Henry Fawcett, an English political writer and statesman, born in Salisbury in 1833. He graduated at Trinity hall, Cambridge, in 185G, and was elected a fellow in the same year. In 1857 he unsuccessfully contested Southwark, on , liberal principles, for parliament. In epteni-ber, 1858, while out shooting, he met with an accident by which he lost the sight of both eyes; but he nevertheless became an extensive con-tributor to the reviews of articles on political science and economy, and has published several works, among which are*" A Manual of Political Economy (1863) and "The Economic Position of the British Laborer" (1866). He contested the borough of Cambridge unsuccessfully in 1862, and in 1863 was elected professor of political economy in the university of Cambridge. In 1864 he ran for Brighton, and was again defeated, but was returned for that place in 1865, and reelected in 1868. In parliament he has distinguished himself as an advocate of republican principles, in conjunction with Sir Charles Dilke and Auberon Herbert. In 1869 he published a revised edition of his Manual of Political Economy," with two new chapters on National Education and The Poor Laws and their Influence on Pauperism," and in 1871 a work entitled Pauperism, its Causes and Remedies." A collection of his "Speeches" was published in 1873. - Prof. Fawcett was married, April 23, 1867, to Milli-cent Garrett, who published in 1870 a Political Economy for Beginners;" and in 1872 appeared a joint work entitled "Essays and Lectures, by Henry and Millicent Garrett Fawcett."