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INDEX TO THE YEAR 1857. NECROLOGICAL, THE DISTINGUISHED DEAD OF Europe, Asia, Central and South America and the United States. Prince Charles Bonaparte, William Larned Marcy, Elisha Kent Kane, Lord Ellesmere, George Washington Parke Custis, Pierre Jean Beranger and General Cavaignac. &e., &e., &o. Generals, Admirals, Statesmen, Artists and Divines, &o., &o., &o. PREPARED SPECIALLY FROM THE FILES OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. JANUARY 1.—Jobn Britton, a celebrated antiquarian in London, aged seventy-cight years. He was a distinguished writer. His first production of importance was a volume on “ The Life and Adveatures of Vizarro," suggested by the then popularity of Kotzebue’s fayorite German drama. In his work on the * Besutios of Wiltshire * he was eminently successful; and his ‘“ Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain,’ and “ Cathedral Au iquities of Eugland,” gained bim considerable reputation. $.—Right Rev. Monsigneur Sibour, Archbishop of Paris, assassinated by a priest named Verger, in the sacristy of the Church of St. Btienue du Mont, during the celebration of the festival of Sainte Genevieve, the patroness of Paris, Monsignour Sibour was born at St. Paul-Trois-Chateaux, April 4, 1792, consecrated Bishop of Digue Feb, 26,1840, and appointed Archbishop of Paris by General Cavaiguac, Aug 10, 1848, in the place of Monsigueur Affre, who was killed on one of the barricades of the Faubourg St. Antoine in June....In Cuba, parish of Coralillo, Dona Carpentier de Legendre, aged one hundred years. tonged to one o1 the best French famities of St. Domingo de- fore its destruction, ana had two brothers in the Constituent Assembly of France in 1789, both of whom perished amid the horrors of the great revviution....The Mandarin 8yh, Governor of Shanghae, in China, suddenly. Tne news produced great fermentation among the lower classes of the population, who accused the Europeans of his death 7 —Joseph Brotherton, M. I for Salford, England id denly, aged twenty-four years. He was an emiuent po- iitioal reformer, and one of the earliest members of th Auti-Corn Law League of Manchester. 8.—Admirai Kogers. R. N., at Plymouth, England. He was in the expedition against "New Orleans, aaa served with the breaching batteries on shore. 14.—Hon Samuei ntiss, Judge of the United States District Court of Vermont, aud for many years United States Senator. at Montpelier, Vermont. He was an emi nent American jurist and politician 17 Straker, English Ph India, after a term of thirty ree years service. He was & man of excellent talonts, and a measure of classical ac complishments not ofteu met with in the service Soxpay, 18.—Hon, Andrew Stevenson, an eminent American legislator and statesmaa, in Blenheim, Virginia, aged seventy-tour years. From Congress, Mr. Nteveason ‘was seat as United states Minister to the Courtof St. James. Whilst tu England, Mr. 8. not ouly occupied @ high post tion in the diplomatic circie, but by the dignity of his character, splendid appearance, and distinguished social accomp'ishments, won tor hmself many trends. Since Mr. Stevenson's return to America he devote ali his time and talents to pursuits of agrizuitare aud to the ad vancement ot the interests of the University, of which in stitution he was rector at the time of his death. 19.—In London, Hdward’ Fitzwilliam, the composer, son of an oid established comedian in the Elliston scnool. 24.—The wiiow of William Wirt, at Annapoiis, Mary. land.... Rev. W. WH. Medburst, D. D., am English missiona. ry who spent forty years in China, in London, oa the se Cond day alter Lis return home. He was61 years old. 26.—Hon. John Barney, ex-member of Congress, and son of the gallant United States commodore of that name, ‘of Rovolutionary memory, at Wasbington. Mr. Barney was engaged for some time ia getting out a book giving his reminiscenses of public events and notable men and women of his own times, for which task bis intimate ac quaintance with the seading personages who bad figured during the past half century eminently qualified him... ‘The Princess Lieven, so long known inthe political worid, in Paris, of inflammation of the chest. Thus was called away the confidential correspondent of three Czars, of three Empresses, of Grand Chanceliors, Chamberiains and Governors of Russian provinces without number—a wo: man who exercised in her tume as much politica! aad so. cial inttuence as any lady of the generation to which she belouged 27 —Hon. Preswon 8. Brooks, member of Congress from South Carolina, in Washington, aged 37 years. He was made famous by his suddeu assault on Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts, in the Senate chamber of the United States '30.--Reverend M. Verger, the assassin of the Archbishop of Paris. executed in Paris. He showed but litle firm meas on the scaffold larvey Burdell, M. D.. a dentist of New York, was murdered tn hoase No. 31 Bond street Fe was forty-six years of age....His Grace Hyppolite Duke of the Band du Nord and Minister of the {nterior aad of Agriculture of Hayt.. at his residence in Vort au aixty-third year of his age. Hyppolite was t estimable mem the Emperor's recat (rom every kind of reproach upon bis 4 patriotiem. He was born at Cape Haytien. ito France as @ pupil at the expense of the ! upon bis return was em the Cape, then the ployed in th seat of cove istrict of the island He was ¢ to represent Gape Haytien tn 18zl, Under the Prerigenc Guerrier he was made a General of Division and Pres Mandant of the district of the of Soulouque to the imperial throne in I821, Hyppolite re ceived the partiotio which he held at the time of his de coase, aud his Gukedom. He was au uncommonly blac! man ' The resemblance of his es to those of Boswe the biograp! very striking, and ofven remarked .. Onptain Gix veteran of the Eag lish army, at Exeter, aged yaty-three years. i erved at the capture of Copenbagen, on the expedition to Sweden, and subsequently tw Portugal, under Sir Joba Mecre, including the advance into Spain, retreat to aud | battle of Coruana, expedition to Walcheren, Peninealar campaigns of 1812. 1816 and 1814, including the reduction Of the forts at manea, battle of Salamance, capture of Madrid, siege of Borgos. action at Villa Muriel (slightly wounded), battle of Vittoria, siege and capture of Suu Sebastian, attack upon the Heights after orc th Bidessos, battles of Nivelle and Nive, in which | was severely wounded FRBRUARY. Srxpar 1 —Moses Sheppard, an eminest merchant of Ral timore, in Baltimore, aged eighty four years. Moses Shep ember of the Society of Friends, and took active part in the African Colopiaation He had wo early educational advantages, but Was possessed of great natural (utellectual capacity, evi denced by volutnce of letters and manuscripts, His pro- perty was valaed at $800,000 Sexoay, 6 —Count Felix de Merods, a distinguished Bel gian patriot, io Brussels, aged sixty-six years. He was father \n law to Count Montalembert. He was a Minister of State without portfolio, and represented Nivelles during sowe twenty five years. His politics and principles were ultra crerical of Spain, announced in Madrid. He died suddenly in Santa Cruz. The General gained an unenviable notoriety pard wasa during the civil war in Spain by having caused the mother | shot. He was Minister | of the Carlist chief, Cabrera, to of War Curing the government of the Regent. in 1864 he Was at Valladolid on halt pay, and contributed with M Gvell y Rente to the pronunciomientos ip thattown. The rerolutionwts chose bim for their General, and sent him to Madrid with # Jon to #Upport the insurrection. 10.—Dr. Tack Shackelford, at Courtland, Alabama, in the 66th year of bis age struggle for independence. He was captain in that band of patriots under Col. Fannin, which was defeated ai Go- iad and marsacred by Sante Anna His life was spared because he was a physician, that his service migut be mace available in the Mexican army 1i,—fion. A. K. Parris, sudder aged seventy years. Durin pember of the Maseact a wority that prover tions adopted by the Legilature 1 of our government in that Maine land be Turkieh riw diplomat, in Constantino Ilion of piastres ving ® fe eueg erican philosopher and iam ©. Redfield, an emin meterologist, aged sixty-eight 16.