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Rh , his views underwent a change, and he repaired to Wolverton, for the purpose of learning the profession of an engineer. This occupation he followed until he came of age, and he drove a locomotive engine on the London and North-Western Railway for six months. It was his custom, after his day's work at Wolverton was done, to spend four or five hours in hard reading; and his first Greek exercises were written with a piece of chalk inside the fire-box of a locomotive engine. Resolving to become a clergyman of the Church of England, he entered as a student at King's College, Castletown, in his native island, and studied there for three years. Doubts, however, came over his mind respecting the truth of the doctrines in the Liturgy and Occasional Services and Catechism of the Church of England. These doubts ultimately produced in his mind the conviction that the baptismal doctrines of the Establishment were at variance with Holy Scripture, and he became a member of the Baptist denomination. He was appointed minister of Myrtle Street Chapel, Liverpool, in Jan., 1848, and soon became one of the recognised leaders of the Baptist body there and throughout the country. As a lecturer to the working classes he is so successful that he collects an audience of between 2,000 and 3,000 artisans on Sunday afternoons, and from 15,000 to 25,000 copies of his lectures are sold. He has lectured frequently on various topics in most of the large towns in Great Britain and Ireland, and in not a few in the United States and in the Dominion of Canada.  , born in the Inner Temple, London, Aug. 19, 1820, was educated at University College, London, studied for the bar at the Inner Temple; subsequently studied for the ministry at Highbury College; became minister of London Road Independent Chapel, Derby, in 1843; minister of Clayland's Independent Chapel, Clapham Road, London, in 1846. In 1870 he removed to a new church built by his congregation at Brixton. He is the author of "Studies of First Principles," "The Divine Life in Man," "The Soul's Exodus and Pilgrimage," "The Divine Treatment of Sin," "The Divine Mystery of Peace," "The Christian Policy of Life" (1869), "The Home Life in the Light of its Divine Idea," which has passed through five editions; "Household Sermons," "The Higher Life: its Reality, Experience, and Destiny," 1874; besides pamphlets and small publications on the passing topics of the day.  , figure painter, born in the north of England, Nov. 11, 1831. He commenced his art studies at the age of eighteen, at first at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and afterwards spent a year at the Edinburgh Royal Academy. Removing to America in 1853 he entered the schools of the National Academy of Design in New York, and in 1856 opened a studio in Brooklyn, where he remained until 1860, when he transferred his studio to New York City. He was made an Academician in 1863, and was one of the founders of the Water-Colour Society, of which for some years he has been Vice-President. His principal pictures are "Curling in Central Park," "The Longshoreman's Noon," "Tough Customers," "The Thrilling Moment," "The Passing Show," "The Dress Parade," "The Three (Scape) Graces," and "Left his Money on the Piano."  , F.S.A., born at Barton-upon-Humber, July 6, 1844, is a son of Mr. Robert Brown of that town. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and is known as a writer on archaic religion, mythology, and astronomy. His works are "Poseidôn: a Link 