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The RIGHT REV. BENJAMIN TREDWELL ONDERDONK, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of the Diocese of New York, died in New York City, on Tuesday, April 30, 1861, aged 70 years. He was born in New York City, July, 1791. In 1806, at the age of 16,

he entered Columbia College, where he graduated in 1810. In 1812, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Hobart, in New York City, and Priest by the same Prelate, in Newark, N. J. In 1814, while Deacon, he was elected Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, New York; at the Diocesan Convention, in October, 1830, he was elected Bishop of the Diocese of New York, and was consecrated in St. John's Chapel, Nov. 26, 1830, by the Rt. Rev. Bishops White, Brownell, and H. U. Onderdonk. In 1844, the Right Rev. Bishops Meade, Otey, and Elliott, presented him before the Court of Bishops for trial, on charges of "immorality and impurity;" and he was tried by an Ecclesiastical Court, in New York City, which remained in session from Dec. 10, 1844, until Jan. 3, 1845, when he was suspended "from the office of a Bishop in the Church of God, and from the functions of the Sacred Ministry." On the first scrutiny, eight Bishops voted for deposition, three for suspension, and six for admonition. On the third and last scrutiny, eight voted for deposition, and nine for suspension. At the Diocesan Convention of New York, in 1859, by a vote of 147 to 19 of the Clergy, and 75 to 46 of the Laity, a vote embracing all shades of ecclesiastical and doctrinal opinion, a Resolution was passed, requesting the House of Bishops to terminate the suspension of Bishop Onderdonk, and restore him, with certain restrictions, to the exercise of his Ministerial functions. The House of Bishops, by a vote which was never published, refused to grant the request. Since his suspension, Bishop Onderdonk has lived in great retirement, rarely leaving the house, except to attend upon the Daily Service of the Church. His last words were those of charity for those who had been most active in his degradation. He was buried from Trinity Church, New York, on Tuesday, May 7, at 3 o'clock, P. M. The Rt. Rev. Bishops POTTER, of New York, DELANCEY, of Western New York, ODENHEIMER, of New Jersey, and SOUTHGATE, of New York City, were present, and great numbers of the Clergy, some of them from distant Dioceses. The pall-bearers were as follows: Rev. Dr. Berrian, Rev. Dr. Creighton, Rev. Dr. Brown, Rev. Dr. Cutler, Rev. Dr. Price, Rev. Mr. Gallaudet, Rt. Rev. Bishop Southgate, Rev. Mr. Mallaby, Rev. Dr. Seabury, Rev. W. L. Johnson, Rev. J. J. Tucker, Rev. Mr. Draper. The opening Sentences were read by Bishop DELANCEY.

After the reading of the Lesson by Rev. Dr. HIGBEE, Rev. Dr. VINTON, Rector of Trinity Church, read the resolutions, which had been adopted by the Standing Committee of the Diocese. Dr. VINTON also read resolutions which had been adopted by members of the Diocese, Clergy and Laity, assembled at Trinity Church on Monday; also the resolutions of the Faculty of the Theological Seminary. Dr. VINTON also alluded to resolutions, that had been passed by the students of the Theological Seminary.

The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. SEABURY, who took for his text John v: 35. "He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoicc in his light."

Dr. SEABURY gave an account of the administration of the communion to Bishop ONDERDONK, just previous to his death. The whole tenor of the narrative was to show that (as Dr. VINTON had announced) the Bishop died "full of penitence for all the errors which he had committed, but still saying, 'With regard to those offences of which I have been accused, and for which I have been condemned, my conscience still acquits me as in the sight of God.'"

The REV. JOEL CLAPP, D. D., died at Claremont, N. H., Feb. 24, 1861, aged 68 years. He was born in Montgomery, in the northern part of Vermont, Sept. 4, 1793. His father, Capt. Joshua Clapp, was one of two brothers, both respectable officers, who served through the war of the revolution, and who resembled each other so perfectly that they could be distinguished only by their dress. He removed from Worcester Co., Mass., to Vermont and settled in Montgomery; and for two years his family was the only one in town. The subject of this sketch was the first >person born in that town. He entered the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1810; but the sudden death of his father in the fall of 1811, compelled him to leave the University and discontinue his Academical studies. After a few years

