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as^ followed by "H.M.S. e/' which ran for two years

theatre. The " Pirates of ce," which succeeded this an for more than a year. Patience, or Benethome's which was produced at the ^mique in April, 1881, and red to the new Savoy

in Oct., 1881, is still run- liese operas were all written notion with Dr. Arthur Sul- "The Palace of Truth'' is I a story of Madame de Gen- retchen" on the "Faust" and "The Princess'' on nyson's poem, but the other re original. His " Bab Bal- riginaUy published in Fun, ice been printed in a sepa- n.

JEBTSON, Edward, was London in 1813. The early f his life were passed in >arts of Russia, the language country he speaks fluently.

Eussia in 1840, and for years after his return to was a frequent contributor ig articles to the Daily News 3r papers. In 1867 he be- Bcretary to the Ottoman

London, and during the ? four years paid several inspection to the branches mt, Smyrna, and Constan-

In 1861 he undertook the aent of the bank in the y, and in 1862, as member financial Conmiission, had f direction, under Edhem f the operations for with- the Caime, for which service red the third class of the

In 1863 he was one of the es of the concession of the

Ottoman Bank, and from [ until May, 1871, was As- u?ector-General of the bank antinople. He has taken B part in negotiating all iah public loans in which was interested since 1858, been a member of various commissions formed by the

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Ottoman Government ; such as that for the amelioration of the system of public accounts, for the Budget of 1867, &c. The Sultan, in recog- nition of his services to the imperial treasury, has conferred on him the order of the Osmani^ of the third class. Upon his arrival in England, in May, 1871, he was unanimously elected a member of the committee of the Bank in London. I GILES, The Bev. John Allen, I D.C.L., born at Mark, Somersetshire, Oct. 26, 1808, was educated at the I Charterhouse and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. as a double first-class in 1828, and became a fellow of his college. He was appointed Head Master of the City of London School in 1886, which post he resigned in 1840. He was curate of Bampton, Ox- fordshire, from 1845 to 1854; was in charge of the parish of Perivale from 1857 to 1861 ; and was collated to the rectory of Sutton, Surrey, in 1867. He has been a prolific writer on educational, antiquarian, and ecclesiastical subjects, and, amongst other books, has edited or translated the works of Lanfranc, of the Venerable Bede ; " Letters of St. Thomas of Canterbury;" "Codex Apocryphus Novi Testa- menti;" "Scriptores Gr»ci Mi- nores ; " " Terentii Comcedise ; " " Severi Sancti Carmen," and " The Works of King Alfred the Great." He is the author of "Life and Times of Alfred the Great;" "Life and Letters of Thomas Beckett;" " Hebrew Records," 1850; "Chris- tian Eecords," 1853 ; " The History of Bampton;" "The History of Witney;" "History of the An- cient Britons ; " " First Lessons on Various Subjects ; " " Story-book of English History;" "Keys to the Classics," &c., about 160 volumes altogether.

GILL, David, born June 12, 1843, is the eldest son of the late Mr. David Gill, of Blairythai, Aberdeenshire, by Margaret' daughter of Mr. GUbert Mitchell'