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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (Fox GONZALEZ.) 



ment of the nation recoiled from Ferry. He who was 

 calculating and sagacious, and contemptuous of fitful 

 gusts of political sentiment, and scornful of politic 

 concessions or pretended concessions to popular pas- 

 sion, had offended every element that was moved by 

 sentiment and passion the Monarchists and Catho- 

 lics, even the Kadical freethinking^ses of the Church, 

 the Socialist opponents of a bourgeois republic, and 

 finally the protagonists of revenge and the great body 

 of people in every party animated by the sentiment of 

 which they made capital. When Gen. NSgrier's dis- 

 patch announcing the defeat at Langson, in 1884, was 

 published, Ferry's Cabinet was overthrown. He, the 

 " Ton Kinois," was execrated for having dissipated in 

 distant colonial adventures the military strength that 

 should have been husbanded for the recovery of the 

 lost provinces, for having wasted blood and treasure, 

 and involved the country in responsibilities that de- 

 layed for a long time the day of revenge, either 

 tricked by Bismarck, or perhaps sympathizing with 

 his policy, hence either a fool or a traitor. For the next 

 eight years, while the republic moved more smoothly 

 along the groove into which Ferry, more than any 

 other man, had engineered, while his Tonquin policy 

 was carried out, and the apostles of revenge were cov- 

 ering their cause with ridicule, while the policy of the 

 Government grew more candidly pacific, and a war 

 undertaken in the heat of passion became remote 

 from the public mind, more reflecting after the re- 

 covery of financial strength and military equality 

 with Germany than before, whenever the "Ton 

 Kinois" raised his voice in public or in Parliament he 

 was assailed with yells and insults that drowned his 

 words. The thinking Republicans who had stood by 

 his side in the political conflicts in which he had 

 taken the most aggressive part, and exposed himself 

 as a mark for hatred and abuse, gave him many votes 

 for President of the republic when Gre'vy resigned. 

 He received 212 ballots to Carnot's 303, and 148 given 

 to Gen. Saussier, but withdrew from the contest 

 rather than expose the republic to the danger of civil 

 war. A few days later he was fired upon in the lobby 

 of the Chamber by a man named Auoertin, who was 

 found to be insane. From that time he submitted to 

 ignominy and ostracism with scarce a protest, re- 

 maining: usually silent in his place in the Chamber, to 

 which his faithful constituents of the Vosges con- 

 tinued to elect him. He was a determined opponent 

 of the pretensions of Boulanger, and stung him by the 

 epithet of "St. Arnaud of the music halls" into send- 

 ing a challenge, but the duel did not take place. In 

 1893 he was elected President of the Senate, and sober 

 Republicans counted the reacquisition of "his keen 

 intellect and strong character for the service of the 

 state almost a compensation for the losses resulting 

 from the Panama exposure, but only a few weeks 

 ufter his political rehabilitation he died. 



Fox, Sir "William, New Zealand statesman, born in 

 Durham, England, in 1812; died near Auckland, 

 June 23, 1893. He was graduated at Oxford in 1832 

 and called to the bar in London in 1842, emigrated to 

 New Zealand, became an agent, and in 1849 the chief 

 agent, of the New Zealand Company, went to England 

 to press the claims of the colony for self-government, 

 and when responsible government was conceded 

 was the first Premier of the colony from May till 

 June, 1856. In 1861-'62 he was again Premier, in 

 1863-'64 Colonial Secretary, in 1869-'72 Premier once 

 more, and in March, 1873, assumed the premiership 

 for the fourth time, resigning a month afterward in 

 favor of Sir Julius Vogel. After retiring from poli- 

 tics he devoted himself to the propagation of temper- 

 ance principles. 



Franoeschi, Jules, French sculptor, born in Bar-sur- 

 Aube, Jan. 11, 1825 ; died in the beginning of Sep- 

 tember, 1893. He was the son of Italian parents, but 

 became a naturalized Frenchman, and studied sculp- 

 ture with Rude. He produced a large number of 

 works that were well esteemed, among them a por- 

 trait of Mme. Carvalho, the singer, and won medals in 

 1861, 1864, and 1865. 



