college soon after taking his degree, and was ordained on his Fellowship by the Bishop of Ely. He resided in college as Lecturer until the autumn of 1854; and during this period he exercised a much wider influence in the University than any man of his age was ever remembered to have done. His unaffected goodness, his modesty and humility, his earnestness of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition, gave him a wide influence over all with whom he was brought into contact, and won for him the affection and respect of all around him. Among other good works for which he is still remembered in Cambridge was the re-organizing and placing on a more satisfactory footing the system of voluntary chaplains in the Addenbrooke Hospital. During his residence in college he served the curacy of Haslingfield, a village in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, where his ministrations were highly appreciated by his parishioners. His thoughts were first turned to the mission field of labour by a sermon of the apostolic Bishop of New Zealand; but following the advice of friends, who saw the great career of usefulness before him at Cambridge, he did not at once yield to the impulse; and it was not until something had occurred to revive the impression produced by Bishop Selwyn's sermon that he determined to go forth as a missionary: for he felt that while many could supply his place at Cambridge, there were comparatively few who had the power and the will to devote themselves to the service of the Church in foreign parts. Accordingly, in the autumn of 1854, he went out to Natal as Archdeacon of Pieter-Maritzburg under Bishop Colenso. Here he remained until 1859: and it deserves to be recorded that during his tenure of that office he maintained himself at his own charges, and applied the small stipend which he received to the main tenance of another clergyman in the colony. In 1859 he returned to England in order to offer himself for more directly GENT, MAG, VOL. CCXIII. missionary work among the Zulu Caffres ; but before his arrival in England circumstances had occurred which rendered it doubtful whether it might not be desirable to defer the establishment of this mission. Meanwhile, however, Dr. Livingstone had been in England, and had availed himself of the opportunity of a visit to Oxford and Cambridge to urge upon the two Universities the establishment of a mission somewhere in the centre of Southern Africa, in the country explored by him. Committees had been formed in the two Universities and in London, and the whole scheme had taken shape, and there was only wanting a man to place at the head of the mission. The opportune arrival of Archdeacon Mackenzie, and the failure of the project for a mission to Zulu-land, pointed him out as the most proper person to undertake the great work of evangelizing Central Africa, and left him at liberty to accept the offer which was made to him with the unanimous consent of the three committees. This was at the commencement of November, 1859. During the next eleven months he was engaged, almost without intermission, in collecting the requisite funds for the establishment of the mission, in England, Scotland, and Ireland; winning the hearts of all, wherever he came, by the mere force of Christian goodness. After an affecting farewell service in Canterbury Cathedral on the 2nd of October, 1860, he set forth on his distant enterprise, with a small company of missionaries, lay and clerical, on the 6th of October. Arrived at Capetown on November 12, he was there consecrated bishop on the feast of the Circumcision (Jan. 1, 1861), by the Metropolitan of Capetown, assisted by his two suffragans of Natal and St. Helena. Having no territory from which he could derive his title, the style of the new prelate was-" Bishop of the Mis sion to the tribes dwelling in the neighbourhood of the Lake Nyassa and River Shiré." On January 5, 1861, he sailed 30 for the Zambesi, and arrived off Kongone on February 7, where he joined company with Dr. Livingstone, whose advice it had been resolved to follow with reference to the particular field of labour. The next six weeks were consumed in an unsuccessful exploration of the River Rovooma, in company with Dr. Livingstone, who hoped to find a way into the interior of the country by that river. On the 1st of May the mission party crossed the bar of the Kongone mouth of the Zambesi; on the 8th of July they arrived at Dakanamoyé, a village on the River Shiré, about two hundred miles above the confluence of that river and the Zambesi, Dr. Livingstone then conducted them about sixty miles into the interior of the country, to the heart of the Manganja Highlands, and settled them at a village named Magomero, consigning to their charge, as the nucleus of their mission, a party of natives whom he had rescued from slavers. Here Bishop Mackenzie commenced his labours with his usual energy; but they were brought speedily to a close by his untimely death on the island of Malo, at the confluence of the Ruo and Shiré, on January 31, 1862. SIR ALLAN N. McNAB, BART. Aug. 8. At Toronto, aged 64, after a short illness, the Hon. Sir Allan Napier McNab, Bart., formerly Prime Minister of Upper Canada. Allan Napier McNab was born Feb. 19th, 1798. His grandfather, Robert McNab, of Dundrum, Perthshire, sprung from the ancient Scottish family of Mach à Nab, was