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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MAYNE NATTER.) 



was educated in the college of his native town and in 

 the German universities, traveled through Europe and 

 America, and after his return to Chili was elected 

 Deputy from Copiapo to the National Congress. 

 Founding the daily paper " La Vox de Chile," he be- 

 came the leader of the Eaclical party, and, except 

 while in Colombia as envoy in 1865, sat lor his native 

 district in Congress up to 1874, being recognized as 

 one of the strongest speakers in that body. In 1874 

 he was appointed a member of the Council of State, 

 and in 1876 was elected a Senator for six years. He 

 was chosen President of the Senate, and was twice a 

 candidate for the presidency of the nation. As a 

 prominent member of the Congressional party during 

 the civil war he was made Minister of Foreign Affairs 

 in the Provisional Government, and conducted the 

 controversy with the United States Department ot 

 State regarding the murder of sailors of the " Balti- 

 more." In a circular letter sent to the Chilian lega- 

 tions in Europe and America, he declared about the 

 report of the United States Secretary of the Navy and 

 the message of President Harrison upon the occur- 

 rence, ' : that the information on which they are 

 grounded is erroneous or deliberately incorrect," and 

 charged the American authorities with " a want of 

 frankness and exactness in their statements." This 

 letter was formally withdrawn after a long discussion 

 and a final peremptory demand. Senor Matta pub- 

 lished translations of German poetry and several po- 

 litical pamphlets. 



Mayne, Bichard Charles, an English naval officer, 

 born in 1835; died May 26, 1892. He was educated 

 at Eton, and entered the navy in 1847. He served in 

 the Baltic and Black Seas and in the Sea of Azof 

 in 1854-'55, and was wounded in New Zealand in 

 1863. He commanded the survey expedition to the 

 Straits of Magellan in 186<5-'69, and retired with the 

 rank of rear-admiral in 1879. 



Medley, John, clergyman, born in London, England, 

 Dec. 19, 1804; died at Fredericton, N. B., Sept. 9, 

 1892. He was graduated at Wadham College, Ox- 

 ford, in 1826, was ordained priest in 1828, and was 

 vicar of St. Thomas's, Exeter, 1838-'45, and pre- 

 bendary of Exeter Cathedral, 1842-'45. In the latter 

 year he was consecrated first Bishop of Fredericton, a 

 diocese which includes the entire province of New 

 Brunswick. He received the degree of D. D. in 1864, 

 and in 1879 became Metropolitan of Canada. He 

 published " The Episcopal Form of Church Govern- 

 ment" (London, 18B5) ; " Translation of the Homi- 

 lies of St. John Chrysostom on Corinthians " (Oxford 

 1S39-'40) ; " Sermon's " (London, 1845) ; " Translation 

 of the Book of Job, and Commentary " (Fredericton, 

 1879) ; " The Keformation " and charges to clergy 

 (Fredericton and Oxford). 



