THE ENGLISH MAIL.

West Coast Times, Issue 316, 27 September 1866, Page 2

THE ENGLISH MAIL.

(FROM TIIE HOMEy NEWS.)

OBITUARY FOR JULY.

Pkofessoh CnAiK.-7-The death j« announced of George Lillie Oaik, LL.D., the distinguished professor of history and English literature in Queen's College, Belfast. He was born iv Fife in*l799, and was the son of a- schoolmaster. He never officiated it* the Presbyterian communion, for the ministry of which he was educated, and in 1842 came to London, where; he was employed by Mr Charles Knight -and'the Society for'the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He was favorably known by the ."Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties," written for the Library of Entertaining Knowledge ; then followed tho- "Pictorial History, of England,", " Sketches of Literature and Learning in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Accession of Elizabeth," " History of British Commerce," "Spenser and bis < Poetry," " Outlines of the History of the English Language," "The Englioh of Shakespeare," ,aud " The Romance of thfe Peerage." He had been professor in Queen's College, Belfast, since 1849. General Si a John "Macdonald, K.C-B. —Tin's distinguished officer expired at his seat, Dunalastair, Perthshire, North Britain, on the 24th June, aged 76 years. He joined the army in 1803, served in South America and at the assault of Buenos Ayres ; in the Peninsula from November, 1808, to 1813, and in the South of France from March, 1814, including the battle of Busaco, lines of Torres Vedras, affairs of Redinha Pombal, and Campo Mayor, 6rst siege of Badajos, battle, of Albuera, third siege and assault of Badajos, affairs of Alva de Tonnes, battles of Vittdria, the Pyrenees, 25th (had two horses shot undtr him), 30th, and 31st July, and Toulouse ; was twice wounded at the assault of Buenoi Ayres, July 5, 1807; twice in the Pyrenees, July 30, and at the assault "of the fortified rock Arolla, where he surprised the enemy's post in the valley of Banca, October 2, 1813; commanded the force which'was sent to suppress the Irish insurrection of 1848.

