Sherard Osborn, an English author, born April 25, 1822, died in May, 1875. He en-. tered the navy in 1837, served in the search for Sir John Franklin, in the Crimean war, and in Japan and China, where the emperor gave him in 1862 the command of a squadron for the suppression of piracy; but he withdrew from this engagement, and in 1864 assumed the command of the Royal Sovereign to test the turrets invented by Capt. Cole. Subsequently he was for a few years managing agent of the great Indian Peninsula railway at Bombay. After his return to England he became rear admiral. The lords of the admiralty delegated to him at the close of 1874, in conjunction with Rear Admirals Richards and Sir Leopold McClintock, the power to fit out an arctic expedition, to sail in 1875. His works include "Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal " (London, 1852); "Quedah. or my Journal in Ma-lavan Waters" (1857); "A Cruise in Japanese "Waters" (1850); "The Career, Last Voyage, and Fate of Sir John Franklin" (1860); "The Past and Future of British Relations in China " (1860); and "Japanese Fragments" (1860).