“The writings and theological position of NEANDER have been fully brought before the American public by Profs.  ROBINSON, TORREY, McCLINTOCK, SEARS, and other celebrated scholars who have done much to diffuse a knowledge of the learned labors of Germany among intelligent thinkers in our own country.  NEANDER was free from the reproach which attaches to so many of his fellow laborers, of covertly undermining the foundation of Christianity, under the pretense of placing it on a philosophical basis.  His opinions are considered strictly evangelical, though doubtless embodied in a modified form.  In regard to the extent and soundness of his learning, the clearness of his perceptions, and the purity and nobleness of his character, there can be but one feeling among those who are qualified to pronounce a judgment on the subject.

“NEANDER was never married.  He was the victim of almost constant ill health.  In many of his personal habits he was peculiar and eccentric.  With the wisdom of a sage, he combined the simplicity of a child.  Many amusing anecdotes are related of his oddities in the lecture-room, which will serve to enliven the biography that will doubtless be prepared at an early date.  We have received no particulars concerning his death, which is said to have been announced by private letters to friends in Boston.”

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JACOB JONES, U.S.N.

COMMODORE JACOB JONES, of the United States Navy, died in Philadelphia on the 6th inst.  He was born in Smyrna, Kent county, Delaware, in the year 1770, and was therefore, eighty years of age.  He was of an eminently respectable family, and commenced life as a physician, having studied the profession at the University of Pennsylvania.  He afterward became clerk of the Supreme Court of Delaware for his native county.  When about twenty-nine years old he entered the navy, and made his first cruises under Commodore Barry.  He was a midshipman on board the frigate United States, when she bore to France Chief Justice Ellsworth and General Davie, as envoys extraordinary to the French Republic.  He was next appointed to the Ganges as midshipman.  On the breaking out of the war with Tripoli, he was stationed on the frigate Philadelphia, under Commodore Bainbridge.  The disaster which befell that ship and her crew before Tripoli, forms a solemn page in our naval history; atoned, however, by the brilliant achievements to which it gave rise.  Twenty months of severe captivity among a barbarous people, and in a noxious climate, neither broke the spirit nor impaired the constitution of Jones.  Blest by nature with vigorous health and an invincible resolution, when relieved from bondage by the bravery of his countrymen, he returned home full of life and ardor.  He was soon after promoted to a lieutenancy.  He was now for some time employed on the Orleans station, where he conducted himself with his usual judgment and propriety, and was a favorite