628 NORWICH-NOVELLO. as all the world knows, has proved an ill-assorted one. In 1831, Mrs. Norton published a poem, entitled "The Undying One," based on the legend of the Wandering Jew, which secured her a high position among the poetical writers of the age. This was followed, in 1840, by "The Dream, and other Poems," "The Child of the Islands" (1845); a volume of juvenile poems, called "Aunt Carry's Ballads" (1847); and some few years later, a successful novel, entitled "Stuart of Dunleath." In 1862 she published a poem entitled "The Lady of La Garaye." Mrs. Norton was an extensive contributor to the Annuals in their day, and her pen has been much employed in periodical lite rature. NORWICH, BISHOP OF, RIGHT REV. AND HON. JOHN THOMAS PELHAM, D.D., is a brother of the third Earl of Chichester, and was born in 1811. After his education at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, he became Rector of Burgh Apton, afterwards Incumbent of Christ Church, Hampstead, and was raised in 1855 to a more important post as Rector of the great parish of Marylebone; he had held that but two years when he was selected to fill the place of Dr. Hinds, who resigned the bishopric of Norwich in 1857. He was noted as a good preacher, and is now known as an active and liberal-minded member of the Episcopate. He is patron of eighty-four livings. His Lordship's diocese includes the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and his annual income is £4,500. NOVA SCOTIA, THE BISHOP OF, RIGHT REV. HIBBERT BINNEY, D.D., is a son of the Rev. Dr. Binney, Rec. tor of Newbury, Berks. He was born in Nova Scotia in 1819, but came to England, and studied at King's College, London, and aftewards at Worcester College, Oxford, of which he became Scholar and Fellow, and where he graduated in 1842 in classical and mathematical honours. Subsequently he took orders. He was consecrated fourth Bishop of Scotia in 1851. This w bishopric founded by Eng colonial dependencies, and includes, besides Nova S Brunswick, and Prince E land, and the income of £700. NOVELLO, CLARA (COUNTESS GIGLIUCCt), daughter of Mr. Novello, of note, was born June, gave early evidence of so r cal talent as to induce he give her a thoroughly education. Her progress the care bestowed on her, early age of eleven years s competition, her admission in the Conservatoire de Mus at Paris, where, for two studied assiduously, and at public examinations of was complimented by t of Charles X. and his court closing of the institution, th revolution of 1830, she retu fitted to take a prominent p the singers of the day, at th of the Philharmonic Society leading musical entertainme only seventeen years of ag elected an associate of that unusual honour at so early an after this she accepted an from Mendelssohn to take p Leipsic Gewand-Haus Conc became a great favourite at In Berlin and Vienna she w well received; and so grea success in Berlin, that the presented her with introdu his sister, the empress of Ri likewise to the court of Vien had been previously urged by and Rubini to go to Italy and the stage; and now that her at Vienna led to her taking the musical festivals in L she felt disposed to follow t vice, but, owing to engager St. Petersburg and in G could not carry out this pl 1839-40. A year later she a at Padua in the character of Nova mide with such success that O'DONNELL-OGILVIE. ments at Bologna, Modena, and Genoa quickly followed, and in the year 1842 Rome and Genoa contested her possession for the fêtes of the carnival. In 1843 she returned to England, and sang both in London and Manchester; | at in the following year, having contracted a matrimonial alliance with Count Gigliucci, she withdrew from the stage. Subsequent circumstances, Lowever, induced her return in the year 1850, to the arena of her earlier triumph; since which period she constantly appeared in concerts, oratorios, and operas, on the Continent and at London, until 1860, when she finally retired from her professional career. She has lately been residing in the Beighbourhood of Genoa. 0. O'DONNELL, LEOPOLD, DUKE OF TETUAN, Marshal and ex-Minister of Spain, of Irish descent, was born in Spain about 1809. He entered the military service at an early age, and had attained the rank of colonel before he was twenty-five. When Don Carlos commenced that struggle which proved so disastrous to Spain, O'Donnell fought courageously for the young Veen; became, in 1838, chief of the staff, and subsequently was placed in command of the Army of the Centre. At the close of the Carlist war he was Dominated a General of Brigade, and created Count of Lucena. In 1840, Donnell embraced the cause of the Queen-mother against the people and the army, and emigrated with her to france. In 1841 he demanded permission to return to Spain as a friend the established government, and Espartero granted his request, but Boon had reason to rue his lenity. Donnell fomented a formidable, but ansuccessful, insurrection against the regent's government, and had to escape into France. In 1843, by Leans of intrigues, Espartero fell, and for the share which O'Donnell had in bringing about that event he was rewarded with the governor 629 generalship of Cuba. He returned to Spain when Narvaez was in power, and then commenced in earnest his political career, which is so interwoven with the tangled web of modern Spanish history-with its plots, counterplots, insurrections, &c.,-that it would be little edifying to follow it in detail. When a new ministry was formed in July, 1858, O'Donnell was made Minister of War and the Colonies. In 1859, Spain having declared war against Morocco, General O'Donnell