Mr. Maurice's death is felt deeply far beyond the circle
usually affected by the loss of even the most earnest and eloquent clergy- men. The Co-operative Congress at Bolton passed a resolution expressing its deep regret for the loss of one " to whose generous zeal, wise counsel, and constant services, Co-operatives and the working-class generally have been long and gratefully indebted." And at the meeting of the Working-Men's College in Great Ormond Street yesterday week,—of which Mr. Maurice was Prin- cipal,—an unusually striking and touching letter of sympathy addressed to Mrs. Maurice was signed by the Chairman on behalf of the meeting, in which the working-men declared that it would be but what they owed to the memory of the Professor to carry out the work of the College, which he had begun " with the utmost vigour and energy." We hope that the proposed memorial may take the shape of some permanent addition to the teaching power of the College,---some addition specially characteristic of its late President.
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