1835. William T. Barry, postmaster-general under president Jackson, died at Liverpool on his way to Spain, as minister plenipotentiary of the United States.
1838. David Hume died, aged 82; baron of the exchequer in Scotland, and author of a celebrated work on criminal law.
1844. Francis Bailey, so favorably known as a stock broker and author, died in England. He was instrumental in founding the astronomical society of London.
1848. The United States district attorney of Arkansas had orders from government to discover and prosecute all those who were engaged in preparing a military expedition against Mexico, and establishing the republic of the Sierra Madre.
1849. The chamber of deputies at Turin voted 100,000 livres to relieve the refugees from different parts of Italy.
1850. John Inman, a New York editor, died, aged 46. He was educated for the law, but commenced his editorial experience about 1830, with the Spirit of the Times. He was also for a time connected with the New York Mirror, and in 1834 became assistant editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser, which he edited ably on the death of William L. Stone.
1852. John Camden Neild, an English barrister, died at London, aged 72. He was privately known by his eccentricities and miserliness, and after his death became more publicly known by the strange bequest of all his property, estimated at $2,500,000, to the queen.
1852. George Frederick Von Langsdorff, a noted botanist and traveler, died at Freidburg, in the duchy of Baden.
1853. The cholera, which prevailed very generally in the north of Europe, became nearly extinct at Copenhagen, where it destroyed 4,006 lives. In St. Petersburg the deaths during this visitation were 5,609.
1854. The British admiral Price engaged