194 HISTORY or PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Dr. l\IeCulloch having died in the year 18-13, Dr. Kicr was, at the meeting of Synod held in the following sum- mer, chosen his successor as theological tutor. ‘_‘ “'0 have sat under men of greater originality of thought,” writes one who knew him well,—“ men who impressed us more deeply with a sense of their intellectual power,—but we never sat under one who produced deeper impressions of moral goodness, nor one who, in the handling of the great themes of Christian doctrine, presented them more as great practical realities.”

When the jubilee, to which we have already referred, took place, the whole country round poured forth a stream of carriages and horsemen. Tables for tea had been spread for four hundred and fifty guests, and these were filled four times, and part of them five times. It may be stated, as indicative of the estimation in which Dr. Kier was held, that it was calculated that three thousand persons were then present to do him well-earned honor. The address delivered by Dr. Kier on that occasion was as chaste and modest in expression as it was deeply interesting in matter, and his hearers little imagined that the venerable speaker, who then appeared in good health, was destined, in two months and two days, to rest from his labors. The memory of the just is blessed.

THE Honorable Thomas Heath Haviland, Senior, was born at Cirencester, in the County of Gloucester, England, on the thirtieth of April, 1796. DIore than fifty years previous to his (loath, Mr. Haviland came to Charlotte— town, and entered upon the duties of an office to which he had been appointed by the Prince Regent. In the year 1823—the last year of the administration of lieutenant- governor Smith—he was appointed a member of His