was entrusted with the command of an invading army, and for his services in bringing the war to a successful conclusion, was rewarded with the title of Duke of Tetuan. He continued in office until February, 1863, when he | resigned in consequence of the Queen's refusal to dissolve the Chambers, and was succeeded as War Minister by General Concha. O'FERRALL, THE RIGHT HON. RICHARD MORE, eldest son of the late Ambrose O'Ferrall, Esq., of Ballyna, co. Kildare, was born at Dublin in 1797. He entered Parliament as M.P. for co. Kildare soon after the passing of the Act for Roman Catholic Emancipation, and sat for that constituency in the Liberal interest till 1847. Having represented co. Longford for a few months in 1851-2, he was again returned to Parliament by his old constituents in 1859. He was successively a Lord of the Treasury and Secretary to the Admiralty, and Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Melbourne's administration, and held the governorship of Malta from 1817 till 1851. He was sworn a Privy Councillor on receiving the lastmentioned appointment. OGILVIE, THE REV. CHARLES ATMORE, D.D., was born about 1793, and graduated B.A. of Balliol College, Oxford, as first classman in Literis Humanioribus in 1815, obtaining the Latin essay prize in 1817. He has been successively Fellow of Balliol College (1816), Domestic and Examining Chaplain to the late Archbishop (Howley) of Canterbury, and Bampton Lecturer (1836); he was presented to 630 O'HAGAN-OLIVER. the Rectory and Vicarage of Ross, Herefordshire, in 1839, and in 1842 to the Regius Professorship of Pastoral Theology at Oxford, to which a Canonry of Christ Church has recently been attached. Dr. Ogilvie is the author of the "Divine Glory manifested in the Conduct and DisCourses of our Lord" (Bampton Lectures for 1836); "Considerations on Subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles" (1845), and several sermons preached at Oxford and elsewhere. * O'HAGAN, THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS, an Irish Judge, was born at Dublin in 1810. He was educated at the Institution, Belfast, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1836. He held for several years the post of assistant barrister for the county of Longford. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland under Lord Palmerston's administration in 1860, and held the (Irish) attorney-generalship from 1861, when he was sworn a member of the Privy Council, to January, 1865, when he was raised to the Judicial Bench in succession to Judge Ball. He represented Tralee from May, 1863, till his elevation to the Bench. of Canada, and published, un title of "Minnesota," a narr his wanderings in Canada a United States. His next w "The Coming Campaign," a the war with Russia. Hav companied Omer Pasha ins his expeditions, he published Caucasian Campaign of Omer a personal narrative. He next panied the late Lord Elgin on hi embassy to China in 1857, as secretary and as historiog and, in 1860, published "A N of the Earl of Elgin's Mis China and Japan, in the 1857-8-9." Mr. Oliphant ha published "Patriots and Filib and he has been a frequent butor to periodical literatu 1861, while residing at the Consulate in Japan, he was 1 ously attacked by assassins, a since returned to England. OLIVER, THE REV. GEORGE a distinguished writer on Freem was born about the year 17 having taken holy orders, was sively Vicar of Clee, Linco Rector and Prebendary of th legiate Church, Wolverhampto tor of South Hykeham, and V Scopwick, Lincolnshire, and Master of King Edward's Gr School, Grimsby. He became Cambridge in 1836. Dr. Olive sonic works are, "The Hi Landmarks of Masonry," "T tory of Initiation," "The Anti of Freemasonry,' A History Order from 1829 to 1841," "The OLIPHANT, LAWRENCE, son of the late Sir Anthony Oliphant, C.B., many years Chief Justice of Ceylon, was born about the year 1831. He was from the first intended for the law, but visited India whilst very young, and accompanied Jung Bahadoor to the Nepaulese court. An account of this visit he subsequently published, under the title of " A Jour-bol of Glory," "Institutions ney to Katmanda.” Returning to sonic Jurisprudence," "The B England, he entered himself at the the Lodge," and a great num University of Edinburgh, and was ad- others, which have passed th mitted a member of the Scottish Bar. several editions, and have be He was subsequently called to the published in foreign countries. English Bar at Lincoln's Inn. was elected D.G. Master of M 1852 he travelled through a great for Lincolnshire in 1832, and in part of Russia, as far as the Crimea, Hon. Member of the G.L. of an account of which tour he published chusetts, with the rank of D. in 1853, under the title of The and also of several private Russian Shores of the Black Sea." and literary societies. He ha He next became Private Secretary to sides published "An Account the Earl of Elgin, then Gov.