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for Burnley, in the month of November, 1868, 

 and was a warm supporter of Mr. Gladstone. 



SII.VWE, CiiAitLEH AUGUSTUS, a British gen- 

 eral, born in IT'.M ; du-d April 7, 1876. He ob- 

 tained his h'rst commission as ensign in May, 

 1 si is, and served in the Coldstream Guards, in 

 the Peninsula, from 1810 to 1812, and in Hol- 

 land and Belgium in 1818-'14. lie was severe- 

 ly wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom. He had been 

 colonel of the Seventy-fourth Highlanders since 

 is:,.;. 



SHILLETO, Rev. RICHARD, a British scholar; 

 died September 24, 1876. He was a Fellow of 

 St. Peter's College, Cambridge, was one of the 

 most accomplished Greek scholars in the uni- 

 versity, and was the instructor of the majority 

 of the best scholars of the university. On two 

 occasions, in 1839 and 1840, he acted as one of 

 the examiners for the classical Tripos. He edited 

 Demosthenes's " De Falsa Legatione," and at 

 the time of his death was engaged in editing 

 "The History of the Peloponnesian War" by 

 Thucydides. 



SIMPSON, RICHARD, a British writer, born in 

 1820 ; died April 5, 1876. In 1862 he founded, 

 togetlier with Lord Acton and others, the Lib- 

 eral weekly, The Rambler, and, after that had 

 suspended publication, The Home and Foreign 

 Review, which did not appear for more than 

 two years. He was the author of a "Life of 

 Campian," and other works. 



SouLife, EUDORE, a well-known writer on 

 art and literature, and the conservator of the 

 Museum of Versailles, born in 1817; died in 

 June, 1876. He began his career at Versailles 

 in 1836, under the patronage of Chateaubriand, 

 who was his godfather. Since then he grad- 

 ually rose to the highest position in the service 

 of that museum. To English students he was 

 best known by his excellent Catalogue, which 

 is not a new guide-book, but an important con- 

 tribution to the history of art in the seven- 

 teenth and eighteenth centuries ; but in France 

 his name is mostly associated with that of 

 Moliere, of whom he wrote a most interesting 

 and exhaustive biography. Other works of 

 which he was part editor are the "Memoires 

 de Dangeau," "M6rnoires du Cardinal de 

 Luynes," and the Journal iPHerouard. 



STEIFENSAND, XAVIER, a German engraver 

 on copper, born in 1809 ; died January 6, 1876. 

 Among his works are numerous engravings on 

 copper of the paintings of celebrated artists, as 

 Kaulbach, Overbeck, Chauvin, and others. His 

 most celebrated engraving is that of the " Wor- 

 ship of the Three Wise Men," by Paul Vero- 

 nese, which he completed in 1873. 



STEWART, Colonel ALEXANDER, a British of- 

 ficer, born in 1825 ; died September 22, 1876. 

 He served with the expedition in China in 

 1842-'43, was present at the capture of Woo- 

 sung and Shanghai, the storming of Cliinir- 

 Kiang-Fo'o, and the operations before Nanking. 

 Ho had been Inspector-General of Ordnance 

 and Magazines at Madras. 



STIBTED, Lieutenant-General Sir HEXRY WIL- 



LIAM, a British officer, born in 1817; died Jan- 

 uary 27, 1876. He entered the army as cornet 

 in the cavulry in 1835, and was appointed ma- 

 jor-general in 1804. He served for many 

 years in the British army in India, taking part 

 in the campaigns against Afghanistan, Beloo- 

 chistan, Persia, and for the suppression of the 

 Indian mutiny. At the creation of the Domin- 

 ion of Canada he was appointed Lieutenant- 

 Governor of Ontario, which position he held 

 for some time. 



STUART, Sir JOHN, a British statesman, born 

 in 1793 ; died October 30, 1876. He was called 

 to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1819, and was for 

 years, until his death, one of the benchers. 

 He was made Queen's Counsel in 1839, and ap- 

 pointed one of the Vice-Chancellors of Eng- 

 land in 1852, which position he filled with dis- 

 tinction until March, 1871. He was created 

 a knight upon his elevation to the judicial 

 bench, and represented Newark in the con- 

 servative interest from 1846 to 1852, and Bury- 

 St.-Edmunds from the latter date until made a 

 judge. * 



TALBOT, Sir CHARLES, a British admiral, born 

 in 1801; died August 8, 1876. He entered 

 the Royal Naval College in 1815, and in 1817 

 embarked as a volunteer on board the Prome- 

 theus. He subsequently served on the South 

 American stations, and on the night of April 

 6, 1831, an insurrection having broken out at 

 Rio de Janeiro, he rescued and brought off 

 from the Palace of Sao Christovao the Em- 

 peror and Empress, a service which Doin Pedro 

 II. acknowledged by presenting him with the 

 decoration of the Brazilian Order of the South- 

 ern Cross. In 1845 he served off the coast of 

 Borneo, and was commodore at the Cape of 

 Good Hope from 1852 to 1854. As captain of 

 the Algiers, from 1854 to 1856, he was em- 

 ployed in conveying troops to the Baltic, and 

 also at the blockade of Sebastopol. His last 

 command was at the Nore, from 1864 to 1866. 



TARNOCZY, MAXIMILIAN, Cardinal Archbishop 

 of Salzburg, Austria, born October 24, 1806; 

 died April 4, 1876. He entered the priesthood 

 at an early age, was consecrated Archbishop of 

 Salzburg in 1850, and cardinal in 1873. He 

 was distinguished alike for his piety and zeal. 



TAYLOR, Sir HENRY GEORGE ANDREW, a Brit- 

 ish general, born in 1783 ; died February 9, 

 1876. He served in the Mahratta campaign in 

 1803-'4, under the Duke of Wellington, and 

 was wounded at Assaye ; was subsequently 

 Town-Major of Madras (1825), and held several 

 brigade commands, terminating with the com- 

 mand of the Northern Division. He was cre- 

 ated a G. C. B. in 1873. 



TELEKI, Count DOMINIK, an Hungarian no- 

 bleman, born in 1810; died May 1, 1876. He 

 had been director and honorary member of the 

 Hungarian Academy, a member of the Hun- 

 garian Reichstag, where he belonged to the 

 Deak party, and had written a number of his- 

 torical essays. 



TINDALL, Loins SYMONDS, a British admiral; 



