May 18, St. Sylvanus, Delafield, Wis. Name. Bishop. Time. Place. Benton, M. B. De Lancey, April 6, Trinity, Geneva, W. N. Y. Birdsall, E. Upfold, June 4, St. Paul's, Richmond, Indiana. Curtis, J. M. Smith, May 23, St. John's, Louisville, Ky. Dalton, Asa Clark, May 18, Zion, Newport, R. I. Davidson, W. F. Cobbs, March 28, St. Paul's, Selma, Ala. Davies, T. F. Williams, May 18, Christ, Middletown, Ct. Egar, John H. Kemper, Gregory, Luther, Kemper, Howard, R. S. Burgess, Hopkins, Wm. C. Hopkins, Jones, Lucius H. Williams, Jope, Robert, Johns, Leffingwell, C. S. Williams, May 18, McAuley, Wm. Elliott, Peck, J. M. Williams, Sever, W. W. Eastburn, Sellwood, James R. W. Davis, Seymour, Charles H. Smith, T. H. Stryker, A. P. Thompson, H. M. Williams, Selham, Wood, H. G. Wood, Robert, May 12, St. James', Marietta, Geo. PRIESTS. Time. Bishop. Gibson, Frederick, Whittingham, May 28, "Garrison, Jos. F. Doane, Hochuly, John, 66 Mellvaine, June 15, Place. St. Paul's, Baltimore, Md. The Rev. HIRAM R. HARROLD, Rector of St. Anne's Church, Middletown, Delaware, died April 28th, 1856, aged 53 years. Mr. Harrold was taken away, after a short but severe illness, having officiated on Sunday, April 20, in his own Church, apparently in his usual health. On the Tuesday following, he was attacked with pneumonia, which proved fatal in less than a week. The Episcopal Recorder says: 66 Mr. Harrold enjoyed the esteem of a large circle of friends, and the respect and affection of his parishioners. He was diligent in the performance of the duties of his sacred office, and for many years cheerfully underwent labors from which many men of fewer years and more robust health would have shrunk. "He had been for about twenty-two years in the ministry of the Episcopal Church, which he entered from convictions of duty, having previously minis tered in connection with the Protestant Methodist Communion. The greater part of his ministerial life was spent in the Diocese of New Jersey, where he left behind him abiding monuments of his zeal, energy and perseverance. In 1849 he removed to Delaware, and took charge of the ancient and interesting parish of St. Anne's, officiating also for several years in Christ Church, Delaware City. During his ministry, the latter church, which he found unfinished, was completed, and St. Anne's Parish has been improved by the addition of a beautiful and convenient parsonage. The intelligence of his sudden decease occasioned general sorrow, and drew forth many evidences of affection on the part of the community in which he resided." Bishop Doane in his Address to the late Convention in the Diocese of New Jersey, paid a warm and beautiful tribute to the memory of Mr. Harrold, from which we make the following extracts: HIRAM R. HARROLD was born in Trenton, New Jersey, August 20, 1803. His ancestors were of the Church of England; but through his immediate parentage, he was of the Methodist connection; and, at 16, became openly a member of it. Ten years after that, he left that body, and became a Protestant Methodist; and, subsequently, one of their ministers. The reason for this change was symptomatic of the next. He could not see how John Wesley, but a presbyter, could originate a higher than presbyterial authority; or, how a Bishop could proceed from Presbyters. His private journal, under date, September 20, 1834, contains the following record:-'I was providentially led to read Cooke's Essays on Episcopacy. I found his arguments so powerful, as not to be gainsaid; and I was most reluctantly, and against my will, persuaded of the divine origin and Apostolic succession of Episcopacy. I was induced, in consequence of such convictions, to seek an interview with G. W. Doane, Bishop of the diocese of New Jersey. I this day met him in the city of Philadelphia, and the interview was all that I expected. * * * "Mr. Harrold was a remarkable man. If he had been thoroughly educated, the world would have known it better. He was a natural mathematician. He reasoned logically. His taste for poetry was fine. And he held his faculties and his attainments in a beautiful equipoise. He was not quick; but sure. What he knew, he knew well; and knew how to use. He was a keen observer of men and things; and the shrewdest remarker. He loved study; and lost no opportunity for it. To borrow a good book; to read it carefully, more than once, and get all that was in it; and then to return it, rather better than worse for his use of it, was the habit of his life. He loved to teach; and was a good teacher. In every way that he could, he promoted good learning. "His illness was severe and short. It permitted no expression of his dying hopes. Its few utterances were devotional, and full of comfort. But he needed not the preparation of a death-bed