—Klisha Kent Kano, M.1)..9 jevrated American tra. seller, in Havann, aged thirty-five years. Elisha Kem Kane was bore in Philadeipbia in 1822, Nearly a third of his life was consumed in travel out of the limite of the United was educ at the Universities of Virginia ns via, graduating a8 a doctor of medisige im 1845, aud Was appointed upon the diplomatic stati ae sur oon to the first American embassy to China, He availed imaelt of the far ilities afforded by bis pewition to explore abe Phillippines, most of whieh travel, including Cama as indore, wae trade om foot, Dr Kane's per entares in Mexico are part of the biste of San Juan ¢ Clos agaitnt the the gratitade of ot tinction. Hie travels through the repu Nant pert deapate tis fed by ¢ vements romeirical altitudes of return of peace he wae assigned to the Coast Survey der Provessor Bache, and was at work in the Gulf of Mex 0 when the liberality of Mr. Grinnell stimulated the go. verament of the | pity to the rst American expe dition in search of Sir John Franklin. Dr. Kave imme fet! are of value diately volunteered bis serviers, and war aceepted aa the | Senior Surgeon of the Squadron. His “Personal Narre tive” of this cruise was published in 186% Befhre it was © for the he had effected his arrangemonte for the last Arctic Expedition, appropriating to this cher- ished object his own pécuniary resources, ae wellas draw cove iy On those of Mr. Grinnell and several of the acetic institations of this country. The history of that sApodston, aud dee remarkebie discoveries w which it ied, cian General at Bombay, | . Death of General Don Augustin Nogueras, | Hg participated in the Texan | are now before the country. They ceastitute in themselves an imp<rishable monument to Dr. Kane's fame, 17.—Marquise Dowager of La uelein, famous in European polities, at Orleans, a her -fourth year. | 18. Francis Egerton, rst Sarl of Ellesmere, at Bridge- | water House, Engiand, aged 57 He was a munifi- | cent patron of literature and art, and wass graceful writer himself, In early days be published a transiation of ‘“Fuust,”? accompanied by free and spirited versions of popular lyrics selected from the works of Goethe, Schiller, | Burger, Salis, apd Korner, which passed throug sovo | editions, and afterwards “The Pilgrimage,” in which, hay ing adopted the staff and sandals of a pa'mer, he gave a highly poetical picture of the various scenes and places | which he visited in the course of his tour in the Holy Land, In the few years previous and subsequent to this | date, lord Published his ‘ Mediterranean ) Sketches,” and printed for private circulation several WHS which the best known are ‘ Dooua ‘itea,”” Beard, a Parody,” ‘The Siege of | Vienna,” and the “Paria,” together with (‘The Mill,” and 4 ““Monody on the Death of the Duke of Wellingtoa.”’ Ho | was English Commissioner to New York at the opening of the Crystal Palace. Baron de Rottembourg, ‘one of the four Adjutants General of the “Old Guard’’ of Napoleon the First, uoar Paris, aged eighty-seven years. ‘21.—Advices in Berlin from Switzerland announced the death of General Count Ostermann Tolstoy, one of the ve- ‘terans of the old Russian armies, and who commenced his carecr under Suwaroff....Doctor, Scoreeby, the veteran Arctic navigator, at Terquay. He combined in person scientific eminence with high moral worth and active bene- volence. His father{was one of the most daring and success. ful seamen in the northern whale fishery when that ser- vice was among the chief sources of the commercial wealth ofthe fnglish nation, and the deceased from his youth was innured to the hardships and perils of the Arctic Seas. After his retirement from active service atsea he resolved to enter the church, and after holding appoini- ments in less congenial localities, he found in the maritime town of Hull a sphere which afforded full scope for bis be- nevolent efforts for the social and spiritual welfare of sailors. His scientific career in the latter years of bis life is well known, Sunpay, 22.—The Earl of Harewood, a leading Muglish sporteman, in England, from injuries received by a fall trom his horse, aged sixty years....General de I’rott, one of the most distinguished veterans of Hanover, in Hano- ver. The General commenced his career in the old Le- gion, served with it in Spain, and then formed part of the staf! appointed to accompany his Royal Highness Adol. phus, luke of Cambridge, to Hanover, at the close of 1813. Since that time the deceased filled the highest military offices in his country. 23.—The widow of the French botanist, De Jussieu, at Paris, atthe age of 90. The government for many years allowed her to occupy apartments in the Jardin des Plantes. 24.—Rey. Thomas Dex Hinaks, LL. D., Paofessor of He brew and the Oriental Languages in the Royal Belfast Aca- demy, Ireland, aged 90 years. Dr. Hincks commenced the Munster Farmer's Magazine, a work which did mach to raige the standard of farming in the south of Ireland. Jn 1846 he published in the Annals and Mi of Natyu- ral History a paper ‘On Early Contributions to the Fiora of Iveland."” He was subsequently elected President of the Philosophical Society. Dr. H. was father of the cele: Drated Orientalist of that name. 26.—Rev. John F. Schroder, a well known Episcopal minister and author, in Brooklyn. He was a native of Baltimore, and a graduate of Princeton College. He be- assistant minister of Trinity church in this city, and distinguished for his ornate style and finished delive- He was author of the “ Maxims of Washington’’ and “ Life of Bishop Hobart.” MARCH. Senpay, 1.—In Ireland, suddenly, Rey. Charles R. Pa- kentiam, alias Father Paul Mary, of the order of the Pas- sionists, The deceased priest was son of the late and brother of the present Earl of Longford. He was nephew of the late Elizabeth, Dutchess of Wellington, wife of the hero of Waterloo, The Hon. Charles Reginald Pakenham ‘was born on the 2Ist September, 1821. He accompanied Queen Victoria to Ireland on the occasion of her first visit to that country, as one of her aides-de-camp, being thea an officer in the Guards. He resigned the profession of arms on the occasion of his conversion to the Catholic faith, and joined the order of the “Barefooted Clerks of the Most Sacred Passion of our Lord Jesus * On the opening of the “ Retreat of Blessed Paul of 1 Cross,”’ founder of the order of Passionista in Harold’s-cross, he was appointed rector of the house. 2.—Death of Anderssen, the great Swedish traveller, re. ported. He some time ago set out on bis third journey into the interior of Africa, to make oological researches, and afler having explored the banks of the Tioghe and of Lake Ngsmi, he undertook, in company with an Englishman, Mr. Green, ap excursion in an easterly direction, and suc- ceeded in reaching a country into which noother Euro pean ever penetra There he met a young elephant and went in pursuit of it; just as he was on the poiut of overtaking it a very largo elepbant joined jt; two natives fred ou the latter and wounded it, oa which the animal at tacked Mr. Anderssen, and killed him by trampling him uncer foot. Mr. Anderssen was the author of the book of travels which was introduced with such flattering com- y Col. Fremont, ina letter to the publishers in a few months since. ‘Sheitield (England) papers reported the death of Sarah Gales. she was the last survivor of the three sis- ters of the late Joseph Gales, of Kaleigh, Nort @arolina, who left Sheffield in 1794 on political grounds. With these jadies James Montgomery, the poet, resided for more than half a century. 7.—William Yates, M. D., who first introduced the sys tem of vaccination into the United States, at Morris, Otse- go county, New York, aged ninety years. He wasa native of Fngland, and attended Dr Abernethy's frst lec- tare in London. He landed at Philadeiphia in 1799. 9.—The Far! of Fife, in Scotland, aged eighty-one years, He was a General in the Spanish army, in which be served as a volunteer throughout the Peninsular war. The family is descended from Macduff, the well known Thane of Fife. 11.—Don Jose Manuel Quintana, in Madrid, aged cighty- five years. He was notable as one of the political retor ers of 1812, as a poet, and as preceptor of queen Isabella. | Washington, D. He was born in and early in 1816 was appointed am “ador extraordinary to the Emperor of China. He left vand in February’ of that year on his mission | reaching the precincts of the ‘imperial and retusing to submit to the humiliating ceremonie the court, he was refused adm: to the presence of the Emperor, ascless. On his return, in the Alcent the Islan! Palo Leat from whieh he boats of the wrecked ship to Hatavia, then recently y the British under He and his ehipwre ] | Lord Minto. | met with axate ssyium. In 1817, on his return w Eng 4 the Emperor Napoleon at the island of st was honored with several interviews of that tive. He subsequently was appointed Go lustrions ef vernor Genera) of India, and for bis services there was 1b 1826, created Far! Amberst and Viscount Holmosdaie. 14.