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June 10th. Assassination of Prince Michel III. Obrenovic, in the Park Topchida, near Belgrad, Servia.

22d. Milan Obrenovic, Prince Michel's nephew was chosen Prince of Servia. 24th. Visit of Prince Napoleon to Rumania.

July 5th. Prince Alexander Georgevich, the suspected instigator of the assassination of Prince Michel, with his family, was excluded from succession to the throne of Servia, and placed under surveillance of the police.-Political riots disturbed Bulgaria. The Sultan's government despatched troops to restore order.-The Sultan's government confirmed the new Prince of Servia.-Bloody conflict between the Christians and Turks at Scutari. 27th. Encounters between the Cretans and Turks.

August. Turkish troops defeated the insurgents in Bulgaria.-The Government declared the eldest son of the viceroy of Egypt successor to the vice-royal throne.-Admiral Farragut in Constantinople.-The Greeks of Chios attempted to celebrate the day of the baptism of the Grecian King's son, but were prevented by the Turkish authorities.-The Greek attaché of the American consulate was arrested.

November 16th. Great earthquake in Rumania.

23d. U. S. Minister Morris at Constantinople protested against the incarceration of Americans at Damascus. -Troops were sent to Bulgaria to quell disorder.—Change in the Ruma nian Cabinet.

December. The Prime Minister of the Danubian Principalities advocated respect for existing treaties, and the maintenance of strict neutrality.-The Sublime Porte threatened to recall the Turkish Ambassador at Athens, if open support to the Cretans be not withheld.-The Sultan sent an ultimatum to Greece, and required an answer in five days.-The Turks captured a strong position in Sphakia.-Turkish troops were concentrated on the frontier of Greece. -All Greeks were ordered to leave Turkey.-Naval engagement between a Grecian war-steamer and a Turkish cruiser.

18th. A Turkish fleet sailed for the Archipelago.-The Greek steamer Enosis at Syra was watched by Hobart Pasha.-The Great Powers urged a delay of action, the Western Powers sustained the ultimatum.

21st. The Ambassadors of the Western Powers declined protection to the Greek residents in Constantinople.-A Russian flag burned in the streets of Constantinople.

22d. The Sultan granted three weeks for the departure of Greek subjects from the empire. Hobart Pasha blockaded Syra.

24th. The American Minister offered his protection to Greek subjects.-Terrible steamboat accident in the Gulf of Smyrna; 200 lives lost.

25th. Ships of war were placed by the Government off the coast of Cortige, to prevent Greek volunteers from going to Crete.

27th. The Porte declined to yield the independence of Crete, or to sell or transfer it to Egypt.

ASIA, AFRICA, AND AUSTRALIA.

ABYSSINIA.

January. Gen. Napier arrived at Annesley Bay.-The van of the English expedition reached Senafe.

February. The English army arrived at Antalo.

March. Theodorus was at Magdala ready for the siege.

April 10th. Gen. Sir Robt. Napier defeated the Emperor Theodorus before the fortress of Magdala.-Theodorus sent the European prisoners to the British camp, and attempted to negotiate; Napier demanded an unconditional surrender.

13th. The fortress of Magdala was carried by storm; Theodorus was found dead; the British took 28 large guns and 10,000 small arms.

17th. Magdala was burned down by order of Gen. Napier.

18th. The British army began its march from Abyssinia.

28th. Civil war and anarchy reigned all over the territory.-Severe fights.

September. Prince Gobazie was crowned Emperor at Gondar.

CHINA.

January 11th. The Imperial troops gained several victories over the rebels. Explosion of the arsenal at Winchung; 1,000 persons supposed to have been killed or wounded.-The Government appointed Anson Burlingame, formerly U. S. Minister in Pekin, its special envoy to all the treaty powers, at a salary of $40,000.

15th. Envoy Burlingame and suite, while en route from Pekin to Shanghai, were beset by robbers who were dispersed by the aid of British marines and Cossack troops.-Shocks of earthquake at Shanghai and Ningpo.

