deputed by the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company,
to come to a friendly understanding with the tribes of Indians who
inhabit the Isthmus of Darien. It was also the intention of Mr.
Warburton to make himself perfectly acquainted with every part of these
districts, and with whatever referred to their topography, climate, and
resources, and he undoubtedly would have given the results of his visit
in an interesting and valuable work on the subject, if he had lived.

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FREDERIC RICCI, the composer, lately died in the prime of life and
talent. He was stricken by apoplexy in the post-carriage between Warsaw
and St. Petersburg. Ricci was the author of many operas, more successful
in Italy than elsewhere, but whose names are well known to the musical
public every where. The _Prigioni d'Edimburgo_ is the most famous of his
operas, among which _Rolla_, _Estella_, and _Griselda_ are not unknown.
His _Corrado d'Altamura_ failed in Paris in 1844. He had recently
produced at Venice _I due Ritratti_, an opera of which he composed both
words and music, and last May was summoned to Russia, under the especial
patronage of Field Marshal Paskewitch, and saw before him the promise of
that brilliant career which the great wealth and cultivation of the
Russian aristocracy secure to a few fortunate artists of every kind. On
the 2d December he wrote to the distinguished tenor, Moriani, that, for
the first time, fortune smiled upon him. He quotes from his own opera of
_Rolla_, of which the tenor part was written for Moriani--"_A nameless
stone shall cover my grave_"--smiles at the thought; says that it will
be his own fault if it is so, and within a few weeks reaches the scene
of his anticipated triumphs, a corpse.

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BARON D'OHSON, a distinguished oriental scholar of Sweden, died at
Stockholm early in January, at the age of seventy-two. He was of
Armenian origin, and was born at Constantinople, November 26, 1779. His
father, Ignace Muradgi, the author of a work on Turkish history, was
first dragoman of the Swedish embassy in that city. He was educated at
Paris, and among the manuscripts of the National Library, gathered the
material for two works published in French, which gained him an enviable
reputation. One was _The Peoples of the Caucasus_, by Abdul-Cassim, the
traveller; the other _The History of Mongolia, from Dschingis Khan to
Timour_; the second appe