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Chit Chat.
Dr . Roden ' s talents , business-like habits , constant attendance at the council meetings , and advocacy of sanitary reform , as so many reasons qualifying him for the office . No other candidate was proposed , consequently the election was unanimous . Dr . Roden then took the civic chair , and returned thanks to the corporation for the honour they had done him . There werehe saiclmany
gen-, , tlemen morefitted for the office than himself , but as they had unanimously elected him , he could do no less than accept the office , with all its honourable ancl onerous duties . Tbe most wholesome economy should be exercised , ancl he would endeavour to preserve a strict neutrality in politics during his year of office . After a very appropriate address he concluded by saying that he should keep up the good old custom of attending divine worship on the following Sunday at the parish church ,
and trusted that many of his fellow-townsmen would accompany him in their usual manner . [ The town-council have clone themselves honor in electing Brother Dr . Roden . ]
Obituary.
Obituary .
'' Death is the dark trance between time ancl eternity . " THE FAMILY BURIAL GROUND . —Vet . after all , clo you know , that I would rather sleep in the sou them corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of theCapulets . I should like , however , that my tlust should mingle with kindred ihtst . The good old expression"the family burying ground " —has something pleasing in it , at least to me Edm . Burke . Bro . MAJOR-GENERAL CLEELAND died some time since . He had retired from the service of the H . E . I . C . ; was a member of the Grand Afasters' Lodge , and a Past Grand Steward .
Bro . THOMAS HOLLAND , who for many years was the chief clerk to Sir Thomas Wilde , upon the appointment of the learned gentleman to the Lord Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas , was by his lordship inducted into the lucrative office of chief clerk , being of the value of from 1200 / . to 1500 / . per annum , died suddenly on the llth November . Deceased attended to his duties on Saturday , ancl appeared to be in the full enjoyment of his usual health ; but while engaged about mid-day
in the arrangement of some documents for the Lord Chief Justice , in the private room , he was taken suddenly ill . He was instantly conveyed to his residence at Chelsea . The immediate cause of death is attributed to spasms of the heart . Bro . Holland was amiable and openhearted ; he was a member ofthe Bank of England Lodge . His loss is deplored by his widow , and also by his sister , Mrs . Field , the widow of the late Bro . Field , Secretary to the Asylum for Aged A'lasons , who with her numerous family have to mourn the departure of their protector .
Death of the Bishop of Down , Connor , and Dromore . —The Right Rev . RICHAR - M ANT , D . D ., was born at Southampton , where his father was rector of All Saints , on the 12 th of February , 1776 , ancl he was consequentl y in his seventy-third year . He was consecrated Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora in 1820 , and translated to the see of Down and Connor in the spring of 1823 , so that he has presided over this diocese
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Chit Chat.
Dr . Roden ' s talents , business-like habits , constant attendance at the council meetings , and advocacy of sanitary reform , as so many reasons qualifying him for the office . No other candidate was proposed , consequently the election was unanimous . Dr . Roden then took the civic chair , and returned thanks to the corporation for the honour they had done him . There werehe saiclmany
gen-, , tlemen morefitted for the office than himself , but as they had unanimously elected him , he could do no less than accept the office , with all its honourable ancl onerous duties . Tbe most wholesome economy should be exercised , ancl he would endeavour to preserve a strict neutrality in politics during his year of office . After a very appropriate address he concluded by saying that he should keep up the good old custom of attending divine worship on the following Sunday at the parish church ,
and trusted that many of his fellow-townsmen would accompany him in their usual manner . [ The town-council have clone themselves honor in electing Brother Dr . Roden . ]
Obituary.
Obituary .
'' Death is the dark trance between time ancl eternity . " THE FAMILY BURIAL GROUND . —Vet . after all , clo you know , that I would rather sleep in the sou them corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of theCapulets . I should like , however , that my tlust should mingle with kindred ihtst . The good old expression"the family burying ground " —has something pleasing in it , at least to me Edm . Burke . Bro . MAJOR-GENERAL CLEELAND died some time since . He had retired from the service of the H . E . I . C . ; was a member of the Grand Afasters' Lodge , and a Past Grand Steward .
Bro . THOMAS HOLLAND , who for many years was the chief clerk to Sir Thomas Wilde , upon the appointment of the learned gentleman to the Lord Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas , was by his lordship inducted into the lucrative office of chief clerk , being of the value of from 1200 / . to 1500 / . per annum , died suddenly on the llth November . Deceased attended to his duties on Saturday , ancl appeared to be in the full enjoyment of his usual health ; but while engaged about mid-day
in the arrangement of some documents for the Lord Chief Justice , in the private room , he was taken suddenly ill . He was instantly conveyed to his residence at Chelsea . The immediate cause of death is attributed to spasms of the heart . Bro . Holland was amiable and openhearted ; he was a member ofthe Bank of England Lodge . His loss is deplored by his widow , and also by his sister , Mrs . Field , the widow of the late Bro . Field , Secretary to the Asylum for Aged A'lasons , who with her numerous family have to mourn the departure of their protector .
Death of the Bishop of Down , Connor , and Dromore . —The Right Rev . RICHAR - M ANT , D . D ., was born at Southampton , where his father was rector of All Saints , on the 12 th of February , 1776 , ancl he was consequentl y in his seventy-third year . He was consecrated Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora in 1820 , and translated to the see of Down and Connor in the spring of 1823 , so that he has presided over this diocese