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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (ALEXANDRINE ATKINSON.) 



sent with Mr. Dalton on a cruise round the world in 

 the naval steamer " Bacchante," which lasted nearly 

 three years, during which they visited manv lands, 

 and wliile on shipboard continued their studies and 

 their naval exercises. In 1883, still accompanied by 

 Mr. Dalton as tutor, he entered Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge. When he left the university and had passed 

 his twenty-first birthday, he went to Aldershot to 

 learn the duties of a military officer, being attached 

 to the 10th Hussars. In 1889 he visited India, and 

 on his return, in May, 1890, he was admitted to the 

 peerage under the title of Duke of Clarence and 

 Avondale and Earl of Athlone. He was entered as a 

 bencher of the Middle Temple, and became an active 

 Free Mason, like his father. In the last three years 

 of his life he appeared many times in public, and 

 made short moral speeches at the laying of corner 

 stones, the opening of benevolent institutions, and 

 the like ceremonial occasions. Only six weeks before 

 his death the announcement was made of his betrothal 

 to his cousin, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck. 



Alexandrine, Grand Duchess Dowager of Mecklen- 

 burg, born Feb. 23, 1803; died in Bostock, April 21, 

 189i!. She was a Princess of Prussia, daughter of 

 King Friedrich Wilhelm III and a sister of Kaiser 

 Wilhelrn I. On May 25, 1822, she was married to 

 the heir to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, Paul 

 Friedrich, who succeeded to the throne on the death 

 of his grandfather, in 1837, and died in 1842, being suc- 

 ceeded by their son Friedrich Franz, born in 1823, 

 who married a Princess of Eeuss in 1849. The second 

 child, the Duchess Luise, married Prince Hugo Win- 

 dischgratz in the same year, and the youngest, Duke 

 Wilhelm, married his cousin Alexandrine, daughter 

 of Prince Albrecht of Prussia, in 1865. 



AUon, Henry, an English Congregational minister, 

 born in Welton, near Hull, Yorkshire, Oct. 13, 1818 ; 

 died in London, Oct. 16, 1892. He was educated for 

 the ministry in Cheshunt College, and in 1843 be- 

 came associate minister, and, on the death of the Bev. 

 T. Lewis, pastor of Union Chapel, Islington. Origi- 

 nally founded in 1801 by a union of evangelical 

 Churchmen and nonconformists, the church in- 

 creased steadily in numbers and importance during 

 Dr. Allon's ministry of forty-six years. The large 

 building erected in 187V accommodated 1,800 persons, 

 and its missions many hundred more. He gave much 

 study to the improvement of the musical part of the 

 service of his denomination, editing the " Congrega- 

 tional Psalmist," which advanced the movement con- 

 siderably. From 1865 to 1886, in addition to his pas- 

 toral labors, he edited the "British Quarterly Beview." 

 He published biographies of Eev. Thomas Binney and 

 Eev. J. Sherman, besides a great number of magazine 

 articles. He received the degree of D.D. from Yale 

 in 1871, and in 1885 from St. Andrew's. 



Anderledy, Anton, General of the Jesuit order, born 

 in Brieg, canton of Valais, Switzerland, in 1819 ; died 

 in Fiesole, Italy, Jan. 18, 1892. He entered the Soci- 

 ety of Jesus at the age of nineteen, became Professor of 

 Theology at Freiburg, and was there in 1847 when the 

 Jesuits were driven out of Switzerland. Taking refuge 

 first in Savoy and then in America, he was the head 

 of a mission on Lake Erie, and returned to Europe in 

 1850 to teach theology in Belgium, whence he went to 

 Cologne, and then to Paderborn. He took a very 

 prominent part in the missionary work that was car- 

 ried on there among the German people. In 1863 he 

 became Professor of Moral Theology in the college at 

 Maria Laach, of which he was made rector. He was 

 elected provincial of the German branch of the Jesuit 

 society. In 1870 he became the assistant of Father 

 Beckx, General of the Jesuits; in 1883 was made his 

 coadjutor or vicar-general ; and on his retirement, in 

 1887, was elected to succeed him. He lived retired 

 from the world in the old convent in which he died, 

 where he had his official residence. When he was 

 made head of the society there was a strong oppo- 

 sition to him among the members of the order be- 

 longing to the Latin nations. His sagacity and ac- 

 tivity are shown by the extraordinary successes and 



development 01 the order during the past twenty 

 years. 



