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University of Padua ; took part in the attempts to emancipate Italy from Austrian rule, 1848-9 ; naturalised an Italian, 1868 ; took refuge in Vienna and afterwards in Paris, where he gave lessons in Italian ; entered the Italian Diplomatic Service ; was Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, 1874-76 ; at London, 1878-82 ; Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, 1884-92 ; Ambassador at Paris, 1898-5. In 1892 he was sent as Italian Ambassador to Constantinople, but after six months' service he returned to Paris and remained until 1895, when the anti-French policy of Signor Grispi brought about his recall. On the 8th, at Edinburgh, aged 74, Major -General A1*TftM« 1 « r Paterson, son of John Paterson, of Merryfiats, Lanark. Entered the Bengal Army, 1844 ; served through the Punjab Campaign, 1848-9 ; the Burmese War, 1853 ; the Bhutan Campaign, 1865-6 ; and the Afghan War, 1878-9. Married, 1880, Anne Moore, daughter of Captain F. Campbell, of Melfort, and widow of Captain Mackay, of Bighouse, Argyllshire. On the 10th, at Abbas Tuman, Caucasus, aged 28, The Grand Duke George, heir-apparent to the throne of Russia, second son of the Czar, Alexander II. For many years a confirmed invalid, who, for the benefit from the climate, had settled in the Caucasus. On the 10th, at Muskolla Lake, Ontario, aged 60, Hon. William Ell Bandford. Born at New York; educated at Hamilton, Toronto; began business in a firm of iron- founders, but afterwards went into the wool trade and became known as the " Wool King of Canada " ; took a leading part in political life as a Conservative ; appointed Member of the Senate, 1887. Married, 1867, Mary, daughter of Edward Jackson, of Hamilton. On the 10th, at Potsdam, aged 69, Helnrlch von Achenbach. Educated at Bonn University, where he was Professor of Law; elected to the Prussian Chamber, 1866; Under-Secretary of Education, 1872; Minister of Commerce, 1878 ; Chief President of the Province of Brandenburg, 1879 ; took a prominent part in the Bultuskampf legislation, the State purchase of Prussian railways and the direction of Prussian local government. On the 11th, at Homburg, aged 59, Duchess of Rutland, Janetta, daughter of Thomas Hughan, of Airds, Galloway. Married, 1862, Lord John Manners, M.P., afterwards Duke of Rutland. Author of several works and magazine articles. On the 11th, at Allumiere, near Civita Vecchia, aged 98, Cardinal Teodolfo Mortal, Vice-Chancellor of the Roman Catholic Church, the oldest Member of the Sacred College. Created Cardinal, 1858, but was never ordained Priest; was a Member of the Reform Commission appointed by Pius IX., 1848 ; sat in the Antovelli Cabinet, 1850-53 ; Minister of the Interior, 1858-8. On the 14th, at Haslemere, aged 72, James Stewart Hodgson, son of J. Hodgson, of Hampstead, formerly of Lythe Hill, Haslemere. A partner of the firm of Baring's ; a distinguished patron of art and lord of the manors of Godalming and Haslemere. Married, 1862, Gertrude Agatha, daughter of William Forsyth, Q.C. On the 15th, at Ottawa, aged 58, William Bullock Ives. Educated at Toronto ; called to the Canadian Bar, 1865 ; Q.C, 1880; entered the Dominion House of Commons, 1878; President of the Privy Council, 1892-4 ; Minister of Trade and Commerce, 1894-7. Married, 1869, Sarah, daughter of J. H. Pope, Minister of Railways and Canals. On the 17th, at Dublin, aged 86, Bight Bev. Charles Graves, D.D., F.B.S., Lord Bishop of Limerick, son of John Crosby Graves, of Dublin. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; Scholar, 1882 ; graduated in Mathematics, 1884 ; Fellow, 1886 ; Erasmus Smith Professor of Mathematics, 1843-66; Dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin, 1860-4 ; Dean of Clonfert, 1864-66, when he was appointed Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe; author of several mathematical and antiquarian works. Married, 1840, Selina, daughter of John Cheyne, M.D. On the 17th, at London, aged 77, Henry Maudslay, a member of the firm of engineers of Maudslay & Field, of Lambeth, and on his retirement devoted much time and money to the work of excavation at Jerusalem and to charitable and philanthropic works. On the 19th, at SharUtone Manor, Buckingham, aged 90, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Purefoy Jervaise. Married, 1882, Thomas Fitzgerald, of Sharlstone. A lady of great literary endowments and remarkable personality; the friend of the leading men in literature and science ; learnt Greek when aged 70 and other languages at 80. On the 19th, at Utterby, Lincolnshire, aged 85, Bev. Arthur Robert Pennington. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; B.A., 1888 (eighth Junior Opt.)\ Vicar of Utterby, 1858; Prebendary of Lincoln, 1882; author of "Life of Erasmus" (1875), "Life of John Wycliffe" (1882), "Papal Conclaves" (1896), etc. On the 19th, at Sloane Gardens, S.W., aged 79, Lady Maxwell, Frances Dorothea, daughter of Francis Synge, of Glenmore Castle, Co. Wicklow. Married, 1842, Sir Peter Benson Maxwell, Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements and Special Commissioner for the organisation of judicial tribunals in Egypt. On the 20th, at Paris, aged 74, Baroness Nathaniel do Rothschild, sister of Alphonse Gustavo and Edmond de Rothschild, and widow of