The "learned Blacksmith" Dead

Thedoath of Eühu Burritt, the"loarned blaeksniith," ut his home in New Britain, 0 jna ., s mn utiou l. Thisem inent soholar and roformef was bom in the town where ha dieJ, December 8 1811, and was, therefore, in hisü8th year. The son of a shoeuiaker, ha received a oomnion school ednoation and, at the ago of 16, was apprenticed to a Wokstuith. His first impotus to philologioal studies was his deairo to road tho acriptures in the origina!, and he soon ruastered gev eral languages. In ordor to have the adyantagos of the library of the autiquarian society there, Burritt removed to Woroester, JIis3. , whoro, keopinjj up hia studios of tha ancisnt and modern languages while plying his trade, he become known as the " loarned blacksmith." He edited a paper forawhilo, and delivered lectures on temperance and sluvery. In 1846 he wont to Englanl and forined the "League of Universal Brotherhood,' whose object was to bolisii war throughMït tha world - au object truly laudable but not entirely successful. Ha resided 25 years in Eagland, part of the time as United States Consul at Birmingham. lio wrota half a dozen or uioro bouks and gavo a great raany leotures. As au illustration of what self-deterniination in apite of opposing obstaoles can aceomplish, Blihu Barritt'a lifo was a marvel.