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 Sabrina, Jan. 1808; and in the following year senior lieutenant of a corvette on the South American station, where he greatly distinguished himself, and was awarded a medal and two clasps. In 1836 he went to South Australia, with the appointment of Naval Officer of the colony. He subsequently became Collector of Customs for South Australia, and Harbour Master at Port Adelaide, but resigned the former post in 1840, retaining his other appointments till 1855, when he retired on a pension. Captain Lipson made several surveys of the South Australian coast for the Home Government, and upon his retirement from the navy, in 1856, was given rank as Post-Captain. He died on Oct. 25th, 1863.  Lisgar (1st Lord), better known as the Right Hon. Sir John Young, Bart., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., was the eldest son of Sir William Young, 1st baronet of Bailieborough Castle, co. Cavan, and a director of the East India Company. He was born at Bailieborough Castle on April 30th, 1807, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1829. He represented the county of Cavan in the House of Commons from 1831 to 1855. In 1834 he was called to the bar, and in the following year he married Adelaide Annabella, daughter of the late Marchioness of Headfort by her first husband, Edward Tuite Dalton. Lady Lisgar survived him, and married secondly, in 1878, the late Sir Francis Fortescue Turville, K.C.M.G. Sir John Young held a minor office in the English Ministry in 1841, succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1848, and was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1852. In 1855 he was appointed Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, and held that position till their cession to Greece in 1859. In Jan. 1861 he was appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of New South Wales, the title of Governor-General, borne by his predecessors, being discontinued from this time forth. Sir John arrived in Sydney in March 1861; but as the patent of his appointment was not forthcoming, he acted as Administrator only until May, when the necessary document arrived. During the political crisis occasioned by the struggle over the Land Bill, Sir John Young adopted the advice of his ministers with regard to the creation of sufficient new councillors to carry the measure over the heads of the majority in the Upper House. The course adopted did not meet with the approval of the Colonial Office; but his term of office, which expired in Dec. 1867, was on the whole successful, and he himself popular. From 1868 to 1872 he was Governor-General of Canada, and in 1872 was created a peer of the United Kingdom, as Baron Lisgar of Lisgar and Bailieborough. Lord Lisgar died on Oct. 14th, 1876, without male issue, when the peerage became extinct, and the baronetcy devolved upon his nephew.  Lissner, Isodor, M.L.A., is a native of Posen, and emigrated in 1856 to Victoria, whence, after a varied experience on the diggings, he went to New Zealand and subsequently to Queensland, where he first settled at Ravenswood, removing to Charters Towers, where he still resides. In 1883 he was elected to the Assembly for Charters Towers, and sat till 1888, when he was returned for Kennedy, which he still represents. Mr. Lissner came to England with Mr. Black in 1887 as the representative of the Charters Towers miners to assist Mr. in pressing the question of North Queensland Separation on the attention of the Home Government.  Liversidge, Professor Archibald, M.A., F.R.S., President Royal Society of New South Wales, was educated at a private school, and by private tutors in science in London. He entered the Royal College of Chemistry and Royal School of Mines, London, in 1866, and obtained a Royal Exhibition at these places in 1867. This privilege was tenable for three years, with £50 per year and remission of all fees, equal to about £100 per annum in addition. At the same examination he obtained medals in chemistry, mineralogy, and metallurgy. During his first year as student at the Royal College of Chemistry, he was given charge of the chemical laboratory at the Royal of Naval Architecture for one term during the illness of the lecturer, and published his first paper on supersaturated solutions. He was trained in chemistry at the College of Chemistry, under Professor Frankland. He became Associate of the School of Mines in Metallurgy and Mining in 1870, after having studied 276