liness of
fancy was tempered in him with good breeding and great kindness of
disposition; and one of the wittiest men of his day, he could amuse and
delight by the keenness of playful yet pungent sallies, without wounding
the feelings of any one by the indulgence of bitterness and ill-nature."

English journals notice with expressions of regret the death in
Philadelphia of R. C. TAYLOR, on the 26th of October, aged sixty-two. Mr.
Taylor emigrated in the year 1830, being previously well known as a Fellow
both of the Antiquarian and of the Geological Societies. He had published
a work of great care and research while resident in his native county,
Norfolk, _Index Monasticus for East Anglia_; and had made some useful
explorations into the fossil remains on the coast of Norfolk. In America
he wrote for various philosophical societies, and published, in 1848, his
work on the Statistics of Coal, by which alone he was much known to the
public of this country.

The Royal University of Berlin has lost by death since Christmas, MM.
Lachmann, Stuhr, Jacobi, Erman, and Dr. CHARLES THEODORE FRANZ, who died
at Breslaw early in January, at the untimely age of forty-five. For eleven
years Dr. Franz occupied the chair of Classical Philology in the
University of Berlin. He is the author of a variety of works: in the first
rank of which stand his Criticisms on the Greek Tragic Poets, and his
several collections of Greek and Latin inscriptions before unpublished.
The London Morning Chronicle remarks that the continent never before lost
so many great scholars in one year as in 1851.

WILLIAM JACOB, F.R.S., a profound writer on science and agriculture, was
born in 1762. His work, _An Inquiry into the Precious Metals_, has been
held in high estimation. His other principal productions were
_Considerations on the Price of Corn_; _Tracts on Corn-Laws_; and a _View
of Agriculture in Germany_. Mr. Jacob, who was formerly Comptroller of
Corn Returns in the Board of Trade, died on the 17th of December, at his
residence in London, aged eighty-eight.

MR. PAUL BARRAS, died in Paris from wounds received in the contests
between the people and the military, on the second day of the usurpation
of Louis Napoleon. M. Barras resided in New-York about twenty years, and
was engaged here as a teacher of his native language, and as a
correspondent of one of the Parisian journals. He was an amiable man, of
considerable talents,