144 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
ful; and the museum which he has collected must form an interesting 
and instructive addition to the numerous attractions of Paris, in science 
In this brief and limited notice of a great and excellent man, we 
have been necessarily led intosome personal details. ‘To the few who 
—on grounds of propricty—object to every thing of this nature, we 
have nothing to say ; being of opinion that when the work of an emi- 
nent and successful benefactor of his race is finished and he is withe = 
drawn from our world, it is only a simple act of justice to his memor. 
to relate what we know of his good and useful deeds and of their bear- 
ing on the common good of mankin ae 
In taking our leave of an early friend and benefactor, we are again 
| course—cheering and directing us by t 
brilliant Cat aah have held forth; and how fast too, our fellow labor- 
ers in the mon cause are dropping from the ranks. But such reine 
erations, plaintive as they are, should only stimulate us to work on to 
the end,t ut good deeds—if happily we have performed any—may 
live senda ma an gone. B. S., Senior. — 
Dec. 15, 1847. 
8. James Keyt anp Timorny Pirin. 
Died in New York on the 13th of December, James Kent, late Chancellor of the 
State of New York, aged 855. and in New Haven onthe 18th of December, ' I 
Pitkin, “abies formerly a distinguished member of the C ess of the United States, 
ed 82. The studies of these eminent men were pot in the field of er science, 
wil ding to let em pass away, without 
departed friends; frie me ‘of universal knowledge ; Riots of thelr porte tad apes 
mankind, and warm persona! irenste of the writer of this brief notice. 
ancellor Kent was a man great versatility of talent ‘en fa aed al and 
of inextinguishable airthrastallen; united to great vivacity of spiri biscor 
physical as well as mental aouivity 5 pode his warm-hearted oii 8 
constitutional and national i eo! Siuidiv s were onf pies 
ican Jegal learning, but embraced th es law of other ¢ 
— f the most = tened f continental Euro 
taries, the production of his mature years, have alread rough numerous 
ditions, and are stereotyped for posterity. Thei foetits and their fame place 
them side by side w Blackstone, and their author's name 
rvived to a good old age, but exempt from its decays. In the vigor. of : is 
intellect and cheered “a hope, with no more physical infirmity than was necessat 
for the transition, he passed atelty out of rlife. . 
Mr. Pitxin sustained, during many years, a very responsible position im the 
House of _— me of the United States; being regarded as a reliable au- 
thority in th ih ns connected with the history me Bailey of the ‘government. 
| wig : Mola 3 of his 
petit A an fo such were his elity, his e Sans cnet veracity a and wom 
nity and Pe to es that both the great parties of the nation jistened 
ments, which were adnees anxi 
oa sain af; ational oliey. His yas on American Stati tistie 
: y- were ‘ an OC! 
i ded in vig na ing died in the same w 
n Tovey examples of bi 8) Sitelteaee in all th 
