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Soon after graduating he was ordained as a Min. of the Ch. of Eng. and appointed to a curacy in a large and populous parish near Norwich, the entire duties of which fell upon him for some time in consequence of the suspension of the Rector. But he had heard and read of Am., and the ideas he had been led to form of that distant country resulted in a longing for the more extended sphere of action which he hoped to find there. In 1818 he was afforded an opportunity of gratifying his wishes by the offer by the S. P. G. F. P. of an appointment as missionary to St. Andrews, L. C., which he accepted. In the same year he arrived at the scene of his future labours. He remained in that district, first at St. Andrews and secondly at Grenville, with the exception of a short time in which he was engaged in the same high and holy office in Yamaska having ef fected a transfer with his brother at Abbotsford, L. C., until 1847, in which year he was allowed to retire upon a pension. Of his arduous but successful labours as a missionary too much could not be said in his favour. Let it suffice for us to state that he surmounted and overcame all the many and great difficulties which the pioneer of the Gospel invariably encounters; and that to his energetic efforts is largely due, not only the moral elevation and improvement of the people but the material advancement of the interesting portion of the Ottawa district in which he lived and wrought. During his long residence in Can., A. Mr. A. always found a certain portion of time to devote to any subject apart from his profession, which could benefit his adopted country. In agriculture he took a warm interest-and his personal advocacy and that of his pen, were never wanting for any movement towards its improvement. A soc. having been founded at Quebec, in 1827, for the encouragement of arts and sciences in L. C., he contributed to it in 1828 an essay on Agriculture for which he was awarded the silver medal of the soc.;-and in his own parish he never ceased, to inculcate among his neighbours, both by precept and example, the knowledge he had acquired in Eng. of the improvements in agriculture, and in the breeding of cattle, which were progressing there when he left. But his most active exertions, in matters secular, were devoted to the subject of emigration. He never ceased to urge upon the country and the govt., the advantages of a rational and practical system for the encouragement of emigration; and the periodical literature of his day exhibits numerous contributions from his pen. It occurred to him also, that a plain unvarnished exposition of the actual life, trials, failures and successes of an emigrant to Can., would afford a fair, and as he believed, a 'not unfavorable view of emigration to this country. With this idea he prepared what he styled The Emigrant to North America, from Memoranda of a Settler in Canada, which embodied his conceptions of the kind of information that would be useful to the emigrant-and which was in fact. a simple and unadorned description of the every day life, duties, and labors of the emigrant farmer. First published in a series of papers in the Mercury: (Que.) in 1842, The Emigrant met with a most flattering reception. It was republished in many leading Can. papersin several Eng. journals, among which was the Emigration Gazette (Lon.)—and in pamphlet form in Eng. by the Agent for Emigration. The intention of the author to publish it in Can. becoming known, he received orders in advance of its appearance, and in a few weeks, for more than a thousand copies, and a large edition was soon exhausted. In 1843, a second edition issued from the press of Mr. Lovell-and was rapidly disposed of. Encouraged by the success of the Memoranda, which chiefly consisted of extracts from the record of his own experience in Can. Mr. A. decided to publish that record in a more extended form-and submitted it for that purpose to Mr. John Murray who at once accepted it and undertook its publication as one of his series, intitled The Home and Colonial Library", under the title of Philip Musgrave, or the Adventures of a Missionary in Canada. The success of this little book, was complete, beyond the most sanguine expectations of both author and publisher. The leading literary authorities of the mother country spoke of it in the highest terms of praise.-Its truthfulness, which the simplicity of the narrative-and the minuteness of its graphic details, were alone sufficient to establish-the perspicuity of its descriptions-and the spirit of ra-tional and earnest devotion which pervaded it were themes of praise in many of those periodicals whose praise is fame. And the private testimony to its usefulness-and to the gratification. which it afforded to thousands of enquirers was not less complete, nor less pleasing to its author. A more extended work, the nature of which is not fully known, but upon which Mr. A. spent his leisure time for several years, was lost in manuscript, in the course of transmission to Messrs. Blackwood & Son for publication. In addition to these more arduous labors, he was a frequent contributor to the lighter periodical literature of this country, of tales in which his imagination loved to revert to the wild scenes and legends of his native North. ABBOTT, Hon J.J. C., B. C. L., Q. C. A Can. lawyer and legislator. Eldest son of the preceding. B. at St. Andrews, L. C., 12 March, 1821. Called to the Bar, L. C., 1847. Is Dean of the Faculty of Law Univ. McGill Coll. Has sat in the Leg. Assem. Can. since 1857. Was Solicitor Genl., L. C., from May 1862 to May 1863. Originated and carried through the legislature the Insolvent Act of 1864. I. The Insolvent Act of 1864, with notes, together with the rules of practice and the tariff of fees for Lower Canada. Quebec, 1864. "The reputation of the author, both in the Legislature and at the Bar in Lower Canada, is of itself sufficient to secure for his book a passport wherever his name is known."