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Standing Committee-The Rev. W. W. Lord, Rev. Henry Sansom, Rev. W. C. Crane, Mr. George S. Yerger, Mr. W. C. Smedes.

Trustees of the Episcopal Fund and Church Property-Mr. George S. Yerger, Mr. James Roach, Mr. William C. Smedes.

Deputies to the General Convention-Rev. W. W. Lord, Rev. Wm. C. Crane, Rev. B. M. Miller, Rev. Henry Sansom, Mr. George S. Yerger, Mr. William C. Smedes, Mr. James S. Johnston, Mr. Richard Evans.

Trustees of the General Theological Seminary-Rev. W. W. Lord, Rev. James A. Fox, Mr. George S. Yerger.

Ecclesiastical Court-The Rev. B. M. Miller, Rev. James A. Fox, Rev. Thomas D. Ozanne, Rev. H. Sansom, Rev. W. W. Lord.

Secretary and Treasurer of the Convention-Mr. Giles M. Hillyer, Natchez Treasurer of the Diocese―Mr. James Roach, Vicksburg.

The next Annual Convention will meet at Vicksburg on the 4th Thursday in April, 1860.

Kentucky. The thirty-first Convention of this Diocese was held in Christ Church, Louisville, commencing on Wednesday morning, 25th of May, and closing on Friday afternoon,

There was very little business of general interest transacted. The session was a most harmonious and pleasant one, and was attended by a larger number of delegates, both clerical and lay, than ever before met in Convention in the Diocese.

The opening sermon was by Rev. P. H. Jeffries, of New-Port.

The same Standing Committee was elected for another year, consisting of Rev. Messrs. Craik, Whittle, and Bushnell, and Messrs. W. F. Bullock and W. F. Pettet. The Delegates elected to the General Convention, were Messrs. Craik, McMurdy, Whittle, and Morrison, of the Clergy; and Messrs. Bullock, Stevensen, Churchill, and Perrin, of the Laity.

Trustees of the General Theological Seminary-Rev. Messrs. McMurdy, Norton, and Whittle.

Ecclesiastical Court--Rev. Messrs. Norton, Merrick, Page, Maury, and Pres

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The Convention adjourned to meet in Henderson on the last Wednesday in May, 1860.-South. Churchman, (abr.)

Alabama.-The Annual Convention met in St. Luke's, Cahaba, Thursday, May 5th, 1859. The following was the result of the Diocesan elections:

Standing Committee-The Rev. J. M. Mitchell, of Montgomery, President; Rev. George F. Cushman, of Cahaba, Secretary; the Rev. J. H. Ticknor, and Messrs. A. R. Bell, M. J. Conley, and S. G. Jones.

Trustees of the University of the South-The Rev. Henry C. Lay, D.D., C. T. Pollard, and Leroy H. Anderson, A. R. Bell, Esq., of Montgomery, Treasurer for Alabama,

Secretary and Treasurer of the Convention-Henry A. Tayloe, Esq., Macon, Marengo county.

Deputies to General Convention—CLERICAL-The Rev. Henry C. Lay, D.D., Rev. J. M. Banister, Rev. F. R. Hanson, Rev. J. A. Massey. LAY-Henry A. Tayloe, A. W. Ellerbe, Robert S. Bunker, and C. T. Pollard.

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Louisiana.-The Annual Convention was held in New-Orleans, commencing on Thursday, May 5th. The following is the result of the Diocesan elections: The Rev. Dr. Leacock, and the Rev. Messrs. Hedges and Trader, and Messrs. Grimshaw, Dix, and Guion, were elected the Standing Committee for the 1859-60. Rev. Messrs. Philips and Stickney, and Messrs. Guion and Chambers, were chosen Trustees of the General Theological Seminary. Rev. Drs. Leacock, Lewis, and Goodrich, Rev. Messrs. Trader and Hedges, Hon. Henry Johnson, and Messrs. Lamphier, Guion, Lobdell, Grimshaw, and McConnell, were elected Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Association; and the following were chosen to represent the Diocese in the Triennial Convention to be held in October, at Kichmond, Va.: Rev. Dr. Leacock, Rev. Messrs. Hedges, Trader, and Guion, clerical; and Dr. Mercer, and Messrs. Guion, Lobdell, and Cleveland, lay deputies.

