The late Henry John FOX, Esq., solicitor, who died at Graham's Town, South Africa, on the 22nd June last [1860], was the eldest son of Luther Owen FOX, Esq., of Broughton, near Stockbridge, Hants, M.D. of St. Andrew's, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, by Mary Catherine Harries, only daughter of William TILBURY, Esq., of London, and niece of the Rev. James Lloyd HARRIES, M.A., of Morton College, Oxford. This family of FOX is descended from the FOXes of East Dean and Farley, Wilts, from whence sprang Sir Stephen FOX, the founder of the Houses of Ilchester and Holland.

The deceased H. J. FOX was born at Broughton, on the 10th Jan. 1834, and was educated at St. Paul's School, Southsea, Hants. He was articled to J. Bowen MAY, Esq., solicitor of Queen's-square, London, but, owing to failing health, he was transferred for the completion of his articles to Mr. BARTON, solicitor, of Windsor, Berks. On leaving Windsor, the deceased was recommended to try the milder climate of Madeira, for which place he sailed from Southampton in Nov. 1854, in company with several consumptive invalids on the same errand. For a time the symptoms of phthisis were arrested, and he returned to England, after an absence of nine months, looking much improved. Deceased and the Rev. J. P. WARBULON, Inspector of Schools, were the last survivors of those who left England a few months previously.

Mr. FOX's health again becoming aflected by the climate of England, he determined on going to the Cape, and reached Algoa Bay early in the year 1856. Proceeding to Graham's Town, he undertook to assist Mr. STONE, attorney of that place, in his practice, and was upon this admitted at Cape Town as an attorney and notary public. While with Mr. STONE, Mr. FOX undertook the business on circuit. acting (as attorneys do in that colony) as advocate. Being desirous of practising on his own account, he removed to Queen's Town, where as usual he made many friends, and would have secured a gooc practice bad hix life been prolonged. Just before his death he was about to be appointed clerk of the peace, the Legislative Assembly having voted 200l. per annum for that office.

The following extract from the Anglo-African and Frontier Times will give our readers some idea of the respect in which deceased was held in the colony: —

"We record with sorrowful regret the death of Mr. H. J. FOX, solicitor, formerly of this city, but lately of Queen's Town, which took place here under most painful circumstances last week. He had been elected by the Episcopal congregation of Queen's Town, to represent them in the Synod, now sitting in Graham's Town, and being desirous of performing the duties of lay delegate, regardless of his own interests and inconvenience, he left his residence in an open cart for that purpose. He had unfortunately been afflicted, whilst studying for the law in England, with disease of the lungs — and had settled in our genial climate, hoping to recover. But the hope was fruit less. The journey which be undertook in the service of the church to whose communion he was attached accelerated the progress of disease, and laid him, on his arrival in Graham's Town, on a bed of sickness, which to him, alas! proved a bed of death. Under any circumstances, his life could but for a space have been prolonged — and his journey in the Church's service simply hastened, but did not occasion, his death. Few deaths have caused more general regret on this frontier than his. He possessed a most amiable character: he had a cultivated mind — a taste for literature. He was an excellent writer. Whenever he spoke in court or in a literary society, he expressed his sentiment clearly and without diffuseness in well-chosen words. He was a valuable member of society as a friend and companion. As a professional man his knowledge was extensive; his judgment acute — and his clients could fully rely upon his advice and faithfully upon his integrity. With such claims as these to public esteem and respect, we are justified in saying his loss is not only a private but a public loss. He leaves a young widow and one child, with whose sad and sudden bereavement the public deeply sympathises — more especially as, without the satisfaction of seeing them, he breathed his last. He was conscious and even quite collected to the last moment of his life; he minutely arranged his worldly affairs, and then surrendered his mild and [gentle?] spirit into the hands of his Maker with meekness and resignation; in a word he died as a Christian ought to die. The Lord Bishop of the diocese announced his death to the assembled synod in terms of deep respect, and it was at once resolved, at his suggestion, that the members should attend his funeral, as a token of respect to the memory of the lamented [deceased]. His remains were conveyed to their last resting place early on Sunday morning, his lordship himself officiating on the mournful occasion; the funeral ___ consisting of the members, lay and clerical, of the synod, and of a large number of friends and mourners whose privilege it is to appreciate intellectual attainments, professional integrity, private worth and Christian excellence."

The Anglo African, a paper published at Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope, in an article on the meeting of the Synod of the diocese, says: —

"One thing has cast a gloom over the whole synod, the sudden death of one of the lay representatives, Mr. FOX, from Queen's Town. Though he had been in a delicate state of health for some time, his death was hastened by a cold caught on [his] journey to Graham's Town, in the service he had undertaken for the church. His remains were interred on Sunday morning, the bishop offficiating. Not only did a large number of the inhabitants testify their regard for the deceased by following him to the grave, but the whole synod in a body, and therein representatives of every part of this diocese, ____ the last tribute of respect."

The deceased married, in 1858, Ellen Southall, [only (or) step] daughter of James TILBURY, Esq., of Alexandria, by whom be has left issue one child.