The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1887-01-08 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

OBITUARY FOR 1888.  The number of deaths which have occiirred daring the past year among the reigning families of Europe are very few, the only two of any note tie Wiruninoftliierer -CTut the two greatest of Indian Princes—holkar tel Seindia—have (tied daring tile year, in the course of which the British army has lost Field-Marshals Sir John Michel on,! Sir Richard Dames, General Sir Herbert Macpherson, General E. Somerset, General Reilly, General Sir F. W. Footing, and Colonel Macpherson of Cluny. Admiral Sir W. King Hall is about the only naval officer of note who hes died during the year ; but the French army and navy have lost General Uhrich, the cdenniander of Strasburg during the war of 1870, and Admiral de Gueyilon ; the United Stas General Hitchcock and Chester Arthur ; and the Russian army General Abramolt The English and Irish Churches have hot Dr. Trench, exArchbishoti of Dublin ; Dr. Thompson, Master of Trinity (Cambridge) ; Dr. Cradock, Principal of Brasenose ; and the Reverend W. J. E. Bennett, Vicar of Frome ; while the deaths outside these Churches include Dr. C. Stanford, Baptist ; the Homan Catholic Bishops of Cork, Kihnore, and Newcastle-on-Tyne : Archbishop Erring.. end Cardinal Gilbert, Archbishop of Paris The ; prominent politicians and diplomatists who have died during the year include: the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, Lord Henry Lennox, the Right Honourable A. S. Ayrton. Mr. Samuel Morley, the Earl of Redesdole, Lord Cardwell, Sir Abs. an(ler Makt, and Sir John Crampton for England ; Count Beset in Australia ; Signor Mill, hetti in Italy ; the Dun Deem, the Comte de Falieux, the Conde de St. Vallier, and M. Paul Bert in France ; M. Maim in Belgium ; end Mr. Tilden, ex-candidate for the Presidency, Mr. diodes Francis Adano, and Senator Logan in time United States. The English Bench and Bar have lost Lord Monkswell. Mr. Justice Pearson, Mr. Rommel], the senior Queen's counsel, and Mr. Aspinall, Q.C. ; while literature has lost Leopold von Rank, Max Dunckei, and George Waite, the three German historians ; Herr von Scheitfel, the German poet ; Herr Leopold Kompert, the Austrian novelist ; Mr. 5. Fergnson, the historian ; 81r. Lionel Tennyson, son of the Laureate ; M. Aksakolf, the Russian journalist! Mr. Gough, the tempemnee lecturer ; Sir Henry Taylor, author of " Philip VFW Artevelde Ostrotfski, the Russian dramnatist ; Professor Selmer, the Swim historian and critic ; Professor Tulloch, of St. Andrew's UoiversitY i and Pen. fess, Madai, the Danislt classical scholar. The nrt world is poorer for the deaths of Mr. Randolph Caliceott in England, end of M. Paul Hendry, the French painter ; while music has to deplore the deaths of Ablie Liszt, Mr. Joseph Maas, the tenor singer, and Mr. J. L. Hatton, the composer. The men of science and the travellers who have died during the year comprise Sir C. Douglas Fomyth, Sir G. IT Vole, and Mr. Madden in England ,• and M. Paul Soleillet is France. Among the peers not mentione.l above who have died during the mar are the Marquess of Adeslinry ; the Earls of Drilkeith, Enmminhtlloo, Shaftes. bury (who committed suicide in a cab). Stradbmke, and Straffonl • Viscounts Barrington, Falkland, and Strathallen ; Lords Brougham and Vann, Churchill, Pcniryn, Salton, and Waveney and among the other notable persons who have died during the vote may be counted Sir Chariot Trevelyan, Sir Dumphrey to Trafford, Sir T. Erskine May (who only lived a few days after he bad been created Lord Farnbomugh), Colonel Naylor Leyland (who was accidentally killed wide shooting in Scotland), the Dowager-Duchess of Norfolk, the Marchioness of Camden, the Conntess of Eglinton, Colonel Napier Start, Lord Charles Hamilton, Lord Dupplin, Hobart Pasha, Mr. Andrew Cockerel!, Mr. O. E. derma (one of the members for Middlesex), the widow of the Comte de Chambord, Princess Torlonia and Borghese of Rome, the Due de Castries in Franoe, and the jockeys Archer and dhaloner.  The Copyright Convention between Great Britain mei Italy of the 30th November, 1860, will continue to remain in force until the contention It, the creation of en International Union for the prot,rion of literary and ertietiri work, which was signed at Berne on the oth Seirtemher last by the plenipotentiariee of Great Britain, Italy, and other Suite.. MIMI come into effect. A declaration thie effect was signed ie London by the End of Iddeeleigh and Count Corti, under date of the 29th Sixteen hundred eoldiere of the Infantry of the Marine ware to haw' been eent back from Tannin to rmiee early in January, but the Tempe a, winners. tlrat, owing to the operritione which have been undertriken against the Chineee nen Anna. mite rebels and piratre, it has been decided riot to diminish the military force in that colony for the preeent. No more troop. twill be withdrawn from 'reequip till the pacilieMion of the country is further advanced than it 0 at present. A