James Floy, an American clergyman, born in New York, Aug. 20, 1800, died there, Oct. 14, 1863. He was educated in Columbia college, and studied three years in Europe. He was received into the New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1835 and appointed to Riverhead, and was afterward for 18 years pastor of important churches in Middletown, New Haven, Brooklyn, and New York. By the general conference of 1848 he was placed on the committee to revise the Methodist hymn book. To his energy, culture, and taste are largely due the excellences of this collection. In 1854 he was appointed presiding elder of the New York district of the New York east conference. In 1856 he was elected by the general conference editor of the "National Magazine" and corresponding sec-retarv of the tract society: but in 1861 he re-turned to the pastorate, in which he continued till his death. Dr. Floy was noted as being among the earliest and most able anti-slavery men of the Methodist church. Besides editing the posthumous works of the Rev. Dr. Stephen Olin, he contributed largely to periodical and Sunday school literature.