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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



eral of division in 1857, and commander of the 

 Legion of Honor in 1858. In 1847 he was 

 elected a deputy, acting with the Left Centre. 

 In 1876 he was again elected a deputy for the 

 department of Deux-Sevres. 



ALLEN, WILLIAM FEENLEY, a British journal- 

 ist and politician, born in October, 1816 ; died 

 May 22, 1877. He was the proprietor and pub- 

 lisher of Allen's Indian Mail, had been Sheriff 

 of London in 1857, lord-mayor in 1867, and 

 at the time of his death held the office of 

 alderman. 



ALVENSLEBEN, CONSTANTIN VON, a Prussian 

 general, born August 26, 1809; died April 16, 

 1877. He entered the great general staff as 

 major in 1853, and in 1860 received an ap- 

 pointment in the Ministry of War. He took 

 part in the war of 1866 as major-general, and 

 in that of 1870 as lieutenant-general, command- 

 ing the Third Army Corps. He distinguished 

 himself particularly at the battle of Vionville. 



AMA.LIE AUGUSTA, ex-Queen of Saxony, born 

 November 13, 1801 ; died November 8, 1877. 

 She was a daughter of Maximilian I., King of 

 Bavaria, and consequently a sister of ex-Queen 

 Maria, who died a few months earlier. In 

 1822 she was married to King John of Saxony, 

 whom she survived four years. Like her hus- 

 band, she was highly beloved by all her sub- 

 jects. The court circle which she drew around 

 her at Dresden during the nineteen years of 

 her reign was a very charming one, distin- 

 guished alike for its high moral tone and its 

 patronage of the arts, literature, music, and the 

 drama. 



ANGELIS, PHILIP DE, an Italian ecclesiastic ; 

 born April 16, 1792; died in May, 1877. He 

 was created Archbishop of Fermo in 1842, 

 and, in 1849, cardinal. At the death of Greg- 

 ory XVI., he was spoken of as his probable 

 successor. In 1867 he became the first car- 

 dinal-priest, and was appointed by the Pope 

 Caamberlain of the Roman Church and Arch- 

 Chancellor of the University. 



ANSON, Colonel AUGUSTUS HENBY ABCHI- 

 BALD, a British soldier, born March 5, 1835 ; 

 died November 17, 1877. He served before 

 Sebastopol, for which he received several or- 

 ders. As aide-de-camp to General Grant, he 

 was at the siege of Delhi, the relief of Lnck- 

 now, and several other important affairs. For 

 his gallantry in the field, he was given the 

 Victoria Cross. He was in Parliament for 

 Lichfield from 1859 to 1868, and for Bewdley 

 from 1869 to 1874. 



AENOLD, THOMAS JAMES, a British barrister 

 and author, died at an advanced age in May, 

 1877. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's 

 Inn in 1829, and was appointed a police magis- 

 trate, being, at the time of his death, the old- 

 est and senior magistrate. He was the author 

 of many works, notably on Municipal Corpora- 

 tions, Justices of the Peace out of Session, La- 

 bor Laws, etc. 



AUEELLE DE PALAD1NE8, LOUIS JEAN BAP- 

 TISTS, a French general and Senator, born 



January 9, 1804; died December 17, 1877. 

 (See ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1875, page 315.) 



AUTEAN, JOSEPH, a French poet; born in 

 June, 1813; died March 6, 1877. He first ap- 

 peared before the public with an ode to La- 

 martine, to whose school he belonged. His col- 

 lections of poems, "LaMer " (1835), "Poemes 

 de la Mer" (1852), "Laboureurs et Soldats " 

 (1854), "La Vie Rurale" (1856), "Epitres 

 Rustiques " (1861), and "Poemes des Beaux 

 Jours," made him well-known throughout 

 France. His tragedy, "La Fille d'Eschyle," 

 produced in the Od6on theatre in 1848, gained 

 for him the great prize of Monthyon. The 

 war of 1870 caused him to write a patriotic 

 poem, the " L6gende des Paladins." He was 

 elected a member of the French Academy in 

 1868. 



BAGEHOT, WALTEB, a British journalist and 

 writer on political economy, born February 

 3, 1826 ; died March 24, 1877. He was edu- 

 cated at the University College, London. Early 

 in life, under the care of his father, he became 

 intimately acquainted with the banking busi- 

 ness, and was led to devote special attention 

 to commercial and financial subjects. His mar- 

 riage to a daughter of Mr. James Wilson, for 

 some time Indian Finance Minister, and found- 

 er of the Economist, brought him into close 

 contact with the management of that paper. 

 On the death of his father-in-law, he became 

 the proprietor and editor of the paper, and in 

 his hands it was conducted with very great 

 ability and success. He also contributed a 

 number of valuable papers to the National and 

 Fortnightly Reviews. He was the author of 

 "The English Constitution" (1872), "Physics 

 and Politics" (1872), and "Lombard Street" 

 (4th ed., 1873). He was for some time Ex- 

 aminer in Political Economy in the University 

 of London. 



BAHADOOE, Sir JUNG, an Indian statesman ; 

 died at an advanced age February 25. 1877. 

 He was Prime Minister of Nepaul, of which 

 state he had been the actual ruler for over 30 

 years. In 1850 he came to England as a special 

 envoy of the Nizam, and spent there several 

 months. During the Sepoy mutiny, he ren- 

 dered the English effectual aid by sending them 

 an auxiliary force, thus contributing a great 

 deal toward suppressing the mutiny. For his 

 services on this occasion, he received from the 

 British Government the Grand Cross of the 

 Order of the Bath, and afterward that of the 

 Star of India. 



BAIN, ALEXANDER, died January 2d, at Glas- 

 gow. An electrician and inventor, he made 

 important improvements in telegraphy. He 

 invented, or re-invented, the method of making 

 use of " bodies of natural waters to complete 

 the electric circuit by laying a single insulated 

 wire between the given stations, having at 

 each end a metallic brush immersed in water." 

 This principle was promulgated in a patent of 

 1841. In 1846 he patented the electro-chemi- 

 cal telegraph, and soon found his system capa- 



