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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



at her own expense, his " Political "Writings,'' 

 in two volumes. 



COULSOJT, WILLIAM, a British physician, 

 born in 1799 ; died April 7, 1877. He studied 

 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, became a mem- 

 ber of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1826, 

 and in 1843 was elected one of the honorary 

 fellows of the college. In 1851 he obtained a 

 seat in the council, and in 1860 was appointed 

 Hunterian orator. He translated from the 

 German Blumenbach's " Comparative Anato- 

 my," and from the French Edwards's " Manual 

 of Surgical Anatomy." 



OouLTHtrasT, WILLIAM, a British banker, 

 born in 1792; died February 10, 1877. He 

 was the senior partner of the banking-house 

 of Coutts & Co., London, one of the largest 

 and oldest banking-houses of England. 



CYRIL II., Patriarch of Jerusalem, born on 

 the island of Samos about the year 1790 ; died 

 August 30 (18), 1877. He went to Jerusalem 

 in 1818, being then a priest, was consecrated 

 Metropolitan of Sebaste in 1830, Metropolitan 

 of Lydda in 1838, and in 1845 was made Patri- 

 arch of Jerusalem. In 1872 he was deposed 

 and excommunicated by the Synod of Con- 

 stantinople, on account of his sympathy with 

 the Bulgarians. This sentence was annulled 

 in 1876. 



DELORD, TAXILE, a French writer and poli- 

 tician, born November 25, 1815 ; died in May, 

 1877. He had been connected with the Chari- 

 vari, the Siecle, and L'Avenir National. In 

 1871 he was elected a member of the National 

 Assembly for the department of Vaucluse. He 

 was the author of a number of works, among 

 which a " History of the Second Empire " is 

 best known. 



DEUTSCH, SIMON", a German scholar, born in 

 1822 ; died March 23, 1877. He studied in Vi- 

 enna, but the events of 1848 led him into 

 politics, and he took a prominent part in the 

 political associations of those days. When 

 Windischgratz surrounded Vienna, he de- 

 mand ad the surrender of Deutsch as one of 

 the hostages. But Deutsch succeeded in es- 

 caping to Paris, and here devoted himself to 

 banking. During the war in the Crimea he 

 went East, and then entered into communica- 

 tion with the chiefs of the Young Turkish 

 }>irty. In the latter part of 1876 he went to 

 Constantinople, and when his friend Midhat 

 Pasha was banished, the new Government per- 

 mitted him to remain, contrary to his expec- 

 tations. 



DEVRIEXT, PHILIPP EDUARD, a German actor 

 and author, born August 11, 1801 ; died Oc- 

 tober 4, 1877. He devoted himself at first to 

 singing, but was forced to leave this branch, as 

 he completely lost his voice. He then devoted 

 himself to the drama. In 1844 he became di- 

 rector of the Court Theatre in Dresden, and in 

 1852 assumed the same position in Carlsruhe, 

 and afterward became general director in the 

 same place. After having celebrated his 50th 

 anniversary in 1869, he resigned his position 



in 1870 on account of his health. He was the 

 author of a number of opera texts and plays, 

 as well as different works on the drama, of 

 which he was considered one of the best au- 

 thorities. His principal work is " Geschichte 

 der deutschen Schauspielkunst " (Leipsic, 5 

 vols., 1848-'74). 



DRUMMOND, JAMES, a British painter, born 

 in 1816; died August 12, 1877. He exhibited 

 his first painting at the age of nineteen, in the 

 Royal Scottish Academy, and since contributed 

 to each of the following exhibitions. He ex- 

 celled particularly in historical painting. 



DUMONT, LEON", a French scholar, born in 

 1838 ; died January 7, 1877. He was consid- 

 ered one of the most learned and most pro- 

 found of the French philosophers of modern 

 times. Among his works are : " Les Causes 

 de rire " (1862), " Le Sentiment du Gracieux " 

 (1863), "La Morale de Montaigne" (1866), 

 " Antoine Watteau" (1867), "De 1'Education 

 des Femmes" (1868), " Haeckel et la Thgorie 

 de 1'Evolution en Allemagne" (1872), and his 

 principal work, " Th6orie Scientifique de la 

 Sensibilit6 " (1876). He also contributed a 

 number of articles to the Revue des Deux 

 Mondes, the Revue Scientifique, and the Revue 

 Philosophique. 



DUNDAS, Sir DAVID, Knt., born in 1799 ; 

 died March 30, 1877. He was educated at 

 Westminster School and Christ Church, Ox- 

 ford, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple 

 in 1823, and went to the northern circuit. He 

 was made a Q. C. in 1840, and in the same 

 year was elected member of Parliament for 

 Sutherlandshire in the Liberal interest. He 

 represented the county till 1852, and sat for it 

 again from 1861 to 1867. He was Solicitor- 

 General under Lord John Russell from 1846 to 

 1848, and Judge-Advocate-General from 1849 

 till he retired from office with his party in 

 1857. He was, with the exception of Lord 

 Chelmsford, the senior bencher of the Inner 

 Temple. He was knighted in 1834. 



DURHAM, JOSEPH, a British sculptor, born 

 in 1821 ; died October 27, 1877. The work 

 which first brought him into public notice was 

 a bust of Jenny Lind, exhibited in the Royal 

 Academy in 1848. His Memorial of the Exhi- 

 bition of 1851, in the Horticultural Gardens, 

 Kensington, is the greatest of his out-door 

 works. His best classical group, " Leander and 

 the Siren," was exhibited in the Royal Acade- 

 my in 1875. In portraiture his busts and fig- 

 ures are well known and very numerous. He 

 was elected A. R. A. in 1868. 



DUVERGIER DE HAURANXE, Louis PROSPER 

 ERNEST, a French writer and politician, born 

 March 7, 1843 ; died August 16, 1872. He con- 

 tributed a large number of articles to the Retu* 

 des Deux Mondes, among them " Eight Months 

 in America," "Cuba and the Antilles," " De- 

 mocracy and the Right of Suffrage," and "Pres- 

 ident Johnson and Congress," and also pub- 

 lished the brochures " La Coalition Liberate" 

 (1876), and "Le Gouvernement Personnel" 



