A correspondent writes:- The August mail brings the mournful intelligence of the death of the Rev. Alexander Salmon, so well known and deservedly esteemed in this and the neighbouring colonies as a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia in Sydney. He died on the 6th August at Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, of a species of intermittent climate fever, under which he had been gradually sinking for a month previously.

It is pleasing to his surviving relatives and friends to know, that up to his last hour his mind was clear and active - perfectly conscious of his approaching change, and entirely submissive to the will of the Divine Master, whom he had served during a long and active life, he peacefully entered into his rest.

In 1849, Mr. Salmon left a charge at Barhead, in Renfrewshire, where he was greatly beloved by his people, to become pastor of the principal (Free Church) Presbyterian congregation in this colony, in which position his worth and ability soon gained him many friends, and the regard and esteem of Christians of all denominations, with whom it was his delight to co-operate.

Failing health, mainly attributable to partial sunstroke received in the summer of 1851, demanded his withdrawal from his onerous charge, and in February, 1860, he returned to Britain in search of health and repose. The chief portion of his time was spent at Lewes, in Sussex, where he found his health so much restored that he was enabled to continue the services of a small Presbyterian congregation in that town for upwards of two years.

Early in the present year, partly for the sake of a change of climate, and partly to occupy a more useful position, he proceeded to Alderney, Channel Islands, having been inducted by the Presbytery of London to a charge there, comprehending the chaplaincy to the Presbyterian troops in garrison. Here, as at Lewes, he speedily secured the warm regard of his people, from whom Mrs. Salmon and he received numerous kindnesses during the brief period of their sojourn on the island.