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settlement on the condition of the restoration of the 

 confiscated Waikato territory. When this was refused 

 he resumed his hostile attitude, and in 1879 refused 

 all compromise in an interview with Sir George Grey. 

 The views of the majority of the chiefs prevailed 

 with him, and in 1881 he gave in his submission. 

 After a visit to England, where he was unable to in- 

 duce the Imperial Government to interfere with the 

 spoliation of the Maoris, he preserved an attitude of 

 passive resistance to the land policy of the Colonial 

 Government till 1892, when he gave up his claims 

 and accepted a pension. 



Thierry, fldouard, a French dramatist, born in Paris, 

 Sept. 14, 1813 ; died there, Nov. 28, 1894. He was 

 educated at the College Charlemagne, and in 1833 

 published " Les Enfants et les Anges," a sentimental 

 book, and various works of theatrical history. As 

 administrator of the Comedie Francaise he worked 

 over several plays, especially Victor Hugo's "Ernani." 



Thompson, Sir John Sparrow David, a Canadian states- 

 man, born in Halifax, Nov. 10, 1844; died in Windsor, 

 England, Dec. 12, 1894. He was the son of an emi- 

 grant from Waterford, Ireland, and was educated in 

 the Free Church Academy in Halifax, but at the age 

 of twenty-seven became a convert to the Roman 

 Catholic Church. He was called to the bar in 1865 

 while he was an official reporter of the Provincial 

 Assembly of Nova Scotia, and in 1868 became re- 

 porter in chief. At the same time he was success- 

 fully launched in law practice. In 1877 he was 

 elected a member of the Assembly from Antigonish, 

 and took a prominent part in the public affairs of the 

 province, entering the Cabinet almost immediately as 

 Attorney-General, and becoming Premier on the re- 

 tirement of Mr. Holmes, in 1882. The Government 

 was defeated two months afterward upon the issue of 

 his municipal corporation act, designed to reform local 

 administration and create responsible public officers 

 in the place of the lax and inefficient sessions, magis- 

 trates, and grand juries. lie retired not only from 

 the premiership, but from politics, and accepted the 

 post of judge of the Supreme Court. He had been 

 made a' Queen's counsel in 1878, and stood very 

 high at the bar. In the Fishery Commission at 

 Washington, in 1877, he was one of the counsel for 

 the United States. As a judge he was noted for the 

 accuracy of his decisions.' lie was the author of the 

 judicature act that became law in 1884. In 1885 he 

 was selected by Sir John Macdonald to succeed Sir 

 Alexander Campbell as Minister of Justice and At- 

 torney-General in the Dominion Government. His 

 speech of March 20, 1886, in answer to Edward Blake, 

 defending the action of the Government in executing 

 Louis Riel, placed him in the first rank of Dominion 

 politicians. He w T as the author of many legislative 

 acts of permanent value, such as the settlement of the 

 copyright question, the amendments to the banking 

 laws, and the revision of the criminal law. In 1887 

 he was the legal adviser of the British plenipoten- 

 tiaries engaged in negotiating the fishery treaty at 

 Washington, and was knighted in recognition of his 

 services. In 1889, for the second time, he saved the 

 Government from defeat by his defense of the act 

 restoring the Jesuit estates. On the death of Sir 

 John Macdonald, in 1891, he was requested by the 

 Governor General to form a ministry, but being a 

 Catholic he yielded the first place to Mr. Abbott, as 

 religious feeling still ran high, taking for himself the 

 position of leader of the House of Commons. Sir 

 John Abbott could not stand the strain of office, and 

 when he was compelled for considerations of health 

 to resign, on Nov. 28, 1892, Sir John Thompson was 

 again sent for, and did not refuse to head the min- 

 istry. Protestants in the Conservative party still 

 opposed strongly his elevation, accusing him of hav- 

 ing favored the Roman Catholics in denying an ap- 

 peal in the matter of the Jesuit estates and'in facilitat- 

 ing one in the Manitoba school question. He justified 

 the expectations of his friends by his acts as Premier. 

