The Press.
London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

Obituarg.

REAR-ADMIRAL J. W. MAURICE expired at
Plymouth on Friday week, aged eighty-two years,
having been born 10th February, 1775. The vener-
able and gallant officer entered the navy in August,
1789, and in 1705 participated in Lord Bridport'a
action. After seeing further active service, he was
transferred to the Royal George, 100, flagship of
Lord Bridport, who promoted him soon afterwards to
the Glory, 00. Lieut. Maurice, in September, 1802,
was appointed to the Centaur, under Commodore
Samuel Hood, in which he served at the capture of
St. Lucie, Tobago, Demerara, and Essequibo. In
1805 he commanded the garrison of the Diamond
Rock, and surrendered to the French fleet after a
brave and highly honourable resistance, which ob-
tained the admiration of Nelson. Ho commanded
the seamen and marines at the island of Anholt,
which he defended against the attacks of 4,000 Danes
in 1811, which at the time rendered his name famous
for defeating that strong force of the enemy ; he and
his men taking prisoners more in number than their
own strength of garrison. He remained at the
island until Sept., 1812, since which the gallant
officer has not held employment.
SIR CHARLES CLARKE, BART., died on Monday, at his
residence, on the Marine-parade, Brighton, in his
seventy sixth year, after a lingering illness of nearly
two years' duration. Charles Mansfield Clarke, the
younger son of the late Mr. John Clarke, surgeon, of
Chancery-lane, by a daughter of William Mansfield,
Esq., of Thrapstone, Northamptonshire, was born in
London, May 28, 1782, and received the rudiments of
his classical education at St. Paul's School, where he
was the schoolfellow, and, we believe, the playmate,
or formfellow, of the late Lord Chancellor Truro and
the present Chief Baron Pcllock. Having passed
through the preliminary studies of a medical student,
Mr. Clarke spent the two first years of his profes-
sional life as assistant-surgeon in the Hertfordshire
Militia, which he subsequently exchanged for the
post of surgeon in the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards.
Subsequently, however, he was induced by his elder
brother to give up the army, and to devote his whole
attention to the diseases of women and children, and
more particularly to the practice of midwifery. He
associated with his brother as a lecturer on these
subjects as early as 1804, and continued to deliver
his regular courses of lectures down to the year 1821,
during which time he could reckon almost all the
eminent accoucheurs among his hearers and pupils.
For many years he held the appointment of surgeon
to Queen Charlotte's Lying-in-Hospital, which ho
resigned about the same time that he ceased to lec-
ture, though the interests and welfare of that institu-
tion continued to the last to be objects of bis atten-
tion and regard. In 1825 he was chosen a Fellow of
the Royal Society. Hitherto Mr. Clarke had practised
only as an aecoucheur, in which capacity his rise to
fame and celebrity bad been speedy, if not sudden,
though not more so than he well deserved ; for no
man ever threw himself more zealously into his pro-
fessional duties, or showed more tenderness and sym-
pathy in all his dealings with his patients, or more
kindness and courtesy to his professional rivals. He
always had a kind word for every one around him,
and even when in the height of his London practice,
and when carriages thronged his doors in Saville-
row, he would go on any distant visit to the wife or
daughter of a medical gentleman, regardless of the
consequences to himself. By these means, aided by
his great sagacity and knowledge of the world and of
mankind, he attained so solid and substantial a
position that he was able to retire from the constant
cares of his London practice at an age when most
men are still climbing up the hill, and to purchase
the estate of Dunham Lodge in Norfolk, when he
had scarcely passed his fortieth year. Sir Charles
Clarke married in 1806 Mary Ann, daughter of the
late Wright Thomas Squire, Esq., of Peterborough,
who died in 1858, by whom he had a family of five
daughters and also two sons, the eldest of whom has
now succeeded to the title as second baronet. He is
in holy orders, and was appointed to the rectory of
Hanwell, Middlesex, in 1847.
THE MARCHIONESS DOWAGER OF ELY expired at
Hampton Court Palace on Sunday last. The de-
ceased Marchioness was the eldest daughter of the
late Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, Baronet, of Kirt-
lington-park, Oxon, and married, in 1810, John,
second Marquis of Ely, by whom she had a nume-
rous family. Her ladyship was Maid of Honour to
her Majesty Queen Charlotte, and for some years
Lady of the Bedchamber to her Majesty Queen
Adelaide. She was born in 1785, and was conse-
quently in her seventy-third year. Her ladyship had
been for some time past suffering from repeated
attacks of chronic bronchitis, under which disease she
eventually sank.
THE HON. WM. HENRY HARE, second son of
William, first Earl of Listowel, died a few days since
at Stoke, Devonshire. He was horn Ist July, 1762,
and married, 17th July, 1806, Charlotte, only daughter
of Mr. Isaac Baugh, which lady died in Oct., 1847,
leaving issue an only sex

lortign anb doionial ntallignut.

