WALTER, William Joseph, author, born in England ; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 October, 1846. He was a professor in St. Edmund's college, Ware, England, till 1839, when he emigrated to this country, and settled in Philadelphia, where, at the time of his death, he acted as secretary to the British consul. His chief publications were "At-count of a Manuscript of Ancient English Poetry, entitled 'Clavis Scientiae, or Bretayne's Skyll-Kay of Knawing,' by John de Wageby" (London. 1816); editions of "Marie Magdalen's Funerall Teares" and others of Robert Southwell's poems; "Sir Thomas More : his Life and Times" (Philadelphia, 1839) ; "Beauties of Sir Thomas More" (Baltimore, 1840): "Mary, Queen of Scots: a Journal of her Twenty Years' Captivity, Trial, and Execution" (Philadelphia, 1840) ; " St. John Chrysostom " (1841) ; and "The New Following of Christ" (1841).