Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-01-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE GREAT DEPARTED.  The deaths during the past year have not included any reigning Sovereign except the Duke of Brunswick, unless King Cetewayo be classed as one; but the Royal houses of Europe have nearly all been thrown into mourning by the deaths of the young Duke of Albany, the Prince of Orange, the Empress Dowager Maria Anna) of Austria, Prince George of Saxony. the Land. grave of Hesse, and one of the Saxe-Coburg Princes. The English aristocracy has sustained some very severe losses during the year, including the Duke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Wellington, the Duchess of Somerset, the Marquesses of Hertford, Londonderry, and Choi. mondeley, the Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury and Talbot, the Earls of Sandwich, Cowley. Lauderdale, and Scarborough, Earl Grosvenor, Viscount Torrington, Lord Ampthill, lady Bridport, Lord Stafford, and the Hon. Gilbert Leigh. The names of Lords Anmthill and Cowley might have been included among the public men who have died during the year—such as Sir Bartle Freer, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. T. W. Henley at home, and Midhat Pacha, M. Rouher, Signor Sella, Herr Luker, Count von Uscdom, and Mr. Wendell Phillips abroad. The Church of England has lost many distinguished members, including the Bishop of Ripon, the Deans of Gloucester and Bangor, the I rovost and Vice-Provost of Eton (Dr. Goodford and the Bev. C.. 5. Dupuis), Canons Girdlestone and Hume, and the Bishop of hilmore in Ireland; while the Dissenting sects have lost, among other men of note, Dr. Angus Smith, the Rev. Baldwin Brown, and Mr. W. H. Choosing. the Armenian Patriarch, Monsignor Holes, has also died during the year; as have, in the Roman Catholic Church, the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal Bilio, who was in attendance upon the Pope. The Rev. Mark Pettis.; might have been included among the deceased ecclesiastics, but he belongs rather to the battalion of men of letters, which has lost during the year Mr. A. Hayward, Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, Mr. T. Chenery, Mr. Charles Reade, Mr. J. Lewis, MG Calverley, the University tutor, Mr. Horne, the poet, Mr. H. Byron, and Mr. Bromley, Davenport, M.P , at home; while abroad the deaths of Count d'Hausonville, Mr. J. B. Dumas, and H. Mignet have created vacancies in the French Academy; and the names of MM. Quichertst and P. Lacroix, and of H. Laube, the novelist, will be familiar to many English readers. Mr. B. J. Dumas belonged as much to the scientific as he did to the literary world, and science has eustained no greater loss during the year; though Dr. Voelcker and H. Warts were both eminent chemists; while Dr. Schlegel, who committed suicide, was an eminent Dutch naturalist. The deaths of Mr. Justice Williams and of Mr. Longfield, ex-judge in Ireland, were the most noteworthy in the legal world; and medicine has not to deplore the death of more than one famous man, Sir Erasmus Wilson. The mortality among naval and military men has, upon the other hand, been very heavy, for Generals Sir W. Codrington, A. Cunynghame, and Sir D. Russell, Admirals Sir S. S. Parsley, Sir Rodney Mundy, and H. C. Glyn in the English services, and Generals Fleury, Schramm (France), Wimpffen (Austria). and Todleben (Ramie), and Admiral Fourichon (France; have all died since the beginning of the year. The deaths of painters, sculptors, to., include those of Bastien-Lepage, De Kittle, Hans Mackart, Richter, and F. Hell, R.A , while in the musical and dramatic world such names as Sir Michael Costa, Victor Masse, Marie Litton, Fanny Elssler, and the Freszolini deserve special mention. The sporting world has lost Mr. Caledon Alexander, Sim Templeman, the jockey, Lord Mostyn, and Sir Richard Bulkeley ; and Paul Morphy, the chess player; Delmonico, the New York restaurant keeper; Count Pahlen, the friend and companion of Talleyrand ; Bass, the brewer ; and Mr. Robert Grimston, the great cricketer, have also died in the course of the year.