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equally hateful, had abdicated his Durham 

 See many months before his death, and had 

 continued to dig up Greek roots from his 

 Lexicons to the last. Dean Erskine, the 

 devoted admirer of Mechanics' Institutes, 

 has gone as well ; and so too has Angell 

 James, the light of the Independents, who 

 preached the funeral sermon over Jay, as Jay 

 in his turn had done over Rowland Hill. 

 No great light has fallen in the surgical or 

 medical world, save Alexander, the oculist ; 

 and, wondrous as he was in his couching 

 sleight-of-hand, he was quite below par as 

 a constitutional physician. Thackwell, the 

 brilliant cavalry officer of Sikh warfare has 

 gone to his rest, and reposes in Kensal Green 

 Cemetery, where Tredway Clarke, Gilbert, 

 and so many of his comrades sleep ; and so 

 has Eyre, the man of the eagle eye, who 

 exercised his troops before Sebastopol, and 

 had them in greyhound condition, such as no 

 other Brigade could hope to show. 



" Phillips, the biographer of Curran, 

 and defender of Courvoisier ; Broderip, the 

 police magistrate and naturalist ; Stephens, 

 the accomplished jurist ; Pashley, whose 



