resumed his lectures, which he continued until January 27th. This last lecture was accomplished with difficulty. His limbs were distended with dropsical swellings; for a week he had been lecturing while bandaged to the waist; his respiration, labored and short, rendered speech difficult; the heaving heart and throbbing carotids seemed threatening every moment an apoplectic hemorrhage, a sudden congestion, or fatal effusion on the lungs. At the end of the lecture he deliberately walked to his home, at least a quarter of a mile, as though he were in perfect health. From this time he felt the conviction that his office in life was closed, and he was soon to be removed from those duties which he had fulfilled with earnestness and integrity. He resigned himself calmly to his fate, and awaited its coming without a murmur or with reluctance. There was, with him, no parade of preparation for a future state, for it had been the ruling thought and aim of his whole life. He seldom talked of his death; but, when it was alluded to, it was treated and spoken of as any other occurrence of our daily life. A circumstance I am tempted to mention, shows his coolness and unconcern on this subject. He was lying on a couch, Dr. Henry Smith and myself sitting on each side. Dr. Horner was suffering some pain, a new symptom that had just commenced. He demonstrated, with his finger, the different regions of the trunk, enumerating the organs they contained, and the state of each, and indicated the exact seat where he then suffered the most. This was done with the interest and earnest manner of a demonstration to his class. I was so struck with it as to call the attention of Dr. Smith to this display of the "ruling passion strong in death." "Look! here is the anatomist dissecting his body; making a post-mortem before he is dead." The remark so amused Dr. Horner that he laughed heartily, in which we joined him. At the end he said: "Well, I have not had so good a laugh for a long time." This occurred on the third day before his death.

The imperative sense of duty, so conspicuous a trait in Dr. Horner, was manifested in the last moments of his life. Towards the close of February, finding the most urgent symptoms of his case mitigated, and his life prolonged beyond his expectations, he insisted on relieving the Faculty of the University of a portion of the labors his incapacitated state might throw on them. He com

menced the anatomical examination of the candidates for graduation, aided by his son-in-law, Dr. Henry H. Smith, and continued this duty until within two days of his death.

It is somewhat remarkable that the death of Dr. Horner was not the immediate result of the chronic affection under which his constitution had broken down. He had complained, about the 10th of March, of pain in the abdomen, on the left side. The night of the 12th it suddenly assumed an intensity that led to the suspicion of peritonitis from a perforation. He sank exhausted, by unceasing and unmitigable suffering, the evening of the next day, March 13th, 1853, surrounded by his sorrowing family and relatives.

Examination, after death, revealed the existence of entero-peritonitis, with mortification of the small intestines. This new condition was the direct cause of death, and had suddenly supervened on the original disease.

Several years before his death he became a convert to the Catholic religion, and was one of the most zealous members of that Church,

ARTHUR HOWELL.

ARTHUR HOWELL, a well-known citizen of Philadelphia, was by trade a tanner and currier, and an eminent and worthy preacher of the Society of Friends or Quakers. He died, January 26th, 1816, in the sixty-eighth year of his age.

He was a plain but pious man, and, as a preacher of the Gospel, was a sincere and exemplary member of the Society to which he belonged. When sitting in the preaching gallery, as beheld through the "mist of years," he always sat shrouded beneath his hat drawn down over his face, and the upper part of his outside coat elevated to meet it, like unto a prophet "in his mantle wrapt," and isolated in thought from all sublunary things.

As a preacher, or "Public Friend," as his brethren called their ministers, Arthur Howell was somewhat eminent and useful, as a good man and sincere Christian. He was of the strictest integrity,

and he carried his notions of fair dealing to an extent that would be deemed insane in these days of commercial virtue. It is narrated of Friend Howell, that upon one occasion he purchased a cargo of tanners' oil, on a rising market, and that after selling it at a higher rate than he anticipated, he repaired to the person from whom he bought, and paid him an additional dollar upon each barrel of oil!

His dying exclamation was, "There is nothing in the way." The following verses were published soon after his death, in "Poulson's American Daily Advertiser":

ARTHUR HOWELL.

Shall the proud warrior, who, amid the storm,
Drunken with blood, his furious way pursues,
Where carnage does fair Nature's face deform,
Claim all the homage of the suppliant Muse?

And shall not he, in duty's path who trod,
Bowing submissive to the will of Heaven,
Who murmured not at the chastising rod,

But grateful took whatever good was given?

