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by which the province of Ussnri was ceded by China to Bnssia. On his return to Bussia he was made Director of the Asiatic Department in the Minist^ of Foreign Affairs. In 1864 he was appointed Minister at Constantinople^ where his legation was afterwards (1867) raised to the rank of an embassy. Apart from his rank as ambassador^ he was a lieutenant-general^ and general aide-de-camp to the Emperor. The object which General Ignatieff steiEulily pnrsued at Constantinople was to secnre for Bussia a powerful influence over Turkey. He com- pletely reassured the late Sultan Abdul Aziz as to the intentions of the Government of St. Petersburg^ while on the other hand he gain^ the good will of the Christian sub- iects of the Porte by his courteous behaviour and his simulated anxiety to protect them. In the negotia- tions between the various European Powers prior and subsequent tp the war between Bussia and Turkey General Ignatieff took a vei^ pro- minent part. He was recalled ^m the embassy at Constantinople May 2, 1878, when Prince Labanoff was sent there in his place. Afterwards he was appointed Minister of the Interior, ^m which post he was dismissed in June, 1882. He re- mained, however, a member of the Council of the Empire, and was appointed a Senator and President of the Academy.

INGELOW, Miss Jban, daughter of Mr. William Ingelow, late of Ipswich, Suffolk, born about 1830, has written a volume of stories, called " Tales of Orris," 1860, and the "Bound of Days," a volume of poems, which has gone through several editions both in England and the United States. This authoress contributed some poems to a collection of orig^al poetical pieces, entitled "Home Thoughts and Home Scenes," 1864 ; and has written for various periodicals. She published " A Story of Doom, and other Poems," 1867; "Mopsa

the Fairy," 1869 j "Little Won- der-Horn," 1872 ; " Off the Skel- ligs," 4 vols. 1878 ; " Fated to be Free," new edit. 1875; "Sarah de Berenger," 1880 ; and " Don John," a story, 1881.

INGEBSOLL, Bobebt G., born at Dresden, New York, in 1833. The family removed to Illinois in 1845, where Bobert studied law, was admitted to the bar, and en- tered political life as a Democrat. He was nominated for Congress in 1860, but was defeated. In 1862 he entered the army as Colonel of a regiment of cavalry, and was taken prisoner, but was exchanged. Betuming to civil life he became a Bepublican, and in 1868 was made Attorney-General of Illinois. At the Bepublican Convention of 1876 his speech, in proponng Mr. Blaine's name for the Presidency, aroused general attention for its eloquence, and since that time Col. Ingersoll has been prominent before the country as an orator. He has frequently appeared upon the lecture plat- form in advocacy of views opposed to Christianity and to the Bible, views which he has also maintained in contributions to the periodicals. It is chiefly to this scepticism that he owes his celebrity. He resides in Washington, where he has a lucrative law practice.

INGHAM, The Bight Bbv. Ernest Graham, Bishop of Sierra Leone, was born about 1850, in the island of Bermuda. He was edu- cated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford (B.A., 1873 ; M.A., 1876). He held successively the curacies of Holy Trinity, ToxteUi Park, Liverpool (1874-5), and St. Matthew's, Bugby (1876-8), and was appointed vicar of St. Matthew's (or Little Lon- don), Leeds, in 1880. In Jan., 1883, he was nominated to succeed Dr. Cheetham as Bishop of Sierra Leone, and he was consecrated to that see on Feb. 24, in the Chapel Boyal, Whitehall, by the Arch- bishop of York. INGHAM, Sir Jahxs Taylor, is