-U. C. Law Journ. ABRAHAM, ROBERT, a Can. journ. Was a native of Cumberland, Eng. D. at Montreal 10 Nov. 1854. He was ed. for the medical profession, graduating in the Univ. of Edinburgh, but his literary tastes soon induced him to devote his talents to journalism. During many years he served on the provincial press of Eng., first in his native county, and afterwards as Ed. of a leading Liverpool journal. About 1843, he came to Can., where he became the prop. and ed. of the Gazette (Mont.) His connection with that journal continued until Dec. 1848, when he disposed of the paper to Mr. Ferres, and retired from its management. The principles which guided his conduct of the Gazette may be gathered from the following extract from his valedic tory upon retiring from that journal: "Six years! It is a large gap in the life of man. But still it is not unworthily filled, if all those multitudinous beatings of the heart, and contractions of the voluntary muscles, and impulses of the brain, which go to the composition of an intellectual being, are compatible with the moral principle. That we may have been misled by passion; or by personal hostilities (and of these we believe no man has fewer) ;-or by excessive zeal for our friends or for our party,-we freely ad mit; and we would be more than man, or less, were we not incident to such weaknesses. But this we can say, that, amid all the exciting topics of exciting time, never did we impugn any man's private character, or invade his personal privacy; that we have asserted what we believe to be the true fundamental principles of the British Constitution, so far as applicable to this colony; that, on this side of the great waters, as on the eastern, we have stood, with the spirit and pertinacity of an Englishman, by those great Whig principles, the practical enunciation of which has saved England alike from monarchical and from mob despotism. The creed of our youth, imbibed from descent, and from early associates, has been that of our maturer age; and if we have failed it is neither from want of love of liberty, nor from want of due honour to the royalty and the institutions which are its best and most glorious guarantees.” Either before or after this time he studied law and was admitted to practice as an advocate of L. C. For a brief period he did not write, and had no connection with the press. In 1849, however, he was induced to undertake the charge of the Transcript, of the same city, and continued its senior ed. up to the time of his death. He was also ed. of the L. C. Agricultural Journal for some time previous and up to that event. Mr. A. was a man, truly able and well educated; and had so prodigious a memory that no one, in his time, could be better entitled to be called, as he sometimes was, a walking Encyclopedia! From the notice of him in the Gazette to which we are indebted for much of the above, we learn that during the last year of his life his health and physical energies had been gradually, but perceptibly declining-though he retained his mental faculties up to the last. The same journal pays the following affectionate tribute to his character: "As an English politician Mr. Abraham took his place in the Whig-radical school; but he-like the late lamented Lord Metcalfefound the democratic element so strong in this country that he held an English radical might, with perfect consistency, be a Canadian conservative. So, during the time of his connexion with this journal, it was the staunch advocate of liberal-conservative views,-liberal in according and securing to all men their reasonable, constitutional liberties.— Conservative in so curbing innovation as to preserve intact the provincial connection with the mother country. Further we need not speak of his political career in this provinceit is before the people in his writings. On the merits of those writings, their elegant epigrammatic style, the vast stores of useful and curious information which abounded in every thing he wrote, shining forth spontaneously from the overflowing treasury of his cultivated mind, we might say much, but time and space forbid us now. As a geologist and naturalist (particularly in his favourite branch of Natural History, Entomology) he had few equals in Canada-perhaps no supe rior on this continent. While by his writings he won the admiration of strangers as well as friends, in private life he was one of the most truly generous and kind-hearted--one of the most pure, honest, and sincere men whom it was ever our lot to know. Well may we look upon his loss to journalism as almost irreparable, and the large circle of friends who mourn his loss cannot hope to see his place in their affections again filled by such a man." I. Some remarks upon the French tenure of Franc-alleu roturier" and its relation to the Feudal and other tenures. Montreal, 1849; pp. 81. 