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remarkable collection of pictures, which was sold partly in Paris for nearly ten million francs and the remainder in London for 27,8242. On the 10th, at Darlington, aged 63, Jeremiah Head, a distinguished engineer. Born at Ipswich ; apprenticed to Robert Stephenson, 1859 ; constructed the bridge over the Wear at Sunderland, 1862 ; designed with John Fowler, of Leeds, the steam ploughing apparatus ; partner with Mr. Theodore Fox at Middlesborough, 1865-85 ; President of the Society of Mechanical Engineers. On the 11th, at Lissan, Co. Tyrone, aged 81, Sir Nathaniel Alexander Staples, eighth baronet, son of Rev. J. Moles- worth Staples. Educated at Addiscombe ; entered the Bengal Artillery, 1834-54. Married, 1844, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain James Head. On the 12th, at East Molesey, aged 63, Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.O. Born at London ; educated at University School, London, and at the Royal School of Mines; emigrated to Victoria, 1856, and began as a journalist ; went to New Zealand and settled at Otago, 1861 ; entered the Provincial Council, 1862, and Head of the Provincial Government, 1866-9 ; Colonial Treasurer in the Federal Parliament, 1869-76, and inaugurated the system of large loans for public works, raising 22,500,0002. in ten years in the London market alone ; Colonial Agent for New Zealand in London, 1876-81 ; returned to the colony and was again Colonial Treasurer, 1884-9, when he returned to England. Married, 1867, Mary, daughter of W. A. Clayton, of New Zealand. On the 12th, at Brompton, aged 93, Mrs. Keeley, Mary Anne Goward, for many years a leading actress. Born at Ipswich ; first appeared in the provinces as a singer and at the Lyceum, London, in 1825 ; retired in 1859. Her most successful character was " Jack Sheppard," produced in 1839, and subse- quently prohibited by the Lord Chamberlain. Married, 1839, Robert Keeley, also a popular actor. On the 13th, at Walwick Hall, Northumberland, aged 79, John Mathew Bldley, son of John Ridley, of Park End, Northumberland. Edu- cated at Jesus College, Cambridge; B.A., 1842; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1845 ; Chairman of the Tyne Fisheries Board, 1861 ; took a leading part in preserving the salmon fisheries of England and Wales. Married, 1844, Anna Maria, daughter of Henry Hilton, Sole Street, Kent. On the 13th, at Mickley, Yorkshire, aged 77, Rev. Thomas Hedley. Educated at Trinity College, Cam- bridge ; B.A., 1844 (Seventh Wrangler and Second Class Classical Tripos) ; Fellow of Trinity, 1846-56; Vicar of Masham, 1856-73; Rector of Gundisham, Suffolk, 1873-94. On the 13th, at Ottawa, aged 46, John Fisher Wood, Q.0. Born at Elizabethtown, Ontario, where he was educated; called to the Canadian Bar, 1876 ; elected to the Dominion House of Parliament as a Conservative for Brock- ville, 1882; appointed Chairman of Committees, 1886; Controller of Inland Revenue, 1892-5; Controller of Customs, 1895-8. On the 13th, at Berlin, aged 75, Professor Heymann Stein thai, a distinguished philologist. Born at Grobzig, Anhalt ; educated at Berlin and Paris, where he studied Chinese, 1852-5 ; appointed Philological Professor at Berlin, 1863 ; collaborated with Wilhelm von Humboldt ; author of an important work on the origin of language (1877). On the 13th, at Luneville, aged 76, Emile Brokmann, joint author of the Erckmann- Chatrian novels, etc., son of a bookseller at Pfalzburg. Studied law in Paris; first associated with M. Chatrian, 1848 ; their first success was " L'illustre Docteur Mathius " (1859), and for nearly forty years the partnership prospered, but finally ended in a lawsuit. He continued to reside at Pfalzburg, and adopted German citizenship. On the 14th, at Carlton House Terrace, aged 48, Hon. Lady Bldley, Hon. Mary Georgiana Marjoribanks, daughter of first Lord Tweedmouth. Married, 1873, Sir Matthew White Ridley, baronet, M.P., Home Secretary in Lord Salisbury's second Cabinet. On the 14th, at Berlin, aged 75, Ludwig Bamberger, a leader of German Liberalism, of Jewish extraction. Born at Mainz ; studied at Giessen, Heidelberg and Gdttingen; took the popular side in the revolution of 1848; resided successively in Switzerland, England, Belgium and Holland ; managing partner of the banking firm of Bisthoffsheim & Goldschmidt in Paris, 1853-66 ; first elected for Mainz, 1868, and sat in the Imperial Reichstag until 1893; although personally opposed to Bismarck, he supported his policy of United Germany and wrote much in its favour; quitted the National Liberal party, 1881, and formed the Freisinnig party, 1884, and became the opponent of the Chancellor's commercial policy ; retired in 1893 and devoted himself to literature and political economy. On the 14th, at Leinster Gardens, Hyde Park, aged 74, Stewart Pixley, one of the oldest volunteers and a Captain in the 1st Middlesex (Victoria). Winner of the Queen's Prize at Wimbledon, 1862. On the 15th, at Dublin, aged 63, Bev. Alexander Balloon Groaart, D.D., LL.D. Born in Scotland ; educated at Edinburgh University ; ordained U.P. Minister of Kinross, 1856, and afterwards at Liverpool and Blackburn ; edited the " Townsley Ballads " (1877) and a number of early English plays ; author of " Representative Nonconformists "