—How. D. T. Disney, ex-Member of Congress from Obi, in Washingtow. He was one of the most promivent | members of the Buchanan party in Ohio. In 1893 he was | a promnent candidate for Speaker of Congress, and came | within « few votes of beating Hon. Linn Boyd for that po: nind emocratic caucus.....Geperal Forster Atalk | ef, of the Brtsh army, commanding on the shores of the Persian Gulf, committed suicide by shooting. For some days prior it was observed that he was cnasually de pressed, aud it t# generally believed that heavy pecaniary fosees bad come to supplement the harassing responsibill Ues of his position, and destroy the energies already un- dermined by disease, apd fainting under an etaggerat sof what was required from nim. It was deter- mined that he should command at Bashir operations imagined that the force w be left at posal Was inadequate to the service 16.—Hon. William J. Brown, U. 8. Assistant Postmaster General during Mr. Polk's administration, avd for the last s special agent of the Post Office Department for Jadiapa and llinois, im Indianapolis... .Commodore kther sey, R. N., commanding the English forces ia the Persian Golf, committed suicide, It had been matter of remark | (or some tine that Lhe Commodore, a mast abie and talent | ed man, was suffering from mental excitement Mf no orde nary kind —About this day, Rev. Calvin Golton, st Savannah, He was the author of the Junius tracts, speeches and correspoudence of Henry Clay. . Sir George William Anderson, GC. B., im Engiand. He entered life ih the civil service of the Past litia Company to the year 1800. His talents soon gained him houorabie employment in that pervice. He was selected to be our of the commissioners, m conjunction with Mr. Babingtoa Macav'ay, for framing a code of jaws for the natives of | India. The government of the Mauritias became vacant in 1540, he wae appointed w that colony, aud governed for two years. 15 —Vrincess Louiea of Saxony, mother of the King and Infanta of Spain, in Rome... Vice Admiral Sit Joshua Row , mm. The deceased entered the uavy jass volunteer in 1802. On his return from indies, where he bal tsken part im the attack upon St. Lacie, June, 1803, he joined the Immortal in minded in the affair with the Boulog ed as mild ‘ved on shore im Island of ¢ and master's mate. May, 1806, at the reduction of 19 —Hon. Levi Beardal was one of the most pi He served with eredit in Aiverwards published an agreeable book. calie dents and Anecdotes of my Life Henry f t arope.o Fim | invet celebraved architect im the North burg, of paralysis, Eninburg is fille D Menuments of his genius. Mr. Playfair was born in London, in July verond H. J. Symone 11.D., soddeniy, ina cer, near Gainsborough, Ragland. He preached the funeral sermon of Sir John Moore at Coran nn Drake In appearance deceased somewhat f gton. ein bie’ He wae @ late Feliow of St. John’s was also vicar of Hereford, and jesty’s forces, and to their Royal High Kent aud Cambridge ot Wel jut thie day, Philemon U. Wederstendt 3 ne, at the {7% Me fra viented a in command of a naval force despatched to later cept and arrest Aaron Barr on mntomplated exped tion. He setaied and became one of the mo-t sacceseful an! wealthy «in the State mile LiAngelier, & mercantile cierk in | wddenly, from A, as alleged, » him by Miss Madeline i r Narges, Supreme Patriarch of Armenia, It Tiflis, nged M6 years 6 —Jobn Mitchel Kemble, the we'l tnown Anglo Saton scholar, in Dubin, Ireland. Mr. Kemble was son of the late Charles Kemble, of stage celebrity, and graduated at Trinity O Cambridge. While an under graduate he fave offence to the authorities by rome Miliscreet rem irks At an examination, which drew upon him as a punishment | that temporary suspension from the University which is wechnicaliy called rustication. During « part of bis period of rustication he went to Hanover, and studied under the acquaintance of Professor Jacob Grimm. Tt was from his experienoe with Grimm that Mr. Kemble imbibed his taste for the study of the Anglo-Saxon language, which he af | terwards pursned with so much success. He was an bouorary member of he Royal Academies of Berlip, Got. | - | tepant Strain was a native ‘and Munich, Fellow of the Boyal Society of Oopen- but 2 no ten ve a to the history, an- He wrote ish, and his “Stamm with facility both in former Tafel”’ of the West Saxon Kings—in language— is not more remarkable for its ori views and pecuiar erudition than for the purity ofits style. In his youth Mr. Kemble went to Gibraltar, and there joined a small ES of Spanish ‘jots in \panish coast and excite an insurrection. tors had been betrayed to the authorities, and were sur- rounded by the government troops as goon ag they reached the shore, and were all taken and condemned to death. Mr. Kemble was saved by intercession: on the part of the repeesenipiivas of England. 80.—Professor maaw fod Alabama. . Professor Tuomey was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Virginia at an early age. He was for several years the State Geolo- gist of South Carolina, After a faithful a0 30 of this laborious work he was called to the Unt versity of Alabama, and the Legislature of that State com missioned him to a similar survey of her territory. Atthe time of his death ho was nga, with Professor Holmes, in the publication of the ‘Fossils of South Carolina.”’.... Senor D. Pedro Trujillo, of Chile, in Valparaiso, aged seventy-three years. He was the senior of the political revolution of his country, and became an emineat diplo- mat and the most honest public olticer of the republic, which he served faithfully. APRIL. 4.—Jacob Trippler, the oldest fireman in Philadelphia. He was eigbty years old, and had been for aixty-fivoyears an active member. 11.—M. de. Tégoborski, member of the Council of the Rus- sian Empire, and a celebrity in economical science, at St. Petersburg. He was of Polish extraction, and acquired the favor of the late Emperor Nicholas when Consul General at Dantzick, in 1831, by his activity in supplying the Rus- sian army with provisions and other necessaries, after Paskewitch had crossed the Vistula and abandoned his line of communication with Russia. Asa fluancier and political economist he had not many rivals im Europe, and his works onthe Austrian flnances, on banking, and par- ticularly his “Etudes Sur Les Forces Productives ge la Russia,” have been fuily appreciated by the scientific world, Some years ago he was appointed member of the Tnpersl Council, and whatever reductions in the Russian tariff have taken place since the time of the late Count Canerin, are due to his influence, 14.—A man named Peters, at Arnheim (Netherlands), at the age of 112. He was born at Leuwarden, in 1745, aad served in the Swiss army for some time; subsequent. ly he entered the French servico and made tho campaign in Egypt under Napoleon. : 15.—Bishop William Skinner, Primes of tho Episcopal church of Scotland, in Aberdeen, aged eighty years. Ho was a son of the author of the celebrated * Tullochgo- rum,” a composition which Burns styled the * rst of songs.”’ The death of Bishop Skinner may be said to break the lust living link of connection between the Scot- tish Fpiscopate of the eighteenth and the Scottish Episco- pate of the uineteenth ooatary-—borween the proscribed and persecuted remnant which a huadred years ago met by stealth in garrets and in cellars, and the peaceful and prosperous communion whose stately churches now adorn the streets of every consiferable town in Scotland. In 1784 his grandfather was one of the tlree Scotch bishops, who, in an upper chamber of a mean dwelling house in a singy lane of Aberdeen, consecrated the first bishop for the United states of America. 22.—The death of the Duchess de Raguse, widow of Marsbal Marmont, announced in Paris....Jaspar 4 seaud, of Beyrout, a gentleman well kuown to Eastern travellers, eepeciaily to thase who have visited Syria, Mr. Chasseaud was among the first Eoglish gentlemen who settled in that land In 1840 he was present on board a British man of war at the bombardment of Beyrout, when his knowledge of the country and people enabled him to give valuable information to the officers commanding the expedition. He served respectively his country, the United Staies of America, Prussia, Russia, Norway and Sweden, and Naples, as the representative of those gov ernments in that country. 25.