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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



OATERINI, Cardinal PROSPEBO, the oldest 

 member of the Sacred College, First Deacon 

 of the Roman Church, Secretary of the Inqui- 

 sition, President of the Congregation of the 

 Council, and of various other Congregations of 

 Cardinals ; died October 30th. He was born 

 October 15, 1795, and without the advantage 

 of noble birth won his way early in life to high 

 positions in the Papal service through his ex- 

 traordinary attainments in canonical law and 

 the protection of Cardinal Sala. This influen- 

 tial prelate brought the talents of his young as- 

 sistant to the notice of Leo XII, who gave him 

 a post in the Congregation of the Council. 

 Pope Gregory XVI appointed him Secretary 

 to the Congregation of Studies, in which office 

 he made the valued collection of laws and de- 

 crees "De Recta Studiorum Ratione." He 

 was rapidly promoted by that Pontiff, and in 

 1853 was raised to the cardinalate by Pius IX. 



CLINCHANT, General, one of the most ex- 

 perienced officers of the French army, died at 

 Paris, of which post he was commandant, March 

 20th, at the age of sixty-one. He fought as a 

 young officer in Africa for many years, was 

 promoted to the rank of major in the Crimean 

 War, distinguished himself by storming the 

 tower of Solferino in the Italian campaign of 

 1859, commanded a regiment in the Mexican ex- 

 pedition, and was a general officer at the com- 

 mencement of the Franco-German War. Be- 

 sieged with his brigade in Metz and taken pris- 

 oner by the Germans, he escaped and placed 

 his sword at the service of the Government of 

 National Defense. He was appointed to the 

 command of a corps, and after the defeat at 

 Villerfexel took command of the Army of the 

 South, but only to capitulate and conduct his 

 troops into Switzerland while the German ar- 

 my beleaguered Paris. After peace was con- 

 cluded he led a corps of the Versailles army, and 

 in the conflict with the Communards was the 

 first to lead the troops into Paris. His mod- 

 eration was praised by the Versaillists, while the 

 Communards accused him of ordering bloody 

 and terrible reprisals to be taken. His death 

 is felt the more deeply in France because he. 

 has been a firm and influential supporter of the 

 republic. 



DINGELSTEDT, FRANZ VON, a German poet, 

 born June 30, 1814; died May 17, 1881. He 

 studied theology and philology at the Univer- 

 sity of Marburg, and then acted as instructor 

 in the lyceum at Cassel and the gymnasium at 

 Fulda. His liberal views caused considerable 

 dissatisfaction at court. He wrote a number 

 of poems published under the title of " Lie- 

 der eines Kosmopolitischen Nachtwachters " 

 (1841), which were greatly admired at the 

 time. Although he was not troubled by the 

 Government, he resigned his position in 1841. 

 In 1846 he became a dramatist to the court 

 theatre at Stuttgart, and in consequence of the 

 enthusiastic reception which was given his 

 drama, " Das Haus der Barneveldt," in Munich, 

 he was appointed superintendent of the court 



theatre in that city in 1850. Hero he attracted 

 general attention by his combination of the 

 greatest German actors of that time in twelve 

 classical dramas. From Munich he went to 

 Weimar, in 1856, where he devoted himself par- 

 ticularly to Shakespeare's dramas, and for the 

 first time produced in German a series of the his- 

 torical dramas, translated by himself. In 1867 

 he went to Vienna as director of the Imperial 

 Opera-House, which position he exchanged for 

 a similar one at the Hof burg Theatre, which he 

 retained up to the time of his death. His " Po- 

 ems " (1845, second edition, 1858) are fine de- 

 scriptions of love. His best novel is " Unter 

 der Erde" (2 vols., 1840). Among his other 

 novels are " Licht und Schatten in der Liebe " 

 (1838); "Heptameron" (2 vols., 1841); " No- 

 vellenbuch " (1855) ; and k ' Deutsche Nachte in 

 Paris," from his "Sieben friedlicheErzahlung- 

 en " (2 vols., 1844). His volume of poems, 

 '* Nacht und Morgen " (1851) is a companion 

 to the " Nachtwachterlieder." Besides the 

 historical dramas of Shakespeare mentioned 

 above, he translated "The Tempest," "Twelfth 

 Night," "As you Like it," and the " Comedy 

 of Errors," Beaumarchais's comedy "Figaro's 

 Wedding," and wrote a large number of mis- 

 cellaneous works. 



DROUYN DE L'HUYS, a French statesman, who 

 three times occupied the position of Minister 

 for Foreign Affairs under Napoleon III ; died 

 at Paris, March 1st, in the seventy-sixth year 

 of his age. 



DULLERT, W. H., President of the Netherlands 

 Assembly ; died in February, at the age of six- 

 ty-four. He entered the Chamber in 1849, of 

 which he was president in 1852 and 1853, and 

 was again elected in 1869, holding the office to 

 the time of his death. He refused several 

 times to accept a position in the ministry. 



DUPRE, Vice- Admiral ; died in Paris, Febru- 

 ary 8th. He was born in Strasburg, on No- 

 vember 13, 1813, passed through the Naval 

 School, and was made a captain in 1854. Du- 

 pre took a part in the Chinese and Cochin-Chi- 

 nese expeditions. He commanded the naval 

 division on the coast of Africa in 1861, and 

 was appointed Governor of Reunion in 1864. 

 He was called in 1870 to the command of the 

 naval division in the China and Japan seas. In 

 187J he was nominated Governor and Military 

 Commandant of Cochin-China. 



EULENBERG, Count FRIEDRICH ZU, OHO of the 



leading statesmen of Prussia; died of a men- 

 tal disease in an asylum near Berlin, June 

 2d. Fritz Eulenberg was the most conspicu- 

 ous member of a family so prominent in the 

 Prussian civil service as to have been nick- 

 named the "Eulenberg dynasty." Born June 

 29, 1815, the son of a cavalry-officer, he passed 

 through the long apprenticeship in the depart- 

 ments which is required of Prussian states- 

 men. After completing his studies he became a 

 Government assessor, and received an appoint- 

 ment in the Ministry of the Interior in 1849, at 

 the stormy period of the Brandenburg-Manteuf- 



