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T O W- 1ST T -A. L 7~Z. £ 0f OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. 0 Ova readers will understand that we do; not hold ourselves responsible for our able Correspondent's opinions. ♦ DEATH has been very busy lately among men of mark. Within little more than a week Archbishop Whately, Lord Lyndhurst, and Mrs. Trollope have gone to that bourne. from which no traveller returns." Lord Lyndhurst was ninety-one years old, and nearly to the last enjoyed the full possession of his mental powers. Ten years ago he was one of the great orators of the House of Lords twenty years ago he had all the power of a man in the prime of life thirty years ago he looked, as he walked across the Green-park to the House of Lords, like some gay and gallant colonel of the guards-it was before the day of moustaches- and yet he was a man who, to use a vulgar phrase, lived every day of his life until he was past sixty. He was married twice-on neither occasion to rank or fortune, although his hand- some person, his amiable and engaging manners, and his high rank would have commanded both. He owed almost everything to his fine consti- tution and extraordinary talents. His father was an American, and a painter, whose chief work, The Death of Chatham," achieved a long and lasting popularity. His grandfather was an Irishman, and he himself was born in Boston. But his father came to England, and there gave his son that education at Trinity College, Cambridge, which opened the way for his great talents. Young Copley was not industrious, in the usual sense of the term, or orderly, or economical; like another modern successful lawyer and justice, he never denied himself anything. However, he managed to get a very good mathematical degree; and subsequently was made Travelling Bachelor," an office now done away with, in which capacity he visited his native land, and spent some days with Washington, at Mount Vernon. As a young undergraduate of Cambridge, he was of course a I- Republican. All clever young men were in those days. He, however, first joined the Tory Govern- ment, and successively became Solicitor-General, Attorney-General, and Lord Chancellor, so far back as 1826. He succeeded—and it was a blessed change for the suitors-Lord Eldon, and began the internal reform of the Court of Chancery, at- tempted in vain by Sir John Romilly. In the contest on the Reform Bill, Lord Lynd- hurst became more unpopular than almost any leading statesman of his time. The Tories dis- liked him for his Law Reforms, the Whigs for his return to his old Toryism, which ended in the famous measures by which he turned out the Government. Then began these celebrated duels in the House of Lords between the Chancellor and the ex- Chancellor, the first among the many fine examples n y of debating it has been my lot to hear. It is difficult to give the present generation axx idea of the disgust and contempt with which the peers of the anti-reform age looked upon the new law lords. They had not then learned the value of Lyndhurst as a political leader they bore Peel with impatience and they had not dreamed of the rise of Disraeli. I was a boy from the country when I first heard the late Lord B- say to his agent, Will you you go down, K-, this evening, and see these two lawyers fight? Words cannot give an idea of the contempt with which this was spoken. I have lived to see Lord Lyndhurst worshipped by his party, and his words hung upon with ecstasy by titled crowds. In learning, in vast variety of knowledge, Lord Brougham was infinitely Lord Lyndhurst's su- perior, and had also the advantage of advocating reforms in law that are now universally adopted but I must confess that it seemed to me that Lord Lyndhurst had almost always the advantage. He had so fine and graceful a person, so melodious a voice, that, with the exception of the Earl of Derby, I never heard his equal. In later years he and Lord Brougham became almost allies and very fast friends. It was pleasant to see them together. Although a more decided Tory than the abler men of his party, Lord Lyndhurst was a Liberal in foreign politics; in these matters he was of the school of Canning, his earlier colleague. His speech on Italy, coming from an English Tory, made a great sensation on the continent. I fancy that Lord Lyndhurst was a very happy man; he enjoyed life, and when he grew old and feeble he still enjoyed books of all kinds. He was a subscriber to the. London Library, and actively followed all the current literature. I remember hearing Lady Lyndhurst say to the late librarian, when Dumas' celebrated novel first appeared, "I have been reading 'Monte Christo' to Lord Lyndhurst, and he would not go to bed until the last volume was finished." Lord Lyndhurst will be deeply and affectionately regretted by his friends-he has left no equal in his style of legal and Parliamentary eloquence; but, unlike Lord Brougham, he has made no name for himself in the history of his country. Elo- quence, especially party eloquence, resembles words written on sand. Mrs. Trollope was not quite so old as Lord Lyndhurst, and in the height of her popularity about the same time. She was a sort of female Tory Cobbett, writing novels, in which, in stout plain English, she abused and caricatured all the people and parties she did not like. Her villains and fools were all Whigs, manufacturers, and evangelical parsons. We well remember the storm that was raised in England by her. "Vicar of WrexLill;" and the indignation the Americans felt at her Sketches." I don't think she would have been safe in New York if she had ventured there again. I have left myself no room to say anything about Archbishop Whately, whom also I knew a little., He again carries us back into a past which has almost become history. At Oxford he was a ¡ Liberal, among Tories of the most old-fashioned ¡' kind, and therefore a mark for every expression of dread and abhorrence. However, he lived it all < down he never flinched from what he believed to be right, and throughout life chose the losing side," and helped all who needed help. His good humour and his wit, which last gift was most frequently exercised for the putting down of pretence and impertinence, will long be re- membered by all who knew him. In his difficult post at Dublin he managed successfully to con- ciliate, if he aid not satisfy, everybody. Z.Z.

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