—Hon. Joshua A. Spencer, at Utica, New York. He long held @ high rank at the bar, and filied the position of State Senator for one term, avd District Attorney of the United States for the Northern District of New York. In the latier office he had charge for the United States of the celebrated McLeod case, and concurred in enforcing Mr. Webster's views of the question of public law involved. Both these able jurists held What, as the case depended on @ right to regulate our foreign relations, the State courts bad no jurisdiction of the matier, and that it belonged ex- clusively to the national government. An aot of Congress was sul uently passed enforci this position, and depriving State courts of al! power of interference in such cases, 28,—Count Joseph Grabowski, member for life of the first chamber of the Prossian Legislature, and one ef the ‘gest landed proprietors in the Duchy of Posen, who ated about this day, left to bis heirs estates to the value of sixteen million doliarr, free from debt or mortgage, and $500,000 in money or noves.,..The oldest veteran in the Prussian service. named Karnasch, was buried at Pilsnitz. @ small village near Breslau. He entered the army in the reign of Frederick the Great, and was at the time of his death 112 years of age. 30.—Her Royal Higaess the Duchess of Gloucester, in London, aged eighty-one years. She waa the fourth and last surviving <x +> ‘of King George Il]., and aunt to Queen Victoria. The Duchess was born of the 25th April, 17176. She was married to her cousin, Prince William Frederic, second Duke of Gloucester, on the 22d July, 1sl6, His a Highness died on the 30th November, 1834, and as there was no issue of the marriage his titles became extinct. The just deceased Huchoss was appoint. ed Ranger and Keeper of Richmond New Park Uy letters patent dated J0th October, 1860. She was distinguished tp earlier years by grace of person and elegance of taste, snd Was eminent in every female accomplishment. Her tyle of conversation was remarkable for that facile aud bartmuless wit, that kindness of feeling, yet cleverness of | direction, which combine to make whai society delights | to recognise as “a charming woman.” Lieutenant tsaac G. Strain, United States Navy, at ‘Aspinwall, N.G. Liew Pennsylvania, but emigrated at an early age, with his father, to Springfield, Ohio. Un- der the patrouage of General Sampson Mason, member of Congress, young Strain entered the naval service in 1837, as mkishipman. The name of Lieutenant Strain is indis solubly united with the Darien Isthmus. That portion of the Western continent was a sealed book to civilized pa- yons until the party led by Strain opened up the volume to science and the world, Strain started with his party of iwenty-seven mon, all told, in the month of January, 1854, the point of departure being Columbia bay, and nt Darien harbor, Relying upon the statements of furmer explorers, they only carried provislous with them for ten days, and grievously did they ton this acconnt, but in spite of difficulties unparalleled in the bis- tory of exploration, with inevitable starvation staring them in the face, and hostile Indian¢ surrounding them, the party forced, or rather dragged itself, to the other side. When al! hope was lost, the gallant Strain infused contdene in | 10 the bearts of bis companions, and his gun brough: food tothen and when all appeasement of their hunger seem | ed impossible, Strain threatened to shoot the first maa who hintet at'ap almost justifiable canpibalism. The sai vation of the party and its final escape from the most fear ful horrors are due alone to him. He travelled across the entire continent of South America on horse back, traversed the iminense expanse of the Brazile, seconded the Andes, passed that immense rocky ack bone of the Western hemisphere and reached the Pacide. MAY. 2.—Advices from London reported the death of Jolin Macgregor, late member of Parliament for Glasgow. Mr. Mecyregor was Dorn at Stornoway, in Ross-abire, in 1797, and was therefore sixty years of age. He was in earlier life High Sheriff of Prince Edwards’ Island and a member of the Colonial Legislature. He was afterwards in bosi- ness in Liverpool. He was employed by Lord Me} bourne’s goveroment in commercial missions to Ger- many, Austria, Paris, Naples, &c., and produced a great number of reports, advancing sound principles of patitical coonomy. From December, 1839, until August, 147, be Was joint Secretary te the British Board of Trade, and was in that situation an influential agent im bringing about the reform of the tariff. Mr. Macgregor was « very voumi- hous writer on Listorical and commercial subjects. Scypay, d—Alfred de Mussett, one of the most cele- Drated poets of this century, im Paris, aged forty-five yoare 4.—Harriet Mary, wife of the Right Hon. Lord Aah- burton, m Paris. “She was «lady eminent for her vir luer, Wit and hospitality... Madame "Donnell, mother of Marshal O'Donnell of Spain, in Madrid. 6. —At Noyon (Use), France, at the ago of 4 years, M. Deemorest, was, when young, public executioner at Moathrivon, 1 afterwards assistant or at Paris during the Reign of Terror. He afterwards retired ther had some yoars betore illed the post of 6—M. Sepey, Senator of France, in Paris. The deccased for upwards ef forty yeara represented the department of the feere in the Legislative Assemblies of the various gov eromenta that Jed each other. It is be ieved Je existe of & person baving riment for #0 long ay urgomaster of ihe city of Bremen lor sixty years. At the Congress of contributed to the re establishment repr He « Viewra hie of the inde ton as members of the be secured the free navigation of the W: first to urge the acquisition of Bremenhaven, now 60 va- laabie to the trade of Bremen. He secured, by a series of com mercial treaties with Engiand, the United states, Bra ri), &c., the recognition of the Hanse Towns as the pro. minent poluts of German exportation, the establishment of consuls, &. A great namber of the aseful institutions of bie native ity owe their establiahment to his care and so livitede. He was also distinguished as an author. For | his treatise on the liberty of mayigation of rivers, the Uni versity of Genoa conferred on hit in 1831 the honor of LL.D. Burgomaster Smith had the direction of the de partmest of Foren Affairs of Bremen; and for a long lime previous to his death he represented that city in the German Het, where his great experience and sound prac- tical views scoured for him respect and influence *.Mr. Legh, of Lyme, Mngland, in the 66th year of his Age. Inearly life he wns well known ax # distinguished gerener a uccesstn! investigator of classical antiquities, “4 ofthe mysteries of early Egyptian civilt vation. Leaving England im 1812, he sailed for the kgean, and vie lands of the Archipelago. Passing over to Pevy seconded the Nile with # determination to wetrate into Nubia, Mr. Legh aud & companion reached brim, cpasidertbly further south; buthere the scarcity of provisions, the cessation of mounmental antiquiti«s—the objerts of their explorations—and the fear of failing into the bands of the Mamelnkes, whose vindictive hatrea had been excited Ly the oppresrion a + of Mohomet Ali, induced their return; and, after some singular and dangerous adventures, they reached England in Novem. ber, 1813. Fle was the descendant of a line who had foughy at Cressy, Caen and Aginconrt, and in most of the great battice of his country. He was himself at Waterloo. 10.—1'rofeasor Giovanni de Brignole de Brunohoff, the Nestor of Italian botanists, at Modena. 11.—Thomas Jesse Oakley, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of New York, in New York, aged seventy four years, He wag a moet distiguished lawyer, & fuighed NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1858. ‘his term Congress, he remained until he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of New York in April, 1820, by the then Governor, under the provisions of ‘an act for the lishmont of a Superior Court of Law in the city of Yew York, passed March 31, 1828, which provided that there shall be ostab- Washed within the city and county of Now York, to be called and known by the name of the Superior Court of the city of New York, which court shall consist of a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices."” 15.—Rear Admiral D. Henchy 0" fordshire, Engiand. As lieutenant, himself at the taking of Zante, Cephalo: islands. He was afterwards at the capture of the Grvo, avd in the action off Lissa. He was, as senior lieutenant, in many of the boat actions in the Adri- atic, particularly in 1812, when he cut out soven vessels and’a convoy, protectei by several gun vessels, on the coast of Apulia. In 181% he commanded @ division of boats in the capture of a flotilla of gun brigs on the coast of Calabria, for which he was promoted, 14.