veneration the simple, straight-forward, self-denying and holy course of the good Bishop of Salisbury. After the intercourse with and knowledge of him which it has been my privilege to enjoy for the last four years, united to the impressions produced on my mind by his private books and papers, as to the course of his secret studies and devotions, and his high principles of public conduct, my conviction is, that if ever there was an upright and holy man, whose single aim and object was to exercise himself to have always a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards man,' it was he. I should not say all this to most people, lest it should seem the partial praise of a relative, but you will believe it to be the inward conviction of my heart; and I can truly comprehend the feeling which prompted Bishop Burnet to say with respect to his intercourse with Archbishop Leighton, for what I have seen and heard of him, I know that I shall have to give account to God in a most particular manner.””

The Archdeacon of Sarum, the Rev. Francis Lear, who paid a feeling tribute to the Bishop's memory in an obituary sermon, depicts in the following expressive terms the temper and frame of his spirit:

"The peace of which we have been speaking was largely vouchsafed to our late venerable Diocesan : he was one whose mind was stayed on God, and who was, according to the gracious promise in the text, kept by that God in perfect peace. He was emphatically a man of peace. I appeal to all who were

in the habit of conversing with him, and who really knew his character, if I am not fully justified in using that term. There was something in his manner and appearance, nay, even in the very sound of his voice, which spoke of peace; all was calm and quiet around him and within him; the world, with its noise and restlessness, was ever shut out; he heard of it only as we hear the roar of the stormy ocean, borne to us by the wind from afar; he had no heart for its turmoils, no hand in its schemes, and seldom turned so much as a look towards its commotions. The same stillness prevailed in his dwelling which reigned in the mind of its owner: his was a calm which seemed to spread itself from his own heart to the hearts of those with whom he held converse. I do not think that the most ruffled spirit could have remained in his presence without being tranquillised; there was a serenity in his manner which would have acted as oil on the troubled waters all that was disturbed and violent would, if brought in contact with one so placid, have died away. There is a peace which the world giveth, and which they that are of the world enjoy; there is a peace which a naturally placid temper gives; and there is a peace which arises from mere outward prosperity. Sadly indeed do they mistake, and awfully will they be deceived, who suppose that a state of mind so low, so earthly, and so unspiritual, will bring a man peace at the last! But how dif

ferent was that peace which he of whom I speak enjoyed! It sprang from far other sources, it rested on quite another foundation, it had respect to a far other recompence; it had, as I firmly believe, the Holy Spirit for its author, Christ for its rock, and Heaven for its end."

During the winter of 1835, the Bishop solaced some of his leisure hours by adding a few additional stanzas to Bishop Ken's well-known evening hymn—

Glory to Thee, my God, this night," &c.

and printed some copies of them for distribution among friends. These octogenarian verses, though not of a nature to endure the severity of morose criticism, forcibly illustrate the simplicity and fervour of his devout affections. For instance, after expressing the most entire resignation to the Divine Will, whether for life or for death, and paraphrasing these words of St. Paul-"To depart and to be with Christ is far better" - he pursues the train of thought as follows:

TO DIE, AND WITH THE LORD TO BE,

"With John, and James, and holy Paul,
And dearest friends long gone, and all
The spirits of just men perfect made,
Midst purest joys that never fade.

"Come then the maladies that may
Close, at thy bidding, life's short day,
And find me so prepared t'obey

The call, so prompt to watch and pray ;

"That thankful for my sins forgiven,

The Saviour's love, the hope of Heaven,
I may my final rest attain,

From sorrow free, and sin and pain,

The Christian's everlasting gain."

"Oh, may my soul on thee repose," &c. &c. *

The following letter will be read with interest in connexion with the above devout effusions.

TO THE LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY.

MY DEAR LORD,

Lambeth, February 13. 1835.

I RECEIVED your kind letter, and your two little inclosures in prose and verse, not indeed on New

* The succeeding extract will show how much the Bishop's heavenly anticipations were in unison with those of the sainted George Herbert, as expressed to a friend not long before his death. "I now look back upon the pleasures of my life past, and see the content I have taken in beauty, in wit, in music, and pleasant conversation, is now all past by me like a dream, or as a shadow that returns not, and is all become dead to me, or I to it; and I see that as my father and generation have done before me, so I also shall now suddenly (with Job) make my bed also in the dark; and I praise God I am prepared for it; and I praise Him that am not to learn patience now I stand in such need of it; and that I have practised mortification, and endeavoured to die daily, that I might not die eternally; and my hope is that I shall shortly leave this valley of tears, and be free from all fevers and pain; and, which will be a more happy condition, I shall be free from sin, and all the temptations and anxieties that attend it; and this being past, I shall dwell in the New Jerusalem; dwell there with men made perfect; dwell where these eyes shall see my Master and Saviour Jesus; and with him see my dear mother, and all my relations and friends. But I must die, or not come to that happy state. And this is my content that I am going daily towards it, and that every day which I have lived hath taken a part of my appointed time from me; and that I shall live the less time, for having lived this and the day past." WALTON'S Life of Herbert.

Year's Day (as you intended), but on the day preceding my entrance on my seventieth year, a time of life, when those who have lived to any useful purpose have learned fully to appreciate the sentiments so feelingly expressed in Bishop Ken's original hymn, and the additions which you have made in the same spirit of pious devotion.

The prose extract is a valuable portion of a very excellent book, great part of which I read in the intervals of leisure which I could command in the autumn.

With many thanks for your interesting present, and kind recollection of me, and hoping for the benefit of your prayers at this critical juncture of the affairs of our Church,

I remain, my dear Lord,

Very faithfully yours,

W. CANTUAR.

TO THE SAME.

Pall-Mall, March 5.

MY DEAR LORD,

I RETURN you my grateful thanks for your Lordship's letter and promise of a copy of the Appendix to Sir A. Carlisle's essay. It will be doubly valuable to me as one fast approaching to the appointed age of man, and more particularly as recommended by your Lordship, who, while you advance to that better country to which you allude in your motto,