DEATH OF REV. DR. R. ARMSTRONG.----The Sandwich Islands Polynesian of Sept. 29th, announces the death of Richard Armstrong, D. D., President of the Board of Education, member of His Majesty's Privy Council and of the House of Nobles.---He expired at his house, Honolulu, on Sunday morning, Sept. 23d, from injuries received by a fall from a horse some three months previous. Dr. Armstrong was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1805, graduated at Dickerson College, and completed his studies at the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J. He arrived at the Sandwich Islands in the year 1832, twenty-eight years of age, and, after a year's residence at Honolulu, sailed in company with Messrs. Alexander and Parker as a missionary to Nukuhiva, one of the Marquesas Islands. After a residence there of eight months, and finding it an impracticable field of labor, they returned to Honolulu. For five years he preached at Wailuku, and then removed to Honolulu to take charge of the station vacated by the return to the United States of Mr. Bingham.

There he preached the gospel in the church at Kawaishao, until Dec. 6, 1847, when he was appointed to fill the place vacated by the death of Mr. Richards, as Minister of Instruction. When this office was abolished, and a Board of Education instituted, Mr. Armstrong was appointed President of the Board in the discharge of the duties of which office he continued until the day he met the accident which terminated in his death. He was one of the old teachers whom the chiefs were formerly want to consult.

He obtained to such a great degree the confidence of the late King and also of his present Majesty, that he was appointed to a seat in the House of Nobles, and to a membership in the Privy Council.----His funeral was largely attended. After a prayer in English by Rev. S. C. Damon, Rev. E. Corwin made a short address in English, and was followed by Rev. Mr. Clark, who made some remarks in Hawaiian, and the exercises closed with a hymn sung by the native choir. The corpse was interred in the grave yard adjoining the church.

Dr. Armstrong leaves a widow and a eight children, three sons and five daughters.----Trav.

The Farmers' Cabinet, Amherst, NH 30 Nov 1860