Francke, Adolphe, French scholar and journalist, 

 born in Liacourt, Meurthe, Nov. 9, 1809 ; died April 

 10, 1893. He was of Jewish extraction. In 1854 he 

 took charge of the course on the law of nations and 

 of nature in the College of France. For some time 

 he was editor of the " Journal des Debats." His prin- 

 cipal works are " Dictionnaire des Sciences Philoso- 

 pniques" and "La Kabbala, ou la Philosophic re- 

 ligieuse des Hebreux." 



Froebel, Julius, German journalist, born in Gries- 

 heim, in 1806 ; died in Zurich, Switzerland, Nov. 7. 

 1893. He was educated at Munich and Berlin, fettled 

 in Zurich in 1833, and for several years taught geog- 

 raphy and natural science in the university, founded 

 a Radical newspaper in 1839, and in 1844 a publish- 

 ing office for contraband political writings, went to 

 Saxony in 1845, was elected to the National Assembly 

 at Frankfort in 1848, returned to Switzerland after 

 the suppression of the revolution, and then emigrated 

 to America, where he traveled extensively, founded 

 a paper in San Francisco in 1855, and engaged in in- 

 dustrial enterprises in New York. Attempting to re- 

 turn to Germany in 1857, he was expelled, and went to 

 England. In 1867 he started a Liberal paper in 

 Munich, the "Sud-Deutsche Presse," and after 1873 

 was German consul at Symrna and subsequently at 

 Algiers. He published a book of American travels. 



Gait, Sir Alexander Tilloch, Canadian statesman, born 

 in Chelsea, England, Sept. 6, 1817; died in Montreal, 

 Sept. 19, 1893. He was educated in England and 

 Canada, entered the Canadian Parliament in 1849, 

 and from 1858 till 1864 was Minister of Finance. In 

 1867 he filled the same post for a few months. In 

 1880 he became Canadian commissioner in London, 

 and in 1881 represented the Dominion in the mone- 

 tary conference at Paris. 



Ghislanzoni, Antonio, Italian poet, born in Lecco in 

 1824; died in Caprino Bergamasco, Lombardy, in 

 July, 1893. He was a singer in early life, and his 

 barytone voice was admired in Italian cities and was 

 heard at the Italiens in Paris in 1851. He was also a 

 Republican journalist, and was imprisoned at Milan. 

 He was one of a party that went to defend Rome 

 when it was besieged by the French, and was arrested 

 by them and deported to Corsica. Having lost his 

 voice by bronchitis, he became a writer of romances, 

 which were published in a Milanese magazine, and a 

 librettist for Italian composers. He wrote more than 

 sixty books of operas, including " Alda," " Lituani," 

 and_ others, for Giuseppi Verdi. 



Oiordani, Luigi, Italian prelate, born in Codiliume, 

 Oct. 13, 1822; died in Ferrara, April, 1893. He was 

 Archbishop of Ferrara, and was created a cardinal on 

 March 14, 1887. 



Girardet, Paul, French engraver, born in Neufchatel, 

 Switzerland, March 8, 1821"; died in Paris, in March, 

 1893. He was the son and the grandson of celebrated 

 engravers. In 1842 he exhibited engravings of pic- 

 tures painted by his brother Karl, and subsequently 

 here produced Delaroche's picture of " Marie Antoi- 

 nette au Tribunal," the " Escamoteur" and " Cinquan- 

 taine " of Knaus, Brion's 

 "Noce en Alsace," Du- 

 bufe's " Enfant prodigue," 

 and other paintings. 



Gonzalez, Manuel, ex- 

 President of Mexico, born 

 near Matamoros, in Octo- 

 ber, 1820 ; died in the city 

 ot Mexico, in March, 1893. 

 He first became known in 

 1843 as one of Father Ja- 

 vanta's ruthless guerrillas. 

 During the revolutionary 

 Avars he won a high repu- 

 tation for bravery and abi 1- 

 ity, and lost his right arm 

 in battle. He was gover- 

 nor of the palace in 1867-'71 ; was arrested for com- 

 plicity in the disappearance of Maximilian's plate, 

 escaped, and joined the forces of Porfirio Diaz ; 



