The Press. — London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

AS all ;nee highly proficient in mathrmatieil meletice. " At tie imitle of Leipsic he commended a Westphalian battery, was wonnded, and taken prisoner. Previous ex hibitions of bravery had procured for his name a place ie the roll of the Legion of Honour. ''porn the slismolution of the Westphalia& kingdom, and the return of the Efe e ror of Heme-Cassel, Radowits entered the service of the latter, and made with the Hessian artillery the campaign against France. Hir. talents quickly commanded the attention of his superiors, and in !site he was appointed the first teacher of mathematics and the military sciences to the School for Cadets at Cassel. Here he remained for some years, until some Cont int rig ues resulted in his honourable dismissal, when he repaired to Berlin, entered the service of Prussia, and, having the recommendat* of the King's( sister, speedily obtained advancement. He became niathenne ucal tutor to Prince Albrecht of Prussia, and was 'nude a captain on the stafr. He published two works on geome try and one on ricochet during Oil ten first years of his new career. lie was elected member of the highest mili tary board, • professor of the military academy, nod an examiner of artillery students. In lel4 lie Is.- came major, and, in Is:10, chief of the artillery general's staff. While thus &Avowing through the grads% of mili tary hierarchy, he was forming a relation of is yet more hie portant kind. A religion's mystic and entlinslast, his die• position agreed exactly with that of the t 'rown Prnice, now the King of Prussia; and this geniality of temper and habit proved of far greater power than the diversity of the dogmas which, as Protestant and Catholic, the otie and the other held. In !KIM Itadowitz married the Countess Maria VOSS, daughter of the ambassador. lle was now, despite of his origin, a recognised member of the Court, and, with out any of the cares or responsibilities or other, ghaord an its counsel's. In the year Iml9 he published two books remarkable for the contrast of their subjects. The first of these was ' I thy of the Saints,' containing his tork notices of all t w representations of the saints which have come down to posterity in pictures, coins, and other memorials ; with remarks on the meaning of the emblems, attitudes, and other characteristic's with which they have been invested. The ether work was called "the Theatre of War in Turkey,' being an application of simtegetical principles to the topographical features of the country be tween the Danube and the Ilalkon. In 114341 Itatlowitz was neural Military Plenipotentiary of Prussia at the tier manic Diet. This sppoinfment, a kind of loonotindole ha nioiliment, he owed to the hodut.nee of his oppements at Court and iu the Ministry. In 1840 the prospect of war with Foresee upon the ow. eenion of M. T ilers led to the recoil of Itaolowitz to Ileo whence he was shortly after rent with tictiend you der lino hen to Vienna, to stir up the • ;overtime'', of Austria to the. defence of Liermany. The war never came, bat Itadowitz forrouilit shout a series of reforma, which greatly contri. but to the efficiency of the federal army, and also did aeon than Any other man towards n oting the erection of the existing fortresses of film and hoisted', and the ex tension and greater atresigthening of Mayen's, and Luxem burg. In 1817 the present King called Ifoultowite. franc Ereskfort, and commisosionetl him to anew up a memorial upon the reconstitution of the Coofederao• This was 40160, and the memorial handed to the King, Nov. In of the same year. The next day Itoulowits went to Vienna, to make good his views will' Prince Aletternielo. A se wind journey was undertaken to Vienna on ti n following March, when the revolution broke out. The nom 00000 11114111111 pribinlited a taalleaCter tergailiNat . of the federal artily, a supreme judicial court for all tiermany, one criminal law, one commercial and hankniptcy code., one rotenone union, one railway and post'ielhee system, free trade in all real' shts, abolition of river tolls and of the censors', and, finally, theTublication of the proceediugs of the Mind. In April, IRIN, Iladowits retired from the l`russian Novice in consequence of the motto-I'l'k and the changed Male of atrairs. In the elect' to the Nat' I Assembly, which was to meet at Frankfort, he was Memos! for Anislwrg, in Westphalia. He took his Scut in the Assembly, looping that the public spirit of t;enotany would put an cud t o the revolution by accepting the Hew power it Ineel given to the representatives of the station as the basis of those tan gieforms which hail, up to that t' been attempted in rain. He spoke mod voted with the extreme right, dc siring to see the thirtynine sovereigntits; formed into one Mate, of which Prussia moat be the betel. The melon• choly end of the Assembly, igen' which t;ertiontly had built so many hopes, is, however, only too well known. To the last, Radowits was faitiofid to the principles which had always guided him, and sought the misty of tiermany by a voluntary arrangement Iwtwessi the tioweisoments and peoples. When his 1101,4”4 in the Assembly had been frustrated, lie returned to Berlin by desire of the. King, and became the anther of the silicone cellist the Union. In oreordatice with this, a kind of federal body was formed of shout eighteen stoles, the prince's of whirl' met in a while the people sere represented in a parlistais:t ne a l iT'gras convoked at Elliot. A eolossioloo• was transail, and the Millers we're summoned