The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-29 00:00:00

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JOSIAH CONDIB.

A maids sad islasslZaissilive se our Fehr
&sibs bees tekea be= se as the yw Is sheet le dose.
Ilt.laish Nader, be meaty-time roe ebbe et the
Ambled, died es the nabs et Theseday last et his reel.
&see Is li. Jobe'►weed. We PlOia a jest tad Widows
*ebb et his Uti sad Wears bus the edema et WA
jaws& We we wimp is a potties to esthetes the value
el the Wee arse isperdsily the say umber el a bay
with whose sintales he was es istiaately essmiated ; sad
is simple bossily we sea say that, though we have at
time wished that be had bees Ins isdalpst is his sati
mess et the etatemsea with whew be wee beetled is sew
test, we lave ease bees baseessed with a mama essiteties
et his sisserity aid daytime et perms. We esedially
Jets is the elpreaiws Si 'wet be his lees and raped be
W swam attired by these who were awe slssel7 Gas-
meted with hiss. _ __ • _ _

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Pros sa early sr (says the Patriot) Mr. Condor do.
obi himself to stile esertises is smaszisa with
011nistias principles sad icedtatiaes I sad although fa
pint of Mersey merit his soispesidees both la Noss
said la teen have placed his la the lint weak of in.
of Wire, yet his principal Mention is that his Meats
MS anrinessate were *idly implied to religiose
*Pea I. this Jeered the litmus of his pea were %Sa-
ting.* till the 9th November, whim disease Sapid-
Pled his foe modal minim ; sad his last seised** sp-
poem to Ms bees gives to • sollesdea of his beautify'
Bras, dies resin through the pries.
lb. Coeds wes been is Load's Sept 17, 1789, sad wis
the sea eif Mr. Theses Cosier, bookoeller, sad grandma
of Dr. I'M Cagier, President of the Old College, Rome*
tom. At as early ego he imielfested that poetical
psis sad Money tests whisk hawse highly distiageisked
his. Rim resells poetical seetribatisei to the " Athe-
ism " (Dr. Antis's) sad other pablkatioas laving at-
tested favourable acids, be published in 1810 a mall
velum sanded "The Manias Minstrels," se being the
riat produsioa of *enrol heads; sal this book pasei
through two editions. la 1814, he beim* pregdeler of
the Meths levies, being at that time 5 publisher eon
imelmeller is Leedom. In 1819 he disposed el kis basiesse
es his suesese' Mr. B. Holdsweeth, sad for may sass
yam resided at Waded, ia Rnthr
nis hie own beads the iesasgese
gust
Itlietitionie Review till 1837, when he neasined
the proprietorship to Dr. Thomas Priet
c=g
the three sad twisty years of Mr. Josiah s
elgooddp et that seathly Pineal. he sajort tho
essisissen es regular or osemional contributors, of John
paw, Robert Hall, Jamie Mon , Dr. rye Smith,
Dr. Chahnme, leaseTallor, Z. II D ~ Dr.
Charles Meads, sad soap Wald Mean sisheitieWuhan,s. Is
1818 Mr. ander pelesteed his wealmoser us* ea Pew
Meat Ifeesesketailp is ter WISES' mina Is lilt be
esteued See as owswgesest with Kr. Jesse Dooms, of
Pateesester.row, to edit the series WWI "The Mors
Traveller ;" undertaking, Is the flree Wiens, to fesaah
W vellum oa Palestine. Ultimately, however, duo
metal assaisesdal attempts to divide the labor, be bowl
Smell owspellod to sorry is the talks wile ; is the pew
Sissies it wbieb, is fear or live slims mime. bed he goy
liestely smistsses. The series of thirty *lams was side
plated la 1880 ; but "Italy," Is sham slues, es
submiasntly added is 1831. Its 111$ Mr. Osemisr nes
iodised, oa the application of the genelmos nle
ead needy established the Patriot hemmer, to Meese
the editor of that jovial. ea oder whisk he madam& to
sustain for 23 years. For may yews ho leek sa Mho
PM la the public summate of the presidia& inseams*
the setropelis, without, however, resesseing his sit s&
meat to Immure. His other' pablisseisse w: "The
Village Leaser " (1822) ; "The Stee la the You, sad
oilier Poems" (1924) ; " Didioasry of Gollyedlyby " (1834)
" A New Treaders of tbe Epistle to the Hebrews"
(1838); "Tae Choir sad Oratory: Stored Pours" (1837) ;
a Memoir of Bums " (1838) ; "Anelytied View of All
llieligleas"
,(Beo, 1838) ; "Liters, History of the New
Wit* (Bn, 1846); " Mussy of Histry with
: An Reposed= of the Areelypse (1849) ;
oet of the Seastaary : sa Remy ea Dr.
