d, under charge, we believe, of
some pecuniary defalcations. Upon his return to this country, he became
connected with the political press. In 1822, he was elected Sheriff of
the City and County of New York, which office he held but a single year.
In 1829, he was appointed Commissioner of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and Surveyor of the port of New York. In the mean while,
he had formed the project of collecting his brethren the Jews, and
rebuilding the city of Jerusalem. He issued a singular proclamation,
appointing Grand Island, near Niagara Falls, as the place of rendezvous,
and summoned the scattered tribes to transmit their contributions. We
have no means of knowing how far he was in earnest in this scheme. At
all events, it came to nothing. In 1840, he was elected Judge of the
Court of General Sessions, which he held till the law constituting the
court was changed. Mr. Noah was, however, more known as an editor than
as a politician. Though without any very lofty aims, or high
qualifications, he was an agreeable and sprightly paragraphist,
possessed of an unfailing good-humor, and a large fund of general
information. He was connected successively with a number of papers, and
at the time of his death was editor of a Sunday paper, _The Messenger
and Times_. He also published at different times a number of works of a
miscellaneous character, chiefly essays and plays, some of which met
with great success at the time of publication; but none of them
possessed sufficient vitality to take a permanent place in the
literature of the country. His death was the consequence of a paralytic
stroke. He lived and died a believer in the faith of his fathers, the
Hebrew religion; and was buried with the solemn ceremonies practiced by
the ancient chosen people. He was of a most generous and genial nature,
and enjoyed the warmest good-will of all with whom he was brought into
personal relations.

GEORGE M. BROOKE, Brevet Major-General in the United States army, died
at San Antonio, Texas, on the 19th of March. He was a native of
Virginia, and entered the army in 1808. He was brevetted
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1814, for "gallant conduct in the defense of Fort
Erie." A month later he received the rank of Brevet Colonel, for
"distinguished and meritorious services in the sortie from Fort Erie."
In 1824, he was made Brevet Brigadier-General for "ten years' faithful
service as Colonel." In 1848, he was brevetted as Major-General fo