In the course of his annual address, Bishop Polk spoke very favorably of the progress made toward establishing the proposed University of the South, toward which between two hundred and fifty and three hundred thousand dollars have already been raised.-Church Journal.

Iowa.-The Sixth Annual Convention assembled on Wednesday, May 25th, at 8 o'clock, in Trinity Church, Davenport. The Rev. H. W. Barris was elected Secretary. After some business relating more particularly to the Diocese, the Convention proceeded to the election of a Standing Committee.

The Rev. Mr. Ufford declined a reëlection, as also did the Rev. Mr. Batchelder, Hon. E. Cook, and Hon. George Greene.

The Nominating Committee appointed by the Bishop, consisting of the Rev. Messrs. Ufford and Batchelder, and Hon. E. Cook, reported the names of the Rev. Messrs. Starr, Louderback, and Powers, and Messrs. Henry Morehouse and Van Tuyl.

The Rev. Messrs. Batchelder, Ufford, Peet, and Brooks, and Messrs. N. B. Baker, B. B. Richards, George Greene, and McAllister, were appointed delegates to the General Convention.

The Committee on Trustees of the General Theological Seminary, etc., reported that Iowa was entitled to four, and nominated the Rev. Messrs. Peet, Starr, and Barris, and the Hon. George Greene. On motion of Hon. E. Cook, it was resolved that these gentlemen be named to the General Convention as Trustees on the part of this Diocese, for the General Theological Seminary. B. B. Richards, Esq., was reëlected Treasurer.

The Convention adjourned on Thursday, the 26th.- Western Churchman, (abr.) Texas.-The Annual Convention met in Trinity Church, Galveston, Thursday, May 5th, 1859. A correspondent of the Church Journal says:

There was a full attendance of the clergy, and a strong lay delegation present, nine parishes being represented, a majority of them by several delegates. The officers of the Convention for the year just commenced, are as follows:

Standing Committee-The Rev. Messrs. Eaton, Gillette, and Dalzell, and Messrs. W. J. Hutchins and O. Farish.

Treasurer-S. M. Swenson, of Austin.
Secretary-The Rev. Lucius H. Jones.

Delegates to General Convention--The Rev. Messrs. Eaton, Fontaine, Gillette, and Dalzell, and Messrs. Gray, Nicols, Sartwell, and Dr. Nicholson.

Trustees to the University of the South-The Rev. Mr. Eaton, and Messrs. Raymond and Nicholson.

The Rev. Alexander Gregg, of Cheraw, South-Carolina, was nominated Bishop on the second ballot of the clergy, and was then unanimously confirmed by the laity.

California.-The Annual Convention met at Marysville, California, on Wednesday, May 4th. Eight delegates were chosen to the General Convention, to be held in Richmond, Va., on the fifth of next October, namely: From the clergy, Revs. William H. Hill, S. C. Thrall, F. C. Ewer, and F. M. McAllister; and from the laity, Messrs. J. W. Winans, N. H. Davis, C. O. Gerberding, and Edward Stanley.

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DIED, at his residence in the city of Baltimore, on Good Friday, April 22d, the Rev. HENRY VAN DYKE JOHNS, D.D., rector of Emanuel Church. We copy from a secular paper (the Baltimore American) the following condensed sketch of the life and labors of this earnest workman of God:

He was born in the town of New-Castle, Delaware, in the year 1803, and after passing through a thorough collegiate course, and graduating with the highest honors, commenced a regular theological course of studies, preparatory to the work of the ministry, and was regularly ordained thereunto by the Episcopate of the diocese of his native State. Not many years elapsed ere he was called to the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, of the city of Cincinnati, and discharged the laborious and responsible duties of that field of usefulness until the month of September, 1843, when the vestry of Christ Church, Baltimore, invited him to become their pastor; an office whose duties for many years had been discharged by his brother, now Associate-Bishop of Virginia. Accepting the call, he entered upon his duties in the following month, and continued there until the year 1854, when Emanuel Church was erected by a portion of the congregation of Christ Church, who had removed to the north-western section of the city.

