Brown, Hugh

STOWELL, An English divine, B. in the Isle of Man, 1823. At the age of 15 he came to England to learn the profe ion of engineer. This occupation he followed until he came of age, and he drove a locomotive engine on the London and North-Western Railroad for six months. It was his custom, after his day's work at Wolver ton was done, to spend 4 or 5 hours in reading and in meditating on what he had read; and his first cla ical exercises were written with a piece of chalk inside the fire-box of a locomotive engine. Resolving to become a clergyman of the Church of England, he entered as a student at King's College, and studied there for three years. Doubts, however, came over his mind respecting the truth of the doctrines in the Liturgy and Catechism of the Church of England. These doubts ultimately produced in his mind the conviction that the baptismal doctrines of the Establishment were at variance with Holy Scripture, and he accordingly became a member of the Baptist denomination. In 1848, he was appointed minister of Myrtle Street Chapel at Liverpool, and soon became one of the recognized leaders of the Baptist body there. As a lecturer to the working cla es, he is so succe ful that he collects an audience of between 2,000 to 3,000 artisans on Sunday afternoons, and from 15,000 to 25,000 copies of his lectures are sold. Brown, THOMAS, a celebrated Scotch metaphysician, B. at Kirkmabreck, Kirk cud brights hire, 1778. He studied at Edinburgh, and, in 1806, entered into co-partnership with Dr. Gregory. Dugald Stewart, profe or of moral philosophy, being indisposed in the winter of 1808-9, engaged B. to read lectures for him in his cla . In this capacity his succe was so great, that in 1810 he was induced to resign his practice, and accept the appointment of colleague to Dugald Stewart in the chair of moral philosophy win the University of Edinburgh. His lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, published after his death, have been pronounced masterpieces of their kind. His style is certainly the most captivating that has ever been employed to convey a knowledge of philosophy. D. 1820.