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America has been so intimately connected with England in science and letters, that all that has been done in that country, was soon known in this, and has generally been imitated, when found to be good; at first, by small beginnings, which were, from time to time, increased and improved, as information and wealth advanced. The privations and sufferings of a new people, taught them to be kind to one another, and gave them the habits as well as the spirit of benevolence. It might, of course, have been expected by the patriot and philosopher, that Howard would have a school in America. This school has been established. One of the most distinguished disciples of this university of charity, was Thomas Eddy, a merchant of the city of New York. He was born about the period that Howard began to mark out his course of action. Eddy not only made this great philanthro-pist his pattern, but he carried his reasonings farther than Howard had an opportunity to do. Seizing the facts and reasonings which Howard had furnished, he added others, truly his own, and set about to influence his fellow citizens to make practical efforts to test the correctness of his views, and the sound-ness of his principles; and such was his success, that he, by general consent, received the appellation of the HOWARD OF AMERICA. Some notice of the life, writings, and deeds of such a man, it is believed, will not only be acceptable, but useful to the public, as an incentive to like efforts, and as a satisfactory proof of what can be done among men by one individual of intelligence, virtue, and moral courage. If, in later life, it is difficult for a man to speak of himself and his deeds, particularly, if he has been called to take a conspicuous part on the stage ofaction; still, that autobiography of such a man which recounts the deeds and trials of childhood and youth,and so far into manhood as to come up to the time when distinction commences, is always the best, when