JAMES GORE KING.

THE Chamber of Commerce of New York, at a special meeting, held on Wednesday, 5th October, 1853, in order to express their sense of the great public loss sustained in the death of JAMES GORE KING, adopted the following among other resolutions:

"Resolved, That the Chamber do declare their sense of the great intelligence and high moral worth of the deceased; of his strictest integrity and honor; of his great public spirit; of his general usefulness; of his liberal Christian charities, and of the high tone and elevation of his manly nature.

“Resolved, That the Chamber have no higher example than the character and career of their late associate, to point out to the admiration and imitation of the rising members of the mercantile community."

Of him thus commemorated by his associates-and in the spirit of the second resolution, which holds him up as an example to those who are coming forward on the scene which he has so long adorned-it is proposed to present a faithful memoir, which can not, it is believed, be without interest or encouragement, especially to the young.

JAMES GORE KING was the third son of Rufus King and Mary Alsop his wife. He was born in the city of New York, on the 8th of May, 1791, at the residence of his grandfather, John Alsop, No. 38 Smith-street, afterward known as 62 William-street.

When just turned of five years of age he was taken,