—Orson Pratt, a Mormon pa. eisee, Fag Piseod Yaa Buren, Arkansas, by aman o1 lector, whose wife Pratt had seduced.....M. Vidoog, the celebrated Freach tbief catcher, in Paris, aged seventy-eight years. Vidoeg, from one of the most expert thieves in Europe waa pro- moted to the Prefect of Polie. Vidocq, whose adven- tures and experience in both capacities, ‘have been com- manicated to the world in his own memoirs, retired from office mavy years ago, and was succeeded by Lacour, The office has since been filled by M. Carlier, now a Conseitler d’Etat. Vidocq retired with a competence. At bis own express desire no friends were present at his fu- neral, which was attended only by hired mourners. 5.—The death of the senior admiral of the British ma Sir Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin, reported at Portsmor as having taken place at Jersey. He was in his ninety- hird year....General Sir James Macdonuell, G.C.B., of the British in London, The general ntered tho army in 1796, and was appointed Lieutenant in the 10Ist Foot. He afterwards entered the Coldstream Guards, and saw much active service with that corps—in tact it was while serving inthat regiment that he derived his great. est honors. He first took part in the expedition to Naples and Calabria in 1805-6, and after entering the Guards par- sued « brilliant career in Portugal, §| France and Flanders, It was at the battle of Walerlos, however, that he chiefly distinguished himself, being then a Licutenant Colonel in the Guards. He was in the 2d brigade of the Ist division, under General Sir J. Byng, and on the even- ing prior to the memorable 18th of June it was decided that Licntonant Colonel Macdonne}!, with the 2d battalion of the Coldstream Guards, should have charge of the build- ing of Hougoumont, while the late Lord Saitoun should hold the orchard and the wood. It is a matter of history how the gallant officer held his position against the impet- uous and almost overwhelming forco of the French, and how with his intrepid body of guards he successfully with- stood the repeated attacks of the enemy on that import- ‘ant point. He was warmly applauded by the Duke of Wellington, for his emiuent services on that occasion. Sunpay, 17.—M. Veillard, who gras the preceptor of Louis Napoleon's eldest brother, and who always adhered to the fortunes of the Emperor since the ceath of his brother, in Paris. He was a Senator of France and Gene- ral in the army, and one of Napoleon's most tried and trusted friends. The Emperor rode from Fontainbleau to Paris io a railroad car, and then drove in a backney coach to visit bim ou bis aeath bed. M. Veillard quitted the Polytechnic school in 1810 and took part in the campaign of Russia in 1814, with the rank of lieutenant of arullery. As captain in that branch of the service he was present at the memorable defence of Dantzic in 1813. He returned to France two years after, and resigned bis commission, as he would not serve under the Bourbons. 19.—The Nizam of Deccan, India, died at his palace. He was succeeded by bis son, Afzool-ood-Dowla, aged 30; born in the purple of Hyderabad, and proportionately dull, ignorant and sensual. 21.—James Freshfield, for years Solicitor to the Bank of Eng'and, described by the late Sir Robert Peeb as “the best mau of business in England,” in London. 26.—Andrew P. Butler, United States Senator from South Carolina, at Augusta. Mr. Butler was appointed to the Senate in 1847, by Governor Johnson, to Ml a vacanoy caused by the death ot the Hon. George McDuffie, and had Mr. Cathoun for bis colleague until 1851. For several ears Mr. Butler was prominent as one of the extreme withern party, and was looked up to as a model of the chivalry of the Paimetto State. During the last ses sion of Congress, his name was brought prominently before the people in the assault upon Senator Su mnor—that assault having been committed by Preston 8. Brooks, anephew of Mr. Butler, and excused on the ground of the lang used by Mr. Sumner in reply to a pro slavery pean of made by the South Carolina Senator, In the early part of his career in the Senate Mr. Butler charged Mr. Benton with # breach of privilege, in having furnished for publi cation in the New York HkRAtp some account of the pro- ceedings of the Senate in executive session {in relation to the case of Colonel Grabam, of the army. Mr. Benton, in his place, said that the Senator from South Carolina was ® liar, and that the lie suck in his throat. After the Senate adjourned Mr. Butler gent a challenge to Mr. Benton by the hands ot Mr. Foote, of Mississippi. Mr. Benton de- clined to ake any notice of the challenge, aud the matter by bar Mr. Butlet was sixty yoars old. —Hon. James Bell, United States Senator from New ‘t Laconia, in that State. He was sixty-five years old. le was a lawyer by profession, a whig in old fashioned politics, and a quiet, sensible, unassumi zen, Be had been so little before the public that his clec- tion to the Senate two years since was rather & surprise out of his own State; but be proved « faithful, capable, deserving Senator. ‘27.—General the Hon. George Anson, chief of the British army in India, near Delhi. Deceas: was son of the first Viscount Anson. Born in 1797, be en- tered the army at an early age, and was present at the battle of Waterloo and many leading comes its of the Penipeular war General Anson was Cle the Ordaance from 1846 to 185: in the House for Great Yarmouth from 1818 to 1505; for Stoke upon-Trent from 1436 to 1837, and for South Staffordshire from 1837 to 1853. General Anson was a leading character im the English turf, and a troe British » 5 28.—Raron Hyde de Neuville, Minister of Marine of France under Charles Tenth, in Paris....Wm. L. Lee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian King- m at Honolulu, 81 He had been residing at the Isiands since October, 1846, and was an eminent jurist and an able diplomat. Mr. Lee was born at Sandy Hill, Washington county, in the State of New York, ow the 25th February, 1821." At the age of thirteen he entered the Norwich University in the State of Vermont, where he re- mained two years, atthe end of which time he left the in- stitution and engaged in the business of a civil engineer in the service of his bative State. In Chia profession he rose so rapidly that at the end ef only three years he left it, having 'y filed the post of Resident Engir hext return Jniversity, where be «1 at the age of twent firet honors. On leaving the University, he received the appointment of Superin- tendent of the Military Academy at Portemouth, Virginia, in which position he remained one year. Having at the time of bis maturity decided upon adopting the law entered the Jaw school at Harvard be remained till he had completed the those eminent jarists, Judge Story enleaf. Mr. Lee possessed the entire pfi¢ence of both the late and the present King of the wich Islands, and on more than one occasion bas bis Majesty Kamahameba IV. evinced his appreciation of his services and bis virtues. 20.—The (infant) Archduchess Sophia of Austria, in Buda, Hungary, whither she had beep taken by her pa- fonts when ona royal tour. The Archduchess Sophia Frederica Dorothea Maria Josephine was born March 5, 1855, ten months after the marriage of her imperial pa- rent, “—3 24, 1844....George Brimley, Librarian of Trinity College, Qambridge, England, aged thirty-six He was a dnished scholar and erudite writer in Fraser's Magazine. Few read- “ Spectator can have forgotten the ability of the reviews from his pen of the works of Goethe, Carlyle, Bunsen, Comte, Thackaray, Bulwer, Dickens, ‘Teunyeon, and the two Brownings. Nor can any lover of poetry have missed reading his charming essay on Tennyson in the first volume of the Cambridge Kssays—the only essay of bis yet published bearing his name. JUNE. 3.—Thomas Biddle, of Philadelphia, aged 80 years. Mr. Biddle was well known in Philadelphia, he having taken « leading part in financial circles for a nutaber of years. He was a cousin of the late Nicholas Riddle. 6.—M. Brifaut, member of the French Academy in Paria at the age of 77.” He was the author of the tragedies of “Jane Grey,” “Ninus i.,’’ “Charles de Navarre,” an opera. “Olympie,” of which Spourini composed the music; and of several fugitive pieces of verse. them were some stanzas in honor of the birth of the Kil of Rome, and a piece of verse in honor of the return Dowie XVIN. $.