Sir 0. Price* Bart. — Sir Charles Lugge Price, third baronet, of Springrove, the banker of Lombard street, ied on July 3. He was born in 1801, ud was the eldest son of Sir Charles, 3cond baronet (when he succeeded in 847), by Mary Anne, daughter of Mr Villiam King. lie was at the head of the r ell-known firm of Sir Charles Price, [arryafc, and Co., which suspended paylent a' week or two ago. He is suc3eded to the baronetcy by his brother, 'rederic Pott, born in 1806. The first aronet was an alderman of London, who r as lord mayor in 1803-4. Sir A. Buliver, — The death occurred on June 30, of Sir Anthony Buller, Mho many years ago obtained a'higli reputation as an Indian lawyer and' judge. He wa's born in 1780, aiid was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's fan, in 1803. After practising some tim,e in England he devoted himself to the study of the Indian law, ''and in 1815 was nominated to a judgeship at Madras. In the following year he was made a judge at Bengal and, after serving for a long period in that capacity, -retired from professional life and returned to England. He was knighted on his elevation to the bench. The Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G. — We have to announce the death of the Marquis of Lansdowne,' which took place" on July 5, shortly after' noon, at Lans-downe-house^ Berkeley-square. His lord- . ship was seized with paralysis late on the nignt of July 4, and- Buch was the ■severity of the attack that he expired in about twelve hours. The deceased, Henry Thomas Fitzmaurice,' fourth Marquis of Lansdowne, was the second and only surviving son of Henry Petty-Fttzmaurice, third marquis, by his marriage' with Eady Louisa Emma Fox Strangways, fifth daughter of Henry Thomas, second Earl of llchester. He was born Jan. 5, 1816, and married first, August 18, 1840, Lady Georgiana Herbert, fifth daughter of Georg^ Augustus, eleventh Earl of Pembroke, which Lady died in February, 1841 ; his loidship married, secondly 1, 1843, the Hon. Emily Jane Elphinstone de Flahault, eldest daughter of .Count de Flahault and the Baroness Nairne and Keith, by whom he leaves issue two sons and a daughter. He succeeded to the marquisate on the death of his father in 1863. Previous to being created Baron Wycombe, in July, 1856, he represented * in the House of Commons the borough of Calne — namely from 1847, till July 5, 1856. From December, 1847, till August, 1849, he was a Junior Lord of the Treasury ; and in July, 18/56, was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, when he was summoned to the House » of Lords in his father's barony of Wycombe. His lordship was for several vyears chairman of the Great Western "Railway — -a post he resigned on succeeding to the marquisate. The late peer is succeeded in the family honors and extensive family estates in Wiltshire and in Ireland, by his son, Henry ChWles Keith, Earl of Kerry, born 14th' January, ,1845. His lordship was educated at Eton' and Baliol College, Oxford, which, university he- left just a twelvemonth, ■ago. The Eabl of Lanesbobougu.— We have to record the death of the Earl of Lanesborough; who expired on July 7, at his residence in Stanhope street, ParAlane, after a short illness. The late George John Danvera Butler Danvers, Earl of Lanesborough, Viscount Lanesborough, aud 891-011 of Newtown-Butler, county F<ymanagh. in the peerage of Ireland, of which the earl was a representative peer, was the bnly issue <-f the Hon. Augustus -Richard Butler Dawkins, by his Srst marriage-svith Mary* daughter and heir of Sir John Danvers, Bart. ' He was born 6th of December, 1794, and married, first, 29th of .August, 181.5, Frances Arabella, third daughter of the late Colonel Stephen F. W. Fremantle; . and, secondly, November 24, 1851, Frede--rica Emma, youngest daughter of the late Mr Charles Bishop, and widow 'of Sir Richard Huntej, of Dulany-house, Sussex. The earl succeeded to the family honors on the demise of his cousin, Brinsley Butler, fourth earl, June 16, "1847. The deceased nobleman was' a Conservative in politics. He is succeeded by his nephew, Lieutenant Vansittart Danvers, R.N., eldest son of the Hon. Charles Augustus Butler Danvers, 'of the Madras Artillery, Samuel Maynahd, Mathematiqiax. — A few years ago, in a small and ill-lighted ' alley leading out of Leicester Square, known as Earl's Court, there might have been seen a book shop, dirty and cobwebbed as the famous Dirty Dick's warehouse of Bishopsgate street forty years since.^ The place was so untidy and so uninviting that a stranger was rarely known to enter the door, and the only persons who were ever seen inside the shop were students seeking for second-hand nrithmetics and algebras, and learned professors from the great universities, who had called in, to inquire after tare mathematical works *-* v s«m of boofa the proprietor excln /

sively dealt in. Mr Samuel Maynard, the • owner of this dirty emporium, was well known as an author, and his edition of Euclid, in conjunction with Professor Simson, is one of, the most j.opular text books used in our schools. The author-book-seller reminded one of Poraou, and those other gieat geniuses who live in anecdote >as being- far too learned and engrossed with the cares of letters to think of such , trivial concerns as soap and" water, i-r of such paltry trifles as buttons' and shoe-strings. Often did Mr Maynard emerge from his dusty books to go and sun himself in St, James's Park, - and there, stretched upon" the grass, we have seen the mathematician absorbed in his problems ; on oue occasion, not heeding a shower until he was thoroughly drenched 1 with rf.in. A few years since, Mr Maynard closed his shop and entered vthe Booksellers' Provident Retreat, at

Abbott's Langley. We have new intelligence of his decease at the ripe /ge of 76, .the fact adding another instance to the long list of mathematicians and scientific tneh— over all other learned persons -who have attained a considerable age, notwithstanding the arduous nature of their studies and literaty pursuits. Mr Mayna'rd worthily edited Bonnycastle's " Arithmetic, Algebra, and Mensuration ;" he also prepared " Keys-' 1 to these, and to " Bishop Coleuso's Arithmetic,'' besides giving other proofs of his ability. The Countess (Dowager) or Kakpdrly. — We have to announce the death of this lady, which took pjace on July 11, after an illness of two days. Mary, Qountess Dowager of Ranfurly, was the . wife of Thomas, second earl and daughter of the Hon. William' Stuart, Archbishop ot Armagh, by Sophia Juliana, daughter of Thomas and Lady Juliana Perm, of StokePark, Bucks.