25 JANUARY 1873, Page 2

Another death of a man of some note has marked

the week,— that of the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, chiefly distinguished for the noble conscientiousness which induced him to give up his living in the Church of England and join the Dissenters,—he acted chiefly with the Baptists,—when the agitation of the ques- tion of the sacrament of baptism persuaded him that the Church of England was too tolerant of sacerdotalism. It was a great effort for an aristocratic clergyman of the Church to make, and he deserves to be honoured morally for it, whatever be thought of his intellectual view.