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LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY. 



met as usual in April, 1862, but that the breth- 

 ren living in the western counties of the State 

 were for the most part unable to attend. 



In the northwestern part of the United States 

 there are two Scandinavian Synods ; the one is 

 called the Norwegian Lutheran Synod, and has 

 a seminary in Decorah ; the other is called the 

 Augustana Synod, consisting for the most part 

 of Swedish and a few Norwegian congrega- 

 tions, and with a seminary at Paxoii, whither 

 it has been removed from Chicago. Formerly 

 these synods stood aloof from each other, but 

 of lata both have put forth efforts to come to a 

 better understanding. On the 17th of June, 

 pastors of both synods held a Conference at 

 Chicago. It was agreed to hold another Con- 

 ference next year, and it is hoped that a friend- 

 ly correspondence will be established between 

 the two bodies. 



The Lutheran Churches in Germany are pro- 

 foundly agitated by the demand of the laity for 

 an introduction of a representative constitu- 

 tion, and, in particular, the representation of 

 the laity at the Church Assemblies. In the 

 kingdom of Hanover, the Government, after 

 a long resistance, yielded to the demand of 

 the people, and submitted the draft of a new 

 church constitution to a preparatory synod 

 (Vorsynode). The election of delegates to this 

 synod showed that, in Hanover, as well as in 

 most other countries of Germany, there is lit- 

 tle harmony between the majority of the clergy 

 and the majority of the laity. The delegates 

 of clergy to the synod were mostly High 

 Churchmen, those of the laity, decided Lib- 

 erals. The synod was opened on October 6th, 

 and closed its labors on December 14th. Both 

 parties, in the progress of the proceedings, 

 deemed it necessary to make mutual concessions, 

 and, at length, adopted a new church constitu- 

 tion with entire unanimity. According to this 

 constitution, the Church will have hereafter a 

 National Synod, to consist, beside a few mem- 

 bers, appointed by the king, of 29 clerical and 

 29 lay delegates. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse 

 Darmstadt, the Chamber of Eepresentatives 

 adopted also the draft of a new constitution 

 for the Protestant Church, which provides for 

 the introduction of presbyteries and synods. 



Among the Lutheran missions in foreign 

 countries, that of the Evangelical Lutheran 

 Missionary Society among the Tamils of East 

 India has been thus far the most successful. 

 According to the last annual report of 1863, 

 the Lutheran congregations among the Tamils 

 number 5,488 souls, an increase over the pre- 

 ceding year of 800 souls. J,296 children are 

 educated in 65 schools. Several sew churches 

 are in course of construction. The number of 

 missionaries is 17, and 170 natives have been 

 educated in the seminaries of the mission as as- 

 sistants. 



LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, 

 Lord, a British statesman and jurist, born in 

 Boston, Mass., May 21st, 1772, died October 

 12th, 1863. Ho was the son of the eminent 



portrait and historical painter, John Singleton 

 Copley, by whom he was taken to England 

 about a year before the outbreak of the Amer- 

 ican Revolution. He was educated at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, where, in 1796, he took 

 his degree of B. A. as Second "Wrangler and 

 Senior Smith's prizeman ; and having soon af- 

 ter been appointed a Fellow of his College and 

 "Travelling Bachelor," he was enabled for the 

 first and only time in his life to revisit his na- 

 tive country. In 1797, he was called to the 

 bar, and for many years subsequent travelled 

 the midland circjuit, rising by very slow de- 

 grees to professional eminence. In 1819,, hav- 

 ing then obtained the leadership of his circuit, 

 he first brought himself into public notice by 

 the able manner in which he conducted the de- 

 fence of Watson and Thistlewood, indicted for 

 high treason. Though previously a liberal in 

 politics, he so favorably impressed the tory 

 leaders by his talents on this occasion, that he 

 was soon employed by them in behalf of the 

 Government in several important state trials, 

 and in 1818 was appointed chief justice of the 

 county palatine of Chester. Thenceforth until 

 his death he remained for the most part a mem- 

 ber of the party from which he had received 

 his earliest promotion. 



Having entered parliament in 1818, he was 

 appointed solicitor-general in the Liverpool 

 administration in the succeeding year, and 

 knighted; and in 1820 he took a leading part 

 in the proceedings against Queen Caroline, 

 avoiding, by the moderation and skill which 

 he displayed, the censure so freely bestowed 

 upon most of the parties to the trial. In 1824 

 he succeeded to the attorney-generalship. At 

 the general election in 1826, he was returned 

 one of the members for the University of Cam- 

 bridge, in conjunction with Lord Palmerston, 

 and a few months later he accepted the mas- 

 tership of the Rolls. During the early debates 

 on Roman Catholic emancipation, in the spring 

 of 1827, he showed himself a strenuous oppo- 

 nent of the measure ; but to the surprise of the 

 public he soon after entered the liberal cabinet 

 of Canning as chancellor, Lord Eldon retiring, 

 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Lynd- 

 hurst, April 27th, 1827. After the death of 

 Canning, in August, he retained the office dur- 

 ing the short-lived administration of Viscount 

 Goderich, and that of the Duke of Wellington 

 which succeeded, retiring with his colleagues, 

 upon the triumph of the whigs, in November, 

 1830. Previous to this he had given his full 

 support to Roman Catholic emancipation, de- 

 claring that he felt no apprehension for the 

 safety of the Church. 



Shortly after retiring from the chancellorship, 

 he was appointed Chief Baron of the Court of 

 Exchequer, the duties of which office he dis- 

 charged until 1834. Having practised chiefly 

 at the common law bar, he did not establish 

 for himself as chancellor so high a judicial char- 

 acter as was anticipated ; but in the more con- 

 genial field of the exchequer he earned a repu- 