FRANCE.
The visit of the Emperor and Empress to Stuttgard
is now settled. Their Majesties w►ll leave Chalons
on the 24th. The King of Wurtemburg returned to
Stuttgard last Saturday, in order to prepare for his
distinguished visitors. " The first grand manceuvres
in the camp at Chalons took place on Monday last,
and are to be continued every other day. The Guard
executed with remarkable precision and combination
the different military movements commanded by the
Emperor. In a few days his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge is to arrive. The marshals are
invited to come and spend a few days with his
Majesty.
" The Emperor," says a letter from the camp,
"leads a complete camp life: from noon to
three o'clock, during the exercises, his Majesty is on
horseback ; the remainder of the day he is engaged
in his cabinet. At half•past six his Majesty dines,
covers being every day laid for thirty. There are
about 150 superior officers in the camp, and they are
each invited in their turn. After dinner some whist
tables are formed, but the party does not remain late,
as the Emperor retires to rest at an early hour.
Every morning he is engaged in his cabinet, and the
telegraph is act►vely at work."
The event of the day in Paris is the reappearance
of the Assemblie Nationale under the name of the
Spectateur. It may be remembered that this journal
Was suspended on the Bth of July for two mouths by
a Ministerial order, in consequence of an article re-
lating to the elections. M. Binard, in tl►e first
article, alludes to the circumstances attending the
reappearance of the journal under a new name, and
remarks—" Yielding at present to a force which we
cannot resist, we have consented to change our title,
but ell the rest remains as it was." The authorisa-
tion of the Minister is subjoined to the statement;
and then the journal proceeds to give the intelligence
of the day in the usual way.
Ledru Rollin, Mazzini, Massarenti, and Campa-
nella, have been condemned par contumace for
conspiracy (crime de complot) in the plot to assassi-
nate the Emperor. The court sentenced them to
deportation.

AUSTRIA.
The Ost Deutsche Post, which frequently ex•
presses the sentiments of the Austrian Foreign-
office, contains the following article on the Anglo-
Indian question:—
" Great anti general is the sympathy felt for the
English in the East Indies. Wherever inveterate
prejudice and national jealousy do not predominate,
it is wished that England may speedily triumph. So
great, so powerful is the force of public opinion in
this matter, that even those who at heart hate the
proud British empire, and wish to see it enervated
and exhausted, dare not openly express their
thoughts. They are necessitated to mask their real
sentiments under a hypocritical turning up of the
eyes' (Attgenverdrehen) and apparently sympathis-
ing phrases. Edifying in this respect are the
American and French organs of the press. Some
of the American papers already flatter themselves
that India is lost to England for ever, and foresee
that Great Britain is destined to become a fourth-
rate power. A Paris paper, being moved by generous
indignation, repudiates the idea, and with great
unction expresses its conviction that even if England
should lose India it will be a second or third rate
power. We, however, hope and believe that those
who speculate on the humiliation and decline of
England will find themselves egregiously deceived.
England's power and greatness must be upheld for
the welfare of the world, for the maintenance of the
integrity and independence of the European States ;
for if her might and influence should decline, two
powers would share between them the dominion
over the world. We do not mean Russia and France,
but Russia and North America. It is necessary for
Germany, for the Netherlands, for the balance of
power in the East, that England should continue to
be what she now is. England is also necessary to
the well-being of France, inasmuch as she, by her
influence, keeps a sanguine and over-hasty nation
from making perilous experiments—from paying, by
the most terrible misfortunes, for a few brief years of
splendour (glory). The war in India will probably last
one or two years ; but every politician who is not a
Russian or an American must desire that the ex-
ertions of England may be crowned with success,
and that she may remain, as now, a first-rate
power.'

PRUSSIA.
The health of the King of I'russia is restored. A
Berlin letter of the oth says :—" The King and
Queen leave this evening for Potsdam, on their way
to Halle, to be present at the manteuvres of the
troops. The brothers of his Majesty as well as the
King of Saxony will be present, as well as several
other German sovereigns, and in particular the
Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimer and Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, the Dukes of Nassau, Brunswick, Gotha,
Memingen, Altenberg, the Prince of Wasa, and the