When the new congregation was first formed, and the newly-elected rector had preached his first sermon in the edifice, and administered the Holy Communion, it was ascertained by the vestry that the number of communicants was two hundred and forty-three. In less than five years they had increased to more than five hundred. Entering upon the duties of his high calling in this city, the departed rector first turned his attention to the mission work, and soon afterwards Cranmer Chapel was erected. It is a neat little building, situated in Mulligan street, near

Caroline, where divine services have been conducted regularly up to the present day, doubtless to the spiritual enlightenment of many a disciple of the Master, whom the departed rector so zealously and uniformly imitated in his work of an Evangelist.

Cranmer Chapel, however, is not the only evidence of his love for the promulgation of the great principles of revealed religion in the midst of the humble and poorer classes of the people. Not long since, another chapel was erected in the north-western section of the city, and a flourishing Sunday-school instituted, together with the regular preaching of the word.

For more than fifteen years the deceased was President of the Maryland Tract Society, and invariably manifested a deep interest for the success of the enterprise, whilst the Bible cause, colonization interests, Sabbath-schools, and other branches of ministerial effort, all uniformly received his warm and valued support.

Died, at his residence in the city of New-York, on Thursday, April 14th, 1859, the Rev. Dr. BIRD WILSON, D.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Systematic Divinity in the General Theological Seminary, of New-York. At the time of his death, Dr. Wilson was in the 83d year of his age, having filled the chair of Systematic Divinity in the Seminary for more than thirty years. The Episcopal Recorder thus speaks of the position and character of this venerable man:

Dr. Wilson was a Low Churchman and an Arminian, after Bishop White's pattern, as lately defined by Bishop Onderdonk. In other words, he held a Low Churchmanship not like that of Cecil and Newton, but like that of Burnett and Tillotson; and an Arminianism which receded as much from Arminius as did Arminius from Augustin. Like Bishop White, also, Dr. Wilson was a gentleman of high tone and bearing, and a consistent Christian. His latter days were clouded by disease and affliction. The day he died, witnessed the dismissal of an aged and weary servant from earth. It witnessed, also, we can not but believe, the reception of a crowned and glorified saint in heaven.

Died, at Riverside, near Burlington, on Wednesday, April 27th, the Right Rev. GEORGE W. DOANE, Bishop of the Diocese of New-Jersey. Bishop Doane was born in Trenton, N. J., May 27th, 1799. He graduated at Union College, Geneva, in the State of New-York, in 1818. He commenced the study of law in the city of New-York, but shortly after abandoned it for the Church. In 1821 he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Hobart, and officiated as assistant minister four years in Trinity Church, New-York. For four years subsequent he was Professor of Belles Lettres and Rhetoric in the New Washington, now Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. In 1828 he became assistant-minister of Trinity Church, Boston, and in 1830 rector. In 1829 he was married to Eliza Greene Perkins, of Boston. In 1832 he was consecrated Bishop of New-Jersey, by Bishop White, being the twenty-ninth Bishop in order of consecration. The year after, he became Rector of St. Mary's Church, at Burlington. In addition to the more immediate duties of his Diocese, he devoted himself to the cause of education in connection with two institutions, known as St. Mary's Hall and Burlington College, the former of which is a female seminary.

Died, in the city of Philadelphia, March, 1859, the Rev. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, aged 65 years. The deceased was for some years Moral Instructor in the Philadelphia County Prison, and for the last two years was assistant to Rev. Mr. Goddard, then laboring in Philadelphia.

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