or OBITUARY of the MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS In Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1850. LONDON: SOLD BY C. GILPIN, R. Y. CLARKE, AND CO., DARTON AND CO., AND E. MARSH: GEORGE HOPE, YORK. 1850....

We have again to present to our friends the Report of the Annual Mortality in the Society of Friends, in Great Britain and Ireland.  It has frequently been observed, how nearly the number of deaths in each year has approximated, but we have this year to notice a considerable diminution in the annual return.  We are not disposed, however, to attribute the diminished numbers, chiefly to any special cause connected with health, but consider it rather as one of those fluctuations which are ever foun

Under one month . . . Boys 1 . . . Girls 1 From one to three months . . . do. 2 . . . do. 3 From three to six months . . . do. 1 . . . do. 3 From six to twelve months . . . do. 1 . . . do. 1...

Died 6 th of 5 th month , 1850. Hannah Chapman Backhouse was the daughter of Joseph and Jane Gurney; she was born at Norwich the 9th of 2nd Month, 1787.  Of her very early life she has left but little record.  She disliked study, and was fond of boyish sports, until about the age of thirteen, when she began to feel enjoyment in reading. Possessed of a naturally powerful and energetic mind, with talents of a very superior order, she soon began to take great delight in study, and was ambitious to

We think it will be agreeable to our readers, that we should occupy a few vacant pages, by the following lively particulars respecting “Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish.”  They are extracted from a work lately published, under the title of, “Light in Dark Places; or Memorials of Christian Life in the Middle Ages,” which is stated, in the preface, to be translated from a German work by the late Augustus Neander.  Patrick flourished in the early part of the fifth century, before the Romish yoke w

Shewing the Deaths, at different Ages, in the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, during the years 1847-48, and 1848-49, 1849-50....