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340 work on the questions that were discussed in that body. In 1876 he paid his first visit to Rome, and. after his return in the following year, the tenth anniversary of his consecration was appropriately celebrated. In 1881 he laid the corner-stone of the new cathedral of London, which is now nearly fin- ished, and is unequalled among Canadian churches. In 1882 he visited Ireland, returning the same year. In 1884 he took part in the deliberations of the third plenary council of Baltimore at the spe- cial invitation of the American bishops. During Bishop Walsh's episcopate twenty-eight churches were built and five were enlarged, and more than $500,000 were spent on church improvement. Three convents were built, and a new orphanage was founded and placed under the care of the Sisters of St. Joseph. The College of Sandwich was opened by the Basilian Fathers, and nine academies and nine* convents were established. The number of priests have increased to seventy-seven, and the Roman Catholic population to about 70,000.

WALSH, John Johnson, missionary, b. in Newburg, N. Y., 4 April, 1820 ; d. in Amenia, N. Y., 7 Feb., 1884. He was graduated at Union college in 1839, and at Princeton theological seminary in 1843, was ordained, and sailed the same year as a missionary under the American board for India, where he occupied stations at Futtehghur, Myn- poorie, and Allahabad till 1873. Returning home in 1874, he was pastor at Millerton, N. Y., for two years, and subsequently lived in Amenia. Mr. Walsh had just left India for the United States, and thus escaped the massacre of the mission at Futtehghur by the Sepoys in 1857. He published " A Memorial of the Futtehghur Mission and her Martyred Missionaries " (Philadelphia, 1859).

WALSH, Michael, educator, b. in Ireland in 1763 ; d. in Amesbury, Mass., 20 Aug., 1840. He came to America when a youth and became a teacher in Marblehead academy about the time of its organization in 1792, where Judge Joseph Story was one of his pupils. Harvard gave him the degree of A. M. in 1803. He was the author of a "Mercantile Arithmetic" (Newburyport, 1801), and a " New System of Book-keeping " (1826).

WALSH, Michael, politician, b. in Youghal, Ireland, 7 March, 1810; d. in New York city, 17 March, 1859. He went to Baltimore in his youth, received a good education, and became a lithog- rapher. Removing to New York, he entered the assembly in 1839, and continued for many years to be a leader of the Democratic party. He estab- lished in 1840 " The Knickerbocker," which was stopped after two years' existence by his conviction and imprisonment for the publication of a libel. On his release he began "The Subterranean," an abusive and scurrilous sheet, that came to an end in a few years. On his release he served in con- gress, having been elected in 1853-'5 as a Demo- crat, and was then sent on a confidential mission to England and to Mexico by the government. Mr. Walsh visited the camps of the great contending powers in the Crimea, and was for a time the guest of Carroll Spence, then U. S. minister in Constan- tinople, having reached there from Sebastopol pen- niless and without suitable clothing. He had great talents, independence, and honesty, and was a keen satirist, and his letters from abroad were unrivalled in their vein. He was found dead in the area of a house in New York city. He published his " Speeches, Poems, and other Writings " (New York, 1843).

WALSH, Robert, author, b. in Baltimore, Md., in 1784; d. in Paris, 7 Feb., 1859. His father, a native of Ireland, was a merchant of Baltimore. He was educated at the Roman Catholic college at Baltimore and at the Jesuit college at Georgetown, D. C, where in 1796 he delivered a poetical ad- dress before Gen. Washington, who was then presi- dent. He afterward spent a number of years in Europe, and, returning to this country in 1809, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Philadelphia. In consequence of deaf- ness he abandoned law and engaged in journal- ism. In 1811 he began the publication of the first quarterly that was issued in the United States, " The American Re- view of His- tory and Poli- tics," which he continued two years, and in 1817-'18 edit- ed the "Ameri- can Register." In 1819 he es- tablished the " National Ga- zette " at Phil- adelphia, and remained con- nected with it till 1836, when he sold it to William Fry. He also edited the "Magazine of Foreign Literature," and resuscitated the " American Review" in March, 1827, which he continued to edit with much ability for ten years. About 1836 he went to reside in Paris, where he was U. S. consul in 1845-'51, and remained there till his death. He was at one time a writer for Dennie's " Portfolio," wrote biographical prefaces to an edition of the English poets in fifty small volumes, and biographical sketches for " Delaplaine's Repository " and for the " Encyclopaedia Americana, and while in Europe he corresponded with the "Journal of Commerce" and the "National Intelligencer." He was a member of the American philosophical society and the Royal Spanish academy of history. His " Letter on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government " (Philadelphia, 1810) was republished in England, where it was very popular, and passed through four editions. Mr. Walsh's other books include "Correspondence respecting Russia," with Robert Goodloe Harper (1813) ; "Essay on the Future State of Europe " (1813) ; " Appeal from the Judgment of Great Britain respecting the United States " (1819) : " The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science "(1822); and "Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political " (2 vols., 1836). He also issued "The Select Speeches of George Canning " (Philadelphia, 1835) and "The Select Speeches of Windham and William Huskisson " (1841), for both of which he wrote biographical sketches. — His grandson, William Shenard, author, b. in Paris, France, 1 Feb., 1854, is the son of Robert M. Walsh, who was secretary of legation in France, and held various other diplomatic posts in Europe and in South America. He spent his boyhood in Italy. In 1867 he came with his family to this country, studied at Georgetown college, D. C, was graduated at the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1876, and in the same year accepted a post as reader and critic with J. B. Lippincott and Co., during which connection he has compiled, edited, or written about