1 When ■ first penning the closing lines of this paragraph, the writer supposed that there was still occasion in alluding to the designation of the island, to use the phrase, its fui-mer mum;. Since then we have welcomed the intelligence that since the estate has jias-sed into the hands of Mr. C. Oliver Iselin, the old familiar name, "Hunter's Island," whereby our sires and grandsires knew the place, has been restored and chiselleil upon the granite pillars of the causeway,-- a work of good taste in which we all have a common interest.

2Thacher'B "Medical Biography," Art. Bayley.

PELHAM.

eniotivo nature, under the stress of sorrow, to loving appeals during her stay ill Italy, wliore, in tlie your 1SI>4, her lionored liusbami, \\'illi!iiii Seton, Ksq., ilieil after a liugining illness, and whoro lior depressed spirit found relief in tho.niinistratiousof the lionian (^atholic Church, as well as in the hospitable home of the noblo soulcd Felichi. The truth is, however, that the trend of her steps toward the Roman Catholic Church, strengthened by her ivstlietic tjistes, was noticed in her earlier days before she had left her native lami ; and after her return from Italy to New York sho was still a coiiiiuunieaiit of Trinity Church, for weeks, as she said, 'in an agony of suspense,' engaged in discussions, oral and written, with the liev. John Henry Ilobart, then rector of Trinity, afterward Bishop of the Pioceso of New York, and Archbishop Carroll, of Baltimore, iu regard to the main principles of Protestantism. At that earlier perioil, her cousin, Ann Bayley, of Pelham, only eight years younger than hereelf, was living in the environment of the same religious atmosphi're, keenly sympathetic, constiiiitly interchanging sentiments as well as visits.