May. The rebels of the North menaced Pekin seriously. The rebels were defeated on the Peiho, but still threatened Tientsin.

June. The rebels retired from Tientsin; they left the Peiho river and marched off in a southerly direction.

October. The rebels threatened Ningpo.

November. The English fleet appeared before Nankin and obtained full reparation for insults to Missionaries at Hong Chow.

December. English Missionaries discovered evidences of great mineral wealth.

JAPAN.

January 1st. The ports of Hiogo and Osaka were definitely opened to foreign commerce. --The Tycoon demanded a revision of the Constitution.-The most powerful princes of Japan recognized the Micado as the only and supreme Sovereign.

11th. Admiral Bell, Flag-Lieutenant Reed and ten seamen of the Flagship Hartford were drowned while crossing Osaka bar.-The Tycoon collected forces to regain his lost influence. 19th. Severe fighting at Yeddo between the Tycoon and Mikado's armies.-Naval engage ment near Yokohama.

26th. Fights near Osaka between the troops of the Tycoon and those of the Daimios in favor of the Mikado; the Tycoon was defeated and fled to Yeddo.

March. Order was restored.-Dissolution of the Gorodjo (Council of the State).
April 27th. Yokohama in possession of foreign troops and peaceful.

May 12th. The Mikado appeared with his army before Yeddo and threatened the city; the Tycoon offered to retire and to disband his army if the place was spared.-Yeddo was surrendered to the Mikado.-The officers in command refused to surrender the fleet and left Yeddo with the ships.

17th. The Daimia Aidsen beat the troops of the Mikado.-The civil war was in fierce progress.

June 30th. The foreign Ministers issued a united protest against the Mikado's persecution of native Christians.

July 5th. One-half of Yeddo destroyed by fire.-Yeddo and Yokohama again under Stotsbashi's control.-A compromise was effected between the Daimios of the North and of the South.

October. Yeddo still remained closed.-Negato and Hakodadi were seized by the Southern troops.-The Government of Mikado appointed H. W. Grinnell, of New York, to the position of Inspector-General of the Japanese Navy.

November. Seven war ships appeared in the inland sea and destroyed many castles and some towns.-The Mikado, having reached his majority, was crowned Emperor at Kioto; he established his residence at Yeddo and was enthusiastically greeted.

December. Prince Aidsen, the most powerful of the Northern Daimios, surrendered.Stotsbashi, the Ex-Tycoon, was invited to return to Yeddo and take part in the reconstruction of the Government.-The civil war at an end.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

April 17th. Eruption of the volcano Mauna Loa; frequent earthquakes since March 29th; great destruction of property and loss of about 100 lives; a tidal wave.

June. The Assembly agreed to the subsidy of $25,000 to a line of steamers to San Francisco. July. Arrival of the first cargo of Japanese emigrants.

OBITUARIES, 1868.

Abbott, Amos, a member of Congress from Massachusetts, born at Andover, in that State, September 10, 1786, and died November 2, aged 82 years. Mr. Abbott received a common school education, and afterward engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he was very successful. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1835 and 1836, and again in 1842, and a Representative in Congress from 1843 to 1849.

Adler, George J., a German-American scholar and teacher, born at Leipsic, in 1821, and died at the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, near New York city, August 24, aged 47 years. He emigrated to the United States in 1833. He was educated at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1844, and held the Professorship of the German language from 1846 to 1854. He was author of a number of educational works, his "Dictionary of the German and English Languages," published in 1859, being his best known work, and a standard authority. In 1861, his mind became impaired, and he spent much of the latter part of his life at the Bloomingdale Asylum, but continued his studies until his death. He translated Goethe's "Iphigenia in Tauris" into English, and some of his works were translated into French.

Allen, William, D. D., an American scholar, born at Pittsfield, Mass., January 2, 1784, and died at Northampton, July 16, aged 84 years. He graduated at Harvard College, in 1802. In 1817, he became President of Dartmouth, and of Bowdoin College in 1820, holding the latter position until 1839. Dr. Allen was author of a "Biographical Dictionary of Americans."

