OBITUARY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1851, 11 July 1874, Page 4

OBITUARY.

[FROM MEN; OP THE. TIME.] Beliew, John Chippendall >. Montesquieu/ S:C.L.,'' is the grandson of John Bellew, Esq.; of' Oastle Bellew, Gal^ay, cousin of the late Lord Bellew, whose daughter and co-heiress under the will of her uncle, Majbr-General Patrick Bellew, heir at law of the O'Briens, Earls of Thor mond, married Captain Robert Higgin, H.M.s 12th Regiment. Their only child, the subject of this biography, was born at Lancaster in 3823, and on attaining his majority assumed his mother's maiden name, through whom in the female line he is now one of the only remaining de- ; scendants of the senior branch of the O'Briens, being directly descended from Teige, second brother of Donough, fourth* • earl - commonly called .*' the Great Earl" in Irish! history-i-brother of Daniel^ first • Viscount Clare; ■'••'•' He was educated at the Grammar School, Lancaster, and entered at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, in ,1842, where he became a frequent speaker ( at the "Union" Debating Society, and | in 1848 he was ordained a curate of ; St. Andrew's, Worcester. In 1850 he became ; curate of Prescot, went out to the East Indies in 1851, and was chaplain of St. ; John's Cathedral, Calcutta, till 1855, when he returned to England, and was 1 appointed assistant minister of St. Philip's, Regent street. ' In 1857 he was appointed to the sole charge of St. Mark's, Hamilton Terrace, Mary lebone, in which office, . he, continued until 1862, when 4ie became incumbent of Bedford Chapel, .Bloomsbury. From 1855 to 1867 Mr Bellew was . one, of the most popular of London preachers, and it is said of him by the author of "Preachers and Preaching," that j " no preacher of our time has greater oratorical gifts by nature, and no man haß taken more pains to improve and cultivate them." For a number of . years Mr Bellew has been well known throughout England as one. of the most successful " readers" of the period, jtoe Times classed Mr Charles Dickens, ■panriy Kemble, and Mr Bellew together ag the "persons who, having devoted themselves to this peculiar art, are the cn ief objects of attention to the general

public." While in India, Mr Bellew was editor of -the Calcutta HurVant,. He is also understood to have been the writer of various articles, written on occasion of great public interest, in the columns of the Morning Post. In adition to various volumns of sermons, he is the author of "Blount Tempest," "Shakspear'sHome," " The Poet's Corner," and " The Seven Churches of Asia Minor," In 1868 he retired from his duties as a clergyman, and joined the Catholic Church, to which his mother belonged. Since then he has entirely devoted himself to his readings and to. literature. Janin, Jules-Gabriel, critic, born December 24, 1804, at St. Etienne, Loire, where his father was an avocat, commenced his studies in the college of his native town, and completed them in Paris, at the college of Louis-le-Grand. Having neither profession nor fortune, he took up his quarters in a garret in the Rue dv Dragon, in the Quartier Latin^ and there assisted young gentlemen in "cramming" for their degrees. Jules, who has vividly sketched this humble period of his life, soon renounced this occupation for journalism. Having obtained employment upon a theatrical paper, he became one of the editors of the Figaro, and afterwards of the Qnotvdienne. Severing his connection with the latter, he founded, in company with some other writers of mark, the Revue de Paris, and the Journal des Infants. Shortly; afterwards he published his first romance, "LAne morte et la Femme gnillotinee." But his most successful productions are his tales, essays, and sketches. Jules Janin married a rich heiress, and on the occasion wrote a singular article in the fenttleton of the Debats, entitled "Le Marriage dv Critique," which gained him for a long time in the public journals the name .of the " married critic." During •the last, 40, years he has produced an 'almost incredible number of articles for the journals, besides having written and edited' a number of works of less ephe-meral-character. ; In 1846 he published an abridged translation of Richardson's ''Clarissa Harlowe." He was elected a member of the French Academy in April, 18*0. -"-.■■:. ! :.;■ -. .....