nor its tokens. He had lived a Christian life. For twenty years he had been a missionary and a pastor. The companions of his life were the Bible and Prayer Book, and saintly Bishop Wilson's Sacra Privata; and he suffered nothing to prevent his daily reading in them. His latest sermon was, most appropriately, from these words of the beloved Disciple: If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.' This had been the strength and consolation of his life. This was the testimony of his death. His funeral took place on Wednesday, 30th April." DIED, at St. James' Rectory, Hyde Park, N. Y., on Whitsunday, May 11th, the Rev. REUBEN SHERWOOD, D. D., in his sixty-seventh year. Dr. Sherwood, was one of the oldest clergymen of the Church, in Dutchess County, and for the last twenty-two years of his life, was the esteemed Rector of St. James' Church, Hyde Park. He was formerly for many years Rector of the Church in Norwalk, Connecticut, and founded the Parishes at Saugerties and Esopus, New York. The Church Journal pays the following tribute to his memory: "Dr. Sherwood's departure removes a landmark from among the clergy of this Diocese. His position of simple, straight-forward, single hearted performance of what he believed to be duty, on principle, gained him the highest respect of all, even of those who most widely differed from him. All will grieve that the upright vigor of his hoary head, the firm Roman energy of his manly profile, the gentle strength of his calm blue eye, shall no more be seen among us; and that the tones of his voice-slow, distinct, deliberate, yet tremulous with intense earnestness of emotion-shall no longer be heard in the Councils of the Church. Few have passed as scathless as he, through the most exciting controversies of our day: few retire to rest crowned with higher honor in the hearts of all whom he leaves behind." After the funeral, on the 15th of May, the clergy, a large number of whom were present, met as a body, and passed resolutions as a mark of respect for their departed brother. The Rev. GEORGE ADIE, late Rector of St. James' Church, Shelburn Parish, Leesburg, Va., died at Greenwood, near Leesburg, May 3d. We extract from an obituary in the Southern Churchman, the following: For nearly a quarter of a century Mr. Adie has lived in our midst, as an irreproachable pattern of all that was good and manly and lovely in life. Coming among us twenty-five years ago, fresh with his commission to preach a gospel which he has lived, he has at length sealed his testimony to its truth and excellency, by a death as free from distress and gloom, as peaceful and lovely as the tenderest affection could have wished for him. Gentleness, meekness, charity, a delicate instinctive shrinking from aught that was selfish or ostentatious; a lover of peace, and yet a fearless boldness in duty were the prevailing traits of his character. As a friend he was sincere and steadfast, forgiving and conciliating. As an adviser he was calm and judicious. As a minister, he was beloved and reverenced by his brethren. They could not but love him, in that harmonious intercourse which has so long continued. Standing long as an older brother among the fathers of Israel, his well known face will no longer be seen in our Convention meetings, where he was always joyfully welcomed. His influence there was like the influence of the sun, quiet but strong. At home, in his own church, his beloved St. James, his services have been acceptable and useful, till disease and weakness eaused him again and again to resign his charge. Up to within a few weeks, he continued to preach in the church made vacant by his last resignation. How could he live and yet not proclaim that gospel which was the warrant of all his hopes of happiness. But his ministrations in these earthly tabernacles are at an end. As a king and priest washed in the blood of the Lamb, he serves before the altar in the heavenly sanctuary, night and day. His body sleeps under the shadow of the church in the green fresh sod on which so often he trod, but the glorified spirit is mingling in scenes of celestial brightness." The Rev. JoHN K. HELMUTH, Assistant at St. James the Less, Falls of Schuylkill, died, April 27th. The Rev. BREED BATCHELLER died, in the city of Baltimore, on Sunday morning, April 30th, aged 49 years. Mr. B. was a graduate of Dartmouth College-and for many years engaged in teaching, partly in Pendleton, S. C., and afterwards in Philadelphia. Having relinquished a handsome support from this source to devote himself to the ministry, he was ordained by Bp. A. Potter in 1846-7. He was settled for nearly two years at Radnor, Pa., and four years at Stanton, Delaware. For the last few years, he has resided in Maryland, but unable from ill health to