On May 30th, fell asleep, at the age of 72 years, William Jackson, for twenty years the indefatigable secretary of the Aged Pilgrims' Asylum, Hornsey Rise, and for nearly twenty previous years of the Camberwell Asylum, also more recently of those at Brighton and Stamford Hill. In William Jackson very many have lost a true friend, but not one an enemy. It might be thought singular by some that his interest and constant care were chiefly devoted to (I will not say divided by) those extremes of life—youth and old age—but in this was no incongruity. Both claim, for both need the peculiar gentleness and kind, sympathising spirit so abundantly seen in our friend. Awakened to Divine realities early in life, he was baptized and…