ABSTRACT
I T was on the 11th of October, 1862, that Dr. Staley, consecrated to the see of Honolulu, accompanied by
Mr. Mason, now Archdeacon of Maui, and by Mr. Ibbotson, also in priest's orders, landed in his diocese; where he was followed soon after by Mr. Scott, also a priest, who had gone by ship from England to San '.Francisco. It can never be forgotten by those most interested in this movement that the mission to the Sandwich Islands was one sown in tears. The much lamented Prince Consort of England died the day before Dr. Staley's consecration, and when the mission touched land they heard of the death of the young Prince of Hawaii. A strange and unaccountable gloom had fallen on the spirits of one of the clergy who journeyed with the bishop, the one probably fullest of hope and buoyancy, as they neared the port of Honolulu, the goal of their long travel; and the sad news of the blighted hope of a nation was received by him without surprise, and almost as if he had been prepared for the intelligence. Within a year, the venerable prelate who had laid his hands on Dr. Staley's head was reposing in the tomb, and a child of the Bishop of Honolulu, and onfl of Mr. Scott, were added to the number of the dead. The death of the good Kamehameha IV. make:::; up the melancholy catalogue.