: spent in the settlement of his father's estate, he turned his attention to the study of law, and was admitted to its practice; but, not finding the profession congenial to his tastes, he relinquished the practice and entered upon a course of Theological study. In 1818, Oct. 2d, he was ordained a Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, at Greenfield, Mass., by the Rt. Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, to whose jurisdiction the Diocese of Vermont then belonged. He was ordained as Priest, at Windsor, also by Bishop Griswold, Sept. 17, 1819. Soon after his ordination, he organized a Parish in his native town: and the same year he organized another in Berkshire and another in Shelburne. He was instituted Rector of Trinity Church, Shelburne, Oct. 27, 1819. The Convention of 1820 was held in Shelburne; and his name appears in the Journal, as Assistant Secretary, and Rector of Trinity Church. The energy with which he devoted himself to his ministry, during the eight years of his residence in Shelburne, may be inferred from the amount of Missionary service which he performed. During that whole period he had the Pastoral charge of the Churches already named, together with that of the Church at Bethel, to which, in 1826, he added the care of the Church in Woodstock. The extremes of this missionary field were 150 miles apart; and to reach one of them he was obliged to cross the Green Mountain range. In 1828, he resigned his charge in Shelburne and removed to Bethel, officiating alternately between that Parish and Woodstock. In 1832, he accepted a call to Gardiner, Maine, where he remained eight years; and during that period he was a delegate from that Diocese to the General Convention. In 1840 he resumed the Rectorship of the church in Woodstock; and, on the death of the Rev. Mr. Putman, in 1848, he accepted a call to Bellows Falls. After a faithful -service of ten years in that Parish, he, in 1858, removed to the Diocese of New York, and was instituted Rector of St. Philips, Philipstown, July 14, 1858. In Jan. 1860, he accepted the post of Chaplain and Superintendent of the Home for the Aged and Orphans, at Brooklyn. His health proved unequal to its duties; and he withdrew a few months since to the Rectorship of the Parishes of Montgomery and Berkshire, in Vermont, closing his work just where it was begun, forty-two years before. It should be added to the particulars already stated, that he represented the Diocese in seven sessions of the General Convention, was 13 years Secretary of the Diocesan Convention, 7 years President of the Standing Committee, and in 1848 was appointed, by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts, one of the Board of Agents for the management of its lands in Vermont, and for eight years Secretary of the Board.

It is impossible in our brief limits to express our estimate of Dr. Clapp's character. His most striking excellencies were humility, modesty and kindness; sympathy with sorrow and suffering; and forbearance in judgment. He was also remarkable for an entire surrender of heart and purpose to truth and simplicity. So averse,

indeed, was he to all duplicity, evasion or art, that he was sometimes thought to have been too out-spoken, and uncompromising, against all chicanery and artfuj manoeuvering. The character of Dr. Clapp's mind was rather solid, than brilliant. He excelled more in the wise and judicious application of common knowledge to the every day business of ordinary life, than in rare speculations and striking antithesis; more in wise adaptation of common appliances than in the invention of rare and complicated processes, either of thought or action. Hence he was rather a useful than a showy preacher; more distinguished for moral and practical instruction and exhortation, than for metaphysical speculations or philosophical subtleties. With him religion was rather a Faith to be received, a life to lead, than a system of theological opinions.

In his social relations, public and private, he will be long remembered as a faithful minister and judicious counselor; a true friend and affectionate companion. We question if an instance can be found of more devoted affection, among all classes, for one so widely and extensively known.

Imperfect as is our record, enough has been said to show that the memory of Dr. Clapp should be cherished by the Church with feelings of sincere gratitude and high respect.

Died at Morris, Otsego Co., N. Y., Feb. 18, 1861, the REV. RUSSELL WHEELER, aged 77 years. He was born at Brookfield, Conn.; graduated at Williamstown College, Mass., in 1803; was ordained Deacon, by Bishop Jarvis, in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Middletown, Conn., June 6, 1805; and Priest, by the same Bishop, in Christ Church, Watertown, June 4, 1807. His early Ministry was exercised in Danbury and Reading, Conn. He was Rector of Christ Church, Watertown, Conn., when he removed to Western New York, where he was very active and successful in extending and building up the Church. He labored in Unadilla, New Berlin, Lockport, and in other places: where his loyalty to the Church, his popular address, his fine social qualities, and his Christian character made him one of the most useful pioneers of the Church that the Church has known.

The REV. ELI WHEELER died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 14, 1861, aged 72 years. The REV. ISAAC F. Cox, Assistant Minister of St. Matthew's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., died April 2, 1861, aged 49 years. He was ordained Deacon, under the new Canon, and his history is one of the strongest vindications of the necessity of such a provision. A full sketch of his useful life we have failed thus far to obtain.

HEATHENISM IN NEW ENGLAND.

A late (Boston) "Congregational" (Newspaper) has the following.-"In a report made to the General Association of Massachusetts, June 24, 1858, by a committee, of which Rev. Dr. Copp, of Chelsea, was the chairman, it was stated, that according to statistical information recently gathered, embracing Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, there were not far from two millions of people outside of our churches every Sabbath, and thirteen hundred thousand had no more to do with the Sanctuary of God than the Heathen. These facts were so startling, that many of our clergymen objected to their publication, lest injury should be done."