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TOWN TALK. SY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Ottr readers ieUl understand that we do not hold ourselvet responsible for our able Correspondent's opinions* THE death of the Earl of Clarendon, unexpectedly and suddenly, at seventy, which in the time of King David was a good old age. but which now, for a states- man or judge, is considered quite young, has created more than ordinary regret. The peers who spoke in the House of Lords displayed a degree of emotion rarely seen in a public meeting' of Englishmen. Earl Cowley, born and bred in diplo- macy, could not contain his emotion, and was unable to add his. tribute to the warm and pathetic words expressed by Lord Clarendon's contemporaries on both sides of the House. Lord Granville's grief and deep feeling were characteristic but the pathetic tribute paid to the memory of the Whig states- man by the Earl of Derby, who has the character of being one of the coldest of men, took the public by surprise-as much by the deep feeling as the eloquence it displayed. The late earl must be considered a peculiarly fortunate man-happy in his life; happy in his death; happy in his temperament; and, above all, happy in his domestic relations. George Yilliers, the son of the younger brother of the Earl of Clarendon, was born in 1800, noble, but poor—a simple esquire. He began life in diplo- macy as attache to the embassy at St. Petersburg) a profession for which his industry, his perfect manners, his even, genial temper, and powers of conversation admirably qualified him. He was for ten years provided for, up to 1833, by a place as Commissioner of Excise. In 1830 the first Reform Ministry came into power, which first sent him to Paris to try to negotiate a treaty of commerce with the Govern- ment of Italy—a task rendered impossible by the existence of the corn laws. He was next promoted to be Minister Plenipotentiary to Queen Christina in Spain, where he remained during the six trying years of the Carlist Insurection and the Quadruple Treaties — the constant object of the attacks of the Conservative press and Parlia- mentary Opposition. In 1838 he succeeded to the title and estate of his uncle, the earl, and in the fol- lowing year married the daughter of the Earl of Verulam, and widow of Mr. Barham. She was then twenty-nine years old a lively, fasci- nating woman, through life the sympathising and ac- complished assistant of her husband's diplomatic labours. It is for these reasons that I say the Earl of Clarendon was happy; not Cradled and rocked in luxury," but-after a youth of comparative privation, and a manhood of congenial toil—rising by a happy accident and his own talents to the highest place in the service of his Sovereign; passing the rest of his life in congenial society and congenial toil; dying in harness — not decrepit and imbecile, with- out pain—and with brief but ample warn- ing. He is succeeded by his son, Lord Hyde, twenty-three years of age, sent to the House of Commons at the last general election for the Breck- nock Boroughs. The Earl of Clarendon's second brother, the Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, had in his time the opportunity of rising to the highest offices in the State, He is a man of superior abilities and great Parliamentary experience, having sat for Wolverhampton for thirty-five years. He was amongst the earliest of his class to advocate the rapeal of the corn laws. The triumph of free trade ought to have mada him safe for the Cabinet whenever his party was in power, but he has never been more than President of the Poor-law Board, and there he was a failure. The reverse of his elder brother, a violent, uncontrollable temper has neutralised the value ef his talents and Parliamentary experience. Another brother of the earl was the ate Bishop of Durham, a celebrated preacher of the evangelical school. One of his sons, a young gentle- man in the civil service, has lately distinguished himself by marrying a great Scotch heiress. If he inherit any of the political and social talents of his uncle, the earl, we may hear more of him. DEATH has recently made great ravages in the medical profession. First, it was Sir James Simpson —very shortly after his receiving the baronetcy-in the prime of life then the aged Professor Syme, one of the greatest surgeons in Europe, yet-from manners, probably-not able to succeed in London. Lastly, has departed the octogenarian Sir James Clark, the medical friend of Prince Leopold, of the king of the Belgians, u ad of our Queen, in the early years of her reign. Ac- c: >mplished in European languages, when such accom- plishments were rare, with some literary attainments, he was a fine and favourable specimen of the courtier and physician of an old school. A GREAT feud has just arisen in turf circles. A committee of the Jockey Club have just made a re- port, which, if adopted next Saturday,*as expected, will seriously damage the interests of professional betting men. They recommend that for four months in the year, between November and March, there should be no flat racing at all. This would make a winter of discontent" with the bookmakers with a vengeance. Then restrictions against betting are to be la-i. on handicap races, and on two year-old races. Sporting publicam are 10 be discouraged by rules against races for less t;-<•> fifty pounds, and races held where money is paid for admittance, commonly called gate money." The report is not to be adopted without a fight. For my part I should be content could I find race-courses a-3 they were when William IV. was king-places of amusement, not made hideous by the shouts of Three to one bar one," and other cries of the professional erew of gamblers. The next slang dictionary may contain a new definition of races-an institution for the production of breeds, for the benefit of book- makers. P. P. ♦— AT THE LUNCHEON which followed the Harrow speeches on Speech Day," Dr. Butler, in proposing the health of the Italian Minister (who was present), remarked that tke Harrow boys were resolved that their schoolfellow, the Duke of Genoa, did quite right in preferring the life of a Harrow boy to that of a King of Spain. FOOD AND ITS ADULTERATIONS.—At the time of the Lancet Sanitary Commission on Adulterations, Dr. Hassall wrote of THE NOURISHING STOUT (Raggett, late Blockey, London) as a genuine, most wholesome and highly nourishing beverage, less heavy, and oonsequently more digestible than London stout in general," an opinion since canfirmed by the medical voice of the country. The NOURISHING STOUT" can be had of the appointed country agents, in bottle r-d casks of nine and 18 gallons, or will be forwarded direct from 21, Duke-street, St. James's, to residents in any town in which there is no agent*

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i_TRIAL BY TURKEY.

THE OOJtK RIOTS.

DEATH OF A FENIAN GONVIGT.

MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF DERBY.

FEARFUL MURDER NEAR SEVILLE.'

ENTERTAINMENT TO ],1. LESSEPS.

SERVING ON JURIES.

CONTINENTAL ON DITS.

MORE BABY SLAUGHTER.