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Peatii op Dr. Ciialmers. - He died of apoplcxv quite sudáenly, and just uoon his return froni a visit io London. The Edinburgh Advertiser in a notice of his tleath, says : Dr. Clialniprs was not an old man, nor hnj he suffcred inuch, noiuiihstandingthe tear and war of a busy life, froni lhc iniirmities of age. IIo was in bis sixiyninlh or seventieth year, and had been in the ministry nbout forly-five years. - Towarda the beginning of the century f1802) he wns assistant in the parish of Cnvers, near Har wiek Aftersvards, lir ur-s presented to Kilmany in FHV, and lliis rurnl parish beeame the eradle of his fiiiine frirnp; fur it was whil.-t incumbent lhcre that lie wrote his celebrnted artic'f 1 Chrisiianity," in ihe Edinburgh Encyc lia, which was afterwards e.xpanded ut.) h ia Trcalisc on ihe Evidencs.- l'rom Kilmany he removed to Glasgow, vheri his eloquenre 63 a prencher, reachcd to the zeniih of its f.me. Tlie nnxt remove was to tle Chair of Moral Pliilosophy in t!ie University of St. Andrews', jn 1823 ; and in 1323 he was appointed to the Professorsliip of Divinity in the University of Edlnbufgh, which he contmued to occupy nntil the geccssion of 1843. In that memorable secession be took a leading part, and we Lelieve we are corrfect insaying that it derived no s noli poition of its influence from the weigbt and lustre of his name. Sliort time has hesurvived to witness its progress and eflects. If his living eloquence gave it vitality and energy, his loss mny well be regarded as one of its severest calamities. Teace be to his ashes ! Many, who, like ourselves, differed froni him in the religious controversies of the doy, will join his warmest admirers in oiTering their homage of respect and veneraiion to hh memory.