8vo. II. Tracks of a Chelonian Reptile in the Lower Silurian formation at Beauharnois. B. A. Journ. 1851. "With the Climactichnites at Perth, there occurs also the Protichnites of Owen, the first discovery of which at Beauharnois was made by the late Mr. Robert Abraham, then editor of the Montreal Gazette, in which he gave an interesting description of these curious footprints."-SIR W. E. LOGAN: Geo. of Can. ADAMS, J, I. Sketches of the Tête de Boule Indians. Trans. Lit. & His. Soc. (Que.) vol. II. ADAMS, LEVI, a Can. writer, supposed to have been a native of the Eastern Townships, L, C. D. at Montreal, of cholera, 21 July, 1832. Was admitted as an advocate in 1827. While still a student at law contributed to the Canadian Review, (1826), "Jean Baptiste: a Poetic olio; most respectfully inscribed to Stephen Sewell, Esq." Two talesThe young Lieutenant, and The Wedding, from the same pen, appear in vol. IV of the Canadian Mag. (Mon.) Mr. A. was a resident of Henryville, L. C. ADAMSON, Rev. WILLIAM AGAR, D. C. L. A clergym. of the Ch. of Eng. in Can. B. in Dublin, Irel., 21 Nov. 1800. His father was Jas. Adamson, Esq., eldest son of the Rev. Christopher Adamson of Ballinalack, Co. Wesmeath and St. Marks, Dublin; his mother the eldest daughter of Isaac Hutchinson, Esq., of Violet Hill, Co. Wicklow. In July 1817, he entered Trinity Col., (Dub.), as a gentleman commoner and, in July 1821, graduated as A. B. In 1824, he was ordained and held the curacies of Lockeen and Parsonstown till 1826, when he was presented to the vicarage of Clonlea, Co. Clare. In 1833, he was promoted by the bish. to the vicarage of Ennis, the chief town of that county. In 1838, he was presented by the late Marquis of Normanby to the rectory of Kilcooly, Co. Tipperary. In 1840, having been appointed to the incumbency of Amherst Island, and chaplain to Lord Sydenham, the first Gov. Genl. of B. N. A., he came to Can., and at the union of the Provinces received the appointment of chaplain and librarian to the Legis. Council. Whilst the seat of government was at Montreal, Dr. A., who had received the degree of D. C. L. from McGill Univ. and also from the Univ. of Bishop's Coll. Lennoxville, held the office of assist. min. of Christ Ch. Cathedral, on resigning which to proceed to Toronto, he was presented by the inhabitants of Montreal of all religious denominations with two costly silver salvers, on which were one thousand dollars in gold. Since then, Dr. A. has been assist. min. of St. George's, (Tor.,) and St. Paul's, Yorkville; secretary to the Ch. Soc. of Quebec, afternoon lecturer in the Cathedral of the same city, and now holds a like appointment in Christ's Church, Ottawa. In 1824, Dr. A. married Sarah, second daughter of John Walsh, Esq., of Walsh Park, Co. Tipperary, by whom he has had nine children. As a preacher, he is one of the most eloquent and moving pulpit orators in Am. He occupies a foremost position in the nascent literature of Can. From an early age he has been a constant contributor to the periodicals of Gt. Brit. and Irel., chiefly to the Dublin University Magazine and Blackwood, and has sent communications to almost every literary serial attempted in Can. It would be an arduous task to enumerate the titles or subjects of onetenth of these contributions. I. The Fall of Man: a sermon. New Irish Pulpit, 1836, pp. 7. II. A Sermon preached in St. George's Church, Kingston, 26th Sept. 1841, on the death of Lord Sydenham. Montreal, 1841, pp. 14, 8vo. III. Things to be remembered: a sermon. Do. 1846, pp. 32, 4to. IV. The Order for Divine Service daily throughout the year: a sermon. Do. 1847, pp. 15, 8vo. V. The Churching of Women. Do. 1848, pp. 43, 8vo. VI. Human suffering and Heavenly sympathy: a sermon. Do. 1852, pp. 30. VII. A sermon preached in the Cathedral, Quebec, on the day set apart for humiliation and fasting on account of war between Great Britain and Russia. Quebec, 1854, pp. 14, 8vo. "It is marked by all the fervid eloquence that distinguishes the Reverend preacher, and does equal credit to his head and heart."Gazette (Mont.) VIII. The decrease, restoration and preservation of Salmon in Canada. Can. Journ. 1857. IX. Salmon Fishing in Canada. By a Resident. Edited by Colonel Sir J. E. Alexander, Kt., K. C. L. S. London, 1860, pp. 350, Svo. "The book is pleasantly and cleverly writ ten. The author is evidently, as all anglers should be, a true lover of nature, and some of his descriptions of Canadian scenery are given with considerable effect. "-Literary Gazette (Lon.) "One of the most agreeable sporting works of the season. "-Bell's Life in London. ADDERLEY, Rt. Hon. C. B. A mem. of the House of Commons, lately Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. I. Letter to the Rt. Hon. Benj. D'Israeli on the present relation of England with the Colonies, with preface on Canadian affairs. London, 1862, 8vo. "While I acknowledge that this brochure has been written with great skill and ingenuity, and in a spirit of commendable moderation, I regret to be compelled, by a sense of duty to the North American Provinces, and the Empire at large, to question the soundness of the conclusions at which you have arrived."-JOSEPH HOWE. AKINS, THOMAS BEAMISH, D. C. L. A barrister of N. S. and Com. of Records for that province. I. Prize Essay on the history of the settlement of Halifax, at the Mechanics |