The celebrated German writer Henry Zschokke died on the 27th
June, at Aarati in Switzerland, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His name fills no mean page in the annals of German literature and Swiss history. A native of Magdeburg in Prussia Zschokke commenced life by joining a company of strolling players, and afterwards studied philosophy and divinity at Frankfort-on-the-Order. After inany years of travels and varied adventures, he devoted himself to the education of youth, and fixed his residence in Switzerland at the close of the last century. His political services to Switzerland were important, and lie ever after considered it as his adopted country. For the last forty years he resided in his peaceful retreat at Aarau; whilst his pen almost unceasingly brought forth works of philoeophy, history, criticism, and fiction. The mere enumeration of his productions would considerably exceed the limits of this sketch. They belong to the pure School of classic German literature, and his histories of Bavaria and Switzerland remain as noble monuments of talent. His beautiful tales have been translated into almost every language. His chequered life had endowed him with a rare insight into the springs of human actions; and few writers in any age or country have more largely contributed, during the course of a long life, to entertain and improve their fellow men.—Morning Chronicle.
A statement that M. Benjamin Laroche, the translator of Scott and Byron, Was killed in Paris is contradicted on authority. His being the editor of a journal (La Tribune) may have contributed to his being confounded with some person resembling him in name.
We learn from Belize, that the body of the late Patrick Walker, Esq., her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Mosquito, had been found, but that it was so disfigured persons called on to
and mangled by sharks that it was with difficulty identified.—Morning Journal, Jamaica, 2d June.
Count Valentine Esterhazy's name was among those of the surrender or be declared outlaws, at the Middlesex Sessions, on Wednesday.
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