Thomas Carlyle

(tu liiiiuy, l'eb. 5th, at bis homo in tinción, Tilomas Carlyle, the liisormu and philoFopher passcd away from arth, at tlie ric oíd age of 8i years. Hi HH is known in cvery clirue and by every ongue where literal un1 lias gaincd a footlold. Itorn in comparativo poverty, in the taoUuh town of ticclefechan in 1795, he 'arly devcloped raie qoaUtiea ol' the head, and at t lie age of 18 JOên had graduated at the l'niveraily of Kdinburgh. He !¦ ii'-tli:it ely MHMWd teaching school, and 'el! into way ol' reasoning upon religión wliiih wtn not pleasing to bil father, who :i minister of tlie Kiik of Scntland. I i' cxpericncp in this line can best bc lewribed 1 y IiÍiiimH'. llis fatlier liad le tined hiui for thc uiinistry, and in detennniiiL1 wbetbei be woald folk it orat, ho ¦M New UmM l ini'i ptiD4 ¦ ¦ -i ¦ i i isi.ii. . i iii.it ion tlial l itIuviiI the doctrines of. my allifir'li klik ; anti il was ntfilful llmt I uliouM lowaettlatt. ml M l red "y aliamber mil H(til the elixir nil around me Hiere caiue i ti'ixigi.iiK i Iimiiii; ' iilmiitKSins from tin1 1 iy mu Mi ill'ptll ofnelllf ruin! pi'Klltloli DOObt, fear, iiniehi'f, mockery and woirin 'u Ibera, and i h re-.Hr, i un inemlnagony ol Rpirit. riius il ni tot weeks VVhwllier I Kte I know lot; wheiliei I ilr;nk I know mil ; liellnr I Klept I know nul. lint I knmv when I BMM mili :ik:IH it ws illl lile illreful pwmiwlon I )i;t I na tho IlliMTHlile OWBCTOi .1 Im .lii'Hl nrranciiiien! ciilleil n atonaob, SufBcc it le say lie did int " ¦ [' ininitry liut tunicd bis attention to litoraturc. lirt work tru a " Lile of Schiller," in 1824 ; nexi he trahulalod (oothe's " Wilhelm Mei.-tcr." In 1839 be wrote thc " Ilistory of thc Frcnch Hevdlution," wliich made hiin faiiniu.i. and then f'ollow ed "Héroes and llero Worsliip," thc "1ife and tiUltoll I of Oliver CdiiiwcII," "The Lili íil John Storling," and thc " Life of l'ieileiick the (reitt," bemdoa nuincrniis of tiet ion. The voicc of this man will be haard no more, but his thooghta will live a lonii as will myilintioB,