-Gen. Religious Houses formerly sit In OLMSTED-O'NEIL. on the eastern side of the River Witham," "The History and Antiquities of Grimsby, Beverley, and Wolverhampton Churches," "History of the Holy Trinity Guild at Sleaford," "Scopwickiana," with some sermons and lectures. OLMSTED, DENISON, an American writer, born at East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1791, took his degree in Yale College, where, after having for seven years taught chemistry and philosophy in North Carolina, he returned in 1824, to occupy successively the chairs of mathematics, of physics, and of astronomy. Besides numerous memoirs in scientific journals, he published an "Introduction to Natural Philosophy" (1832); an "Introduction to Astronomy" (1839), "Rudiments of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy" (1843), a work that has been reproduced in special characters for the use of the blind Asylum of Massachusetts, and has also been used for the instruction of the deaf and dumb. In 1861 he published his Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom." 631 He subse his new countrymen. The Sultan's declaration of war was dated October 4, and the first important collision between the belligerents occurred on the 4th of November, when the Russians were defeated with great loss, as they were in subsequent actions. The repulse of the Russians at Eupatoria, February 17, 1855, was also by Omer Pacha. Subsequently he joined General Canrobert and Lord Raglan with a part of his army before Sebastopol; but his troops took no part in the siege, nor had any other opportunity of distinguishing themselves. The personal and domestic habits of Omer Pacha are European, and, nothwithstanding his change of creed, he has been the protector of the Christian subjects of the Sultan, and the ameliorator of their lot. At present he holds the OMER PACHA, LATTAS MICHAEL, Generalissimo of the Sultan's forces in Europe, and a Grand Vizier, is of Croat origin, and was born in the year 1801, at Plaski, a village in the district of Ogulin, about sixty miles from Fiume, on the Adriatic. He received his first instruction at the military school of his native village, and afterwards at the high school of Thurm, in Transylvania, and it is said distinguished himself by proficiency in mathematics. He then became a cadet in the border regiment of Ogulin, which he shortly left to become assistant surveyor of roads and bridges. Tiring of this drudgery, he deserted from the Austrian army, when, being in quest of a living, he was in duced, as a means of qualifying himself position of tutor in the house of a Turkish merchant, to adopt the creed of Islam, and thereupon took the name of Omer, applying himself and genre painter, was born early with great assiduity to study the in the present century. He has for language, manners, and customs of many years contributed some excellent for the rank of Grand-Marshal in the Turkish ministry. * O'NEIL, HENRY, A.R.A., historical 632 ONTARIO-OSBALDESTON. His works of these classes to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy. principal pictures are-" Martha and Mary informing Christ of the Death of Lazarus ; "By the Rivers of Babylon ; "Catherine of Arragon appealing to Henry VIII.;" "Mozart's Last Moments;" "Esther in Royal Robes;" "Ahasuerus and the Scribes;" "Catherine's Dream;" "Scene from Faust;" "Scene from Hamlet ;" "The Return of the Wanderer;" "Rosalind and Celia ;" "A Pic-nic;" "Eastward Ho!-August, 1857;" "Home Again!-1858" (these two works have acquired great popularity | from the published engravings of them); "The Parting Cheer;" "The Letter-Writer; Mary Stuart's Farewell to France; "The Power of Music;" "The Landing of the Princess Alexandra at Gravesend." Mr. O'Neil, who was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Academy when already advanced in years, has also painted some very striking portraits. ORBIGNY, CHARLES D', a naturalist, born at Coueron, Inférieure, in Sept., 1806, fir cated at La Rochelle, and Paris in 1827 to complete his In 1832 he turned his at specially to natural science, 1835 was made assistant Museum of Natural History, he still holds office. He is a of various learned societies of and was decorated 1854. H noted works are "Tableaux tiques du Règne Végétal" "Dictionnaire Abrégé d'Histo turelle" (1842), “Géologie ap aux Arts, aux Mines, et à l'A ture, &c." (1855), besides articles inserted in scientifi nals. ORLOFF,* PRINCE ALEXIS, sian general and diplomatist, 1787, is the illegitimate son of Fedor Grigorewitsch. He the Russian army while youn served in the campaigns, agai great Napoleon. He gained the of the Emperor by the ability he displayed in suppressing a of the Guards in 1825, after he was appointed Adjutant-G with the command of a cavalr sion. He took part in the can in Turkey in 1828, and in the ing year signed the Treaty of Ad ple. Having been subseq Turkey, England, &c., he was as Ambassador to Vienna, whic he quitted on the breaking out Russian war in 1854, to become dent of the Great Council of St Russia. ONTARIO,* THe Right Rev. THE BISHOP OF, JAMES TRAVERS LEWIS, D.D., is son of a former Rector of St. Anne's Shandon, in the county of Cork, and was born about the year 1825. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated as senior moderator in Ethics and Logic, and was also gold medallist. He was ordained Deacon at Cam-employed in diplomatic missi bridge, by the Bishop of Chester, in 1848, and was subsequently admitted into priest's orders by the Bishop of Down and Conner, when he held the curacy of Newtown-Butler, co. Fermanagh. He went to Canada about the year 1850, and was appointed by the Bishop of Toronto to the pastoral charge of the parish of Hawkesbury, which he exchanged in 1854 for the rectory of Brookville. He was elected first Bishop of Ontario, in Upper Canada, in 1861, and was consecrated the following year. diocese of Ontario includes the cities of Kingston, Ottawa, &c., which formerly were included in the diocese of Toronto. The OSBALDESTON, GEORGE, a tleman of wide reputation in sporting world, is the son of a shire squire, Mr. Osbaldestor Hutton Bushell, near Scarbor He was born Dec. 26, 1787, and cated at Eton and Brasenose Oxford, where he was more d guished in the hunting-field th "The Schools." He hunted su sively the Lincolnshire (Lord * son's), the Quorn, the Pytc |