IN DAYS THAT HAVE GONE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15707, 8 March 1913, Page 6

IN DAYS THAT HAVE GONE.

.THE WEEK'S ANNIVERSARIES. March 9. —Rizzio murdered, 1566. William Cobbott born, 1766. Soult captured Badajoz} 1811. Anna Letitia Barbauld died, 1862. Scinde War ended, 1845. Monitor and Mcrrimac action, 1862. Hudson's Bay purchased, 1869. Wilhelm I of Germany died, 1888. British New Guinea placed under Commonwealth, 1902. March 10.—Australia discovered by Dutch, 1606. Earl of Bute died, 1792. Edward VII married, 1863. Maz/.ini died, 1872. March 11,—Tasso born, 1544. Paul I of Russia murdered, 1801. Hannah Oowley died, 1809. Luddite Riots commenced, 1811. Benjamin West died, 1820. Hone Heke's attack on Kororaroka, 1845. Burke and Wills completed ' journey Melbourne to Gulf of Carpentaria, 1861. James Outram died, 1863. .Professor .Drummond died, 1E97. Mukden captured by Japan, 1904. . March 12.—St. Gregory the Great died, 604-. Caesar Borgia killed, 1607. Bishop Berkeley born, 1685. . ~ Dr Ame born, 1710. Dean Buckland born, 1784. Mary Howitt- born, 1799. Professor S. Newcomb born, 1835, . First telegraph lino opened in Victoria, 1855. , Duke of Edinburgh shot in S.vdjiey, 1868. , , Kuropatkinl defeated, 1905. H. O. Arnold-Forster, M.P., '• died, 1909. . March 13.—Belisarius died, 565. Either Johnson (Swift's "Stella") born, 168'.. , Joseph Priestley born, 1733. Felice Orsini guillotined, 1858. Negotiations opened for purchase of Alaska from Russia by U.S.A., 1867. " ■/ Czar Alexander II assassinated, 1881. Sir Julius Yogel died. 1899. -Bloemfontein occupied, 1900. March 14.—Battle of Ivry, 1590. Admiral Bvng shot for negligence, 1757. F. T. IClopstock died, -1803. Johann Strauss born, 1804. . Earl St. Vincent died. 1823. Karl Marx died,. 1883. March 15.—Julius Ctesar murdered, 44 B.C. Andrew Jackson born, 1767. . Lord Melbourne born,-1779. Cardinal Mczzofanti-died, 1849. Sir Henry Bessemer, died, 1898. In March, 1869, ihe Dominion of Canada was enlarged by the acquisition of the famous Hudson's Bay territory. When the charter of the Hudson's Bay Company expired ill 1E69, Lard Granville, then Colonial Secretary, proposed that the chief part of the company's' territories should be transferred to tho Dominion for £300,000, and the proposition 'was agreed to on both sides. The Hudson's Bay charter dated from the reign of. Charles 11. A portion of the people in the Red River country resisted tho annexation, and Louis Riel proclaimed independence and seized the company's treasury. Sir Garnet, then Colonel Wolseley, was sent in command of an 'expedition which reached the insurgents at, Fort Garry in August, 1870. They submitted without resistance, and the district received the name of Manitoba.

General Sir James Outram, one of tho noblest and greatest of that. magnificent band of Indian Mutiny heroes, wa.s born in Derbyshire hi January, 1803. At an early age lie entered the Indian Army service, and gained a marvellous personal influence over a light infantry corps of Bhils, whom ho trained with great sucocss. Their loyalty to him had its principal source in their boundless admiration of his hunting achievements, which in cool daring and hair-breadth escapes have perhaps never been 'equalled. Originally a "puny lad," Outram seemed to win strength by every new illness, acquiring a constitution of iron "nerves of stool, shoulders and muscles worthy of a' 6ix-foot Highlander." When war broke out in 1839, he heroically defended the residency at Hyderabad against 8000 Baluchis; and it was Sir C. Napier who then described .him as "the Bayard of India." He took part with distinction in many military exploits before he was summoned from Persia to India in June, 1857, with the brief explanation-" We want all our best men here." On arriving at Oawnporc- with reinforcements, Outram, " in admiration of the brilliant deeds of General Havelock," concedcd to him tlie glory of relieving Lucknow, and, waiving his rank, tendered his services to him as a volunteer. After the Mutiny had been suppressed he received the ; cpociaJ thanks ot both Houses of Parliament, and the dignity of baronet, with an annuity of £1000. He died on March 11, 1863, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where the marble slab on his grave bears the pregnant epitaph, " The Bayard of India." Professor Henry DrUminond, the ScotfclSi evangelical writer and lecturer, was born in-, Stirling in August, 1851. He was educated at Edinburgh University, where he displayed a strong inclination' for physical and mathe. matioal science. While preparing for tho ministry he became for a time deeply interested in the evangelising mission of Moody . and Sankcy, in which he actively co-operatcd for two years. In ;1877 he became lecturer on natural science in the Free Church College, and his studies resulted in his writing "Natural Law in the Spiritual.World," tile argument of which was that the scientific principle of continuity extended from tho physical world to the spiritual. The-book made him immediately famous, and the universality of the demand for it proved tho seasonableness of its publication. Drummond travelled in Africa, Australia, and 1 America, and recorded many valuable results of his. acme scientific observation before his death, which took place on March 11, 1897. His character was full of charm. His writings were too nicely adapted to tho needs of bis.own day to justify the expectation that they would long survive it, but few men exercised more religious influeneo in'their own generation, especially on young men.. . . ' Heibrich Earl Marx, German Socialist and head of the International Working Men's Association, was born in Rhenish Prussia in 1818. His father, a Jewish lawyer, in 1824 went over to Christianity, and he and his .whole family were baptised as' Christian Protestants. Young Marx studied law, history, and philosophy, and in 1841 took the'degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Marx came into contact with Engels in Paris, and there and in Brussels the two laboured together in the spread-of. socialistic theories and organisation. From 1849 to the time of hi<3 death, which occurred in 1883, Marx lived in London. The greatness of his ecientific achievement lies not so much in his conclusions as in the details and yet more in. the method and principles of hm investigations in his philosophy of history. Hero.ho has, as is now generally admitted, broken new groundand opened new ways and new outlooks. Nobody before him had so clearly shown the role of 'the productive agencies in historical evolution; nobody so masterfully exhibited their great determining influence on tho form and idealogios of social organisms. Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti. Italian Cardinal and linguist, was ordained priest in 1797, and in the same year became professor of Arabic in the University, In 1833 he succeeded Angelo Mai .as chief keeper, of. the Vatican library, and in 1838 was made cardinal and director of fitud'es in the Congregation. His peculiar talent, compirablo in many respects to that of the so-called " calculating boys." was not combined with .any cxoeotion.il measure of intellectual newer, end produced nothing of permanent value. It seems certain, however, that he spoke with considerable fluency, and in some enses even w ; th attention to dialectic peculiarities', some 50, or 60 lnnguanres of the most widely . separated families, besides having a less perfect acquaintance with mart.v others,