Widnes Examiner. — 1885-01-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE DEATH ROLL OF 1884.  The deaths of the 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 death of the young Duke of Albany, the Prince of Orange, the Empress Dowager (Maria-Anna) of Austria, Prince George of Saxony, the Landgrave 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 Buceleuch, the Duke of Wellington' the Duchess of Somerset, the Marquises of Hertford, Londonderry, and Cholmondeley, the Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury and Talbot, the Earls of Sdndwich, Cowley, Lauderdale, and Scarborough, Earl Grosvenor, Viscount Torrington, Lord Ampthill, Lady Bindport, Lord Stafford, arid the Honourable Gilbert Leigh. The names of Lords Ampthill and Cowley might have been included among the public men who have died during the year—such as Sir Bartle Frere, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Milner Gibson' Mr. T. W. Henley, at home; and Midhat Pasha, M. Rouher' Signor Sella, Herr Lasker, Count von Usedom, 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 Provost and Vice-Provost of Eton (Dr. Goodford and the Rev. G. J. Dupuis), Canons Girdlestone and Hume, and the Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland; while the Dissenting sects have lost, among other men of note, Dr. Angus Smith, the Rev. Baldwin Brown, and Mr. W. H. Charming. The Armenian Patriarch (Monsignor Nerses) 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 Pattison might have been included amongst 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 Read, Mr. J. D. Lewis, Mr. Calverley (the University Tutor), Mr. Home (the poet), Mr. H. J. Byron, and Mr. Bromley-Davenport, M.P., at home; while abroad the deaths of Count d'Haussonville, M. J. B. Dumas, and M. Mignet has created vacancies in the French Academy; and the names of MM. Quicherat and Paul Lacroix, and of H. Laube, the novelist, will be familiar to many English readers. M. B. J. Dumas belonged as much to the scientific as he did to the literary world, and science has sustained no greater loss during the year; though Dr. Voelcker and M. Wurtz were both eminent chemists; while Dr. Schlegel, Nilo committed suicide, was an eminent Dutch naturalist. The deaths of Mr. Justice Williams and of Mr. Long. field, 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 military and naval men has, upon the other hand, been very heavy, for Generals Sir W. Codrington, A. Cunynghame, and Sir D. Russell, Admirals Sir S. S. Pasley, Sir Rodney Mundy, and 11. C. Glyn in the English services, and Generals Fleury, Schramm (France), Wimpffen (Austria), and Todleben (Russia), and Admiraj Fourichon (France), have all died since the beginning of the year. The deaths of painters, sculptors, &c., include those of Bastien-Lepage, Be Nittis, llans Mackart, Richter, and F. Hon, R.A., while in the musical and dramatic world such names as Sir Michael Costa, Victor Masse, Marie Litton, Fanny Elssler, and the Frezzolini, deserve special mention. The sporting world has lost Mr. Caledon Alexander, Sim Ternpleman the jockey, Lord Mostyn, and Sir Richard Bulkeley ; and Paul Morphy, the chess player; Delmonico, the New York restaurantkeeper; 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.  -