222 CUSHMAN-DAHLGREN. breaking out. Nothing daunted, he | and Colonel of the 16th Dragoons, and equipped them out of his own private means, and, as their colonel, marched with them to the head-quarters of the army. He was made brigadiergeneral by General Taylor, and formed one of the board of inquiry appointed to investigate the charges against Generals Scott, Pillow, and Worth. In 1860 he was again returned to the Massachusetts legislature, where he made himself conspicuous by his vehement opposition to the return of Mr. Charles Sumner to the Senate. In 1852 he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, a position he filled with signal efficiency. In 1853 President Pierce made him his Attorney-General; in which office he astounded the British people by the hostility and bad taste of the instructions he issued to his subordinates in reference to the "enlistment" quarrel of 1855. CUSHMAN, MISS CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS, the eldest of the five children of the late Mr. Cushman, of Massachusetts, was born at Boston, United States, about the year 1818. She first came out as a public singer, in the character of the Countess in the " Marriage of Figaro," at the Tremont Theatre, Boston, in April, 1835. Having earned the highest popularity in her native country, she came to England in 1845, between which year and her return to America in 1849, she gained an equal share of professional laurels at the Princess's and Haymarket theatres. Since that date she has rarely acted, but divides her residence between London and Rome, having secured an ample independence. Her sister, Miss Susan Cushman, who had also achieved a successful career on the stage both in America and in England, sharing her elder sister's popularity, especially as the representative of Juliet to her sister's Romeo, married Dr. S. Muspratt, of Liverpool (whom see). CUST, THE HON. SIR EDWARD, K.C.H., a younger son of the first Lord Brownlow, was born in 1794. He is a Lieutenant-General in the army, served under the duke of Wellington in the Peninsula. He was many years in Parliament, and was Commissioner for rebuilding the Houses of Parlia ment, and for the selection of the Wellington monument. He also held an appointment in the suite of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, and he was nominated master of the ceremonies to her Majesty in 1847. Sir Edward has earned literary distinction by his "Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century," his "Noctes Dominicæ," and an able pamphlet on "Colonies and Colonial Government." Lady Cust, also, is known as the author of a very useful work called "The Invalid's Own Book," &c. D. an DAHLGREN, JOHN A., American admiral and artillerist, was born in Pennsylvania, about the year 1810. He entered the navy in 1826, and served on the Brazilian coast and in the Mediterranean during the two following years. On his return he went successfully through course of naval study, and was engaged on the coast survey during 1835 and 1836. He had early entertained a passion for the fashioning and construction of ordnance, and was appointed to that department by the American government in 1847, when he invented and perfected the well-known Dahlgren shell-gun, then considered the most powerful kind of ordnance in existence. From 1855 to 1859 he was in command of the gunnery ship Cumberland, at Ply. mouth, United States, engaged in testing the velocity and power of artillery, &c. In the latter year he was removed to the navy yard as Washington, to the command of which he was appointed at the outbreak of the civil war. On the death of Admiral Foote in 1863, he succeeded to the command of the fleet before Charleston, when he co-operated with General Gilmore in laying siege to D'ALBERT-DALHOUSIE. Fort Sumter and the other formidable defences of Charleston harbour; but those efforts failed of eventual success. D'ALBERT, CHARLES, Musical Composer, son of a captain of cavalry in the French army, was born at a village near Hamburg, in 1815. After his father's death, his mother brought him to England, where he showed such musical talents that he attracted the notice of Kalkbrenner, whose pupil he became, and under whose instructions he gained an acquaintance with the classical works of the great masters. He afterwards became a pupil in the Académie Royale at Paris, where he studied both music and dancing to such good purpose that he was appointed maître de ballet and first dancer at CoventGarden Theatre. But this pursuit not suiting his views, he abandoned the stage, and established himself as a teacher of music, and as a composer. The success which has attended his efforts is proved by the popularity of the immense quantity of dance-music which has flowed from his pen, each piece having a