Wass" (1860) ; " Watt's P. doss sad Hymns Bo-
died sod Hie imaged " (1831) ; "TM Law of
the Sabbath;" sad other tracts sod ealsoellaaeOse
slim iseseted is public jolted& Mr. Condor was els
CM saw dike " Ceetrigstiond Hyma Book," published
seder the auspices of the Coagregstioad Ulan la 1836,
end very eztessively used as a supplement to Watts's
Palm end Hems. Hs soda, fa 1816, Joan Elisabeth,
Misrof r
Bar Tbeetet._l44, of Southgate. bin. Cus.
es t kyass, issesded is the publicatioas above
see obeesSedeed by a rare elegance sad
beady. M. Oisdur is tanned by Ws. Cosier
Ss il *dr sillies me of wham is s daughter. The
ter One It Mr. Peso* S. Comas, well knows is • civil
essfsage as/ nil eintraSer i the Rev. Easton R. Coa-
ls, raw of the Q.. eg•deadl Minh at Poole ; Mr.
Jeol*Osader, of the Bask of Ragland; sad Ilr. Charles
Mader, who is amocisted in professional pursuits with his
elided Mother.
At en lots hoar when the intelligence of ear great loss
has reashad us, we cannot hope adequately to express on
owes Nose of d.pelvatioo, much lees to do justice to the
elessester sad sinless of the eminent mesa that hes bees
takes frees us. Having hem in intimate sad sestest
essesiedia with his for many years, we may oldie to speak
wittiest hesitation cf his moos. We believe that the
Wile press of Ragland was never plaid by a so. wbe had
a deeper feeling of the responsibility of the editorial otos,
or, skies ell things foto aceouat, was sere amply furnished
fee its ditcher .. The various sad eatessive suns of
nabs( sad reflation through which his foram warp
tioss had conducted him, might, to a daces believer is
Providential guidance, have appeared as a preme-
ditated preparation for the prescreen to which his riper
parses and his latest yeses were devoted. As
Miele of the &Weis Review, he vaned himself
is weep variety of subject, often omnibus*,
asides gees his own pen, which, from the 'stare of the
*pie or the shill of the tAatessat, were popularly mulled
to the peas of hie most distiognielmed esstributon. I. this
way, kid familiarity with Egilialidadm sad researds, sr
W lbeitity with ebisit be sold Aim the professelese ape.
Witless of ebieseOs, or hi Weiss gessesd of s Ogle
and language- at own &este sod dams% set sides led
as 'lithos of distiactisa Ile ascribe to Dr. Pre Smith, or
846 a Foster, or Robert IA *Brines which they owed
Is tbe learned sad sessa~ editor himselL The so*
kilos of " The Madsen *in," a work by weedy his
Posse nest* Me. Nader was best 1 mom to the
literary wadi, seastitated, perhaps, a sehoollag for
the ramien of jasmine such as Sew publici
writers have bad thie airway of ezporiseciag.
