Whereas, It having pleased Almighty God to remove by death the Rev. THOMAS H GALLAUDET, LL. D., a resident of Hartford for half a century, universally known and not less universally beloved and honored, both as a private citizen and public benefactor;

Resolved, That, in the view of this meeting, the occasion is one which demands a more public and particular recognition, than properly belongs to the demise of an ordinary citizen.

Resolved, That the whole character of the eminent and excellent man whose death we mourn, commanding, as it did, our reverence and admiration while he lived among us, will be long remembered now that he is dead, as a happy union of various and often disunited qualities; of Christian faith and philanthropic works; of liberality without laxity; of firmness without bigotry; of sympathy with the vicious and the criminal in their sufferings, without undue tenderness toward vice and crime; and as furnishing in its whole development, a beautiful proof of the possibility of meeting the most rigorous demands of conscience and of God, and of securing at the same time, the love and respect of all classes and conditions of men.

Resolved, That, by the death of Dr. GALLAUDET, Society has lost one of its brightest ornaments; the cause of education a most able and faithful advocate; religion, a shining example of daily devotion to its principles; the young a kind and judicious counselor; and the unfortunate of every class, a self-denying and never wearying friend.

Resolved, That the noblest monuments of the deceased are already erected; and that his name wili never be forgotten, so long as the two benevolent institutions, one of which received its existence from the labor of his early manhood, while the other enjoyed the devoted services of his later years, remain to crown the beautiful hills in the neighborhood of our city.

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by this meeting, to devise such measures as may seem expedient, in further tribute to the memory of Dr. GALLAUDET; and to make all the arrangements necessary to carry these measures into effect.

In accordance with the last of these resolutions, a committee of arrangements was appointed, cousisting of the following gentlemen:-B. Hudson, Esq., His Excellency, Thomas H. Seymour, James H. Wells, Esq., Phillip Ripley, Esq., Dr. John S. Butler.

In pursuance of the action of this committee, the following Public Services were held in the South Congregational Church on Wednesday evening, January 7th, 1852.

CHANT.

Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.

Our days are as a shadow, and there is none abiding; we are but of yesterday, there is but a step between us and death.

Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

He appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Watch, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

It is the Lord; let him do what seemeth him good.

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.

SELECTIONS FROM SCRIPTURE.

BY REV. WALTER CLARKE.

The early and spontaneous movement of many graduates of the American Asylum, and of deaf mutes in other parts of the country towards the erection of a monument in the grounds of the Asylum, commemorative of their gratitude and affection towards this great benefactor of that class, may supersede the action of the committee in that direction.

EULOGY.

In the autumn of 1807, in the family of Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell, the beloved physician of our city at the date referred to, there was an interesting child, over whose innocent beauty, and joyous temper, and opening faculties, two summers had shed their fragrance, their brightness and their music. The heart of little Alice Cogswell,-for her name has become historic,-seemed the gushing fountain of glad and gladdening emotions, which fell from her lips in the unwritten melody of childhood's first imperfect words. Her curious ear was quick to catch the lowest tones of a mother's or a sister's voice, and assimilate into her spirit's growth the many sounds with which exulting nature makes every nook of her wide domain vocal. There was about her whole appearance and movements that indescribable purity and joy which suggested to the poet the thought "that Heaven lies about us in our infancy," or that more consoling declaration of Him who took little children in his arms and blessed them, "that of such is the kingdom of Heaven."

Interesting as this child was, she became in the providence of God, in consequence of an attack of spotted fever, when two years and three months old, an object of still wider and deeper interest to her family, to this community, and to the world.

The child recovered from its severe illness, but it was soon painfully evident that the sense of hearing was obliterated, and that to her ear this universe of sound, from the mighty compass of the many-stringed harp of nature, to the varied tones of the human voice, was as silent as a desert; and as is not usual in such cases, the loss of articulation soon followed the loss of hearing.

There is no need of words to realize to you, even if you have not been brought into the experience, or the presence of such calamity, the mother's anguish or the father's anxiety, when the gladsomeness of this child's heart no longer found expression in prattling converse, and its blank look proclaimed that the voice of maternal affection fell unheeded on its ear. The yearnings of its young spirit for love, or for its little wants, could only find expression in inarticulate breathings, or uncouth explosions of sound.

As Alice grew in years, it was painfully evident, that as compared with children of the same age, having perfect senses, she did not grow in knowledge. The shades of a prison-house seemed to close round her mind, although placed in the midst of cultivated society, teachers, schools, books, and

The boundless store

Of charms which nature to her votary yields;
The warbling woodland; the resounding shore;
The pomp of groves and garniture of fields;
All that the genial ray of morning gilds,

And all that echoes to the song of even;

All that the mountains' sheltering bosom shields,
And all the dread magnificence of Heaven.

Her spirit, gifted with the warmest affections, and the power of an endless life, and of indefinite progression, seemed destined to sit in the loneliness of perpetual solitude,-cut off from all intercourse, through teachers and books, with the great and good on earth, from the majestic contemplation of its own immortal existence, the sublime conception of an Infinite and Supreme Intelligence, and from all communion with the spirits of the just made perfect.

By agencies and in ways, to which I shall briefly advert, modes of reaching, and educating that mind were discovered and applied, that imprisoned spirit was wooed forth into the light of a gladsome existence, the warmth of that loving heart was cherished so as to add not only to the cheerfulness of her parental home, and when she passed from girlhood into young womanhood, she was not only clothed with the attractions of personal beauty and accomplished manners, but