the Government
with full confidence that, although his countrymen were
peculiarly subject to fits of enthusiasm, they respect nothing
so much in the long run as a clear will and definite authority.
After about fifteen months the citizens of Berlin hailed Count
Brandenburgh as the saviour of his country."

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GEORGE GRENVILLE, LORD NUGENT, died on the 26th of November at Lillies,
near Aylesbury, aged sixty-one. He was the second son of the Marquis of
Rockingham, and inherited the Irish Barony of Nugent, on the death of
his mother, in 1812. During the same year he was elected M. P. for
Aylesbury, and continued to represent that borough on the Liberal
interest, until 1832, when he was appointed Lord High Commissioner of
the Ionian Isles. He held that office until 1836, when he returned to
England. In 1847 he was re-elected for Aylesbury. He enjoyed a very fair
literary reputation. He was the author of "Lands, Classical and Sacred,"
"Memorials of Hampden," and other interesting productions. In
conjunction with Lady Nugent, he also brought out the popular "Legends
of the Library at Lillies."

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M. ALEXANDRE FRAGONARD, the eminent French painter and sculptor, died in
October. He was a pupil of David. As a statuary, his great work is the
frontispiece of the old Chamber of Deputies; and, as a painter, he
executed several fine pieces, amongst others a ceiling of the Louvre,
representing Tasso reading his "Jerusalem." His chief works were
engraved in 1840.

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M. JOSEPH DROZ, a member of the French Institute, died in Paris in
November. The youth of M. Droz was devoted to stormier occupations than
that in which he gathered the laurels now laid upon his grave. For three
years he was a soldier:--for upwards of fifty he has been devoted to
letters and to philosophy. His last escort was composed of the men who
had been his comrades in that latter field,--and over his grave MM.
Guizot and Bartholemy Saint-Hilaire, pronounced eulogies.

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PROFESSOR SCHORN, died in Augsburgh on the 7th of October, at the
premature age of forty-seven years. In the formation of the Munich
Gallery, he was the most trusted and active emissary, and traversed
considerable portions of Europe, including England and Italy, in search
of those treasures which now enrich this