pleasure of doing good was the reward of his otherwise unpaid services. Selfishness, even in its most allowable form, seemed scarcely to constitute a feature of his character. He appeared only to live for his family and friends.' The Corporation of Burlington, of which city, at the time of his death, he was Mayor, 'deeply deploring the loss of his great talents, public services, and exalted worth,' justly, 'declared him entitled to the highest esteem and regard;' and the Assembled Bar of his native State-Mr. Richard Stockton being at that time its leading member, and the originator, I presume, of this honorable testimonial-expressed as their united sense that while circumstances which he could not control, had deprived the latter years of a useful life of the fruits of a long, able, and honorable practice at the bar, they yet reflected with pride and satisfaction, upon his eminent talents, his personal virtues, the fortitude that sustained, and the integrity that guided his conduct in the trying scenes of his life.' Mr. Griffith was the author of a most useful and accurate work, of an ephemeral kind unfortunately, and never completed, called 'The United States Law Register'; as also of a smaller volume of great practical use to the inferior magistracy of his native State, called 'The New Jersey Justice of the Peace.' A biography of Mr. Griffith is contained in a recently published volume of the Lives of eminent lawyers of his State."- Wallace's American Reporters.

DR. WHARTON'S RESOLUTIONS IN CONVENTION..

May 28th, 1828. The annual Diocesan Convention was held in St. Mary's, Burlington, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Croes, presiding. The lay-deputies from Burlington, were William Coxe, Andrew Allen, John H. Carr, and Dr. W. S. Coxe. The Rev. George Weller, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Rev. Wm. R. Whittingham, † of New York, Secretary of the Gen. Prot. Epis. S. S. Union, were invited to seats.

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Wharton, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:

+ The Rev. Wm. R. Whittingham, was consecrated Bishop of Maryland,. Sep. 17th, 1840.

"WHEREAS, it is a distinguishing feature of our Church, that she adopts a form of Common Prayer in her public worship; and whereas, such prayer evidently implies a union of devout and audible voices, both in the congregation and the minister; therefore,

Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to all the congregations in this Diocese to repeat distinctly, all the responses and prayers, as the Rubric directs."

The Rev. Dr. Wharton moved the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

"Resolved, That this Convention highly approve of the object and designs of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; and recommend it to the attention and patronage of the members of the Church in this Diocese."

DEATH OF THE WIDOW OF BISHOP JARVIS.

"1829, May 7th. Buried at Trenton, Mrs. Lucy Jarvis, who died most edifyingly at Burlington, May 5th."-Parish Register. [This was the widow of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Jarvis, of Connecticut.]

A RE-ARRANGEMENT OF PEW RENTS.

"At a meeting of the vestry of St Mary's Church in the city of Burlington, held May 31, 1831, their attention was called to the state of the pew rents, which appeared not to have been for some years according to any uniform ratio, and it was proposed to appoint a committee to consider & report upon the subject. Mr James H. Sterling & Dr William S. Coxe were designated for this purpose, who not coinciding in their views, at a subsequent meeting in June 1831 submitted two separate reports. The following, being that of Dr W S. Coxe, was adopted by the vestry.

"The undersigned, one of the committee appointed at a meeting of the vestry on the 31st ult. to digest such a mode of arranging the pew-rents as may be convenient and at the same time just, respectfully reports, that it would be difficult and perhaps impossible to effect any immediate and material alteration that would not be liable to occasion dissatisfaction and complaint. He therefore proposes that no other change should be now made than to put the pew numbered 22 at an annual rent of $9.00 and that numbered 11 at $14.00.

"With a view to the ultimate adoption of such an arrangement as may be desirable, it is proposed that a list of the present pewholders be made out, designating the particular pews or fractions of such pews as they respectively hold, and the amount of rent now paid by each individual on the list, but including the alterations before suggested; that this list be inserted in the treasurer's book as a permanent standard of reference; that as long as such pew-holders shall continue to hold the pews or parts of pews for which they shall appear responsible on this list, they shall continue to pay the sums attached to their respective names and no more, unless a uniform addition be made, or a per centage added to the rent of each pew; that for any addition to the number of seats for which any one shall appear responsible on the aforesaid list, or in case of a removal to another pew, or of a change in the name of the responsible pewholder even in the same family, or in the case of every new engagement for a pew or part of a pew, the rate of renting in all such cases to be conformable to the arrangement now to be proposed.

"The uniform mode of rating the pew-rents which is proposed to be thus gradually adopted, is to establish the annual rents of the eleven eastern pews on the southern side of the aisle as heretofore at $16.00 in receding from the pulpit, each one beyond these to be successively one dollar less than that immediately before it to N° 13; this pew to be rated at $10.00, and the same progressive diminution of one dollar in the annual amount of rent to continue thenceforth to the western end of the church : on the north side, the eleven eastern pews to be rated at $15.00; beyond these the rent to lessen one dollar for each pew in succession to N° 22; this and N° 21 to be at $9.00; N° 20 to be at $8.00; N° 19 at $7.50, N° 18 at $7.00, and N° 17 at $6.50.

"Each pew hereafter rented, to be reckoned at six sittings, and every person (henceforward) engaging for a single sitting, to pay one fifth part of the sum at which the whole pew is rated, and every person engaging for two or more sittings to pay one sixth part of the total annual rent of the pew for every sitting in such pew for which he or she may become responsible. This as well

as the former part of the arrangement it is proposed to apply to all the cases specified in the conclusion of the second paragraph of this report; all of which is respectfully submitted.

"WILLIAM S. COXE one of?

the committee.

1831.-"

SECOND DIAGRAM OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH.

A diagram, in the archives of the Parish, represents the Church, at this date, thus:

c. Holy Table. d. Font.

e. Rector's Chair.

a. Pulpit. b. Reading Desk. f. Chancel. g. West Door. h. Staircase to Gallery. i. i. Pillars supporting gallery across the West end.

The robing-closet was under the pulpit; as, it is believed, it was, under the former arrangement.

DEATH OF BISHOP CROES.

The Rt. Rev. John Croes, D. D., first Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey, departed this life at his residence in New Brunswick, July 30th, 1832, in the 71st year of his age, and the 17th of his Episcopate.

ELECTION OF THE SECOND BISHOP OF NEW JERSEY.

A "second adjourned Convention," was held in Christ Church, New Brunswick, October 3d, 1832; the Rev. Frederick Beasley, D. D., of Trenton, President of the Convention, preached, and administered the Lord's Supper. Sixteen clergymen were present, and lay-deputies from twenty-two parishes; those from Burlington being John H. Carr and Dr. William S. Coxe. In the afternoon the Convention proceeded to ballot for a Bishop, with the following result:

+

The Rev. George Washington Doane, was then "unani

mously declared Bishop-elect of the Diocese

+ Son of the late Bishop, and bearing his name.

of New Jersey."

George Washington Doane, son of Jonathan Doane, was born in Trenton, N. J., May 27th, 1799; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1818; became a candidate for Holy Orders, in the diocese of New York, in 1819; was ordained Deacon, by Bishop Hobart, in 1821, and Priest, by the same Prelate, in 1823; united with Rev. Mr. (afterwards Bishop) Upfold, in organizing what became St. Luke's Church, N. Y.; was chosen Professor of BellesLettres and Oratory, in Washington (now Trinity,) College, Conn., in 1824; became Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, Boston, in 1828; and Rector of the same, in 1830; whence he was elected to the Episcopate of New Jersey.