estimated his worth; while her greatest consolation, under the bereavement she has experienced, is that of having been enabled to soothe and comfort what might otherwise have been the lonely, as well as the last years of one whose memory she holds in the most affectionate respect and reverence, in which she is joined by those friends who knew him best.

On the 21st September, at Ealing, near London, aged 63, Mr. Thos. Dalling, youngest son of the Rev. William Barlec, late Rector of Wrentham, in the county of Suffolk. Our deceased friend was for many years a devoted receiver of the testimony of Emanuel Swedenborg to the doctrine of the Lord, and the plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and evinced the firmness of his faith by a life of the most exemplary piety and resignation to the Divine will, under a long course of extreme bodily suffering, occasioned, as was supposed, by a musket ball lodged in his right leg, during a severe engagement with French frigates on the coast of Africa; every officer on board the British frigate in which he served as midshipman being either killed or wounded in the struggle, to beat off the very superior force of the enemy, which was accomplished by the bravery of the gallant crew. This injury to our friend, and the baneful effects of climate on his constitution, compelled him to relinquish the naval service, and he adopted the legal profession, which he successfully practised for some years, at a fashionable watering-place on the south coast of Devonshire, where his estimable qualities of heart and mind obtained him the favour and friendship of an extensive social circle. About thirty years since he retired from active life, and after a few years of varied local changes, settled in Bath, where he became equally respected and beloved, especially by the members of the church then but recently founded, to whom he was introduced by the attached friend who here records his worth. Still further declining in health, he removed to the neighbourhood of London, and finally settled at Ealing, where, for the last five or six years, he was a confirmed invalid, rarely exempt from extreme suffering, which required for its alleviation all those spiritual and heavenly resources

which he had so devotedly cherished by the culture and exercise of faith in the Lord, whose divinely benevolent injunction to cast our burdens upon Him, he righteously obeyed. An admirable taste for polite literature and art also contributed greatly to smooth his rugged path of life; his poetical effusions and exquisite pencillings are numerous, and supply many estimable relics and memorials of his pure and gifted spirit. The varied accomplishments of his mind and heart shed a halo round his couch of pain that made it even attractive to those friends who had the privilege of his acquaintance. It was marvellous to see in what patience he possessed his soul, and contrived to mitigate the intensity of their sympathy on the frequent occasions of witnessing his suffering, enlivening the intervals haply by some effort to be gay, but chiefly by the expressive tone of his fervent yet cheerful piety, which was the latent energy of all those faculties with which he was so richly endowed; but especially was it exercised in endeavouring to lighten, as much as possible, its heavy pressure on the health and spirits of his devoted wife, now a lone widow; their only child-a son of great promise during his brief career on earth-was. spared participation in his mother's cares and sorrows during a lengthened period of twenty more. They rest from their labours,-she from her labour of love and duty; the conscious assiduity with which she performed it, and the memory of those soothing words of piety and consolation so constantly breathed from her loved husband's lips to assuage her sorrow, will sustain her during the winter season of her bereavement, until the spring time of her eternal rest with them in heaven. H. A. F.

On the 27th of September, at her residence, Oxford-road, Manchester, Harriet, the beloved wife of Mr. S. P. Shaw, left the natural for the spiritual world. Born in Portland, Maine, United States, October 16th, 1830, she had almost completed her thirtieth year. For nearly half her life she had been an invalid. During all this time, and up to the last hour of her life, her fortitude and patience, each of which she possessed in an uncommon degree, never gave way,

and she bore her trials and sufferings with Christian meekness. Of some, it may be feared that in their lives there is much appearance but little reality, while with others there may be but little appearance and much reality of good; but with her the reality and the appearance were but as cause and effect, and her sweet innocent face, and external loveliness of person and manner, mirrored a soul that dwelt in the Lord's love. Reared in that section of the American Unitarian church that makes the good of life the centre of religion, she readily received the heavenly doctrines of the New Church, and brought them forth in a life of meekness and purity. Possessed of warm and tender affections, a strong mental temperament, a powerful yet well-controlled imagination, a firm but unobtrusive will, elevated artistic tastes, an independent and somewhat original mode of thought, in harmony with a cultivated mind, her life was adorned with those higher attributes of her sex which spring from intelligence and a loving heart, and she elevated and charmed all who came within her sphere; yet that sphere was so eminently that of love, that she was unconscious of the possession of any excellence, and, unaffected with the feverish anxiety for display, let others discover the beautiful harmony of her character without the aid of self-assertion. While happy and cordial in her manner, she was somewhat reserved, and not disposed to enter upon sudden acquaintanceships, but gave of the wealth of her confidence to but few; and in that circle her esteem was sought as an honour, and her love as an inestimable treasure. Her conjugal love did not remain with the present, but rested in the bosom of eternity; and shortly before her departure she referred to that Providence she and her partner had

always recognised in their marriage, and reiterated her oft-repeated thoughts and constant hopes. Visiting, last season, while in America, the grave of a departed sister, she expressed, and repeated on her return to England, a wish, that when she died her body should be laid among the remains of her friends. Her body has consequently been sent to that beloved home which she left a year since, after a most happy and lengthened visit, to rejoin her husband, with more hopes of life, based on the expectations of the benefits to accrue from the voyage, than she had dared to indulge in for many years; but her visit proved to be but a parting farewell. While few who hear of her death will be surprised to learn that the tender cord that bound her to earth has at last broken, many, very many that knew her as a lovely and dutiful child, a beautiful and modest maiden, a sincere friend, and a loving wife, will mourn long and earnestly the departure of one so happily blessed with the power and the will to reduce, under Divine guidance, discordant circumstances to harmony, and to evolve for others, pleasure and happiness from what tended to have a contrary effect. If it be permitted to us to think what may be the occupations of those who have left us, it would not be difficult, from the innocence of her character, to imagine her soon surrounded by a troop of children who had been committed to her care. Our natural feelings cannot be reconciled to her loss, and constant thoughts of what might have been, and the happiness she and others might have experienced had she lived, will constantly intrude themselves; but the Lord's Providence is to be honoured in all things. "Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted." "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."