We regret to record the death of Bishop Crowther, the
Negro Bishop of the Niger Territory, at the age, as far as he knew, of eighty. He was captured by Mahommedan slave- stealers in 1821, and, after cruel suffering, was rescued by a British man-of-war, and placed for education with a missionary of Freetown. He was subsequently trained at the Church Mis- sionary College, Islington, and devoted himself to missionary labour on the Niger, where he found and recognised his parents. He was a very fair Greek scholar, translated the Bible into Yoruba, and in 1864 was consecrated Bishop. His thoroughly Negro features were stamped with an expression of humorous benevolence, and, like Dr. Blyden, he not only meant good to his colour, but he tried energetically to do it. He always excused his countrymen, at least in our hearing; but we fancy he felt very keenly the inherent difficulty of raising the majority of them. He was a good man, and specially in- teresting because, unlike the majority of intelligent Negroes, he was a real product of Africa, and not of the century of "training" " enjoyed " by American or West Indian slaves.
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