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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (DARCELL DONDUKOFF-KORSAKOFF.) 



Darcell, Alfred, French archaeologist, born in Eouen, 

 in 1818; died in Paris, May 28, 1893. He became at- 

 tached to the Louvre in 1862, was appointed director 

 of the Gobelins in 1872, and in 1885 was made director 

 of the Cluny Museum, which he has enriched by 

 judicious purchases and the encouragement of dona- 

 tions, and has thoroughly rearranged and classified. 

 He was eminent as an authority on mediaeval antiqui- 

 ties, on which he wrote numerous books, also a his- 

 tory of the national manufactures of tapestry. 



Delpit, Albert, French litterateur, born in New Or- 

 leans, Jan. 30, 1849; died in Paris, Jan. 4, 1893. He 

 was educated in France, and returned to Louisiana to 

 take charge of his father's business, but soon went 

 back to Paris, where he contributed to literary iour- 

 nals. In 1872 he published "L'Invasion," a volume 

 of verse. He had served with distinction in the war 

 of 1870, gaining the cross of the Legion of Honor. He 

 wrote a score of novels, some of which were drama- 

 tized, but was more successful in the sketches and es- 

 says that he contributed to the " Revue des deux 

 mondes," the u Gaulois," and ' L'Evenement," a vol- 

 ume of which was published in 1881 under the title of 

 " Les Dieux qu'on orise." 



Derby, Edward Henry Smith Stanley, Earl of, born at 

 Knowsley, in July, 182 ; died there, April 21, 1893. 

 He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he took several prizes and both classical 

 and mathematical honors. Destined for a political 

 career, he offered himself as a Protectionist candidate 

 for Lancaster in March, 1848, the year of his gradua- 

 tion, and was beaten by a bare majority, but in Decem- 

 ber of the same year, while he was absent on * long 

 tour of travel through the United States, Canada, and 

 the West Indies, he was elected at King's Lynn, which 

 he represented in Parliament till he became a peer. 

 In 1849 he visited South America, and for many years 

 he traveled frequently, studying foreign countries and 

 all parts of the British Empire. His maiden speech 

 in the House of Commons was a sober, closely rea- 

 soned plea for the protection of the sugar interests of 

 the West Indian colonies, delivered on May 31, 1851. 

 In 1851-'52 he visited India. When his father, the 

 fourteenth Earl of Derby, became Premier for the first 

 time, he was appointed Under Secretary for the Colo- 

 nies, in March, 1852. Lord Stanley was not a very 

 sound Tory. If he spoke or wrote on the politico-social 

 questions that most interested him he expressed him- 

 self like a Radical of the ty_pe of Cobden or Mill, as 

 when he pleaded for exempting Nonconformists from 

 ecclesiastical taxation, or for opening museums on Sun- 

 days, or advocated a conscience clause for state-aided 

 schools. Hence Lord Palmerston in 1855 ottered him 

 the office of Colonial Secretary, which he declined. 

 This post fell to him in 1858, when his father took 

 office as Prime Minister for the second time, but soon 

 he exchanged it for the Secretaryship of State for In- 

 dia, and carried through the bill transferring the Gov- 

 ernment from the East India Company to the Crown 

 with much tact and skill. His reputation as a debater 

 was enhanced by his arguments on the Reform bill 

 and the Irish Church bill of the Liberal Government. 

 When he took office again it was as Minister for For- 

 eign Affairs. His efforts to preserve neutrality were 

 severely criticised by those who believed in a strong 

 and bold foreign policy, as in abandoning the Cretan 

 insurgents to the mercy of the Turkish soldiery, and 

 in attempting to settle the Luxemburg question by 

 the temporizing expedient of a collective guarantee. 

 The Alabama award was laid at his door, because he 

 had yielded the position that Lord Russell had taken 

 and admitted the principle of arbitration. Yet, on the 

 whole, his two years at the Foreign Office were suc- 

 cessful, find when Disraeli returned to power in 1874, 

 Lord Derby, who had become a member of the House 

 of Lords on the death of his father, in 1869, was called 

 to his former post, in which he had to deal with a 

 more difficult situation than before. Andrassy's note 

 and the Bulgarian atrocities roused a strong public 

 sentiment against his policy, and when all his efforts 

 to preserve peace proved 'futile and his predictions 



failed, after the Russians crossed the Danube, in June, 

 1877, differences arose between him and Lord Beacons- 

 field, who was bent on resisting the advance of Rus- 

 sia, and in company with Lord Salisbury he resigned. 