distinct individuality, suggestive of the subject of the title. Among his many favourite waltzes, are "The Peri," Faust," "Haunt of Fairies," "Queen of the Ball," "Lily of the Valley," the Sultan's Polka,” "The Bridal," Helena," 66 Coquette," 'Isabelle," King Pippin," and "Soldier's" pcikas-not to speak of galops, such as "The Express," "Pelissier," &c. 46 DALE, THE REV. THOMAS, M.A., Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, was born at Pentonville, London, on the 2nd of August, 1797. In 1805, through the kindness of friends, a presentation was obtained for him to Christ's Hospital, where he gained, under the late Dr. Trollope, an excelent classical education, and whence ae passed in 1817 to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In the autumn of the subsequent year he published his "Widow of Nain." This volume was followed at brief intervals by "The Outlaw of Taurus," and "Irad and Adah, a Tale of the Flood." He 223 maintained himself at college by the earnings of his pen, and having graduated, was ordained in 1822. For some years he took pupils at Greenwich and at Beckenham. His first curacy was that of St. Michael's, Cornhill, which he held for three years. He became AssistantPreacher of St. Bride's in 1826; was appointed Evening Lecturer of St. Sepulchre's in 1828; and Minister of St. Matthew's Chapel, Denmark Hill, in 1830. In 1828 he accepted a Professorship of English Language and Literature at the London University, but resigned it in 1830; and from 1836 to 1839, held a like appointment in King's College, London. In 1835 he was appointed by the late Sir R. Peel to the vicarage of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, and in 1843 was advanced by the same patron to a canonry in St. Paul's, exchanging in 1846 the vicarage of St. Bride's for that of St. Pancras. Mr. Dale's poems, originally published in three successive volumes in 1819, 1820, and 1822, having passed through several editions in their original form, were collected in 1836 into a single volume. His other publications are"A Translation of Sophocles," in 1824; "Sermons preached at St. Bride's, 1830;" "Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge as one of the Select Preachers, 1832-1835, 1836;' "The Sabbath Companion," 1811; "The Good Shepherd, a Commentary on the Twenty-third Psalm," 1845; "The Domestic Liturgy and Family Chaplain," 1846; "The Golden Psalm," 1847; together with many sermons preached on the occasion of visitations, consecrations of churches, &c., and an edition of Cowper, with biographical and critical remarks. After an incumbency of fourteen years, Mr. Dale resigned the living of St. Pancras, and was appointed Rector of Therfield, Herts. DALHOUSIE, THE RIGHT HONBLE. Fox MAULE, EARL OF, G.C.B., late Secretary of State for the War Department, was born at Brechin Castle, in 1801. His father, the late Lord Panmure, was a younger son of the noble Scottish family of which the earl of Dalhousie is the head, and a descendant of that Sir Allan Ramsay celebrated in medieval chronicles as "The Flower of Knighthood." Having been educated at the Charterhouse, Mr. Fox Maule entered the army as an ensign in the 79th Highlanders; served for several years in Canada, on the staff of his uncle, the late earl of Dalhousie, and retired in 1831, with the rank of captain. He commenced his political career in 1835, when he was returned in the liberal interest for Perthshire. On the formation of the Melbourne ministry in that year, he became Under-Secretary for the Home Department; and although ejected from the representation of Perthshire in 1837, he retained his office, and was, in 1838, restored to the House of Commons as member for the Elgin burghs. Elected a second time in 1811, as member for Perth, he was for a brief period Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and on the restoration of the Whigs to power in 1846, became Secretary at War, with a seat in the Cabinet. In that post he continued till 1852, when the expiration of the East-India Company's Charter rendering it necessary to have a minister of influence to direct the affairs of India, he exchanged to the Presidency of the Board of Control. The dissolution of the Russell cabinet, however, prevented Mr. Fox Maule from trying his powers as an Indian reformer; and having succeeded his father in the peerage soon afterwards, he took his place in the House of Lords as Lord Panmure. When the Coalition Cabinet was constructed under the auspices of the earl of Aberdeen, Lord Panmure was not included; but on the formation of Lord Palmerston's administration in 1855, he appeared in the reconstructed cabinet as Minister of War. This post was no sinecure; and Lord Panmure during the Crimean war, discharged the duties devolving upon him with exemplary