Two affecting incidents connected with the deaths of the Rev. Daniel Newham and the Rev. James Forbes, deserve to be recorded.

The eldest daughter of the former, a fine girl barely five years old, was taken to St. Peter's Church on Sabbath morning to hear her father's funeral sermon. The little innocent perfectly well understood her bereaved condition, and the deep mourning in which the church was placed, and the audible yet half suppressed sobbing she heard around her, added much to her gloom and sorrow. All this however she bore with the firmness of one of maturer years, and it was not till the bishop himself gave way, and she heard her father named from the pulpit, that the floodgates of her grief burst asunder, and her sobs filled the church and altogether overpowered her. The scene indeed was a sad one!

'I'he other incident refers to the late Mr. Forbes himself. When his medical attendants intimated to him that they had no hopes of his recovery, he arranged his affairs with great composure. On the 4th August, assisted by his father-in-law, in the presence of his nearest connexions and his own family, he baptised his infant son, then only three weeks old. It was a very solemn and affecting scene; his words were only heard in a whisper; his strength was nearly quite exhausted, yet with his own hand he entered the birth and baptism of the child in his pulpit bible in the family register, and on completing the service he said, "I have performed the last act of my ministry!" - "Melbourne Daily Herald."