died at the manse of Dundee. Dr Adie had only been laid aside from his ordinary duty for a few weeks, and it was but lately that serious fears were entertained as to his recovery. The illness assumed at first the form of influenza, but, subsequently, other unfavourable symptons supervened. He had reached his seventysixth year, having been born in 1785; and, until his last illness, it might be said that his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated. He was a native of Dundee, and attended the grammar school here, where he was known for his assiduous and successful application to learning. He subsequently attended the University of St Andrews, and there also distinguished himself as a diligent and devoted student. After receiving licence from the Presbytery of Dundee, he continued for some years as a probationer, and soon gave indications of those superior powers of preaching for which he was afterwards distinguished. When a vacancy occurred in the parish of Tealing in 1814, by the removal of the Rev. Mr Tait to Edinburgh, Mr Adie was selected as a preacher of great promise, and during his incumbency there he fully justified the favourable opinion which had been formed of him. In 1826 a vacancy occurred in the East and South Churches of Dundee by the death of the Rev. Dr Davidson, one the three ministers who then officiated in these churches, when there was a general feeling expressed in favour of Mr Adie, and he was accordingly elected by the Town Council as one of the stipendiary ministers. On the death of the Rev. Dr M'Lachlan in 1848, Dr Adie was promoted to the situation of first or parish minister of Dundee, which he has held ever since. As minister of the East Church he has officiated to a numerous and highly-influential congregation, by whom he was greatly respected and esteemed, and who will feel his death as a personal affliction. Dr Adie was an able, useful, and successful preacher, ever more anxious to reach the understanding and the heart than to please the fancy of his hearers. In private society Dr Adie was modest and unassuming, but his conversation was always instructive and often highly entertaining. He was possessed of a fund of clerical anecdotes of rare point, which he told, when surrounded by his friends, with peculiar effect.

Died, at No. 12 Pitt Street, Portobello, on the 2d ultimo, the Rev. William Stirling Blackwood.

Died, at Edinburgh, on the 20th inst., the Rev. John Little, minister of Manor.

END OF THE THIRTY-FIRST VOLUME.

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