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It has been a year of much sickness ami unusual mortality ; and this appears in the long list of deaths o eminent as well as common or unknown men. Everybody’s first though! will ho of the two statesmen, whova old mm little thought to smwiva, the Duke of Xe r-oartle and the Earl of Carlisle. The Church has los two Bishops—Drs. Turton, of Ely, :;ud Dnvyl ofPeterborough. The Envy has lost two Admira’s—Gage and Saurnarez. Among the peers, two Dukes of Cleveland have died within eight mont fs Of each other. The rfs:rag : of the Earlof Clare has become ox'ihct. The Duke of Athols and the . Earl of Aberdeen have died inmiddle life; and Lord Ashburton before he was old.From the House of Commons Mr. Crooner will he missed. Among political agitators that too Ceivaniic hi*ro Smith O’Prien must be iiist, if: whatever year ha died ; but there was also the sound and sensible William Johnson Fox, member for Oldham. The lawyers have lost Sir William Atherton, late Attcrney-Oeifera.l, and Serjeants Mere wethers and Stephen. In philosophy and science we feel the loss, not only of our Professor Ferrierand Leonard Horner, hut of the greater Struve, the Russian, and Silliman, the American.. Pere Enfantin, sometime chief of the St. Simonian brotherhood, should rank with ardent workers whose work is done. With our own lamented traveller and discoverer, Captain Speke, we may remember Jules Gerard,^ who had his own merits as an African traveller. In literature we have lost Walter Savage Landor, the poor poet
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London St Pancras News and Marylebone Journal
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jan 07, 1865
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