a Captain in the 42nd Highlanders, and by a Stuart of Ardvohrlich had issue a brave officer, Alan, Lieutenant in the 3rd Dragoons, who went to the province of Canada as aidede-camp to Gen. Simcoe, when Canada was "a dense and unpeopled wilderness," and who had received thirteen honourable wounds in his country's service. Lieut. McNab married Anne, youngest daughter of Captain W. Napier (one of the noble family of Napier), commissioner of the port of Quebec; and of his marriage the subject of our notice was the issue. At the age of fourteen young McNab volunteered to join the Grenadiers of the 8th Regiment in an attack on the Americans, when most of the company were killed. After the campaigns of 1814-15 he was made an ensign; but when the army was reduced in 1816, he went to Toronto to study law. In 1824 he was admitted to the bar, and resided at Hamilton, which, by his energy, became a flourishing city. In 1830 he was elected member for Wentworth County. It was in 1837-8 that Sir Allan earned his honourable reputation in England. The rebellion in Lower Canada, headed by Mr. Papineau, was favoured by some ultra-Radical politicians at home. Among the questions in dispute were the status of the Roman Catholics, the tenure of land, and the law of property. When Lord Gosford was appointed Governor, the Assembly refused to vote the supplies unless the alleged grievances were redressed. The famous Resolution of March, 1837, brought matters to a crisis. The malcontents in Canada also rose in rebellion. A Toronto proclamation (November 29th), signed by W. L. Mackenzie, invited the rebels to "a reign of perpetual peace, and to a government on the eternal heaven-born principles of the Lord Jesus Christ," the "villains who insulted the country, Baal's ministers, wolves in sheep's clothing," were to be "put down." Then, coming to business, it promised hundreds of acres to every volunteer; the thousands of pounds drawn by bad men were to be given back to the "people," &c. At this juncture, Allan McNab was Speaker of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada. Sir F. B. Head, then Governor, sent him a message informing him of the danger; and Colonel McNab marched from Toronto against Mackenzie's band, and drove them out of their position. See a notice of this individual, GENT. MAG., Nov., 1861, p. 566. Sir F. Head has recorded that, when Col. McNab heard at Hamilton that the Governor was in the Market-place surrounded by Mackenzie and his rebels, he mounted his horse, rode to the wharf, seized a steamer, and put a guard on board of her; then sent messengers to the Canadian farmers and yeomen for help. There was some humour in Sir Allan's surrounding a whole gang of rebels in the London district, forming the militia in a hollow square round them, and then reading aloud papers written by many of them, expressing their intention to pillage the bank, to rob the loyalists, to tie Allan McNab to a tree and fire a volley into him, with other similar sentiments. Colonel McNab commanded the militia on the Canadian side of the Niagara river against the American sympathisers, headed by Van Renselaer, with the connivance of President Van Buren's Go vernment. The "Caroline" had been sent to keep open the American communication with the rebels, and McNab resolved to set her on fire and to send her over the falls of Niagara. This he did, surprising her when her crew were ashore; and, in spite of all the threats of the United States Government, England would make no apology. Lord Palmerston justified Col. McNab's conduct in the House of Commons; while at the same time the United States CommissaryGeneral, Arcularius, wrote to McNab, and thanked him for his courtesy and forbearance, adding that if "the poor deluded beings encamped on Navy Island were slain, their blood was on their own head." For his conduct in helping to suppress the rebellion, the Colonel was knighted by patent (July 14, 1838), received the thanks of Lord Seaton, of two Lieutenant-Governors, and of the provincial Legislatures of Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. The militia of Upper Canada gave him a sword, and the United Service Club of London relaxed their rules to make him an honorary member. When Upper Canada and Lower Canada were united, Sir Allan McNab lost the emolument of his office as Speaker of the House of Assembly, and Lord Seaton begged Sir R. Peel's Government for compensation for him, but it was curtly refused, with the odd remark that Sir Allan had been so prominent a politician, that any mark of royal favour conferred on him in England might interfere with the success of Sir C. Bagot's government. So, as Sir F. Bond Head puts it, in Lower Canada the rebellion was headed by the Speaker (Papineau), and in Upper Canada the rebellion was crushed by the Speaker; the former was forgiven, and the latter forgotten. Sir Allan was since a leading member of several ministries, and was Prime Minister in 1856-7. His character as an able administrator and statesman during the last part of Lord Elgin's administration, and that of Sir Edmund Head, is well appreciated in England. He was honorary colonel in the English army, and an aide-decamp to the Queen. On the 5th of February, 1858, he was created a baronet. He contested Brighton in the Conservative interest against Mr. W. Coningham, at the general election of 1859, but was not