The Rev. D. Newham, Minister of St. Peter's Church, in this City, after a very painful illness of three months, which he bore with truly Christian fortitude and resignation, fell asleep in Jesus a few minutes after 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning, the 27th August 1851.

This is the first occasion on which we have had to announce the removal by death of a labourer in this portion of our Lord's vineyard; and we therefore feel a peculiar solemnity to belong to it. But the loss of our dear Brother in the Ministry affects us, not only because he is the first, whom death hath taken from us; but because he has been one of the first, if not the first, in suggesting and carrying out every design, which has been adopted during the last three years and a half for increasing the efficiency of the Church in this city and diocese.

Our Diocesan Society and Church of England Association, our Book Depot, our Parochial District Visiting Societies, the number of our Sunday and daily schools, the publication of this Monthly Messenger, are all, in a greater or less degree, the results of his energy and zeal.

He was also a faithful and earnest parochial minister; and, although during his last illness he deeply lamented what he felt to be his shortcomings in pastoral visitation, his people will testify that he watched for their souls as one who had to give account.

During his last illness his ripening for glory was very manifest. There was exhibited in him a peculiar warmth of Christian affection towards all his brethren; an unshaken faith in the all-sufficiency of Christ, combined with the deepest sense of his own unworthiness; and, what was very remarkable, until nearly the last, a strong desire to live that he might prove himself a more efficient minister of the gospel, with the most perfect submission to the will of God concerning him.

During the whole period of his illness, not a murmer ever escaped his lips. He always regarded his suffering as a merciful chastening of the Lord; and, during the last twenty-four hours of his life, when he was in a state of extreme weakness and in much pain, which rendered him exceedingly restless and uneasy, the reading of the Scriptures never failed to soothe and quieten him. - "Melbourne Church of England Messenger."