OBITUARY.

FLORENCE CECILIA HASTINGS. LONDON, February 4. The death is announced of Florence Cecilia Hastings, widow of the Marquess of Hastings, who eloped while betrothed to Mr Chaplin. The Marquis of Hastings was a young aristocrat, who was celebrated for his dissipation and extravagance in the sixties. A sensation was caused in London by the announcement that the beautiful Lady Florence, youngest daughter of the Marquis of Anglesey, had left her carriage at one door of a large store, and had gone out at another door, near which was a second carriage containing the Marquis of Hastings, a runaway match being the result. Mr Chaplin, to whom the young lady was. formally engaged, vowed revenge and obtained it in a peculiar form. His horse Hermit, won the Derby, defeating the favourite, which was owned by the Marquis, and on which every penny the Marquis pOGßeoeed -had been invested. The Marquis shortly after blew on* his brains, his widow manied Sir George Chetwynd. Mr Chaplin is now the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, P.O. LORD THRING. February 6. •LoTd Turing, author of several legal works, is dead. He was 89 years of age. ■ Lord Henry Thring, X.C.8., was born •t Alford, Somerset, on November 3, 1818. He was educated at Shrewsbury and Magdalen College, Cambridge. He was third in Ibe- first class of Classical Tripos, and fourteenth Junior Optima, 1841; B.A. 1841; M.A., 18M. He was called to the Bar in 1845, Inner Temple, and was appointed counsel to the Home Office in 1860, and Parliamentary Counsel in 1868. He was made X.C.8., in 1873, and a Peer in 1886, on his retirement from office. He published works on the Succession Duty Act; "The Law of Joint Stock Companies," "Practical Legislation," essays in the «« Manual of Military Law," on "Insurrection" and the "Customs of War," and various articles in reviews.