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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



action of chlorine," and his work in connec- 

 tion with the discovery of the products of 

 dehydration of ammoniacal salts. He was a 

 juror in the International Exhibitions held 

 in Paris in 1855, 1867, and 1878. For many 

 years he was a member of the Chemical Soci- 

 ety of Paris, holding various offices, including 

 that of vice-president in 1862 and in 1868. 

 He was also a member of other scientific so- 

 cieties, both in France and Italy. Besides his 

 many articles in Wurtz's " Dictionnaire de 

 Chemie," his bibliography includes upward of 

 fifty titles of original papers. 



Leblond, Desire Mederic, a French advocate and 

 statesman, born in Paris, May 9, 1812; died 

 there, July 22, 1886. He studied law, and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1833. He was the 

 son of a counselor of the royal court, and ob- 

 tained a post at the palace. At the same time 

 he acted as counsel for several workingrnen's 

 societies and republican journals. In 1848 he be- 

 came Attorney-General for Paris, but resigned 

 when elected representative by the Depart- 

 ment of the Marne, and sustained Cavaignac 

 He brought forward a proposition to elect the 

 President by the vote of the National Assem- 

 bly. He opposed Louis Napoleon, and under 

 the empire resumed practice at the bar of 

 Paris. In 1870 he was appointed Attorney- 

 General for Paris, but resigned upon being 

 elected to the National Assembly in 1871, and 

 was leader of the Republicans. He repre- 

 sented the first circumscription of Rheims in 

 the Chamber of Deputies in 1876, and in 1879 

 was elected Senator of the Marne. 



Liep-Bril, Jiidalt Jechiel, a British journalist, 

 died in London, in November, 1886. He was 

 well known as the editor of the u Shulamith," 

 a weekly newspaper published in London, and 

 distinguished himself a few years since by col- 

 lecting, with the assistance of Baron Edmond 

 de Rothschild, a large colony of emigrants, 

 whom he conducted to the Holy Land and 

 settled as an agricultural colony. He was the 

 author of several Hebrew books. 



Loewe, Lndwig, a German statesman, born in 

 1838; died in Bremen, Sept. 12, 1886. He 

 was one of the foremost members of the Land- 

 tag and the Reichstag, and one of the ablest 

 and most zealous defenders of his countrymen, 

 the Hebrews. He sat in several of the German 

 Parliaments, and was recognized as one of the 

 most notable advocates of liberal ideas. 



Lynch, Patrieio, a Chilian naval officer, born 

 in Santiago, Chili, in 1825 ; died at sea in May, 

 1886. He was the son of a wealthy Irish mer- 

 chant, who married, a Chilian lady, was educat- 

 ed at the Naval School in Santiago, and served 

 in the expedition to Peru in 1837. The Gov- 

 ernment sent him to England in 1839, where 

 he entered the navy as a lieutenant, and served 

 with distinction in the Chinese War of 1840-'42. 

 He returned to Chili in 1847, re-entered the 

 navy as a lieutenant, rose to be commander of 

 a frigate, but left the service in 1854. In the 

 war with Spain in 1865 he again joined the 



service, and held the successive appointments 

 of Naval Governor of Valparaiso, organizer of 

 the National Guards with the rank of colonel, 

 and captain of a man-of-war. In the war with 

 Peru he was the first Chilian Governor of 

 Iquique, and during the operations was the 

 most successful of the Chilian commanders, 

 conducting a naval and military expedition into 

 the northern provinces of Peru, and taking part 

 in the final campaign which resulted in the re- 

 duction of Lima. He commanded a division 

 that rendered effective service at the battle of 

 Miraflores, and at Chorillos bore the brunt of 

 the combat. During the occupation he was 

 appointed commandant at Lima, and sternly 

 repressed the plundering that had been carried 

 on under previous commanders. He suppressed 

 the Calderon Government, arrested Don Garcia 

 Calderon, and sent him a prisoner to Chili, 

 thereby coming into collision with Mr. Hurl- 

 but, the American minister. He planned the 

 campaign in which Caceres was defeated at 

 Huamachuco in July, 1883, invested Iglesias 

 with the supreme power in October, 1883, with- 

 drew the Chilian garrison to ChoriJlos, and con- 

 ducted the evacuation of the country after the 

 ratification of the peace. 



Maas, Joseph, an English singer, born in 1847; 

 died in London, Jan. 16, 1886. He was for 

 five years a choir-boy at Rochester Cathedral, 

 which he left when his voice, from a ringing 

 treble, changed into a soft and mellow tenor. 

 He went to Milan and studied for two years, 

 returning to England in 1871, and appearing 

 for the first time in public at a concert in St. 

 James's Hall. After a few months of public 

 life, he came to America, acting chiefly as first 

 tenor in various English opera companies. On 

 his return to England he was engaged by Carl 

 Rosa, and appeared as a tenor in various operas. 

 In the ballad operas of Balfe and Wallace his 

 popularity was unequaled. He acted with re- 

 markable spirit, and was an almost perfect 

 interpreter of the music he essayed. Shortly 

 before his death he appeared at Brussels and 

 also at Paris, and in both places the rich tones 

 of his voice produced an extremely favorable 

 impression. 



MacDongall, Bishop, Francis Thomas, Archdea- 

 con of the Isle of Wight and Canon of Win- 

 chester, born in Sydenham in 1807; died in 

 Winchester, England, Nov. 18, 1886. He was 

 educated at King's College, London, and ob- 

 tained the gold medal in 1837, afterward be- 

 came a Fellow of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, and demonstrator of anatomy at King's 

 College. After subsequent honors and a jour- 

 ney to Borneo with Sir James Brooke, he was 

 consecrated Bishop of Labuan. Returning to 

 England in 1868, he settled in Godmanchester, 

 and afterward was transferred to Winchester, 

 becoming Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight in 

 1874. He was the author of a translation of 

 the "Book of Common Prayer into Malay" 

 (1858), and a " Catechism of the Christian Re- 

 ligion in Malay and English " (1868). 



