MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 260, 28 February 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Late Sir R. M'Ciojre.—RearAdmiral Sherard Osborn, writing to the- ' Times,' pays the following tribute to the memory of a brother officer!—ln.* London, <Oll the 14th instant, passed fromthis world the brave spirit of Vice-Amiralj Sir Robert- M'Clure, . the illustrious - sea-, man and navigator who, in the years; 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, and 1854, led the crew of Her Majesty's ship Investigator by vessel and sledge across the great-ice-incumbered sea, "from the Pacific tothe Atlantic Ocean, cfa .Ranks' Land and Melville Island, thus achieving what isknown as -a North-West Passage. Stern, cool, and bold in all perils, severe as a disciplinarian,- --self-reliant, yet modest as became an t officer, with . a granite-like-view of his duty to his country and profession. Robert M'Glure would in warhave been a .great leader, and it was good fortune during a period of profound peace to find a field for all these valuable qualities, and to add fresh glory to a Navy the life blood of which is honor and '.renown. . ' Mr. Disraeli's Ancestry.—Among" the interesting events that took place in the middle of last century, we-must '-not omit to record the arrival of. Benjamin D Israeli in England. -How his ancestors had abandoned the Spanish peninsula, - sought refuge in Venice,, and assumed the name of D Israeli-:—an appellation never before born by Jew's—is a " twice .told tale, well known -■ to most of our readers;" Under : the shelter of the -Lion''of St. Mark's the family of D "Israeli follojsved commercial pursuits and prospered. For two centuries they flourished 'as j merchants, protected by the "Queen of the Adriatic".In the^year-1747. the then representative •of th'e lineage .despatched his. younger son. Benjamin, to a country where a settled dynasty reigned, and where public opinion was presumed to be in favor of freedom of consciehce. , Benjamin Disraeli fixed his residence in England, and in time became the father .of Isaac D'lsraeli,' and 'the - grandfather of the distinguished " r Lothair," and ex—Prime ' Minister England.—' Jewish Chronicle.' S „