Shall not his memory (like the fragrant flower,
Though dead and withered, still perfumes the air),
Live in our hearts until the parting hour,

When comes the signal, For the grave prepare?

Yes! in each heart, where virtue holds her throne,
Memory, indulgent to the mind's review,
Will bring the noble actions of thine own,

And counsel others-"The same path pursue."

And oh! may they, when comes the final hour,
When they no longer on the earth may stay,

Feel the consoling influence of that Power,

That whispered thee, "There's nothing in the way!"

Mrs. Child, in her Life of Isaac T. Hopper, says, "Arthur Howell was remarkable for spiritual-mindedness and the gift of prophecy."

FERDINAND WAKEMAN HUBBELL.

(From "The Presbyterian," of Saturday, August 7th, 1852.)

THE LATE MR. HUBBELL.-We have inserted, this week, the obituary of F. W. Hubbell, Esq. The memory of this gentleman should be dear to every Presbyterian, when we remember his successful efforts in the celebrated case of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. The clear and powerful argument in which he sustained its rights; the succinct and lucid manner in which he stated the points in controversy; the clear and intelligible enunciation of the points of doctrine; the cogent reasoning by which he connected them with the rights of property, and the finally triumphant results of the labors of himself and colleagues, will never be forgotten. We cannot refuse this mournful tribute to the powerful and cultivated intellect that has passed away. Mr. Hubbell was a Presbyterian from conviction. He derived his lineage from the Puritans of New England. His great-grandfather, Jonathan Law, was Governor of Connecticut under the colonial system; and his son, Chief Justice Law, was a member of the Revolutionary Congress. Mr. Hubbell's uncles, on either side, were among the bravest defenders of their country, both by sea and land. And he nobly sustained, in his life and character, the reputation of the venerable men from whom he had descended. In conclusion, we entirely concur with the resolutions adopted by his professional brethren, in saying that, "by the death of Ferdinand W. Hubbell, Esq., we have lost one of the greatest ornaments of the Bar, one of the most learned and distinguished jurists of our country, and an honorable and useful fellow-citizen."

Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell, whose loss the Bar of Philadelphia has had so recently to deplore, was born in the city of New York, on the 4th day of May, 1801. He was the second son of Walter Hubbell, Esq., of that place, and a grandson of the Hon. Richard Law, formerly Chief Justice of Connecticut. Mr. Hubbell's father, at the time of his birth, was extensively engaged in

commercial pursuits, but died when his son was only in the third year of his age. He was blessed, however, with a fond and intelligent mother, who in a great measure supplied this misfortune, and who spared no pains or expense to give her children all the advantages that the best education can confer, and who lived to an advanced age to see her efforts successful in the prosperity of her son. Mr. Hubbell completed his classical studies at Princeton and Union Colleges. He read law with the late Charles Chauncey, Esq., of Philadelphia, and while he always felt a filial regard for that gentleman, he ever retained his confidence and esteem. From the time of his admission to the Bar, we can only contemplate Mr. Hubbell's character as a lawyer; for in that his whole future existence was absorbed. He was a lawyer pure and entire. Everything about him gave way to his profession; to that he dedicated his days and nights. When a student, he was in the habit of studying regularly fifteen hours a day; and while he was a practitioner, the morning has frequently surprised him in the preparation of his

His scrupulous attention would not delegate to another what he might do himself; and although nature would frequently revolt at this overtasking, still the unyielding energy of his will bent her to his purpose. This severity of labor gradually undermined a naturally sound and excellent constitution, on which he relied too confidently, but which at length gave way, and sent him to his grave in the maturity of his manhood. With such application his learning was necessarily vast and extensive, and his iron memory held it always at command. Founded on such a basis, his legal judgment was seldom at fault, led with security, and decided with confidence. The leading characteristic of his mind, perhaps, was a microscopic power of analysis that traced every matter to its most attenuated filament; while a metaphysical cast of thought, with a subtlety peculiar to itself, detected the most delicate distinctions, which he afterwards developed with almost mathematical precision and great force of language. These intellectual traits gave him that commanding power that he always held as a counsellor and advocate. He had no superior in the United States as a special pleader, a branch of the profession that he peculiarly delighted in, because it exercised that logical accuracy of thinking that so eminently distinguished him; he has left numerous pleas