 He returned to office for a short time, 'but withdrew 

 when Lord Beaconstield insisted on warlike prepara- 

 tions after the signing of the treaty of San Stefano. 

 Having broken with the Conservative leaders, he soon 

 became a professed Liberal, and took office under Mr. 

 Gladstone as Secretary for the Colonies. His Radical 

 sympathies and cautious temper caused him to with- 

 stand the popular drift toward Jingoism in South 

 Africa, as elsewhere. He believed that there was 

 work to do for civilization within the limits of the 

 United Kingdom, and that the British Empire already 

 had black men enough. After the fall of the Glad- 

 stone Government he took no prominent part in poli- 

 tics, and when the party divided on the home-rule 

 question he parted from Mr. Gladstone, though he 

 voted for the Irish land bill of 1870. Till Lord Hart 

 ington entered the House of Lords as Duke of Devon- 

 shire he led the Liberal Unionists in that Chamber. 

 Lord Derby was an industrious member of several 

 royal commissions, an earnest Chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity of London, and a liberal contributor to be- 

 nevolent enterprises. He 1 married the Dowager Mar- 

 chioness of Salisbury in 1870, but had no children. 

 His brother, Lord Stanley of Preston, Governor-Gen- 

 eral of Canada, succeeded to the earldom. 



Dhuleep Singh. Maharajah, deposed Indian prince, 

 born in 1838 ; died in Paris, Oct. 23, 1893. His father, 

 Dhuleep Singh, who had united the Sikh nation, es- 

 tablished his dominion over most of the Punjab, 

 and created an army a spowerful as that of the Brit- 

 ish in India, died when Dhuleep was less than a year 

 old. He was proclaimed Maharajah in 1843 under 

 the regency or his mother. Court intrigues and mis- 

 government had weakened the organization of the 

 state. The Sikh army was eager for the inevitable 

 conflict with the British, who had already invaded 

 Afghanistan,.crushed Sind, and attacked Be'luchistan. 

 In 1845 the Rani sanctioned the passage of the Sutlej 

 by the ill-provisioned and disorganized troops, whose 

 bravery and fanaticism made poor amends for the 

 discipline and generalship of the discarded French 

 officers. The British beat in every battle, and de- 

 manded the cession of much territory, and an indem- 

 nity in money which could only be settled by the 

 cession of much more. In 1848 the British invaded 

 the country on some pretext, and annexed it in 1849, 

 deposing Dhuleep Singh, on whom a pension of 40,- 

 000 a year was settled. He went to England, em- 

 bracea the Christian religion, obtained advances for 

 the purchase and improvement of a country estate 

 after he came of age, and dispensed magnificent hos- 

 pitality until he was told that he had used up his for- 

 tune and could obtain no more funds from the Indian 

 Government. He married a Christian in 1864, by 

 whom he had two children. Dhuleep Singh con- 

 sidered himself robbed. The Indian Government 

 had taken his family estates and private property, in- 

 cluding the principal salt mines in India and the 

 Kohinoor diamond, which was coolly handed over to 

 the British Crown. In 1885 he made a formal demand 

 for a settlement of his claims, and on its rejection he 

 set out for India, but the Indian authorities stopped 

 him at Aden. 



Dondnkoff-Korsakoff, Prince, Russian soldier and ad- 

 ministrator, born in 1822 ; died in St. Petersburg, 

 April 27, 1893. He entered the army at an early nge, 

 fought the mountaineers of the Caucasus, distin- 

 guished himself in the Crimean War, and rapidly 

 rose to the rank of general. As Governor of Kieff he 

 promoted Panslavist ideas, and after the peace of San 

 Stefano, in 1878, was made Governor-General of the 

 Principality of Bulgaria. In this capacity he sought 

 to prevent the execution of the decision of the Berlin 

 Congress to divide Bulgaria. He incurred the re- 

 proof of the Czar, but was retained in his post until 

 Alexander of Battenberg was elected and installed 

 as Prince of Bulgaria, the Czar having declined to 