Mermillod, Gaspard, a Swiss prelate, born in Carouge, 

 near Geneva, Sept. 22, 1824; died in Bern, Feb. 23, 

 1892. He studied for the priesthood, took orders in 

 1846, and displayed such energy and powers of 

 oratory that the Abbe" Dunoyer sent him abroad to 

 solicit contributions for the projected cathedral in 

 Geneva, which was built with the money that he 

 obtained, in the grandest style of modern ecclesias- 

 tical architecture. The Pope named him Bishop of 

 Hebron in jjartibus and Coadjutor of Lausanne and 

 Geneva, against the desire of Bishop Marilley, who 

 foresaw that the fiery young prelate would probably 

 provoke a conflict. The Protestants and the Federal 

 authorities did not wait for a challenge, but began to 

 harass the Catholics on account of the wild enthu- 

 siasm with which they welcomed the promotion of 

 the popular priest. He entered on the contest as 

 fiercely as his opponents, and the climax was reached 

 on his formal deposition by the city authorities of 

 Geneva in 1872. When the p ope detached Geneva 

 from the See of Lausanne in order to make the cham- 

 pion of the rights of the Church vicar apostolic, the 

 Federal Council on Feb. 23, 1873, issued an order for 

 the expulsion of the new dignitary. Mermillod 

 preached in all the cathedrals of Europe, and was 

 lauded as a modern confessor, while his country was 



torn with the religious war waged over him, and 

 many priests were imprisoned. Leo XIII, when he 

 succeeded to the papacy, sought an opportunity to 

 put an end to the strife, and the Protestants wen.- 

 also weary of the barren struggle. The new Pope re- 

 stored peace at last by making Mermillod Bishop of 

 Lausanne, to which Geneva was reunited on March 

 14, 1883, after the death of Bishop Marilley, and sup- 

 pressing the vicariate apostolic. During his exile 

 Bishop Mermillod lived in Koine a life of monastic 

 austerity, while mingling socially with the aristoc- 

 racy. He was pardoned by the Federal Council upon 

 making a written declaration of his intention to be 

 faithful to the laws, and his course was entirely pacific- 

 after he returned, and was welcomed by his flock. 



Milland, Albert, a French journalist, 'born in 1844; 

 died in Paris, Oct. 28, 1892. He was the son of Poly- 

 dore Millaud, the founder of the " Petit Journal." 

 He began by writing humorous articles, and after- 

 ward printed satirical verses, signed "Petite Neme- 

 sis." He was the principal satirist of " Figaro," and 

 was a master of good-natured ridicule, who could raise 

 a laugh at any public man in France, in which the 

 objects of his satire always joined. 



Miiller, Carl Louis, a French painter, born in Paris, 

 in 1815 ; died there, Jan. 22, 1892. He studied in the 

 Ecole des Beaux Arts, and exhibited in 1834 the 

 "Promenade," which was followed by " Christ's En- 

 try into Jerusalem," " Haydee," " Lady Macbeth," 

 "Marie Antoinette," "Proscription of Young Irish- 

 men," " Play," and " A Mass under the Terror." His 

 "Appeal of the Last Victims of the Terror," painted 

 in 1850, is in the Louvre. He decorated the Salle des 

 Etats and the cupola of the Pavilion Denon in the 

 Louvre. In 1850 he became the director of the Artis- 

 tic School of the Gobelins. He was elected a member 

 of the Institute in 1864. 



Murray, John, an English publisher, born in London 

 in 1809 ; died there, April 2, 1892. His grandfather 

 was the publisher of the last century, the founder of 

 the house, and the first of the three successive John 

 Murrays. His father was the celebrated publisher of 

 Byron, Scott, and all the great writers of the be- 



f inning of the century, and the son was heir to the 

 usiness. He was educated in Charterhouse School 

 and in the University of Edinburgh, and in 1829 he 

 set out on long and leisurely travels through the 

 Continent, during which he made the notes for the 

 first of Murray's "Handbooks," those for " Holland, 

 Belgium, and the .Rhine," for " France," and for 

 "Switzerland." When he had written the first edi- 

 tion of these he engaged the services of distinguished 

 specialists, such as Layard, Ford, and Sir Gardner 

 Wilkinson. On his father's death, in 1843, he settled 

 down to business and managed the publishing house 

 with energy and success. ^He brought out Layard's 

 account of his archaeological discoveries, became the 

 publisher of Dr. William Smith's compilations of 

 classical and biblical information, publisned Grote's 1 

 "Greece," Lord Campbell's "Lives of the Chancel- 

 lors," Livingstone's "Travels," Schliemann's "Ar- 

 chaeological Researches," Kugler's books on art, Yule's 

 " Marco Polo," Julian's "Hymnology," Du Chaillu's 

 " Viking Age," and other expensive publications, and 

 was the publisher of Darwin, Sir Henry Maine, Dean 

 Milman, Dean Stanley, and many other authors of 

 the first rank. 



Narrey, Charles, a French dramatist, born in 1825 in 

 Bergues, Nord ; died in Paris, Nov. 28, 1892. He was 

 of Irish extraction, and followed a literary career in 

 Paris, writing many novels and plays. The most 

 successful of his dramas was " Comme elles sont 

 toutes," which ran for two hundred nights at the 

 Gymnase. In his later life he wrote nothing but 

 articles for the newspapers, mostly humorous. 



Natter, Heinrich, an Austrian sculptor, born in Graun, 

 Tyrol, March 16,1844; died in Vienna, April 13,1892. 

 He began his career with a bust of the Mayor of 

 Augsburg, Forndrau, and closed it with the Hofer 

 monument in Innsbruck. His tremendous statue _ of 

 Wotan created a sensation at the Vienna Exhibition 