tee Merlin tee adopt it. Delays and licsitatime took place—cud w h e n, aim was to he exported, Austria opposed with griming strength the establishment of a league' log:Most her, the b overeigois of the Union states font I H un t an* is. .. th e ir conduct hall lost thew the confidence of the. people. As the crisis approached. it was fel . . that Itaslowita was to tee retitle forward awl assume th responsibility of Ida own measures. lie si c . cordingly. ente'reel the l'abinet hl 18545. The. Prussian army was mobilised, and the Loondwehr called out: troops occupied the Etanwn-strasse through Hesse l'oossel, rn which Austria had intervened. Shots were actually ex• changed between Austria and l'rnssie,when the King glove way, and sacrificed, with expressions doubtless of sincere regret, his minister and Mosel. Since then Von Ihsdowitz has lived in comparative retire went. His age at the time at his death was only Mt." 611 THE PRESS. Int. WILLIAM Moint.E Mum, Regius Professor of 1 lebrew in Cambridge University, Canon of Ely, and Rector of Brasted, died at Ely on Christmas-day, after less than a week's illness. On the previous Monday he came up to London to attend a meeting of the Foreign Translation Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The extreme cold of the day brought on an obstruction which no me dical skill could counteract, and he died, without pain, and with all such consolations as his friends could wish, on Sunday night. Dr. Mill took a very high degree in 1813, and was elected Fellow of Tri nity College. In 1520 he went out as first principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta, the noble foundation of Bishop Middleton. On his return, in 1838, he received the appointment of domestic and examining chaplain to the late Archbishop Howley. Subse quently he was appointed Christian Advocate. In 1813, his patron and friend, Archbishop Howley, presented him to the living of Brasted, Kent; and m 1848 he was elected Regius Professor of Hebrew, to which a canonry at Ely is attached. As a mathe matician and scholar, I)r. Mill's attainments were of the very highest order ; and the pursuits of his youth be continued as the relaxation of his maturer years. Ibis acquirements in Stuiscrit have won him an European reputation; and, as a contribution to the evangelising of India, as well as a classical pmtlue. tion in that great language, his Christ:: Sanyrito is a work unparalleled in modern literature. Dr. Mill's several publications as Christian Advocate are de voted to one of the most difficult subjects of Chris tian evidence. In them he has successively refuted the Pantheistic theory generally, and the speculations of Strauss specifically. Besides these works, I)r. Mill found time for the publication of three several series of university sermons. In his duties as a teacher it is understood that the late Hebrew pro• fessor united the difficult task of communicating knowledge with that facility in acquiring it which so eminently distinguished him. In Dr. Mill, Cam bridge loses one of its chief ornaments, the Church a most able defender, and one whose solid literature will form a permanent addition to the very highest range of Christian theology ; while his friends de plore one amiable in every relation of life, whose learning was never tinctured with guide, and whose firm convictions on controverted points never made loin a personal enemy. Dr. Mal leaves behind him a widow and a surviving daughter, the wife of the !lee. Benjamin Webb, of Sheen. THE death of Lord Metcalfe's brother, Sir Tuue -1.1111.rs METCALFE, is reported by the last uudi. He succeeded to the baronetcy at the death of his brother, with whom the title died. Sir Theophilus was well known to every one acquainted with India. His career was, in one respect, remarkable—it began, continued, and concluded at Delhi. Perhaps there never was a similar instance of a man remaining all his official career in the Indian civil service in one station. He arrived in India in 1813, anti never re visited England. Dn. :JAMES 041.1.1(11EST, Inspector General of Army Hospitals, and corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine of France, expired on the 25th inst., at 1, St. Alban's•place. This veteran officer entered the medical department of the army in 1801. One of the most eminent dissenting ministers, I)r. W. Jay, of Bath, died on Tuesday last, in that city, need 85. The deceased was born at Tisbury, in Wiltshire, in May, 1709—a year which gave birth to many celebrated characters, among them being the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Sir Walter Scott. Mr. Jay's parents were persons in humble circumstances, and he himself, in his younger flays, laboured as a mason's boy. At a very early age he exhibited considerable talent as an extempore preacher, and was placed under the tuition of the Rev. Cornelius Winter, of Marlborough. He began to preach before attaining his sixteenth year, his first public attempt at a sermon being made in the village of Ablington, in Wiltshire, anti has stated in one of his publications that before he was of age he had delivered nearly one tl - and sermons. In 1791 he was settled as the minister of Argyle chapel, in liath. Ile married, about the year 1790, the (laughter of Mr. Coombs, a respectable miller, resident in the village of his birth, and by her had three sons and three daughters. Mrs. Jay (lied a few years ago, and the deceased afterwards maned Miss Head, of Bredfonl, who survives him. Mr. Jay continued to be the minister of Argyle Chapel until January last, his ministry there