Andrea, Jerome de, a Roman Catholic Cardinal, born at Naples, April 12, 1812, and died at Rome, May 15, aged 56 years. He was descended from a patrician but not wealthy family of Aquila, and his father was Minister of Finance under Ferdinand II. Educated for the Church, his progress was rapid and brilliant, and he became Archbishop of Mitylene, in partibus, commendatory abbot of Subiaco, and was made a cardinal in 1852. In 1853, on the occasion of the dispute relating to the use of the Pagan classics in schools, he took part with M. Venillot, of the Univers, against their use. In 1859, he was supposed to sympathize with the movement for Italian unity, and to favor many reforms in the Church. He refused, however, to support the attempt to establish a free Italian church. On account of his liberal views the Pope publicly censured him, and suspended him from his functions as bishop. He was summoned at the same time from Naples to Rome, but at first refused compliance, though he at length reluctantly obeyed, and some time afterward was induced to sign a recantation.

Andrews, Timothy P., an officer in the U. S. army, died at Washington, D. C., March 11. During the Mexican war, he was Colonel of the regiment of Voltigeurs, and was breveted Brigadier General for gallant conduct at the battle of Cherubusco. He was first appointed a paymaster in 1822, and after the war with Mexico he again held that position. In 1851 he was appointed Deputy Paymaster General, and Paymaster General in 1863. In November, 1864, he was placed upon the retired list.

Asboth, Alexander, an American General, born in Hungary, December 18, 1811, and died at Buenos Ayres, January 21, aged 57 years. He was educated at Oedenburg, served for some time in an Austrian regiment, and subsequently pursued a course of legal studies at Presburg. In the Hungarian struggle of 1848-9, he attached himself to the Revolutionary party, and rose to the position of Adjutant-General of the Army. He went with Kossuth to Turkey, shared the imprisonment of his chief at Kutaieh, and accompanied him to the United States, in 1851. At the outbreak of the civil war, in 1861, he offered his services to the government, and in July, became chief of staff to Major-General Fremont. He was appointed a Brigadier General in September, 1861, and had command of a division in Fremont's western campaign. His division formed the rear guard in the famous retreat to Rolla. He took an active part in the winter campaign into Arkansas, projected by Major-General Curtis, and was prominent in the three days' battle at Pea Ridge, where he was severely wounded. He was transferred to the army of the Mississippi in 1862, and after holding some other military appointments, commanded in Florida, where he was severely wounded, September 27, 1864. He left the service in August, 1865, and was appointed by President Johnson, Minister of the United States to Buenos Ayres. Baker, Lafayette C., a Brigadier-General of volunteers by brevet, and chief of the United States Detective Service, during the civil war, born at Stafford, N. Y., in 1824, and died at Philadelphia, July 3, aged 43 years. In 1867, Gen. Baker published a work, in which he detailed

much secret history relating to the war; but many of his facts were controverted, especially by the friends of President Johnson, whom he charged with being privy to a pardon brokerage business, alleged to have been carried on at Washington, in 1865.

Baraga, Frederick, D. D., Roman Catholic Bishop, of Sault Ste. Marie, born at Dobernich, in Austria, in 1797, and died at Marquette, Wisconsin, January 20, aged 70 years. He settled at Sault Ste. Marie, before 1838, and was made bishop, November 1, 1853.

Baugher, Henry L., D. D., an American clergyman of the Lutheran Church, born at Abbottstown, Penn., about 1803, and died at Gettysburg, April 14, aged 65 years. He was educated at Dickinson College, and studied theology at Princeton, and at the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Mr. Baugher was licensed to preach by the Maryland Synod, and was first pastor of the Lutheran church at Boonsboro', Md., and afterward, in 1830, he was called to Gettysburg. In 1832, he became professor of the Greek language and Belles Lettres, in Pennsylvania College, and in 1850, he was elected President of the college, a position he held at the time of his death. He was for many years pastor of the college church, and besides his sermons, wrote much for the Evangelical Review, and other church periodicals.

