the Fifteenth 

 Corps of the Army of the Loire, with the rank 

 of general of division, but was soon relieved 

 fn>m this command. In 1871 he was elected 

 from the Gironde to the National Assembly^ 

 of whirh body he was one of the quaestors. 



M VTZERATII, JOSEPH, a German poet, born 

 January 28, 1818; died March 24, 1876. He 

 studied law, and was employed in various po- 

 sitions by the Government. His first poems 

 appeared in 1838. Together with Freiligrath 

 ami Simrock, he edited two editions of the 

 44 Rheinische Jahrbuch far Kunst und Poesie " 

 for 1841 and 1842. It was mainly due to his 

 advice that Niklas Becker wrote his celebrated 

 poem on the Rhine. 



MAURICE, JULES, a French senator, born in 

 1811 ; died March 21, 1876. He was a large 

 real-estate owner of Douai, of which city he 

 had been mayor for ten years under the em- 

 pire. In 1871 he was elected to the National 

 Assembly from the department of the Nord, 

 and in 1876 was chosen senator, the first of 

 five, by 435 votes out of 814. In the Senate 

 he voted with the Right. 



MEIIEMMED BUHRAN UDDIN EFFENDI, a Turk- 

 ish prince, born May 23, 1849; died October 

 21, 1876. He was a son of the Sultan Abdul- 

 Medjid Khan, and a brother of the Sultan Ab- 

 dul-Hamid II. 



MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, Viscount, born 

 in February, 1801 ; died February 1, 1876. He 

 entered the army at the age of eighteen, be- 

 came a lieutenant-colonel in 1829, commanded 

 the Eighty-third Foot in Canada in 1837, and 

 a division of the Army of the Punjaub at 

 Goojerat in 1849. For his Indian and other 

 services he received the decoration of G. C. B., 

 and in 1860 became lieutenant-general. Till 

 his death he was general, and President of the 

 Queen's Body-Guard for Scotland (Royal Arch- 

 ers). He is succeeded by his brother, Mr. Rob- 

 ert Dundas, Storekeeper-General of the Navy. 



MILLER, GEORGE J., a British sculptor; died 

 Au-ust 18, 1876. In 1857 he received the 

 large gold medal of the Academy for his group, 

 44 The Samaritan." His best-known work is 

 the monument on the grave of the Marquis of 

 Hastings. 



MILLER, ROBERT, a British judge; died in 

 August, 1876. lie was called to the bar at the 

 Middle Temple, November 10, 1826, and went 

 to the Midland Circuit. He was raised to the 

 dignity of sergeant-at -law in 1850, and was ap- 

 pointed Judge of the Leicester County Court 

 Circuit, January 1, 1856. He held all the 

 courts in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Rut- 

 landshire, and at Nuneaton, Warwickshire. 



MOORE, GEOROE, a successful British mer- 

 chant, of the firm of Copestake, Moore & Co., 

 born in 1807; died November 21, 1876. He 

 came to London at an early age, and entered 

 the house as an errand-boy, in which he after- 



ward became a partner. During hia connec- 

 tion with the linn the business was consider- 

 ably extended, its factories being now at Not- 

 tingham, Manchester, Paris, and New York. 

 He was well known for the zeal with which 

 ho entered into philanthropic enterprises. Al- 

 though often pressed to accept municipal hon- 

 ors, and even to enter Parliament, he uniformly 

 declined ; and when, in 1844, he was elected 

 Sheriff of the City of London, he preferred to 

 pay the fine of 500 to accepting the office. 



MORGAN, CAMPBELL DE, F. R. 8., a British 

 physician, born in 1811; died April 11, 1876. 

 He was formerly an examiner in surgery at 

 the Royal College of Physicians, and, although 

 one of the first honorary Fellows of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons elected, he always de- 

 clined being put in nomination for a seat in 

 the council of that institution. He was a fre- 

 quent contributor to the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions, and to medical journals. 



NEAVES, Lord CHARLES, a Scottish judge, 

 born in 1800; died December 23, 1876. He 

 was admitted to the Scottish bar in 1822, was 

 Sheriff of Orkney in 1845, Solicitor-General 

 for Scotland from 1852 to 1854, a Lord of Ses- 

 sion since 1854, a Lord of Judiciary since 1855, 

 and Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University 

 in 1872 and 1873. 



NORTHEN, ADOLF, a German painter, born 

 in 1828; died May 28, 1876. From 1847 to 

 1851 he studied at the Academy of Dussel- 

 dorf. His paintings are mostly battle- scenes, 

 the subjects for which are taken from the 

 wars with Napoleon, while he would paint in 

 the mean while small genre pictures. His best- 

 known works are : " French Prisoners guard- 

 ed by Guerrillas" (1851), " The Retreat of the 

 Grand Army, 1812," "Napoleon on his Re- 

 turn from Russia," and others. These were 

 followe4 by scenes from the battle of Water- 

 loo, which he painted for King George of Han- 

 over. He also excelled in water-colors. 



ORPEN, Sir RICHARD JOHN THEODORE, Knt., 

 born in 1788 ; died May 4, 1876. He had been 

 a Commissioner of Inquiry into the Courts of 

 Law and Equity in Ireland, and at the time of 

 his death was President of the Incorporated 

 Society of Solicitors and Attorneys of Ireland. 

 He was knighted in 1868. 



ORR, CHARLES ALEXANDER, a British lieuten- 

 ant-general, born in 1812; died in October, 

 1876. He entered the army in 1831, served 

 with the Coorg Expedition in 1836, and was 

 present at the attack on the stockades of Buck. 

 He was appointed colonel-commandant of the 

 Royal Engineers in 1871. 



OTTER, II. C., a British rear-admiral ; died 

 in April, 1876. He entered the navy in 1822, 

 and on several occasions distinguished himself 

 by his bravery and coolness. In 1870 he re- 

 tired with the rank of rear-admiral. He was 

 created a C. B. in 1867. 



OVERWEG, KARL, a German politician, horn 

 November 28, 1805 ; died in the latter part of 

 May, 1876. He was a member of the Frank- 



