The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-31

has been engaged The high level bridge at Newcastle
bridges over the Menai straits and the Victoria bridge
the 81 lawrence win long stand ms monuments OF
Robert sterherscns energy, enterprise and skull
% Count de Cooredo Waldsee, Austrian Envoy nj the
zurich Tia ian Conference in that city. The Count within
years had represented Austria her Ambas-
London and at Rome, and was appointed IN July
take part in the conferences at Znr CHI Grst
ienip@enary. He displayed in this last IN sson in
gepce and straghtferwardness which distinguished him In
s. ligh degree. He was hf.y years OF age.
NOVEMBER.
1-Dcctor Louis Spohr, Of the most eminent
clans in Germany, died a. Hesse Casse aged eighty
years
23James A. Iawric Professor Of Surgery in the Uni
versity Of Glasgow Scotland most eminent teacher aud
prac,orer. He OF the Rev. DR.. Archibald Law
re Of Loudoun he friend Of Burns, and, after under
going the usual medical curriculum he proceeded
Madras Presidency, where ho practed his profession,
and gathered the seeds of the disease which ultimately
cut lin of Returning from India, he appointed
Professor in the Andersonian University and tho
Of the vacancy the Proiessorshp Of Surgery
Glasgow University.
26Prncess Anna Sapieha Of Poland breashed her
in pus, the seth year Of her age. Enfeebled by age
Illness she partook the Holy Communion and awaited
with calm resgna the approach of death, seeming only
pger this world little longer that she might press
once more the hand of her ustrous 70 whom
sbc bad during ha century, looked up with kind Of
religious Prince Czartoryski had boen absent
Paris for considerable te on the
25ih and the ensuing day, at O'Clock morning
the Princess slept away without sign of suffering
The deceased, who belonged to the most flus.rous
families Of Poland, born in l772. Her father,
Count Andrew Zamoyski Grand Chancellor Of the Grown
OF Poland enjoyed the reputation OF being the noble
and upright character of the reign of SaDsIas
After the violent seizure OF the persons Of the Senators
Poland BY the Russian troops IN l7s7 he resigned tina
however subsequently again called forth by the voice II
his wlsf entrusted to him the digest or code
Of laws Tn -e o. the Chancellor, the mother Of The
decesssss.. Princess sapeha, aA'sa@s q Prince
Joseph Czar,orysk OF the Korzec branch. The great
economy practccd by this lady in ali the details OF
her private lie formed striking contrast to the luxury
Kes rssea a" The Standard Of sarregon TINS
parsnonious but also truly patriotic opened her
rich treasury and silently poured ia contents into the
their oppressors Such were the family traditions amid
which Princess Anna Sapeha's character was formed
vre virtues Of the citizen and from her mother the
Of order and the art OF making noble OF her fortune
In 1894 the Princess married at zamosc Prince Alexan
der Sapeha who was born at Srasburg where driven by
the msortunes OF Poland his father had sought refuge In
consequence Of the hope the assistance Of France having
been held out to his country Prince Sapeha entered the
service Of Napoleon L. but his lie terminated pr
turey in 1872 Two children-the Princess Anna after
wards married to Prince Adam Czartoryski aud Prince
death Of her husband the Princess though still compare
lively young and accustomed to live in the great
Paris and Warsaw did not for moment hesitate between
the serious and sacred duties OF mother aud the vo
lous pleasures Of the world but devoted herself excu
sively to the education Of her children and admin
stratou Of her fortune which had suffered considerably
in consequence OF the disasters which had befafl-n
country After the disasters Of Poandn 1881 Princess Sa
peha remained in the country and by her Efforts
saving remnants the colossal fortune of Prince
Czaroryski and having joined his family in 1888, che
brought with her an accession 10 their pscnary means
buf mex and
however, closing her heart against the wants OF her
counrymen or of her country. In Paris she became,
indeed, IL were, the shier OF all the charitable
useful institutions connected with the Polish emigration
and whenever public private want felt Princess
Sapeha TO be applied TO- Despising luxury and
pomp loving all that good and beautiful, always q,
work, always surrounded by accounts by lists, by
petitions, she knew how to refuse, and she delighted in
granting, favOrs and she continues beyond the
tomb her puSlic beneactons, having bequeathcd large
to her children TO be employed solely for public pur
1swashr gton Irving, the father OF American itera
ture at his residence, Sunnyside, New York, aged "
yeas WASHINGTON Irving was born 10 the city Of New
the time Of his death in his seventy seventh The
house in which be was born stood at No 13l William
stores and the birthplace OF "Geofrey Crayon' is
devoted the sale Of china and toys Mr.. Irving
tina, idea for the more lucrative vocation Of merchant,
taking an the Ss FL houss Of his
leisure atty his literary tastes The financial
which followed the peace OF 1915 involved hs family and
threw him upon his own resources, and 10 this his
subsequent devotion TO literature may probably be
traced The following ia list Of Mr. Irvngs works
Is New York. csay0n Miscellany,
Columbus, e vols.) Oliver Goldsmith,
BracebrdRe Hall, MAhonet, q vols.)
Tales of Traveller, Granada,
Lite ass q Washington, Is vols) Wolierts Roost
The list comprises all twenty volumes, not includ
ing "salmagund," by Irving, Pauding, &C. the
letters of "Young Jonathan Old syle" published in
volume years sgo without Mr. yss sanction
once the home Of "wofert Ackero and the Van Tasses
celebrated in Knckerbockers story about twenty years
taste In this retirement his later years have been
spent, she himself said, ga happy old bachelor,
rounded by kind friends and affectionae relatives IL
retired wholly from literary labor on the completion Of his
Washir gtop" In the year $780, Washington Irving OBJ
tanned Of the two fifty guinea gold medals instituted BY
George the Fourth for emnepce In historical composition
Halam the English historian, took the other.
DECEMBER.
s-Theodore Sedgwick, United States District Attorney
for the Southern District Of New York. in Massachusetts
aged forty eight years. He very eminent lawyer
and Of very old and distinguished family In his leisure
hours Mr. Sedgwick employed his time in striving gain
author, and succeeded well as to fol
himself in the opinion Of many Of our abest lawyers,
claim to Immortality Hs-work entitled "Sedgwick or
the Measure Of Damages lis well known TO members
the legal confidently here and s said TO be much
quoted as authority that particular subject in England
as IN THIS country his ueatlSo on
Statutory lava work Of great mer-enjoys reputa
ton scarcely inferior to that which has been accorded
his book on damages
Thomas De Quincy, an eminent English author, Ii
Enburg aged seventy years Full Of years. he dieA full
Of honors such he cared 10 wn leaving behind him thu
only OF profound scholar in the department he
affected but Of the greatest masters Of English pure
and indebted who ever handled the PEN He was the
absolute creator of species of "impassioncd prose-
which he seemed born TO Introduce and in which he had
no prototype rival no successor. he was Of the
friends OF colerdge, southey and Wordsworth; and
with perhaps the exception Of IAndor and Brougham-
may be regarded the last Of that noble array Of
Of letters who shed such urc over the carly part of the
nineteenth century.
Mrs Cathartne Denoist, at the residence OF her
asugnrer ms Uur.,s, IN g. Louis. Mrs. B. born in
nine years Of ago had she lived until February next
She passed her whole life In that CITY, and during this
nearly four score years, has witnessed oil @ changes
first as Spanish village Of but hundred or two
| again under the government Of the French, and
then under the more prosperous American do
mnion, until il has become q city Of nearly two hun
dred thousand souls.