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Death of the Earl of Derby.

The late mail reported the death of one of the
most noted Of British statesmen, EDWARD GEoF-
FIERY STANLEY, Earl of Derby, which occurred on
the ODD of October. lie was born in 1899, edu-
Gated in Eton and Oxford, entered the House of
Commons in 1921, when only % years of age,
and from that time till the great debate on the
Irish Church bill last year, occupied n prominent
position in British politics. Endowed with bril-
liant social and literary talents, a shrewd and
keen debatcr, an eloquent orator, he was consid-
cred the most gifted representative and heir Of
one of the oldest families in England. In the
Chicago Adrance, we ind the following interest
ing sketch of this remarkable statesman
In the year 1922, on a I" b~ook-making" day O
the approaching st. Ledger. among n crowd of peers
and plebeians. butchers and brokers, betting list
keepers, and prize-hghters, Manchester-m en, York
shire-farmers and city bankers, there was seen at
the q. corner" or, in other words. Tattersalls, busily
inscribing in his memoranda-tabtets the bets he had
taken, n man of two or three and twenty, with keen
blue eyes looking through strong concave glasses,
fine figure, athletic chest and shoulders, and aristo-
cratic bearing. 1t was young Stanley, the haughtiest
nobleman in Parlisment-the proudest man Of the
proudest family in England. On the grand stand,
overlooking the Newmarket race course, where q
thousand eager faces watch the contest with all the
interest money to be lost or won can give ; or at the
goal patting the painting winner of the stakes with
gloved hand or on the setunng-day receiving or
writing checks ut n small table in the subscription
room Of the Jockey club,-year after year for half n
century, this member Of the great Lancashire family,
upon the race course Of England, has been the
observed Of all observers. Wrinkles to be sure crept
over the face the brown wavy hair changed to grey /;
the sharp, quick gait became a equity limp, and the
erect, and handsome person STOPPING and obese-but
the race course was never abandoned. No keener
sportsman ever bet upon n race, or followed the
hounds, or shot over preserves
The Earl Of Derby was perhaps the finest repre-
sentative of British aristocracy that country has pro-
duced ; possessing blood as blue as that of any noble
man of the thfee kingdoms descended from q family
90 remarkable for endowments that 1t boasts Of hav-
ing for four hundred years had n leading man in
Parliament I; inheriting immense estates I; allied to
the noblest houses Of England and the continent 30
happy in his family relations as to feel that the
genius as well as honors of the Stanley's were to be
as widely known and worthily b-rre in the next
generation as they have been in his own and him
self in intellect, cultivation, political and historical
knowledge, eloquence and craftsmanship the peer Of
any member or leader of Commons or Lords, the
Earl Of Derby, whether as Mr.. Stanley engaged in
single handed combat with O'Connel or Skiel, or as
chief Of the Conservative party, has stood in the
first rank of leading statesmen for five and forty
and from the date of his maiden speech till his effort
last year in the Lords, has always bravely held his
own against the most powerful debaters.
II was in 1888, during the violence of the debates
on Repeal, that his ability was most conspicuous
He met O'ConneIl and the Irish members face to
face. He gave scorn for scorn, and hurled back the
charges Of his opponents with vehement invectve.
His pride OF patricisn blood. combined with his
pride Of intellect, raised up q host CT foes eager to
annoy him. AZ no period since those stormy days
has party strife been 90 violent. O'Conneil intro
duced into the debates bitter personalities He was
master Of satire and irony, and used them without
scruple. Accused by Lord Stanley OF degrading the
dignity Of the House by low Irish anecdotes, O'Con-