—Douglaa Jerrold, the celebrated English writer, in London, aged fittgetx years. Dougias Jerrold was born in the latter part of the year 1801. When a boy be en- tered the navy, but did not remain for any lengthened period in that capacity. He subsequently, after a brief career as & compositor, adopted the protoumien of letters, and few men of modern days Lave been more uccessful. AS a dramatic author, his productions bold a good position: upon beth the English and American stage. He has writ ten in ail about forty play:, one of which—" Black eyed Sasan”—will be loved and cherished by the nautical part ‘of the British population #6 loog as the English language exists, Many years ago, in 1844, he became the editor of a weekly paper that bore his name, and during its exist ence showed every sign of rising and permanent pros- pority: it wae suddenly withdrawn, but not (rom any flnan- cial considerations. He subsequently started @ magazine, and again under bis own name. As a contributor to Punch, bis tales of “The Story of a Feather,” “ Mre Caudle's Curtain Lectures,’ with other very biting aud sarcastic contributions, will be long remembered. He also wrote « tale called "The History of St. James and St. Giles,” for the purpose of exbibiting the varions and contrasting phages in fashionable and antashionable life. ¥.—Alexaader F. Vache, M. D., in New York, aged fifty eight years. He held the position of Resilent Physician of New York under the old Iaw, when that office was clothed with more authority than [tis at present — In his thine he farnished many valuable contributions to the medical journals with reference to contagious diseases, which are highly prized by the medical facuity. 10.—Jobn U. Stevens, at Hoboken, New Jersey, aged seventy two years. Commodore Stevens was chiefly known and celebrated for his connection with American yachting. Hie carried out the yacht America, which creat fod the eenation of the grand regatta at Cowes by beating all the English craftof this character. He hat had as many as twenty different veseeis of this nature construct. od for him upon different experimental models, and haa owned m® Mig time quite a fleet of others. Mr. Sterens Was intimately enpceroed in originating and controlling the Camden and Aroboy Railroad, Resides his interest in this road, with large tracts of territory upén it, and bis fendall at Hoboken, Mr. Stevens left a splendid on and estates at Camden, together with handsome possessions in differént other localities. A good many ears sines be had been concerned with his brother in North river steamboats, but that interest has since con tracted to the limit of Hoboken ferry boats. He owned @ good many fine horses, and has been a leading acker on the “turf,” as, indeed, a liberal patron of alt the elegant and macly sports of the country. ....Gen Jobn B. Walbach, the oldest officer in the United States army, in Baltimore, in the 93d year of his age. Gen. W. was born in Alsace, on the Mine, in October, 1764. At ‘fan early age be entered the Austrian service as @ bussar, and was in the company appointed to receive Louis XVI. #1 hg Croutige when be Made the attempt to fee from Hampshire, France. He subsequently the French army,and wea to service vat ‘7 his regiment in the Indies, Nearly the whole of the regiment died, and in 1796 he came to this country, landing in Phi Hits Tithe ‘Wen the posuere, & large estate in this country, located in city of Philadelphia and in Vir- inia, and the son, then a young man, determined to study jaw, and for that purpose went into :he office of Alexan- der Hamilton, in New York. Having a fonduess for the Ife of a soldier he applica for and obtained a commission in the army of the United States, and has. uently told his friends that he received it from General His first service was as an aid to Gea. Wilkinsos, on thi frontier, and throughout bis whole career he bore a reputation as a gallant officer and strict disciplinarian. the war of 1812-'14 he bore a conspicuous part, and wae twice brevetted for gallant conduct. his earlier life be commanded at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; at Frank- ford arsenal, at Old Point Comfort, and at Annapolis. In the late war with Mexico he desired to take part, but his age prevented the consummation of his wishes. 18.—In India, at Cawnpore, at the first storming of that place, Brigadier Alexander Jack, C. B,, commandant of the station, a distinguished officer under Sir H. Smith, at Altwat, and Lord Gough at Chillianwalla and Goolerat. 16.—M. Graves, Director General of the of ‘Woods and Forests in France, about this day. of the firet naturalists of the day, and auther of some works of great research and authorily upon subjects of botany, | Stren Havana, Sisry. Anne relict ae : Gardiner, of Dr. George A. Gardiner, and mother of Dr. Gardiner, whose name was a few years since so frequently before the pub- Hic in connection with the “Gardiner claim.” The maiden name of this lady was Headley. She was born at Spring- field, New Jersey, about the year 1791. She was present at the great oarthquake at Caraccas, which destroyed that city im the year 1811, when ber tife and that of ber infant were preserved by a miracle. Afterwards, when on her way from South America to the United States with her busband, the vessel in which they liad taken passage was captured by a pirete, whofrom a previous kindness shown tim by Dr. Gardiner, took allon board his schooner off the captured vesse}, then nearly sinking, aud landed thom safely on the coast of Cart ena, New ‘Granada, 18.—Jobn Neilson, M. D., the oldest medicalpractition: in the city of New York, aged eighty -three years. He studied withthe elder Doctor Rodgers, and commenced practice sixty years since. 20.—Prince Chernisheff of Russia, at Castlemare, near Na- les, Italy, The deceased, who was one of the lastretics of ie great war of 1812, had filled the highest offices inthe Russian empire, and occupied a considerable 8; in the history of Europe. He was the favorite aid-de-camp of; Alexander I,, who entrusted him with several confidentia missions to the first Napoleon, in which he acquitted him- self with great tactand dexterity, In the of 1812 ke was in Paris, where he bribed one of the om- of the Ministry of War to furmish him with impor. tant documents in relation to the “Grand Army,” collected by the French Emperor for the invasion of , The intrigue being discovered, Chernisheff only escaped being shot by a hasty flight across the Rhine. Tn tho campaign of that year he distinguished himself by his extraordinary march ‘in the rear of the French army, which is spoken of with admiration by ail.the bistoriaas of the war, and in 1818 and ‘14 by the capture of Berlin, the defeat of the Westphalian Genera!, Ochs, whom he took prisoner, with his,whole division, and by the storm of Soiasons. A favorite of Alexander 1., he was still more highly esteemed by Nicholas, who appointed him Minister of War, in which position he remained for twenty five years, and was then made President of the Couacil,or Prince Minister. Asa 8 atesmanand military man, he had scarcely an equal in Ruseia; but he was hareh and overbearing in temper, a stern digciplinarian, and one of the most inflexible parti- sans of the ancien régime. He left an immense fortune. 25.—Hon. Langdon Cheves, iu Columbia, 8. C., aged 81 ears. The déceased was born in September, 1776, on a ranch of Caihoun’s Creek. After receiving an ordinar education he was placed im the office of Wm. Marshall. Mr. Cheves was admitted to the bar about the year 1800. He was elected to the Legislature in 1808, and soon took a high position in the House of Representatives, where he filled the chairmanship at one time of two important com- mittees. He was subsequently clected Attorney General of the State, in which post he continued until he was elected to Congress. In 1811 he was chosen to represent the Charleston Congressional district. in the House of Representatives of the United States for the unexpired term of Robert Marion. He served from 1811 to 1816. We were on the eve of war with England, and Mr. Cheves, as Chairman of the Committee on Nava) Affairs, assisted by Messrs. Lowndes and Cathoun, advocated the creation of @ navy, to which the House aud the public were opposed, under the discouragement presented by the presui smpossibie rivaiship with the large naval force ‘of Rogiand. Mr. Cheves’s counsels prevailed, aud the event justified bis conclusions on the subject. While in the exercise of judicial functions he was invited to the presidency of the United States Bank, the administration of whose affairs had given much dissatisfaction. Mr. Cheves’s presidency of that institution furnished a signal proof of hia sound judgment and emixent fiscal ability. voluntarily re- ‘signed this position in 1829..... Sir ‘Thomas B. Lenvant, the clone berovet- Ti the Uaieal Kingdon, i London, aged 96 years. ‘27.