 In 1893 he was a British arbitrator in the Bering Sea 

 Commission at Paris. For his services there he was 



made a privy councilor. lie went to England to be 

 sworn in. and while he was in Windsor Palace on 

 this errand he was stricken with heart disease and 

 died at the luncheon table. 



Torrens, William McCullagh, an Irish historian and 

 politician, born in Delville, County Dublin, in 1813; 

 died in London, April 26, 1894. He was educated at 

 Trinity College, Dublin, studied law, and practiced 

 until he entered Parliament, in 1852, as a Liberal. 

 From then till 1870 he was an active politician, and 

 most of the time a member of Parliament. He pub- 

 lished " Lectures on the Study of History " ; " Life of 

 R. L. Shiel " ; " Life and Times of Sir James Graham " ; 

 u Industrial History of Free Nations " ; " Empire in 

 Asia: How we came by it"; " Memoirs of Melbourne"; 

 and ' Reform of Procedure in Parliament." 



Tregellas, Walter Hawken, an English author, born in 

 Truro, July 10, 1831 ; died in Deal, May 20, 1894. 

 He entered the War Office as draughtsman, and was 

 for thirty-eight years in its employ. His tastes were 

 those of the antiquary arid archaeologist, and he wrote 

 many papers on the topics that interested him. 

 His published books include " China : The Country, 

 History, and People " (London, 1867) ; " Tourist's 

 Guide to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles" (London, 

 1878) ; " Historical Sketches of the Defenses of Malta" 

 (Chatham, 1879); "Cornish Worthies" (London, 

 1885). He was an enthusiast regarding his native 

 county of Cornwall, and whatever he wrote concern- 

 ing it bears the stamp of authority. At the time of 

 his death he had begun a " History of the Tower." 



Van Beneden, Pierre Joseph, a Belgian naturalist, born 

 in Mechlin, Dec. 19, 1809 ; died in Louvain, Jan. s, 

 1894. He was graduated as doctor of science and 

 medicine in 1831, and in 1835 was appointed Professor 

 of Zoology in the University of Ghent, whence he 

 passed in the following year to Louvain, to hold his 

 chair there till his death. He established, in 1843, 

 the first zoological laboratory and aquarium for the 

 study of marine life. His study of the history of the 

 tapeworm and the discovery of its transformations 

 gained the prize of the French Institute in 1853 and 

 gave him a European reputation. He gave much at- 

 tention to the study of parasites, and was the first to 

 distinguish between parasitism and commensalism in 

 the animal kingdom. Another subject that he made 

 his own was cetology, including the whole series of 

 living and fossil cetaceans. He published a philo- 

 sophical work entitled u Discours sur PHomme et la 

 Perpetuation des Especes." 



Vivian, Sir Hussey, created Lord Swansea, an English 

 politician, born in Swansea, in 1821 ; died there, Nov. 

 29, 1894. He was the son of John Henry Vivian, a 

 great copper smelter and member of Parliament for 

 Swansea. He was educated at Eton and Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, studied metallurgy on the Conti- 

 nent, and then took charge of the works at Swansea, 

 which he extended until 5,000 men were employed in 

 working in a variety of metals. He entered Parlia- 

 ment in 1852 as member for Truro, was elected mem- 

 ber for Glamorganshire in 1857, and continued to 

 represent the county till the redistribution, when he 

 was elected for the Swansea district. He was made 

 a baronet in 1882, and in 1893 was raised to the peer- 

 age. Sir Hussey Vivian was an active member of the 

 Liberal party. 



Vokea, Eosina. an English actress, born in 1858 ; died 

 in Torquay, Jan. 27, 1894. She was the youngest 

 member of the theatrical troop known as the " Vokes 

 Family," who began their career in Edinburgh in 1861. 

 Rosina was equally good as a singer, a dancer, and a 

 comic actress, and was a warm favorite in the princi- 

 pal theaters of London and throughout Great Britain 

 and the United States. She retired from the stage 

 after her marriage to Cecil Clay, a playwright. 



Walter, John, proprietor of the London "Times," 

 born in 1818 ; died at Bearwood, Berkshire, England, 

 Nov. 3, 1894. He was the grandson of the founder of 

 the " Times," and on the death of his father, in 1847, 

 he succeeded to the management of that journal. He 

 was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford, and 



