e department, and to the present National
Assembly he was chosen by a vote of 56,000, being the second in the list
of seven representing the Landes. His first book, we believe, was
_Cobden et la Ligue_, published in 1844, from which period he was an
industrious writer. Without being a discoverer of new truths, he
possessed in an eminent degree the faculty of expanding, with clearness
and vigor, the grounds and the effects of complex natural laws already
developed by the technical processes of philosophy. His writings have
been exceedingly popular. The whole or nearly the whole, of the tracts
written by him under the generic title of 'Sophismes Economiques,'
originally appeared in the _Journal des Economistes_--a periodical of
which for the last six years he had been a principal supporter. The
disease of which he died was a very painful and peculiar affection of
the throat. He had suffered from it more or less, for some years; and
the hard work of the last session of the Assembly brought the disorder
to a crisis which the strength of the patient did not enable him to
overcome. He may be regarded as the virtual leader of the Free Trade
party in France. He aided with all his energies the Association
Francaise pour la Liberte des Echanges, and he did his utmost to spread
among his countrymen that new philosophy of trade. His last and most
important work, _Les Harmonies Economiques_, we lately noticed in these
pages. His _Sophismes Economiques_ were translated a few years ago by a
daughter of Langdon Cheves, of South Carolina, and published in this
city by Mr. Putnam. The extent to which M. Bastiat was indebted to our
countryman, Henry C. Carey, may be inferred from a note in the February
number of the _International_, page 402.

BENJAMIN W. CROWNINSHIELD, died in Boston, on Monday the 3d of February.
He had left his carriage and entered a store, when he suddenly fell and
expired, having previously suffered from a disease of the heart, which
is supposed to have been the cause of his death, although he was about
77 years of age. He had been a resident of Boston nearly twenty years,
during the greater part of which period he had been retired from public
life. He had previously resided in Salem, where the Crowninshields were
long distinguished for wealth and commercial enterprise. He was many
years a prominent leader of the old democratic republican party. In
December, 1814, he received, from President Madison, the appointment