Ministerial.—The death of the. Rev, MTalter/ Powell, pastor of the First 0. S., Church of Lancaster, Fa., and a member of the Presbytery of Donegal, was announced in the last'frtbytertfori.^The death of the Rev. AV O. 'Si thoh ton . of the Brazil Mission, is aDo arfhottheid,‘ ; He died Decem- * her 8th, of bilious lever* afc the residence offRevilt; Mr, Blackford, at San Paolo, aged thirty^ti^e years, after an illness of eight days,—-Rey. Kerr re-;ceived a unanimous eall to. the Huntingdon Valley church, near Philadelphia, and,has accepted the same, and entered on hie duties th^firHtof January. —Rev, Mr. M*l0«^aTl, professd^of itforal philbsd-phy in the University of Edinburgh, has jnsfc died ot an attack of paralysis. . His own chair had b£en rendered illustrious by the occupancy of such.umi an Dugald Stewart, Dr. Thomas Brown, and last, not least, Christopher North.*—The installation of Iiev. P. Stryker Talmage as pastor of Bethune Memorial chUwh/Philaaelphl^ took placed Sabbath afternoon, the 12th Inst., in Bethune Hall. Rev.T-Iks Witt ThImage preached.^—The Rev. George I). Matthews, of Stranraer, Scotland; has accepted the call of the Jane Street United Presbyter inn congregation of ISew York City. ■ * /