The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

DEATH OP MISS LUCY •IYIN.

We regret to record the death of Miss Aikie
which took plain at Hampeteml ou the 29th ult., in the
83rd year of her age. Her father, Dr. Aikie, was pertain
se a physicist' at Warrington at the time of her birth, in
the 6th November, 1781, bet when his daughter was but
three years old, he removed with his wife std &Adria
to Groat Yarmouth. Was Antis has written of herself :
" The emilsot oust which dwells in my reoolleotion wee
a journey. In acme days it was indeed as event. I bed
just completed my third year, wbeo my father decided
on • mews! from Warriagtoe to Yarmouth, in Norfolk.
Mypsedmother, her mai& ray brother, and myself
packed la • postobsse my father accompanied u
hanstack. It was Christmas week, the snow deep
sa the greyed • the whole distance wee two hundred
sod forty =lei mom the sentry. and we west six days
is accomplishing it. The last eight we arrived at riky
aura Mas. Rarbauld's, house at Palm's, where my grand-
mother remised behind ; she died in a few days of the calif
end fatigue of the jeursay."
The sat meat which left • lasting impression ey Isp
Wad was assaing her father's friend, John Howard, and
of this she thus began to write to • hided shortly hews
her dooms :—" Several months ago you milked ate wheeber
I had set ems Mr. Howard. the patriarch of English phi-
Waimea% ; I mound that I bad sod that, eight yam(
child as I was, I nitaisied the most distinct recollections at
his puma his amours, sad his interesting conversation
with es &fhb's, be whom he was ever full of kinder.. Owe
recalled to reeelleetiens thee faithf ally cherished darhig she
whole of a Meg life, it began to dawn apes an pereoptioa
that thawarbihad sot yet learned all, or nearly all, that it
might sad would be glad to tutu of that everuentixable
sae • that I myself nod be Dew nearly, if not quite, the
last ;mime of thus who bed beheld him with linag eye,
sad that I could still digitate, as halt, to those better able
to hold the pea, some few assedetes which the tree lames
of virtuous fame would sot willisely let die."
Min Aikia's Ant efforts is writing were in the way it
trualatioe. The &gibe moist of the "Adulator's of
Rolaado," so Wag popular with the young, was from her
pee. She wm an author from bar seventeenth year ; amp
artistes is the reviews sad megarines sod in the 4111111dg
Rapider were hers. The hiss work of imporbesse shish
she wrote was the "Remiss of Limbs*" while
apposed is 1818, rod which rapidlrpused through weal
stakes. At this date them were meareely up me
royal peas as dietkigahhed from history in ow bar
gusge, and the novelty combined with ths merits of the
hook brought mesh fame to the writer. sod caused her
society to be sought by the mast distinguished Menu
ppeerresaass of the time. The memoirs of James the link
fo lowed is 1822, at Charles the Pint in 1843, the Life al
Addison is 1843.

Mes.Arki;,;llortly after bar husband'. death, 1111110.011
with her daughter to Huspread, and died there is 1830.
Mrs Airs ertinsed to reside is the same village with the
=2.844. when. after a shad sojourn in Losers, she
as inmate of the family of Mr. P. H. Le Berm and
hie wife, her oleos the daughter of Mr. Charles Antis ; for
the Ant six years at Wimbledon, and during the last
twelve years at Hampstead. To this village abe wee se*
attached—mu deer relatives and literary friends were her
Neighbor% Among them she Numbered Mr. Mallet, an
aorniplialsed sad riser *choker. Joanna BailW, and her
slater Agues. sod Mrs. Hoare, at whose hour she cites ea-
joyed the society of Mr. Crabbs. the poet, sod other liberty
we. For Mr. Hallam, and his sound views is bietory,
politic, and literstnes she felt deep respect, and bad meek
prams in his society. At the brae of bet Ideal, Mr.
Jerre Ooltras, sad elsewhere, she war often in the com-
pany of memv ember lawyers sad judges, with whom dr
held lively discussion on orestiess et Historical and tsolitioll
Werra The *east of her reading, her retentive tossiory
end bright intellect, lest great Interest and charm to her
ocernaties. Pb, twisty years of her life Mir Albs
kept up • oorrepoedesoe with Dr. Chancing os all the
isierereg topics of the times.
binds that in her lois one
ef the links of Mu shale which us math usse con.sey
is broken. Par solid acquirement.. sound judgmest, and
high said sable prcipiss it will be difficult to find ems more
worthy to be held in lIIMIPMAIMIOIII. /mower.

Bo &L Gamuts/ea. Boehm—At the evening
nvMesdep. the ISM bat, at half-past 8 p.n., efr
ereidsoit. LOB, postiest, in tbeebeir, the fellow
log pavan aro to In road :—L • Journy through the Inter
it. d Arab* has Own to El-Lothif, on the Penns Galt,
soil themes to Osos," by Galbad Palmas, Eq. 2 " Jour-
on along the Wantons as al lb* Dead an, tom Jtbst•
Vohs to Ala.ridt,' by George Clown, jun., Eng.
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Yesterday the committee on the proposed Metro-
owsoontikid, end took sektitiotol Mimeo.
griosataisos w stiodis Nan .Yo as* but or
were !lather adieemad.