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British House of Peers, and is reported. The House adjudged, as we recall the 

 matter, that his views were correct; though a majority of the Peers, acting on an old 

 rule, made in the interests of family peace and harmony, that a family settlement will 

 not be disturbed, even though a party have surrendered rights, unless the case be very 

 grievous, refused to break up what had been once signed and sealed. 



Of late years Mr. Smith had travelled much, not only in Europe, but also in Africa 

 and Asia, spending much lime in the regions which make the subject of Sallust's 

 Jugurthine war, exploring iis antiquities, and also in Palestine, where he sought to 

 widen and to deepen the foundations of a religious faith that from early life he ever 

 professed. 



Mr. Smith, at the time of his death, was the senior Vice-President of the Histoiical 

 Society of Pennsylvania, of which, with Benjamin Horner Coates, he was in 1822 a 

 founder, and in which he ever took a deep interest. This he testified quite lately liy a 

 munificent donation of money. He was also a warden and a vestryman of Christ 

 Cliurch, in whose general welfare, and especially in the welfare of whose Sunday 

 schools — where he personally labored as a teacher — he took a deep interest. During 

 such time as his health allowed he was to be seen regularly in the ancient pew of the 

 family, near to that of the same as occupied by Washington while President of the 

 United Slates. He was for several years, and up to the very close of his life, a muni- 

 ficent benefactor of the Episcopal Hospital, devoting his large income to this and to 

 other objects of charily, religion, or literature, in the most unostentatious manner, and 

 without one charge upon it in his own favor for luxury, or avarice, or personal aggran- 

 dizement of any kind. In his politics, Mr. Smith belonged to the school of which his 

 father was a well-known advocate, and from the principles of that school he never 

 swerved. He was distinguished by a very high sense of political and personal honor; 

 and though, as we have said, not widely known in this city at this day, his death will 

 be lamented by a most respected class of persons among us. 



Resolutions of respect to his memory were adopted by the Vestry of Christ Church 

 this iflorning. Mr. Smith was one of the vestrymen of that venerable church for more 

 than thirty years, and was one of its most liberal benefactors. For several years past 

 he had annually deposited in the basin at the offertory at Christ Church, on Thanks- 

 giving Day, for the benefit of the Episcopal Hospital, the sum of $5,000. He also 

 gave largely to the new parish building fund, and constantly gave to the current char- 

 ities and expenses of the parish, which will greatly feel his loss. The funeral of Mr. 

 Smith will take place from Christ Church on Wednesday morning. 



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Richard Penn Smith. 



Richard Penn Smith was born at his parental residence, the vener- 

 able edifice still standing at the southeast corner of Chestnut and Fifth 

 streets, Philadelphia. He received his early education at Joseph Neif 's 



