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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (CELLIER COQUILHAT.) 



Cellier, Alfred, an English composer, born in London 

 in 1844; died there, Dec. 28, 1891. His parents were 

 French. He was educated in London schools, en- 

 tered the Chapel lioyal in 1855, in 1862 was appointed 

 organist of All Saints, Blackheath, and in 1865 be- 

 came conductor of the Belfast Philharmonic Society 

 and of the concerts in Ulster Hall in that city. He 

 returned to London three years later, and was organ- 

 ist at St. Albans, Holborn, until he gave up the place 

 in order to give his whole attention to the theatre. In 

 1871-'75 lie conducted an orchestra in Manchester, 

 and in 1877-'79 he led the orchestra of the Opera 

 (Jomique, and alternated with Sir Arthur Sullivan at 

 the Covent Garden concerts. His earliest operetta 

 was " Charity begins at Home," produced in Man- 

 chester in 1870. There also he wrote for " Nell 

 Gwynne" the music that was afterward adapted to 

 the 'libretto of " Dorothy." His " Sultan of Mocha," 

 the finest of his works, was brought out in Manches- 

 ter in 1874, and, like these others, was reproduced 

 later in London with another libretto. " Pandora," 

 written for the words of Longfellow, was produced 

 in Boston in 1881. His musical setting to Gray's 

 "Elegy," written for the Leeds Festival of 1883, was 

 not a popular success. Among his other works may 

 be mentioned " The Tower of London " (1875) ; " The 

 Specter Knight" (1878) ; " The Carp" (1886) ; " Mrs. 

 Jarramie's Genie" (1888) ; and " Doris" (1889) His 

 last work, " The Mountebanks," composed for a li- 

 bretto by W. S. Gilbert, he worked on through the 

 sufferings of his last illness. More happy in comic 

 than in serious music, he enjoyed a wide popularity 

 in Great Britain and America by reason of his neat 

 and easy style of composition and his fertile and 

 agreeable flow of melody. 



Chapu, Henri Michel Antoine, a French sculptor, born 

 in Le Mee, Department of Seine-et-Marne, in 1833 ; 

 died in St. Germain, near Paris, April 21, 18!H. He 

 studied under Tradier, Duret, and Cognietj gained the 

 prix de Rmne in 1855, and began exhibiting in 1863 

 with a statue of " Mercury." In 1875 and 1877 he 

 carried off the first medal. He executed statues for 

 the tombs of Henri Regnault, Leverrier, the Duchesse 

 d'Orleaus, and Flaubert. His busts of Theodore 

 Rousseau and Millet are placed on a rock in the for- 

 est of Fontainebleau. A work of importance is the 

 monument to M. Schneider at Creusot. Among M. 

 Chapu's Salon exhibits were "The Oath" (1865); 

 "Death of the Nymph Clytie"; "Joan of Arc at 

 Donremy," in plaster (1870) and in marble (1872); 

 a bust of Dumas the elder for the Odeon (1876); 

 " Thought"; a marble statue of Berryer for the Pa- 

 lais de Justice (1877) ; "The Genius of Immortality," 

 for the tomb of Jean Reynaud (1880) ; " Hope " (1889) ; 

 and a "Danseuse" (1890). M. Chapu was chosen a 

 member of the Institute in 1880. 



Chun, Prince, father of the Emperor of China, died 

 in Pekin, Jan. 1, 1891. He was the seventh brother 

 of the Emperor Hien Fung, and with the Empress 

 Dowager he earned out the palace revolution by 

 which his infant son was proclaimed Emperor on the 

 death of the Emperor Tung Chi, on Jan. 22, 1875. 

 During his son's minority he performed important 

 functions, and after the Emperor personally assumed 

 the government, contrary to custom, he did not with- 

 draw from all public duties, but held several high 

 offices, the chief of which was the presidency of the 

 Board of Admiralty. He was considered a man of 

 liberal and progressive ideas. 



Okm GaUaa, Count Eduard, an Austrian soldier, born 

 in 1805 ; died March 15. 1891. lie commanded an 

 army in the campaigns of 1848 and 1849, and for his 

 successes recei ved the Maria Theresa cross. In 1866 he 

 was in command of the division that was overwhelmed 

 by the Prussians at Gitschin, and for this disaster he 

 had to stand a court-martial. Although he was ac- 

 quitted and received a flattering letter from the Em- 

 peror, he was not consoled, and shortly afterward he 

 retired from the army, refusing a pension. 



