In the midst of earthly prosperity and happiness and congenial labour, I may say of him as he said of Burke, he was bowed to the earth by a stroke of affliction which left his home desolate and blighted his earthly hopes. The son whom he so tenderly loved (a fellow-worker in the same profession), and to whom he looked to be the bearer of the title he had won, and the inheritor of what he had with toil and effort secured, was cut off after a very brief illness, and after that my father was never the same. Threescore years and ten had passed, and after that truly it was but labour and sorrow. As on a lofty summit on which the purest beams have shone, the sun sets and clouds settle down, so it was with him; but the clouds were not dark or sullen ones-only veiling thinly the former grandeur. At eventime there was light.' To those who gazed on that grand face as it slept in death came not the vision of the helplessness of age, but the vigour of manhood, the lofty brow, the gentle smile, the returning likeness to what he had been in his days of happiness. Though the sword had been too sharp for the scabbard, though affliction and trials had crushed the heart, though the once vigorous intellect had been darkened, thank God there was no blight, no darkness that could not be dispelled. The great mind and genius bowed beneath the weight of circumstances, but did not break, yielding itself in patience to the will of its Creator. My father had faithfully worked whilst the day was his; the shadows fell; he waited, and they also serve who only stand and wait.

As he lived so he died, absorbed in one great conclusion, which influenced his every action, of the vanity of human wishes, save as they drew their inspiration from on high.

In his own words (writes his daughter) I sum up what he felt to be the highest and best result of a life which had been honoured alike by a grateful country and University. I have served,' he said-and it will be remembered that he said the same at the meeting of the Church Missionary Society when he advocated the admission of the Bible into the schools of India-'I have served a very gracious Master. He has brought me to great honour and He has comforted me on every side. I have reached the highest point to which my ambition could have aspired-far beyond what I ever contemplated. I have had the calm of leisure and reflection. I have had my day of science, I still relish the refreshment of literature, but let me bear the humble testimony that after all there is only one thing worth living for, and that is to love and serve the Lord Jesus.'

The remains were carried over to Ireland, and the funeral took place on the following Friday. The first portion of the service was held at Trinity College Chapel, by the Rev. Dr. Salmon, Regius Professor of Divinity, where the coffin lay the night, the College bell tolling the while, before being conveyed to the family vault in Mount Jerome Cemetery. The ceremony was attended, in addition to the members of the family, by the Judges, the officials of Trinity College, the leading members of the clergy, a deputation from the College Historical Society, and the representatives from the different religious societies. Upon the coffin was this simple inscription :

RIGHT HON. SIR JOSEPH NAPIER, BART.

BORN

26 DECEMBER, 1804,

DIED

9 DECEMBER, 1882.

Against the mortuary chapel of the cemetery is

fixed this tablet:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY

OF

THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOSEPH NAPIER, BART.

EX-LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND,

BORN 26 DECEMBER, 1804. DIED 9 DECEMBER, 1882.

AN EARNEST AND HUMBLE CHRISTIAN,

HE CONSECRATED

TO THE MASTER'S SERVICE THE RARE ABILITIES HE POSSESSED,
AND AFTER A LIFE SPENT IN ADVANCING THE INTERESTS OF

JUSTICE, LEARNING, AND RELIGION,

HE WAS SUMMONED TO THE NEARER AND HOLIER

SERVICE OF THE CHURCH ABOVE,

HAVING WON THE VICTORY THROUGH HIS LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST.

At evening time it shall be light.-Zech. xiv. 7.

SURSUM CORDA.

Another tablet hangs against the wall of St. Patrick's Cathedral. The inscription was written by the Rev. Dr. Jellett, the present Provost of Trinity College, whilst the text under it was suggested by the Rev. H. Webb-Peploe. The baronetcy which Sir Joseph Napier so deservedly won is not extinct. Two sons and three daughters were the issue of his marriage. The death of the elder son, who was not married, we have already related. The second son,

late a captain in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died two years after his father, leaving issue the present baronet. Of the three daughters, the eldest married the Rev. Paulus Singer, a son of the Bishop of Meath; the second Colonel Macgregor, a son of General Sir Duncan Macgregor; whilst the youngest, who at one time meditated writing this biography, married in 1868 Mr. Gardiner, of the Bengal Civil Service, son of the Rev. Mr. Gardiner of St. Leonard's.