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mission for Technical Schools. He had also 

 been royal commissioner for the Royal Poly- 

 technical School. His brother, SOCRATES, born 

 October 10, 1790, died April 26th, had dis- 

 tinguished himself as a physician, and had held 

 several high positions in the sanitary depart- 

 ment of the Government. 



ROBERTS, JOHN JENKINS, ex-President of Li- 

 beria; died February 24, 1876. When the col- 

 ony of Liberia was founded by the American 

 Colonization Society, he was first lieutenant- 

 governor, and then governor, of the colony. 

 In 1848, upon the formation of the republic, 

 he was elected its first President, and served 

 four years. When, in 1871, there was a revolt 

 against President Roye, Roberts was again 

 elected President, and served until 1876. 



ROLLAND, PIERRE CHARLES ANTOINE, a French 

 senator, born November 4, 1818 ; died October 

 25, 1876. In 1848 he was a member of the 

 Constituent Assembly, where he acted with 

 the Left. After the coup-cTetat he retired 

 from politics, and devoted himself exclusively 

 to literature. In 1871 he was elected deputy 

 from Sa6ne-et-Loire, and in 1876 a senator 

 from the same department. In both the As- 

 sembly and the Senate he was a member of 

 the Republican Left. 



Ross, Sir DAVID, a British merchant, born 

 in 1802; died May 7, 1876. He was Lord- 

 Provost of Perthshire in 1863-'64, and was 

 knighted in 1864. 



ROTHSCHILD, Sir ANTHONY, Bart., born in 

 1801 ; died January 4, 1876. He was one of 

 the chiefs of the great banking-house of N. M. 

 Rothschild & Sons, and as such displayed great 

 talents for business. He was alike distinguished 

 for his goodness of heart and his charity. As 

 president of the Jewish school in Spitalfields, 

 he contributed much to alleviate the suiferings 

 of his correligionists. He was created a baronet 

 in 1846, and, dying without male issue, is suc- 

 ceeded by his nephew, Nathaniel Rothschild, 

 M. P. 



RUSSELL, ALEXANDER, a British journalist, 

 horn in 1814; died July 18, 1876. After con- 

 tributing to TaiVs Magazine, and other peri- 

 odicals, he became, in succession, editor of 

 the Berwick Advertiser (1839), of the Fife Her- 

 ald (1842), of a liberal paper at Kilmarnock 

 (1844), and of the Scotsman (1845). The last 

 position he retained until his death. In poli- 

 tics he was a Whig of the Fox school, and was 

 never solicitous for popularity. He was a 

 writer for some of the leading English re- 

 views, and contributed a number of articles to 

 the " Encyclopaedia Britannica." 



SAVE, CARL, a Swedish scholar, born October 

 22, 1812; died March 29, 1876. He studied 

 botany, but by an accident became interested 

 in the comparative philology of the Northern 

 languages, on which subject he was considered 

 one of the best authorities. He was for many 

 years connected with the University of Upsala, 

 first as magister docem, and afterward as Pro- 

 fessor of Northern Languages. He contributed 



a large number of papers to various learned 

 journals in Sweden. 



SAYN-WITTGENSTEIN-SAYN, Prince LUDWIG, 

 born July 15, 1843; died February 28, 1876. 

 He was an hereditary member of the Prussian 

 Herrenhaus. He was the third son of Prince 

 Ludwig Adolph Friedrich of Sayn-Wittgen- 

 stein-Berleburg, whom he succeeded in 1867. 

 His father established a feoffment (Fideicom- 

 miss) of the estate of Sayn and the adjoining 

 estates, which was confirmed by the King of 

 Prussia in 1861, who at the same time gave to 

 the feoffee the dignity of an hereditary member 

 of the Herrenhaus, and the privilege of assum- 

 ing the title of Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein- 

 Sayn. Prince Ludwig is succeeded by his 

 brother, Prince Friedrich, born April 3, 1836. 



SCHMIDT, General VON, a Prussian general of 

 infantry, born July 26, 1809 ; died November 

 11, 1876. He was Governor of Metz at the 

 time of his death. 



SCOTT, General WALTER, a British officer; 

 died in March, 1876. He entered the service in 

 1824, became captain in 1829 r major in 1845, 

 colonel in 1854, major-general in 1861, lieuten- 

 ant-general in 1867, and colonel-commandant 

 in 1868. He served in the Punjaub campaign 

 of 1848-'49, and was present at the siege 

 and surrender of Mooltan, for which he re- 

 ceived the medal and the clasp. 



SCROPE, GEORGE POULETT, F. R. S., a British 

 parliamentarian, born in 1797; died January 19, 

 1876. He was the second son of J. Poulett 

 Thompson, and brother of Lord Sydenham, 

 for some time Govern or- General of Canada, 

 and assumed the name of Scrope on his mar- 

 riage with the heiress of William Scrope. He 

 was first returned in the Liberal interest for 

 Stroud, in May, 1833, having been defeated at 

 the general election ir December, 1832, and 

 retained the seat until 1867, when he retired. 

 He was the author of a " Life " of his brother, 

 "Considerations on Volcanoes," and the " Geol- 

 ogy and Extinct Volcanoes of Central France " 

 (1858). 



SERRIGNY, DENIS, a French lawyer, born in 

 1804; died in October, 1876. He was appoint- 

 ed Professor of Law in 1833, was a correspond- 

 ing member of the Academy of Moral and Polit- 

 ical Sciences, and was decorated with the grand 

 cross of the Legion of Honor. He was the 

 author of several able treatises on French law, 

 and contributed to the Revue de Droit Fran fain 

 et Stranger, and the Journal des ficonomistes. 



SETTEMBRINI, LTJIGI, an Italian scholar ; died 

 November 4, 1876. He was a senator, and the 

 author of a " History of Italian Literature." 



SHAW, RICHARD, M. P., was born August 6, 

 1825 ; died January 19, 1876. He was the son 

 of Richard Shaw, Esq., of Fulledge, Burnley, 

 and received his education in the grammar- 

 school of that town, and in St. Peter's School, 

 York. He was a Manchester merchant of ex- 

 cellent standing, in partnership with the firm 

 of John Dugdale & Brothers. He was elected 

 to the House of Commons as the first member 



