imagination and energetic mind soon attracted notice. His taste for literature was strong, but he had to yield to that necessity which had directed his course towards the sterner and somewhat thorny practice of the law. He left testimonials of his literary talent in the form of pleasing poetical essays, and of two short works in prose. His "Révélations du Crime" might have laid him open to the reproach of having attempted an imitation of the "Mysteries of Paris," were it not well known that it was written long before that by Eugéne Sue, and that the fearful descriptions it gives, unfortunately are realities. His other production is a treatise on stenography, written at the time he was engaged reporting parliamentary debates. To him, and to Mr. Aubin, are due perhaps the only able reports extant of the speeches delivered in the Lower Canada House of Assembly, during its three or four last sessions. Mr. Angers was, together with Mr. Loranger, entrusted by the government with the defence of the censitaires before the Seigniorial Court. In the fulfilment of this duty he showed much learning, and sound and eloquent argumentation. As one of the editors of the periodical in which are published the Lower Canada law reports, he likewise contributed highly to the fund of our jurisprudence. His health, through over-exertion, had become impaired, and great efforts were necessary to enable him, for some years, to attend to the duties of his profession. His death caused universal regret, although, under the circumstances, the sad event could not but have been anticipated.

M. THEOPHILE HAMEL.

M. THEOPHILE HAMEL is well known as a Canadian artist of great eminence. Indeed, with the exception of Falardeau, Kane, Plamondon, or Thiecklé, we can hardly boast of having produced any artists who have distinguished themselves as painters.

M. Hamel is a native of Quebec, "that ancient and time honored city," which enjoys the reputation of having given birth to the majority of our "celebrities." But he has studied in the Italian schools, and although still young (about 35), he has produced one of the largest and best series of portraits in oil painting on this continent. We allude to our "National portrait gallery,' composed of all the speakers of both houses of parliament before and since the union, and also a large number of our governors.

These have been greatly and most justly admired, not only for their excellent finish, but for their striking likeness to the individuals pourtrayed.

M. Hamel has been most industrious and laborious throughout his career, and singularly fortunate in his pictures, so much so indeed, that the series of portraits, without including many other works of art which he has executed in a masterly manuer, will hand down his name to posterity in Canada with the highest commendation.

JOSEPH MORRIN, Esq., M.D.

DR. MORRIN was a native of Dumfriesshire in Scotland, but was brought by his parents to Canada at an early age. He received his school education under the late eminent Dr. Wilkie. His medical education, begun in Quebec, was completed in Edinburgh and London. When scarcely of age, he commenced to practise in Quebec, and gradually rose to the highest eminence in his profession, in some departments of which, he was probably unequalled by any of his confrères in the province, and in all, gave proof of a sagacious understanding. He was indefatigable in his attention to the duties of his profession. Peculiarly kind and soothing at the sick bed of his patients, he never failed to gain their confidence in his assiduity and skill. As a tribute to his professional eminence, he was elected the first president of the medical board of the lower province. He shared with Drs. Douglas and Fremont the honor of establishing the asylum at Beauport, and conducting it on principles universally admitted to be beneficial to the patients, and economical to the public. Latterly, his long experience had rendered his opinion especially valuable, and he was called in, in every case of difficulty and importance. His retirement from practice, some years ago, was felt like that of his distinguished confrère and friend, Dr. James Douglas, to be a public loss.

With all this constant and unwearied attention to the duties of his profession, Dr. Morrin was an active and efficient member of general society. He took an interest in all public matters. He was to be seen in every important meeting of the citizens, secular or religious. He was a magistrate and a city councillor, and, more than is usual, earnest and assiduous in the discharge of the duties of either office. He twice presided over the city of Quebec, as mayor, to the universal satisfaction of his constituents; and he was

employed by the corporation to plead with the Imperial Government in London, the claims of Quebec to be the capital of the province.

A short time previous to his death (which occurred on the 29th of August, 1861,) he made a munificent donation for the erection of a Protestant college in Quebec, under the charge of the religious body to which he had always belonged, and we can only express our desire and hope, that Morrin college may prove a worthy monument to his memory, and be, as he intended it, of general use to successive generations of the citizens of Quebec.