successful. Last year he was wrecked and nearly lost his life on his voyage between Canada and England. Sir Allan McNab married, first, May 6, 1821, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant D. Brooke, and by her had issue a son, born in 1822, who died in 1824; and a daughter, Anne, who married in 1849 Mr. John Salisbury Davenport, a DeputyCommissary-General; second, Sept. 20, 1831, Mary, daughter of Mr. J. Stuart, Sheriff of Johnstown district, by whom he had two daughters,-Sophia, married Nov. 15th, 1855, to the Right Hon. Viscount Bury, M.P., Comptroller of the Household; and Mary Stuart, married Sept. 19th, 1861, to John George, son of Sir Dominic Daly, Governor of South Australia. As the late baronet leaves no male issue, the title is extinct. J. L. RICARDO, ESQ., M.P. Aug. 20. In Lowndes-square, aged 50, John Lewis Ricardo, Esq., M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent. The deceased was the son of Mr. Jacob Ricardo, the financier, and nephew of David Ricardo, the political economist. He was born in 1812. He entered Par. liament in 1811 as member for Stoke, which place he represented until his decease. He was one of the earliest advocates of free trade, in connection with Mr. C. P. Villiers, and he aided materially in carrying the repeal of the Corn Laws. He made the Navigation Laws his particular study, and in 1847 he moved for a committee on the subject, and warmly supported the repeal of the restrictions on shipping. He was the author of a well-known work on that subject, "The History and Anatomy of the Navigation Laws," and devoted much attention to the question of maritime rights in time of war. But he is more particularly to be noticed for his public services in connection with the electric telegraph, concerning which we borrow the following statement from "The Electrician :”-- "Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to whom is due the practical adaptation of electricity to the purposes of telegraphy, there can be no question that Mr. Ricardo it was who first suc ceeded in establishing the electric telegraph on a firm and successful footing in this country. As is invariably the case with all undertakings containing any element of scientific novelty, there were difficulties raised, both real and imaginary, and objections made, by the sceptical as well as by the timid, at the outset of the Electric Telegraph Company, enough to discourage any but the most undaunted, far-sighted, and energetic; such a man Mr. Ricardo undoubtedly proved himself to be, by the manner in which he grappled with and overcame all these impediments, and eventually established the Telegraph Company on a firm basis, as an important commercial undertaking of the utmost possible value to the country at large. "That rival companies have since been established, and vast improvements made in every department of telegraphy, does not, in our opinion, detract one iota from the credit of him to whose sagacity and perseverance is due the planting,' if we may so term it, of the parent Company in this country, since it is impossible to say for how long a period the general use of this invaluable invention might have been delayed if Mr. Ricardo had been less persevering or less determined in carrying out the enterprise in question. But he not only founded the Electric Telegraph Company, he watched over it, in his capacity of Chairman, with untiring care for upwards of ten years, seizing its resources, and of rendering it of upon every opportunity of developing greater benefit to the civilized world; and we believe we are safe in asserting that no public company ever received from its Chairman more constant and unwearied attention than was bestowed by Mr. Ricardo upon the affairs of the Electric and International Telegraph Company. As a commercial undertaking he raised it to considerable eminence; and such was the appreciation, by the tion of their affairs, and such the attachshareholders, of his talented administra ment and respect felt by the officers and employés of the Company, that, on his retirement from the chair, they presented to him the very valuable ad dition to his library of upwards of 1,000 volumes, the selection of which was, with great delicacy and discretion, left to himself. "Among the improvements introduced in the system of the Telegraph Company by him, may be mentioned the plan of franks, or franked message papers, by which much time and trouble were saved to the public; and also the employment of female clerks, an innovation of considerable importance in a social point of view. "Mr. Ricardo was connected with many other important and useful undertakings. He was Chairman of the North Staffordshire Railway, from its first construction to the time of his decease; he was also Chairman of the Norwegian Trunk Railway, for the construction of which, for the Norwegian Government, he had contracted jointly with Sir Morton Peto and Mr. Brassey. "That this opinion is shared by others is evident by the graceful tribute of respect which was paid to the memory of Mr. Ricardo on the day of his funeral, by the Electric and International, the British, and the London District Telegraph Companies, who on that occasion partially closed all their offices in the metropolis and throughout the kingdom, while at Southampton and other sea-port stations the Company's flag was hoisted halfmast high. |