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THE LATE MR. HUGH MILLER. 



" Hugh Miller," (writes the accomplished Editor of Silliman's 

 Journal,) " one of the best known and most honored of Scotland's 

 sons died at Shrub Mount, Portobello near Edinburgh, on Wednes- 

 day the 24th December. In consequence of excessive mental 

 labor, his mind had become disordered, and under derangement, 

 he died by his own hand. He had just finished a new work, one 

 of a series that has done more than all else published in the world 

 to popularize and christianize science ; and he leaves this " Testi- 

 mony of the Rocks" as a testimony to his own greatness and 

 goodness of soul, as well as to the treasures of wisdom in the 

 volume of creation which he so delightingly read." 



The italics are our own. We cull from recent Scotch papers 

 the following accounts of this sad event :****** 



(From the Scotsman.) 



" Rarely are we called upon to perform a duty so painful, alike in 

 itself, and in the sudden circumstances of its occurrence, as to re- 

 cord the death of Hugh Miller. His name, as editor of the Wit- 

 ness, as a man of science, and as a genial and admirable writer on so- 

 cial andliterary topics, is known wherever our recent literature itself 

 is known ; and in Edinbiigh, the city of his adoption, and nursery of 

 his talents and reputation, his death is felt and mourned as a pub- 

 lic loss. However sadly the narrative of his death may touch Mr. 

 Miller's immediate friends, is Avill be to them less startling than to 

 others unaware of his peculiar temperament, and of his recent state 

 of health as a sufferer from nervous depression and irritation." 



" Mr. Miller has fallen a victim to overwork of the brain, the pecu- 

 liar malady of these days, and of men of his class. Such, we know, 

 was and had long beeu his own conviction. Years ago, and again 

 within these two or three days, he was pleased in the goodness of 

 his heart, to warn the writer of these few hasty and halting words 

 against what he thought dangers of that class, pointing to his own 

 case as an example deterring from continous efforts and anxieties. 



