As physician and Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, Dr. WADDELL devoted 27 years of his life with untiring energy and fidelity. Dr. Waddell was the son of Rev. John WADDELL, a native of Shotts, Scotland. He was eduacted at Glasgow and went to Nova Scotia in 1797 and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Truro. He was married in 1802 to a daughter of Jotham BLANCHARD, Esq., a Loyalist of Massachusetts and was Colonel of one of the Loyalist regiments. Rev. Mr. Waddell officiated on the occasion of the opening of the old St. Andrew's Kirk in St. John (destroyed by the Great Fire) having delivered the first sermon in the church in which his son 50 years afterwards became a prominent elder. Dr. Waddell was born in Truro, N.S. on 7th March 1810 and when quite a boy his mother died. ... After attending Grammar School at Truro, kept by James IRVING, he entered the Pictou Academy under the presidency of late Dr. McCULLOCH ... He next proceeded to Galsgow where he pursued his studies and received his diploma on 18th October 1839 from the Royal College of Surgeons, London. He next went to Paris and continued there two years attending the Medical lectures ... On his return to Nova Scotia, he commenced the practice of medecine in his native town. In 1849 Dr. Waddell was appointed Medical Superintendent of the New Brunswick Lunatic Asylum, the duties of which he continued to discharge until the spring of 1876, a period of 27 years. (see eulogy written by 'An Old Friend', Fredericton Sept. 20, 1878)