The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-06 00:00:00

It is our melancholy duty to announce the death,
on Friday last, of Mr. G. Brimley, librarian of
Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 36th year of his
age, and after at least seven years of great suffering,
undergone with gentleness and resignation. Mr.
Brimley, besides being a distinguished scholar,
noted for the extent and variety of his erudition, was
one of our most discriminating critics, and a writer
whose style was as pure and as finished and grace-
ful as that of any -English author since the age of
Queen Anne. Owing to the system of anonymity,
hic name was little knoWll without the cl I utr. of

literary men and artists in London, and the various
universities • but his reputation • stood high within
narrow limits, and his opinions were considered
by the best men as of the greatest value on a 1 sub
jecta of philoiopby and taste. For many years
back his writings were the grace and ornament of
the Spectator and Fraser's Magazine. • The Spec-
tator, more especially, can boast of having given to
the public the most finished literary gems froth his
pen—condensed, vivid, crystally expositions of his
views on the leading questions of the day, in
philosophy, poetry, and polities. It frequently
stretched the limits of its articles tol the
utmost to permit of his finishing hisexpo-
sitions in single papers—stich papers as hei only
could write, with thinking enough for review arti-
cles compressed into a few Columns of print. ; The
leading pecularities of his style—its compaetness•
and clearness—were due in part to his physical con-
dition, which forbade every waste of power, but
principally to his impatience of the slightest ob-
scurity in expression„ and mastery over, our lan-
guage. The literary articles which he contributed
to the Spectator in 1853 and 1854 would of them-
selves, if collected, form a valuable contributiOn to
our literature and solid.-monument of his pbwer.
Few readers of that paper can have forgotten .the
ability of the reviews from his pen in these 'years
of the works of Goethe, Carlyle, Bunsen, Comte,
Thackeray, Bulwer, Dickens, Tennyson; and the
two Brownings. Nor can any lover of poetry have
missed reading his charming essay on Tennyson in
the first volume of the Cambridge Essays—the only
essay of his yet published bearing his name. These
papers exhibit a rara power of analysis, of faithful,
of penetrating, critical appreciation. In all of them,
too, there was a heartiness and geniality of tone
which lent them an indefinite charm. Mr. Brimley

was in easy sympathy with every class of mind ;
and this appeared in his writings, as in his life it
led him to he regarded as one of the kindliest and
most loveable of men. That one EO truly gifted

should have been so cruelly circumstanced ras to,
have been prevented embodying his thoughts and
feelings in permanent literary forms, will be re•
gretted by every friend of English literature.—
Scotsman.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR
WILLIAM LEWIS HERRIES, C. 8., K.C. S.

We regret to announce the death of the above
distingaished officer, who had, during almost the
whole of a long life, devoted all the gallantry and
all the energy that he possessed to the service of
his Sovereign and his country, both in a military
and a civil capacity. _ _ _

Sir Wm. Herries was the second son of Colonel,
fierries who was among the first to set the ex
ample if raising volunteer regiments to supply the"
place of those soldiers whom England spared for
her great war. He was, therefore, the youngest
brother of the late right hon. J. C. Herries. - Sir
William joined the fumy in 1801. In September, '
1800, he accompanied the 9th Dragoons to
South America. He served as a brigade-major
in the expedition against Buenos Ayres. In 1809
he was aide-de-camp to Sir Eyre Coote in the
Walcheren expedition, and was actively employed
in the siege of Flushing. He served on the
quartermaster-generaPs staff, to which he was
appointed by the Great Duke, then Lord Welling-
ton, from the capture of SirEslward Paget, whom he
accompanied to Spain, as aide-de-camp until
the end of the war. He was present at
the battle of Vittoria, the siege of San Sebastian,
and the passage of the Bidassoa. On the 14th of
April, 1814, in tLe famous sortie from Bayonne,
Sir John Hope had his horse shot under him, and
lay disabled by his great weight, exposed to a
heavy fire. Sir William and his brother aide-de-
camp, now Major-General Moore, rushed forward
to his rescue ; but, before they. could move the
enormous weight that they had. to deal with, a ball
struck Sir William on the knee and his companion
on the arm. All three were taken prisoners, and
Sir William had his leg amputated the next morn-
ing. This event closed his military.career at least
his career in active service.. Subsequently he served
as Quartermaster-General in the 'lonian Islands, as.
Comptroller of Army' Accounts; •and as Coni-
missioner and Chairman of the Board of Audit,
from which .he retired, in 1854. He was also a
-Commissioner of Chelsea Hospital; and on his
,re-
tirement from the their of the Comtniisionora of
Audit he received the colonelcy of the tlBth Itegi
ment. In all these duties, which he performed in
the course of a long and a very active life, he did
his work honestly, well, and not only with a praise-
worthy ze it for the public service, but with an
uniform consideration for those who served under
him, and who depended on him for much of their
happiness and welfare.