—About this day, the most celebrated and successi wa. charlatan of Paris—Mengin, the itinerant ‘il seller— died and left bebind bim a fortune of 400,000 francs. No one can bave pasted many days in Paris within the last tev years without baving observed oan some open space the conspicuous figure of .a |, bandsome man, with a brass he!met and plumes, and @ beard—tbe very model of that of Hudibras, “in shape and hue most like a tile’ — standing on the box of a light cart and haranging a crowd. He wore a costly mantte of green velvet, embroidered with gold, and on the fingers of his white hands were ly rings of great price. Behind him was a squire, who time to time blew a trumpet to attract public atten- tion, and whose garments were only lees splendid than those of his master. The only end snd aim of all tais and circumstance were the sale of lead clis at twosous ap ... Gen, Sir Massy Wheeler, K. C. H., of the British tf an who was mortally wounded when « the city of Cawnpore, India, against the Sepoys, died there. He was son of the late . Hugh Wheeler, of the Indian army. He was born at Ballywire, in 1789, so that at the time of his death he had reached his 66th’ year. tered the military service of the Kast India Company in 1808, wher received his first commission in the Bengal infantry. In the next year he marched with bis nt under Lord Lake, againet Delbi. Having risen steadily through the intermeciate ranks, he became colone| of the Forty-cighth Bengal Native Infantry in 1846, and in the samme year Was appointed Grat class brigadier, in command of feild forces; m 1854 he attained the rank of major general. In December, 1845, previous to the hard fought battles of Moonkee and Ferezeshah, the General (then Brigadier) Wheeler, with a force of 4,500 men and 21 guns, covered the village of Bussean, where the large de pot of stores had been collected for the army uncer Sir jeury Hardinge, Lord Gough, and Sir Harry Smith, and thus rendered important services whieh contributed in their mensure to the gaining of these victories. He re- ceived the order of the Doranee Empire tn 1848, and was honored a few years since for his distinguished merits by being ay one of the aids de-camp w her Majesty. Havin repeatedly thanked by the Governor General end Commander in.chief for hie valuable service im the Sikh campaigns and ‘nu the conquest of the Bunjab, he was created a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1850, and since that time hag held command of the district of Cawn. The Indign despatches during the war in the Pi Jab show that these honors were by no means cheaply ‘earned by General Wheeler, in October, 1848, he effected the reduction of the strong fortress of Rungur Muggul with the loss of-only a single map, and by his conduct on th's occasion earned the warmest approval of Lord Gough, (ben commander in chief, who formally cougratalated the brigadier op the result, which, in his opinion, was “ en- Ureiy to be ascribed to the soldierlike and judicious ar. rangementa of that gallan: officer.”’ cxpay, .—Captain C. W. Hillier, Royal Navy, the last of England’ Ae jlorious Firet of June officers,” in England, aged = on shore as St Henen and 1,100 troops surrendered to him. On landing the latter at 8t. Nicbolas Mole, be was seut the Gene. ral and afew prizes to Jamalca,.,.The Maded journa's announced the death at Cucta of Augustina Zaregoza, who, when very you! herself greatly in the me- morable siege of . by assieting the artilierymen im the very thickest of the fight in firing on the French. For ber services on this occasion she was made a sub-liou- ‘tenant of infantry in the Spanish army. and received reve- ral decorations, She was buried at Cucta with ali the honors «ue to her memory 2¢.—Vico Admiral Baron Dubourdiew, French Maritime Prefect at Toulon. The deceased tho service at tho age of 14, and in 1828 lost his left leg in tho affair of Navarino. fle attained the rank of Vico Admiral in 1862, And Was Appointed to the maritime prefecture in 1853. He was last year raised to the dignity of Senator as « re- ward for his services. 30.—During thie week died the two greatest cricket ge Brown, of ot death, Caldecourt, well known at "s, London, where he introduced the catapalta, Caidecout be termed a hardy cricketer. Of late yoars he had been songs pretty much in standing umpire in great JOLY. 2. The Karl of Mornington, in London. His life was insured for one quarter of a million pounds sterling... Jobn Sinciair, the last of the Irish volunteers of 1782, in Belfast, ireland. 4.—Hion. William Larned Marcy, Seoretary of State of the United States daring General Pierce's administration, at Balston, Saratoga county, New York, in the seventy- sixth year of bis age. Mr. M. was born in Sturbridge, Worcester county, Maseachuretis. After completing bis academic course in his native town he entered Brown Uni. voreity, Providence, R.1., and graduated there in 1808. From thenes he removed to Troy, N. Y., and commenced the practice of t During the war with Great Brivain n 1812 aud 1814, jarcy served as a volunteer in the defence of this State. He held # Lieutenant's commission did service at St. Regius on the Canada frontier. 1816 he was appointed Recorder of the city of Troy. Sul requentiy he was appointed to the post of Av jatant Gene in 421, and removed to Albany. On the organization of that potent and secret association, called the © Albany Re: gency.” Mr. Marcy became one of the most trusty and copidential members and advisers of its bead, Martin Van Brren. fa 1823 he received from the Legisiature the Appoutment of “a Comptrotier, which efftee he hold for wevern! years. (29 be was appointed one of ciate Justions of the reme Court of the Sta 188! he resigned that office in consequence of being elect ed United States Senator. He was in the Senate less than two years, when he resigned, being electad Governor of New York m 1802 He was twice reelectad, viz. im 1894 and 1896, bet on «4 fourth nomi nation, in 1338, he shared in the defeat of the demo cratic party. After retiring from the execuuve ebatr Mr. Marey principatiy devoted his attention to bis pri- vato business, untii Mr. Polk became President, in } He was then offered and accepted the office of 4 of War, and war considered through the four years of his servico one of the mort influential members of Mr. Polk's Cabinet, The duties of the War Department during the peaiere bd were arduous, and were byt & t larey with energy and ability. With the demoeratic party in this State Mr. Marcy was nob } pular; but bis ability as a writer, tactician and ‘Was generally admitted . Marcy was for many letter to Chevalier Hulseman on the Koszta affair, and werkt deb Secretary of it, jast official was one addressed to the French Minister, M. Sartiges, reply to his application ¢or indemnity in behalf of French residents at Greytown who suffered from the bardment of that town, and has been pronounced a mi letter on so insignificant a subject. It is said that Lord Napier applied to Mr. Case for for British residents of Greytown, de famous and as significant as Cmaar’ “To the victors the Consul of the United seventy-fourth year. The third son of Gen, Matthias ton, in the State of New President Andrew Jackson, in 1820, ited. States for Liverpool, where | served for eleven years, and was then transferred | Bristol. Mr. Ogden was one cf the pioneers of steam | vigation. So early as 1811 he was attracted to it equipped, be was the - voyage, proceeded with her from Now York to Norfolk, in es ‘and established her as a packet on the.) mes riv®. | Tn 18)7 Mr. went to Kngland, and submitted | . James Watt, who saidto him, “Mr. ugdeii, 1 i to declare it will make a beautiful gaged in fecting |‘ 1g instru. Nat ment, the com! <i one of Mr. Ogden and Capt. J. Ericsson, C. General Sir Henry Mont. 7 lawrence, K. C. B., of the British army, now, India, from the effects of wounds received. 2 b battle with the mutinous Sepoys. He was bornat Mal- | ba Re ‘lon, in 1808. Ho entered the military campaign und Sir Pollock in 1846, and received shortly after- wards the brevet rank of . In the same year ho became British resident at Nepaul. He afterwards took part in the campaigns on the Butte after which he waa made a Mi Companion of the and promoted to the rank of licutenant colonel. In 1846 he was appointed resident at Lahore, and agent for the Governor-General on the northwestern frontier. On the annexation of the Punjab, in 184¥, he was by Lord Dalhousie Chief Commissioner for the ernment of that district; and for his able services in and his preceding = iuning -| ment was made acivil K.C. B. In 1 ho obtained rank of full Colonel, and was also nominated an aid aide.de camp to Her Majesty. He was the author of “Ad- ventures of an officer in the service of Rungect Singh.”” Sunpay, 6.