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ing. Ho published " Travels in Chili and La 

 Plata," "Illustrations of South American 

 Plants," and "Contributions to Botany." He 

 was a member of the Linnroan and Royal Soci- 

 eties. 



MUKAT, Princess CAROLINE GKOEQINE, born 

 April 13, 1810, died February 10th. She was 

 the daughter of Thomas Frazer of Bordentown, 

 New Jersey, and in 1827 married Prince Lucien, 

 the second son of King Joachim Murat. The 

 family for a time was in very straitened cir- 

 cumstances, their only support being a school 

 for girls kept by Mrs. Murat. The establish- 

 ment of the Second Empire restored to them 

 wealth and titles. Her husband died May 10, 

 1878. 



OQILVIE, ROBERT ANNESLEY, a British states- 

 man, born in 1807, died May 16th. He was 

 educated at Eton, and entered the customs ser- 

 vice in 1828. On account of his extensive 

 knowledge of British and continental com- 

 merce, he was appointed to take part in the 

 different commercial conferences between Great 

 Britain and the continental powers held since 

 1860, and for many years he was consulted by 

 the different Chancellors of the Exchequer on 

 the alteration and arrangement of the customs 

 tariffs. In 1863 he was appointed Surveyor- 

 General of Customs, and retired from the ser- 

 vice in 1876 on account of ill health. 



OMER PASHA, a Turkish general, died Febru- 

 ary 19th. He was a native of Mitau in Courland, 

 emigrated to Hungary in his youth, took part 

 in the revolutionary movements of 1848-'49, 

 and was compelled to seek refuge in Turkey, 

 where he entered the army and served with 

 distinction in various parts of the empire. In 

 June, 1877, he was made general of division 

 and appointed to a command in Armenia. At 

 the battle of the Aladja Dagh he was taken 

 prisoner, and was sent to Kiev, whence he re- 

 turned in 1878. Immediately upon his return 

 he was placed under trial by court martial, but 

 the proceedings were spun out to suppress 

 some damaging information. He was seized 

 with an apoplectic fit while in attendance upon 

 the court, and died within a few hours. 



PALLADIUM, Archimandrite, the head of the 

 Russian ecclesiastical mission in China, died in 

 February at an advanced age. During his long 

 residence in Peking he was an assiduous stu- 

 dent of Chinese literature, and gained a thor- 

 ough knowledge of the history, philosophy, and 

 religions of China. Though he never published 

 any independent work, he was a large contribu- 

 tor to the Russian periodical published by his 

 mission establishment at Peking (4 vols., 1852 

 -'66), in which appeared from his pen " A Life 

 of Buddha" (vol. i.), "Historical Studies in 

 Ancient Buddhism " (vol. ii.), " The Navigation 

 between Tientsin and Peking " (vol. iii.), " An 

 Ancient Mongol Account of the Life of Genghis 

 Khan," and " The Mohammedans in China " 

 (vol. iv.). He was also a contributor to the 

 " Recueil Oriental " and the " Proceedings " of 

 the Geographical Societies of Siberia and St. 



Petersburg. At the time of his death ho had 

 completed and was about to publish a Chinese- 

 Russian dictionary. 



ROTHSCHILD, Baron LIONEL DE, a British 

 financier, the first representative of the Jewish 

 race in the English Parliament, born Novem- 

 ber 22, 1808, died June 3d. He was the oldest 

 son of Nathan Meyer de Rothschild, who in 

 1822 was created a baron of the Austrian Em- 

 pire. Baron Lionel de Rothschild, whose great 

 monetary transactions indicate the financial his- 

 tory of the last fifty years, was in political life 

 chiefly known for the part he took in the eman- 

 cipation of the Jews, and for his consistent ad- 

 vocacy of Liberal principles. He was elected 

 a member of Parliament for tho City of Lon- 

 don in the Liberal interest in 1847, 1849, 1852, 

 and 1857, but was not permitted to take his 

 seat until 1858, when the Jews' Disabilities 

 Bill was passed. He kept his seat until 1874. 

 He was munificent in his charities, benefiting 

 not only people of his own faith but of all 

 classes. He was married in 1836 to Charlotte, 

 daughter of Baron Charles de Rothschild, and 

 had three sons and two daughters. His oldest 

 son, Sir Nathan Meyer de Rothschild, Bart., 

 M. P. for Aylesbury, was born in 1840, and 

 succeeded to the baronetcy of his uncle Sir An- 

 thony Rothschild in 1876. 



STAMPFLI, JACOB, a Swiss statesman, died 

 May 14th. He was one of the leaders of the 

 Radical party, and was President of the Re- 

 public in 1861. He was one of the members 

 of the Geneva Court of Arbitration on the Ala- 

 bama claims. 



WALDEGRAVE, Countess FRANCES ELIZABETH 

 ANNE, an English lady, born in 1821, died July 

 6th. She was the daughter of John Braham, 

 the famous opera-singer, and was married four 

 times : to John James Waldegrave ; then to 

 his relative George Edward, seventh Earl of 

 Waldegrave ; thirdly, to George Granville Har- 

 court; and, fourthly, to Chichester Parkinson 

 Fortescue, created Lord Carlingford in 1874. 

 For a number of years she was one of the most 

 prominent and popular leaders of London soci- 

 ety, and her receptions brought together the 

 chief members of the Liberal party, to which 

 she was strongly attached. 



WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW, a British painter, 

 born in 1816, died January 15th. He became 

 a student at the Academy in 1834, and was as- 

 sisted in his studies by Wilkie. In 1836 he 

 went to Rome, remaining nearly three years ; 

 and before returning to England he spent a few 

 months in Munich, studying fresco-painting un- 

 der Cornelius. His picture of "Dr. Johnson 

 reading the Manuscript of the Vicar of Wake- 

 field" (1843) was favorably received, and may 

 be considered as the first of a long series of 

 popular works in which Mr. Ward made for 

 himself a kind of specialty that has been de- 

 scribed as "historical genre." In these works , 

 generally minor historical, biographical, and 

 literary episodes or anecdotes are treated, not 

 after the manner of the old historical style of 