discharge the duties of his sacred othice. Dig, at Nashotah, on Whitsunday, Rev. SAMUEL JOSIAH HAYWARD, B. D., a graduate of the Institution. One who knew him well writes:— Mr. Hayward was a young man at the time of his death, but of great sequirements and learning. He was a man of high meral worth and grest strength of character. Respected and beloved by all that knew him, his considerate and childlike faith made him still morè esteemed: ani the hopes of many dwelt upon him as one that would do great things for the cause of Christ our Saviour and His Church. Bat their hopes were disappointed He was attacked by consumption, and after spending a year and a hilf at the South, in the Diocese of Mississippi, where he endeared himself to Bishop Green, and received mach kindness from king) without amendment of the disease, he hurried back, as he said, "to die Nashotah In the bense of the Rev. Dr. Cole he spent the last two weeks of his life arterled and cared for as a brother by ha famly and the students of the Trstit His death was calm within pain or struggle, in the peace of fod and the fill hope of a blessed reservoir. Let my seal be DIED, at Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio, on the 16th of April, Justus WarNER, at the age of 100 years and 20 days, in Communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr. Warner was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and confirmed by Bishop Seabury, first American Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His father, Ebenezer Warner, who attained the age of 94, was one of the number who aided in erecting the first Episcopal Church in Waterbury, in 1742. THE LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE DEAD. The novel and interesting question of the legal right in a grave, has recently arisen in New York, under the following circumstances: In 1853, the Corporation of the City of New York, in certain legal proceedings for widening Beekman street, from Park-row to Nassau street, took a portion of the cemetery of the Brick Presbyterian Church. The land thus taken embraced twelve private vaults for interment, and about eighty graves, and the sum awarded for it was $28,000. The daughter of a person who had been buried in one of these vaults, and whose remains were duly identified by her, claimed the legal right to their custody, and to be indemnified out of the fund for the expense of re-interring them in a separate grave. The questions arising thereon were submitted by the Supreme Court, to Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles, as Referee, and his decision was subsequently confirmed in all respects by the Court. The general question presented, was this: Who is legally and primarily entitled to the custody of a dead body? and, as a necessary result, Who is legally bound to bury it? and, further, if a body be ejected from its place of burial, who, then, is legally and primarily entitled to its custody, and who is bound to rebury it! The Referee, in his report, which is very long and elaborate, reviews the whole subject, with great wealth of illustration and authority, and concludes with presenting the following legal principles: I. That neither a corpse, nor its burial, is legally subject in any way, to ecclesiastical cognizance, nor to sacerdotal power of any kind. IL. That the right to bury a corpse and to preserve its remains is a legal right, which the Courts of Law will recognize and protect. III. That such right, in the absence of any testamentary disposition, belongs exclusively to the next of kin. IV. That the right to protect the remains includes the right to preserve them by separate burial, to select the place of sepulture, and to change it at pleasure. V. That if the place of burial be taken for public use, the next of kin may claim to be indemnified for the expense of removing and suitably re interring the remains. As everything relating to the "Memorial question," is of grave importance, affecting the interests of the Church in the United States, more seriously, perhaps, than any other that has been offered for her consideration, since she first assumed an independent ecclesiastical position, we give entire, the resolutions upon this subject, reported by a Committee to the recent Diocesan Convention of Louisiana. This Committee were appointed at the Convention of that Diocese in 1855, for the purpose of considering and drafting replies to the circular of the Commission of Bishops. Premising in their report, that weighty considerations alone should influence the Church to modify in any important particular, formularies of devotion, which have already proved so effective, and become endeared by long usage, and that the eituation of the Church in Louisiana, amidst a people so diversi |