act in the supreme magistrate!

Mr. Marsden lost his wife in 1835, but his daughter did her best to
minister to his happiness, and was his companion and assistant in all he
undertook. Once, when she was driving with him, two of the most terrible
of the bushrangers, who were feared by the whole country, broke forth
upon them, seized the horse, and holding a loaded pistol to Mr. Marsden's
breast, bade her empty his pockets into their hands, threatening to shoot
them both if either said a word. Nevertheless, the fearless old man
continued to remonstrate with them on their wicked life, telling them
that he should see them again upon the gallows, and though they charged
him with savage threats not to follow them with his eyes, he turned round
and continued to warn them of the consequences of a life like theirs. In
a few months' time they were captured, and it did actually fall to his
lot to attend them to the scaffold.

Yet, though of this fearless mould, he was one of the most loveable of
men; everyone on his farm, as well as all little children, and the
savages he conversed with, all loved him passionately. Some young
Maories, whom he brought back on his last voyage, used to race after his
gig to catch his eye, and when they took hold of any book, used to point
upwards, as if whatever was associated with Matua, as they called him,
must lead to heaven. He was fond of playing with children, and never was
so happy as when he yearly collected the schoolchildren of Paramatta on
his lawn, for a feast and games after it.

In 1834, the Rev. William Grant Broughton, one of the clergy of
Australia, took home an account of the spiritual destitution of New South
Wales, and the effect was that in 1836 a bishopric was there created, and
the first presentation given to him. Some thought that this was a
passing over of the chaplain who had laboured so hard for so many years,
but Mr. Marsden himself only observed that it was better thus: he was too
old a man, and it was with sincere goodwill that he handed over the
charge he had held for more than forty years, so that only the parish of
Paramatta remained to him, and there he continued his ministry in church,
to the sick, and among the poor to the end.

On the last Sunday of his life he seemed in his usual health; but for the
first time he did not take part in the service, and at the celebration he
seemed to be so overcome by his feelings as not to move from his place to
communic