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importance of their labours ; and this led his Lordship to
the consideration of the great question of the conversion of
the heathen, and to some remarks on the late publication
of the Abbe du Bois. The unchristian spirit in which that
work is written was severely and deservedly reproved ; and
. his gross mis-statements were confuted by an appeal to the
Protestant converts of Agra, of Benares, of Meerut, and of
Chunar. " Boar witness," said his Lordship, " those nu-
merous believers of our own immediate neighbourhood,
with whom though we tlifrr on many, and doubtless on
very important points, I should hate myself if I could
regard them as any other than my brethren and fellow-
servants in the Lord. Let the populous Christian districts
of Malabar bear witness, where believers are not reckoned
by solitary individuals, but by hundreds and by thousands.
Bear witness Ceylon, where the cross has lost its reproach,
and the chiefs of the land are gradually assuming, without
sernple, the attire, the language, and the religion of Eng-
lishmen. And let him finally bear witness, whom we have
now received into the number of the commissioned servants
of the church, and whom we trust, at no distant day, to
mend forth, in the fullness of Christian authority, to make
known the way of truth to those his countrymen from whose
tutors be has himself been graciously delivered."
In concluding this part of his address, his Lordship ob-
served, " that even from the taunts of an enemy a wise
man will increase his wisdom—and if we learn from the
volume 1 havequoted, greater moderation in our laeguage,
and a greater circumspection in our deportment—a more
strict adherence to the union and .discipline of the church,
and a more careful abstinence from ert•rythini4 like exag-
geration in those accounts of our progress in the work which
are sent to our friends in Europe ; it is apparent that some
essential hindrances would be greatly lessened which nos
impede the progress of the truth, and a more abundant
blessing may be expected on our toils front him who is the
God of peace, and order, and modesty."
In alluding to the character and Episcopal labours of the
late excellent Bishop Middleton, his Lordship observed,
that had the mind of that great Mad good man been at-
tracted to secular purposes, be was possessed of every
quality on which the world bestows its favour. But
though his memory was stored with all profane and civil
literature, the application of his learning and talents was
to Ecclesiastical purposes alone. He was, perhaps, the
second critic of his age, yet he • lited no Greek classics:
lie was stored, said his Lordship, as I have been assured,
with an inexhaustible supply of lighter and more elegant
literature, yet he sought to be remembered as a divine and
theologian alone. Nay more, when his life-long labours
v:ere at length approaching to their term, as if fearing the
applause of men even in those branches of learning which
were strictly appropriate and ministerial, he consigned, as
a last sacrifice, his laboured manuscripts to the flames,
content to live only in the memory of those who loved and
honoured him, and desiring no further praise than that
which he shall one day receive of " Well done! good and
fa;thrul servant!"
This—continued his Lordship in conclusion—this is a
copious subject, and one on which I should have been
tempted to enlarge, if I were not aware of your exhausted
condition, from the length which this morning's service
has already reached ; and if, to say. the truth, my own
feelings were sufficiently tranquil to indulge in the praises
of one whom I had not the happiness to know, while I am
yet smarting under the recent loss of a distinguished and
excellent friend, from whose eminent talents, from whose
amiable temper, from whose high religious principles, and
his repeatedly-expressed intention of devoting his ample
means and powerful mind to the service of that God from
whom he received them ; I had anticipated the most im-
partant and essential aids, in securing the prosperity of the
Italian church, and furthering the triumphant progress of
those gospels in which his hope and heart were laid up, and
in which, while lie lived, his life was hidden.
A few days only are gone, since, with animation on his
benevolent countenance, be expressed to me his gratitude
to God for the many blessings he had received,-and his
desire to dedicate to God, through Jesus Christ, a larger
truportion of his time, his means, and his influences; a
tew hours only are past since those good resolutions are
gone thither, where they are best known and appreciated
by a gracious God, whom he had served from his youth,
and who, when his noon of life had scarcely begun to de-
cline, saw fit to call him to his recompense and his repose.
