23 MAY 1891, Page 2

The influenza, with its deadly successor, inflammation of the lungs,

has carried off the heir-presumptive (after Lord Hartington) to the Devonshire dukedom, Lord Edward Cavendish, who died on Monday at Devonshire House, after a ten-days' illness. Lord Hartington immediately went down to break the sad news to the aged Duke. Lord Edward was only in his fifty-third year. This great loss to the Unionist Party vacates the seat for West Derbyshire, for which he was elected in 1886 without opposition. It is rumoured that Mr.. Victor Cavendish, Lord Edward's eldest son, will be brought forward in the Liberal Unionist interest. Of course no Con servative will come forward, if the treaty between the Conservatives and the Liberal Unionists is to be observed, as West Derbyshire is a Liberal Unionist seat.