diligence. His lordship was created a Knight of the Thistle in 1853, and in 1857 a Grand Cross of the Bath. He succeeded to the earldom of Dalhousie, on the death of his cousin, the late governor-general of India, in December, 1860. His lordship has linked his name with the ecclesiastical affairs of his native country, and he is now an active and influential member of the Free Church of Scotland. DALLAS, GEORGE MIFFLIN, an American statesman, born at Philadel phia, on the 10th of July, 1792, comes of a family prolific in eminent men. His father, James Dallas, was district attorney of Pennsylvania under Jefferson, and secretary of the Treasury, and secretary at war under Madison. His uncle, Robert C. Dallas, wag in his day one of the most useful writers in the United States. His elder brother became a commodore in the United States navy, and his younger rose to the judicial bench. In England the family was represented by Sir Robert Dallas, the chief justice of the Common Pleas; and by Sir George Dallas, whose political writings extorted the admiration of William Pitt. The sister of Dallas intermarried with the Byron family, and became the mother of the present Lord Byron. Dallas having received his early education at Philadelphia, graduated with high honours at Princeton College in 1810, and hav. ing commenced the study of the law in his father's office, was in due time called to the Bar. He did not, however, immediately begin to practise, but accompanied Mr. Gallatin as his private secretary to St. Petersburg in 1813, when that gentleman joined the commission appointed to negotiate peace with England through the mediation of the Czar. portunity enabled Mr. Dallas to visit England, France, and other European countries. Returning home in 1815, he commenced practising at the Bar, where he soon attained to high eminence. In that year he first declared his political principles by an address to the democrats of Philadelphia in vindication of the war of 1812. In 1819 he published a "Vindication of Pre This op sident Monroe" in the matter of the pursuit of the Indians by General Jackson into Florida. In 1829, Mr. Dallas was appointed by the then president, General Jackson, to the office of District Attorney, which his father had held, and soon afterwards became one of the leaders of the Democratic party in his native state. In 1831, a vacancy occurring in the representation of Pennsylvania, he was elected to fill it, and throughout the two succeeding years took an active part in the stormy debates of that period; but in 1838 he declined to be re-elected to the Assembly. In 1837, Mr. Dallas was selected by President Van Buren for the post of Ambassador at St. Petersburg, a situation he filled until the election of General Harrison to the presidency in 1841, when he returned home. This last election was a great blow to the Democratic party, and induced Mr. Dallas to return exclusively to the practice of his profession; but, upon the approach of the next election, he issued from his retreat, and was elected Vice-President of the United States, Mr. Polk being the new president. The party cry of the Democrats during this memorable Polk, Dallas, and the tariff of 1842;" but the grand question of the day was the annexation of Texas; and though, on the question of theextension of American territory, the views of Mr. Dallas were much more temperate than those of his party, yet to this proceeding we must consider tim pledged by his election. In the great fight upon the tariff in 1846 he D'ALTON, JOHN, Genealogist and acted with commendable public spirit, Antiquary, son of the late William sinking all question of private opinion D'Alton, Esq., of Bessville, co. Westand predilection, by giving his cast-meath, was born there in 1792, ing vote, as President of the Senate, for the abolition of a measure which was obnoxious to the majority of the euntry, and in direct opposition to the principles of free trade. His policy has been so generally moderate, that we find him throughout his career holding office under presidents of very different opinions: to wit, Jackson, Van Buren, and Polk; and it was probably on this account that Mr. Buchanan intrusted to him, as the United States representative at the court of St. James's, the arrangement of the Central American question in 1857; and this, although he has never been favourable to the aggressive policy respecting Cuba or other places to which it was supposed that the president had pledged himself by the famous Ostend circular. During his ambassadorial residence in this country, Mr. Dallas gained the respect of all classes by his general deportment, and the manner in which he exercised his official func. tions. On the election of President Lincoln, he resigned his post, and presented his letters of recall