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Derbyshire^ which he held till Sept., 1870, when he was nominated to the bishopric of Sierra Leone, in succession to Dr. Beckles. He was consecrated in St. Paul's Cathedral, Not. 30, 1870. Dr. Cheetham resigned his see in 1882, when he became vicar of Botherhain. He is the author of "Ministerial Fruit proportionate to Ministerial Faith;" and " Sermons.**

OHEEYER, aEOBGE Babbell, D.D.» born at Hallowell, Maine, April 17, 1807. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, at Andover Theological Seminary in 1830, and in 1832 was ordained minister of a congregational church at Salem, Ma^achusetts. In 1835 he published an allegory, entitled, " Deacon Giles's Distillery," for which he was sentenced to d month's im- prisonment for libel. After that he travelled for two or three years in Europe and the East. lii 1839 he became pastor of a Presbyterian church in New York, and engaged in several public discussions on " Hierarchical Despotism," and on •'Capital Punishment." In ISU be again came to Europe as corre- spondent of a religious newspaper, the New York Evangelist, of which he became, in 1845, the principal editor. In 1846 he accepted the pastorate of the Congregational Church of the Puritans, in New Tork, which he retained imtil 1867, when, on the removal of the Church to the upper part of the city, he relinquished his active work in it, and since has been only its associate or honorary pastor. He resides at Englewood, New Jersey. Among the writings of Dr. Cheever are: "Commonplace Books" of prose and poetry, 1828-29; "Studies in Poetry," 1830; the "Select Works of Archbishop Leighton," 1832; " Capital Punishment," 1843 ; 1844; " Wanderings of a Pilgrim," 1845-^46; "The Hill Difficulty," 1847 ; " Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, New England, in 1620," !
 * ' Lectures on Pilgrim's Progress,"

1848; "Windings of the River of the Water of Life," 1849 ; " Voices of Nature," 1852 ; " Powers of the World to Come," 1853 ; " Lectures on Cowper," 1856; "God against Slavery," 1857 ; '' A Voyage to the Celestial Country," I860; "Guilt of Slavery," 1860 ; " Voices of Nature with her Foster-Child, the Soul of Man," 1863 ; and " Faith, Doubt, and Evidence," 1881.

CHELMSFORD (Lobd), The Bight Hon. Fbedebick Augustus Thesigeb, G.C.B., is the eldest son of the first Lord Chelmsford, who was twice Lord Chancellor in the Government of the late Lord Derby, by his wife Anna Maria, youngest daughter of Mr. William Tinling, of Southampton. He was bom May 31, 1827, and educated at Eton. In 1844 he entered the Bifle Brigade. He was transferred in the following year to the Grenadier Guards, as ensign and lieutenant, and he attained, in the ordinary course of promotion, the rank of lieutenant and captain (1850). He became Major in 1855 ; Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1857 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 95th Foot, in 1858; Colonel in 1863; Major-General in 1877; and Lieu- tenant-General in 1882. He servtd in the Crimean campaign as aide- de-camp to Major-General Mark- ham, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol, and for his services he was promoted to a brevet majority. Having exchanged into the 95th regiment as second Lieu- tenant-Colonel, he served in the Indian Mutiny campaign, receiving for his services the brevet rank of Colonel. He succeeded Colonel Raines, C.B., in the command of the 95th regiment. As Deputy Adjutant-General in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868 he was present at the captiure of Magdala. For his services in this campaign he was nominated a Compcoiion of the Bath and one of her Majesty's aides-de-camp. He was Adjutant- General to the forces in India from