Baxter, Portus, a member of Congress from Vermont, born at Brownington, Orleans county, in that State, and died at Washington, March 4. He was elected a Representative in Congress from the Third Vermont District, and served from 1861 to 1867. He was a member of the Philadelphia "Loyalists"" Convention, in 1866, and was a Presidential elector in 1852 and

1856.

Bayard, Richard H., an American statesman, born at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1796, and died in Philadelphia, March 4, aged 72 years. He was educated at Princeton college, where he graduated in 1814, and afterward adopted the profession of the law. He was a Senator in Congress from Delaware from 1836 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1845. In 1850 Mr. Bayard was appointed Charge d'Affaires to Brussels. He was the son of the elder and brother of the younger James A. Bayard.

Beach, Moses Yale, an American journalist, for many years the proprietor of the New York Sun, was born at Wallingford, Conn., January 7, 1800, and died July 19, aged 68 years. When 14 years of age, he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker, at Hartford, and pursued his calling in Northampton and Springfield, but without much success, owing to a tendency to indulge in the experiments of an inventor. Among his designs was a gun-powder engine for propelling bal loons; but his experiments proving unsuccessful, he then endeavored to open steam navigation on the Connecticut river, between Hartford and Springfield. He afterward removed to Ulster County, N. Y., where he was engaged for seven years in the manufacture of paper. In 1835, he went with his family to New York, where he purchased an interest in The Sun newspaper, and in a short time became its sole proprietor. In this enterprise he was very successful, but retired about 1857. He also amassed considerable money by banking, and other financial operations. President Polk sent Mr. Beach to Mexico, during the war with that country, to arrange a treaty of peace; but owing to a false report that Santa Anna had annihilated Gen. Taylor's army, the negotiations were broken off. For several years previous to his death he resided in his native town, where he died of paralysis.

Beach, Wooster, M. D., an eminent American physician, died in New York city, Jan. 28. He was the founder of a new system of medicine known as the Eclectic Medical System. Dr. Beach practiced his profession for over forty-five years, and was so ardent in contending against some of the principles of the Allopathic school of medicine, that he established an institution for the dissemination of his own views, and graduated many students. He was the author of a number of medical works, and at one time published The Telescope, a weekly newspaper, and The Evening Journal, a daily, both of which were popular in their day.

Beall, S. W., formerly Lieutenant-Governor, and acting Governor of Wisconsin, was killed in a rencontre at Helena, Montana, September 26. During the civil war he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers. He was 65 years of age, at the time of his death.

Beecher, Lieut. Frederick, a gallant officer of the late war, nephew of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, killed by the Indians, on the Upper Republican river, Kansas, September 23. At the time of his death, Lieut. Beecher was 28 years old.

Bell, Henry H., Rear-Admiral U. S. N., was born in North Carolina, and accidentally drowned, together with a whole boat's crew, while crossing the bar at Osaka, Japan, January 11. He was appointed to the navy, Aug. 4, 1823. At the battle of New Orleans, he was fleetcaptain under Farragut, and in 1862 and 1863, he commanded the West Gulf Blockading Squadron. In 1866, Admiral Bell was appointed to the command of the Asiatic Squadron. His remains were brought home during the spring and summer, and interred in the cemetery at Newburgh, N. Y.

Bell, Samuel Dana, an eminent American jurist, born at Francestown, New Hampshire, October 9, 1798, and died at Manchester, July 31, aged 70 years. He graduated at Harvard College, in 1810, and afterward adopted the law as a profession. In 1849, he was appointed justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and on the reorganization of the Supreme Court, in 1855, he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice in 1859. He resigned in 1864. He assisted in the revision of the statutes of the State in 1830, 1842 and 1867. His father was the Hon. Samuel Bell, a distinguished American statesman.

