study,
and elevated thought, and his pastoral intercourse and counsel
were too delightful ever to be forgotten by those who enjoyed
it. Sent to Europe for his health, by his congregation, Mr.
Dwight was received and followed with a degree of enthusiastic
and flattering attention which fully confirmed his mark as a
man, and showed how Nature's noblemen are recognized and
honored everywhere. He resumed his duties on his return, but
was soon obliged by illness to relinquish them, and, from that
time forward, he was never again well. His weakness took the
shape of a cutaneous disease of the most irritating and
incurable form, and though he made one or two attempts at
re-commencing his usefulness, it was sadly in vain. He resided
secludedly in New-York during the latter years of his life,
giving to books and scholarship what mind he could withdraw
from pain, and, even thus, ready always with kindness and
delightful earnestness, to give counsel or sympathy to those he
loved. Mr. Dwight was a martyr to that great wrong of our
country toward all clergymen--to express it by a common saying,
"the working a free horse to death"--and we have only to look
at the pale faces, the stooping chests, and the slender frames
of most of our clerical men, to see how mind, patience,
attention, needful leisure and more needful sleep, are cruelly
overdrawn upon, by the service expected of them. But for his
share of suffering by this exacting system, Mr. Dwight might
have been, for years to come, the ornament and pride to his
country which his unequalled combination of fine gifts
qualified him to be; and we should not mourn, as we now do,
over his life embittered while it lasted, and sent to the grave
in what might have been its meridian of usefulness and
ornament."

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COUNT BRANDENBURGH, the Prussian Prime Minister, died on the 6th
November at Berlin. He was a natural brother of the late King of
Prussia, being the illegitimate son of the present King's grandfather,
by the Countess Doenhoff Frederichstein, and was acknowledged, educated,
and admitted as such, by the Prussian Royal family, by whom he was
invariably treated as a friend and relative, although not with royal
honors. He was born on the 23d of January, 1792, and had nearly
completed his 59th ye