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Appeal, and sworn a member of the Privy 

 Council. 



MICHELL, Dr., an English scholar, born in 

 1805; died March 29, 1877. His Oxford ca- 

 reer commenced with a first class in 1824. Ho 

 was Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall for nearly 

 20 years, and, when Dr. McBride died, he suc- 

 ceeded him as principal. When the Hall was 

 incorporated as Hertford College, he retained 

 the principalship. 



M'LEAN, Sir DONALD, a New Zealand states- 

 man, born in 1819; died in January, 1877. 

 In 1841 he received an appointment from 

 Governor Fitzroy, and for 33 years continued 

 in the public service. In 1869 he was ap- 

 pointed Minister of Native Affairs in the Fox- 

 Vogel Ministry, and held this office until a 

 few weeks before his death. In 1874 he was 

 made a K. 0. M. G. He was highly esteemed 

 by the natives, conciliating and cultivating 

 their confidence, and, in consequence, great re- 

 liance was placed in him both by the gover- 

 nors and the colonial governments. 



MOLESWOBTH. Rev. WILLIAM NASSATT, a 

 British clergyman and writer, born Novem- 

 ber 8, 1816 ; died in April, 1877. He was edu- 

 cated at Canterbury and Cambridge ; was for 

 a time incumbent of St. Andrew's, Manches- 

 ter, and in 1844 was appointed Vicar of Roch- 

 dale. He was the author of a " History of the 

 Reform Bill of 1832" (1862), "A New System 

 of Moral Philosophy " (1867), " Prize Essay on 

 Education " (1867), and a " History of England 

 from 1830 " (3 vols., 1871-'74), which is his 

 best-known work. 



MONNIEB, HENBI, a French author and ar- 

 tist, born June 6, 1799; died January 3, 1877. 

 He studied painting under Girodet, and soon 

 gained considerable celebrity in delineating 

 the middle and laboring classes of France. 

 This he did in "Scenes Populaires" (1830), 

 "Nouvelles Scenes Populaires" (4 vols., 1835- 

 '39), and "Les Bourgeois do Paris" (1854), 

 which he illustrated himself with exquisite 

 caricatures. He also wrote, and personated 

 the principal part in, " Grandeur et Decadence 

 de M. Joseph Prudhomme" (1852), and "Ro- 

 man chez la Portiere," but he was unsuccess- 

 ful as an actor. 



MORESBY, Sir FAIRFAX, a British admiral, 

 born in 1787; died January 21, 1877. He en- 

 tered the navy in 1799, took part in the West 

 Indian expedition of Lord Nelson against the 

 united fleets of France and Spain in 1805, and 

 was afterward employed in the Mediterranean, 

 where he took an active part at the siege of 

 Trieste. In 1821 he was appointed commander 

 of Mauritius, and in 1837 to the command of 

 the Mediterranean station. He was created a 

 G. 0. B. in 1865, and at the time of his death 

 bore the title of Admiral of the Fleet. 



MORIARTT, DAVID, Bishop of Kerry, born 

 in 1810 ; died September 80, 1877. He was 

 consecrated in April, 1854, and succeeded to 

 the bishopric of Kerry in 1856. He was very 

 popular both with Protestant* and Catholic*, 



although for many years he was held in ex- 

 treme popular disfavor for his denunciations of 

 the leaders of Fenianism, of whom he said, on 

 one occasion, that hell was not hot enough, 

 nor eternity long enough, to give adequate 

 punishment for the manner in which they had 

 misled the people. 



MOBIEK, DAVID, a British diplomatist, born 

 in 1784; died July 13, 1877. He began his ca- 

 reer in the East, in missions to AH Pasha at 

 Janina, to Mehemet AH Pasha at Alexandria, 

 and with Sir Stratford Canning at Constanti- 

 nople. He was engaged under Lord Castle- 

 reagh in the negotiations in Paris and Vienna 

 in 1814 and 1815, and, after filling the office of 

 consul-general as long as it lasted, was for 20 

 years minister in Berne. He resigned in 1847, 

 after which he lived quietly in England. He 

 was a brother of James Morier, a well-known 

 author. 



MOSENTHAL, SAMUEL HERMANN, a German 

 poet, born January 14, 1821 ; died February 

 17, 1877. He studied in the University of 

 Marburg, and in 1851 received an appointment 

 in the Ministry of Education, and was created 

 a Royal Councilor. He was the author of 

 the dramas "Deborah" (1850), "Cecilie von 

 Albano" and "Der Sonnenwendhof " (1857), 

 "Pietra" (1869), "Isabella Orsini" (1870), 

 "Maryna" (1871), "Die Sirene" (1875), and 

 many others. His collected poems appeared 

 in 1866. 



MUNSTEB, WILLIAM FELIX, a member of Par- 

 liament, born in 1849; died April 11, 1877. 

 In 1872 he was returned for Mallow, and kept 

 his seat till the dissolution of February, 1874, 

 when he retired. He was in the Southern 

 Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., at the time of the fire, 

 and was saved ; but, having become separated 

 from his wife, who was reported to have been 

 burned, he shot himself. His wife was after- 

 ward found to be saved. 



NOGGERATH, JACOB, a German geologist, 

 born October 10, 1788; died September 18, 

 1877. In 1814 he became commissioner of 

 mines in the Ourthe department in France, 

 and from 1816 to 1864 was employed by the 

 Prussian Government in the mining service. 

 In 1818 he was appointed Extraordinary and 

 in 1870 Ordinary Professor of Mineralogy in 

 the University of Bonn. This position he re- 

 tained up to the time of his denth. His writ- 

 ings on mineralogy, geology, earthquakes, land- 

 slips, etc., are to bo found in all tlio mineralo- 

 gical and geological journal* since 1816. 

 Among his larger works are : " Das Gebirge in 

 Rheinland-Westphalen " (1821-'86, 8 voU.); 

 " Die Entstehung der Erde " (1848) ; " Die 

 Entstehung und Ausbildung der Erde " (1847); 

 and the article on geology in " Die gesauimlen 

 Naturwissenschaften " (3d ed., 1877). 



NORTON, Mrs., M MAXWELL, Lndy. 



ODGER, GEORGE, an English workinptnan and 

 agitator, born in 1820; died March 11, 1877. 

 He was apprenticed to a shoemaker at an early 

 age, and having afterward settled in London, 