Z his • through ovary relies of the civilised globs,
is its rem every species of inforiestion
emainialigneatill oggesp, remain, to its geography, aste-
rs' Massy, sad sold sail *Mod eonditioe, it sessearily
✓eposed his fee approaching with say madame any
shied that amid arise within the wide sage of fordo or
demos* drain. Nor is it • slight "dims at the shill and
inlealwalos with which that viol ,Luton was perlersed,
=tsa y of the volutes have bees regarded by readers
with the described, se the redaction et •
miter who, like themselves, had eollected kis informatiow
en the spot ; while, siegular to say, Mr. Cosier over case
((aided the shores of his native coantry.
1 to this unavoidably hasty tribes to departed worth,
111 is Ile desstibe either Mr. Conder's ortessive
I eingegeor die mime ability with whist they were per
gem* Larsg ea arrest urn our teenage, we must
MOM ears,.. within • narrower rear. The sal
mil tangy with whisk our lamented Mead sad
1116111 pd cionseersted his sleets sad knowledge to the cause
dllllOOl, hismanlty, sad truth, see fusillse to our readers
ohs, is es messy yeses, ban enjoyed the fruits of his ise!
solitall lams Than is not as object or institution is the
lesdigennelailieg the movables of the wise and the good
that wee seeped Ss Monis of his spentessas sad efil:
du* seve_esep. The Bible Society, the AIDS *map go.
Oily, the Louisa likeisseey fbelety, sad may nowssistion
whose object is to religions Medias. eumgikel
Meth, sad the NMI et sae, meets the ma' of
Isiah Oasis seem *Blot **webbed absents.
As • pelitlides. ors Issesated frind ins seinstimes
I=B,ley readier lam to keep toe far within the
of sederades. Nor cm it be disguised, that,
sews years ohm be was urged to take upon leisure the
Mort duty of .fatally szpressieg what he deemed
to be the general sense of the Noaainforesist eons-
sanity ea public affairs, there arose • party neon
sasesiso than himself as to the possibility of shining the
complete terrors ef religions liberty. The retrospect,
however, discover list these advocates of strong inessuree
had estaisted the time of their possible susses sad ,Jodi.
cats Os leashed peliey es which he ever totaled his own
esurtleas.. Rs wee euppeeed by lose to betray as iodulgest
fedi*, towards that is of etatesees to whom tee do.
maid tier pedinesary ekampiariiip et civil sad
%Trlffierg, sot be oseeilelly
_distiossithed between
ismil data to /sells asOlewes, sad the light la
Midi *dr opeendend sada* dammed to be regarded by
mem who beth. endereseed eel better sppredeted the
true pdmiples of velestose *miss. Is this respect, the
=ate stem sea party be woe thought to be toe seek
e possessed his songless, sad were sever
sempted we
from sins wine it seemed to his to be merited.
Through a kern tons of polities! service thsa falls to the
Mt el met sea engird is the Weems work of jean&
ism, he resei Melee* ever tostiotetag his isdnendease,
by els edielledes or eseeptesse of lanes or hp
saisiglemtleg his Iseiadnifiload redness 's' sad Alights
oeseiglisse be Ow demob el political petty. Oa all
sates,. Kr led des end Ms list days were distil es
his own soloshetied seeseladens ; sad the Coogregasised
US's, of which be wee is sods member fess the bugle
slag, resolved the ethowlege of the lased genies he woe
able to reader.
We have neither tiose as epees to amass' Kr. lies
der's passel sad shoes eletur—spes US emsly of We
sasses, Us goslings 0 Ws &penis% mg ta• cabs
Miley of Ys egfeiL • porn sled we sde
beset we
bow set beim. Rio doubt *beast is wee womb a lbw
Ala is dose be said lave his emboss to sew; lad.
Is • doily beseeesee of may Ism we sever his lug
hislispez used OM be seeded to noel. Asa Mordlidi
is bow dime lewd hes fildefel, eredgelum
sod sea Saslow ; Ind. le seemie his issilibsii
aft. of hp IN lOWA Mei a Asp mos if siillishs