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Rh India, and resigned the same year in consequence of his disapproval of the new Irish policy of the government. He delivered speeches on this sub- ject during this and the two following years, strongly condemning the creation of dual owner- ship of Irish lands, and advocating its complete transfer to the occupying tenants. He took part repeatedly in the house of lords debates, served on several important committees and commissions, and was chairman of the committee on Irish jury laws and of the joint committee on the channel tunnel proposal. On 18 Aug., 1883. he was ap- pointed governor-general of Canada and was sworn in on 23 Oct., 1883. During 1884 the marquis de- voted much of his time to making himself person- ally known in the older provinces of Canada, to becoming acquainted with them, and in 1885 he visited Manitoba, the northwest territories, and British Columbia. In 1884 he was made a knight grand cross of the Order St. Michael and St. George, received the honorary degree of LL. D. the same vear, and the confederation medal in 1885. In 1888 he was appointed governor-general of India. He married, on 8 Nov., 1869, Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton, youngest daughter of James, Duke of Abercorn, K. G. She is well known for her beautv and scholarlv attainments.

LANSIL, Walter F., artist, b. in Bangor, Me., in 184G. He studied art in his native place, and then settled in Boston, where he has passed his firofessional life. He effectively represents the nminous effects of sunrise and sunset. Among his works are " Crossing the Georges " and an even- ing " View of Charlestown, with Shipping."

LANSING, Dirck Cornelius, clergyman, b. in Lansingburg, Rensselaer co., N. Y., 3 March, 1785 ; d. in Walnut Hills, Ohio, 19 March, 1857. He was graduated at Yale in 1804, became a Presbyterian clergyman, and was a trustee of Au- burn seminary from 1820 till 1830, its vice-presi- dent from 1820 till 1824, and professor of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology from 1821 till 1826, serving without salary and raising large sums for the seminary. Williams gave him the degree of D. D. in 1826. He published " Sermons on Im- portant Subjects" (Auburn, 1825).

LANSING, John, jurist, b. in Albany, N. Y., 30 Jan., 1754; d. in New York city, 12 Dec, 1829. He studied law with James Duane in New York, and in 1776-'7 was the military secretary of Gen. Philip Schuyler. He was a member from Albany of the 4th, 5th. 6th, and 7th sessions of the New York assembly, on 3 Feb., 1784, became a member of congress under the articles of confederation. and on 26 Oct. following was reappointed. On 13 Jan., 1786, he was elected speaker of the New York assembly, and on 28 April he was appointed in place of John Jay. resigned, on the commission that met at Hartford. Conn., and made final divis- ion of the territorial claims of New York and Massachusetts. On 29 Sept., 1786, he was appointed by the council of appointment mayor of Albany, and in the same year was elected a member of the 10th session of the New York assembly. On 26 Jan., 1787, he was again a delegated member of congress under the confederation. On 6 March, 1787, the New York legislature appointed him, with Robert Yates and Alexander Hamilton, a delegate to the Philadelphia convention, which assembled on 23 May and framed the constitution of the United States. On 10 July, 1787, he ad- dressed a letter to Gov. George Clinton, resigning his membership in the convention on the ground that the state had not delegated to its representa- tives power to form a new government, but only to pass amendments to the articles of confederation. The resolution under which he acted justified this view, which was concurred in by Judge Yates, though Alexander Hamilton elected to remain in the convention and was active in framing the con- stitution. Mr. Lansing was a member of the New York state convention that met at Poughkeepsie in June, 1788, to ratify the Federal constitution. He was re-elected speaker of the New York assem- bly at its 12th session, and by an act of the legis- lature he was appointed a commissioner oh the part of the state to settle the controversy with Vermont. On 28 Sept., 1790, he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the state of New York, and by act of legislature, passed 6 July, 1791, he was appointed one of the commissioners to de- termine the claims of the city and county of New York to lands in Vermont. 'On 15 Feb.", 1798, he was appointed chief justice of the state supreme court, succeeding Robert Yates, and on 28 Oct., 1801, chancellor of the state in place of Robert R. Livingston, resigned, and held the office until 1814, when by reason of age he became ineligible, and was succeeded by James Kent. In 1804 he was unanimously nominated for governor of New York by the anti-Federalists, and accepted the nomina- tion, but subsequently declined. The course that was pursued by Chancellor Lansing and those in sympathy with his views, in endeavoring to defeat the ratification of the Federal constitution, resulted in the adoption by the 1st U. S. congress of the im- portant amendments to the constitution that were passed by that body. Chancellor Lansing ranked as one of the distinguished lawyers of his time, and as an upright and able judge. He mysteriously disappeared, having left his hotel to post a letter on board the Albany boat at the foot of Cortland street. New York city. It was supposed that he was either robbed and murdered or accidentally drowned. He published " Select Cases in Chancery and in the Supreme Court in 1824 and 1828."

LANSING, Nicholas, clergyman, b. in Albany, N. Y.. in 1748: d. in Tappan, N. Y., in 1835. In early life he was master of an Albany and New York sailing-vessel, but subsequently studied the- ology in Albany, and was licensed to preach by a general meeting of ministers and elders in 1780. His first charge was the united churches of what are now Greenbush, Linlithgo, and Taghkanic, near Albany. He remained there from 1781 till 1784, when he became pastor of Tappan and Clarks- town, and in 1830 took charge of the Tappan church alone, preaching there until his death. His home and church were near the spot on which Andre was hung during the Revolution. Mr. Lansing possessed much individuality of charac- ter, and preached bold and characteristic sermons in Dutch. Many anecdotes are told of him.

LAPA, José de Almeida Vasconcellos Soveral e Carvallo (lah'-pah), Count of, Portuguese governor, b. in Lapa, Portugal, early in the 18th century; d. in Lisbon in 17^2. He entered the army, reached the rank of general, and in October, 1770, was appointed governor of the province of Goyaz in Brazil. Lapa is described by his biographer, Balthazar da Silva Lisboa. as honest, intelligent, and enterprising. In 1773 he visited the province, and, being touched by the poverty of the people, began an agricultural undertaking, which was crowned with extraordinary success. In 1774 he undertook the conquest of the Indians in his territory, which was accomplished in two years. Lapa also brought colonists from Portugal and distributed them through the country. In 1777 he was recalled.