—Gen. Jose Maria Vergara, one of the old offl- cers of the Columbian revolution, in Bogota, N.G. Since 1822 the General remained shut up in his house without the members of his Barnard, K. U. B., of the before the walls of the city of Debi, India, which was besieged py the English troops under his command. He entered the army in 1814; was on the staffof bis uncle, the late Genefal Sir A. F. Bar. hard, at Yaris, in 1815, and on that of Sir Jobn Keane, in the Indies. ently held the command of a bri- gade in the Crim here he served as chief of the staff! under General si . Having returned home, ho held the command of the troope, first at Corfu ana subsequently at Shorneliffe. Jn November last he was sent out tolndia, and succeeded General Anson in his command of the forces before Delhi on that officer’s death. §.—General Sir Charles B. Egerton, one of the oldest Generals in tue British army. He entered tho army in November, 1791, and saw much active service, Sér Charles, a3 a Lieutenant, commanded a detachment of his regiment on board a live of-battle ship in Lord Howe’ memorable action on the Ist of June, 1794, and afterwards served at the blockade of Malta, and the surrender of Valetta on the Sth of September, 1800, at that time Major of his regiment. Thence he proceeded with his regiment | in General Sir Ralph Abercromby’s expedition to | and was present at the action of the 18th and 2ist of | March, 1801, The General afterwards bays the army in the Peniugula, and distinguished himself in Spain and to tugal, under the Duke of Wellington, in 1810 and 1811. 10.—The liberal party in Italy sustained a severe loss by the death of the young Prince Annibale Simonetti of An- cona, who during an attack of brain fever threw himself from s window at Ancona. In 1848 he was Minister of Fi- ance in the Constitutional Cabinet of the aud mem- ber of Parliament for his native town. left. office | when the government feil into the hands of the radical party, and when, after the restoration in 1849, the reac- tiouary party returned to power, he was treated by them as a demagogue. 14.—Hon. Mr. Sullivan, British Minister to Peru, in Lima, from the effects of « gun shot wound inflicted by ax unknown assassin, on the 11th inst. 16.—Pierre Jean Béranger expired in Paris, in the 78th year of his age. The deceased poet was born in Paris, Aug. 19, 1780, of humble entage. He witnessed the at pfthe Bastille in 1789, and beg ayod first learned to read’ Kept, on lon at Terovne. aed te a printer in Peronne. At wighteet ie projected the writing of an epic, to be called ‘ Clovis;’’ this he my ~~ the task of the succeeding twelv: a. le also pro- performances did Guced verses on sacred subjects. and, reduced to great distress, be thought of proceeding to Egypt, where Bonaparte then was, aud whose first successes lad excited visions ef glory and ang f among the Frenth population. The ‘turn, however, of some members of the expedition dis- sipated Bérapger’s dream, and he remained in Paris. It was at this period, when suffering from his disappomted hopes, and even actual i 5 be seems to have , if he could not be happy, and he jnoed bis “ Roger Rontemps. “Ie Grenier,’ and “Le Vieil Habit.” They were not immedi. uecessful: but ip 180% he sent some of his poems ho promised to ameliorate his situ- ( | ation. Kdenly called to Kome. Be hought bimeself f when a letter came from t clen, assigning to Beranger his income as a member of the Institute. He next obtained some employment as an editor, and in 1800 was appointed a clerk in the secreta- ry’s department of the Academy. His songs were now Vecoming popular in every quarter. During the “hus dred days’ of Bonaparte, Beranger refused the lucrative | Office of- censor. In 1815, when he published his Orst collection of sovgs, which were popular throughout France, he was informed that it would occasion his dia- missal from the office he held in the Academy. He wa- vered not, and was retained; but in 1821, when the second collection was published, he was at once discharged. He wrote more and more poignant satires upon tho govern- ment; he was prosecuted, and sentenced to three montha’ jmprixonment, and a fine of 600f, In 1828 he published ' hia thira collection. For thia he was again prosecuted, and sentenced to pine months’ imprisonment and a fine of 10,000f. Confined more strictly in the prison of La Force, the undaunted poet continued bis attacks ov she faults and follies of the government, and these remarkable ly- rics aided not a little in accel the fall of the Boar- bons. In 1830 the revolution of Jul; favorably for Beranger’s fortunes if up his beloved independence. 17.—General Henry Balneavis, ©. M. G. K. HI. island of Maita, in the 77th yearof bis age. Lie Balneavis served throughout the whole of the Spain. He was also present atthe battle of Mattsburg, ip America; and subsequently at the capture of Besides the above services, he held the import for many yeare, at Malta, of Inspector of Police, of Town Major. ’ 18,—Jjent. Geo. M. Totten, of the Chited States Nav ,N. J. He served with Wilkes in the Ut States Exploring Expedition, and commanded the United States steamer Water Witeb during the Mexican war. both these positions he scquitted himself vo the entire watiefaction of his ive commanders... John ¥¢ a native chief of the ‘ich Islands, in Honolulu. ‘was born in Hawaii in 1810. Atone time he was Gover- nor of Maui; afterwards he was Minister of the Interior, — tS Spanish, Dabo a! b dg | ) exe erated by the charch ‘ai Ram Ting. ‘21.—Mirza Mabommed even having any communi own family... .Gen. Sir henp: English army, of choler | | sian grammar, and was, some time before io in Persian a history poms Shab of Persia, whore tutor he bec ing Hailey bai ha Nexeph Bake, one of the eight color January, 1820, to found a settiement on the shores ‘Western’ Africa, died in Philadelphia. He participated im the early struggies and ware of the infant settiement. General Barrios, who lately attempted a revolution in Guatemala, C. A. Stxpay, 26.—Joseph Napoleon Ney, Prince of Moskowa, and eldest son of Marshal Ney, at St. German-en Lay near Paris. The Prince of ee ee the , 1804. Ni Jeon [. and the Empress Josephine, the daughter of M. Jaques Lafitte The prominent politi- cal position which Ney’s son as Se under successive régimes was due more to his name to his tastes or pe- colinr talents, He was a dilettante in arts, literature and music, and contributed more than perhaps any other mam to the introduction inte the French langnage of the word “aport”’ from England. He ones composed an opera called “Regine,” which is not pow very well known. He wae an old contributor to the Rérus dee Dewe Mondes. He was the owner of several race horses, whose names were once well known on the French turf, Matilda, Anglesea and Counterpart gained prizes in 1834. The Prince and hie brother, M. Edgar Ney, w often their own Jopere. ‘On one occasion, when riding a steeple chase upoe rt, the Prince, then @ captain in the Sth Hussars. wae thrown, and narrowly escaped with his life. Tie was one | of the fourteen original members of the Paria Jockey Club. Hie politics! carcer commenced under Louls P ey who, on the November, 1831, created him a poer France. In 1848 the Prince de Ia Moskowa went for do- mocracy. He belonged to a club that met at the Cafe Malthouse, called the Soci et Democratique Allemande, bh M. Herwegh was Prosident. This club sent out | of no tors than 1,800 men, who, under the com- “i of citizens Hecker, Welzen and Sonchorel, took @ ing part in the insurrection in the Grand Duchy of Ba On May 90, 1848, this corps, called the Democratic 4 haranguod by the Prince de la Mow rture. Tue Prince was elected m qislative Assembly for the departments of the Moselle and the Kure tlote in 1849. He attached himself from the firet fo the pretensions of the Prince President, and of course saluted the second empire with enthusiasm, He wes included in the fret creation of Se- nators, after having been Colonel of the Sth Lancers and a Colonel of dragoons, he wax promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, in 1853. At the timo of his death he was not in active sercien. 28.—Commodore John T. Newton, @ distinguished oft Of the United States navy, suddenly, in Washingtom city, aged sixty five years. 20.—Hon. Thomas J. Rusk, United States Senator from Mr. Ruse was a native of South Carolina. In 1824 he settied im Georgia, and eleven years Inter (1836) removed to Texas, He took a prominent part in the rovetaiians © manded acompany of volunteers, and as a mark of he apprecia- s | ce ‘Texas, at hie yn ke fifty four years of bis earth lite eator of the Budget Marcy acquired considerab! and writer of State documents his able letter Ply ta Gow. Soot quring dhe Mqaicaa war, by bis famous from Want