Annibale, Cardinal Giuseppi, an Italian prelate, born 

 in Borbona in 1815 ; died in Borne, July 19, 1892. He 

 was created a cardinal priest on Feb. 11, 1889, and 

 filled the office of prefect of the Congregation of In- 

 dulgences and Holy Eelics. 



Auselme, Bom, a French monk, born near Cambrai 

 in 1822 ; died in Grenoble, Oct. 7, 1892. His family 

 name was Bruniaux. He joined the Carthusian order 

 in early life, became prior of the monastery at Val- 

 bonne, and in 1879 was elected Superior-General and 

 assumed charge of the Grande Chartreuse. 



Arago, fitienne, a French dramatist and politician, 

 born in Perpiguan, Feb. 9, 1802 ; died in Paris, 

 March 6, 1892. He was a brother of the illustrious 

 astronomer, a pupil of Soreze, and was demonstrator 

 of chemistry in Ecole Polytechnique, where he assisted 

 Balzac in his early works, after which he became a 

 dramatic author. More than a hundred pieces were 

 produced under his name, and he collaborated with 

 the principal vaudemllistes of his time. In 1847 his 

 republican drama " Les Aristocrates " was brought 

 out at the Theatre Franais. He was a Eepublican 

 journalist and an enemy of the restored dynasty, an 

 aid-de-camp of Lafayette in 1830, a member of the 

 Constituante in 1848, and director-general of the post 

 office, and as a participator in the affair of June 18, 

 1849, was sentenced to deportation, but escaped to 

 Belgium. Eeturning to France in 1859, he became 

 dramatic critic of the "Avenir National." He was 

 Mayor of Paris in 1870, and was elected after his 

 resignation, on Oct. 31, a member of the National As- 

 sembly, but refused the, seat. In 1878 he was nomi- 

 nated archivist of the Ecole des Beaux Arts ; and 

 from 1879 till his death he was the keeper of the 

 Museum of the Luxembourg. 



Archibald, Sir Adams George, a Canadian statesman, 

 born in Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1814 ; died in Halifax, 

 Dec. 14, 1892. He filled many important public 

 offices in Nova Scotia and Canada. In 1867 he was 

 appointed a member of the Canadian Privy Council. 

 In 1870-'72 he was Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba 

 and the Northwest Territories. He was twice Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. He was also the 

 author of some historical works. 



Argles, Marsliam, an English clergyman, born in 

 Hampshire, July 7, 1814; died at Southsea, Nov. 19, 

 1892. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, 

 and was ordained deacon in 1837, and priest in 1838. 

 After serving as curate at Bolton, St. Martin-in-thc- 

 Fields, and Cranford, he became vicar of Gretton, and 

 in 1842 was made chancellor of the diocese of Peter- 

 borough. In 1849 he was appointed canon residen- 

 tiary of Peterborough Cathedral, and in 1890 suc- 

 ceeded Dr. Perowne as Dean of Peterborough. At 

 this period the cathedral was undergoing extensive 

 restoration and refitting, a labor in which he was 

 greatly interested. Before he became dean he had 

 subscribed generously toward the rebuilding of the 

 lantern, and^since 1890 had given to the cathedral a 

 new pulpit, bishop's throne, and the beautiful and 

 costly marble pavement 'of the choir. He gave also 

 large sums for other cathedral improvements and for 

 educational purposes. He was buried at Barnaek, of 

 which he was rector for almost forty years, and which 

 owes the restoration of its famous Norman church to 

 his munificence. In 1839 he was married to Margaret 

 Davys, daughter of the late Bishop Davys. His* wife 

 and "one son (Canon Argles ot York) and tour 

 daughters survive him. The present fine condition 

 of the interior of Peterborough Cathedral is due in 

 great measure to Dean Argles. 



Atkinson, Sir Harry Albert, a New Zealand statesman, 

 born in Great Britain about 1830 ; died in Auckland, 

 June 28, 1892. He emigrated to New Zealand in 

 1855, and rendered important services in the _ Maori 

 war as captain of a band of volunteers, for which he 

 was advanced to the rank of major, and on Nov. 24, 

 1864, having been elected to Parliament in the 

 previous year, was made Minister of Defense in the 



