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pertinacity in arguing Poor Law appeals before 

 the Queen's Bench caused a new Bill to be 

 christened, ' A Bill for the better suppression 

 of Pashley ; ' and Baron Pennefather, the 

 blind old Judge who, in order that the Whigs 

 might not appoint his successor, stuck to his 

 ermine when the fact of his not being- able to 

 scan the features of a witness was a public 

 scandal, are the only lawyers who have fallen 

 by the way-side. Science has, however, lost 

 in George Peacock a brilliant analyst and one 

 of the finest examiners that ever entered the 

 Cambridge Senate House, or tested the 

 merits of the first six Wranglers for a Smith's 

 Prize. Humboldt has gone to his rest at 

 ninety, and left behind him a name for having 

 tied up the fasces of all scientific knowledge, 

 and treated all its lovers as members of one 

 great family. The cautious, calculating 

 Stephenson died within a few days of his 

 rival, the dashing, reckless Brunei, who 

 leaves the Great Eastern steamship, to all 

 present seeming the same useless monument 

 that the Thames Tunnel proved to his father. 

 Painting has lost its discriminating, careful 

 Leslie, its lighter and more airy Stone, and 



