Mr. Mackonochie, the devoted Ritualist clergyman, formerly of St. Alban's,
Holborn, about whose Ritualist practices the Eccle- siastical Courts were so much exercised a few years ago, was frozen to death near Loch Leven on Thursday week, and found in the snow on Saturday. He was staying with the Bishop of Argyll at North Ballachulish,—just opposite the Pass of Glencoe,—and had so much enjoyed his walk on Wednesday, that he set out on Thursday with two dogs for a long stretch to the head of Loch Leven, lost his way, was unable to find it again, and eat down at last wearied by his exertions, and probably fell asleep under the influence of the cold. The dogs stayed by him, and, indeed, would not allow the rustics of the neighbourhood to approach him. His face, when his body was found, betrayed no sign of suffering. For some years his brain had suffered from the over-exertion which his pastoral enthusiasm and his controversies had wrung from him ; but whatever his crotchets, be was a good man who did nobly his share of the work of this monster city with all its heart- breaking problems. And though he did not die of heart-break, he bore about with him many of the moral scars which heart- break gives.
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