The Press. — 1856-11-08 (London, England)

HAGGARD, D.C.L., Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester, died at Brighton on Friday week, in the sixty third year of his age. Dr. Haggard was educated at Trinity-hall, Cambridge, of which college he was a fellow, and he proceeded to the degree et' LL.B. in 1813. He was appointed chancellor of Lincoln by Dr. Kaye, the late learned and excellent bishop of that diocese. In 1845 he was nominated chancellor of the diocese of Winchester by the present bishop, and in 1847 commissary for Surrey in the same diocese. In the same year, 1847, he received the appointment of chancellor of Manchester from the present and first bishop of this diocese. As an editor Dr. Haggard rendered eminent services to the literature of civil and ecclesiastical law.  PAUL DELAROCHE, the great French painter, died suddenly of disease of the heart on Monday last. Though he has long been suffering, his death seems to have been quite unexpected. During the day he had been conversing with M. Horace Vernet, his father-iu law, with M. Goupil, and with one of his medical attendants. Having just desired his servant to take back to his tailor some article of dress to be altered, he was sitting in his arm-chair ; suddenly,  1067  without the slightest movement, without a sigh, he bent his head, and expired. Paul Delaroche was born in Paris in 1797. He studied bar I, and in 1822 attracted the attention of the public by his "Joas," now in the Luxembourg. From that time he rose in the estimation of the artistic world. He gained a prize in the exhibition of 1824, and it amp became a subject of remark that he was displaying a freedom from conventionalities which marked independence and individuality. " The Death of Annibale Caracc;" in 1826, and " The Death of Queen Elizabeth" in 1827, displayed these qualities in a still stronger light. He continued to augment his reputation by successive works always carefully painted, always true to the principles he had adopted, and almost always displaying marks of progression. In 1835 appeared " The Murder of the Duc de Guise," a cabinet picture, and considered by many persons his masterpiece. But the pictures by which he is best known in England are " The Sons of Edward IV. in the Tower," " Lord Strafford on his way to Execution," " Charles I. insulted in the Guard-room," and " Cromwell Contemplating the Body of Charles I." The death of Delaroche is a great loss to the French school, though since 1837 he had exhibited nothing, and latterly had retired altogether from the world to the circle of his relations, lived with his two children and his most intimate friends, and devoted to his art whatever time the incurable disease with which he was afflicted allowed him. Yet during this period of seclusion he produced works which we are assured equal, if they do not surpass, those which have attained to notoriety. Among these are mentioned, " Marie Antoinette before the Revolutionary Tribunal," a " Descent from the Cross," and " The Last Banquet of the Girondins."  LORD MIDDLETON died at Wollaton-hall, Notts, on the sth instant. The deceased peer, Digby Wil. loughby, was a Captain in the Royal Navy ; lie was born in 1769, and had attained the advanced age of eighty seven years. The death without issue of his cousin, the sixth peer, placed him in possession of the family honours, which now devolve upon his cousin, Mr. Henry Willoughby, of Birdsall and Lettrington, Yorkshire, born in 1817, and married, in 1843, to Julia Louisa, daughter of the late Alexander Bosville, Esq., of Thorpe, by whom he has several children.