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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Northwestern Persia, and made an attempt to 

 enter Herat, but found the Afghan officials un- 

 friendly. The journey to Meshed, Serakhs, 

 and along the frontier of Khorassan furnished 

 the material for his "Travels in Khorassan" 

 (London, 1878). He next made a tour through 

 the deserts of Beloochistan, and in 1882 pub- 

 lished an account of his journey. In the first 

 campaign of the Afghan War of 1878 he acted 

 as chief of staff to Sir Samuel Browne, and 

 after the Oabul massacre became chief of staff 

 to Sir Frederick Roberts. He took a prominent 

 part in the operations around Cabul, and in the 

 battle of Oandahar he commanded a brigade. 

 He was knighted for his services in this cam- 

 paign. After the Afghan War he served for five 

 years as quartermaster-general in India, and 

 was then given command of the Pun jaub frontier 

 force, which he was compelled to resign a year 

 later on account of ill health. He prepared re- 

 ports on the military aspect of the Russian 

 advance towards India, on which subject he 

 was the most decided alarmist. Most of these 

 works are treated as confidential hand-books, 

 and preserved in the greatest possible official 

 secrecy, although the Russian Government is 

 known to possess copies of them. 



Marsegg, Herman Mallner yon, an Austrian 

 soldier, born at Bielitz, Silesia, in 1829 ; died, 

 Dec. 16, 1887. He was educated for a legal 

 career, but entered the army in 1848, where, 

 an account of his bourgeois origin and lack of 

 influence, his advancement was slow. He at 

 length received a staff appointment, in which 

 his talents were soon recognized, and promo- 

 tion was rapid. He served in the campaign 

 against Italy in 1859, and on the re-establish- 

 ment of peace was employed by the Austrian 

 Foreign Office on several military and diplo- 

 matic missions. In the War of 1866 he exe- 

 cuted a dashing charge at Custozza, and he 

 was soon made a general of brigade. His 

 health was seriously impaired by the labors 

 and anxieties of the post at Banjaluka, Bosnia, 

 where he commanded the force that occupied 

 the Sanjak in 1 878. He attained to the rank 

 of lieutenant-field-marshal. 



Mayhew, Henry, an English author, born in 

 1812 ; died in London, England, July 25, 1887. 

 He left Westminister School to go on a voyage 

 to Calcutta. On his return he was articled to 

 his father, a solicitor, for three years. He 

 began his literary career by writing, in con- 

 junction with Gilbert A'Beckett, a farce called 

 " The Wandering Minstrel." In 1841 he was 

 one of the original promoters of "Punch," and 

 was the first editor of that journal, from which 

 he shortly afterward withdrew. He was the 

 author of " London Labor and the London 

 Poor," which was long an authority on the 

 condition of the laboring classes. Among his 

 other works may be mentioned "The Mor- 

 mons, or Latter Day Saints " (London, 1852) ; 

 "The Wonders of Science" (1855); and "The 

 Greatest Plague of Life," " Tricks of Trade," 

 and other humorous works of fiction, which, 



as well as farces and fairy stories, he wrote 

 with his brothers, Augustus and Horace. 



Michel, Franeisqne Xavier, a French antiquari- 

 an, born in Lyons, France, Feb. 18, 1809 ; died 

 in Paris, France, May 11, 1887. He finished 

 his education in Paris, and in 1830 edited the 

 " Chronique de Duguesclin." In 1832 he pub- 

 lished two novels. After investigating French 

 manuscripts in English libraries for the Gov- 

 ernment, he was appointed Professor of For- 

 eign Literature at Bordeaux in 1839. His 

 works on Anglo-Norman history are very nu- 

 merous. A visit to Scotland interested him in 

 Franco-Scottish relations, and in 1862 he pub- 

 lished "Les Ecossais en France et les Francais 

 en Ecosse." His latest work appeared in Eng- 

 lish, and was devoted to French words in the 

 Scottish vocabulary. 



Monrad, Ditlev Gothard, a Danish prelate and 

 statesman, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 

 Nov. 24, 1811; died there, March 28, 1887. 

 He embraced the clerical profession, acquired a 

 reputation as a political writer, and, as a chief 

 of the National Liberal party, entered the min- 

 istry of Orla Lehmann in 1848. A year later 

 he was installed as bishop of the diocese of 

 Laaland-Falster. In 1854 he was appointed 

 director of the school system of Denmark. In 

 1859 he was Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, 

 and in 1863 he became Prime Minister. The 

 responsibility of the hopeless war with Prussia 

 had to be borne by Bishop Monrad, and after 

 the peace of 1864 he resigned and went into 

 voluntary exile, emigrating with his family to 

 New Zealand. His estate there was devas- 

 tated during the Maori war, and in 1869 he 

 returned to Denmark, and was reappointed to 

 his former bishopric. He recently tried to make 

 his voice heard again in Danish politics, but 

 without attracting much attention. 



Newdegate, diaries Newdigate, an English politi- 

 cian, born in Warwickshire, England, in 1816; 

 died there, April 10, 1887. He was educated 

 at Eton, at King's College, London, and at 

 Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected to 

 Parliament in 1843 to represent the old county 

 division of North Warwickshire, and he con- 

 tinued to represent this constituency until it 

 disappeared in the electoral changes of 1885, 

 when he withdrew. A Conservative of the 

 old school, he was a vigorous opponent of the 

 Romish Church. He repeatedly brought for- 

 ward motions in the House for the investiga- 

 tion of convents and monasteries, and collected 

 with indefatigable zeal a long array of facts to 

 show the existence of abuses in such institu- 

 tions. His exertions in the No-Popery cause 

 made him a ridiculous figure in Parliament, 

 yet did not deter him from expending his en- 

 ergy in endeavoring to revive other buried 

 issues. He was first elected as a Protectionist, 

 and to the last he lost no opportunity for urg- 

 ing the reimposition of the corn-tax. He was 

 the foremost opponent of the admission to Par- 

 liament of Mr. Bradlaugh, who brought action 

 against him for malicious maintenance, and the 