having been pmlonged during sixty-two years. It is well known that Mr. Jay has, for many years, had in preparation an account of his own life and times, brought down by himself to a very recent period. A volume of lectures by him, on Female Scriptural Characters, is also in the press. THREE WIIITE SWANS AND ONE BLACK ONE have been stolen from the ornamental water in St James's Park, the property of the Ornithological Society. The society have issued a notice offering a reward of W. for the capture and conviction of the party guilty of thi3 impudent robbery. SATURDAY, tort* Ott, Xittraturt, c. THE THEATRIcAL NEWS }mom RusstA is extremely contradictory. Some time ago accounts were pub lished stating that Mlle. Rachel's performances at St. Petersburg had not met with any success, on ac count of the inefficiency of her entourage, and, moreover, that the Court had marked its dissatisfac tion in an unmistakable manner. This statement, however, is now denied, and the public are informed that the success of the great tragedian in the Russian capital is immense, and that she is the idol of the public. Up to the 11th of this month Rachel had given twenty performances, the receipts of which are said to amount to 211,8111 f. (upwards of $4,470/.), and that the subscriptions for stalls and boxes for the season reached the sum of 350,009 f. (14,(N0/.) IlAzzot, the 'popular Italian violinist, is at present giving a series of concerts at Antwerp, where his performances are attended with the greatest success. Tin ROYAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ANTIQUARIES lately held its usual quarterly meeting at Copenhagen, when Mr. Hammerhaimb, who during the summer had undertaken a voyage to the Fero Isles, in order to collect materials fora popular archteology of those islands, gave an account of his operations, and ex hibited specimens of a detailed special map on which he had collected a number of names of places handed down from the earliest times in the Fero dialect, which is an offshoot of the Icelandic or old Norse. These charts will be added to the collection contained in the society's archives. Professor Rain communi cated some observations on Runic stones in various provinces of Sweden and Norway, on which England or the Western countries are mentioned. Among these was one in memory of a Swede who was bulled at Bath, and another of one who died at Leith. TIIE TITLE OF DONIZETTI . H POST111.73I01:8 OrEI:A, about to be given at the Theatre Lyrique, is Etisa • both, ou la Pills du Proscrit. The libretto is fruit' the pen of MM. de Leuven and Brunswick. THE ELECTEIC TELEORArII between Stockholm and t'psala is so much employed as to be self-paying. A line is shortly to be laid down to Helsingborg, to meet the Danish in Elsinore. THE Fintr l'EnroaussrE of La Pierre de Trawls", a comedy in five acts, by M. J. Sandeau and M. E. Angier, took place on Sunday at the Theatre Fran cais. The Emperor and Empress were present, and the piece of course perfectly succeeded. AN ITALIAN MAESTRO, N. Gabrielli, leas been se lected to compose the music of the ballet in which Cerito is to make her rentrie at the Grand Opera. Gabrielli is well known for several admirable trwreeattx of vocal music. DANtr.t.ssEx, a Norwegian physician, has pub lished a popular tract on the Norwegian leprosy, which flourishes on the west coast. He proves it to be mostly hereditary, originally imported from the East, but to require sea air, and to be greatly aggra vated by bad diet and domestic filth. The author appends an ingenious plan for an improved fisher man's home. A NEW OrERA by Pacini has seen the light at the San Carlo at Naples, but with what success it is difficult to say, for the Italian critics, after saying that on the first night its reception was "not so fa vourable as could be desired," proceeded to inform their readers that its second performance excited the greatest enthusiasm, with iecals, dc,, for the com poser. Mmes. de Ginli and Borghi Mamo were the principal performers. The title is Romilda de Pro vence. THE BENEFIT or Mr.t.E. GEOROES on Saturday drew a crowded audience to the Theatre Francais ; this celebrated actress appearing in the character of Clef/- pa tre, in Corneille's Rodogune. These exhibitions, in which the public is called upon to witness the last struggles of expiring talent, are almost invariably painful to the spectators ; but the old friends and admirers of this relic of former days rallied round her on this occasion. The receipts amounted to nearly 5001., exclusive of donations from persons of the highest rank, which were on a scale of truly royal munificence. The memoirs of Mlle. Georges, faith fully written, would furnish a curious chapter in the volume of human life. A DisrlN.itisitEn SWEi)IiI PRIEST, Dr. Thoinan der, has published a sharp pamphlet against the State Chut•ch prelatic party, advocating reform and the rights of the laity. AmoNo the propositions just laid before the Swe dish Parliament by the Government is a bill for introducing the decimal system into the coinage. The unit is to be the riksdalcr riksmynt, of the same Value as the rikdaler riksgiilds, four of which make the present riksdaler specie. FOUR YOI - NO EGYPTIANS have just taken out their degree of doctor in physic at the University of Munich. They arrived in 1t449, and have not only gone regu larly through their medical education, lint have learned the to:reek, Latin, and German languages, with music and painting. Before they left their own country they were acquainted with French and Eng lish. These young men have shown an extraordinary -