Berryer, Antoine Pierre, a French lawyer and statesman, born in Paris, January 4, 1790, where he died November 28, aged 78 years. His father was a distinguished lawyer, and M. Berryer was educated for the same profession. He was a Royalist, and pronounced against the first Napoleon before the victory of the allies, for which his arrest was ordered; but he managed to escape, and during the Hundred Days was a Royalist Volunteer. He saw with disgust, however, the action of the extreme Royalists in 1815–16 in seeking out victims from the chiefs of the First Empire, and was counsel for some of the most distinguished of these. He was associated with his father and M. Duprie in the unsuccessful defence of Marshal Ney, and he conducted the defence of Gen. Cambronne, securing the acquittal of his client. M. Berryer was concerned in the State trials which followed after the successive Revolutions, defending Lamennais under the Bourbons, Chateaubriand under the Orleans monarchy, and Montalembert under the new Empire. One of his most remarkable cases was the defence of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, for the part he took in the Boulogne affair of 1840. In 1830 he was chosen a member of the Chamber of Deputies from the department of Haute Loire, and though a legitimist, took the oath to the Revolutionary Government after the July Revolution. When the Duchess of Berry projected her attempt at a rising in La Vendée, M. Berryer was sent by the more prudent legitimists to persuade her from it, but he was himself arrested as one of her supporters. In his trial, which took place at Blois, he completely established his innocence. M. Berryer visited the titular Henry V., better known as the Comte de Chambord, when the illustrious exile was in London, for which he was censured by the Chamber of Deputies. After the revolution of 1848, he submitted to be elected a member of the National Assembly from the department of the Bouches-du-Rhone. M. Berryer belonged to the reactionary party, but he early understood the designs of the Prince President, and endeavored to thwart them and prevent the coup d'état of 1851. After the establishment of the Second Empire, he took but little part in public affairs beyond seeking to promote the proposed fusion of the two branches of the Bourbon family. In 1852 he was placed at the head of the French Advocates by being elected Batonnier of the Faculty, and in 1854, he was elected a member of the French Academy. On receiving the latter honor he expressly desired that he might be excused from the duty of visiting the head of the government, and his request was granted. The last great political cause in which M. Berryer took part, was the trial of the persons charged with violating the law of association. As an orator. M. Berryer was held to be the first after Mirabeau, and he was the ablest as well as the most distinguished French lawyer of his day.

Blakeney, Sir Edward, Field Marshal, born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1778, and died August 2, aged 90 years. He entered the army as a cornet in 1794, and saw service in the West Indies and in Holland; was present at the battle of Copenhagen in 1807, New Orleans in 1814, and Waterloo in 1815; served throughout the Peninsular War, and was severely wounded at the battle of Albuera and the assault of Badajos, and led the First Brigade in General Sir William Clinton's expedition to Portugal in 1826. From 1832 to 1855, he commanded the forces in Ireland. He was appointed Governor of Chelsea Hospital in 1856, and at the time of his death was Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot, and of the Prince Consort's own Rifle Brigade.

Boyd, John H., a member of Congress from New York from 1851 to 1853, born in that State and died at Whitehall, July 2. He was a member of the State Assembly from Washington county in 1840.

Bradbury, William B., an American musical composer, born at York, Maine, in 1816, and died at Montclair, N. J., January 7, aged 52 years. Mr. Bradbury early manifested a taste for music, and became well known as a musician and a teacher of his art. He afterward studied in Germany under the best masters, but he had before this devoted himself to composition, producing many well-known melodies and some popular hand-books of music. He had a host of admirers and some enemies, both the result of the popular character of the airs and tunes of which he was the author.

Brewster. Sir David, an English, philosopher, born at Jedburg, December 11, 1781, and died in Edinburgh, February 10, aged 86 years. He was educated for the Church of Scotland of which he became a licentiate. In the year 1800, he received the honorary degree of M. A. from the University of Edinburgh, and in 1807, LL. D. from the University of Aberdeen, and

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