J. S. HOGAN, Esq., M.P.P.

JOHN SHERIDAN HOGAN was born about the year 1815, in the neighborhood of Dublin, where his father held a small landed estate, the refuge of a family ruined by that spirit of useless extravagance and inordinate hospitality so unhappily general among the sons of Erin. At a very early age, probably about eleven or twelve, young Hogan proceeded to Canada, under the guardianship of an uncle, who resided at Toronto. The home thus provided for him, being uncongenial to his taste, he made up his mind to work out, single handed, his way through the world; and accordingly, in the grey dawn of the morning, when others slept, he, moneyless and friendless, sallied forth with nothing but a small bundle which contained all his worldly possessions, to carve out a career for himself, armed only with that energy which rejoices at obstacles, and with that perseverence which succumbs not to disappointment. Ere long, he obtained employment in a printing office, we believe the Canadian Wesleyan, of Hamilton, as a newsboy, and subsequently, on account of his good behavior and exemplary conduct, became foreman, and was subsequently placed on the staff of writers. This was a rapid rise for one whose prospects, a few years before, had been so dim and so uncertain, yet he steadily continued to advance, until he entered the office of Sir A. N. MacNab, for the study of the law. He was also generously allowed a salary by that gentleman to support himself until he should have finally passed the bar, which, unfortunately, he never did. When Mr. Allan Macdonell became sheriff of the Gore district, he employed Mr. Hogan as his clerk and bookkeeper; and in 1840 or '41, he again gave himself to the study of the law, in the office of Mr. Tiffany, of Hamilton. It was also at this time that he made his

first essay as a writer; his attention having been called to the aspect of political affairs in Canada, he contributed some able articles on the subject to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, which attracted considerable attention at the time, and, indeed, established Mr. Hogan's reputation as one of the literati of Canada. Shortly afterwards happened that eventful episode in his career, his arrest at Lockport, in the United States, for being concerned in the burning of the steamer Caroline; but he was subsequently discharged and his claim for indemnity ignored by the Imperial Government. In 1856, he was awarded the first prize by the Paris Exhibition Committee, for his justly celebrated "Essay on Canada," which was printed by order of the government, a work which may probably bring down his name to posterity. He at the same time formed a business connection with the proprietors of the Toronto Colonist, and became the editor-in.chief of that journal, a post which he filled to much advantage, his articles being generally admired by the public. As to the manner in which his connection with that journal ceased, on its turning its political principles, there is little occasion for comment on our part.

At the general election of 1857, he was elected to represent the county of Grey in Parliament; and at once took a determined stand in the house as a member of the reform party, and continued as such until the unfortunate period of his death, in December 1859, when his presence was missed by his friends and acquaintances in Toronto from amongst them. For eighteen months his disappearance remained shrouded in a most profound mystery, everything that could possibly be done to ascertain his whereabouts or his fate was tried, both by the government and his friends, but without success, until the month of March or April 1861, when information was received of a murder-a foul, a wicked murder of which he had been made the victim, performed at night when Mr. Hogan was proceeding on his way to visit a friend in the eastern environs of Toronto. His body was found in the river Don, (which runs into the bay of Toronto), and was recognized-the murderers were arrested and tried, but proving an alibi, were acquitted. Thus went unrequited the perpetrators of a deed which carried off one of the noblest minds which the country possessed, and who, if he had not been thus prematurely cut off, might have attained some distinction in his adopted country.

His friends and colleagues in the house subscribed a handsome sum in 1861, to erect a fitting monument over his remains.

MR. EBENEZER CLEMO.

A NATIVE of London, England, who came to Canada in 1858. He was, although young, a person of great genius and ability. On his arrival in this country, he was reduced to such necessity that he applied to Mr. Lovell for employment as a message boy; but Mr. Lovell, knowing his acquirements, engaged him to write a couple of books on Canadian life. Hence "Simon Seek" and "The Canadian Homes" which appeared in the same year, works not of the highest standard of literature certainly, but evincing much talent and giving a good insight into Canadian character and life. He was the inventor and discoverer of making paper pulp out of straw; and was engaged erecting machinery for the manufacture of such paper, at Morristown, New Jersey, where he died in 1860, at the early age of thirty years, deservedly regretted by all.

WILLIAM EVANS, Esq.

A CELEBRATED Lower Canadian agriculturalist, who died in1857. Speaking of him at the period of his demise, the Montreal Gazette said:" It has been our fortune to meet few worthier or more patriotic men than he, few more diligent in the promotion to the uttermost of his ability, of the prosperity of this his adopted country. Enthusiastically devoted to agricultural pursuits, it has been his endeavor for many years past to raise the standard of agriculture in Lower Canada from the position to which it had sunk, to teach and to lead the way in a system by which the wornout farms of the long settled districts might recover their fertility, and farming in the eastern province be made to rival in profitableness that of the west. Nor have his efforts been altogether in vain, we hope. He has spent over two score years, we believe, as an agriculturist in Canada. Long ago, he furnished agricultural contributions to the columns of this journal. Afterwards he became secretary of the Lower Canada Agricultural Society, and editor of the Agricultural Journal, published under the auspices of that society. Lately, having retired from the direction of that