OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MATSON MITCHELL.) 



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Driven to Bay (1887); The Crown of Shame 

 (1888); Gentleman and Courtier (1888); Scrap- 

 pie (1888); The Risen Dead; Parson Jones; 

 There is no Death (1891); How Like a Woman; 

 A Lucky Disappointment and Other Stories 

 (1876); The Poison of Asps and Other Stories 

 (1876). She also published the Life and Letters 

 of Captain Marryat (1872). Her novels have en- 

 joyed wide popularity, and some of them have 

 been translated into the principal European lan- 

 guages; but her writing is ephemeral and aims 

 only at the entertainment of the moment. 



Matson, William Tidd, English hymn writer, 

 born in Kingsland, Herefordshire, in 1833; died 

 Dec. 24, 1899. He was ordained in the Congrega- 

 tional ministry in 1858, and the greater part of 

 his ministerial labors were devoted to charges 

 in Hampshire. He obtained wide fame as a 

 writer of popular hymns, and his religious verses 

 appear in 45 different hymnals and religious an- 

 thologies. His published volumes comprise A 

 Summer Evening Reverie (1857); Poems (1858); 

 Pleasures of the Sanctuary (1865) ; Sacred Lyrics 

 (1870); Edderline and Poems (1880); and The 

 World Redeemed (1881). 



Metford, William Ellis, English inventor, 

 born in Somersetshire about 1825; died in Bris- 

 tol. He was educated as a civil engineer, held an 

 appointment on an Indian railroad two years 

 after working under Brunei for a long time, re- 

 turned to England broken in health, and after his 

 recovery devoted his life to the study of the 

 rifle. He introduced the principle of shallow 

 rifling to prevent all leakage of gas and the use 

 of a bullet of hardened lead, since replaced by the 

 steel-cased bullet. His barrel combined with the 

 Lee breech action was adopted by the British 

 Government, but Enfield has since modified his 

 grooving, making the edges square instead of 

 smoothed, which is rendered necessary by the 

 use of cordite and very hard bullets. 



Meyer, Rudolf, German political economist, 

 born in Friedberg, Brandenburg, Dec. 10, 1839; 

 died in Dessau, Jan. 11, 1899. He published books 

 treating of the emancipation of the Fourth 

 Estate, the banks of Germany, socialism in Den- 

 mark, the causes of American competition, the 

 international crisis in industry and agriculture, 

 and the agrarian question. 



Michie, Sir Archibald, Australian statesman, 

 born in Maida Vale, England, in 1813; died in 

 Melbourne, Victoria, June 22, 1899. He was edu- 

 cated at Westminster School, was called to the 

 bar in 1838, and in 1839 went to Sydney, New 

 South Wales, where he became a law reporter, a 

 successful practitioner, and in 1844 the associate 

 of Robert Lowe in the management of the Atlas 

 newspaper. In 1852 he settled in Melbourne, 

 where he practiced law and acted as correspond- 

 ent to the London Times. When in 1856 respon- 

 sible government was given to Victoria he was 

 elected to the Assembly, was Attorney-General in 

 1857, became Minister of Justice in 1863 in the 

 McCulloch Cabinet, served later under McCul- 

 loch as Attorney-General, and in 1873 accepted 

 the office of agent general of Victoria in London, 

 which he filled for six years. 



Milloecker, Karl, German dramatist, born in 

 Vienna, Austria, May 29, 1842; died there, Dec. 

 27, 1899. He was graduated at the Vienna Con- 

 servatory of Music and became Kappelmeister of 

 the Theater of Gratz in 1864. In 1866 he became 

 musical director of the Harmonic Theater in 

 Vienna, and on the closing of that theater went 

 to Pesth, where he held a similar post three years. 

 In 1869 he returned to Vienna and became Kap- 

 pelmeister in the Theater an der Wein. He also 



edited the MiiHikalisclic I're^se. He wan author 

 of the operettas DIM todtc (Jast, produced at 

 Gratz in 1865; Diana, produced in Vienna in 

 1866; Der Regimentstambour, Kin Abenteuer in 

 Wien, Drei Paar Scliulie, Die Musik den TcufelH, 

 and Das verwansdicne Seliloss, produced in Vi- 

 enna in 1878; Grillin Dubarry (1H79); Die Junj- 

 frau von Belleville (1<SS1); Der BeUelntudent 

 (1882); Gasparone, and Der Feldprcdigcr (IHH4); 

 and Der Vice-Admiral (1886). 



Mitchell, Alexander Ferrier, Scottish 

 clergyman, born in Brechin, Scotland, in 1H22; 

 died in St. Andrew's in March, 18!)!). He was 

 graduated at the University of Saint Andrew's in 

 1841, and from 1868 to 1894 was Professor of Kc- 

 clesiastical History and Divinity there. He pub- 

 lished The Westminster Confession: A Contribu- 

 tion to the Study of its History (Edinburgh, 

 1866); The Wedderburns and their Work (Lon- 

 don, 1867); The Westminster Assembly: Its His- 

 tory and Standards (1883) ; The Primitive Church 

 (Edinburgh, 1883) ; Union of Scotch Presbyte- 

 rians (1886); and The Catechisms of the Second 

 Reformation (London, 1887). 



Mitchell, Peter, Canadian statesman, born in 

 Newcastle, New Brunswick, Jan. 4, 1824; died in 

 Montreal, Oct. 25, 1899. He studied law and was 

 called to the bar in 1848, but soon left the law 

 to engage in lumbering, shipbuilding, and other 

 business enterprises. In 1856 he was sent to the 

 New Brunswick Legislature, and he remained a 

 member of the Assembly until 1860, when he en- 

 tered the Legislative Council as a life member. 

 The most important incident in Mr. Mitchell's 

 life was the part he played in bringing about 

 Canadian confederation. When it was proposed 

 to unite only the maritime provinces, he served 

 in 1864 as a delegate to the Charlottetown Con- 

 ference. Later in the same year he attended the 

 Quebec Conference, which drafted the terms of 

 union. In 1866 he was sent to England as a mem- 

 ber of the London Conference on the same sub- 

 ject. There he stood by Sir George Cartier as 

 against Sir John Macdonald on the question of a 

 provincial union instead of a legislative union. 

 In the first general election following the passage 

 of the act of union, New Brunswick rejected the 

 confederation. In the interval before the next 

 election Mr. Mitchell redoubled his efforts in be- 

 half of union, and his masterly speeches were 

 undoubtedly the most important factor in bring- 

 ing New Brunswick into line with the other prov- 

 inces. When the confederation was accomplished 

 he was appointed to the Senate of Canada by 

 royal proclamation, and became one of the Gov- 

 ernment leaders in that body. With the forming 

 of the first Dominion Government he took the 

 portfolio of Marine and Fisheries. That depart- 

 ment he organized and administered with ability 

 and success. This was a difficult post, as it in- 

 volved disputes and negotiations between Canada 

 and the United States over the Bering Sea fish- 

 eries. He brought about the Halifax arbitration 

 between Great Britain and the United States, 

 which resulted in the payment of $5.500.000 to 

 Canada by the United States. Sir Alfred Smith 

 was Minister of Marine and Fisheries when the 

 arbitration was held, but the actual work had 

 been done by Mr. Mitchell. He resigned from the 

 Senate in 1874, and was elected to the House of 

 Commons. He was again elected in 1882, and sat 

 in the Commons until 1891. He was defeated in 

 1896 by a small vote. He was for a time presi- 

 dent of the Mitchell Steamship Company, and he 

 was an active promoter of the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway. He bought the Montreal Herald in 

 1885. In 1897 he was appointed Inspector of 



