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of Bishop Maltby and Dean Erskine, of 

 George Peacock, most brilliant of Canta- 

 brigian men of science, and Alexander von 

 Humboldt, of General Thackwell and 

 General Eyre, of old Dick Tattersall and 

 the mad Marquis of Waterford, of Phillips 

 (who defended Courvoisier, the murderer 

 of Lord William Russell, and ruined his 

 own professional career by imputing the 

 crime to two innocent maid-servants when 

 his client had secretly confessed his guilt to 

 his advocate), and of Poor Law Pashley, of 

 Will Goodall and Adelphi Wright, was well 

 worthy to be treated by "The Druid's" many- 

 coloured pen ; and there is perhaps no more 

 characteristic specimen of his handiwork than 

 the following prolusion : — 



" The Dead of Fifty-nine. 



" Death last year laid its remorseless hand 

 on even more than its share of distinguished 

 men in this and other lands. Until almost 

 the very last we might have said that it had 

 spared our statesmen, as ' Prosperity Robin- 

 son,' the memory of whose brief Premiership 

 had well nigh perished, and Henry FitzRoy, 



