ING-STARS.--M. QUETELET states, in relation to the _Shooting-Stars
of August, 1850_, that the number per hour on the evening of the 9th of
August was about 60 for Brussels; on the evening of the 10th, 111 for
Brussels, 180 for Markree, Ireland, and 58 for Rome. The direction was
the same in each place.

_Recent Deaths._

DEATH OF AN OFFICER OF LOUIS XV.'S MOUSQUETAIRES.--The _Journal de
Francfort_ states that Viscount Frederic Adolphe de Gardinville, of
Athies, mousquetaire gris in the service of Louis XV., and knight of the
order of St. Louis, has just died, aged 113, at his country house, near
Homburg. This officer was born on the twenty-eighth of January, 1738,
and had retired to Homburg after the dissolution of the army of the
Conde.

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THE REV. JOHN OGILBY, D.D., of New-York, died in Paris on the second of
February. He was rector of St. Mark's church, in the Bowery, and had
been for nine years professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General
Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His health had
been impaired for several years, and he had visited Europe in the hope
that change of climate and associations would improve it.

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The venerable and accomplished GEORGE THOMSON, the correspondent of
Burns, died recently in Leith Links, at the advanced age of ninety-two.
Mr. Thomson's early connection with the poet Burns is universally known,
and his collection of Scottish Songs, for which many of Burns's finest
pieces were originally written, has been before the public for more than
half a century. His letters to the poet are incorporated with all the
large editions of Burns, and the greater portion of them will be
included in the new life by Chambers.

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THE EMIR BECHIR, who, during fifty years, played so important a part in
Syria, died lately at Kaoi-keni, a village on the Bosphorus. His eldest
son, Halib, and younger son, Emir, who had both embraced Islamism, died
a few days before him. Izzet Pasha is appointed Governor of Damascus.

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DR. LEURET, the physician of Bicetre, who is well-known to the
scientific world by his profound works on mental derangement and the
anatomy of the brain, died on the sixth of January, at Nancy, his
birthplace, after a long illness.

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