1832. The bill banishing the families of Napoleon and Charles X, passed the chamber of peers by a vote of 80 to 30.
1832. John Wolfgang von Gœthe, "the patriarch of German literature," died, aged 83. He early gave indications of genius and a taste for the fine arts; acquired several languages, and made some proficiency in drawing, engraving, &c.; and first attracted attention as an author by the drama of Gœtz in 1773, and the Sorrows of Werther the next year. The activity and versatility of his genius were prodigious, and his productions amounting to 50 vols., embrace every branch of literature and science. He died at Weimar, quietly seated in his armchair, and apparently without suffering.
1842. Condy Raguet, author of the Free Trade Advocate, and many other political productions, died at Philadelphia.
1851. Mordecai Manasseh Noah, for over forty years connected with the press of New York and prominent as a writer and politician, died.
1851. Isaac Hill, one of the most influential political writers in America and for many years editor of the New Hampshire Patriot, died.
1851. John Stuart Skinner, editor of the Plow, the Loom and the Anvil, died at Baltimore, aged 63. He was the pioneer in the establishment of American agricultural journals, although he had been educated for the law.
1855. Ramon Pinto, an eminent Cuban lawyer, suffered death by the garotte, at Havana, for conspiring to take Concha's life and overthrow the existing government.
1855. The Russians, in a night sortie upon the French lines at Sebastopol, were driven back after a contest of two and a half hours.
MARCH 23.
1208. The pope laid the churches of England under an interdict. King John in retaliation banished the bishops that obeyed.