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Wanganui Herald, Volume II, Issue 280, 25 April 1868, Page 2

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The address from loyal Irishmen in England obtained 22,603 signatures and has been presented. Mr Johnson, of Belfast, a leader in the party procession, was on February 29th sentenced to a month's imprisonment and to find bail for £1000, or in default to be imprisoned for one month more. 'I he South London Times says that two bank notes, each for £1000 were dropped into Mr Sp.urgeon's letter box, recently, by "A. B."—an anonymous donor who has before given £.1000 in like mariner—one for the Pastors' College, the other for the Stock well Orphanage. The annual report of the Peabod} r trustees shows that b} r rents and interests the original fund of £150,000 has been increased to £170,000. The total population in all the buildings created by the trustees is 1583.

Sir James Simpson, who was Sir David Brewster's doctor, gave some account at a meeting- of the Koyal Society in Edinbugh, on Feb. 17, of Sir' David's death. He said,' "To Mr. Phin, and other clerical friends, he freely expressed in these his last days the unbounded and undoubting faith of a ver} r humble and very happy Christian. No shadow of dubiety ever once seemed to cloud his mind. Like 1113' dear friend and my old school companion, Professor John Reid, he seemed to be impressed with the idea that one of the great joys and glories of heaven would consist in the revelation of all the marvels and mysteries of creation and science by Him by whom' all things were made,' and who, as Professor George Wilson held it, was not only the I lead of the Church, but the head arid origin and source of all science. 'I have,' he remarked to me, 'been infinitely happy here, but I shall soon be infinitely happier with my Saviour and Creator.' As death drew more and more nigh, the one idea of his Saviour, and of his being speedily and eternally with Him, grew stronger and more absorbing. As a physician, I have often watched by the dying, but I have never seen a deathbed scene more iull of pure love and faith than our late president's was."