Clam, Martinitz, Count Richard, an Austrian politi- 

 cian, bom in 1832; died in Vienna, Nov. 15, 1891. 



He was the leading representative of the group of 

 Bohemian territorial proprietors in the Austrian 

 lieichsrath and in the Diet at Prague. A thorough 

 Feudalist and Clerical, he succeeded his more talented 

 brother lleinrich as president of the club of the Bo- 

 hemian Feudalists in the Diet, and was elected Vice- 

 President of the Austrian Reichsrath. As the head 

 of this group he exercised a great authority in politi- 

 cal affairs, although he was not trained to politics hut 

 to military life, and took no part in political affairs 

 until he retired from the army in 1879. 



Coelho, Jos6 Maria Latino, a Portuguese statesman and 

 scholar, bom in 1825; died in Lisbon, Aug. 31, l.V.M. 

 He first followed a military career, and rose to the 

 rank of colonel. Then he gave his attention to min- 

 eralogy and geology, and was professor in the Lisbon 

 Polytechnic School till his death. In addition to this, 

 he stood at the head of the critics of Portugal, was 

 permanent secretary of the Academy of Science, and 

 took the chief part in editing the " Dictionary of the 

 Portuguese Language." A member originally of the 

 Liberal party, he discarded monarchical ideas, and 

 by his attacks in the Cortes and the House of Peers 

 on the prerogatives of the Crown, he acquired extraor- 

 dinary popularity among the Democrats, and was the 

 chosen leader of the Republican party. His critical 

 and historical works and his editorial labors on Por- 

 tuguese and Spanish newspapers made him pre-emi- 

 nent among the intellectual leaders of Portugal. 



Cogalniceanu, Michel, a Roumanian statesman, born in 

 1806; died in Paris, July 5, 1891. He was the son of 

 a Boyar family of Moldavia, was educated under 

 French and German tutors, headed the Jassy revolu- 

 tion of 1848, propagated his ideas in exile in 1'aris and 

 Brussels, and was one of the chief factors in the amal- 

 gamation of the Danubian provinces, becoming Presi- 

 dent of the Council and Minister of the Interior for 

 the first time in 1860. Resigning in the following 

 January, lie returned to the post as Prime Minister of 

 united Roumania in 1863, and in May, 1864, in con- 

 junction with Prince Kouza, carried out the covp 

 d'etat modifying the Constitution established by the 

 Treaty of Paris. In the same year he abolished the 

 corvee, secularized the property of the monasteries, 

 deprived the Boyars of their privileges, divided their 

 lands among the peasantry, declared the Church in- 

 dependent of the patriarchate at Constantinople, and 

 by more of such arbitrary acts carried out other lib- 

 eral reforms. Retiring from the premiership in 1865, 

 he subsequently had charge of the Ministry of Foreign 

 Affairs in 1868, 1876, and 1878, accompanying Joan 

 Bratiano to Berlin to watch over Roumanian interests 

 at the Congress, and was minister to Paris in 1880. 

 He has since been active as a Deputy. 



Constant Botelho de Megalaes, Benjamin, a Brazilian 

 statesman, born in 1838 ; died in Rio Janeiro, Jan. 22, 

 1891. He was the ablest and most devoted of the 

 early Republicans, and while in charge of the Mili- 

 tary Academy and Normal School at Rio he im- 

 planted his principles in the minds of the young men 

 who were the chief agents in the revolution. The 

 stroke by which Dom Pedro was dethroned was to a 

 great extent directed by him, and in the organization 

 of the Republican Government he was the most ener- 

 getic and efficient. In the Provisional Government 

 he was first Minister of War, then of Public Instruc- 

 tion, and as such he undertook a renovation and ex- 

 tension of the system of education befitting the new- 

 order. Transferred to the Department of Posts and 

 Telegraphs, he carried into it the same reforming 

 spirit, and his large ideas of progress and develop- 

 ment were brought to bear on other departments of 

 Government, causing some friction and dissatisfaction 

 among the officials. He was afterward appointed 

 Minister of War, and he held that post till two days 

 before his sudden death. In the Brazilian Constitu- 

 tion it is provided that his house shall be acquired by 

 the state, and preserved as a lasting memorial of the 

 chief founder of the republic. 



Coqnilhat, Commander Vice-Governor of the 

 Congo Free State, born in Belgium in 1853 ; died in 



