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Rh fellow-member of the Aborigines' Protection Society. James Cadbury, of Banbury, to state that to no one was he more indebted than to him. Not only were his moral culture, mental improvement, and personal health and comfort sedulously watched by this friend, during his residence at Banbury, but the advantageous position in which E. Warrulan was placed in Birmingham was obtained by him. When E. W. was taken ill J. Cadbury went to Birmingham to visit him there, and also frequently conferred with Dr. Hodgkin personally and by letter both before and during his illness.

We subjoin the following account of this young Australian, for which we are indebted to one of his Oxfordshire friends, who has been so kind as to collect and record a few particulars which will be read with interest by those who knew him. We would also beg those who as yet have not learnt to sympathize with the uncivilized, but regard them as savages devoted to destruction, to reflect how many of Edward's unhappy countrymen might have lived as amiable and useful men, or have died with Christian hope as he did, had they not been sacrificed to the vices and cruelty of the white man, or suffered to perish through his indifference.

"Edward Warrulan arrived in Banbury from London in 1847, and proceeded to Sibford school. He resided there till the 2d month, 1852, and then became an inmate of Thomas Dumbleton's family, of Banbury, to learn the saddlery and harness work. He left T. Dumbleton the 17th of 3d month, 1855, to improve himself, and settled in the large harness manufactory of J. Middlemore, Birmingham, and remained there until the beginning of the 10th month (October).

He was taken ill from exposure in a railway train the middle of 9th month, and his malady terminated fatally on the 23d of 10th month, 1855. By request of his friends of Covendon, near Coventry, he was buried in the Church-of-England Cemetery. Birmingham, on the 27th of the same. C. Mule, of Birmingham, kindly officiating.

Thus he spent about four years in an educational establishment, and about the same period in learning the harness manufacture. He discovered much interest in the occupation, and the object of moving to Birmingham was for improvement, prior to his expected return to his native country; bat, although conversant with this employ, he could not readily understand its relation with its money value.

During the whole intercourse of his short but varied residence in Oxfordshire, he maintained a character, very prepossessing from its native gentleness and ease; and though often subject to irritating circumstances, was scarcely ever known to repel them, except by mild expostulation, or very trite replies, which, in years, were mostly couched in Scripture language, singularly applicable and unanswerable.