230 ORDINATION OF MR. NOBBS. 
tion of the high character given of him by 
Admiral Moresby, and other competent per- 
sons, acceded to his request to be admitted to 
holy orders. 
On Sunday morning, October 24th, 1852, 
at an early service, an ordination took place 
at St. Mary's, Islington, under a special com- 
mission from the Bishop of London, by the 
Bishop of Sierra Leone, when Mr. Nobbs was 
admitted to Deacon's orders. Mr. Richard 
C.Paley, B.A. of St. Peter's College, Cam- 
bridge, a grandson of the celebrated Arch- 
deacon Paley, was ordained at the same 
time ; both candidates having been presented 
by the Rev. Henry Venn. Several of the 
clergy of the neighbourhood, and about twenty 
students of the Church Missionary College 
were present. Mr. Paley, who was a very 
young man, soon after entered upon his 
arduous and interesting Mission at Abbeo- 
kuta, Western Africa, but was stopped by 
the hand of death, almost at the commence- 
ment of his missionary career. The other 
candidate, more than twice his age, yet lives 
on, by God's good providence, for the benefit 
of his little flock in the Pacific. 