in May (1861). Since that time he has carefully abstained from mixing himself up with politics. contest was 44 DALLAS, THE REV. ALEXANDER ROBERT CHARLES, is the son of Robert C. Dallas, Esq., the friend and connection of Lord Byron, and himself an author of some note. He was born towards the close of the last century, and, entering the army at an early age, was present at Waterloo. He subsequently took orders, and has been, since 1844, the leader of Protestant missionary enterprise in the west of Ireland. He is the author of "Practical Sermons on the Lord's Prayer," ""Lent Lectures on Christ's Temptation," "Prophecy upon the Mount," "Pastor's Assistant," "An Introduction to Prophetical Researches," "A Scriptural View of the Position of the Jews," &c. and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the usual degrees. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1813, and was appointed Commissioner of the Loan Fund Board, Dublin, in 1835. In 1838 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He has spent a long life of labour in collecting materials for the Q histories of nearly every Irish family. He is known as the author of the "History of the County of Dublin," "Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin," "An Essay on the Social and Political State of Ireland from the First to the Twelfth Century" (a work which obtained the highest prize ever given by the Royal Irish Academy, and the Cunningham Gold Medal), “The History of Drogheda" (2 vols.), "Annals of Boyle" (2 vols.), "The History of Dundalk," and of "Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of the Army List of King James II." (2 vols.). He has also published "Dermid, or Erin in the Days of Boroimhe," a metrical romance, in twelve cantos (1814), and he was for many years a frequent contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, and to many Irish periodicals. His manuscript collections illustrate Irish localities, and upwards of 2,500 families of the empire, with notes of tours in England and Wales in 1826. and was admitted to the bar of Balt more in 1811. In the following ye he removed to Cambridge; but h tastes being chiefly literary, he b came connected in 1814 with t North American Review, then just s on foot; his earliest writings, " Essay on Old Times," and an artic on the Poems of Washington Allsto first appearing in that periodical, which he became part editor, in co junction with Professor Channing, 1818. With some assistance fro Bryant, the poet, he published "T Idle Man" in 1821, which had bu qualified success. In 1825 the N York Review opened its columns to Dana's first poetical effusions, " "T Dying Raven" and "The Husbar and Wife's Grave." In 1827 "T Buccaneer" appeared, and was high commended, both in America and Blackwood's Magazine in Engla He has since published several tached pieces. He delivered, 1839-40, in Boston, New York, a DALY, SIR DOMINIC, son of the Philadelphia, a course of ten lectu late Dominic Daly, Esq., a gentle-on Shakspeare, which have, perha man of property in county Galway, as much contributed to his reputati and nephew of the first Lord Walls. in America as anything that I court, was born in 1798. He was proceeded from his own pen. early employed in the colonial ad- DANA, RICHARD HENRY, juni ministration, and having acted for son of the above, born at Cambrid nearly twenty-six years as Chief Massachusetts, August 1, 1815. Secretary in Canada, during which entered Harvard College in 18 time he was employed on several but an affection of the eyes o important missions by the local legis-pelled him to suspend his com lature, he was appointed, in 1852, of study in 1834. As a reme Governor of the island of Tobago; for this weakness, he undert whence, in 1856, he was promoted to the voyage which he so graphica the post of Lieutenant-Governor of described in his "Two Years be Prince Edward's Island, when he re- the Mast." He returned after ceived also the honour of knighthood. to his studies, graduated in 1837, Having held this post until 1859, he studied law from that year until 18 succeeded Sir R. G. Macdonnell as under Judge Story and Profes Governor of South Australia in Greenleaf, when he was admitted 1861. the Boston bar. Healmost immediat leaped into Admiralty practice, early predilection for the sea having him to pay especial attention to ma time law. For the same reason was induced, as early as 1841, to p lish a treatise on Seamanship, titled "The Seaman's Friend" (bet known in England as "The Seama DANA, RICHARD HENRY, an American author, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 15, 1787, is the son of Francis Dana, minister of the United States at the court of Russia, and chief justice of Massachusetts. He studied, but did not graduate, at Harvard College, |