In !dm India—in him the Anglo-Indian church—in him
the cause of missions here and throughout the world—in
him the poor of every caste and country have lost a fear-
ke-s, a kind, a bountiful, and unpretending friend; but
he will not have dial in vain if the consideration of his
sudden mortality induces us to ponder the worth of this
world in regiens where the present moment is all which we
can be said to hold of it ; and so teach us to number our
days that we may appl our hearts unto wisdom.
III:ally, Brethren, farewell; be patient and watch unto
prayer, and be diligent in the functions of your steward-
ship, for behold he cometh quickly, and blessed is that
servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so
doing !
His Lordship concluded his admirable and truly Chris-
tian charge with a short but appropriate prayer.
The Clergy having returned to their scats, the venerable
the Archdeacon brought up the candidate for ordination,
Mr. Christian, in a surplice, to the rails of the Altar,
when the ordination service began, the Bishop reading
the Litany, and the candidate reading aloud the Epistle
appointed in the office, after receiving imposition of hands,
and authority to " officiate in the place whereto lie was
strain tetl."

(7OPONER'S Istauesrs.—An inquest was held at the
Turt"fap, Grosvenor-mews, yesterday, on the body of
Janes Williamson, aged V, who fell from a ladder last
week in the King's-road, a height of forty feet from the
ground, and died of the injuries he received.—Another
io-
gnest w.ts held at the same time and place, on the body of
Richard Hynes, an old sawyer, who it appeared was
walking with his mate, when he fell headforemost into the
saw-pit and broke his ann. He was carried to the hos-
pital, where he died after amputation had heeta performed.
Verdict, in -both cases, " Accidental Death."
CORONER'S INQUEV7.-I)I:TERmINEn Surcruz.—An
inquest was yesterda7 taken at the George, in Great
Queen-strfet, Lincoln s-Inn-fields, on the body of a highly
respectable gentleman, formerly a herald painter of emi-
nence, named George Fox, who hung himself on Monday
morning with a silk handkerchief, from the head of his
bed, at No. e 3, in the above street. So determined did
be appear to have been on self-destruction. that be but
pravid.d hin self with a razor, which war found on the
bed. several gintlemcn on the Jury had known the de-
ceased. tor the last thirty years, and several had been on
terms of strict friendship with him. No cause could be
assigned for the rash act. Vertlict—Lanacy.
It is a trite observation, that many a true word may be
uttered in jest; and a melancholy exempiiiication of its ac-
curacy has recently been offered. John. Dutton, last week,
in the employ of Mr. Colville, at BriAton, to a fellow-
servant who was endeavouring to dissuade him front hathint
that inoruin;t, replied, " You would laugh after this, if I
should be taken to the Burlington Aries,' a public-house.
He perished, while bathing, in less than an hour after-
wards, and his corpse was actually carried to the Burlington
guns.—Coroners verdict —" Accidental Death.'
MELANCIIOLY AckIDENT.--011 the night of' the 30th
ult. the packet, in passing from Portpatrick to Donagha-
de-, was nearly last in a storm, which was so great, that
four men were swept overhaard, and were Geyer spin
seen. The night war intensely dark, and the w:nd so It4ll,
that the Yowl was driven considerably out of her regular
course.
DEATH Illf FIGHTING.--Hawkins, a coachman, and
Rattray, a bricklayer, having quarrelled at a public-house
at Newinawn no Monday night, they agreed to decide it in
the n,i.rnins fir a severe;, n. After righting lODIC time
Hawkins received a bow 03 the side of his head, which
caused his death in half an hone.
A lahouring man, mined Ilorswill, after partaking of
beef and porter at a public-house at Dartmouth, on Mon-
day last, complained of nausea, and in a short time began
to swell in an alarming tuauner. Medical assistance was
procured, but it proved unavailinrr, and he died in the
course of two hours.—Sherburne Afereatry.
Thursday morning, at three o'clock, the body of a young
man, whose parents reside in Tradeston, was brought to
the palice offiee during the night. Ile had fallen down
one u. the coal-pits in the neighbourhood and nsa killed on
the apot.--U/aegaw Paper.